2023 is here - we made it!It’s time to set some New Year's intentions!In todays episode I share about some things that have worked for me and a few exercises to help you get clear as we head into a fresh new year! Put your feet up, make yourself a coffee, grab a pen (if you’re a note taker!) and listen to this episode for my top tips - or maybe just pick one from the list that resonates with you and focus on that one. Things I cover:What were some of the challenges in 2022?How to start looking at what you want to do for this year.Write down your intentions for each area of your life.How to get organized and plan your meals.Writing a letter to yourself from your future self.How to use visualization to create a wish list for 2023I would love to know what your favourite one was or what you discovered! 

Do you naturally sit in a more feminine energy? It’s ok to do business in a more feminine way!This weeks episode is inspired by a conversation I recently had with my beautiful friend who is quite a feminine energy person and she conducts her business from this place. I talk about:The shift from hustle-hunt to trusting listening to my intuition.The feminine vs masculine way of working or conducting your business Working in a male-oriented environment Finding a balance between both masculine and feminine that feels in alignment for you The feminine way of business is a softening, a slowing down and listening to your intuition - allowing yourself to receive, so you're not going out and hunting, you're allowing opportunities to come to you. Let this be your permission to do just that and to tap into divine timing and flow. 

In this episode, I am joined by Paul Bibby and we chat about all things mindfulness.Paul is a highly experienced and qualified mindfulness trainer and coach. He has completed multiple mindfulness teaching certifications, and has helped hundreds of people across the world bring greater calm focus, clarity and resilience into their lives. He has worked with multiple businesses and organizations to help bring the benefits of mindfulness into the workplace and is passionate about combining work and wellbeing. What we cover:What is mindfulness and how Paul found the practicePaul’s experience with burnout and how mindfulness has changed his life.The benefits of meditation and mindfulness and how it’s a key component to slowing downHow to implement mindfulness and meditation in your lifePaul takes us through a short meditationPaul is currently completing a master of counseling and psychotherapy, which is further enhanced his understanding of mental and emotional health. His core motivation as a mindfulness educator is to help people achieve their full potential in all aspects of their lives.LinksMindfulness Works Australia

Episode 6 - Slowing Down Stories: Self Care, Trust and Working with your Emotions with Megan SimpsonIn this episode, Megan Simpson and I take some time to chat about her personal journey with slowing down and thriving both in life and business and how she was able to move away from a life that wasn’t working for her and into one that really works.Megan is a powerhouse who has built her empire one step at a time, by slowing down and thriving and embracing the feminine within her.We talk about:Megan’s feelings about the principles of slowing down and thriving.Her experience of feeling tired and rundown and why she doesn’t want to return to that kind of life.She shares the story of her first business and what it took her to switch from her corporate job.Megan talks about her business journey and its effect on her children.The role that intuition in the more feminine way plays in her life.What embodiment means to Megan and what she does to practice it.Examples of thoughts that lead to stress and overwhelm and where they come from.Reconciling the acts of goal & target setting and allowing things to move as they need to.Her process of getting things done in business and how the masculine side comes out in what she does.Creating the foundations for her life.Her top 3 go-to’s for nurturing and nourishing herself.Megan is an example of what can be achieved when we create our foundations and trust the process. Your story may be imperfect but it will be perfectly beautiful despite the challenges you face.LinksMegan Simpson FacebookBetter Together Love Waitlist

Do you ever feel like you have to push yourself to get things done? Are you ready to swap forced action for inspired action and save yourself from wasting time and energy? In this episode, I talk about some powerful tools to help you take inspired action, so that you can stop forcing yourself to do things and allow things to flow and take action when it feels good and accomplish tasks in your business and life:How to take inspired action so you can drop the effort.Knowing when it’s a good time to do what you want to do.Learning how to examine why you need or don’t need to do things.Tracking the logic of the mind.Dropping the need to do something out of fear.Taking action when you are calmer and not in a stress stateBeing adventurous for a weekTaking inspired action means you can move effortlessly towards what you want to achieve and create a better life for you and those around you. Tune in to learn how make it easier to achieve what you desire.Check out Jess Lively’s podcast HERE

Do you have a problem when it comes to bringing and attracting money into your life? In this episode, I’m going to talk about money mindset, how it affects what comes into your life, and how you can change the beliefs that have been holding you back to reach your full financial potential.In this episode, I dive into:My beliefs and experience about money in the first few years of working and how it evolved for me.Identifying your money mindset beliefs and tips on how you can change them.Playing a money game to get an insight into what your beliefs might be around money.Examples of exercises that will help you receive more money in an effortless way.How you think about money, whether subconscious or conscious, affects how much money you allow into your life. If you go deeper and understand where your current beliefs are coming from, you’ll learn how you can change them which can make a big difference in your financial life. It’s ongoing work but the results and how it changes your life can be massive in so many ways.

