Keeping It Real with Jac and Ral

Keeping It Real with Jac and Ral

Be entertained, hilariously challenged and profoundly inspired by the very REAL podcast duo, Jac and Ral! Podcast drops every Monday morning 7am

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August 3, 2025 26 mins

This week, we flip the script on productivity. Forget your endless To Do list… what about your To Be list?

In this episode, Jac & Ral explore how shifting focus from tasks to traits can change everything. Instead of just ticking off jobs, ask: Who do I want to be while I do these things? Calm? Curious? Brave? Generous?

From leadership moments to everyday challenges, your To Be list reminds you that how you show up matters as much as ...

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What if doping wasn’t banned… but embraced?

In this unfiltered Part 1 interview, Ral sits down with the audacious founder of the Enhanced Games, Aron D’Souza, who’s taking a sledgehammer to the Olympic establishment.

He says the IOC is broken, outdated, and hypocritical and he’s not here to play by their rules. Love it or loathe it, the Enhanced Games are real, rising, and ready to disrupt everything we thought we knew about elite sp...

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Have you done a joy audit lately?


How much of your week involves you laughing, loving and living a joyful life? Jac declares she’s the queen of joy and Ral reveals a new thing she has started doing at home which brings her huge joy…


In this episode, we share WHY you should schedule your joy – especially if you want sustainable performance, enhanced creativity and a broader perspective. Leaders who deliberately set their teams and env...

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July 13, 2025 19 mins

Being a very successful leader is….

 

Your ability to attract, retain and develop talent.

Awesome talent multiplies impact, accelerates performance, and gives you the force multiplier effect.

 

Is it easy to be a great leader? No.

Is it easy to attract, retain and develop your talent? Absolutely not, but if you listen to this episode we will give you a competitive advantage and teach you our core formula which consists of 4 key things t...

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July 6, 2025 30 mins

We start this episode with some sage advice from Ferris Beuller…

                                                                                                                                      

There tends to be two types of us in the world… Those who can actively listen and give you their full attention, also known as being fully present. And then there is the rest of us… always on, doing a million things, mind racing like a r...

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June 29, 2025 27 mins

The biggest trap in life? Thinking your current path is the only path. 


In this episode we introduce you to the Odyssey Plan – a 20 minute personal exercise that encourages you to zoom out, ask yourself bigger questions to reveal 3 possible futures and forces you to confront what you really want.

 

For Ral – her plan reveals less work and move over Ellen Degeneres!

For Jac – linen and leather, Kenya and a few leopards

 

The Odyssey ...

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Are your co-workers your mates? Do you love working with them? Have you stayed longer in a role that didn’t serve you because of your coworkers? Yep, guilty.


Have you been promoted and all of a sudden your great mate colleagues now report to you, and things feel different for them and for you? Have you left a role and promised a co-worker or direct report you will take them with you…?

 

This topic is one that not only applies to y...

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Do you stay “small” because of fear? Hold yourself back from doing ‘the thing’? Not meet the person. Avoid grasping the opportunity for fear of what might happen (negative) or what people might think?


You’re living a life in fear and that is a life half lived.

 

In this episode Jac & Ral encourage you to try living a life of courage instead – don’t wait for permission, validation or reassurance, take 1 small step and start ta...

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June 8, 2025 23 mins

How do you leave a job or a leader gracefully and graciously when it’s been good to you, but you want to end it not for any negative reasons but because you have had enough, or you want a change or you get offered a better opportunity? 

Well, poor Dave got told it wasn’t him, it was Ral… but as for Jac, she got told it wasn’t her, it was him… but she did end up marrying him in the end!

 

There are some good ways to leave the job, the ...

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June 1, 2025 25 mins

If you’re digging a hole in the wrong place, it doesn’t matter how deep you’ve dug… it’s still the wrong hole!

This episode is all about continuing to stay on a course of action despite it being more beneficial to quit. You might try to rationalise the situation by saying since the spent cost can't be recovered, you might as well stay the course and/or allocate additional resources to try to make things work… however is that the...

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May 25, 2025 23 mins

Why stop at 1 goal when you can set more? This episode inspired by Maddy Phillips and the Boston marathon.

We are talking about s-t-r-e-t-c-h goals. Ral says chin ups are her stretch goal, Jac thinks making it to Friday and a glass of wine is not just her weekly goal but a priority!

 

It’s all about mindset. It applies to your personal and professional life. So set yourself an A goal, a B goal and a C goal.

Goal A is the ultimate! Fle...

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May 18, 2025 20 mins

Every single person has potential. Untapped. Ral reckons she’s already exceeded hers, Jac reckons she’s just warming up, so how doyou reach your potential?

 

There are a few things you can do and we cover all of them and how they have applied to us or others we know.

 

The trick is to be optimistic, open minded, to grow your self belief and to define what ‘failure’ really means to you… Because not giving something a go is failur...

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May 11, 2025 19 mins

What does processed cheese and saying sorry have in common? Both can be plastic… yep, not real!

 

Nothing worse than someone who apologises but doesn’t really believe they should or need or want to. We share a few doozies – some most recent. Don’t be them.

 

We also unpack how not to apologise, and if you need to apologise, how to do it with sincerity.

 

…and then there are those who just apologise too much! Why this isn’t a good ...

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Hardest job in the world.

No one prepares you for parenthood, and as two mothers with four kids between us we share some of the horrors we put our kids through… award winning events that will either horrify you or you’ll find hilarious!

 

Foot surgery, nasal surgery, cracked heads, left behind in shopping centers, kinder surprise trauma and much more! Jac and Ral keep it real when it comes to the balls ups they have clocked up as Moth...

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April 27, 2025 48 mins

Cindy Gallop likes to blow shit up. She’s one of the most sassy, outspoken and well known experts in the advertising industry. 

A tireless supporter and fighter for women being promoted and paid as much as men in advertising, a brand and business innovator, consultant and speaker and more recently, founder & CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn - the world's first and only user-generated, human-curated social sex video sharing platform, s...

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In this very special episode Ral interviews Independent member of federal parliament, Dr Monique Ryan - someone who keeps it real every day.

 

Learn what the power of people banding together (but not always agreeing or aligned!) achieves. And when it comes to creating positive outcomes, find out Mon’s secret weapon and what Pressure not Power means.

 

There were no Teals more than 3 years ago and then there were six! They appeared. And...

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April 13, 2025 27 mins

Do you have more triggers than glimmers? Do you take note of when and why? In this episode we unpack these ‘new terms’ that have become a thing thanks to our growing interest in psychology and mental health combined with social media.

 

Jac and Ral talk about self awareness when it comes to triggers and glimmers and how you can use your growing awareness to leverage triggers and glimmers in your workplace – they can help your persona...

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In this episode Ral opens up about a recent health scare that forced her to hit pause and reflect deeply.


She shares the confronting experience of undergoing tests, facing uncertainty, and the critical reminder it gave her, and now us, about the importance of regular health checks. Whether it’s your breasts, skin, bowels, or beyond, this is your wake-up call to stop putting it off.


Jac brings a powerful perspective, remindin...

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March 30, 2025 21 mins

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

And thanks to tech today, you can also listen to a book if you’re not a visual learner, including the 10 very favourite (so far) books we have loved and learned from over the years. Some books are oldies, others are very recent!

 

To find out what titles we recommend (we brought different recommendations) and why, listen in. And here’s where Jac & Ral align and here’s where...

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