52 episodes of The Impact of Mindset have aired! WOOHOO!

Magnetic Confidence has hit another milestone. The Impact of Mindset has now hit 52 episodes! An entire year of interviewing people, sharing my raw and real messages about how your mindset impacts you and how you can improve it. I’m so proud of how the podcast has gone and I’m looking forward to seeing more people fall in love with it over time. To celebrate this moment I want to pause and enjoy the highlights of the past year.

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What is your journey with mental health?

October is Mental Health Awareness Month in Australia so I thought I’d share my journey with mental health to demonstrate the importance of the need for a perception shift in what mental health means. Like everything I talk to clients about its best to be raw and real to take full ownership of what is and how you can change it. So here is my very real account of how society influenced my attitude towards mental health and how developing my awareness changed everything.

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Make the first move

When you get stuck in life the best advice you can ever get is to make the first move. Often, we wait for perfect conditions, we wait for our emotions to be completely changed to something happier, but we ignore the benefit of finding something that can impact our mindset way sooner than we would think.

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How to develop authenticity

The key to being magnetically confident is to develop your authenticity, because the more authentic you are the more likely it is that people are going to engage with you. People recognise something beautiful in authenticity- awareness, humility, self acceptance and honesty. They know that with an authentic person there is no second guessing, they can simply enjoy someone’s company without wondering about an agenda, who they really are or needing to impress them because they know the only way to impress someone is to truly be yourself. This eliminates stress, creating ease for those individuals the confident person engages with which makes them even more magnetic. So how do you develop the authenticity to draw people closer to you on a daily basis? Here are my 10 steps to Developing Authenticity.

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Habit Coaching has landed!

Your habits are the foundation of building confidence. Confidence is built on our mindset and our ability to feel competent at what we do. Every day we habitually do tasks, some that help us and some that hinder us. When we master the art of habits we can increase our results in our life, improving our health, happiness and success. The more habits we conquer the more confidence we feel because each of these habits require consistency and commitment. You aren’t going to feel like always doing the things that are important to you, it will require grit. What I’ve established is that my clients typically have a mixture of helpful and unhelpful habits. I wanted to enable them to achieve greater success to reach higher levels of performance and health so I created Habit Coaching.

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The hotel that became my second home

In 2020 I moved to Toowoomba, I started full time teaching again while running a business and I loved the choice I made to move but something was missing- I missed being in Brisbane, the friends I had made, the events I could go to and the networking I did regularly. My Sunday salsa nights had spoilt me, my regular meetups too so I found myself trekking down to Brisbane on the regular. In this time I found my second home- the Swissbelhotel and boy do I miss it.

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How to be more accountable

Goal setting is a great tool to help us achieve what we want but it is null and void without accountability. So how do we ensure that we are accountable to achieve the goals we set for ourselves? There are many ways you can do it but in this modern era I believe the best ways are harnessing the use of technology so that we maximise what is already in our hands whilst rewiring the reasons why we engage with tech. This way we don’t perceive ourselves as doing something extra and we can harness the power of positive peer pressure. This is why I created the Daily Journal.

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25 Podcast Episodes Down!

On January 4 we launch the podcast impact of mindset. It was incredibly exciting to begin the journey into podcasting for the very first time and interview people that are inspirational have great insight into their own self-awareness and can really motivate other people with their stories.

Since January 4 we have had 25 episodes and I’m incredibly pleased about how well it has been received. I first started preparing for my podcast back in October 2020 I had no idea how much I would fall in love with my podcast. The reality is that podcasting lights me up, I really enjoy having conversations with other business owners & high-performers and I adore getting great feedback from people about how they loved interviews with different guests that they really got something out of the content that would be producing as part of the podcast.

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Ingenuity meets fashion

I got sucked in by the Rockwear sale. It’s really not hard, the company is incredibly inclusive, caters for women who have curves and is super down to earth. So needless to say when they have a sale I find it takes a lot of self control not to buy new workout gear. With Toowoomba hitting 0.3 of a degree when I rose at 5am to workout earlier this week it just made sense to purchase more tights.

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How to support your child to chase their sporting goals.

Years ago, I thought my greatest dream was to become a professional footballer, then at the age of 22 I was faced with the reality that I would have to work multiple jobs while also completing a heavy training schedule 3 hours away from where I lived on a regular basis, all because female athletes were paid measly wages. This combined with my desire to be a mum before I was 35 felt like a pressure cooker of decisions that directed what I would do next in sport. Not wanting to give up motherhood for sport, nor a career I had only just started I stayed with my career and stepped away from trying again to make it happen, it helped that an epic injury followed later that prevented me from playing football again. Looking back at those decisions now as a single, 35 year old it all feels ironic. I cannot change the decisions that I made, and I don’t have regrets, but I do want to share what I have learnt about chasing high performance in sport for upcoming athletes and parents that endeavour to support them.

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How I practice self- care

Self-care is what keeps me sane, without self-care I cannot look after anyone else and as a coach that is everything that I do so essentially if I get it wrong, I cannot do my job. This is a distinction I think is important for anyone who works in the health and wellbeing space to get. Self-care is the foundation for your business.

So, are you looking for inspiration for how to practice self- care? Here are the things that I do to look after myself on a regular basis.

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Drive in neutral to get your health back

In our cars neutral just lets our car stay where it is, we don’t move forward or backwards, but it does allow our car to turn on without it going backwards. When life is tough, we need to put ourselves in neutral. Neutral gives us a place to operate with where we can go forward and to be honest, like a car, once we are here we are more likely to move forward than we are to go backwards.

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Mental Health IS Physical

How many times have you participated in exercise where you felt better afterwards? Many, right? This effect is proof that mental health is also physical. For generations we have spoken about mental health as if it’s a separate issue but it isn’t. Society knows that when we exercise we feel better, our mood is better, our productivity is better and our success is greater, so why don’t we treat our mental health as part of our physical health?

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Out of my comfort zone and loving it

This year I decided to get out of my comfort zone and get back to playing community sport by joining my local AFL team, the Toowoomba bombers. I wanted to step back into social sport again for my health benefits and to fill the social void I know I would feel being my own boss. So far being associated with the South Toowoomba Bombers has been fantastic for that. I really wanted to share with you what it's been like me learning how to play AFL because it's the definition of getting out of my comfort zone and I’m absolutely loving it!

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The female monkey mind & fertility

It’s my birthday and you know what that means I have hit another age bracket on a survey form. You might think that’s absolutely ridiculous but you usually get a few years when you don’t have to think about this we can take the same box and move on with your life but this year 35 feels different and here is why.

Several years ago I made a decision for myself not really fully understanding what that decision was, you see I made a pact with myself that I would become a mum by the time I’m 35. I didn’t have to have a baby physically in my hands but my birthday but I would need to be pregnant in the year of my 35th birthday the only problem is today is my 35th birthday.

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