I'm excited to welcome Emma Lovell back to The Debra Shepherd Podcast.

Emma is The Bleisure Coach, helping people design a life they love now, not someday, by combining business, travel and self-care.

With 17 years in business and 77 countries visited (and counting), Emma has built a life and career that allows her to work from anywhere, while being based on the Gold Coast with her husband Mathew, their son Finn, and fur baby T'Challa.

Known for her practical approach to lifestyle design, Emma shares how to create greater harmony between work, wealth, travel and wellbeing through her Bleisure Life philosophy.

Retreats have become a natural extension of this work. Through her retreat consulting business, Rest & Receive, Emma supports coaches, business owners, studios and venues to design, launch and deliver retreats that are strategic, impactful and profitable.

Emma is also the author of The Art of Bleisure and A Life of Magic: Bill Hunter's Story, the biography of her cousin Bill Hunter, a WWII Navy veteran, magician, entertainer, and master storyteller. The book captures 102 years of service, showmanship, and unforgettable life lessons.

An experienced emcee, speaker, author and consultant, Emma brings energy, honesty and real-world experience to every stage, conversation and retreat she leads.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Contribution, connection, purpose, and presence. Emma talks about her definition of a meaningful life and a meaningful business.
• Emma shares her story and what led her to becoming The Bleisure Coach and to then starting her retreat consulting business, Rest & Receive.
• What makes a great retreat?
• The common mistakes retreat organisers make when planning a retreat.
• There are endless possibilities for retreats. Emma talks about her most memorable retreat experience.
• Emma's latest book, A Life of Magic: Bill Hunter's Story. The biography of her cousin Bill Hunter, a WWII Navy veteran, magician, entertainer, and master storyteller. Emma talks about the writing process, Bill's story, and what it was like seeing the book in print for the first time.

Plus, more!

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Joining me on The Debra Shepherd Podcast is Amy Green.

Amy is a futurist for work and life who has spent over a decade challenging the stories leaders, teams, and organisations tell themselves about success, productivity, and performance, and what it actually costs them.

With a background in teaching and leadership, and experience drawn from face-to-face conversations with over a thousand educators and corporate leaders across Australia, Amy doesn't just talk about the future of work, she helps people design their way into it. Her keynotes and workshops have shifted the thinking of leaders at every level, from staff and teams to executive leaders, leaving audiences not just inspired but genuinely seeing differently.

Amy is a bestselling author, with her latest book being The Wellness Paradox, and she is the host of the Rethinking Success Podcast.

In this episode, Amy shares her story. We talk about burnout, success, and Amy's book, The Wellness Paradox.

HIGHLIGHTS

• What creating a meaningful life means to Amy now and how that has evolved over time.
• Amy shares her story. Amy talks about her experience with burn out, chronic stress, and the three biggest lessons she learnt during that time in her life.
• How burnout can happen when you're doing life perfectly.
• The increasing size of the global wellness industry and how it's creating additional stress and pressure.
• What led Amy to write, The Wellness Paradox.
• Amy takes us through the six paradoxes reshaping the way we work and live.
• Creating a slower, simpler version of success.
• The differences and the relationship between wellness, wellbeing, and self-care.
• The four dimensions of energy and knowing what builds your energy and what depletes it.
• A powerful question to ask yourself if you're chasing success and feel burnt out.
• How Amy is helping individuals and workplaces do things differently.
• Why being well shouldn't be complicated.

Plus, more!

SHOW NOTES

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CONNECT WITH AMY

www.amygreen.com.au

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Let's talk about why working even harder and putting in more effort is not the answer to leading well and creating success on your terms. Join me for this quick conversation on The Debra Shepherd Podcast.

Thank you for tuning in.

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