The Momentum Life Project

My guest today is my great friend and fabulous business woman - Doreen - or Dorz Brown. She runs Doreen Brown Consulting - providing accessible Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) services and affordable web design to small business owners and solopreneurs. With programs, challenges, and full consulting options all available - Dorz brings an infectious energy to what can usually be a very data-driven and heavy area of marketing. In this episode we chat about: How she got started in her business with $200 in her bank account and what led her to falling in love with the area of search engine optimisation We talk about how she manages to guard her time religiously and the tricks she uses in her calendar to do this. We talk about the beach ball way of looking at perspective (I’d never heard this analogy before and I love it) How over the years she has learned to listen to her gut instinct so much more. The tricks she uses to recharge and reset How she never wants to have totally fulfilled her life purpose - this is

Are you a list person? Anyone who has listened to this podcast for a while will know I’m a little bit obsessed with to do lists and with how to maximise productivity and cram as much as possible into this thing we call life. On today’s show I’m chatting with Natalie Cartwright and Executive and Wellness Coach who is the founder of the To Day List. Natalie founded To Day list to help her fellow humans to simplify their day, boost productivity and create a sense of calm amidst the never-ending to-do list. She is on a mission to turn to-do lists into to-day lists.   Her vision is to create a tribe of like-minded people who focus their energy and attention each day to achieve balance and a sense of control. In this episode we talk about: The To-day List tool and how it can help overhaul your to-do list and get you focused. How to decide what should even go on our to-do list in the first place when we only have a limited number of hours each day What we’re all doing wrong when it comes to our to-do lists And how

Now today’s episode is a little different to normal, because I’m recording this just after the weekend where I turned 40. Yes the big 4-0 And a lot of people have asked me ‘oh how do you feel, do you feel old, are you freaking out’ - and you know what… no. I’m really not. I feel great! Ask me this a year ago and the answer wouldn’t have been the same so in this episode, I talk through some of the reasons why I feel so great but I also introduce (or re-introduce for those who have been playing along) the Momentum Life Birthday Challenge! You can get your very own copy of the Momentum Life Birthday Challenge printable right HERE. So come and join me as I enter a new decade, a new layer of wisdom (or maybe not) and start a new list of adventures, memories, great friends and experiences. To find out more about the membership mentioned on the show head to: https://www.themomentumarchitects.com/the-momentum-movement

Go on, be honest? How much of an honest person do you think you really are? On today’s show I’m going to be talking all about honesty as my guest is an expert in the topic having just released a book called Honest to Greatness. Peter Kozodoy is a keynote and TedX speaker, the CEO of Stradeso and Chief Strategy Office of GEM advertising and his articles have been featured in Inc. Forbes and The Huffington Post. In our chat, Peter and I talk about…. What honesty actually means and we unpack the concept of the hourglass framework of honesty We talk about how there is a difference between being honest TO people and being honest ABOUT people We talk about values and about how you can start to define what your true value are And we talk about the 2 key questions you need to ask in every situation to determine whether you are being honest. Regardless of how much of an honest person you think you are - this episode may just change your mind. To find out more about Peter you can connect with him on LINKED IN and che

Hands up if you consider yourself a creative person? My guest this week certainly does - his name is Firdaus Kharas - he is social innovator, speaker, activist and humanitarian. He’s been named as one of the world’s 50 most talented social innovators, visited over 146 countries, and met Mother Teresa - multiple times. Through his creative media company Chocolate Moose Media his work focuses on creating innovative solutions for some of the world’s toughest issues by affecting societal and individual behavioural change through human-centered communications - often through short films and animation. He builds awareness and education on topics like aids, malaria, refugees, and domestic violence and his work has been viewed by over a billion people in 198 countries and translated into 390 languages. His new book is called CREATIVITY: The Key to a Remarkable Life and on this episode we get down deep into what creativity really is and why we all need it. We talk about the difference between creativity and innovatio

