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by Ange Davies
Welcome to Work and Wellness, the podcast for anyone who wants to feel great and perform at their best, without burning out. I’m Ange Davies, a wellbeing speaker and ex-corporate leader, here to help you create a life that feels as good as it looks. Each week, I’m joined by guests who bring real stories and practical insights on what it means to thrive both at work and beyond. Ready to live well and succeed on your own terms? Hit follow and let’s get into it!
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- Today49 min
EP 93: The Cost of Ambition - What Does a Successful Life Really Look Like? with Kelly Barrett
What does it actually cost to be ambitious and is it worth it?In this episode, I sit down with Kelly Barrett, founder of Underwear for Humanity, to talk about one of the most honest conversations I've had on this show. Kelly grew up in commission housing, moving every six months, hiding from real estate agents. That instability built a tenacity that would take her to the London College of Fashion, through corporate life, two business closures and ultimately to one of Australia's most quietly radical purpose-led brands.This is a conversation about ambition, identity, burnout and what it really means to build a successful life, not by society's definition, but your own. Kelly doesn't have everything figured out. She oscillates between trust and panic, between hustle and rest, between the woman she wants to be and the workaholic she knows she can become. And that honesty is exactly what makes this episode worth listening to.Key TopicsHow growing up with financial instability shaped Kelly's ambition and resilienceWhy closing Silent Arrow, a business deeply tied to her identity, was both heartbreaking and clarifyingThe kookaburra moment in Byron Bay that became the beginning of Underwear for HumanityWhy martyrdom in business is not a virtue and what it actually costs youHow Kelly reckons with being a hard worker when that hard work has come at a personal costAbout KellyKelly Barrett is the founder of Underwear for Humanity, a purpose-led underwear brand embedding social and environmental responsibility into every part of its business model. With over 20 years designing underwear and bras, Kelly co-founded Starcorp in 2009 which became the second largest supplier to one of Australia's largest retailers. She then founded feminist lingerie brand Silent Arrow before launching Underwear for Humanity, where every purchase provides a free pair of underwear to someone in need. A multiple award winner including Banksia and Planet Arc, Kelly is proving that business can be both commercially viable and genuinely good.Connect with KellyWebsite: underwearforhumanity.com.auInstagram: @underwearforhumanityKeywords: ambition, entrepreneurship, burnout, purpose, identity, impact business, sustainability, resilience, women in business, success
- 1 weeks ago49 min
Ep 92: I’ll Be Happy When… Why Success Isn’t Making Us Happier with Declan Edwards
What if happiness isn't something you find — it's something you build?In this episode, I sit down with Declan Edwards, happiness researcher, TEDx speaker, author of How to Be Happy and founder of BU Happiness College, to completely reframe how we think about happiness. Because most of us are chasing it the wrong way, waiting for the right achievement, the right milestone, the right moment, when the research tells us something completely different.Declan has spent over a decade studying the science of happiness and translating it into practical skills anyone can learn. We get into what happiness actually is beyond joy and excitement, why the arrival fallacy is keeping so many high achievers stuck, what the 80-year Harvard study found about what actually makes a good life, and the three free practices that Declan believes would change the world if everyone did them.This one is warm, deeply human and full of things that will shift the way you think about your own life.Key TopicsWhy happiness is not just joy and the slower deeper forms we chronically undervalueThe arrival fallacy — why "I'll be happy when" is keeping so many high achievers stuckWhat the 80-year Harvard study found is the single biggest predictor of a happy lifeThree free practices under five minutes a day that Declan says would change the worldWhy happiness is measurably contagious up to three degrees of separationAbout DeclanDeclan Edwards is a happiness researcher, TEDx speaker, author and founder of BU Happiness College — built on the belief that happiness is a skill anyone can learn. He has spoken at the United Nations and the Red Cross, and his work has been featured in Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today. He is the host of the How to Be Happy podcast and author of the book of the same name.Connect with DeclanSocials: The Happiness GuyBU Happiness CollegePodcast: How to Be Happy at WorkHappiness Scorecard and Burnout Scorecard
- 2 weeks ago26 min
EP 91: Why Your Brain Is So Tired (And Your Phone Might Be the Reason)
