Leading Beings

#044 Harnessing your Uniqueness

#043 Kelly Dent: Changing Systems & Challenging Narratives

In this episode I chat with Kelly Dent. Kelly is the Global Director of External Engagement at World Animal Protection and is a leader, influencer, campaigner, advocate and strategist for social change with 25 years’ experience working at the forefront of global development. Her focus at the moment is on working to end the wildlife trade, but she's worn many different hats throughout her career, including as a speaker at the UN Climate Talks and an Aid Worker in Gaza. Join Kelly and I as we...

#042 Personalising Productivity

Being productive can play an important role in using our potential to have an impact. The world of productivity hacks, tools, systems has become a minefield of options. But is that what we need to really improve our productivity? In this episode I explore what it takes to develop a more personalised approach to productivity. Rather than trying to adopt the methods and tools of others, how can we use them as inspiration, but then create ways of working that actually work for us as individual...

#041 Matt Wicking: Leading your Authentic Activism

#040 Space to Lead

Whether you're leading an organisation, a team, a mission, your family or even just yourself, it's important to make time and space for the things that get you out of the weeds and be the best you can be. In this episode I offer up eight different types of 'Space' we need to create for ourselves to be the best leaders we can be.  Space for thinking & reflection Space for planning, strategising & innovating Space for action & reaction Space for listening & understanding Space for connec...

#039 Stephanie Harrison: Leading Your New Happy

In this episode I speak with founder and CEO of The New Happy, Stephanie Harrison. Stephanie is an expert in happiness and lasting behaviour change and before starting The New Happy led learning and Thrive Global. Join us as we discuss defining and creating happiness based on what's truly important in life. As well as exploring Stephanie's own personal story and inspirations, we dive into: - The fascinating insights from Stephanie's positive psychology related research on happiness - Why,...

#038 Mindful Goals

Have you struggled with traditional goal setting in the past? Maybe you (like me) and tried SMART Goals and found them a bit dull and lackluster.  In this episode I dive into how you can start to create more mindful goals that help you make meaningful progress. I'll explore things like how your approach, self and circumstances can impact your goals, as well as sharing my alternative to SMART goals, iBecome Goals. In this episode I also mention my Goal Exploration Canvas. This is a free to...

#2.05 Dr Ricci-Jane Adams: Leading with Intuitive Intelligence

Ricci-Jane Adams is an intuition expert, writer and founder of the Institute of Intuitive Intelligence. Bridging science and spirituality, including a PHD in metaphysical realism, Ricci-Jane is on a mission to lead the revolution in excellence in the intuitive sciences. Join Ricci-Jane and I as we discuss themes of breaking away from the New Age ghetto, knowing ourselves as quantum beings, belief and suffering and leading with intuitive intelligence.

#037 Dr Ricci-Jane Adams: Leading with Intuitive Intelligence

Ricci-Jane Adams is an intuition expert, writer and founder of the Institute of Intuitive Intelligence. Bridging science and spirituality, including a PHD in metaphysical realism, Ricci-Jane is on a mission to lead the revolution in excellence in the intuitive sciences. Join Ricci-Jane and I as we discuss themes of breaking away from the New Age ghetto, knowing ourselves as quantum beings, belief and suffering and leading with intuitive intelligence. 

#2.04 Reflections - Reshaping Expectations

Sometimes when we go through a phase of personal and transformation and growth, things can change with the people closest to us. In this episode I discuss the theme of reshaping the expectations others might have of us. This reflection episode came from my discussion with Nicho Plowman in the previous episode. Make sure you check that one out for context.

#036 Reflections - Reshaping Expectations

Sometimes when we go through a phase of personal and transformation and growth, things can change with the people closest to us. In this episode I discuss the theme of reshaping the expectations others might have of us. This reflection episode came from my discussion with Nicho Plowman in the previous episode. Make sure you check that one out for context. 

#035 Nicho Plowman - Vedic Meditation for Progressive Personal Change

Nicho and I discuss themes of doing a 180 in your life, exploring different spiritual and personal development modalities, releasing stress and supporting our nervous system to be the best we can be, motivating people with our story, living in alignment with who we really want to be and daily meditation for progressive personal change.

