Mitch Wallis speaks to Aoife O'Connell, a leader in marketing who found out she was being made redundant whilst giving birth.

This episode covers:

• How to create more purposeful careers?
• Techniques to navigate life-altering experiences
• How to minimise guilt and shame?
• Are we really advocating for equal opportunities for women?
• How to step into and own your voice and experience.
• Why parents should continuously invest in improving as parents.

Mitch Wallis speaks to Susan Hales, a psychologist and clinical hypnotherapist who helped treat previous guest, Nicole Blackie to overcome her eating disorder.

This episode covers:

• How to uncover and reframe the stories we tell ourselves that keep us stuck and sick.
• Working with Nicole to help heal her disordered eating and thinking, and the importance of connection in recovery.
• Her own her thoughts made her sick - her experience with mental ill-health manifesting as anxiety, panic and PTSD.
• The key parts of how to connect with our feelings and properly process them.
• The most common stories that we tell ourselves and the medical language that keeps us stuck in a fear cycle and negative mindset.

Mitch Wallis speaks to Madii Himbury – a young successful Olympic skier who is on a path to discovering who she is outside the world that people see everyday.

In this episode we cover:

• What life is like as an elite athlete - How can we manage our mental health so that success isn’t so tied to our identity?
• Experiencing how freeing making space with your internal story can be?
• How important it is to be aware of your emotions in order to redefine how we see ourselves.
• The importance of knowing when to put yourself first and take your foot off the accelerator.
• Why we need people to walk with us on our mental health journey and the skills she uses to manage her mental health.

Mitch Wallis speaks to Sharon Draper, a psychologist who's honesty about not always having her sh* together is a refreshing take on a career that can often expect perfection.

This episode covers:

• exploring dual roles as both a mental health practitioner and a patient and the trauma that impacted her life and inspired her to become involved with psychology.
• dealing with her own inner demons such as complex OCD issues that have manifested in bizarre behaviours like holding her breath.
• navigating the humanity behind the traditionally "God-like" archetypes of professional therapists.
• continuing to live with anxiety and thriving in a world where she helps others to do the same.
• how her personal mental health issues can challenge her ability to support clients, yet also increase the empathy of her work.
• why the 2 year window between 5 and 7 years old is so sensitive to forming our future mental health
• the awkward moment where a psychologist starts writing notes during your session.

Mitch Wallis speaks to Nicole Blackie, one of the greatest stories of anorexia recovery we’ve ever heard. After several admissions & years in psychiatric hospitals, almost a decade of professional help & medication etc that hardly changed a thing, Nicole has recently made a tectonic shift that now see’s her living a healthy, normal and fulfilling life.

This episode covers:

• Nicole's harrowing journey with anorexia that almost took her life
• The 2 main things that contributed to her recovery
• In-patient hospitalisation experiences
• Issues relating to current psychology treatment models
• School bullying and it's impact of self esteem
• The painful and complex nature of eating disorders