When did you last let your brain be bored?In this episode, I get into something that I think is one of the most underrated reasons why so many of us feel mentally exhausted — and it has nothing to do with how hard we're working. It's how constantly connected we are.We have eliminated boredom from our lives almost entirely. We scroll while we wait, listen while we walk, check emails while we eat and reach for our phones before we've even gotten out of bed. And our brains are paying the price.This episode is packed with research on what constant connectivity is actually doing to our attention, our sleep, our mental health and our performance and five practical experiments you can run this week to give your brain the space it's desperately craving.Key TopicsWhy our brains are exhausted and why constant connectivity is the culpritThe myth of multitasking — what your brain is actually doing and why it costs youWhy even notifications you don't answer are draining your cognitive capacityThe brain drain effect — why your phone doesn't need to be in your hand to be distractingWorkplace telepressure — the invisible pressure to always be reachable and what it costsWhat a 2025 study found when people blocked mobile internet for two weeksFive practical experiments to become more intentional about your technology useKeywordsphone addiction, focus, attention, burnout, mental health, productivity, sleep, social media, wellbeing, digital boundaries
- 3 weeks ago30 min
EP 90: Stop Managing Your Time. Start Managing Your Energy with Dr Amantha Imber
What if getting more done isn’t about finding more hours in the day?In this episode, I sit down with Dr Amantha Imber — organisational psychologist, bestselling author and founder of Inventium — to talk about her latest book, The Energy Game, and why managing our energy could be far more important than managing our time.Amantha burnt out in 2024 despite being one of Australia’s leading experts on productivity. That experience led her to rethink the way we approach productivity and ultimately became the basis for her most personal book yet — a science-backed look at how to boost, rest and protect your energy so you can perform at your best without running yourself into the ground.We also talk about AI, why it isn’t delivering the productivity gains many organisations expected, what we risk when we outsource too much of our thinking, and the one experiment Amantha challenges every listener to try this week.Key TopicsWhy time management alone won’t save you from burnout — and what to focus on insteadThe three categories of energy strategies: boost, rest and protect, and when to use eachWhy most of us are doing “fake rest” and what real rest actually looks likeThe minimum viable dose of cold water immersion and why you don’t need an ice bathHow AI could be making us cognitively lazy and what we risk losing if we outsource our thinkingWhy AI isn’t delivering the productivity gains many organisations expectedThe silent walk — one of Amantha’s favourite strategies and why it worksAbout AmanthaDr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist, bestselling author and founder of the award-winning behaviour change consultancy Inventium. In 2021, she became the first Australian to win the prestigious Thinkers50 Innovation Award, described by the Financial Times as the “Oscars of Management Thinking”. In 2025, she was named AI Consultant of the Year at the Australian AI Awards.She is the host of the number-one-ranking business podcast How I Work, with more than six million downloads, and her work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes and Fast Company. Her latest book, The Energy Game, explores the science of how to better protect, restore and use your energy.Connect with AmanthaBook: The Energy GameSubstack: One Percent BetterHow I Work podcast
- 4 weeks ago27 min
EP 89: How to Work With Difficult People (Without Losing Your Mind)
We all have them. The colleague who drives you absolutely crazy. The leader who says something that leaves you speechless. The person you genuinely cannot figure out.In this episode, I get into one of the most requested topics I've had — how to work with difficult people without losing your mind or your professionalism. Because not everyone who feels difficult actually is difficult. Sometimes it's a personality clash, sometimes it's a values difference, and sometimes yes — it really is just them.I break down the three categories every difficult situation falls into, why understanding someone's motivation changes everything, and the exact phrases I use when someone says something completely out of line. This one is practical, honest and full of things you can use immediately.Key TopicsThe difference between a personality clash, workplace friction and genuinely dysfunctional behaviour and why each one needs a different responseWhy understanding what motivates someone changes how you work with them completelyThe question every team should ask before starting a project together and almost never doesWhat to say in the moment when someone says something wildly out of lineWhen to document behaviour, when to escalate it and when to make a decision about your environmentHow to have the awkward but necessary conversation about working better togetherComing back to self awareness before deciding someone else is the problemKeywords: Difficult people, workplace conflict, communication, leadership, boundaries, self awareness, team culture, performance, mental health, wellbeing
- Aug 17, 202629 min
EP 88: What No One Tells You About Being a Leader, Lessons I've Learnt
