Nine to Thrive: The Well-Being Podcast

Balance is Bulls@#$: Reframing our Conversation Around Work, Life and Well-Being Mich Bondesio

When I first got my certification in Applied Positive Psychology, a lot of corporations asked me to create workshops on Work-Life Balance and for a couple years, I had a signature workshop called “Cultivating Work Life Balance” until I realized that balance was unattainable and not what we were actually looking for. 
Basically, balance is bulls#$@. Why?  Because balance means equal and if you are working full time for 8 hours a day and you are sleeping 7-8 hours a day, and finding time to eat, shower etc. there will never be enough time to create balance..however, If we reframe the conversation and use different language, I have come to believe that our sense of well-being can go up, our stress can come down and we can be more engaged and happier in every part of our life.
 
In this week’s episode, Mich Bondesio, author of the book “The Cadence Effect” and I dive into reframing the conversation around work, life and well-being. She uses the term cadence and I use the word harmony to better describe what it is that would make our lives more satisfying, gratifying, productive and happier. There is always going to be stress and competing demands on our time. Mich shares tools and strategies and the most effective habits to keep us moving forward, with greater productivity and well-being and lower stress and burnout.
 
Listen to this week’s episode for some simple shifts that can change everything.
 
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A little more about  Mich Bondesio
 
Michelle Bondesio is a writer, speaker, podcaster, coach and entrepreneur, and the author of The Cadence Effect. She is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Lancashire School of Business and Enterprise, University of Central Lancashire. Her focus is on helping people to transform their habits and practices to activate more of their potential, both at work and in life.
 
She helps high-achievers to step off the hamster wheel of overwork and the treadmill of hustle culture, so they can activate their potential, build momentum, work with purpose, and craft a more meaningful life. 
 
Mich (pronounced Mish) has a degree in English and Psychology with a post-grad in Broadcast Journalism, and 20 years of experience in communications and project management. A bout of epic burnout then caused her to redesign her life and transition in her work. 
 
Since 2018, Mich has been raising awareness about digital wellness, intentional productivity and ways to beat burnout through her talks, workshops, online training and coaching programmes. Originally these were called Growth Sessions, but as of 2023 they are now part of her Creating Cadence brand. Find out more about Mich Bondesio at creatingcadence.co/about/.
Podcast & Coaching: https://creatingcadence.co/ 
Book - The Cadence Effect: https://thecadenceeffect.com/ 
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellebondesio/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michbondesio/

Embracing One Bold Move A Day with Shanna Hocking

It feels fitting to begin 2024 with a prompt that moves us all forward. One Bold Move a Day is just that. Shanna defines a bold move as a meaningful action that helps you move forward, learn and grow. It is both simple and challenging because a bold move is one thing that challenges you to grow and that means it is something that is going to move you out of your comfort zone. 
The best thing about one bold move is that the only person who defines it is you. Your bold move may be taking a walk outside or speaking up at a meeting or having a hard conversation with a friend or partner or applying for a business license etc. And what feels bold on MOnday and what feels bold next week may be really different.  No one else gets to define what feels like “bold” for you, so no judgment please!
It is about “doing the thing”. It is the follow through and initiative that differentiates us, not always the outcome. We dive into the four mindsets, achieving goals, celebrating wins and building community. I invite you to think about your goals for 2024 and imagine where you will be after 365 bold moves…
As we begin this new year, I am committing to one bold move a day, writing it down and sharing it with a friend. Will you join me?
 
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Here is a little more info about our guest Shanna Hocking
 
Shanna Hocking (Shanna rhymes with Donna) is a leadership coach, consultant, speaker, and author. She is the founder and CEO of Hocking Leadership, which helps universities and nonprofit organizations build stronger workplace cultures, develop leaders to reach their potential, and advance fundraising. Prior, Shanna spent 20 years raising hundreds of millions of dollars and leading collaborative teams at organizations such as the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Alabama, and Duke University. Shanna is the author of One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career Potential (November 2022, McGraw Hill), which was named by the Next Big Idea Club as "one of the 7 inspirational books to reach your goals in 2023". Shanna’s expertise has been featured in Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper's Bazaar UK, Entrepreneur, New York Post, Business Insider, and Today.com, among others. Her articles have been published on Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, Chicago Tribune, The Muse, Motherly, and Forbes. She has been seen on ABC, NBC, CBS, and Nexstar affiliate television stations across the USA.
 
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Knowing, Naming and Navigating our Fears with Melanie Curtis

Fears. We all have them. In fact, we are biologically wired to both detect and run from threats. In this episode, Melanie Curtis, a world record pro skydiver,  coach, author, speaker, and “type 2” fun junkie, and I dive into the process of coming to know our fears with a sense of curiosity and compassion, in order to navigate through them as opposed to running from them. 
Melanie shares her experiences as a skydiver,  business owner,  speaker on big stages along with her experience of transformational healing through psychedelic plant medicines. Check out this episode to learn more about how fear can be our teacher, our friend, our healer and our invitation to live out of our comfort zone and into full aliveness.
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Here is a little more about our guest Melanie
 
Melanie Curtis is a world record pro skydiver, keynote speaker, coach, author and activist.
She has been tapped as an expert in Forbes, Fast Company, Thrive Global, on CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC Know Your Value, Masters of Scale, and many more.
Melanie facilitates genre-busting professional development for companies, coaching teams to wield fear and flow state (and other F words), softening perfectionism and blind performance that becomes our prison if not balanced with deeper healing and hilarity. 
 
