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Spacious Success
A podcast for high-achieving women who want to thrive at work without burning out their lives. You’re smart. You’re driven. You love what you do. But you’re also… exhausted. Welcome to Spacious Success, a podcast for women who are ready to redefine what it means to “have it all” in a world that rarely slows down. Hosted by Dr Kristy Goodwin, one of Australia’s leading neuro-performance experts, this show unpacks the science, strategies and stories that help ambitious women perform at their…
Episodes
Spacious Success038 | The Third Space: Why Work Gets Your Best and Home Gets What’s Left, with Dr Adam Fraser
What if the hardest part of your day is not the work, but the walk from your car to your front door? One CEO caught a glimpse of his children running from the…
Spacious Success037 | Majoring in the Majors
What if the edge you are looking for is the basic you keep skipping? A senior leader came to a coaching call wanting one thing: the single move that would fix…
Spacious SuccessEP036 | Rest Isn’t the Enemy of Revenue, with Marilla Akkermans: Building Flexibility Into the DNA
What if flexibility isn’t something women should have to earn, but something work should have been designed around all along? When Marilla Akkermans returned…
Spacious Success035 | I Probably Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: Naming the Gender Wellbeing Gap
What if the exhaustion you’ve been hiding isn’t yours to carry alone, but a pattern with a name? For almost two years, Kristy has been having the identical…
Spacious Success034 | Roads and Bridges with Georgie Dent: The Care Infrastructure Working Parents Were Never Given
What if it feels impossible not because you are doing it wrong, but because nobody built the road? It rarely arrives as a crisis. It arrives as a calendar…
Spacious Success033 | The Double Load: Why You're More Exhausted Than You've Ever Been
What if the exhaustion you can't explain isn't one problem, but two, and nobody has named them together yet? Kristy had been circling the same question for…
Spacious Success032 | Motherhood, Matrescence and the Making of a New Self, with Amanda Delosa
What if you were never supposed to bounce back at all? Amanda Delosa built her career telling other people's stories. She has shaped public narratives inside…
Spacious Success031 | Fine, Thanks: What This Week’s Women’s Health Data Says About the Cost of Performing Okay
What if the friend who never needs checking on is exactly the one who does? Every one of us has met someone who looks like they have it completely together…
Spacious Success030 | Credits in the Health Bank with Amanda Stevens
What if your health was never meant to be the reward for the work, but the infrastructure it runs on? Amanda Stevens met Kristy in a Zoom room in the middle of…
Spacious Success029 | The Bandwidth Gap: Why Your Brain, Not Your Tech Stack, Is the Real AI Constraint
What if the real bottleneck in your AI rollout isn't the technology at all? Somewhere in your organisation this week, someone signed off on another piece of AI…
Spacious Success028 | The Unspoken Load: Perimenopause, Grief & Permission to Be Fully Human, with Lisa Corduff
What if the rest you keep waiting to earn is actually something your biology is owed right now? Lisa Corduff met Kristy back in 2012, in the early days of…
Spacious Success027 | Shiny and Shabby: The Trade-Offs Nobody Warned You About
What if the exhaustion you keep trying to fix with sleep is not a flaw, but the honest cost of a life you chose? There are no research papers stacked up in…
Spacious Success026 | The Joy Metric: How a CEO Decides What Success Is Worth, with Philippa Moig
What if the exhaustion isn’t a workload problem, but the cost of performing a steadiness you don’t feel? Most leaders can tell you their revenue, their…
Spacious SuccessO25 | Fragmented Focus: Why Your Attention Is a Design Problem, Not a Discipline Problem
What if your fractured focus was never yours to fix? That question lands differently once you see who is most worried about it. Not the women navigating…
Spacious Success024 | Design a Life You Don't Want to Escape with Manelle Merhi
What if the exhaustion isn't a time problem, but a nervous-system one? That question lands differently when you're a senior leader who has held it all together…
Spacious Success023 | The Unmasking: When Perimenopause Strips Away What Was Holding You Together
If your brain has felt unfamiliar in recent years, this episode is for you. Dr Kristy Goodwin unpacks the ADHD and perimenopause collision: why so many…
Spacious Success022 | The Big Person: Why Your Family Borrows Your Nervous System with Dr Vanessa Lapointe
Why do so many high-functioning women hold it together all day, then unravel somewhere between the front door and dinner preparation? In this episode, Dr…
Spacious Success021 | Born to Overwork: The Hidden Identity Driving High-Achieving Women
You can manage your time, set your boundaries, take the holiday, and still find that you cannot switch off. In this episode, Dr Kristy unpacks why so many…
Spacious Success020 | Going First: Confidence, Courage and the Visibility Tax, with Yasmin London
