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ARE YOU AN EMOTIONAL EATER?

CAN’T STOP AT ONE TIM TAM, YOU NEED TO EAT THE PACK?
 
My guest on today’s program is  Eating Psychology Coach, Master NLP Practitioner, and Hypnotherapist, Suzanne Ingleton. 
Suzanne has dedicated the last 20 years to helping 1000's of people to be the healthiest versions of themselves by prioritising their mental, physical and emotional wellness.  
 
Suzanne Ingleton is from SA Weight Loss Hypnosis and is  known as "The Weight Loss Coach",   
Suzanne is dedicated to helping women and men to break free from the dieting cycle, borne from lived experience that spanned over 40 years.  Suzanne specializes in emotional, binge & overeating, and shows people how they CAN have peace and freedom around food and body for good! 
Suzanne shared: 
·         What were some of her personal challenges with food? 
·         What motivated her to help others?  
·         The global weight loss and weight management diet market size was valued at USD$ 190.35Billion in 2023 and projected to grow to USD$391 Billion. Literally 1’000’s of diets.  How much misinformation is being spread? 
·         Why are we emotional eaters? 
·         Moderation is the key.    I can’t eat 1 row of chocolate or 1 biscuit from a new pack? 
·         What are some of the core ‘beliefs’ we have around diet and food which don’t serve us? 
·         Explained why weight is not the problem but a symptom and how stress is the biggest blocker to weight loss. 
·         You should avoid eating and screens for at least 3 hours before bed.  If you must use a screen look at Blue Light Glasses.
 
·         Her 3 top tips
 
o   Eat slowly.  Be present and enjoy.
o   Get good quality sleep.  An hour on the lounge or broken sleep patterns don’t count.
o   Your smallest meal should be dinner.
 
To reach out to Suzanne, head to SA Weight Loss Hypnosis 

My guest on this episode  is one of Australia’s most compelling speakers on the share market and  best-selling author of six books on investing and trading.
Louise Bedford has been trading the markets since 1990 and has trained thousands of people to maximise their own trading potential.
Louise is a behavioural finance expert and has degrees in Psychology and Business. 
 
Known as ‘the corporate executive who lost the use of her arms and achieved financial freedom by trading with a pen in her mouth’ – Louise inspires people to achieve their trading best.
 
Her presentations are not about vague concepts that don’t work in the real world. They are about incredibly practical, time-saving strategies that you need to implement in order to become an extremely successful trader. 
Her key areas of focus are using candlestick charts, trading psychology, pattern detection, the impact of neuropsychology on trading decisions and trading crisis management.
Officially crowned as Australia’s ‘Candlestick Queen’, she’s known as the trader that brought this fascinating technique to Australia.
She’s been running the 6-month repeat-for-free www.tradinggame.com.au Mentor Program since the year 2000, and she’s also the founder of www.talkingtrading.com.au, a free weekly trading podcast.
 
Show Notes
·        What is a ‘behavioural finance expert’?
 
·        Let’s go back to the beginning and tell us how your trading journey started.
 
·        It’s been said that trading is basically looking into a crystal ball…..how does the past define the future?
 
 
·        Warren Buffet famously bet a million dollars with a high-profile fund manager that he could create a better 10 year return purely by investing in a mutual fund and won the bet.
 
·        Let’s look at the key components:
·        Trading psychology
·        Pattern detection.
·        the impact of neuropsychology on trading decisions
·        trading crisis management.
 
·        Fair to say day trading is not for the faint hearted / risk averse?
 
·        Where should we start?
 
·        What amount is a practical starting point?
 
