The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Podcast

Who Is Holding The Helper? Karen Humphries On Becoming The Patient, Writing Her Second Book, And What Would It Be Like If You Were Willing To Learn To Feel Safe And Calm Again?Some conversations arrive at exactly the right moment.This one is one of them.I recently sat down with Karen Humphries — a Mental Health Counsellor, Advanced Kinesiologist, Hypnotherapist, Meditation Teacher, Trauma-Informed Coach, published author, and Breast Cancer Conqueror. Karen works from Gippsland, Victoria, through her practice Blooming From Within, and brings a lens to her work that only comes from standing on both sides of the clinic table.Like me, Karen's professional work and her lived experience have become deeply entwined.Where to Find Karen and Her WorkKaren's new book Holding The Helper — Supporting the Cancer Caregiver is now available.🌿 Website: karenhumphries.net.au🌿 Instagram: @changechick🌿 Podcast: I Am Changing — on Spotify🌿 Buy the Book: eBook and print now available via her website🌿 Chapter One: Read free at karenhumphries.net.au/holding-the-helperIf you work with cancer patients, caregivers, or anyone navigating long-term health challenges — Karen's book should be on your shelf. If you ARE a caregiver — this book was written for you. 💚--Ready to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place. → Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

What Great Leaders Get Right: Ross Swan on Self-Leadership, Personal Authority, and Leading From the CoreRoss Swan on 25 years in financial services, 20 years in Singapore, and the truth about self-leadership — the core stays the same when the wind is blowing.Every meaningful pivot has a moment. For Ross, that moment came in his late forties, when he was running Queensland operations for an insurance and fund manager, going through a divorce, and being asked to relocate to Sydney to keep progressing his career."I started to think — I need to be in control of my career, not have the career control me."Connect with Ross Swan🌐 LinkedIn: Ross Swan 📧 Email: [email protected] 📱 Twitter/X: @RossSwan2 📞 Phone: +61 432 660 674Ross offers executive coaching, mentoring for emerging leaders, and speaking engagements on self-leadership, soul-inspired leadership, and building personal authority in complex corporate environments.Watch out for his upcoming book on self-leadership — coming soon.--Ready to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

Why Sessions Alone Aren't Enough: Sam Cooper on Structured Offers, Sacred Trust, and the Resilience of Selling High-Value WorkIf you're a practitioner, coach, or service provider whose expertise has quietly outgrown the session-by-session model — this conversation will change everything about how you see your business.In this episode, I sit down with Samantha Cooper — the founder of Enlight EQ and the woman who fundamentally changed how I work at Bend Like Bamboo. Sam works with experienced service providers whose value has outgrown their business model, helping them move from session-based delivery into structured, high-value offers that reflect the real depth of what they do.Connect with Sam CooperWebsite: enlighteq.com Business: Enlight EQ — helping experienced service providers structure their work so it can be seen, understood, and soldReady to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

When Caring Becomes Your Craft: Nicole Shir on Building Aura Oil, Backing Yourself, and the Power of Real SolutionsIf you've ever felt overwhelmed by a 10-step skincare routine, mistrusted the wellness industry, or quietly wondered whether you could back yourself to build something of your own, this conversation is for you.In this episode, I sit down with Nicole Shir — Founder of Aura Oil, Aesthetic Nurse Practitioner, and someone I've had the joy of knowing personally for over 20 years, to talk about real skin, real solutions, and what it takes to build something meaningful from scratch.--Connect with Nicole Shir🌐 Website: townsvilleantiaging.com.au | auraoil.com.au 📍 Clinic: 266 Sturt St, Townsville QLD 4810 📱 Phone: 0400 176 335 📧 Email: [email protected] Instagram & Facebook: @nicole.shir_antiagingNicole offers premium in-clinic treatments including microchanneling and regenerative skin work, alongside the Aura Oil range — designed for women who want real results without overwhelm.Ready to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

Why Resilience Isn't About Pushing Harder: Laura Connarty-Duncan on Burnout, Boundaries, and Designing a Life That Actually FitsIf you've ever felt like you're holding everything together by sheer willpower — succeeding on paper while quietly falling apart underneath — this conversation is for you.In this episode, I sit down with Laura Connarty-Duncan, Founder and CEO of Champion Women, to explore what really happens when high-achieving women hit their breaking point, and what it takes to come back stronger, softer, and more aligned.--Connect with Laura Connarty-Duncan🌐 Website: championwomen.com.au 💼 LinkedIn: Laura Connarty-Duncan📧 Email: [email protected] 📱 Facebook: @lconnartyduncan📱 Instagram @lcdakaloopylooLaura offers business coaching, leadership coaching, and career coaching grounded in lived experience and proven frameworks — and partners with businesses to create diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies that genuinely work.Ready to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

Leadership to Self-Leadership: Ross Judd on Listening & Resilience Ross Judd shares 30 years of leadership wisdom: why listening builds resilience, the Integrated Values Model for sustainable change, and how self-leadership heals burnout. --Connect with Ross Judd📖 Book: Listening: A Guide to Building Deeper Connections🌐 Website: rossjudd.com 📧 Email: [email protected] 📱 Phone: 0412 490 250Ready to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

The Power of Confidence: From 16 to CEO at Sportsgirl Left school at 16, became CEO of Sportsgirl & Sussan. Colleen Callander on building confidence daily, her burnout gift, and The Power of Confidence book. Connect with Colleen CallanderGet The Power of Confidence: Available now in all good bookstores, airports, and online A 30-day transformation program to build unshakeable confidencehttps://www.colleencallander.com.au/product-page/leader-by-design Mentor Me Women: Next program starts March 2026 Four weeks. Four core pillars. A beautiful community of women. Email: [email protected] Follow Colleen: Website: www.colleencallander.com.auInstagram: @colleen_callander, @mentorme_womenLinkedIn: Colleen CallanderFacebook: Ollie Callander Ready to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

From 60-Hour Weeks to Teaching Thousands: TMJ & BurnoutHow physiotherapist Darron Goralsky went from 60-hour burnout to teaching thousands. Learn his Craniomandibular Method, "the issue is in the tissues," and the formula for scaling through education.Connect with Darron GoralskyMelbourne TMJ & Facial Pain Centre203 Balaclava Rd, Caulfield NorthWebsite: melbournetmjcentre.com.auLearn More About The 5-Step TMD Protocol:Darron's 2-day intensive course for dental professionals teaches comprehensive assessment, hands-on treatment techniques, and the multidisciplinary approach needed for lasting results.Connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/darrongoralskyFollow Melbourne TMJ & Facial Pain Centre:Facebook: facebook.com/MelbournetmjcentreInstagram: www.instagram.com/melbournetmjcentreReady to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

A Conversation with Eli Singer on Digital Balance, ADHD, and the Confidence You Didn't Know You NeededADHD coach Eli Singer reveals why 81% of people lack confidence, not motivation, to change phone habits. Learn the tiny experiments that build digital balance without willpower or shame--Connect with Eli SingerTake the Offline Now Matrix Assessment: Discover whether you're Ready, Overwhelmed, Stuck, or Unconcerned—and get personalised strategies for your quadrant.Get the Book: Offline Now includes the full Matrix framework, the 100 ideas to try instead of scrolling, and practical experiments for building digital balance.Join the Directory: If you're a therapist, coach, kinesiologist, or practitioner supporting people with digital balance, join the growing directory at Offline.now. Free for the first year!Find a Practitioner: If you need support with ADHD, relationship stress, anxiety, body image, or any of 100+ areas affected by screen time, browse the directory to find someone who can help.Website: www.offline.nowLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elisingerDigital Burnout: Screens, Stress & How to Get Your Energy Backhttps://offline.now/work-life-balance/digital-burnout-screens-stress-how-to-get-your-energy-back/Digital Balance 101: Phone Stress, Screen Time & Digital Detoxhttps://offline.now/digital-balance/digital-balance-101-phone-stress-screen-time-digital-detox/Digital Wellness Directoryhttps://offline.now/experts/--Ready to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach

Why Your Calm Is Contagious: The Ripple Effect of Nervous System RegulationEver climbed the corporate ladder only to realise the view from the top feels empty? Karen Canham did—just ask her about ditching Fortune 50 titles for nervous system coaching after years of red tape and inner conflict. In this raw episode of Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Podcast, Karen unveils how her eating disorder sparked a quest for true self-connection, transforming survival-mode leadership into grounded power. Feel the vulnerability as she shares using a "feelings wheel" to decode emotions trapped in the body, and why leaders must shift from coping to deep pattern work. --Connect with Karen CanhamWebsite: karenandwellness.comKaren offers one-on-one coaching and group programs for professionals and entrepreneurs who want to move from survival mode into grounded, sustainable leadership. Her work combines nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and parts work therapy to create transformative, lasting change.If you're a leader who knows something needs to shift, if you're tired of pushing through and ready to lead from a regulated place, Karen's work might be exactly what you need.--Ready to build sustainable resilience? Here's how to work with me:🌿 Foundations: Want the complete Bamboo Method at your own pace?Self-paced digital course teaching all six pillars of resilience→ Explore Foundations: www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundations🌿 THRIVE: for leaders, founders and practitioners living with burnout, autoimmune symptoms or chronic stress.Deep 1:1 support with kinesiology, nervous system regulation and resilience coaching, over 2 or 6 months, to help you lead and live from a steadier place.→ Learn about Thrive: www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-methodNot sure which path is yours?📍 Book a Free Clarity Call with me, and we’ll explore together.www.bendlikebamboo.com/service-booking-clarity-callRemember: With a flexible mindset, we can adapt, transform our story, and reimagine what's possible.Free Resources:The Podcast on iTunesThe Podcast on SpotifyWatch on YouTubeFree Resilience ToolkitConnect:Website: bendlikebamboo.comInstagram: @bendlikebambooFacebook: @bendlikebambooLinkedIn: amanda-campbell-resilience-coach