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Trudy Kortes – A Career in Space Exploration and…

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019
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We’re excited to share this week’s episode featuring someone who’s had an extraordinary career at the cutting edge of space exploration. Trudy Kortes is the Chief of the Human Exploration and Space Operations Division at NASA. With her day job, not only is Trudy working on real ‘moonshots’ she is also developing new technologies that will undoubtedly have an incredible impact on our lives in the future.

An aeronautical engineer by profession, Trudy has spent about 30 years working for NASA focusing on helping the space agency develop many super- sophisticated technologies to explore our galaxy. Today Trudy leads a team of around 200 people working on a range of projects including advanced communications, propulsion and the crew module, to name a few.

What we love about this episode is Trudy’s ability to translate the super complex work she’s been involved with in her career to date, into easy to understand and inspiring stories about the valuable lessons she’s learnt along the way, and about what’s possible in the future.

In this episode you’ll learn:

The really unusual reason why Trudy decided at high school she wanted to work for NASA
How Trudy has found her authentic and humorous self, and why it matters
What she’s learnt about having difficult conversations
What it’s like being a senior woman at NASA
And how she feels about the project she’s working on to send the first female astronaut to the moon in 2024

So click below, sit back, buckle up and enjoy fascinating stories and insights from the wonderful Trudy Kortes.

Links of interest:

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Interview

Brukty Tigabu – Changing African Kids Lives With TV

July 16, 2019
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Our guest this week is one of the most determined and resilient people we’ve ever met. For the past 14 years she’s been on a mission to improve education for millions of children in Ethiopia encountering challenges on almost every front. We’re talking about the amazing Brukty Tigabu.

At the age of 10, Brukty took on the role of head of her household after her mother became very ill. She found a way to make ends meet by selling vegetables from their garden in the market. She credits this time in her life with giving her the basic business and survival skills that helped her get where she is today.

And where you find this former school teacher today, is running the social enterprise she co-founded called Whiz Kids Workshop. It creates educational media programs – including 3 internationally awarded television series for children in Ethiopia. For the past 14 years Whiz Kids Workshop has inspired a generation of young children in Ethiopia with their most famous and loved program, the puppet based educational TV show called Tsehai Loves Learning. They’ve also published over 100 books in 7 languages, produced radio programs, DVDs and teacher training – all to improve literacy, health education, gender equality and early childhood education.

Brukty has won many accolades for her work including the World Economic Forum’s “Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the year 2018”, Fast Company’s ‘Most Creative People in Business’ 2012 and the Rolex Young Laureate Award in 2008.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How Brukty found her life’s purpose to enrich the lives of children and teens in Ethiopia and beyond
What it’s like being a woman running a business in Ethiopia (seriously hard)
How she pushes through fear
Why she found herself not being able to get out of bed and how she got herself going again.

Please enjoy this episode with the incredible Brukty Tigabu.

Links

Whiz Kids Workshop Website

Great YT video explaining Tsehai Loves Learning

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How To Episode

How To Feel Less Stuck in Your Job

June 18, 2019
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Don’t forget to enter our competition (below) to win a free coaching session with Claire and Greta.

This week we explore what you can do when you have that horrible feeling you’re trapped in your job… for whatever reason.

Maybe you’ve been meaning to change what you do for a while but just find the whole prospect scary or overwhelming; or maybe you’re in a job that pays really well or gives you lots of status that others envy, but you feel miserable; or, perhaps, the job you took just isn’t meeting your expectations.

If any of these scenarios sound like your situation then pick up those earphones and tune in now.

Together we’ll share tips, tools and advice to help you feel less stuck going forward. Tune in to hear:

Three key reasons why we feel stuck
How one of our guests nearly died before she realised her high paying, successful career was completely wrong for her
What six words are super helpful to break through any apprehension or nervousness you have about changing or going for a new job
And how Claire used those same words to pluck up the courage to resign from Google.

So if you feel like you are stuck or approaching stuckness, or know someone who is, then do you and them a favour and tune in now!

Links

Want to move jobs but feel a bit afraid or overwhelmed? Try our Free Download: What’s the worst that can happen template

Win 2 hours of ‘just-for-you’ coaching with Claire and Greta. Click here to enter. Hurry entries close July 3rd.

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Interview

Kat Dunn – Making Tough Career Decisions to be…

February 26, 2019
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If we had to summarise what our guest this week is all about, we’d say she’s about reinvention and being true to herself. And for 35 year old Kat Dunn, that meant abandoning a successful corporate career.

Born in the Philippines, Kat had been climbing the corporate ladder at an impressive rate in Australia, first of all as a lawyer and then in a variety of roles in financial services. But she was deeply unhappy.

One day she said “Enough” and took radical action. In this episode we explore exactly how and why she did this and how she feels about her new career now, several years down the track.

Today Kat is CEO of Grameen in Australia, part of the global not for profit organisation founded by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus.

In this frank and heartfelt episode you’ll hear:

What it’s like growing up Asian in an almost all white country town in Western Australia
How Kat started out as a consummate planner and then realised that just wasn’t working
How she confronted failure head-on and even made a business out of it
And, how she’s never felt more secure despite earning 50% less than she used to.

Enjoy this episode with the wise-beyond-her-years, Kat Dunn.

Links to things Kat mentioned

Malcolm Gladwell – on Snap Judgements

Kyle Cease – 6 minutes on Creativity

Charity TV Casting Session Facebook Event – open until 7th March 2019

Links to Kat

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Interview

Lindley Edwards – Wisdom to Live & Work By

July 3, 2018April 25, 2020
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We’re super excited to share this conversation with Lindley Edwards with you.

Lindley started her career working for one of Australia’s most renowned investment banks, Macquarie Bank, and then found a love of Asia when she took on a VP role with Citibank.

Today, Lindley runs a corporate advisory business called AFG Venture Group which specialises in cross-border investments and transactions, particularly between Asia & Australia. She’s also Chairperson for two startups and a Non-Executive Director of a Think Tank called AsiaLink.

We love the fact that Lindley is definitely not your normal investment banker… we don’t know anyone else who uses philosophy, poetry, biology, and cross-cultural intelligence as their foundation for thinking about business and disruption.

In this episode you’ll hear Lindley share her wisdom about: