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Mary is a Transformational Leader and an internationally recognised Personal Branding and Online Business Specialist. Mary helps Industry Experts systemise, digitalise and commercialise their knowledge, wisdom and skills into a scalable & profitable online business and brand so they become an authority in their niche.

Mary has 22+ years of experience building 7 and 8 figure businesses & building high performance sales teams in the IT sector and 15 years delivering online solutions for large and small businesses. She has been featured in many publications and is regarded a thought leader in the Digital sector.

Mary's point of difference is her Personal Branding technology, a SaaS Platform that has the ability to define a person's brand essence with precision that can be applied across all communication touchpoints. When you engage Mary, you access 40,000+ hours of knowledge, wisdom and experience in Personal Branding, client profiling, lead generation strategies, online course development, sales leadership, content development and digital acumen.

Mary embraces technology and social media in a big way and her followers are growing daily . Mary is a heart centred, compassionate and tenacious entrepreneur who thrives on human transformation and witnessing people fulfil their dreams.

"The more I learn, the more I realise how much I don't know." - Albert Einstein

On this podcast episode we explore the Dunning Kruger effect, which is a congnitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise or experience regarding a certain type of topic or skill, overestimate their ability or knowledge.

To continue to learn and grow effectively and challenge our Know it all mountain, we need to

1. Be humble

2. Challenge our thinking

3. Have childlike curiousity

4 Be a forever learner

1. Others perceptions of you - their hooks

2. Your trauma - your hooks

3. Internal self regulation (your safety strategy)

"Judging others is easy because it distracts us from the responsibility of judging ourselves." - Charles F. Glassman

1. Take responsibility
2. Clear plan
3. Speak it
4. Ground yourself
5. Tiny actions
6. Get a mentor to collapse time

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become." - James Clear

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." - Proverbs 20:1 

Christopher Howard has achieved extraordinary success as a Social Entrepreneur, Transformational Speaker, Author, Coach and Life-Style and Wealth Strategist in a career spanning over two decades. Chris’ life-long mission has been to put the tools of transformation into the hands of everybody on the planet, and to create worldwide wealth through education and entrepreneurial means.

On the entrepreneurial side, his seminars and products have generated well over 100 million dollars in sales globally. He has personally done million dollar sales days, over and over and over again. One of the most popular speakers in the world, Christopher has spoken in 28 different countries and 57 different cities, often with individual exclusive audiences of thousands. Chris has touched over a million people’s lives through his teachings and programs and is known for both his heart-felt approach to transformation as well as his ability to help people to rapidly transform their businesses and their lives for the better. Chris has enjoyed spending his time over the years in philanthropic efforts such as bringing a group of 30 coaches and mentors to work with the students as CIDA the first free University in South Africa, building a high-school in Peru, and working with Friends International to help get children off of the streets in Cambodia and developed for greater possibilities in life.

There are times when you should mind your own business and there are times that you should not. 

It’s up to us to determine the difference.

"Don't lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self-respect is everything." Anonymous

"Self respect is the cornerstone of all virtue." - John Herschell

*Warning - Sexual Assault issues are discussed in this segment. 

You have the free will to transform who you are in an instant decision. Today you can be someone different than you were yesterday. You can create an even better version of you. You just need to decide what that looks like and commit to making it happen.  

As Tony Robbins says, "Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer

In this episode, JJ explores how we can flip the script with events that challenge us by changing our state, reframing, asking for support and taking action. 

Ruth Hibburt is a highly accomplished, Teacher, Author, Mindset Coach, Hypnotherapist, and Master Practitioner who has taught, coached and lead curriculum development in Australian Primary, Secondary and English Language Centre Schools since 2006. A positive change maker in education, Ruth is an expert in building skills, confidence and positive relationships with students, parents, and teachers; having taught over 3000 students from a diverse range of social and learning needs. 

Ruth also uses unique, safe ‘5 -dimensional’ therapies to facilitate self- healing for her clients aged 7-24, treating the root cause of negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, and limiting beliefs. Ruth is an expert in numeracy improvement and a pioneer in her field; having successfully bridged the gap between traditional education models, personal development, growth mindset and healing therapies. Ruth’s mission is for everyone to gain tools [know how] to believe in themselves, to make great decisions and be successful. 

