MindKind: The Podcast

Liz: The YOU Movement
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Being kind to your mind can change everything. MindKind: The Podcast explores mindset, identity, and self-understanding through practical tools, honest conversations, and grounded reflection. Hosted by Liz Farah, educator of 15 years, wellbeing leader, and identity coach, each episode weaves together neuroscience-informed mindset work, emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based perspectives to support more intentional, aligned living.

  1. 3d ago

    The Missing Curriculum

    The one where we ask whether education is preparing young people to pass a test, or to understand themselves. After 15 years as a teacher, I have watched too many young people measure their worth through marks, ranks and other people’s expectations. I know that experience personally. I grew up believing I was terrible at maths and science, that I was distracted and not reaching my potential. In reality, my strengths were leadership, creativity, connection and making others feel seen. In this episode, I explore the missing curriculum: the things young people need to navigate a world of constant stimulation, disconnection and AI. Decision-making. Energy. Identity. Communication. Learning. Self-trust. Contribution. This is not about blaming teachers, leaders or parents. They want change too. It is about recognising that a system designed for another era cannot fully prepare young people for the world they are entering. It asks what could become possible if education began with understanding the individual. I also share why astrology and Human Design have been such profound tools in my own life. I do not use them as labels or fixed answers, but as languages for exploring how we think, feel, learn, use our energy and make decisions. This conversation sits at the heart of why I created YOU Decoded, an intimate three-day self-awareness experience for young people aged 14 to 18. It offers teenagers something I wish more of us had received earlier: language for understanding themselves before self-doubt becomes louder than their own voice. Learn more about my work and book your place at YOU Decoded at youmovement.com.au/you-decoded. Connect with Liz: Website Instagram

  2. Aug 9

    The Invitation of Challenge

    The One Where We Find the Invitation in Challenge What if the challenge in front of you is not simply something to overcome, but an invitation to understand yourself more deeply? In this episode, Liz explores why challenge is such a powerful part of being human and what actually happens in our bodies and minds when life feels uncertain. She unpacks the nervous system response, the stories we create, our desire for control, and the difference between reacting from fear and responding with self-awareness. Together, you'll explore the Map of Consciousness as a reflective framework for recognising the emotional state you're responding from, why courage is often the first step towards growth, and how the Circle of Influence can help you shift your energy away from what you can't control and back to what is truly within your power. Liz also shares why surrender is not the same as giving up, how two things can be true at once, and why a situation can be leading us somewhere meaningful while still feeling painful, uncomfortable or uncertain. Finally, she explores how Human Design authority and your Moon sign in astrology can offer language for understanding your decision-making, emotional needs and the unique ways you instinctively regulate during challenging seasons. This episode is an invitation to slow down and reflect: What story am I telling myself? Where am I responding from emotionally? What am I trying to control? What is actually within my Circle of Influence? What does my nervous system need? And what might this challenge be inviting me to become? Self-awareness does not remove challenge. It changes how we meet it. Connect with Liz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.you.movement Website: https://www.youmovement.com.au Learn more about YOU Decoded https://www.youmovement.com.au/you-decoded

  3. Aug 2

    It Is Time To Shine!

    The One Where It's Time to Shine In this episode, Liz reflects on closing a fifteen-year chapter in education and what it took to finally trust the version of herself she'd been quietly building after hours. Landing in the middle of Leo season, the same week the lunar nodes shifted onto the Leo and Aquarius axis for the first time in over eighteen years, a bigger question surfaced. What happens when the thing you've been protecting in private is finally ready to be lived out loud? This conversation explores the tension between staying inside a structure that feels safe and stepping into a truth that feels unfamiliar, the difference between creating something and recognising it, and how self-trust is built through timing rather than force. Liz unpacks what the lunar nodes actually are, why Leo season is about permission rather than performance, and how her own Human Design and astrology (Manifestor, emotional authority, an Aries stellium in the 11th house, Capricorn Moon, Taurus rising) reflect a pattern she lived long before she had language for it, not as truth systems, but as reflective tools that helped her understand herself more deeply. She also shares how YOU Decoded came from creative inspiration and a willingness to trust herself, not from doubt or waiting to be chosen. This is a conversation about learning to stop editing yourself for other people's comfort. A reminder that dimming your light was never actually kindness. And that the shine you've been waiting to give yourself permission for was already there. Connect with Liz:Website: The YOU MovementInstagram: @the.you.movement Join the waitlist for YOU Decoded here

