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Not Another PD
Tired of professional development that talks at you instead of about the realities of your work? Not Another PD is a podcast for helping professionals who are done with overgiving, blurred boundaries, and wellbeing conversations that don’t match the systems they’re working in. Hosted by Jazmin Pursell, social worker, supervisor, and organisational consultant. The podcast explores boundaries, burnout, capacity, and leadership, and refuses the idea that good practice requires self-sacrifice…
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Episode 57: “A client offered me stilettos”: Gifts, gratitude and professional boundaries
Episode 57: “A client offered me stilettos”: Gifts, gratitude and professional boundaries. A client offered me stilettos. Would you have accepted them? What if…
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Episode 56: Your job can’t be your only measure of success with Anthony Simons.
Episode 56: Your job can’t be your only measure of success with Anthony Simons. What happens when work becomes the main place we look for achievement…
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Episode 55: When systems lose sight of the person with Kym McMinn
Episode 55: When systems lose sight of the person with Kym McMinn. What happens when diagnosis, risk and systems start to overshadow the person? In this…
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Episode 54: What ADHD actually looks like at work with Emma Fenton
Episode 54: What ADHD Actually Looks Like at Work with Emma Fenton “ADHD is described as not a lack of attention, it’s lack of attention in things that don’t…
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Episode 53: Sound, stress and staying connected as a leader with Jessica Mak
Episode 53: Sound, stress and staying connected as a leader with Jessica Mak. Have you ever heard of sound therapy? Well, if you haven’t, you’re about to. In…
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Episode 52: Are frontline workers prepared for crisis? With Michelle Inwood
Episode 52: Are Frontline Workers Prepared for Crisis? With Michelle Inwood If you work in a helping profession, there’s a good chance that at some point…
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Episode 51: Are young staff really not work ready? With Jono van der Ploeg
Episode 51: Are young staff really not work ready? With Jono van der Ploeg. We hear a lot about young people entering the workforce. They’re not resilient…
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Episode 50: Don’t text me at 9 PM: Burnout, boundaries and the conversations leaders need to have with Matthew Jackson
Episode 50: Don’t Text Me at 9 PM: Burnout, Boundaries and the Conversations Leaders Need to Have with Matthew Jackson Episode 50 woo hoo! 🎉 For this milestone…
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Episode 49: When the caring doesn’t stop at the end of the workday with Renee Firth
Episode 49: When the Caring Doesn’t Stop at the End of the Workday with Renee Firth. As helping professionals and leaders, many of us spend our working lives…
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Episode 48: Leading people when the work comes with risk with Josh Corcoran
Episode 48: Leading people when the work comes with risk with Josh Corcoran. What does it actually look like to lead and support people when the work itself…
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Episode 47: You Don't Have to Have It All Together to Help Other People
Episode 47: You Don't Have to Have It All Together to Help Other People There can be an unspoken expectation in the helping professions that because we support…
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Episode 46: When Workplace Wellbeing Becomes Tokenistic
Episode 46: When Workplace Wellbeing Becomes Tokenistic A wellbeing workshop, an R U OK? Day activity or a once-a-year team wellbeing initiative can be…
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Episode 45: Friendly vs Friends: What’s the Difference for Leaders?
Episode 45: Friendly vs Friends: What’s the Difference for Leaders? Can you be warm, approachable and genuinely care about your team without becoming friends…
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Episode 44: Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn? What Helping Professionals and Leaders Need to Know.
Episode 44: Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn? What Helping Professionals and Leaders Need to Know Have you ever walked away from a difficult interaction at work…
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Episode 43: When Did Unpaid Work Become Normal?
Episode 43: When Did Unpaid Work Become Normal? When did unpaid work become so normal in the helping professions? Working through lunch. Replying to emails on…
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Episode 42: Leaders, Meet Your Advice Monster. Why the best leaders don't always rush in with advice.
Episode 42: Leaders, Meet Your Advice Monster. Why the best leaders don't always rush in with advice. As leaders, supervisors and helping professionals, many…
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Episode 41: Are You Looking After Everyone Except Yourself?
Episode 41: Are You Looking After Everyone Except Yourself? As helping professionals and leaders, we're often the people everyone else relies on. We support…
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Episode 40: Just Because You're Responsible Doesn't Mean You're in Control
Episode 40: Just Because You're Responsible Doesn't Mean You're in Control Many leaders I work with aren't actually carrying too much work. They're carrying…
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Episode 39: The Cost of Always Being the Strong One: A First Responder's Perspective with Joshua Surgenor
Episode 39: The Cost of Always Being the Strong One: A First Responder's Perspective with Joshua Surgenor Important Content Note: This episode includes…
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Episode 38: What Helping Professionals Are Really Saying About Their Workplaces
Episode 38: What Helping Professionals Are Really Saying About Their Workplaces. Last week (in Episode 37), we explored whether increasing sick leave is really…
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Episode 37: Is Sick Leave Becoming a Workplace Band-Aid?