As an educational consultant, Ruth currently runs individual and group workshops, for teenagers, parents, and teachers, supporting them with numeracy and literacy improvement strategies, positive Mental Health and Growth Mindset. 

In December 2019, Ruth successfully self-published a personal development book titled ‘Do Make Mistakes- the secrets to success every teen should know’. Recently, Ruth’s success with teenagers and her book ‘Do Make Mistakes’, has gained media attention, being interviewed and with articles published by six newspapers: internationally and in Australia. 

Ruth is currently completing her second book for teachers which will be released in March 2022. Ruth has presented multiple live teacher training workshops and for the Mathematics Association of Victoria and VicTESOL, in the areas of engaging students with learning difficulties, maths anxiety and building confidence. Her public speaking roles also extend internationally for the Home-School Curriculum Conference, where she ran workshops on the language of mathematics, anxiety and learning difficulties for parents in the UK, USA, Europe, Asia and New Zealand. In September 2021, Ruth presented a ‘keynote’ on mindset for teenagers and young adults for the “Talking Youth- sees you” conference.

Contact Ruth at ruth@rjheducationsolutions.com for a copy of her book or to learn more about homeschooling. 

"Stand guard at the door of your mind." - Tony Robbins 

NLP Master Coach JJ explores the manipulation process that has the capacity to program people's minds often without them being consciously aware. 

"Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction." - Criss Jami

Adrian Hanks is an Inspirational Author, Coach, Psychotherapist and Speaker.  He is also the Director of The Blue Wren Foundation (his charity organisation)  He shares holistic health and wellbeing insights, wisdom and solutions through  his writing, and with his 20 years of experience working as a counsellor and psychotherapist, leading edge master-coach, facilitator and trainer.  Adrian is married with a blended family of 6 adult children and has 4 granddaughters and  2 Goddaughters. He lives on the Gold Coast and loves to body surf in the ocean, write and have lots of fun!

https://www.adrianhanks.com/store/p17/2084_book.html

Justine Martin’s successful corporate life was turned upside down in 2011 when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Since then, she has battled three cancers and overcome a long list of serious medical conditions. Rather than allowing her hardship to overcome her, she has used it as a platform to inspire and make a difference in the lives of others.

Justine is a public speaker, resilience coach and advocate for medical care. She uses her own experiences of living with a disability to encourage others to take steps towards a positive future of their own by finding hope, overcoming adversity, and building resilience. She speaks from the heart, connecting with many audiences through her varied background in corporate, sales, art, volunteer work, and experiencing illness. She pursues any opportunity to inspire and empower members of the public, business owners, corporate teams, schools, and charitable and educational organisations. She has made many media appearances in television, radio, and print media over the years, and ran for parliament in 2010-2013.

A multi-award winning artist, Justine runs wellness and art therapy classes in her studio in Marshall, Geelong. Her own artwork is available to purchase at JUZT Art Gallery located at Café Zoo in Drysdale.

To reach as many people as possible with her powerful message of hope, Justine has developed an online course for people struggling to overcome life’s adversities: “Resilience Mindset: How you can gain resilience and hope in 8 weeks”.

Dr Anne Butcher is a wife, mother and grandmother. A professional social worker with over 30 years of experience working in the social welfare fields of Community Development, Youth Development, Youth Justice, Child Protection and Disability Services. She has also gained extensive working experience when managing domestic violence and sexual assault counselling services, and women's health and wellbeing programs.  

An in demand, engaging and personable speaker, Anne is regularly asked to speak at conferences or significant community events such as International Women's Day, or to a range of other women's groups, service clubs, and other community groups.  

Anne is passionate about seeing people - particularly girls and women -- be their best so they can succeed in all areas of their lives and reach their fullest potential, whatever that may be for them.

Melissa Walsh has been working as a published author for 25 years in print media, while completing two degrees at university as a mature aged student. She began her career in freelance journalism at the age of 30, writing the real estate guide for local newspapers as well as magazine and feature articles. Melissa has written a monthly magazine for the Mornington Peninsula, focusing on lifestyle, celebrity and inspirational stories, and now runs her own business, Melissa Marie Media and Events. 

