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Soul Compass Career & Life Coach, Counsellor. Rebel with a cause. 7300 words. Hilariously, that’s how long my first version of this profile was. Ta da! Truly. I wasn’t.

I set myself a challenge to squash it into a three sentence summary. Aspiring teenage musician has existential crisis after controlling grandmother tells devastating lie which leads to decades of enmeshment, bullying and making bad choices with men. Survives near death experience in childbirth, autoimmune disease & the hiding of authentic self while becoming serial career changer & doing well paid, prestigious roles purely for money & because of lack of sound decision making processes, lack of self awareness & lack of direction. Hits thirty & finally feels deserving of doing something for self, so trains in polarity therapy & counselling then becomes a specialist career and life coach helping people work out what to be when they grow up (all while dabbling in piano, stand-up comedy & quantum theory.) There’s obviously a ton of detail missing but the message is I have lived a life. And learned a lot from every experience. Even the car accident, even the failed marriages, even the workplace bullying. That lived experience makes me an excellent, intuitive, straight shooting coach for anyone who wants to make great choices by understanding what it is that lights you up. We take quite a trip together, a journey inward to discover internal drivers rather than finding external things to direct you. Once we reassess your career and life situation, we work out how to reinvent you & your personal brand to align with your new direction. Then you can re-imagine your whole life … so dream big! Of course, I could just write you a resume. But then you never get to work out the great stuff. Like what or who you’re saying yes to that you would rather not. What or who you’re saying no to that you deeply regret not pursuing. And what the risk is of having all you desire. Coaches are a dime a dozen so it’s important you find the right one. I’m a good fit for anyone prepared to do the work and commit to change & growth—corporates, mothers looking to recreate careers, top execs who want something more meaningful. And I’m a specialist transition coach for personnel leaving the defence force. Are you willing to die with your music still in you? Being smart is one thing. But without the integration of knowledge of your heart, you know nothing. Emotional intelligence is Queen. Faith in life, forgiveness, trust, compassion are all you need to start to return to you. If you want to talk about better processes for choosing your career & life, I’d love to connect.

Before you climb into the saftey of boat, there's a moment of naming the mess.Embracing The Messy Midlife is $77, and it...
20/10/2026

Before you climb into the saftey of boat, there's a moment of naming the mess.

Embracing The Messy Midlife is $77, and it's the honest first step - a short look at what's actually going on before you decide what comes next.

www.soulcompass.life/embracing-the-messy-midlife

20/10/2026

A job ad is a wish list, not an exam you have to pass.

You read the ad, count the boxes you don't tick, and close the tab. Again.

Here's the view from this side of the desk. If you meet around 70% of the criteria, you're doing well. The exception is anything marked essential, because nobody wants an unqualified brain surgeon. But that's the minority of jobs. Most selection criteria were written in a meeting, half of them are aspirational, and the person who gets the job won't tick every box either.

Apply. Deciding whether you're good enough is literally the hiring manager's job. Stop doing it for them, for free.

19/10/2026

Hate your job? Cool. Which bit?

The work itself. Your values. The expectations. The environment. The people. How much say you have. The noise and the interruptions. Your identity. Your stage of life. Your definition of success.

Most women find two or three that keep turning up, and each one needs a different fix. If it's the people, a new career won't fix it. If it's the work, a new employer won't either.

Hating your job is information, good information. Knowing why is better information.

Full blog: https://www.soulcompass.life/blog-the-invitation/i-hate-my-job-but-which-bit

Today is World Menopause Day.Not a day for hot flush jokes. A day to say out loud: menopause is a neurological event, an...
17/10/2026

Today is World Menopause Day.

Not a day for hot flush jokes. A day to say out loud: menopause is a neurological event, and the women navigating it at work deserve far better support than they're currently getting.

65% of women in my research have never sought professional career support. That's the number that stays with me today.

Tomorrow is World Menopause Day.Before it arrives, here is something worth sitting with.Menopause is not a hormonal prob...
17/10/2026

Tomorrow is World Menopause Day.

Before it arrives, here is something worth sitting with.

Menopause is not a hormonal problem happening to you from the neck down. It is a neurological event. The brain fog, the memory, the concentration, the sleep, the 3am witching hour - that is your brain going through a transition, not you losing your grip on things.

