Episode 53 - Productive Workspaces: How Your Environment Affects Focus and Performance | with Natanya Gidoomal

Episode 53 - Productive Workspaces: How Your Environment Affects Focus and Performance | with Natanya Gidoomal

Kathy is joined by Natanya Gidoomal, interior designer, somatic trauma-informed coach, and neuroscience enthusiast, for a conversation that will make you look at the room you're sitting in very differently. Natanya's journey through design, coaching, and lived experience has led her to one powerful insight: your workspace isn't just a backdrop. It's actively shaping how you think, feel, and work. Together they dig into the science of clutter (and why it's doing what you think it's doing to your brain), the truth about colour psychology, why physical comfort goes way beyond getting a decent chair, and how beauty, nature, and texture all have a genuine role in a productive environment. Whether your desk is a disaster zone or a minimalist dream, this episode gives you practical, neuroscience-backed steps to make your workspace work harder foryou. youtube.com/@willowandrest instagtam.com/willowandrest_coaching

Episode 52.5 - Micro-Wins vs. Macro-Goals - Why celebrating small achievements keeps you motivated.

In this minipod Kathy explores the relationship between micro wins and macro goals, and why those small, unglamorous daily actions are the real fuel behind big ambitions. Drawing on the work of performance expert Brad Stulberg, Kathy unpacks why the journey matters more than the destination, how to build mental resilience without making it feel like an SAS selection process, and why your brain is basically a Labrador puppy that needs regular treats. From marathon runners to physio exercises, she makes the case for celebrating the tiny wins that most of us gloss straight over. Plus: the "done list," the dopamine hit hiding in your inbox, and why every Everest climber starts by putting their socks on.

Episode 52 - Buy Back Your Time | Dan Martell's Guide to Delegation & Freedom, with Claire Ennion

This week Kathy and co-host Claire Ennion dig into Dan Martell's bestseller Buy Back Your Time, and ask what if the thing holding your business back isn't your product, your market, or your team - it's you? Martell's central argument is simple but radical: stop hiring to grow your business and start hiring to get your time back. That means auditing what you're doing, working out what your time is actually worth, and letting go of the tasks that are quietly stealing your best hours.In this episode, Kathy and Claire unpack the DRIP Matrix (Delegate, Replace, Invest, Produce), the Buyback Loop, and why your first hire probably shouldn't be a salesperson. There's also a healthy debate about back-to-back meetings, the Replacement Ladder, and why video SOPs might just change your life.Because the goal isn't a more efficient business. It's a life worth buying back.

Episode 51.5 - The Dopamine-Driven Productivity Hack - How gamification can make work more engaging.

Kathy takes a deep dive into gamification and what neuroscience actually has to say about it. In this mini episode, she explores how borrowing tricks from video games and apps like Duolingo can hijack your brain's reward system and make even the most tedious tasks feel genuinely motivating. From points systems and streaks to Pomodoro timers and celebrating micro-wins, Kathy shares four practical hacks to make your to-do list something your brain actually wants to engage with. Serious didn't make you excited about expenses. Stickers might.

Episode 51 - The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom | Are You Rich in the Ways That Actually Matter? with Helen Taylor

In this episode, Kathy and Helen Taylor dig into The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom.   Bloom walked away from a high-flying finance career with all the markers of success and a hollow feeling he couldn't explain. This book is what he figured out. Time, social, mental, physical, and financial wealth: most of us spend our working lives chasing the fifth while quietly going bankrupt in the other four. Kathy and Helen get personal about the parents calculation that reframes everything, the pyrrhic victory trap, and whether productivity culture might actually be making the whole problem worse. A thought-provoking, honest conversation about what you're really optimising for.Five types of wealth. Make sure you're not ignoring four of them.