Challenges That Change Us

Ali Flynn
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Discover the transformative power of resilience and personal growth in "Challenges That Change Us," a captivating podcast hosted by Ali Flynn. Join Ali as she engages in heartfelt conversations with individuals who have triumphed over adversity or possess invaluable expertise in navigating life's obstacles. Dive into their captivating journeys, delving into both the peaks and valleys of their experiences. Through these gripping narratives, guests impart profound insights and invaluable lessons learned along their transformative paths. Whether seeking motivation or a fresh perspective, "Challenges That Change Us" provides the ultimate source of inspiration for all who tune in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 16H AGO

    185 {Courtney Burchard} How the Hannah Clarke murder triggered a forensic officer’s PTSD

    SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Trigger warning: Domestic violence, PTSD, child deaths ’Domestic Violence does not discriminate, and sadly the systems and law enforcement don’t always protect us. One person who knows that all too tell is Courtney Burchard.  Courtney is a former Forensic Scientist and Queensland Police Officer with 15 years of service. After being medically retired in 2024 following a complex PTSD diagnosis, she has embraced her lived experience as both a survivor of Domestic Violence and institutional betrayal. Courtney now uses her voice to raise awareness around trauma, resilience, and mental health, sharing her journey through the power of poetry. In this episode she shares: Her experience joining the policeHer experience working in forensicsThe lead up to having PTSDHer experience with DV and how dangerous it gotHow she was experienced with DV applications and hers still didn't go throughThe symptoms of trauma she experiencedHow working on Hannah Clarke's case triggered her PTSDHow her career endedHer panic attackWhat happened when she saw a doctor about her PTSDThe process of starting medication and therapyHer healing journeyThe grief around leaving the police forceWhat has surprised her about this processWhat needs to change around DV Key Quotes “I had to tell my male boss intimate details.” “He still has access to a firearm.” “After the relationship had ended there was an incident where this person has broken into my home.”  More about Courtney Follow Courtney on Instagram You can find Small Steps 4 Hannah, the charity started by Hannah's parents on Instagram here. You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 11m

  2. SEP 28

    184 {Lisa Cox OAM} Losing your toes, fingertips and leg from Strep A

    SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Coming back from a deadly illness and stroke is big enough challenge in itself, but the equal challenge that many don’t think about is having to survive with the disabilities from that incident, in a world that does not make any space for disability. That is what Lisa Cox has had to do and not only has she manage that, she has made it her mission to remove the barriers and systemic injustice faced by people with a disability, Lisa Cox OAM is an author, university researcher, TEDx speaker and internationally awarded thought leader. Her work is focused on changing social attitudes about disability using world's most powerful industries - like media. In this episode she shares: Her early lifeWhat happened when she had a stroke at 24Her first memories of this experienceHow she found out her leg would be amputatedHow she had to relearn how to do basic everyday tasksHer worst day in recoveryThe process of coming to grips with what happenedWhat happened once she was out of hospitalGetting back into the gymThe process of balancing grief and gratitudeHow because of her disability she met her husbandTeaching herself to type again with her new fingersHaving perspectiveGetting back on the dating sceneThe social expectation that she had to lower her standards to find someoneWhat shopping for a wedding dress with her disability was likeThe ableism she encounters in life nowHow her now husband was patted on the back for proposing to a disabled womanWhat life looks like nowHer work in rebranding disabilities Key Quotes “There's this idea that once you acquire a disability your life will be tragic.” “All of my organs shut down and every cell in my boy died.” “I realised I had a tonne of internalised ableism.” More about Lis Find out more via her website. You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 6m

  3. SEP 21

    183 {Yummi Nguyen} The recovery journey from childhood family trauma

    SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Trigger warning: suicide, domestic violence, depression Intergenerational trauma can be an incredibly hard cycle to break, especially if it forces you to live through verbal abuse, manipulation and torment for your entire childhood. For Yummii Nguyen, this was her reality, yet her story is not just one of survival, but of learning to love herself and breaking generational cycles so her children could inherit freedom instead of pain. What makes her story extraordinary is not what she survived, but what she built. She is the founder of Meet Fear, with Love and a guide to leaders, entrepreneurs, and parents who appear to have it all, but quietly know, “I’m not free.” . Through her Mastermind, Higher Self Mastery program, and private mentorship, Yummii helps people who have already done the work finally soften their nervous system, meet fear with love, and live from wholeness and their Heart. In this episode she shares: Growing up as the child of an affair and being told she was unwantedReconciling a father who was revered in the community but violent and emotionally troubled at homeThe mental health battles that began at 12, when she no longer wanted to liveThe moment she first experienced unconditional loveHow the birth of her son became a turning point in her healingWhat it takes to love yourself when your body and mind only know survivalKey Quotes “Freedom isn’t what you achieve. Freedom is who you are when there’s nothing left to prove.” “I realised the cost of not loving myself was going to be carried by my children. That’s when everything changed.” More about Yummii Find out more about Yummii via her website, Instagram, Facebook and check out her free training for parents. You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 hr

