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Sensei Karen engages with leading experts and accomplished business leaders, diving deep into what it means to be an outstanding leader of people while thriving at work and in life. 

Get ready to be inspired as Karen and her guests share their journeys through captivating stories, offering hard-won wisdom and practical advice that you can use right now. 

We're excited for you to listen and discover how to be Work Savvy! 

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Episode 82 : Finding the Courage To Be You

Episode 82 : Finding the Courage To Be You

Joe Pane, a renowned expert in human behavior and creator of the Emotional Fitness Formula, joins Karen to discuss how you can find the courage to be yourself.

 

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Episode 81: Ending Body Burnout

Episode 81: Ending Body Burnout

Karen is joined by Filipa Bellette, a Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Coach, Trauma Therapist, and PhD Scholar, to discuss about ending body burnout.

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Episode 79: The Performance vs. Wellbeing Myth

Episode 79: The Performance vs. Wellbeing Myth

Karen is joined by Graham Winter the brilliant mind behind the best-selling book "Think One Team" and co-author of new book Toolkit for Turbulence:  the mindset and methods that leaders need to turn adversity to advantage, to talk about Achieving both high performance and wellbeing. 

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Episode 74: Leading Your Team to Peak Performance

Episode 74: Leading Your Team to Peak Performance

Karen is joined by Graham Winter, the brilliant mind behind the best-selling book "Think One Team" and co-author of new book Toolkit for Turbulence:  the mindset and methods that leaders need to turn adversity to advantage, to talk about leading your team to peak performance. 

 

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Work Savvy Podcast with Jaquie Scammell

Episode 73: The Role Humans Have in the Future of Service

Karen is joined by Jaquie Scammell, Australia’s leading Customer Service expert and Founder of ServiceQ, to discuss the role humans have in the future of service.  

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Episode 71: Rewiring Your Brain

Episode 71: Rewiring Your Brain

Karen and Kim Hazendonk, a Neuropsychologist, come together to discuss the influence of the unconscious mind and strategies for rewiring the brain.

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Episode 70: Building A Career That You Love

Episode 70: Building A Career That You Love

Karen is joined by Charlotte Blair, one of Australia’s most experienced Gallup Accredited Strengths Coaches, and author of Career Unstuck:  How to play to your strengths to find freedom and purpose in your work again, to talk about how to build a career that you love. 

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Work Savvy Podcast with Wioletta Hislop

Episode 68: Leadership Lessons from the Gym

Join us as we dive into the intersection of strength and strategy with Wioletta Hislop, the powerhouse mentor bridging bodybuilding and business on Work Savvy!

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Work Savvy Podcast with Maria Contera

Episode 67: Recovering from Burnout

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about Recovering from Burnout. 

 

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Work Savvy Podcast with Kew Jaliens

Episode 66: Mindset Matters

Karen is joined by Kew Jaliens, a former footballer and Olympian, and now Business Coach to talk about the link between mindset and success.    

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Work Savvy Podcast with Brett Pomroy

Episode 62: Psychological Safety at Work

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about Psychological Safety at Work. To help us unpack this topic, we are joined by Brett Pomroy.  Brett is the Principal Lawyer at Salt Legal.  

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Work Savvy Podcast with Bonnie Souter

Episode 61: Trauma and Its Influence on How People Show Up at Work

This week on Work Savvy Karen is joined by Bonnie Souter to talk about What leaders need to understand about the influence of trauma on how people show up at work. 

 

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Episode 59: Financial Finesse for Business Owners

Episode 59: Financial Finesse for Business Owners

Karen and Maddie are joined by money expert Jacqui Clark to chat all about financial finesse. 

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Episode 56: Self-Improvement

Episode 56: Self-Improvement

This week on Work Savvy Cristina Casanovi joins Karen and Maddie to unpack self-improvement and confidence.

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Episode 54: Burnout

Episode 54: Burnout

Mindfulness expert Melo Calarco joined the show to chat all about burnout. 

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Episode 50: Why Thank You Is More Important Than Money

Episode 50: Why Thank You Is More Important Than Money

Happy 50th episode! Today we have Wendy Hanrahan joining us to talk all about why thank you matters more than money. 

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Episode 49: Optimising Impact

Episode 49: Optimising Impact

Tiffanee Cook joins Work Savvy to chat all about optimising impact.

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Episode 39: Finding Inner Peace

Episode 39: Finding Inner Peace

Fiona Redding joins the show again, this time to chat all about how to find inner peace.

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Episode 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Episode 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Ros Batson is back on the show to chat all things EQ and leadership. 

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Episode 37: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

Episode 37: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

We are back for 2023! Karen is back in the hot seat, with Maddie interviewing her all about unconscious bias.

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Episode 36: Building Self-Awareness

Episode 36: Building Self-Awareness

The Happiness Hunter herself, Fiona Redding, joins the show to chat all about self-awareness.

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Episode 34: Finding Passion and Purpose

Episode 34: Finding Passion and Purpose

Peter Cook joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about finding your passion and purpose at work and in life.

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Episode 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance

Episode 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance

Ethan Glessich from Kognitive joins the show to chat all about cognitive science and business performance.

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Episode 32: Energy to Struggle Through Tough Times

Episode 32: Energy to Struggle Through Tough Times

Sian Stephens joins the show to chat all about having the energy to struggle through tough times.

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Episode 31: Managing Versus Coaching

Episode 31: Managing Versus Coaching

Richard Day is back on the podcast to chat about coaching. 

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Episode 29: How to Thrive as a Business Owner

Episode 29: How to Thrive as a Business Owner

Marcus Bird joins the show give Karen and Maddie tips on thriving as a business owner.

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Episode 23: Resilience

Episode 23: Resilience

Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie to chat about resilience, at work and in life.

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Episode 22: Mental Health

Episode 22: Mental Health

Maddie is back interviewing Karen all about the common workplace impacts on mental health and what to do about them. 

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Episode 21: EQ and Team Culture

Episode 21: EQ and Team Culture

Karen and Maddie are joined by Ros Batson to discuss the link between EQ and team culture.

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Episode 19: Emotional intelligence

Episode 19: Emotional intelligence

Maddie is back interviewing Karen to chat all about EQ!

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Episode 16: Getting More Than a Compliant Contribution from Your Team

Episode 16: Getting More Than a Compliant Contribution from Your Team

This week on Work Savvy, Pete Clark joins Karen and Maddie to chat about getting more from your people.

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Episode 15: Building Careers

Episode 15: Building Careers

Karen and Maddie are joined by Nikki Smith, career coach, to chat all about building careers and finding the right career path.

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Episode 12: Mental Health and Connection

Episode 12: Mental Health and Connection

Karen and Maddie were joined by the creators of Mind You, Liv Downing and Caroline Weinstein to chat all things mental health.

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Episode 9: How to Design the Right Culture for Your Business

Episode 9: How to Design the Right Culture for Your Business

Karen and Maddie are joined by fellow HR expert, Cam Shepherd. 

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Episode 4: How to Become the Best Version of Yourself

Episode 4: How to Become the Best Version of Yourself

On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are joined by Shannah Kennedy, the perfect guest to chat about how to become the best possible version of yourself.

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Episode 1: How to Build a Mindful Organisation

Episode 1: How to Build a Mindful Organisation

Karen and Maddie are joined by Liv Downing from LivMindfully. So, what is a mindful organisation.

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