Work.Mama.Life with Dr Ali Young
by Dr Ali Young, Chiropractor
Dr Ali Young is a Chiropractor and author of Work.Mama.Life... passionately serving working mothers to bring back the health & heart to their motherhood journey.This podcast is for working mum's looking to kick off that overwhelm, busy, rush and burnout and reclaim their vibrancy, joy and health again.Let’s journey together. Join Dr Ali and her collective hood of exceptional guests, who are passionate about shattering the “Perfect Mum Myth”, and empowering you to see your own innate potential and embrace a new way forward!There ain’t no HOOD like motherHOOD.
Episodes
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#95 - Welcome Back Perth! The Big WHY?!
Welcome Back. I'm here, I'm in Perth, and I am bringing you a raw and real podcast converstaion all about working mum life (and a hot tip for those of you new here, that doesn't mean only paid employment). This episode is a little snippet into the WHY behind our families relocation to Perth...…
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RE-RELEASE Ep 79 Dr. Anthea Todd - Hormones, Health & Motherhood
This re-released episode with the fabulous Dr Anthea allows us to dive into the role that our hormones play in our health, some common misconceptions we face as mothers with our hormones, and. her simple tips ifyou are experiencing hormone related health concerns (or ifyou even think you might…
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RE-RELEASE Ep 90 - Managing Time - Strategies for Juggling it All.
This re-released episode is one which really resonates with a busy working mum. In it I discuss the strategies I have employed and used in order to juggle time and create balance and flow in my life and my world. Time is the greatest "tricky thing" that a lot of mum's reflect back to me. The...
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RE-RELEASE EP 6 - Jenn Cuttriss - Intuitive Sleep
This weeks re-release episode is an absolute pearler from the archives, 2021 to be exact. Jenn Cuttriss, who you may know from https://sleepthrivegrow.com/ is a sleep and early parenting mentor, and since this chat her business has considerably grown. We lived together as expat mum's in South...
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RE-RELEASE - #71 - 10 Tips for busy Professional Mums to simplify their life.
Welcome to the Re-Release of one of my favorite episodes, 10 tips for busy professional working mums to maintain health, vitality and wellbeing. I am so excited to be getting back into podcasting again, and this episode is a little taster of what we have coming up. Mums of Perth, I will be...
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#94 - Angela Lockwood - Managing Focus in the Age of Distraction
Angela Lockwood is my final guest on this iteration of the podcast, and I couldn't be happier to have her share her wisdom with the amazing Work Mama Life listeners. Angela is an OT, speaker and author of the best selling book Switch Off. She now works with parents, children and schools to…
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#93 - Stephanie Allen - Active Ageing, Women and Bones
Are you wondering how your bones are influenced by the ageing process... and the why behind lifting heavy things? Today I have Exercise Physiologist - Stephanie Allen, the brains behind Active Range. Steph is a powerhouse in the world of supporting women as they age, and I loved our chat about…
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#92 - Healthcare, Teams and YOU
In todays episode I dive into the elements that create a thriving team... supporting you as a working mum in your health busienss, and the teamwork required behind the scenes too. This little episdoe is a summary of my superstar teams masterclass that I ran last week, so if you listen to this…
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#91 - Michelle Broadbent - Business Through Changing Motherhood
Michelle Broadbent is an amazing business strategist, who began her career in the media industry. She has traversed the avenues of business, motherhood and solo-parenthood, and done it all, at least from the outside-in, with grace and style. On the podcast today we dive deeply into Michelle's why...
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#90 - Managing Time: Strategies for Juggling it all.
This week, to coincide with my 4 day Winning Time Challenge (you can still join here), I am chatting all things how I plan my week for balance and flow. In this episode, I discuss how our brain really relies on pattern recognition as one of it's safety signals, and organsing our practice life…
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#89 - Kell Quarrell - What's a Bold Aligned Business?
Have you ever wondered wny and how your values and sense of self matter in your business and motherhood journey? Today I have a return guest for everybody's listening pleasure, the always amazing Kell Quarrell! If you have listened to our previous chat way back in 2022, episode #56, we discussed...