#2.03 Nicho Plowman - Vedic Meditation for Progressive Personal Change

Nicho and I discuss themes of doing a 180 in your life, exploring different spiritual and personal development modalities, releasing stress and supporting our nervous system to be the best we can be, motivating people with our story, living in alignment with who we really want to be and daily meditation for progressive personal change.

#034 Steve Glaveski - The Intentional Entrepreneur: Values Lead Leadership Of Self, Life And Business

In this episode I speak with Steve Glaveski, founder of the startup accelerator, Collective Campus and host of the Future Squared podcast. Join Steve and I as we discuss themes of living a deliberate and intentional life, creating value beyond the dollar, making decisions, taking risks, putting yourself out there, intentional use of technology and how you can be an intentional entrepreneur with values led leadership of yourself, life and business.

#2.02 Steve Glaveski - The Intentional Entrepreneur: Values Lead Leadership Of Self, Life And Business

In this episode I speak with Steve Glaveski, founder of the startup accelerator, Collective Campus and host of the Future Squared podcast. Join Steve and I as we discuss themes of living a deliberate and intentional life, creating value beyond the dollar, making decisions, taking risks, putting yourself out there, intentional use of technology and how you can be an intentional entrepreneur with values led leadership of yourself, life and business.

#2.01 Introducing Leading Beings

When you're doing work or running a business that is deeply connected to your purpose and sense on meaning in the world, it's only natural that as you change, your work will need to evolve with you. Please join me along my journey as the Good Work Revolution Podcast becomes Leading Beings.

#033 Introducing Leading Beings

When you're doing work or running a business that is deeply connected to your purpose and sense on meaning in the world, it's only natural that as you change, your work will need to evolve with you. Please join me along my journey as the Good Work Revolution Podcast becomes Leading Beings.

#032 Reflections - Discover Your Calling

In this episode, I reflect on the idea of discovering your calling. What does it mean to be called by something? How can you discover your calling? Can you have multiple callings? I also share some freebies and news about a conference I'll be putting on in Melbourne in August.   Links https://sixfigurecoachsummit.com/kate https://katemccready.teachable.com/courses/a-conscious-work-life-introduction/ https://worklifex.com You can find show notes to this episode at https://katemccready.com/blo...

#031 Melissa Ambrosini - Following Your Truth

My Guest today is Melissa Ambrosini. Melissa is the best selling authour of Mastering Your Mean Girl and has a new book coming out called Open Wide: A radically real guide to deep love, rocking relationships and soulful sex. She's also the host of the Melissa Ambrosini Podcast a motivational speaker and entrepreneur and self love teacher. She was named a self help guru by Elle Magazine and her message, that love is sexy, healthy is liberating and wealthy isn't a dirty word has inspired women...

#030 Sally Hill - What It Takes To Be A Purpose Driven Business

My guest today is Sally Hill. From almost as soon as her career started, Sally had a strong interest in sustainability and social impact, as well as a strong sense of social justice. After working across the not for profit and sustainability sectors, in roles spanning digital, partnerships, communications and more - sally saw an opportunity and had the desire to begin working in the emerging space of purpose driven business.   Sally cofounded her company Wildwon with Yvonne Lee in 2012. Now ...

#029 Ryan McCarty - Creating A Culture Of Good

My guest today is Ryan McCarty - Culture Guru and founder of Culture of Good. From Mission work, to working for not for profits, to Church Ministry and becoming a pastor, Ryan was eventually coaxed into the corporate world when Scott Moorehead, the CEO of TCC Verizon, hired him to help create a Culture of Good for the largest Verizon Authorized Retailer's  3,000 employees at 800 stores across the U.S. What the duo began as a powerful movement has grown into a business teaching other companie...

#028 Reflections - Stepping Back Into The 9-5

In this episode, I reflect on what it means to step back into the workforce after working for yourself and why it takes courage.