  4. Jul 26

    Finding Your Voice featuring Helen von Dadelszen

    Here's the updated description: The One Where We Remember How Important Communication Is as a Skill Helen von Dadelszen grew up in a family of performers in New Zealand, studied psychology, and spent years living and working her way across Europe before eventually landing in Switzerland and becoming a communication coach. That combination shapes how she works today, helping thoughtful professionals, researchers and non-profit leaders find their voice in rooms where they often go unheard. In this conversation, Helen and Liz talk about something easy to forget in a world full of shortcuts and templates. Communication is a skill, not a personality trait, and it can be learned, practised and strengthened like any other. They get into why so many capable people struggle to communicate their own expertise, and what actually helps. Not performing confidence, but setting a clear intention for how you want the people in front of you to feel, think or act before you even open your mouth. Helen shares why regulating your nervous system, noticing the racing heart or the shallow breath, is the real starting point for clear communication, and why authenticity does more for connection than polish ever will. They also talk about AI, and what it can and cannot replace. Technology can help with structure and preparation, but it cannot replicate the energy, presence and genuine connection that happens between two people speaking honestly. This episode is a reminder that in a world leaning further into automation, the ability to communicate well is not becoming less important. It is becoming rarer, and more valuable. Connect with Helen Book: Courageous Action: Your Playbook for Communicating Confidently, One Small Step at a Time — courageousaction.ch Instagram: @present_potential LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/helen-von-dadelszen Website: academy.presentpotential.ch Connect with Liz  Instagram: @the.you.movement Website: www.youmovement.com.au  Email: hello@youmovement.com.au

  5. Jul 22

    Let's Redefine Success

    The One Where Success Gets a New Definition Liz has spent years chasing a version of success she never actually chose. The ladder, the title, the highest paid, the hardest working. In this episode, she traces where that definition came from, and what it quietly cost her along the way: the comparison, the self-criticism, the sense of never quite arriving. She unpacks why that model was always going to leave people feeling behind. It was built on a shared scoreboard, not a personal one. And she offers a different starting point. Success, she argues, isn't something to inherit. It's something to define, from the inside, using the values that actually matter to you. Liz walks through a values elicitation she uses in coaching, a simple process of naming what matters, rating its importance, then checking how closely your life actually reflects it. She shares her own three: integrity, freedom, and creative expression. She also unpacks what this looks like for young people, whose sense of success can shift day to day depending on capacity, hormones, and season, and why learning that early changes everything. Then she introduces the shift from goals to intentions, and why choosing who you want to be might matter more than where you end up. This episode is an invitation to put down someone else's measuring stick and build your own. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and download the free ⁠Values Elicitation Worksheet here⁠ Connect with Liz: Instagram: @the.you.movementWebsite: ⁠www.youmovement.com.au⁠Email: ⁠hello@youmovement.com.au ⁠

  6. Jul 12

    Sensitive Parents, Strong-Willed Kids with Coach Maysaa

    The One Where Your Sensitivity and Their Strong Will Finally Make Sense. Liz sits down with parenting coach Maysaa, a mum of four and former primary school teacher who walked into motherhood believing her years in the classroom had prepared her for anything. Then she met her own strong-willed child, and everything she thought she knew about behaviour, compliance and connection was turned on its head. What followed was a deep dive into temperament, self-reflection and the patterns she was carrying from her own childhood, and it changed the way she parents, coaches and understands people entirely. Together, Liz and Maysaa unpack what it really means to be a highly sensitive person raising a strong-willed child. They explore why sensitivity is so often mistaken for weakness when it's actually a heightened form of awareness, how a strong will in a child is a strength waiting to be guided rather than a challenge to authority, and why the way we were raised doesn't always fit the children in front of us now. Woven through the conversation is an honest look at what sensitivity costs when it goes unsupported, from emotional overwhelm to burnout, and what shifts when parents begin to understand their own temperament as clearly as their child's. Maysaa also shares the practical side of her work: setting boundaries that hold both parent and child, making self-care non-negotiable rather than optional, and opening the kind of communication that helps children feel safe to express who they are. Whether you're a parent, an educator, or someone who has spent a lifetime feeling everything deeply, this conversation offers a different way to see yourself. Your sensitivity holds information. Your child's will holds direction. Learning to work with both, rather than against them, might be where the real leadership begins. Connect with Maysaa at www.coacheq.com.au and on Instagram @coachmayseq Listen, follow and share MindKind: The PodcastFind Liz  www.youmovement.com.au  Instagram @the.you.movement