A mother of four, and grandmother of two, Melissa is committed to breaking stereotypes, which was shown by her appearance on Channel Nine’s Married at First Sight, the first grandmother to be cast on the reality show. She has appeared on The Today Show, A Current Affair, and Talking Married, as well as mainstream radio and podcasts. She wrote her first novella at the age of 21 about her experience of being a teenage mother and continues to write about her treacherous relationship history in her new bio-novel,Everybody Deserves a Disaster.

"Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves." - Stephen Kendrick "

"As human beings, we are wired & programmed to be focused on self. We need to build the muscle of self awareness around the equilibrium of WE rather than just YOU or ME." - Janelle Johnston

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom 

"Every day, every hour, every minute, every second, is a new moment in time. That moment can bring new opportunities & possibilities. Seek out those moments & trust that they are always available to you." - Janelle Johnston

Former Sportsgirl CEO, Colleen Callander, is an Inspirational Leader, Ambassador & Mentor. Geelong born and raised, Colleen was brought up in a hard working business focused family having her first taste of retail at the age of 16. Unbeknownst to her at the time this summer job would be the start of a retail career spanning over 30 years. 

Colleen loved to work from an early age…going to work with her father on building sites at any chance she got, working at her parents pool canteen at the age of 8…working all day and then counting up buckets of coins of an evening with the 1, 2 and 5 cent coins being her pay for the day. 

Colleen has a wealth of knowledge and a proven track record in building brands, creating a winning culture, building an environment that allows people to be inspired and empowered and is now sharing not only the past 13 years experience as a CEO but the past 30 years of her retail career.

 Beyond her amazing career, the most important thing to Colleen is family. Colleen’s sees her most important and influential role in life as wife to Nick, mother of 3 beautiful humans - Jake 23, Trent 22 and Macey 15. She is a daughter, sister, sister in law and aunty to 7 beautiful nieces and 1 nephew. 

Colleen is an inspiration to women of all generations and wants to encourage women globally to believe in themselves, their ability, share their voice, take action and bring equality into boardrooms, organisations, communities and even into the home. She wants women to believe in the power within and that it is possible to become the leader they always wanted to be in business and in life and together create a new era of leadership and change the rules. 

From an insert of Colleens upcoming book, Colleen says
“Every woman has a superpower or maybe even two…you might not know it yet or you may not yet have discovered yours, but I can promise you, you do have one! Your ‘superpower’ might be communication, caring, reliability, relationship building, collaboration, leadership or carer.
It’s time to find your ‘superpower’ and share it with the world!”

You can connect & follow Colleen on Instagram at colleen_callander

One of my mentors, Joe Pane once said, you are either Green & Growing or Ripe & Rotting. 

I know what I would rather be.

"We live in a society where the free thinking, open minded people are called crazy & the ignorant, close minded people are "normal"." - unknown

Be the "crazy" one, open your mind, question everything & continue to be an insatiable, forever learner. 

Jess Douglas is a life long cyclist, born in Geelong Australia. Her bike is a vehicle that delivers a journey of self-reflection and personal growth. This has translated into every facet of her life. A cancer survivor and an endurance cyclist have allowed Jess to learn how to turn adversity into resilience and growth. 10 years ago she developed a simple methodology called the "1% rule" which she practices and preaches daily with life-changing results. She is a 3 x World Solo 24hr & 3 x Australian Solo 24hr mountain bike champion and has done many other crazy long endurance based races and adventures. When not riding bikes, Jess coaches and mentors athletes, and has a passion for facilitating people to be their best. 

Discover the 5 key focus areas - timeline, control, possessions, who & the learner, that can open up the possibilities in your life.

In 2011, Michelle together with her business partner Daniel Hayes opened up their first office in Highton Geelong. They were quickly talk of the town with their bright pink signage & quirky advertising. Their competition even laughed at them until their property management department grew to more than a quarter of a billion dollars worth of investments. 

Michelle started her journey as a single mum of 2 kids & overcame challenges with anxiety & alcohol addiction. 

Today, Michelle is a well respected successful business woman & a role model to women.