#027 Mandy Messer - Navigating Transitions Through Should & Must

Mandy Messer believes that great things happen by accident, or by design. As one of the founders of Kismet Design and now UX strategist at Ford motor company, she leads and inspires the new generation of designers to transcend through the field of UX. A great lover of people, Mandy combines creative strategy, technical knowledge, analytical thinking in her teaching, research, and design work. Join Mandy and I as we discuss: Traversing between the analytical and the creative worlds and explor...

#026 Dr Jason Fox - Meaningful Progress To Purpose

My guest on the Podcast today is Dr Jason Fox. Jason is a modern-day wizard-rogue, author and leadership adviser.   Sought after for his pioneering philosophies and expertise in motivation design, Jason shows forward-thinking leaders around the world how to unlock new and meaningful progress—amidst a volatile sea of complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, paradox and doubt. Jason is the bestselling author of The Game Changer, and How to Lead a Quest: a handbook for pioneering executives and his ...

#025 Eddie Harran - Exploring The Mysteries Of Time

  My Guest today is Eddie Harran. Eddie Harran is a futurist, artist and researcher who for the last couple of years has been in a deep investigation of chronosophy - essentially an interdisciplinary study of time. A life long explorer with a deep curiosity for life and the world, Eddie has done some amazing things from live in innovation experiments in Berlin to working as an Explorer in residence at a large professional services firm where his job was to delve into trends at the edge of ma...

#024 Reflections - Good Work Starts With You

#023 Kate Reardon - Pressing Reset For Body, Mind & Soul

My Guest today is Kate Reardon. Kate is a qualified practitioner of Naturopathy and Nutritional Medicine, an author and speaker, an Intuitive Metaphysical Healer and yoga teacher. After travelling the world as a young adult, Kate began her journey into the world of healing through the world of food and nature, studying and working as a naturopath and nutritionist   But after building up a successful business in Australia, she felt the pull to go deeper with her clients, leading her eventuall...

#022 Valuing A Heart-centred Workplace

In this episode I reflect on my conversation from last episode with Matt Henricks. In the episode Matt reflected on what in the past he 'thought' was valued in the workplace and how that changed. Join me in this episode as I delve into this and why being heart or human centred in business is something we all need to sit up and pay attention to.   Are you ready to create work that fulfils, inspires and has a positive impact? Are you ready to follow your purpose, make a difference and follow t...

#022 Valuing A Heart-centred Workplace

In this episode I reflect on my conversation from last episode with Matt Henricks. In the episode Matt reflected on what in the past he 'thought' was valued in the workplace and how that changed. Join me in this episode as I delve into this and why being heart or human centred in business is something we all need to sit up and pay attention to.   Are you ready to create work that fulfils, inspires and has a positive impact? Are you ready to follow your purpose, make a difference and follow th...

#021 Matt Henricks - The Power Of Small Actions To Make A Difference

My guest today is Matt Henricks. After starting his career in HR, where his early roles saw him responsible for 'letting go' over 100 hundred employees, Matt sought out a change in his work to do something more meaningful. Flash forward to today and Matt is now the CEO and Founder of Henricks Consulting, the Helping Hands Program and Water Works Program, Matt's passion is helping companies change the way that employees engage with their work. Matt is an expert in the field of Organisational ...

#020 Intro To 2017 - Rekindle Your Resolutions

Welcome to the first episode of the Good Work Revolution for 2017. In this episode I introduce a bit about what the podcast will hold this year. I also explore some ways you can rekindle your new years resolutions and use your resolutions guilt to your advantage. Show notes can be found at www.katemccready.com/blog/good-work-revolution-2017-rekindle-resolutions

#019 Amy Watson - A Side Project For Purpose

My guest today is Amy Watson, who is one half of the creative team behind Pickles Mag. An online video magazine exploring the future of food.   After experiencing a bit of an existential crisis, Amy decided too take her skills and her talents from journalism and video production and apply them to something she was passionate about. Her passion for food.   Growing from what she describes as almost an obsession, Amy really got involved with understanding issues surrounding food like sustainabi...

