Spacious Success

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 best, without sacrificing their wellbeing, relationships, or sanity. Because let’s be honest: the systems we work in weren’t built for women. The digital demands never stop. And burnout isn’t a vibe , it’s a physiological SOS. Each episode explores how we can create sustainable success from the inside out, at work, in leadership, in motherhood, and in our own minds and bodies. Expect practical tools, honest conversations, and brain-based strategies that move beyond hustle culture and toxic productivity. Whether you’re a leader, executive, founder, educator, or changemaker, Spacious Success is here to remind you: ✨ You don’t have to choose between ambition and alignment. ✨ You can be excellent without being always-on. ✨ You can lead and live without losing yourself. We’ll explore topics like: • How to thrive in a digitally-demanding world • The nervous system science behind burnout and performance • Redefining success in leadership, motherhood, and midlife • Navigating the invisible load at home and work • Creating boundaries that actually serve you • Women’s health and hormones in high-pressure roles • Recovery, rest and resilience in real life Plus, you’ll hear from inspiring guests, thought leaders, experts, creatives and high-performing women, who are rewriting the rules and reclaiming what success looks and feels like. 🎧 Hit follow and join the movement toward a more spacious, sustainable, and human way to work and live. Because you weren’t meant to do it all. You were meant to do what matters, with more ease, energy and spaciousness.

Episodes

September 17, 2026 43 mins
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 the Federal Government's media team, built one of Australia's leading boutique PR agencies, and coached founders on how to lead with clarity. Then she became a mother, and for the first time, she could not find the words for what was happening to her own identity. In this ra...
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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. Capable. Composed. Unshakeable. In this episode, Kristy unpacks how much of that story we actually invent from almost nothing, a handshake, good eye contact, the way someone carries a folder, and how often that invented story turns out to be wrong. It is Women’s Health ...
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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 2020, when the speaking industry had just collapsed overnight and Amanda was one of the few people showing up for other speakers instead of disappearing into the panic. That generosity turned into a friendship, and eventually into this conversation. Amanda has delivered 17...
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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 software. Another platform. Another promise that everything is about to get faster. And in the room, almost nobody asked the question that actually determines whether any of it pays off. Dr Kristy Goodwin, neuro-performance scientist and executive coach, has been sitting i...
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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 online business school, back when Lisa was building a company around nap times while quietly supporting a husband whose mental health struggles she did not yet have words for. In this conversation, Lisa and Kristy talk about what Lisa calls the female facade, the performance of c...
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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 this one. No tables. Just the thing that keeps surfacing in the rooms Kristy has been speaking in all year: accomplished women, quietly naming the trade-offs they have made, and exhaling when someone finally says it out loud. Kristy tells the story of the preschool concert she...
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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 utilisation and their sleep score. Very few can tell you the last time they felt genuinely light. Philippa Moig can, because she treats it as a measurement. Chief Executive Officer of UnLtd, the social purpose organisation connecting Australia’s media, marketing ...
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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 menopause. Not the ones managing chronic illness or complex caregiving. The youngest ones. Six in ten women aged 18 to 24 report concerns about their attention span, against two in ten women aged 65 and over. If this were a hormonal story, the numbers would run the other way. Dr ...
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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 for years, and your body finally calls it in on the first night of your holidays. Manelle Merhi knows that moment intimately. General Manager of Marketing and Customer Experience at Kennards Hire, mentor to women in a male-dominated industry, mother of twins, she did all o...
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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 high-performing women hit their late thirties and forties and find that the strategies that carried them for decades suddenly stop working. Estrogen is one of the brain’s most powerful neuromodulators, and when it starts to fluctuate, it destabilises the very dopamine circuit...
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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 Kristy sits down with registered psychologist, bestselling author and international speaker Dr Vanessa Lapointe to unpack the invisible emotional load ambitious women carry as the steady anchor of their families, teams and workplaces. Vanessa shares the single most reframing idea ...
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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 high-achievers keep overworking even when every external reason to slow down has gone. Drawing on new research into what scientists call the “doer identity”, and the striking pattern of eldest daughters in senior leadership, she explains why rest can register as a th...
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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 officer Yasmin London to unpack what is really keeping capable women from stepping forward. Yasmin shares preliminary findings from her First Movers Women's Confidence Study, including the striking gap between how confident women feel in the role they already hold and how rare...
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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 mess perception, kinkeeping and office housework that reveals what I call the Invisible Tax: the cognitive and emotional load women carry at home and at work that is rarely seen, rarely measured and almost never rewarded. I share a study where more than 600 people judged iden...
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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 Embrace Movement and creator of the EMBRACE films, Taryn has spent more than a decade doing the work that most of us were told was impossible. Changing the way women feel about their bodies. In this conversation, Taryn and I explore what actually happened the night she posted tho...
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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. Not seriously. Just enough to stop. Just enough that the world would stop asking things of them without needing an explanation. In this episode, Dr Kristy Goodwin unpacks why this fantasy is more widespread than we admit, what it is actually signalling, and why it is not a re...
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Amelia Phillips is a sports scientist, nutritionist, bestselling author, and co-founder of the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation. For over two decades she has worked with women on the science of energy, recovery and performance, and today she brings her precision lens to the conversation Spacious Success listeners are hungry for. In this episode, Amelia and Dr Kristy Goodwin go deep on what is actually happening inside t...
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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 on a screen. And you wonder: is it just me? It is not. And it is not a willpower problem either. In this episode, I walk through the five neurological mechanisms that make AI genuinely hard to put down: dopamine loops and instant feedback, intermittent variable rewards, your...
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Behind every polished exterior is a story worth telling. Tory Archbold built one of Australia's most successful PR agencies, representing global names including Drew Barrymore, Zara, and Lancôme, while simultaneously fighting a twelve-year battle behind closed doors that nobody in her professional world knew anything about. In this conversation, Dr Kristy Goodwin and Tory Archbold cover the full arc: from Tory's early days launchin...
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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 want to challenge the narrative that high-performing women are losing their ambition. The research tells a different story. Women are not leaning out because they want less. They are leaning out because the current model of success is biologically incompatible with the way wo...
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