  4. SEP 14

    182 {Allan Parker} From being unable to read to micro behavioural scientist

    Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. I’m so excited to be welcoming back Allan Parker to share his personal story of overcoming an extraordinary challenge to being able to learn, and to also share some amazing pearls of wisdom on neuro plasticity and learning. Alan Parker OAM is a distinguished micro‑behavioural scientist, negotiator and educator whose major achievements include developing Australia’s first tertiary degree in negotiation, serving as an adjunct professor on the University of Western Sydney’s Master’s program in Dispute Resolution, and being awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2020 for his contribution to business and dispute resolution. He is a bestselling author (Switch On Your Brain), author of The Negotiator’s Toolkit and Would Could Might (2024). On top of this he has presented and facilitated in 60+ countries, and has led influential, large‑scale negotiations and sector reforms while also building a long‑standing practice delivering practical brain‑health and negotiation training across corporate, regional and rural communities. In this episode he shares: His eye impairment that made learning difficult as a childHow his parents alcoholism affected him growing upHow he learned to listen and compensate for his inability to readHow vision work and training unlocked his reading and learning.The neuroscience of breathing, oxygen, hydration and their effect on attention, emotion and memory.Peripheral vision as a tool to reduce internal narrative/default-mode thinking and improve presence.Stress as a social risk and why he thinks we are addicted to adrenaline/dopamine/drama.His practical behaviour tips to improve brain healthThe importance of communication and leadership Key Quotes "I was born with an eye condition that meant I didn't read until I was 30, and yet I'm a terminal enthusiastic learner." "I remember the very moment, Ali, that I watched my father beating my mother. And I made a conscious decision in that second that I would never violate, hit another human being. Ever." "I had to sit down and explain him that I couldn't read." More about Allan You can find out more about Allan here. You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 7m

  5. SEP 7

    181 {Diana Connell part 2} The struggles of starting again after domestic violence

    Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here.   Trigger warning: Domestic violence   Many of us have heard how hard it can be to live in a domestic violence relationship, but not all of us realise just how hard it can be to leave. And by ‘leave” we mean how to financially and emotionally stay alive with no support or home while a violent partner tracks you down. This is part 2 of our chat with the incredible Diana Connell, who escaped a long term domestic violence relationship with her two children. Diana has dedicated her life to pushing for systemic reform in housing, domestic violence, and women’s economic security. Through her work with Global Sisters, she is involved in the Little Green Houses project, making home ownership a reality for women who have experienced domestic violence. Through McAuley Community Services for Women, she has been deeply involved in the co-design of the ground breaking Safe at Home trial in Geelong.   In this episode she shares:   Why St Vincent’s and McDonalds were how they survived in the early days after leavingHow she got out of the dire situation they were inThe difficult moment where she had to make her kids get work for them to surviveHow they ended up in a safehouse in MelbourneHer fear that he would find them and what happened when he didThe disappointing charge her ex faced even though her son had filmed the attackThe way her ex tried to intimidate them after he tracked them down  Her life now and how she got out and things got betterThe sad truth about recovering from this kind of abuseHow a lawyer helped her out from the debt her ex had left her withWhat she does now to help others in similar situations  Key Quotes “ We were homeless for a good 6 months...We’d say, well this place isn’t used, so we’d live there. I guess we were squatters.” “He tracked us down there…he made sure we knew he was there, he took our spare key. It’s all that thing about scaring the living shit out of us.”   More About Diana Follow Diana on her art instagram Find out more about how Global Sisters can women here.   You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    50 min

  6. SEP 1

    180 {Diana Connell} I had no idea I was living in a domestic violence relationship

    Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Trigger warning: Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a scourge on our society and the brave survivors who have lived through it are some of the strongest in the world, and that can definitely be said for Diana Connell. Diana is a survivor advocate, speaker, and ceramic artist, passionate about creating change for women and children. After surviving more than two decades of family violence and homelessness, Diana has dedicated her life to pushing for systemic reform in housing, domestic violence, and women’s economic security. Through her work with Global Sisters, she is involved in the Little Green Houses project, making home ownership a reality for women who have experienced domestic violence. Through McAuley Community Services for Women, she has been deeply involved in the co-design of the ground breaking Safe at Home trial in Geelong. In this episode she shares: -      Her background, where she grew up, and what it was like in her family -      What it was like meeting her ex-partner, the initial phases -      When she got pregnant with her first child and everything changed -      Post-childbirth and time in a mental hospital -      Birth of her second child -      Staying on the farm -      How the isolation increased after he moved her to an Australian farm -      What her life looked like in Australia -      How things escalated once in Australia -      How she tried to keep it from her children and protect them -      How the abuse escalated against her son -      How her husband and how it led to more abuse for her son -      The medical complication that made leaving even harder Key Quotes “Everything that I did or said became something for him to put me down about.” “If I had said something I'd hate to think what would have happened.” More About Dianna Follow Diana on her art instagram You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 min

  7. AUG 24

    179 {Tina Kendall-Davis} Why keeping quiet about stress on the farm can be fatal

    Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   There is a general belief that ‘life on the land is tough’, but many of us don’t realise just how tough it can be, and the toll it can have on the lives of the individuals and families who work the land. That is an experience that Tina Kendall-Davis knows very well. Tina is the founder of Anytime Counselling, a mental health service dedicated to delivering accessible, stigma-free support across Australia, with a deep focus on rural and regional communities. Her mission is personal. Growing up on a farm her father was everything to her, but like many men of his generation, he carried the weight of financial pressure, isolation, and unspoken stress. He never sought help, and when Tina lost him to a stress-induced heart attack, her world fell apart. She is determined to shift the mental health conversation from reactive space to a proactive one, because we all deserve to live our best lives every day. In this episode she shares: Life growing up on the farmThe darker side of living on the farmThe negative impact of farm life on her familyLosing her dad to a heart attack and her belief that the farm life stress influenced itThe financial stresses of farm lifeHow she responded to her father’s deathThe biggest impact on her life about losing her dadThe disappointment of friendships that didn’t help her when she needed themWhy she became a counsellorHow she made her unique therapy serviceThe difference between proactive therapy and reactive therapyThe importance of tools in your toolbox  Key Quotes   “If he had had counselling, we'd still have hi.” “We don’t prioritise ourselves the way we prioritise other stuff and it costs you your life.” “Stress is human rust.” More about Tina Find Tina on Linkedin or check out the Anytime Counselling website.   You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 13m

  8. AUG 17

    178 {Lora Starling} Starting again after a business partnership break down

    Challenges That Change Us –   Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.     Relationship breakdowns can have a huge impact on our lives, and while that might seem obvious, business relationships can have a much greater impact than expected. So what happens when a business relationship, especially a partnership, turns sour? Lora Starling is a creative logo designer known for crafting bold, memorable brand identities that capture a company’s essence at a glance. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for visual storytelling, she transforms ideas into designs that resonate and endure. Her experiences have guided her personal and professional direction and one business partnership in particular taught her a lot when it ended unexpectedly.   In this episode she shares -      Her career background -      How her business partnership was sabotaged after becoming pregnant -      What was it that pushed the change? -      The t intersection when she turned 40 and what changed -      How plants can teach us about the body/mind/spirit and connect us to the planet -      What were her biggest lessons and learns that were pulled out of this experience -      The inner work that's helped her get through her journey -      Her insights on branding and logos   Key Quotes   “But it's giving the subconscious permission to change>’   “It’s not just make the world a better place, it’s make me a better place” “I’d wake up and I’d either be crying or I’d want to bloody kill him.” More About Lora Follow her via her website, Facebook, Instagram or Linkedin.     You can get involved with the podcast online   On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com   If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    53 min
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Discover the transformative power of resilience and personal growth in "Challenges That Change Us," a captivating podcast hosted by Ali Flynn. Join Ali as she engages in heartfelt conversations with individuals who have triumphed over adversity or possess invaluable expertise in navigating life's obstacles. Dive into their captivating journeys, delving into both the peaks and valleys of their experiences. Through these gripping narratives, guests impart profound insights and invaluable lessons learned along their transformative paths. Whether seeking motivation or a fresh perspective, "Challenges That Change Us" provides the ultimate source of inspiration for all who tune in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Ali Flynn
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    189
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ali Flynn
  • Show Website
    Challenges That Change Us

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