She is a teammate for Type A clients willing to look bravely at themselves as a nonnegotiable component to reaching our next levels of peak performance and relational connection, all while embracing the intensity and ridiculousness of being human at our edges. 
 
Melanie has authored 3 books, including How to Fly, available on Audible.
 
Melanie co-founded Highlight, an all-female professional demonstration jump team, using skydiving as a vehicle to champion equality and inspire women and girls to live bold brave lives of their own design. 
 
Melanie co-founded the Trust the Journey podcast, where she shares at length and in depth about her own healing experiences in service to helping others heal deeply. Via the show and her own public platform, Melanie is a passionate advocate for legal, safe and equitable access to transformative healing with psychedelic plant medicines. 
Connect with Melanie at MelanieCurtis.com or listen to the podcast at TrusttheJourney.today. 
 

Co-creating Thriving Relationships: Combining Inner Work with Outer Action with Dawn Kutza PhD

We are wired for connection. We are meant to be in relationship and communion with other people. Since the beginning of time, we have needed a community to survive. And yet, that doesn’t mean that we have been given the playbook for co-creating relationships that thrive and flourish. In this episode with the brilliant and talented Dawn Kutza, PhD and author of "Creating Authentic Relationships: A Love Playbook for the Next Generation", we explore what it means to come into a relationship “healthy” and what kind of personal growth work we do as individuals and as couples to get comfortable with vulnerability, build self-awareness, increase trust, cheer each other on and encourage one another to grow as individuals and as partners.
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Here is a little more about our guest, Dawn Kutza, PhD
 
Dawn is a mom, college professor, positive psychology practitioner, and a life/love/relationship coach. She is passionate about helping others (especially Gen Z) learn to discover their authentic selves and find their path to flourish in life, love, and work.
 
She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology, teaches at Indiana University, and recently authored the book "Creating Authentic Relationships: A Love Playbook for the Next Generation." She's a certified Positive Psychology Practitioner and Thriving Relationships Coach.
 
Check out her book: "Creating Authentic Relationships: A Love Playbook for the Next Generation":    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCCKRJFR
 
Follow her on Instagram:    https://www.instagram.com/dawnkutza/
 
Connect with her on LinkedIn:     www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-kutza
 
Her website:    https://www.flourish-in-love.com/
 
Her Email: Dawn@Flourish-in-Love.com
 
For additional resources, check out Sue Johnson’s book Hold me Tight and David Rico’s How to be an Adult in Relationships.
 

Reframing our Story through the Lens of Gratitude with Sally Joy Wolf

We kick off Nine to Thrive: The Well-Being Podcast this week with one of the simplest pathways to happiness, presence, longevity and overall well-being…gratitude. It is a lens that changes everything, especially in our most challenging seasons. My first guest, Sally Wolf, is an inspiring speaker, well-being advocate, Stage IV cancer “thriver” and all around remarkable human being. Sally and I dive into tools and strategies that help us move from asking “Why is this happening to me?” to “How can this be for me?” and how we reframe every story, and every situation in our lives through a lens of gratitude.
 
Listen to this week’s episode for some simple shifts that can change everything.
 
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Here is a little more about our guest Sally Joy Wolf
Sally Joy Wolf is a wellbeing advisor, advocate and keynote speaker who empowers and inspires others to flourish. Her work integrates her studies at Harvard (AB, psychology) and Stanford (MBA, MA Education), her certifications in positive psychology, coaching, resilience, meditation, and Sparketype advising, and her lived experience with metastatic breast cancer. She also regularly speaks about authenticity, vulnerability, post-traumatic growth, resilience, and positivity. 
Prior to her wellbeing work, Sally spent two decades as a media executive. At Time Warner, she led multicultural business strategy across HBO, Turner and Warner Bros. and created and launched OneFifty, a content incubator for innovative, diverse storytellers. A former camp counselor, Sally still passionately brings childlike wonder, creativity, and community into everything she does, most especially her adventures with her nephew and nieces; they will tell you Auntie is a big kid who loves rainbows, unicorns and hearts, plans awesome dance parties and sleepovers, and leaves a trail of glitter pretty much everywhere she goes!
Sally is a LinkedIn Top Voice whose work has been featured in media including Allure, The Independent, Glamour, Netflix, Health and BusinessWeek. Her cancer journey was recently profiled on Good Morning America and CBS New York.
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Read her essay in Allure or watch her on Good Morning America
Check out her dancing in Strip Down Rise Up on Netflix
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