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Tam sits down with her friend and colleague Kate de Jong to talk about Kate's upcoming book, The Wisdumb Way: A Simple Path to Emotional Intelligence Through the Power of Paradox, co-written with EQ expert James Brydon and relationship counsellor Mauro Davide. 

The conversation starts with a statistic that is hard to shake: 95% of people think they're self-aware, but research suggests only 10 to 15% actually are...

Tam Callaghan knows you've heard the word gratitude too many times. She felt the same way. This episode is her making the case that it's worth pushing through that resistance, and explaining why it actually works, not in a spiritual bypassing way, but in a genuinely practical, neurological, life-changing way. 

Drawing on Shawn Achor's research, Rick Hanson's work on absorbing positive experiences, her ...

In part two of their conversation on workplace bullying, Tam Callaghan and Tanya Hallett from TIPT get into the harder question: once you know there's a problem, what do you actually do? 

They pick up where part one left off, starting with the 'money in the bank' concept and why goodwill built before a crisis is the thing that makes everything else possible. From there they move into what happens when ...

Workplace bullying pt 2: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-krwy4-1b1acb6

Narcissistic Bullies: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-arzzg-1af7f01

Tanya Hallett from TIPT returns to talk about workplace bullying, one of the most common and cost...

Tam Callaghan had a realisation that made her feel a bit silly at first, and then completely changed how she understood her own anxiety. She was choosing it. Not consciously, but choosing it all the same. 

In this episode she unpacks the idea that anxiety can sometimes be a way of avoiding responsibility for choices we've made, and why staying in worry feels safer than sitting with the discomfort of ownership. She also gets ho...

Tam Callaghan did the brave thing. She wrote the letter, had the hard conversation, cleared up a long-standing issue with someone important to her, and got the resolution she'd hoped for. And then she waited to feel great. 

It didn't quite work out that way. 

In this episode Tam shares what actually happened in the days after a genuine breakthrough, including the unexpected ego backlash, the ...

They're charming to leadership, devastating to their team, and almost impossible to catch. In this episode, Tam Callaghan sits down with workplace expert Tanya Hallett to talk about narcissistic bullies at work: what they actually are, why organisations keep missing them, and what to do if you're dealing with one. 

Tanya breaks down the key difference between a standard workplace bully and a narcissistic on...

Do you want to be Bette or Barbara? If you know the movie Beaches, you know the question. Bette Midler's character is the star, the one in the spotlight. Barbara Hershey's is quieter, less visible, deeply loving and deeply loved. In this episode, Tam Callaghan has been wrestling with which one she wants to be, and the answer surprised her. 

For most of her life Tam's ego has measured her worth through achievement, recogni...

Authenticity gets thrown around constantly in workplaces, but what does it actually mean to bring your real self to work without oversharing, burning bridges, or pretending the bottom line doesn't exist? Tam Callaghan sits down with celebrity chef, LinkedIn writer and longtime friend Alvin Quah to dig into one of the most overused and underexplored ideas in modern work culture. 

Alvin brings a per...

What do you do when there's no plan, no clear path, and no idea if what you're doing is heading anywhere? In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets honest about the extended period of unknowing she's been living through and what she's learning from it.

This one covers the ego structures we build to protect...

Tam Callaghan sits down with her friend and accredited dietitian Jess Burvill, the person behind the wildly useful Instagram page Daily Serve Nutrition, to talk about how a career in advertising, a mid-life study pivot, and a clear no-judgment voice turned into one of Australia's fastest-growing nutrition accounts. 

Jess came to dietetics as a second career after years in advertising agencies, and it turns out those two worlds...

Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds returns to share the findings from her PhD research into how workers and leaders are experiencing Australia's psychosocial safety regulations, and the results are eye-opening. 

Leaders across organisations, including very senior ones in large companies, are either unaware of their obligations or aware but left with no clear pathway to meet them. Many are DIYing it on their own time, which cr...

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Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds returns to share the findings from her PhD research into how workers and leaders are experiencing Australia's psychosocial safety regulations, and the results are eye-opening. 

Leaders across organisations, including very senior ones in large companies, are either unaware of their obligations or aware but left with no clear pathway to meet them. Many are DIYing it on their own time, which ...

What if the parts of yourself you most want to get rid of are actually trying to help you? In this episode, Tam Callaghan explores parts therapy and why resisting any part of yourself, whether it's striving, jealousy, impatience, or anxiety, makes it louder, not quieter. 

Drawing on her own experience with her striving part, and a conversation with a friend battling impatience, Tam makes a case for welcomin...

Tam Callaghan sits down with author, meditation teacher and former Zen monk Stephan Bodian to talk about his new book Infinite Awakening, a guide to non-dual wisdom for people walking what he calls the pathless path, those who have found their way to awakening outside of monasteries, ashrams, or formal traditions.

Stephen has spent decades as a psychotherapist and teacher at his School of Awakening, and this conversation draws on a...

What you resist persists. It's one of those lines that's easy to nod at and genuinely hard to live. In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets into why avoiding painful emotions doesn't make them go away, and what it actually looks like to stop fighting what's there. 

Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, her own experience with 4 a.m. fear spirals before training sessions, the work of Eckhart Tolle, and Rumi's Guesthouse poe...

What happens when a difficult situation at work gets avoided, passed around, or quietly buried? Tam Callaghan sits down with executive coach, mediator and author Tammy Tansley to talk about one of the most common and costly patterns in workplaces: the failure to address problems early. 

Tammy has spent decades being called in after things have already gone wrong. In this conversation, she and Tam get into why delay makes every...

Are you actually successful, or are you just measuring yourself against a standard someone else handed you? In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets into one of the most loaded words in the Western world and asks the question most of us are quietly afraid to sit with. 

Tam introduces Barbara, the name she's given to her ego, that grasping, never-satisfied inner voice that worries about how things look and whether&nbs...

In this episode Helen and Betty continue the conversation about end‑of‑life doulas: how they train, what the role actually looks like, and why continuity of care matters. They share deeply human stories of vigils, home deaths, palliative care, and supporting families through active dying and bereavement. 

The hosts also discuss practical details — training pathways, costs and funding, volunteer and pa...