·        Louise’s top 3 tips
1.     Be careful who you associate with.
2.     Be willing to ‘self-assess’.  You have to be honest with yourself with where you are at.
3.     Find an unreasonable friend.  A friend who will be honest with you.
For more information about Louise, podcast, resources, and her programs, follow the links below.
www.tradinggame.com.au
www.talkingtrading.com.au

 
HOW IS YOUR BANK ACCOUNT LOOKING?
For many, it’s not anywhere near as abundant as they would like it to be. 
So, how would you feel if I told you there is a direct relationship between your mindset and your bank account… 
Your mindset in fact, magnifies money. 
My guest on this episode to share his knowledge and expertise is  one of Australia’s leading transformational coaches, Rik Schnabel. 
Rik is a businessman, leader, mentor, author, and coach with his transformative company,  Life Beyond Limits. 
Coaches from all over the world respect his expertise and flock to be trained and mentored by him. 
When you’re looking for a behavioural expert, Rik IS the man.  With over 38,000+ coaching hours, Rik turns the impossible into possible and the ‘cant’s’ into ‘cans.’ 
Rik is not just theory, he is in fact, living proof. 
Back in 2002, he was about to be fired and at the bottom of the sales ladder when he had an epiphany. 
An epiphany which had him become the best salesperson in the company’s history! He effectively untrained his own brain and today, he coaches others to design their best life and ultimately live out their dreams. 
 
Rik dropped gold nuggets throughout the interview and shared: 
 
1.    His background and life around money leading up to  2002. 
 
2.    With $27 in his bank account and a child on the way, he was sick and tired of being sick and tired.  He shared his thoughts and painted a picture, his mindset / state leading up to the epiphany?  We are only motivated by Pain or Pleasure. 
 
3.   We talk about ‘we are only 1 decision away from a different life’  What decision did you make?   What path /actions did you subsequently take? 
 
4.   He explained the relationship between your mind set and money.   Does it work both ways?  Your mindset in fact, magnifies money, both abundance and lack. 
 
5.    People don’t work for money; they worry for Money!  That blew me away. 
 
6.    Its not what you think about but HOW you think about it. 
 
7.   The comment he often gets from people.   ‘Oh, but you don’t understand, my circumstances are different…… 
 
8.    How and when was our brain trained and how do we ‘untrain’? 
 
9.    What are some tools / strategies the audience can start to implement now?  Rik shared and explained his ADD concept.  Accept, Decide, Detach 
 
To learn more about the amazing work Rik does and how he can help you, check out his website here: 
https://lifebeyondlimits.com.au/ 

On This episode, I am joined by literary royalty,  My guest  is Australia’s bestselling author and regenerative agriculturalist, Rachael Treasure


Rachael has been dubbed an agricultural activist, farm feminist and literary pioneer and has worked as a rural journalist, radio broadcaster, jillaroo, professional wool classer, veterinary nurse, stock camp cook, high country cattle drover, truffle sniffer dog handler and family farm manager.


Rachael sparked a publishing boom in 2002 when her first novel Jillaroo woke the world up to contemporary women’s stories beyond the city lights   ‘Jillaroo’  has become an iconic work of contemporary fiction, changing the face of Australian publishing, and kick-starting a boom of rural women’s fiction.


Her 8th novel “Milking Time” is due for release in May 2024


She is also co-founder of Ripple Farm Landscape Healing Hub, a 100-acre regenerative farm in Southern Tasmania that showcases Natural Sequence Farming, soil health principles, ecological restoration, and holistic farming. 
Rachael shared: 
Her fascinating upbringing and how she arrived at now.

‘an agricultural activist, farm feminist and literary pioneer’, is that how you would describe yourself?

You have certainly had some interesting jobs.  including, jillaroo, professional wool classer, veterinary nurse, stock camp cook, high country cattle drover, truffle sniffer dog handler and family farm manager.  How did these all come about? 
Where did the passion for writing come?   And at what age? 
As a rural journalist she saw an absence of contemporary rural women from Australia’s narrative and resolved to write a best seller about the women in her rural world.  Whilst its fiction,  Who were you inspiration?