Nobody handed us a handbook for it. Most of us worked it out late, quietly, and usually after a good while spent assuming we were the problem.

So this is the handbook you were never given. Have a read today, and send it to the women in your world before tomorrow.

Link in the first comment.

She's fifty-four and she has her granddaughter three days a week.She loves her. That isn't the point.The point is that s...
15/10/2026

She's fifty-four and she has her granddaughter three days a week.

She loves her. That isn't the point.

The point is that she's also working, in what are meant to be her highest-earning years, trying to rebuild the super she lost the first time she did this. Because thirty years ago she couldn't get childcare either, so she went part-time, and she's been behind ever since.

Same woman. Same problem. Thirty years apart.

Only now she's on the other side of it, filling a gap her daughter can't buy her way out of, at exactly the point she needed those hours for herself. So she takes the three days, and she gives up whatever those three days were going to be.

This gets called family helping out. It's a policy failure landing on the same woman twice, unpaid both times.

And none of it shows up anywhere. Not on a payslip, not in a participation figure, not in a super balance. Just in a woman who's tired in a way nobody's counting.

She rang seven centres. Two had waitlists longer than her maternity leave. Three didn't answer. The two that could take ...
13/10/2026

She rang seven centres. Two had waitlists longer than her maternity leave. Three didn't answer. The two that could take her were both a forty minute drive in the wrong direction, which would have meant leaving at 6.40am to be at work by 9.

So she didn't go back. Not because she chose family over career, but because the logistics simply did not work, and no amount of wanting it differently was going to make a place appear.

One in four Australian regions is a childcare desert - three children for every available place.

Meanwhile there are centres in wealthy city suburbs sitting with empty rooms. More than half of all services are run for profit, and for-profit operators don't open where the numbers don't work. Regional and low-income areas are exactly where the numbers don't work.

So it isn't a shortage. It's a market behaving predictably, and women absorbing the cost of it.

If you live regionally, none of this is news to you. You just might not have known it was working as designed.

Sources: Victoria University childcare deserts mapping, ACECQA National Quality Framework report

'What do you actually want to do now?'Fair question. Just not a small one.Whatever opened the door - the redundancy, the...
12/10/2026

'What do you actually want to do now?'

Fair question. Just not a small one.

Whatever opened the door - the redundancy, the kids leaving, the thing that finally tipped it - you are standing in it now. And 'just get a job' does not feel like an answer that fits the size of the question.

It is not supposed to. A door that size deserves better than the first thing that pays.

FLOW is free, and it is a decent place to start.

www.soulcompass.life/flow

74% of the women in my research are navigating parenting and perimenopause at the same time.Kids who still need you. A b...
11/10/2026

74% of the women in my research are navigating parenting and perimenopause at the same time.

Kids who still need you. A body doing things nobody warned you about. Quite often a parent who is starting to need you too. And a job that still expects you to turn up exactly the way you did at 25.

The problem is not how well you cope. It is how much is landing on one woman all at once, in a workplace that does not - and is not required to - see or consider the unpaid workloads women carry.

Embracing The Messy Midlife starts right there. It names what you are carrying, then gives you quick interventions for when you are in the thick of it and longer-game practices for rebuilding capacity. $77, and it is yours to keep.

www.soulcompass.life/embracing-the-messy-midlife

By sixty, the average Australian woman has $86,300 less super than the average man.She didn't lose it recently. She lost...
10/10/2026

By sixty, the average Australian woman has $86,300 less super than the average man.

She didn't lose it recently. She lost it in her thirties, in a decision that took about a fortnight to make and forty years to pay for.

The maths was simple at the time. Childcare for two would have taken most of what she earned, so she dropped to three days. It was meant to be temporary. Then three days became the shape of her whole career, because part-time work rarely leads anywhere, and by the time the kids were at school the ladder had moved on without her.

Nobody told her that every one of those years was also a year of smaller super contributions, compounding into a number she wouldn't see until she was old enough to need it.

She wasn't careless. She was doing the only sum that added up that year.

And here's the bit that should bother all of us. Nothing about that system has been fixed. One in four Australian regions is a childcare desert, three children for every place. Somewhere right now a woman in her thirties is doing the same maths, getting the same answer, and starting the same forty-year bill.

Sources: Super Members Council analysis of ATO data 2026, Victoria University childcare deserts mapping

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