Do you have find yourself with too much on the to-do list? Like you’re drowning in a sea of tasks and errands and projects and it doesn’t matter how hard you work - you can never fit it all in? If so, whether you’re a business owner or simply someone who wants to build more structure and organisation into your life to reduce that overwhelm - you’re going to love this episode. Michelle Broadbent is a business manager and strategist. She is the woman behind the woman - helping female entrepreneurs get organised, back in control and clear on where they’re heading so they can transform their business and their lives. Michelle is one of the MOST organised people I know and she is a total productivity machine  - in this episode we talk about: The most common problem that Michelle sees in female entrepreneurs Why planning white space in your calendar is SO important How to manage your calendar around your energy levels so you can still get things done even when you’re not really feeling it. And how if you don’t hav

Welcome back to Season 6 of the Momentum Life Project and for the first episode of the new season I have a very special guest who is a great friend of mine and who is the BEST person I know in getting people to change their behaviour. Rebecca McPhee is a dietitcian, nutritionist, health coach and an expert in behaviour change. We first met a number of years ago when we worked together at the same consultancy and have been friends ever since. Bec has worked as both a private practising dietitian, ran a business called the Cultured Nutritionist and has worked in health services in both Australia and the UK and was the chair of the NSW branch of Nutrition Australia I highly recommend you grab a pen and paper for this episode as you will want to take notes! We’re talking about behaviour change - what is it, why it’s so damn hard to do and what tips and tricks you can use to make healthy habits stick. We talk about why dieting is the fastest growing indoor sport in Australia. Why French Cheese is never off the me

Do you ever get in your own way? Do you ever find yourself self-sabotaging and letting those limiting beliefs, voices of self-doubt, and crippling lack of confidence stop you from achieving that next level of success? It happens all too often! And you’re certainly not alone. I recently ran a webinar with a great friend and mentor of mine Andrew Morello, winner of the first Australian Apprentice titled ‘getting the hell out of your own way’. So this is a bonus episode of the Momentum Life Project podcast where you get the chance to re-listen to this webinar where we unpack the 3 secrets to stop self-sabotaging and start living your best life. I've worked with hundreds of people over the years and you know what, it's never WHAT to do that's holding you back, it's very, very rarely HOW ... but it's ALWAYS the fact you’re getting in your own way. So if you’re ready to: ➳ Stop talking yourself out of projects / promotions / opportunities ➳ Stop thinking too small and making excuses why it shouldn't be you ➳ Stop d

**NEWSFLASH: have you signed up to the free, live and exclusive webinar on June 30th titled: Getting the hell out of your own way - 3 secrets to stop the self-sabotage and start living your best life? Places are filling quickly and this one’s going to be a goodie as I’ve got an incredible co-host Andrew Morello joining me for this jam-packed 60 minutes! Sign up here to reserve your spot: https://www.themomentumarchitects.com/webinar/ Okay…so, if you’re reading this, you’re alive and you’re breathing! But did you know that there is a right and a wrong way to breathe? And if we’re doing it wrong, it can actually impact heaps of other areas in your life from soreness to speaking to the composition of your blood! Today’s guest is my great friend and all round super woman Julia Urquhart - a Women’s Health and Pelvic Floor Physio by trade, Jules also incorporates dry needling, core stability, pilates, mindfulness and the Bradcliff breathing method into her practice. This is an area of science I know very little abo

Hands up - who likes to live a full and meaningful life? We all do right. So now, hands up who wants to live a life of stress and overwhelm and always feel like there’s just too much to do? It’s a really fine line isn’t it between having a lot on on then feeling like you are slipping into overwhelm. The first can leave us energised, and satisfied with a great sense of accomplishment, of kicking goals and of moving forward. The second, foggy, exhausted, snappy and generally not a great joy to be around. In this episode I tackle this very question which came from a gorgeous listener Megan asking how on earth do you have a lot of with feeling overwhelmed. I LOVE this question because what Megan is really asking is all about productivity, one of my absolute favourite topics and an area I totally geek-out on. I cover: What is overwhelm and how to recognise when we’re falling into it Why any kind of stress-reduction is a work in progress And my top 10 tips for getting a lot done but still feeling like you’re not t