Her 8th novel “Milking Time” is due for release in May 2024

In addition to be being a best selling author, you have written a screen play and have self published but you have also entered the world of adult entertainment………an adult colouring in book ’50 Bales of hay’   I love the play on words, what was the inspiration behind this?

Manifesto for new path in agriculture ‘Down the Dirt Road’ 
She also saw a growing disconnection emerging between nature and people, and a decline in human and landscape health due to modern industrial agricultural practices. Rachael uses storytelling in popular fiction form to awaken mass consciousness towards caring for our planet, particularly within agriculture. 

Rachael sells meat, eggs and other produce directly to conscious consumers via Open Food Networks – an online system offering an alternative to major supermarkets.To learn more about Rachael, her views on agriculture and to buy her products, head to her website https://www.rachaeltreasure.com/

We are constantly being reminded of inflation and the cost of living crisis. 
My guest on this episode is Personal Budgeting Queen, Author and Radio Host,
Samantha Boardman. 


Samantha founded ‘Spending Made Easy’ in July 2016, after being made redundant from her corporate job 12 months before.  


At Spending Made Easy they are experts at budgeting, and they take all of the stress, worry, panic, uncertainty, and often sleepless nights out of your mundane and tedious day-to-day finances and budgeting.  


Sam absolutely LOVES what she does and has even written a book called “Budgeting Is Crap” (because it is, right?).  


Sam is on a mission to get as many people as possible with a Spending Plan! Spending Plans change lives! 


Sam is also a regular contributor on a new internet radio station; “Podcast City Radio” 


Sam shared the following: 
·         How it all started.
·         Budgeting is crap.  Samantha explains why.
·         The  ‘a cost-of-living crisis’
·         What are some of the biggest challenges people have when they come to you.
·         Buy now, pay later, Afterpay etc.  instant gratification.   Parent s did not buy until they had saved the money.
·         The danger of payday loans
·         The importance of couple’s communication and working toward a common goal.  Also, transparency 


And Sam shared her  top 3 tips. 
1.      Always start with your outgoings NOT your income.
2.      Don’t be embarrassed, ask for help!
3.      Have a plan. (Fail to plan, plan to fail)

To reach out to Samantha, here are her details.

Website; https://www.spendingmadeeasy.com.au/
 Email; sam@spendingmadeeasy.com.au

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Theo Venter is the only person known to have survived 22,000 volts and 1,200 amps through the heart and lived to see another day.
 
When Theo removed his insulated gloves while working on a damaged transmission pole, he made a decision that would impact himself and his family in ways he couldn’t have imagined.
 But why did Theo, an experienced linesman, make what the safety industry would tell us was a poor decision?
As a result of his experience, Theo’s purpose was clear……….to save others from having to experience something so horrific.
Theo has formed the six bedrock foundation pillars, extricated from his story, that will transform a workplace culture on a deeper cellular level.
“Just Another Day” takes an in-depth look at the way in which workplace culture dictates safety, breaking through the many myths and misunderstandings associated with our safety industry.
Theo is also the co-author of Get Real and Convenience Kills. 
 Here is what we chatted about.:


Tell us a bit about your background and how you became a Linesman? Its February 13th, 2006.Tell us about ‘that day’ The obvious question is ‘why’?Were there any circumstances which impacted or influenced your decision?Talk us through what followed.   
The impact on his relationship.What work did you do to defeat the black dog?  He chose to believe there was hope.What are your 6 bedrock foundation pillars?You subsequently did significant research speaking to thousands of employees, senior leaders including executive leaders and hundreds of incident investigation,  what did you find? How much pressure is there for people to make ‘expedient’ choices?Theo also shared his '6 Pillars'


Agreement - Personal AccountabilityGut FeelDream about the perfect day, we spend too much time dwelling on crap!Take 5 brave secondsStop, Pause, FeelHave a symbol of your 'why'
For more information about Theo and his unbelievable story, head to his website at https://theoventer.com/