What if confidence was never the thing holding women back? In this episode, Dr Kristy Goodwin sits down with digital safety expert, speaker and former police…
Spacious Success019 | The Invisible Tax: What the Messy Room Research Reveals About Women's Hidden Load
Why does a messy house feel like a personal failing for so many women, even when their partner insists no one cares? In this episode I unpack the research on…
Spacious Success018 | Back Yourself: Body Confidence, Big Courage and Showing Up Anyway with Taryn Brumfitt
Taryn Brumfitt has reached more than 200 million people with one message: your body is not the problem. As the 2023 Australian of the Year, founder of the…
Spacious Success017 | Women Fantasise About Being Sick: What It Signals About Modern Work
There is a thought that many high-performing women have quietly entertained, and almost never say out loud. Sometimes I wish I could just get sick for a week…
Spacious Success016 | Why You Feel Exhausted Even When You're Doing Everything Right, with Amelia Phillips
Amelia Phillips is a sports scientist, nutritionist, bestselling author, and co-founder of the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation. For over two…
Spacious Success015 | The AI Addiction Problem: Why AI Tools Are So Hard to Put Down
You have probably noticed it. One quick prompt becomes eleven. You close the tab forty-five minutes later with that particular hollowness that follows too long…
Spacious Success014 | Your Story Is the Strategy — A Conversation with Tory Archbold
Behind every polished exterior is a story worth telling. Tory Archbold built one of Australia's most successful PR agencies, representing global names…
Spacious Success013 | We Don't Have an Ambition Gap. We Have a Wellbeing Gap.
Smart, successful women are half-joking about becoming trad wives. And while the joke gets a laugh, the data behind it is not funny at all. In this episode, I…
Spacious Success012 | Peak-Performance Without Burnout: What Corporate Women Need to Know with Andrea Culligan
What does success really look like when you strip away the titles, the pressure and the constant push for more? In this episode, I sit down with Andrea, Sydney…
Spacious Success011 | Your FQ Matters More Than IQ – Mastering the New Currency of Success
I used to think distraction was a discipline problem. That I just needed to try harder, be better, be more focused. But one moment changed everything. In this…
Spacious Success010 | Cold Plunges for Women – What No One’s Telling You
The cold plunge trend is everywhere right now… but is it actually right for women? In this episode of Spacious Success, we unpack the science behind cold…
Spacious Success09 | Wide Awake at 2:22am? Why Women Are Struggling With Sleep (and What to Do About It)
Why does sleep suddenly feel so hard? If you’re waking at 2:22 a.m. with a racing mind, lying there exhausted but wired, this episode will feel uncomfortably…
Spacious Success08 | Your Brain Isn’t Broken: The Truth About "Baby Brain", "Brain Fog" & the Female Brain
What if the story you’ve been told about your brain…. is wrong? In this episode, I sit down with neuroscientist and science communicator Dr Sarah McKay to…
Spacious Success07 | Productivity Hijackers – Why Working Harder Isn’t Working
We’ve been sold a productivity myth for decades. If you want to get more done you should multitask. Juggle more. Move faster. But neuroscience tells a very…
Spacious Success06 | The Performance Paradox – How to Stay Sharp Without Burning Out
In this episode, I’m unpacking what’s referred to as the “Performance Paradox” and why so many high-achieving women are doing all the “right” high-performance…
Spacious Success05 | The Superwoman Myth – Why Doing It All Is Breaking Us
We’ve been sold a seductive lie. “You can have it all, you just can’t do it all.” It sounds empowering. It isn’t. In this episode of Spacious Success, I unpack…
Spacious Success04 | Maggie Dent - The Mother Load: Why Mums Deserve to Exhale | 05 March 2026
Women are holding more than ever, the mental load, the emotional labour, the invisible work that keeps families, teams, and workplaces running. In this episode…
Spacious Success02 | The Stress Superstorm: Why Women Are Burning Out Faster Than Ever
Today, I’m unpacking what I call the “stress superstorm”, the collision of biology, beliefs and bias that are leaving so many ambitious women depleted…
Spacious Success03 | Why Women Can’t Do Life Alone: The Biological Power of Connection
Female friendships in midlife aren’t a luxury. They’re a biological necessity. In this episode of Spacious Success, I explore why women are not wired to do…
Spacious Success01 | From Code Red to High-Res – My Wake-Up Call from the Success Trap
In this episode of Spacious Success, I share the personal story that changed everything. The moment my body pulled the emergency brake. I will take you back to…
Spacious Success00 | Everyone needs a Karen
In the first official episode of Spacious Success, I share the deeply personal story behind why I finally launched this podcast. Years of deferring this…
Spacious SuccessWelcome to Spacious Success!
Welcome to Spacious Success, the podcast for ambitious women who are ready to achieve more while sacrificing less. I'm Dr. Kristy Goodwin, neuro-performance…