Are you the type of person who prefers to fly under the radar? Trying to simply stay out of trouble, towing the line and following the rules? Or do you prefer to follow a different path? A path that is not always easy and can often attract criticism but that you’re certain is a better way? On today’s show I chat with Mark LeBusque, he’s commonly called The Human Manager, has written a couple of books about robots and starts each morning completing the statement ‘today I choose to be….’ He’s an internationally sought after speaker, facilitator and coach who challenges the traditional view of work and of workplace culture. In this episode we talk about: Not fitting in and how to have the confidence to do what’s right for you vs trying to please other people We talk about how comparison corrodes confidence We talk about how the traditional system of human performance is based around what you will DO vs how you will BE and why that needs to change We talk about purposeful provocation We talk about how someone on

Discovering my superpowers changed my life. Quite literally. It gave me greater understanding of why I approach certain things in certain ways, why some approaches will simply never work for me, and how to have a much greater appreciation for the differences in all of us and start to celebrate these rather than view them as sources of frustration. When I’m talking about superpowers, I’m talking about knowing my CliftonStrengths. I value this information so much that I became an accredited CliftonStrengths coach and now use it as a foundational block in a LOT of the work that I do. My guest today is a fellow CliftonStrengths coach so you can imagine how much fun I had on this one! In this episode Murray Guest and I talk about … how knowing our strengths profiles really did change our lives about why we like this tool so much above others out there about which strengths we would love to see in our top 5 but that aren’t there And we talk about and how certain events can really shape the future you. As one of A

Ask me 10 years ago if I’d be running a business (let alone on my second business) and I’d have looked at you as if you had gone mad. Ask me 2 years ago if I’d have a weekly podcast and I would have I’d have laughed in your face. Ask me 6 months ago if my bubbling dream of creating a membership community to inspire and to support people to take back control and design the life they truly want to be living would be launched by now - I’d have given you all of the reasons why it couldn’t be. BUT… It is here!… The Momentum Movement - the passion project, the true work I have been wanting to bring to the world for SO long, that I thought would still be many, many months if not years off IS OFFICIALLY LIVE AND OPEN FOR YOU. It’s the program that I wish I had when going through so many struggles of stress and overwhelm and burnout and feeling like ‘success’ (that mythical word) was so close but yet so far. Knowing that there was more potential inside of me, but having no clue about how to unlock it and let it all

What would your answer be if someone broke into your house at 3am, put a gun to your head and asked you the ‘why’ (as in ’why do you do what you do’) question? Andrew Morello has used his answer to the ‘3am gun to your head question’ for many years now to really shape his life and all of his decisions. Morello is best known for winning the very first Australian Apprentice with Mark Bouris but since then has gone on to be an award-winning entrepreneur, investor and author. He is also a Founding Board Member of Project Gen Z, a social enterprise which runs entrepreneur and development programs for disadvantaged children. In this wide-ranging chat we talk: all things energy, motivation, and mindset about how to assess opportunities so you know exactly what to say yes to we talk about pivotal life moments and how they shape us into who we are today and why Morello returns to the killing fields in Cambodia every single year (and I challenge anyone not to want to go and call their mum after listening to this epis

You know those people who always seem to be at the top of their game, always have everything together and don’t ever seem to be sitting still? Today’s guest is one of those… she’s what I call a true momentum maker. She knows what she wants and she sure as hell goes and makes it happen. Lauren Beaufils is the founder of Attention Marketing, a subscription-based marketing agency that delivers done for you packages for small and medium sized business. She is also the founder of the Illawarra Young Professionals, a networking group on the south coast. In recent years she was also appointed as an Australian delegate for the International Youth Leaders assembly at the United Nations headquarters in  New York, and helped co-found the South Coast Youth Leadership Forum to help combat youth unemployment.  She graduated the University of Wollongong with a Bachelor of Commerce, was appointed a Rare Birds Ambassador, received the young achiever highly commended award at the Illawarra Women in Business awards and is a mem

