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Straight & Curly 81: How We Eat
A year after recording a three-part series on diet and food, Carly and I check in with each other to see if anything’s changed in our personal philosophies since then.
PDF- 20 Simple Shortcuts to Small Business Success
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Straight and Curly 78: Should you ever work for free?
If you want to get ahead in any creative industry, chances are you’re going to have to work for free. Here’s how to figure out when it’s worthwhile.
Reflections at 40 – Rock Bottom – 9/40
I just couldn’t see how or when things were going to get ‘better’, and it occurred to me that it would be easier for everyone if I was gone.
Straight and Curly 68: How to stand up for what you believe
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4 rules for making decisions you’ll always be happy with
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Let it Be Episode 49 – Values
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Dreading going back to work tomorrow? Here’s what to do
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7 stories we need to stop telling ourselves in 2017
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Let it Be Episode 45 – Slow realisations
In our Let it Be group on Facebook, Glenda asked this question: After five years of wondering, talking, reflecting, journaling and working with a …
Introduction: 20 Simple Shortcuts to Small Business Success
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Straight and Curly Ep 38: Personality Tests – Useful or Total Rubbish?
Carly’s not the hugest fan of personality tests because she thinks anything that requires people to self-assess needs to be taken with a huge …
Straight and Curly Ep 28: Making sense of diet and food #1
There is so much confusion around food these days. Are carbs in or out now? Is sugar actually evil? Why are egg white omelettes …
Let It Be Episode 27: Expectations
Recently Brooke received this email from one of our listeners: “Hey Brooke, I would love to hear an episode on ‘Expectations’ on one of your …
Feel the guilt and do it anyway
Last weekend my Mum lamented to me that ‘all’ she done for the past few weekends was lie on the couch and relax. ‘Um, what’s …
Permission to make change slowly
In the past week or so, some variation of this question has dropped into my inbox from a few different folk: I know the …