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#88 - Balancing Motherhood & Business
Oh... the elusive balance. Life is like a seesaw isn't it... has it's ups and downs, but finding that balance - aparently that is where the magic lies. In this episode, I discuss how balance isn't everything it's cracked up to be. As business owners, having the capacity to recognise seasons, and...
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#87 - Connection - for Self & Business
In todays episode I dive into the 5 elements of connection, and how it matters for you as an individual, and for you as a business owner. We know that connection seems like a 'nice to have' often, but it is actually an essential and vital component to the success of your relationship with your...
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#86 - Kate Toon - Six Figures in School Hours - A Toon Chat
Kate Toon is an amazing woman, mother and business owner, and I was super excited to have her join me to chat all things her new book, 6 Figures in School Hours. I was very lucky to get at advanced copy of the book to read all about her core understandings of what makes us capable to have a...
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#85 - Kacey Grieves - Honouring the Juggle
Today's episode is a beaut! I chat with Kacey Grieves, who I first met nearly 15 years ago. Some say she is crazy, yet, Kacey says she is the happiest she has been in years. Despite having every tool at her fingertips it wasn't the obvious that got her to where she is today. Kacey Grieves…
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#84 - EOFY - Creating Ease for Working Mums
This weeks episode of the podcast is for all of you looking down the barrel of the end of JUNE... thinking holy moly, I need to do ALL THE THINGS to get my head around end of financial year... then this weeks episode is for you. In today's episode I will be sharing the top 10 things I do at the…
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#83 - Georgina Windebank - The Holistic Sleep Mama
Joining us today in the Work Mama Life lounge is the amazing Naturopath and creator of the Holistic Sleep Project, Georgina Windebank. I'm sure you will agree with me, that she is a force to be reckoned with after you listen to this amazing discussion about her journey from university student, to...
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#83 - Psychological Intelligence, Motherhood & Work
Have you ever wondered how the psychological quotients impact and make a difference to our motherhood and working mother experience? Today I dive into what psychological quotients mean, yes that's the IQ, EQ, SQ and AQ - and how this may impact on our mothering and our work mama life too. This...
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#81 - Health Business Mama
It's time for a new direction, and I'm diving headlong into my greatest passion - supporting Working Mums who own Allied Health Businesses. Supporting women to create a values driven practice experience, and have a business that works for them, not them missing out on all the awesome stuff…
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#80 - Finite Energy, Burnout & Work
Exploring how to manage our energy, be it as a mother, a working mother or a health professional is one of the hardest things to navigate. We are conditioned to show up in service continuously, yet when we choose to look after ourselves... or put ourselves on the 'service schedule', there can…
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#79 - Dr Anthea Todd - Hormones, Health & Motherhood
This episode with the fabulous Dr Anthea allows us to dive into the role that our hormones play in our health, some common misconceptions we face as mothers with our hormones, and her simple tips if you are experiencing hormone related health concerns (or if you even think you might be). Anthea…
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#78 - How Trauma in Motherhood can impact your Service
This is an episode for all of the healthcare and service provider mums out there... because it is something that floats close to home for me, and something I really wanted to share with you. There has been a lot of chat over the last few years about trauma and deep learnings in how this plays out...
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#77 - Ange Craze - IVF, Motherhood & Skincare!
Today we are hanging out with Ange Craze from Tully Skincare, with an exceptional story of resilience, IVF, and her emergence into working motherhood. Ange began her career as a teacher, something she still enjoys to this day. But her journey to motherhood through 16 rounds of IVF and her...
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#76 - Emma Gilmour - Booze, Motherhood & Stress
Welcoming Emma Gilmour into the Work Mama Life world today, and you are all going to totally love it. Emma is from Hope Rising Coaching, and works with middle aged women to change the conversations and relationships with booze. Today we chat about the having it all myth... The pressure on women…
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#75 - How I Reset over the Holidays
Welcome back to 2023! I am rested, rejuvenated, and ready to be back... but there was a time where I didn't think that would happen! You see... I was limping to the line at the end of 2022, and it snuck up on me in a big big way. Todays episode dives into the why behind my reset, and how I…
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#74 - Laura Campbell - From London to HipSurfers
Todays episode is with the effervescent Laura Campbell from HackerLily - a company bringing her very well designed and super supportive HipSurfer to Australian shores. Laura has worked with some of the worlds' largest companies in a creative manner, and after moving back to Australia with her…
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#73 - Can we GIVE too much?
