Description After a hard year, Amy Green went looking for a different kind of work, and a CEO told her she was too skilled to apply for the role. In this solo episode, she shares what that conversation showed her about intimate, bespoke work in a world built for scale, and why deciding what comes next can start with the life we want to live. It is also Amy's announcement that she is not going anywhere, with three free masterclasses to start 2027.

In this episode:

You'll explore why saying we should be more open and actually being open are two very different things.

• You'll hear what happened when Amy explored hybrid, in-house and portfolio work, and what a CEO said when she asked about a role.

• You'll explore why bespoke, relationship-led work rarely fits a program designed to be repeated at scale.

• You'll hear why decisions about work can start with the life we want to live rather than the job we hold.

• You'll find out what is coming in 2027, beginning with three free masterclasses.

00:00 Saying It Exactly As It Is

02:19 Holding a Hard Year and a Business at Once

05:36 The Job I Was Told I Couldn't Apply For

07:55 Why 2027 Starts With Three Free Masterclasses

Free masterclasses Three free 90-minute masterclasses to kick off 2027: AI for Curriculum Leaders, building a staff or workplace wellbeing framework, and the conditions of workplace wellbeing.

Register here: https://amygreen.com.au/masterclasses_november2026

About Amy Amy Green is a futurist, workplace wellbein specialist, keynote speaker, author, and founder of The Wellness Strategy. Her book The Wellness Paradox (June 2026) unpacks the six paradoxes keeping us trapped in a model of success that isn't working, and charts a different way forward. Amy works with organisations, schools, and individuals who are ready to stop chasing a version of success that was never designed to make them well.

Connect with Amy

amygreen.com.au

@amy_._green · linkedin.com/in/amygreen

@amygreenofficial

Rethinking Success

Amy Green opens this episode with a warning that what she's about to suggest will make some people want to close the app in protest — and then makes the case anyway. She tells the story of 2016, when her GP suggested she leave her laptop at work, the meeting where that boundary was read as a lack of professionalism, and the fact that in all the years since, no one ever called. Her proposal is simple and, to some, unthinkable: that workplaces stop endorsing email on personal phones altogether, set clear times to check it, and flag the urgent ones so everything else can wait. Because there was a time before email lived in our pockets, and things were fine — so maybe what we created, we can uncreate.

In this episode, you'll explore

• You'll hear the 2016 story that started it for Amy — leaving her laptop at work on her GP's suggestion, and the meeting where that boundary was read as a lack of commitment.
• You'll explore how having email on our phones has reshaped our evenings, weekends and sleep in ways we've stopped noticing, and what that costs us over time.
• You'll consider Amy's actual proposal for workplaces: no email app on personal phones, set times to check it morning and evening, a shared signal for the truly urgent, and everything else on a 48-hour rule.
• You'll sit with the reassurance Amy keeps returning to — that if something is a real emergency, someone will pick up the phone and call.
• You'll think about Australia's right to disconnect laws as the backdrop to all of this, and why Amy believes the bigger shift is cultural, not only legal.

Chapters

00:00 A Controversial Proposal

01:03 The Day I Left My Laptop at Work

04:02 Taking Email Off the Phone

A few lines from this one

• "There was a time when email didn't exist, and things were fine."
• "It's not that urgent, people. Someone will ring you."
• "What if workplaces said: at no point do we expect or allow email on your phone?"
• "No one ever called me. In all those years, no one ever called."
• "We created this, and I think we should uncreate it."

About Amy

Amy Green is a futurist, keynote speaker, author, and founder of The Wellness Strategy. Her book The Wellness Paradox (June 2026) unpacks the six paradoxes keeping us trapped in a model of success that isn't working — and charts a different way forward. Amy works with organisations, schools, and individuals who are ready to stop chasing a version of success that was never designed to make them well.

Connect with Amy

• Website: amygreen.com.au
• Instagram: @amy_._green
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amygreen
• YouTube: @amygreenofficial
• Podcast: Rethinking Success

For years Amy Green has stood on stages saying work-life balance is a myth and pointing people toward flow or harmony instead — and in this episode she wonders out loud whether she had it slightly wrong. The problem was never the word balance, it was the framing: work on one side, all of life on the other, as if those two piles were ever the same size. Here she reaches for a different picture — life as a whole pie, with work as one slice among many, from family and health to sleep, finances and the class you keep meaning to start. It's a rethink about where our time, energy and capacity actually go, and the harder question underneath it: are you living the pie you say you value?

In this episode, you'll explore

• You'll explore why even the phrase "work-life" puts work first, and what shifts when you turn it around and treat life as the whole rather than the counterweight to a job.
• You'll look at why splitting existence into two equal halves — work here, everything else there — was never a fair comparison, when one side holds your family, your health, your finances, your sleep and everything you care about.
• You'll consider the "life pie" as a different model, where balance isn't a fixed 50-50 but a deliberate choice about how much time, energy and capacity each slice of your life gets right now.
• You'll sit with the season-of-life question — what matters most in the chapter you're actually in, and how honestly your week reflects it.
• You'll face the follow-up Amy keeps returning to, that we can name our values and still not act on them, and what it looks like to actually live the pie we draw.

Chapters

A few lines from this one

• "Why is work the first word? Why don't we talk about life-work?"
• "Work is one slice of the pie — not the whole thing."
• "Maybe balance isn't 50-50. Maybe you've got eight things, and the question is how you share yourself across them."
• "We're taught to fit life in around work. It could be the other way round."
• "You can say you value something and still never action it."

About Amy

Amy Green is a futurist, keynote speaker, author, and founder of The Wellness Strategy. Her book The Wellness Paradox (June 2026) unpacks the six paradoxes keeping us trapped in a model of success that isn't working — and charts a different way forward. Amy works with organisations, schools, and individuals who are ready to stop chasing a version of success that was never designed to make them well.

Connect with Amy

• Website: amygreen.com.au
• Instagram: @amy_._green
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amygreen
• YouTube: @amygreenofficial
• Podcast: Rethinking Success