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13/08/2026

What does staff welfare look like when the work itself is traumatic?
I heard Det. Supt. Linda Howlett answer this on She Wasn't Born Yesterday. She leads the NSW Child Abuse Squad, 230 detectives across 19 locations, and her model is deliberate: servant leadership, embedded clinicians, wellness rooms, welfare dogs, and a rule that nobody carries it home alone.
Her line that stayed with me: "I work for my staff. They don't work for me."
Listen to the full episode - link in comments

10/08/2026

Are you parenting the way you want your kids to behave?

Registered psychologist Anna Ponnudurai from Succeed Psychology says early experiences literally build neural pathways. Repeated loving connection wires safety and trust into a child's developing brain.

And here's the part most parents overlook. Children don't absorb what you say. They mirror what you do.

What behaviour are you modelling that you'd want them to carry into adulthood?

06/08/2026

The SMSF rules changed. From 10 August there is no borrowing for residential property. Here is why the strategy is not dead, just different.
General advice only. Not personal financial advice. Consider your own circumstances before acting.

03/08/2026

Being married to a medico and us trying to juggle work and personal commitments, such wisdom is invaluable:

The SMSF rules changed on 23 June, and from 10 August you can no longer borrow to buy residential property inside your fund. If that news landed with a thud, it is worth stepping back before reacting. The real question is not what you have lost. It is why you set the fund up in the first place. For most high income professionals, residential borrowing was never the whole strategy. Control was the reason. Tax efficiency was the reason. Making super work harder than a default fund ever could was the reason. None of that has quietly disappeared because one door narrowed. It helps to read the fine print here. The ban applies to residential lending only, which means commercial property inside your fund is completely untouched.

For practice owners, that opens one of the most compelling plays in the whole structure. Your fund can own the premises, your business can pay it rent, and you effectively become your own landlord, with the rent flowing back to your own super rather than to a stranger. There is another angle worth sitting with too. If the borrowing capacity in your own name is already spent across your home and your investments, your super may be the lever you forgot you owned. It has been sitting there the whole time.

Watch the YouTube segment, found in the comments!
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Produced by Derrick Yeoh at SoundMesh.

23/07/2026

What actually helps when someone is overwhelmed by financial stress?

Rosie Kendall, CEO of Hope Economy , has spent 19 years helping Australians move from financial distress to a clear path forward. Her five steps don't start with a budget — they start with a conversation.

Talk to someone. Slow down. Be honest. Create margin. Stay connected.

Simple in principle. Transformational in practice — especially when someone walks alongside you through each one.

Which step would make the biggest difference for you right now? We'd love to hear from you below.

Produced by me, for Hope 103.2

20/07/2026

What happens when you're excellent at your craft but running a business you were never taught to run?
Architect Brooke Aitken ran her studio for over ten years before she realised how much she didn't know about billing. She could pay her staff. She couldn't pay herself.

The shift came through a podcast, a hard conversation with herself, and a decision to treat the business like the design problem it was.
She sat down with Linda Habak on Build Beautiful to talk through all of it.

So honoured to be able to produce this podcast for Build Beautiful.
Episode link in comments

08/07/2026

You've said it before. "They just won't talk to me." You've tried asking, you've tried waiting, you've even tried pretending not to care — and still nothing.
But here's what Collett hears from teens on the other side of that silence: "I'm afraid to burden my parents. I don't want to watch them panic. I'm used to ending up looking after them instead."
Two sides of the same painful conversation — and neither one knows the other is even having it.
This clip is worth a watch if you've ever felt shut out by your teen.
Have you ever felt like you were doing everything right — and still couldn't get through? Tell us below.

30/06/2026

Very relevant this World Cup Season.
I heard Caroline say this in the She Wasn't Born Yesterday podcast and it reframes everything we think we know about gambling addiction. When organisations see problem gambling as a moral failure rather than a wellbeing issue, they miss the people who need support most. What would change in your workplace if this distinction was understood?

Full Podcast episode in the comments.

22/06/2026

Here's something Alexandra Donohoe Church does at the start of every client relationship that most designers would never dare to ask.
She asks them to choose.
"Do you want me to tell you the truth, or do you want me to tell you what I think you want to hear?"

Fifteen years leading Decus Interiors has taught her that clients surrounded by yes-people are the ones who end up most disappointed. The most aligned projects, the ones that genuinely move people, come from designers confident enough to push back when it matters.
That shift from approval-seeking to expertise-led doesn't happen overnight. It's built through experience, through difficult conversations, and through finally understanding that being hired for your expertise means actually using it.

Alexandra shared this and a lot more with Linda Habak on the latest episode of Build Beautiful. The conversation covers client psychology, creative confidence, and what it really takes to build a practice on your own terms.
Well worth your time.

18/06/2026

There is a version of giving that feels noble right up until the moment you realise you have nothing left.
Tim Dyer puts it simply: if you keep sacrificing yourself, you have nothing left for the people who actually need you.
This one stopped me mid-conversation as I produced this ep.
The full episode is in the comments.

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