#018 Reflections - Finding Your Tribe

This week I reflect on the theme of finding your tribe. Why it's important, how we can do it and why it can so exciting when we do. This theme was inspired from last episode's conversation with Sean Morrow who spoke about how he really started to understand his Good Work after finding his tribe while travelling in his 20s.   The Good Work Revolution Podcast is for people who are creating businesses, shaping new careers, building social enterprises, creating new ways of working, embracing a mu...

#018 Reflections - Finding Your People*

This week I reflect on the theme of finding your people*. Why it's important, how we can do it and why it can so exciting when we do. This theme was inspired from last episode's conversation with Sean Morrow who spoke about how he really started to understand his Good Work after finding his tribe while travelling in his 20s.   The Good Work Revolution Podcast is for people who are creating businesses, shaping new careers, building social enterprises, creating new ways of working, embracing a...

#017 Sean Morrow - Building Connections With Nature

My guest on the podcast today is Sean Morrow from One Earth Education & Consulting.   Sharing a deep connection with nature, it was no surprise that Sean has built a career and business around the natural environment.  Sean is landscaper, consultant and educator with over 20 years experience and qualifications in both horticulture and permaculture design. He has a passion for teaching others about organic gardening, frog ponds and habitat gardening, permaculture and edible gardens.  But his...

#016 Growing Your Impact & Embracing Purpose Evolution

This week I reflect on a number of themes around growing our good work. The idea of starting small, rather than not starting at all and accepting and embracing the fact that our purpose will grow and change over time. This theme was inspired from my last episode's conversation with Danielle Malik who spoke about feeling she wanted to 'up-level' on the problems she was trying to solve through her work. It's easy to feel that we are never doing enough in out good work and we can always be doin...

#015 Danielle Malik - Creating A Two Sided Social Business Model

My guest on today's episode is Danielle Malik - founder and mentor at Design Equation. A business that pairs junior user experience designers with nonprofits and early-stage startups through a hands-on mentorship model to fill a gap - affordable design services for organisations and hands on design experience for new designers. Before starting Design Equation Danielle had prior work lives as a sign language interpreter and industrial designer, before settling into interaction and UX design. ...

#014 Reflections - How Do You Measure Your Worth?

This week I reflect on the theme of howe we measure our own worth. The topic of came out of my conversation with last episode's guest, Sheldon Walters of Splinter and Callous.   Worth is something that is often measured in financial terms and we often judge ourselves and our experience on how they have contributed to our worth on the financial scale. Yet the things we truly value are not always financial. So why do we find it so difficult to pull out those areas of 'worth' that are measured ...

#013 Sheldon Walters - Crafting Personal Worth Beyond Money

Sheldon Walters - Crafting Personal Worth Beyond Money   My guest on the podcast today is Sheldon Walters. Sheldon began his career as an IT Engineer, but felt he was missing out on something by working in an office all day.   Spending long hours working on abstract projects with no tangible outcomes, he developed a longing to do something hands-on.   Unable to find a place that taught the skills he was looking to build, with the flexibility to do it at a time, place and pace that fitted int...

#012 Reflections - Conscious Transitions

 This week I reflect on the theme of conscious transitions. The topic of transitions came out of my conversation with last episode's guest, Andrew Newman.Transitions are an important part of our life and growth. They are the messy middle between where we are and where we want to be.It is easy to want to rush through them, but often there is much learning and growth to be done within those periods.Also, are we ever really not in some kind of transition? I explore the idea that in fact we may ...

#011 Andrew Newman - Healing Transitions & Bedtime Stories

My guest today in Andrew Newman, founder of the Conscious Bedtime Story Club.While expecting a working life as a retail jeweller in the family business in south Africa, the tug of something more always seemed to be there for Andrew. Shifting from everything from community development making hammocks, Andrew ended up following his deep longing for connection and his love of all things spiritual in a 10 year study of healing.His portfolio of work includes running a therapy practice as a Barbar...

