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Dream Life, Best-fit Role with Nikki Smith

Dream Life, Best-fit Role with Nikki Smith

Hosted by: Nikki Smith Coach

Nikki Smith, Psychologist, Strengths & Career Change Coach, interviews people who have created their optimal, best-fit role or business by playing to their natural strengths.

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When we live well, we die well

As a palliative care nurse, Mel has seen many people work hard and earn with a focus on enjoying retirement. Then they reach retirement and their life is cut short by cancer. In this podcast, Mel shares how to live...
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Struggling with career change?

Are you an achiever running on empty? Spinning your wheels with a job search approach that’s unsustainable AND anxiety inducing? "Is it me or this part time job? Why am I not coping?" No matter how good a...
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How to play to your strengths to solve a problem & create a business

I’ll say it again: mini-experiments create magic in your work and life! They: take the pressure off you – remove the need for something new to be a success from the get go calm the people around you – they don’t need...
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Live by the sea & work from home: from dream to reality

Do you ever fantasise about working from home by the sea? Sarah Marshall has realised this dream while being employed by a Melbourne-based organisation. Listen to us chat about her career change and the...
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How to quit your job, define your ideal role & hire a chef

I have a lovely friend from uni days, Ness, who now lives close by on the Victorian coastline. We caught up a while ago and had a chat about her school admin role and how frustrated she was. I suggested we look at her...
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Interview with Liv Downing: mindfulness & meditation

Olivia Downing, founder and CEO of Liv Mindfully, is a psychologist, meditation teacher, and mindfulness coach and educator. She helps corporates, schools, and individuals to live and work to their full potential. Liv...
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Mini-experiments, taking career control (and feeling like a fraud!)

Do you ever feel like a fraud at work (for a minute, an hour or even half the day)? If yes (and if we’re honest, we’ve all been there!), you’ll love this interview with Sam Sutherland. Sam shares how to: negotiate...
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Jacqui’s career success story: from a negative work environment to playing to your strengths

This podcast episode provides an inspiring example of how you do have choices when you’re in a negative work environment. Meet Jacqui Brauman. She who took an extreme approach when she was fed up working in a...
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Interview with Orissa Feeney: How to launch successfully, play to your strengths & live a flexible life

In this interview with Orissa Feeney we discuss the crossroads she faced in deciding whether to work for someone else or for herself; her desire for a more flexible work life: one where she could drop‑off/pick‑up her...
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How to take the pain out of returning to work

Kate’s story will resonate with many of you. Kate has two beautiful kids. Once they were both at school, she thought about returning to work but felt stuck and depressed. For 6 months she repeatedly thought to...
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Interview with Jacob Sokol, founder of sensophy.com

Jacob is the founder of sensophy.com. He works with people in their 20s and 30s to help them find and live their purpose. We discuss how he changed from a role he was ‘allergic’ to in his 20s to create a successful...
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