Episode 37: Is Sick Leave Becoming a Workplace Band-Aid? Many leaders across helping professions are noticing the same trend. Sick leave is increasing. In this…
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Episode 36: Habit Stacking: How Busy Professionals Can Build Better Habits Without More Time
Episode 36: Habit Stacking: How Busy Professionals Can Build Better Habits Without More Time As helping professionals and leaders, we're often told we should…
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Episode 35: Beyond Business Cards: Networking and Inclusive Practice with Jase Wilson
Episode 35: Beyond Business Cards: Networking and Inclusive Practice with Jase Wilson In this episode of Not Another PD, I’m joined by Jason Wilson (Jase), a…
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Episode 34: I Was Terrified of Public Speaking. Now I Have a Podcast.
Episode 34: I Was Terrified of Public Speaking. Now I Have a Podcast In this episode of Not Another PD, I’m talking about: Public speaking anxiety and avoiding…
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Episode 33: From Employee to Business Owner as a Helping Professional with Jess Marsh
Episode 33: From Employee to Business Owner as a Helping Professional (with Jess Marsh) If you’ve ever thought about starting your own business as a helping…
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Episode 32: Who Taught You to Work Like This? (And Why It Might Be Burning You Out)
Who Taught You to Work Like This? (And Why It Might Be Burning You Out) Who taught you to push through when you’re unwell? Who taught you that taking a sick…
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Episode 31: When Supervision Slows Your Career (Career-Interfering Behaviours)
I remember asking for specific feedback in supervision when I was working in child protection. I wasn’t asking for praise. I was asking what I needed to…
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Episode 30: When You Know the Right Thing But Can’t Do It: Leadership in High-Risk Work with Kelvin Kamara
Episode 30: When You Know the Right Thing But Can’t Do It: Leadership in High-Risk Work | Kelvin Kamara Here’s the truth. I loved this conversation. It was so…
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Episode 29: Lived Experience Isn’t a Weakness. It’s One of Our Greatest Strengths
Episode 29: Lived Experience Isn’t a Weakness. It’s One of Our Greatest Strengths. Lived experience is something we talk about a lot in the helping…
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Episode 28: “Bring My Baby to a Child Protection Office? No Thank You.” Culture, Boundaries & Workplace Assumptions with Social Work Student Susan Nkechi
Episode 28: “Bring My Baby to a Child Protection Office? No Thank You.” Culture, Boundaries & Workplace Assumptions. In this episode of Not Another PD, I’m…
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Episode 27: The 20% Better Approach Helping Professionals Need for Nutrition (Not Perfection) with dietitian Angel Fan
Episode 27: The 20% Better Approach Helping Professionals Need for Nutrition (Not Perfection) In this episode of Not Another PD, I’m joined by Angel Fan, an…
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Episode 25: Cultural Supervision and Cultural Load in the Helping Professions with Yaleela Torrens
Cultural Supervision and Cultural Load in the Helping Professions with Yaleela Torrens In this episode of Not Another PD, Jazmin speaks with Yaleela Torrens…
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Episode 26: Social Work Registration in Australia: Why We Need It Now with Brooke Kooymans
This episode is being released during the week of World Social Work Day (17 March), making it a timely and important conversation for our profession. In…
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Episode 24: Burnout Isn’t Always Personal: Psychosocial Hazards in the Helping Professions
Episode 24 - Burnout Isn’t Always Personal: Psychosocial Hazards in the Helping Professions In this solo episode of Not Another PD, I unpack a topic that is…
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Episode 23: What Is Your Work From Home Environment Doing to You?
Episode 23: What Is Your Work From Home Environment Doing to You? Around 6.7 million Australians now work from home in some capacity. For helping…
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Episode 22: Are You Taking Your Clients’ Energy Home? Emotional Boundaries for Helping Professionals & Therapists (Part 2 with Sarah Xanthos)
Episode 22: Are You Taking Your Clients’ Energy Home? Emotional Boundaries for Helping Professionals & Therapists (Part 2 with Sarah Xanthos) Do you ever leave…
Not Another PDEpisode 21: What Is an Empath? Why Helping Professionals Feel Everything (Part 1) with Sarah Xanthos
Not Another PD | Season 2, Episode 21 What Is an Empath? Why Helping Professionals Feel Everything (Part 1) We’re back for Season 2 of Not Another PD. This…
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Episode 20: Inclusion, Boundaries and the Stuff Workplaces Avoid with Patrick Rory-John from The Identity Clinic
Episode 20: Inclusion, Boundaries and the Stuff Workplaces Avoid Most workplaces say they value inclusion. Far fewer are willing to look at the systems…
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Episode 19: I Was Pregnant, Then My Shifts Disappeared with Former Residential Care Worker Kim
In Episode 19 of Not Another PD Podcast, Jazmin is joined by her best friend Kim, a youth worker, former residential care worker, mum, and school wellbeing…
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Episode 18: Why Does “Being Nice” Feel Safer at Work?
