Hembury Books Podcast - Beyond Burnout: Elizabeth Blackley & Steven Puri on High Performance

Elizabeth Blackley, founder and managing director of NeoConnections, brings The Pause into organisations seeking clarity, connection, and better ways of working. Working across Australia and the United States, she applies a global perspective to designing environments and practices that leverage human energy for greater creativity, wellbeing, and stronger results.

Steven Puri is a speaker, entrepreneur, and former film studio executive. After raising $21 million dollars in venture funding, and running 3 start ups, he now helps teams improve their focus, reduce burnout and build sustainable work habits. His business, the Sukha Company, focuses on productivity, flow-states and healthy performance in the era of AI.

Connect with Elizabeth Blackley:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth_blackley_author?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eli-b.talkin

Get a copy of Elizabeth's book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GY7YB6GT?ref=sp_email&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPOTM2NjE5NzQzMzkyNDU5AAGnuISu2MV-xqaLXTXSl7XYP79SUGMvRIVtCt_GOX2W49MRF2_AXy8vM5eQPac_aem_2gMwTpqOuktJP2m5dw9D7g

Connect with Steven Puri:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-puri/

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Kim Pavy has worked across medical, surgical, midwifery, neonatal intensive care and now geriatric nursing. Starting with research articles before writing short stories and poems, she has published her first novel, Love Amongst the Fear. She practices Tai Chi and artmaking in her home on the North Coast of NSW which she shares with her dog Ruby.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pavy.romancethriller?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Kate Purcell is an author, speaker and peer worker whose work is motivated by her own experiences with eating disorders. She writes to help others find the hope they are missing and joins readers on their journey. Kate lives in Perth WA with her partner, Leon, and their fur-baby, Pan.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/purcellkate?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Charbel Raish is the founder of Parousia Media, a distribution company that aims to form people in the faith. He travels widely to promote his book, How Islam Led me Back to Christ (2020). He is also married with nine children.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charbelraish?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Hayley Hughes is an Australian author and working mother who writes to heal. In 2024, burnout compelled Hayley to leave her successful senior management career to pursue a more fulfilling life. These experiences led to Thank You, Burnout, a powerful memoir about self-discovery and transformation.

Connect with Hayley Hughes

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hayleyhughesauthor?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Website: https://hayleyhughes.au/about-thank-you-burnout-book

Born in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, Karen Hamilton is an audio typist turned true crime writer. After working with the police as a typist for 25 years, Karen began writing true crime to work through harrowing personal experiences. Nightmare on Cromwell Street is her debut novel and chronicles her time spent living with infamous British serial killers, Fred and Rose West.Kathleen Richards, is originally from Dublin and now lives in rural Gloucestershire with her husband, Michael. She has worked as a carer and foster carer throughout her life, welcoming children into her home on long-term placements. She has three grown up children of her own.Connect with Karen Hamilton:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenmhamilton2/

David Ryan has loved AFL since he was six, following first South Adelaide Panthers and then Geelong Cats. As an adult, he played football in Adelaide Hills. His passion eventually led to a Creative Writing PhD exploring the relationship between the sport and community in Victoria. Two of David’s three children are also diehard Cats’ supporters.

Anna Spargo-Ryan is an Australian author, scriptwriter and editor. She has written two novels and a memoir, in addition to works of fiction and non-fiction published in Australian newspapers and literary magazines. In 2016 she was the inaugural winner of the Horne Prize for her essay The Suicide Gene.

Patti Miller is the author of ten books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Australia’s best-selling life writing texts, Writing Your Life, The Memoir Book and Writing True Stories. Her work is critically acclaimed across all genres. She is published regularly in literary journals and national newspapers and magazines including the SMH, The Guardian, The Age and The Australian. She has been a judge for the NSW Premier’s Prize and the State Library’s Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Patti is considered Australia’s most successful memoir teacher and has taught life writing around the country for 35 years – she also teaches in Paris and London each year. Nearly 70 of her former students have been commercially published.