#010 Reflections - Creating Your Balance

This week I reflect on an idea that came out of my conversation with Annie Carter of Eve Studio - that to create balance in our lives, sometimes we need to add something in.I go on to explore the idea that there may be no such thing as work/life balance and perhaps work/life integration is more realistic. Balance is different for all of us. Only we can know what to add or take a way to create contentment, fulfilment and joy. Adding something in however, will often be more appropriate than ta...

#009 Annie Carter - Creating A Space For Women To Be Their Best

Today I speak with the lovely Annie Carter. Annie owns and runs a the beautiful Eve Yoga and Fitness Studio here in my home suburb of Thornbury in Melbourne. Eve Studio celebrates the uniqueness of every woman, and aims to support them, wherever thy're  at, to awaken their best.  Eve is a boutique studio just for women with classes designed to help build strength and flexibility in  body and mind. Before starting Eve, Annie enjoyed a fulfiling career in the community space as a youth worker,...

#008 Reflections - Walking Away From Success That Doesn't Serve

This podcast is a reflection on last week's episode with Jacqui Lewis. I explore two ideas Jacqui and I spoke about: 1. That we should be building our work around the life we want to live (and not the other way around).As we grow up we are always asked what do we want to be? What do we want to do? But we are rarely asked about the kind of life we want to live. Part of the Good Work Revolution is about asking ourself this question. We can't just do work for the sake of others and forget about...

#007 Jacqui Lewis - Consciousness, Clarity & Creativity For High Grade Living

My guest today is Jacqui Lewis - one half of The Broad Place, a school for consciousness, clarity and creativity which teaches 4 part live courses in vedic meditation, workplace programs, sells ayurvedic products and so much more. Jacqui - a Master Meditation teacher - specialises in taking regular, stressed, under the pump people and shifting them through accessible tools and practices so that they become more creative, grounded, healthier and happier. She takes ancient knowledge and makes ...

#006 Reflections - Purpose Is Not Fixed: Explore The Possibilities

Reflecting on last week's episode with Christian Duell, I dive into an idea we explored in our conversation on how our purpose is not fixed. It is something that can bend and change over time. I also look at the idea of using projects to explore your purpose: to approach the idea of finding your purpose as an experiment as opposed to a journey with an end point. Finally, I explore playing with and evolving your purpose as you grow as a person and chip away the parts of you that no longer ser...

#005 Christian Duell - Stepping Off The Linear Path

Today it's my absolute pleasure to be chatting with my friend Christian Duell or Duell depending on where in the world you're from. Christian began his working life as an architect, but after years in a corporate design firm a relationships ending was a catalyst for him  to take a step back from his linear work pathway. He chose to take a sabbatical which took him on an unexpected series of twists and turns - leading him him to a design residency which sparked a fresh appreciation for true c...

#004 Reflections - Aligning Identity & Work For Wellbeing

Reflecting on last week's conversation with Julie Parter, I delve into the concept of identity and how aligning our work and identity can improve our wellbeing and step us closer to fulfilling and inspiring businesses and careers."It's just not me". Have you ever used this line about your work? It's something I've heard a lot. So why is this such a big thing? And if our work doesn't feel aligned, what can we do? Or as leaders, managers or employers - what can we do to help our employees with...

#003 Julie Parker - Creating Work That 'Feels Right'

Julie Parker is one of Australia's foremost life and business coaches and trainers with more than a decade's experience inspiring hundreds of clients and thousands of people to create beautiful lives and businesses. The CEO and Founder of The Beautiful You Coaching Academy, Julie passionately trains and supports heart centered and gifted people to bring their talents and love of giving into the world as life coaches. Join me in today's epoisode where we go back through Julie's journey and ex...

#002 Reflections - Opportunity In The Changing Way Of Work

Reflecting on last week's conversation with Mykel Dixon, I explore the possibility that lies in a new and changing working landscape. Whether you have your own business, are hoping to start one, are working for a large or small organisation, possibility surrounds us like never before.Freelancing, flexible working arrangements, tele-commuting, co-working - they are shaking the working world up and crating opportunity for us to shape the world of work how we want it to be.