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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#13 We Don't Have an Ambition Gap. We Have a Wellbeing Gap.

Smart, successful women are half-joking about becoming trad wives. And while the joke gets a laugh, the data behind it is not funny at all. In this episode, I want to challenge the narrative that high-performing women...
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#17 Women Fantasise About Being Sick: What It Signals About Modern Work

There is a thought that many high-performing women have quietly entertained, and almost never say out loud. Sometimes I wish I could just get sick for a week. Not seriously. Just enough to stop. Just enough that the...
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#24 Design a Life You Don't Want to Escape with Manelle Merhi

What if the exhaustion isn't a time problem, but a nervous-system one? That question lands differently when you're a senior leader who has held it all together for years, and your body finally calls it in on the first...
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#18 Back Yourself: Body Confidence, Big Courage and Showing Up Anyway with Taryn Brumfitt

Taryn Brumfitt has reached more than 200 million people with one message: your body is not the problem. As the 2023 Australian of the Year, founder of the Embrace Movement and creator of the EMBRACE films, Taryn has...
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#15 The AI Addiction Problem: Why AI Tools Are So Hard to Put Down

You have probably noticed it. One quick prompt becomes eleven. You close the tab forty-five minutes later with that particular hollowness that follows too long on a screen. And you wonder: is it just me? It is not....
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#12 Peak-Performance Without Burnout: What Corporate Women Need to Know with Andrea Culligan

What does success really look like when you strip away the titles, the pressure and the constant push for more? In this episode, I sit down with Andrea, Sydney Managing Partner at Deloitte Australia, for a powerful...
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Your FQ Matters More Than IQ – Mastering the New Currency of Success

Episode #11

I used to think distraction was a discipline problem. That I just needed to try harder, be better, be more focused. But one moment changed everything. In this episode, I share a deeply personal story that became the...
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Cold Plunges for Women – What No One’s Telling You

Episode #10

The cold plunge trend is everywhere right now… but is it actually right for women? In this episode of Spacious Success, we unpack the science behind cold exposure and why what works for men doesn’t always work for...
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Wide Awake at 2:22am? Why Women Are Struggling With Sleep (and What to Do About It)

Episode #9

Why does sleep suddenly feel so hard? If you’re waking at 2:22 a.m. with a racing mind, lying there exhausted but wired, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar and deeply reassuring. I unpack why so many...
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Your Brain Isn’t Broken: The Truth About "Baby Brain", "Brain Fog" & the Female Brain

Episode #8

What if the story you’ve been told about your brain…. is wrong? In this episode, I sit down with neuroscientist and science communicator Dr Sarah McKay to unpack what’s really happening in the female brain across...
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Productivity Hijackers – Why Working Harder Isn’t Working

Episode #7

We’ve been sold a productivity myth for decades. If you want to get more done you should multitask. Juggle more. Move faster. But neuroscience tells a very different story. In this episode of Spacious Success I bust...
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The Performance Paradox – How to Stay Sharp Without Burning Out

Episode #6

In this episode, I’m unpacking what’s referred to as the “Performance Paradox” and why so many high-achieving women are doing all the “right” high-performance habits and still feeling exhausted, distracted and flat. I...
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