Balance & Beyond
Balance and Beyond is the podcast for ambitious women refusing to accept burnout as the price of success. Here, we’re committed to empowering you with the tools and strategies you need to achieve true balance, where your career, relationships and health all thrive and where you have the power to define success on your own terms.
Episodes
184 episodes
When Life Just Keeps Happening (Jo Moment)
We challenge the myth that life will settle and explore how to build steadiness, set boundaries, and choose yourself even when everything stays messy. Practical tools help your nervous system stand down so you can find focus and joy in small, r...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 47
•
8:07
Why Vulnerability Feels Unsafe for High-Achieving Women
Four weeks to calm, focus, and clarity: Register for Leverage today (starts Friday 6th February!) When control stops working, what actually builds credibility? ...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 133
•
16:49
Why Your Life Might Need Triangle Sushi (Jo Moment)
A small shift can change the whole day. We explore how novelty inside structure calms the nervous system, restores agency, and brings back breath without blowing up a perfectly good life.• triangle sushi as a metaphor for context and ex...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 46
•
6:35
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Ever wonder why a tiny choice—how you part your hair, whether you eat a donut—can spark a wave of judgement in your head? We pull back the curtain on the quiet scripts that turn neutral moments into moral verdicts and show how those stories har...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 132
•
18:26
A Lesson from Travis Kelce. Yes, Really! (Jo Moment)
We explore how desire shrinks under self-editing and why holding a want without making it about worth can change the shape of a life. A public love story becomes a mirror for our conditioning and a prompt to name a bigger want and take one clea...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 45
•
6:42
The Rules That Built Your Success Are Now Working Against You
If you don’t want to start the year on autopilot, the New Rules for Career Success workshop is for you. Learn how to stop equating speed with value, create space for real perspective, and upgrade the rules that are quietly burning you out. Regi...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 131
•
11:24
Speed Was My Advantage. Now It’s My Kryptonite. It’s Becoming Yours Too (Jo Moment)
Before you blink and 2026 is already underway, join our January 23rd workshop to uncover the unconscious rules shaping your work and redesign how you lead, respond, and create space in your career: www.balanceinstitute.com/rules
•
Season 4
•
Episode 44
•
8:34
What Stepping Away Taught Me About Coming Back
Before you blink and 2026 is already underway, join our January 23rd workshop to uncover the unconscious rules shaping your work and redesign how you lead, respond, and create space in your career: www.balanceinstitute.com/rules <...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 130
•
13:55
The Surprising Power of Play for High Achievers
Meetings don’t need more sticky notes; they need better thinking. We sit down with Cate Sefton to explore how structured play — especially Lego Serious Play — turns flat brainstorms into 3D strategy, elevates quiet voices, and surfaces ideas th...
•
Episode 5
•
24:17
The Real Reason Gen Z Makes Us Uncomfortable
Ever felt the sting of doing everything “right” only to be told you’re too direct, not ready, or simply invisible? We dig into how good girl conditioning collides with workplace reality, why women are penalised more for risk, and how to speak u...
•
Episode 4
•
26:17
Is It Them or Is It You? The Truth About Toxic Leadership
Bullying often hides in plain sight, wrapped in polished charm and shifting rules that leave you doubting your memory. Author, executive and consultant, Jane Phipps joins me to pull the mask off toxic and narcissistic leadership and get practic...
•
Episode 3
•
19:01
This One Shift Will Give You More Energy Than Any Holiday
When your calendar looks perfect but your body says no, something deeper is going on. Jo sits down with women’s transition coach and transformation specialist Nicole Adey to trace how high achievement, grief, and people pleasing quietly drain e...
•
Episode 2
•
23:37
Ambition After Babies. The Truth No One Says Out Loud
Ready to stop waiting for permission and start leading with intention? We sit down with Khiara Cureton—VP in healthcare and executive career and money coach—to unpack how motherhood can sharpen ambition, not dull it, and how to turn quiet excel...
•
Episode 1
•
25:05
The Two Questions That Will Change Your 2026 (Jo Moment)
We share a simple, identity-first practice to end the year with clarity and begin 2026 on purpose. Two questions help you release what no longer fits and choose the version of yourself that your habits and calendar will support.• shifti...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 43
•
8:08
A Christmas Message From Me to You
The holidays can be noisy, busy, and strangely empty all at once. We wanted to create a quiet pocket in your feed to say a sincere thank you, share a few of our own rituals, and invite you to make space for rest without apology. From the notes ...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 129
•
2:41
The Part-Time Trap: Why Flexibility Fails Without Boundaries (and What the 4-Day Week Gets Right)
Tired of the part-time trap? You're not alone. While dropping to four days seems like the perfect burnout solution, many women find themselves cramming five days of work into four – making stress worse, not better.Debbie Bailey, co-CEO ...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 128
•
25:50
How to Navigate the Three Phases of Life After Burnout (Jo Moment)
We map the three-phase evolution beyond burnout—unravelling, reawakening, emergence—and share the questions that move you from survival to self-trust. December becomes a checkpoint to trade adrenaline for calm conviction and design a life that ...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 41
•
11:27
The Three Biggest Trends of 2025
What if the missing piece in your success story isn’t another strategy, but a safer nervous system? We explore three potent trends shaping ambitious women: rebuilding worth at the body level, reframing perimenopause as a gateway to power, and e...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 127
•
20:34
The Dark Side of Fierce Independence (Vault)
We challenge the “I can do it myself” script and show how fierce independence can cap career growth, fuel burnout, and create loneliness. We offer a path to bigger impact by asking for help, delegating earlier, and letting yourself be seen....
•
Season 4
•
Episode 40
•
9:42
You Can’t Out-Think Exhaustion: The 4R Fix for High Achievers
Burnout doesn’t always arrive with sirens; sometimes it’s a quiet collapse on the office floor before a board meeting. We sit down with leadership psychologist and human performance expert Rachael Edmondson-Clark to unpack how high-achieving wo...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 126
•
26:22
The Ache of Outgrowing The Woman You Used to Be (Jo Moment)
We explore the uncomfortable in‑between where success stops fitting and intuition asks for the lead. Jealousy becomes a compass, big goals are set down, and we choose aliveness over metrics while stepping into a sacred, uncertain void.•...
•
10:51
How to Survive December Without Losing Your Sh*t (or Yourself)
Head over to balanceinstitute.com/sos to save your seat and learn how you can survive December!December isn’t the villain. It’s the spotlight. When the concerts, deadlines, and family dynamics collide, our survival wiring takes over—over...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 125
•
11:14
The Fear You Don’t Know You’re Carrying (and How It Runs Your Life) (Vault)
Fear is the common thread behind perfectionism, procrastination, stress and overwhelm. We explore how this powerful emotion, designed to keep us alive, has evolved to hold us back from what we truly want in modern life.• Only two fears ...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 39
•
10:04
The One Question That Led Lisa to a Volcanic Island in the Atlantic
What would you regret more: staying where life feels predictable or choosing a path that feels alive? We sit down with former executive, best-selling author, and master coach Lisa Toste to unpack how she moved her family from Canada to a volcan...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 124
•
30:53
Whispers, Shouts, or Full Punch in the Face. Which One Are You Ignoring? (Vault)
Your body speaks in whispers, shouts, and sometimes punches to the face when you ignore its needs. Women are particularly susceptible to burnout due to perfectionism, people-pleasing, and putting everyone else first.• The whispers of bu...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 37
•
9:47