When did you just have that blinding realisation that you have given too much? That you've suddenly ended up with too much going on in your world, and you are, once again, at the bottom of the pile. Or you've just continued to say YES to people without thinking about it's impact on you? At work?…
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#72 - Eve Drew - Creating Her Health Collective
Eve Drew is an amazing woman with a story of grit, determination and life-changing decisions. I was fortunate to meet Eve in Uluru this year, and I really wanted to have her on the podcast to share her journey from a practice owner, through some really tough times, to creating a support process…
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#71 - 10 Simple Tools for Working Mum Business Owners
Are you a working mum and also a business owner. Be it a small, medium or large size business, you are navigating a whole different ball game when it comes to the 'juggle' of working mum life. In this episode I dive into my Top 10 tips for absolutely thriving in the role of business owner and...
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#70 - Suzanne Culberg - Authentic Motherhood
This episode we explore Suzanne's movement from the corporate world to becoming a weight loss coach, and now the amazing work she does with mothers on learning how to say NO. She is an international mindset coach, speaker and author, who helps over-givers and people pleasers learn to say 'No' to...
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#69 - Fear in Motherhood
This short sharp chat is for all the working mums out there who are diving into a little bit of fear. I chat about uncovering the stories that are holding us back, how the perfect mother myth can affect our enjoyment of our motherhood, and how mothering is an action, motherhood is an experience…
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#68 - Leesa Barr - Cosmetic Chemist & Heart Filled Motherhood
Uncovering the stories of a very busy working mum that you just never knew were there is one of the greatest pleasures I have on this podcast. Today I chat with Leesa Barr. Leesa and I actually live about 400m from each other, yet I didn't know her amazing story. Leesa has overcome adversity, has...
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#67 - Why Your Brightness Matters
Have you wondered why it really matters if you burn brightly from the inside? How your awesomeness communicates with other peoples awesomeness? The How and Why of allowing your innerself to show up... all the freaking time! Today's episode is designed to make you think? Are you burning brightly…
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#66 - Determining your Worth
This week I chat about how we determine our worth as a mother. Are we providing ourself a lens where we are only determining it based upon the 'outcomes' of our mothering, or are we looking backwards at worth dependent on career? However we determine our worth, it is great to stop and examine…
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#65 - Dr Lucy Burns - Sugar, Health & Motherhood
This weeks episode see's the amazing Dr Lucy Burns from Real Life Medicine join us to chat about her health journey, her motherhood, and how she has changed her life dramatically by changing her mindset and how she eats. Like me, Lucy had a bit of a health crisis, and joined forces with the…
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#64 - Chaos to Calm
Chaos isn't always the crazy, the fluster and the hot-mess mum moments. Chaos can show up in so many ways, and learning how to navigate out of the chaotic realm into calm is a working mum's super power. In this episode I chat all things Chaos to Calm, and how giving ourselves the opportunity to...
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#63 - Cyberspychology & the Modern Mother
Join Jocelyn Brewer and myself as we chat all things the modern mother experience, our involvement in technology and how we can do it different and better. We dive into the impact of technology and the role that we can play as mothers in shaping our childrens tech time. Jocelyn Brewer is a...
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#62 - Kelly Bell - Mothering, Business & Life Skills
In this weeks episode I have the glorious Kelly Bell joining me to chat about her massive pivot from Classroom teacher to online support for teachers through NSW. Covid created a new level of stress for Kell, and as she began to navigate through burnout, and a loss of family connectedness, she...
