Gillian Massey (pediatric intensive care nurse) talks building a career as a specialist nurse, mental health and support for emergency services workers, constructive and destructive coping mechanisms for dealing with the stress of work, experiencing work-trauma then dealing with the leftover PTSD at work, decision fatigue and training for trauma.

Justin Noble (men’s mental health mentor and coach) talks about what’s going on with men and mental health in Australia, how to normalise conversations, bring awareness and generate better support for mental health, building community in the age of a pandemic and changing careers if your values don’t align to the job.

Myles Lind recounts his leadership journey and talks about how his expectations differed from reality when entering the workforce after studying, becoming an expert in something he didn’t train for, building and bringing teams together, the lessons he learned from failure, reprogramming his leadership brain, and style and supporting staff through mentally tough situations.

Stephanie-Kate Bratton (Senior Lawyer for Amazon) discusses challenging traditional gender roles, the impact of telling people what they can and can’t do, being the expert in an industry where there isn’t a great deal of expertise to lean on, challenging the glamorous perception of being a lawyer, life as an Executive expat and coming home to Australia in the middle of a global pandemic.

Todd Hopwood discusses how he became a mental health advocate, supporting a child through mental health struggles, our duty as a leader to have conversations around mental health, creating and caring for people in your tribe, lifting the lid of shame around mental health at work and mental fitness.

Today, we sit down with our first guest, Brooke Saward, to discuss her life as an early influencer, the impact that has had and the attention economy.What we cover in the episode: Life as a social media and travel influencer What it’s like to have 1M+ people following your lifeThe long term impacts of the attention economy Being authentic online Advice for parents raising children in an online worldWe hope you enjoy our conversation, and please share or hit the subscribe button.

With this pre-episode, we're introducing you to our new podcast, We Need to Talk...In this, we discuss some of our hopes, fears and the reason why we're throwing ourselves way out of our comfort zone.