  7. Jul 5

    The Space Between Evidence and Intuition

    The One Where You Block Out the Noise and Come Back to Your Truth In this episode, Liz reflects on the closing of a fifteen-year chapter in education and the emotional complexity of endings, identity shifts and stepping into the unknown. After a conversation with her principal about evidence-based practice in schools, a bigger question surfaced. Where do tools like Human Design and Astrology fit in a world that values science, proof and measurable outcomes? This conversation explores the tension between external evidence and inner knowing, the role of discernment, and how self-trust is built when there is no clear path forward. Liz unpacks The YOU Framework and The YOU Method as practical tools for accessing the wisdom of the mind, body and heart, while also sharing how Human Design and Astrology have shaped her own journey, not as truth systems, but as reflective tools that helped her understand herself more deeply. She also explores the neuroscience behind signs, inspired by the work of Tara Swart in The Source and The Signs, and shares the deeply personal symbolism of butterflies appearing everywhere in her final days of teaching. This is a conversation about learning how to receive opinions, information and advice without losing yourself inside them. A reminder that not every opinion needs to become your belief. And sometimes the truth you’re looking for isn’t outside of you. It’s already within. Connect with Liz:Website: The YOU MovementInstagram: @the.you.movement Referenced in this episode:The Source by Tara Swart The Signs by Tara Swart

  8. Jun 28

    The Power of Choosing You feat. Morgan

    The one where we talk about what happens when the thing that shaped your identity no longer exists. In this conversation, Liz sits down with Morgan, former competitive dancer, friend and coaching client, to explore what it means to rebuild yourself when the version of you that once felt certain begins to shift. For years, Morgan’s world was built around performance, discipline, achievement and external validation. Dance gave her purpose, structure and identity. Stepping away from it left her facing a question many people meet at some point in life: Who am I when I am no longer doing the thing that defined me? Together, Liz and Morgan unpack the invisible weight of identity loss, the pressure of perfectionism, and how easy it is to confuse achievement with worth. Morgan shares what it looked like to reach a point where something needed to change, the courage it took to ask for support, and how coaching became a space to reconnect with herself in a new way. This conversation moves through self-worth, vulnerability, letting go of old narratives, and learning to choose yourself from a deeper place of self-awareness. If you have ever felt unsteady in a season of change, questioned your worth outside of what you produce, or found yourself outgrowing a version of who you once were, this one will meet you there. Inside this episode:• The hidden impact of tying worth to achievement• What identity loss can feel like after leaving high-performance spaces• How vulnerability creates room for real change• Redefining success in a way that feels true to you• Why choosing yourself changes everything Connect with Liz:Instagram: @the.you.movementWebsite: www.youmovement.com.auThe YOU Space: https://forms.gle/H4cVnQvoDfDk5bPv9 Listen to more episodes of MindKind: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/mindkind-the-podcast/id1840040906 https://open.spotify.com/show/0sxahQZXa4jQcqHWgMDo0A?si=d61d026ecc6f4df3

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Being kind to your mind can change everything. MindKind: The Podcast explores mindset, identity, and self-understanding through practical tools, honest conversations, and grounded reflection. Hosted by Liz Farah, educator of 15 years, wellbeing leader, and identity coach, each episode weaves together neuroscience-informed mindset work, emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based perspectives to support more intentional, aligned living.

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  • Creator
    Liz: The YOU Movement
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    72
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    MindKind: The Podcast