What is it that is driving us to work hard? In this episode I look at some of the unhealthy beliefs that could be driving us to work harder than we need to and how to replace those beliefs with ones that will serve us. I also dive into:The things that happened in your childhood that may have set up a common desire to seek approval and love. The importance of looking at your beliefs underneath why you’re doing things and why you want to achieve or succeed.Some suggestions on what you can do to look at and get real about why you’re doing what you’re doing.Learning about fears, like fear of money, that can be big drivers in your job or business.How to be motivated by value-based intentions instead. Unravelling the beliefs you have and making sure that they are in alignment with what you’re wanting to create.Check out @ramalauw on Instagram for funny reels on Capitalism and self worth. Learn how you can integrate your new beliefs that you've created for yourself and start to create a different way of being. Remember, the more in alignment you are with values that feel really good for you and intentions that feel really good for you, the more you get to create a life that feels good.

Most of the time, our thoughts are what cause us a lot of stress. They have us running around like headless chickens taking unnecessary actions and causing drama and stress. I think if we start talking about how the mind functions, how the intuition functions, and give you some examples of my learning around this, it will give us a better approach to follow our intuition, be aware of our negative thought and know not to take action on them and generally have less stress in the things that we do.In this episode, I dive into:Understanding the mind, how it wants to keep you safe, and why.Exploring the ideas in Michael Singer’s book 'The Untethered Soul' https://untetheredsoul.com, about offsetting the mind with different thoughts and the concept of being the awareness in our lives.An example from my life where I followed thoughts that weren’t helpful.Why intuition can work differently for different people.The importance of taking slow moments in your life.I hope you find the learnings that I share in this episode helpful and it provides you with an insight into how your mind works and understand that from an intuitive perspective, the more we can quiet our minds, the more clarity we will have to make decisions for ourselves.Be sure to hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode, leave a review and follow me over on Instagram @slowdownandthrive for more daily tips and messages.

Welcome to the Slow Down and Thrive podcast! A bit more about me and my journey.There's so much conversation around: if you work really hard, you're going to get to where you want to go. And while of course, that's true, I really believe there's a different way and easier way. I've definitely worked hard, I've done the hustle, I've been burned out, I've had adrenal fatigue, and come out the other side, having learnt a lot. And having learned how to work with my energy, how to rest when I need to rest, how to work smarter, not harder, and still have a really beautiful thriving life and business. In this first episode I dive into: How to listen to ourselves more and not the conditioning that we may have learned from our parents, that narrative that’s really been running the show that just isn’t true for usA bit more about me and my journey from burnt out business owner to slowing down and thriving and what that’s looked like Working with alignment of our energy, knowing when to take action, knowing when's the right time to move on things and knowing when's the right time to just stop.Do you need rest or are you just procrastinating?Why I’m no longer scared of Mondays, trusting the ebb and flow and what my days and weeks look like now The importance of mindset, listening to our bodies, our own intuition and how COVID and lockdowns played a part in this unfolding for meSo you may be at the start of a business, you might be in the middle of running a business, you might work for someone else, you might not work at all. But I think it's a conversation that is for everyone.Be sure to hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode, leave a review and follow me over on Instagram @slowdownandthrive for more daily tips and messages.

Welcome to the Slow Down and Thrive podcast!Are you constantly feeling like you're in hustle mode on the brink of burnout and wondering if there is a better way? My name is Kim and I’m here to tell you that there is! You CAN slow down and thrive at the same time - in fact the more I rested, the more my business grew!As a small business owner over the last 12 years I fell into the trap of constantly hustling to make things happen, to achieve, to succeed and…I burnt myself out in the process. After a few helpful shoves from the universe (and honestly out of complete necessity!) I changed the way I operated over the last 3 years and I quickly learnt that I didn’t have to hustle in order to make my business work!My journey is what has inspired this podcast - to share with you everything I’ve learnt (and continue to learn!), in the hope that maybe your journey can be a little smoother and you can live a more beautiful, calm and abundant life without the burnout and constant ‘busy-ness’.I’ll be covering a range of topics each week including:How to deal with the fears and feelings that come up around slowing downFollowing your intuition instead of what you feel you should be doing and what your brain is convincing you of that is on your ‘to do list’Money mindset so you can thrive, take aligned action and knowing how and when to do so (without the unnecessary efforting)The difference between resting and procrastination …and so much more!Be sure to hit subscribe, leave a review and I’m really looking forward to exploring this way of life with you.