Spacious Success

Spacious Success

Hosted by: Dr Kristy Goodwin

A podcast for high-achieving women who want to thrive at work without burning out their lives. You’re smart. You’re driven. You love what you do. But you’re also… exhausted. Welcome to Spacious Success, a...

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#29 The Bandwidth Gap: Why Your Brain, Not Your Tech Stack, Is the Real AI Constraint

What if the real bottleneck in your AI rollout isn't the technology at all? Somewhere in your organisation this week, someone signed off on another piece of AI software. Another platform. Another promise that...
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#28 The Unspoken Load: Perimenopause, Grief & Permission to Be Fully Human, with Lisa Corduff

What if the rest you keep waiting to earn is actually something your biology is owed right now? Lisa Corduff met Kristy back in 2012, in the early days of online business school, back when Lisa was building a company...
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#26 The Joy Metric: How a CEO Decides What Success Is Worth, with Philippa Moig

What if the exhaustion isn’t a workload problem, but the cost of performing a steadiness you don’t feel? Most leaders can tell you their revenue, their utilisation and their sleep score. Very few can tell you the last...
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#27 Shiny and Shabby: The Trade-Offs Nobody Warned You About

What if the exhaustion you keep trying to fix with sleep is not a flaw, but the honest cost of a life you chose? There are no research papers stacked up in this one. No tables. Just the thing that keeps surfacing in...
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#25 Fragmented Focus: Why Your Attention Is a Design Problem, Not a Discipline Problem

What if your fractured focus was never yours to fix? That question lands differently once you see who is most worried about it. Not the women navigating menopause. Not the ones managing chronic illness or complex...
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#19 The Invisible Tax: What the Messy Room Research Reveals About Women's Hidden Load

Why does a messy house feel like a personal failing for so many women, even when their partner insists no one cares? In this episode I unpack the research on mess perception, kinkeeping and office housework that...
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#21 Born to Overwork: The Hidden Identity Driving High-Achieving Women

You can manage your time, set your boundaries, take the holiday, and still find that you cannot switch off. In this episode, Dr Kristy unpacks why so many high-achievers keep overworking even when every external...
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#22 The Big Person: Why Your Family Borrows Your Nervous System with Dr Vanessa Lapointe

Why do so many high-functioning women hold it together all day, then unravel somewhere between the front door and dinner preparation? In this episode, Dr Kristy sits down with registered psychologist, bestselling...
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#20 Going First: Confidence, Courage and the Visibility Tax, with Yasmin London

What if confidence was never the thing holding women back? In this episode, Dr Kristy Goodwin sits down with digital safety expert, speaker and former police officer Yasmin London to unpack what is really keeping...
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#16 Why You Feel Exhausted Even When You're Doing Everything Right, with Amelia Phillips

Amelia Phillips is a sports scientist, nutritionist, bestselling author, and co-founder of the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation. For over two decades she has worked with women on the science of energy,...
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#23 The Unmasking: When Perimenopause Strips Away What Was Holding You Together

If your brain has felt unfamiliar in recent years, this episode is for you. Dr Kristy Goodwin unpacks the ADHD and perimenopause collision: why so many high-performing women hit their late thirties and forties and...
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#14 Your Story Is the Strategy — A Conversation with Tory Archbold

Behind every polished exterior is a story worth telling. Tory Archbold built one of Australia's most successful PR agencies, representing global names including Drew Barrymore, Zara, and Lancôme, while simultaneously...
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