The last few weeks have seen all of us scrambling to deal with the ‘new norm’. Whether faced with losing our job or business, whether trying to work out how on earth to teach children from the dining room table, or being left with feelings of anger or frustration or simply bewilderment at the increasing measures of restriction imposed - no-one has been left unaffected. In trying to work out how best to support people during this time, I approached psychotherapist, strengths coach and trainer, Andrew Sloan. Andrew describes what he does as bringing a sharper focus to experiences that are ready for change. He works with both individuals when our experience feels stuck, messy and incredibly intense, and also does a lot of work in teams; when they might feel directionless, disengaged and filled with tension.   He is the master of navigating change, complexity and uncertainty. In his therapeutic sessions, Andrew uses a blend of narrative and somatic therapy and so in this episode, I’ve moved away from the normal s

‘Momentum’ is one of my favourite words (you’d never have guessed right!?) but when I talk about momentum I’m usually talking about it in the positive sense…gaining momentum to build great habits, gaining momentum on getting stuff done, gaining momentum on building a life that you love. The last few weeks has seen the momentum around the COVID19 Pandemic explode. What was seen to start with as ‘a bit of a cold’ has escalated at an incredible rate to see the near-on collapse of the global economy, widespread panic, fear and uncertainty, mass job losses and a world grappling to work out how to carry on life away from each other.  Mike Berland, CEO & Founder of Decode M, a New York based data and insights company isn’t surprised. He analyses momentum for a living and has decoded the data for major brand, global social movements and political powerhouses like Hilary Clinton. In this episode we deep dive into the science behind momentum including why he thinks that the 2020 US Election will DEFINITELY still go

For many years, okay my whole life really, I have thought playing down compliments was a sign of humility, a sign of ‘not thinking too much of yourself’ of being a non-arrogant human. But recently I’ve had a massive wakeup call and realised that I’ve been approaching this all wrong. Like SO wrong. On the latest episode of the Momentum Life Project I outline how this wake up call happened and what I’ve now realised is not me being humble, or ensuring that I do not come across as arrogant or ‘thinking I’m great’. What it’s actually doing is undermining and devaluing the person giving the compliment in the first place. It’s a total lose-lose and, you heard it hear first - it’s stopping right now! Call it a symptom of imposter syndrome, call it social conditioning or perceived etiquette but whatever it is, it’s something a lot of us suffer with - the inability to accept compliments - and it’s costing us big time! I’ll share the worst thing I ever did when rebuking a compliment (still can’t believe I did this!) W

Finding herself standing in the Centrelink line, an unemployed single mum of two very small boys, Lisa Burling decided there and then to start a business. A hugely successful career PR, her world had come crashing down around her in 2013 but as she regularly says - when life throws you lemons, you make lemonade. And make lemonade she did by going on to launch award-winning PR consultancy LBPR, becoming an ambassador for global women’s networks Rare Birds and Ausmumpreneur and now, a published author. Her first book is about to be re-titled and re-released by New Holland Publishers and the first copies will be hitting the shelves within days of this episode going live. I was dying to ask Lisa all about the process of writing the book, how she reacted when she found out she’s been picked up by a top notch publisher - and of course how that in itself happened. I also delve into her top tips for self-care and how she continually operates at such a high energy level plus finding out all about the ‘Board of Lisa’ (

How many teams are you on? Well for starters, what do you even class as a team? Keegan reckons that if we really think about it, we will discover we’re on at least 5-10 teams. Everything from our family teams, sporting teams, work departments and organising committees. Known as the ‘team guy’ Keegan has helped some of the largest organisations in Australia and he’s on a mission to put the ‘I’ back in team that we’re so often told to take out! This episode is all about how we can be more effective team mates to all around us, starting with having a better understanding of what our unique role is within that team (and we’re not just talking the leader vs the workers bees here). As Keegan says ‘we are individually busy, but not always collectively productive’ - how true is that! For anyone on a team (hint - that’s all of us even if you’re a solopreneur holed up in your home office) this is a must-listen episode packed with tips on how we can all be better team mates and work together more effectively. To get mor