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#61 - The Surrender Concept
Have you ever wondered what it's like to realise things need to change when you are navigating the working mother life? The surrender concept is just this for me. Surrendering to the concept that maybe what was big for me before has changed, and isn't as important. Maybe surrendering to the…
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#60 Zoe Haack - You Already Knew
In today's episode, I chat with author Zoe Haack all about restoring fun, play and 'real' childhood back into childhood. Zoe has had an extraordinary journey, and has moved wholly to supporting families to embrace a childlike and childled expression of self within their family units. Zoe Haack is…
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#59 - Judgement in Parenting
Ok, so this weeks episode has me getting a little bit ranty about judgement in parenting. We all do it, yes even me sometimes (and I share when I've been most judgey in my past), but there are some pretty solid reasons to just be kind to each other. We have just globally navigated one of the key...
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#58 - Filipa Bellete - Burnout Recovery & Functional Medicine
Episode 58 brings the goods as I chat with Filipa Bellette all about her move from burnout to becoming a functional medicine practitioner. Filipa and I have some alarming similarities with our stress/over achieving/burnout stories, and in this episode you will learn how we have both worked…
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# 57 - Why we need a Break
As working mum's, it so easy to just keep on going... until we can't. This concept of working and mumming and life-ing until we drop is a big one that pervades the societal expectations of motherhood. If we work, then to make up for it, we have to keep doing all the other things too. We need to...
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#56 - Kell Quarrell - Choosing your own adventure
This week I had the absolute pleasure of having Kell Quarrell join me in the podcast room. Kell and I met each other last year, and I've loved seeing her and her family choose their own adventure and really go for it. Kell is an empowerment motivator, a life enthusiast, an adventure seeker, and...
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#55 - A Short intro to Working Mama Reset
This taster of an episode is all about my signature support program for mum's, the Working Mama Reset. The doors open to this program on monday, so I thought I'd give you a bit of a background view of what it involves. If you loved Work.Mama.Life. and are ready to make some change in your world,...
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#54 - Donna Hann - Supporting Mums in Business
This week we dive into a magical episode with my great friend Donna Hann. Not only does she choose great friends 😂😂, but she also is a rockstar in the business world, and she's turning this expertise to supporting mums emerging into their business journey. Donna previously owned Dance Kix, and...
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#53 - Dr Hilary Claire - Nourishing Mothers & Environment
Today I introduce you to Dr Hilary Claire, a clinical psychologist who specialises in nutritional and environmental medicine. She works specifically with mum's to help them move out of exhaustion, depletion and overwhelm, and towards a optimal motherhood. She blends nutritional supprot with...
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#52 - Lou Duggan - Rising to the Top with Baker Girl Lou
This week I get the absolute pleasure of chatting with Lou Duggan. Not only is she a sharp entrepreneur, growing her business Cakes 2 the Rescue exponentially over the last few years, she is also a mum to 3 amazing kids! Lou Duggan is so proud of the life she is creating, how it shows her girls...
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#51 - Lauren Oliver - Connection is Key (as is wine)
This weeks episode is with Lauren Oliver, the founder of Mums who Wine.She is a rockstar in the supporting mum's world, and has created a safe, inclusive and connected space for mum's all over Australia to feel connected again. Mums Who Wine was founded by Lauren Oliver. As a mother of two young...
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#50 Pillar 5: Mama Connection
In the final episode of my bite sized 5 Pillars week (welcome to all of the new listeners), I am chatting about the importance of connection. As humans, we are wired to connect. And to do this, we need to have support around us to make it happen. I jump into some simple ways as mums we can foster...
About this show
Dr Ali Young is a Chiropractor and author of Work.Mama.Life... passionately serving working mothers to bring back the health & heart to their motherhood journey.This podcast is for working mum's looking to kick off that overwhelm, busy, rush and burnout and reclaim their vibrancy, joy and health again.Let’s journey together. Join Dr Ali and her collective hood of exceptional guests, who are passionate about shattering the “Perfect Mum Myth”, and empowering you to see your own innate potential and embrace a new way forward!There ain’t no HOOD like motherHOOD.
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Dr Ali Young, Chiropractor