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Big Stuff With Danielle Colley

You know who's going through BIG STUFF? Literally everyone. But it's how you handle it that makes the difference.

Award-winning author and life coach Danielle Colley gets real about the relentless expectations we put on ourselves, the comparison trap, and the gap between how life looks and how it actually feels.

For ambitious women who may be crushing their goals but are feeling crushed by them. Conversations that matter. A little advice, a little inspiration, and a lot of humanness. No toxic positivity - just raw honesty about what it really takes to thrive.

If you're burnt out from achieving everything or tired of pretending it's all fine, this is for you. Because life should feel GOOD to live.

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Big Stuff With Danielle Colley

How To Say Yes To Your Life - Resilience, Purpose and Starting Over

April 30, 2026 • Danielle Colley • Season 2 • Episode 37

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Ursula Kohler has spent 30 years being the woman behind the power. The one in the room holding it all together while everyone else loses the plot.

Through her businesses Capital EA and Bear Consulting, she has trained, supported and recruited the executive assistants and operators that keep some of Australia's most high-profile leaders functioning at their best — politicians, board members, government department heads.

This year she was personally invited by the President of the Senate to speak at Australian Parliament House for International Women's Day. She consults to traditional owners in remote North Queensland. She is, by any measure, a seriously impressive human.

And then her marriage ended. Catastrophically. And the very thing that was blamed for the breakdown — her business, her drive, her ambition — turned out to be the thing that carried her through.

This conversation covers grief, purpose, the ancestral lines that shape who we are, what it actually takes to earn the trust of powerful people, and what happens when a woman who has said yes to everyone else finally starts saying yes to herself.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 — Introduction

2:30 — The messy middle

10:00 — Ancestry, migration, war, and the things that are passed down without ever being taught

17:00 — What it actually takes to be the person powerful people trust

24:00 — Putting your hand up

29:00 — Everything on the other side of fear is growth

36:00 — The marriage

41:00 — Purpose as the lifeline

43:30 — On country in Palm Island

49:00 — Australian Parliament House, International Women's Day, and what it means to stand in that room as that voice

52:00 — Caring for a mother with dementia