Episode 18: Why Does “Being Nice” Feel Safer at Work? Why does “being nice” feel safer at work? In this solo episode of Not Another PD, I explore…
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Episode 17: Failure Isn’t the Threat You Think It Is with Bree Coulter
Episode 17: Failure Isn’t the Threat You Think It Is with Bree Coulter Failure isn’t the threat you think it is. For many helping professionals, fear of…
Not Another PDEpisode 16: The Myth of the Good Practitioner: Letting Go of Perfection in the Helping Professions
Episode 16: The Myth of the Good Practitioner: Letting Go of Perfection in the Helping Professions In this solo episode of Not Another PD, Jazmin explores one…
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Episode 15: The Stories We Inherit: How Family Patterns Shape Us as Helping Professionals with Sarah Voronov
Episode 15: The Stories We Inherit: How Family Patterns Shape Us as Helping Professionals with Sarah Voronov This week on Not Another PD, Jazmin is joined by…
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Episode 14: The Excuses Leaders Use to Avoid Supervision (And Why They Don’t Stack Up)
Episode 14: The Excuses Leaders Use to Avoid Supervision (And Why They Don’t Stack Up) This is the second instalment of my Bold Boundaries for Leaders…
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Episode 13: Should the Next Generation of Leaders Have No Boundaries Just Because We Don’t?
Episode 13: Should the Next Generation of Leaders Have No Boundaries Just Because We Don’t? As leaders, supervisors, and mentors, our boundaries don’t just…
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Episode 12: Beyond the Tick-Box: What Real Supervision Looks Like with Jess Marsh
Episode 12: Beyond the Tick-Box: What Real Supervision Looks Like with Jess Marsh. What does real supervision look like, the kind that actually helps you stay…
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Episode 11: Burnout and When Your Work Starts Clashing with Your Values with Jess Marsh
Episode 11: Burnout and When Your Work Starts Clashing with Your Values with Jess Marsh What happens when the work you love starts pulling you away from the…
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Episode 10: Back Yourself: Imposter Syndrome, Supervision & Vicarious Trauma with Hannah Gordon
Episode 10: Back Yourself: Imposter Syndrome, Supervision & Vicarious Trauma with Hannah Gordon From “doing the bare minimum” to going all-in: how to trust…
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Episode 9: From People-Pleasing to Embodied Wellbeing with Steph De Niese
Episode 9: From People-Pleasing to Embodied Wellbeing with Steph De Niese How movement, boundaries, and knowing your needs can change everything. This week on…
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Episode 8: Who Are You Without the Title? Identity Beyond Work
Episode 8: Who Are You Without the Title? Identity Beyond Work Do you over-identify with your professional role? Let’s talk about who you are outside the job…
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Episode 7: Don’t Stay Stuck: Career Mindset Shifts to Move You Forward
Episode 7: Don’t Stay Stuck: Career Mindset Shifts to Move You Forward Feeling stuck? These mindset shifts will help you turn self-doubt into progress. Whether…
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Episode 6: Stop Setting Goals That Don’t Fit: Values Matter with Tracey Lindsay
Episode 6: Stop Setting Goals That Don’t Fit: Values Matter with Tracey Lindsay In this episode of Not Another PD, I’m joined by counsellor and personal…
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Episode 5: Breaking the Sitting Cycle: Everyday Movement with Natalie Barbieri
Episode 5: Breaking the Sitting Cycle: Everyday Movement with Natalie Barbieri In this episode of Not Another PD, I’m joined by my very first guest, Natalie…
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Episode 4: Thrive Boundaries: When Saying No Becomes Second Nature
Episode 4: Thrive Boundaries: When Saying No Becomes Second Nature After exploring Survive (Episode 2) and Sustain (Episode 3), today we reach the very top of…
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Episode 3: DMs, Burnout & Boundaries: My Wake-Up Call
Episode 3: DMs, Burnout & Boundaries: My Wake-Up Call We’ve all had those moments where our good intentions, wanting to be helpful, approachable, and generous…
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Episode 2: Survive: Building Your Foundational Boundaries
Episode 2: Survive: Building Your Foundational Boundaries Ever found yourself saying yes when you should have said not today? In this episode, I share a story…
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Episode 1: Why This Podcast Is Different
Episode 1: Why this Podcast is Different If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at another “mandatory training” that left you feeling drained instead of inspired…
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EP 12: The Return: Navigating Work After Maternity Leave
EPISODE 12: The Return: Navigating Work After Maternity Leave 🎧 Smart, Successful and Stressed Mums with Jazmin Pursell Episode 12 is the first of a four-part…
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EP 11: From Overwhelmed to Supported: What Pocket Money Taught Me About Delegating
EPISODE 11: From Overwhelmed to Supported: What Pocket Money Taught Me About Delegating 🎧 Smart, Successful and Stressed Mums with Jazmin Pursell In Episode 11…
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EP 10: The Meal Prep That Saved My Sanity: Time-Saving Hacks for Working Mums
EPISODE 10: The Meal Prep That Saved My Sanity: Time-Saving Hacks for Working Mums 🎧 Smart, Successful and Stressed Mums with Jazmin Pursell Feeling like…