Nobody teaches you how to be a great leader. You just get promoted and figure it out.In this episode, I open up the Instagram question box and answer your leadership questions completely off the cuff, no textbooks, no frameworks, just the real lessons from my own experience leading teams through COVID, the Northern Rivers floods, and everything in between.We cover the questions people are actually asking but rarely get honest answers to — is leadership really worth the promotion, how do you stop taking things personally, how do you lead when you don't have the answers, and what is the one leadership skill nobody talks about enough. This one is practical, personal and full of the kind of advice I wish someone had given me when I first stepped into a leadership role.Key TopicsIs leadership really worth the promotion and what you need to honestly ask yourself before saying yesThe future of leadership in an AI-driven world and the human skills that will matter mostHow to stop taking things personally as a leader without stopping caringHow to lead through uncertainty when you don't have the answers eitherHow to support your team without absorbing all of their problemsThe SBI framework for hard conversations and why clear is kindThe two most underrated leadership skills: repair and pauseThe best leadership advice Angela has ever receivedKeyword: Leadership, management, high performance, communication, burnout, feedback, hard conversations, self-awareness, team culture, future of work
- Aug 10, 202621 min
EP87 Grief Doesn't Have a Timeline: What Loss Really Teaches Us
This one is personal. It has just ticked over a year since my dad, Phil — big Phil — suddenly passed away. And over that time, through my own experience and in talking to so many people who have been through grief and loss, I've come to realise that there are some things nobody really talks about openly enough.In this episode, I share my unfiltered thoughts from the last year — the things that helped, the things that hurt, and the unexpected gifts that grief brought with it. Because grief is not just something you get through. It changes you. It shifts your perspective in ways that are impossible to fully explain until you've felt it yourself.This episode is for anyone who is grieving right now, and for anyone who loves someone who is, because at some point, we will all need to know how to sit beside someone in the mud.Key TopicsHow grief changes you as a person in ways that are permanent and profoundWhy acknowledgement is the most powerful thing you can offer someone who is grievingThe heartwarming and heartbreaking reality of how people show up — and don'tWhy grief is not linear and why the world moving on doesn't mean you have toThe unexpected gifts grief brings — clarity, perspective and freedom from other people's opinionsWhy going back to work too early is something Angela wishes she hadn't doneThe stone in your pocket — Angela's analogy for what grief really feels like over timeConnect with Angela Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mind.your.grit/ Website: https://www.mindyourgrit.com/Keywords: grief, loss, wellbeing, mental health, perspective, resilience, support, death, healing, mindfulness
- Aug 3, 20261h 3m
EP 86: Everything We've Been Told About Resilience Is Wrong with Jay Abbasi
What if everything you've been taught about resilience is actually making you less of it?In this episode I sit down with Jay Abbasi — global keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, former Tesla leader and host of the Unstuck podcast — to completely reframe how we think about pressure, resilience and what it actually means to thrive. Because the version of resilience most of us have been sold about keep going, push through, don't show weakness, is not resilience at all.Jay brings a rare combination of high-pressure corporate experience and deep expertise in mindfulness and neuroscience, and he is one of the most genuinely thoughtful guests we have had on this show. We get into his formula for real resilience, why people pleasing is actually a selfish act, the difference between being a superhero and a captain of the ship, and the story of what happened when his long-awaited TEDx talk couldn't be published and how he responded. This one is rich, practical and full of reframes that will stay with you.Key TopicsWhy the traditional definition of resilience is nonsense and what it actually requiresJay's formula: energy plus space plus choice equals resilienceThe difference between being a superhero leader and being the captain of the shipWhy people pleasing is not selfless — it is self-servingThe Victor Frankl quote that changed how Jay thinks about pressure and presenceWhy curiosity and effective communication will be the most critical leadership skills in the AI eraWhat Jay's TEDx talk story taught him about bouncing back from unexpected adversityWhy trusting your intuition requires stillness and how to cultivate itAbout JayJay Abbasi is a global keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, coach and host of the top-rated podcast Unstuck with Jay Abbasi. A former Tesla leader who built and led national training programs for over a thousand employees, Jay has since coached leaders at Google, Amazon, TikTok and Wells Fargo. Blending corporate experience with deep expertise in mindfulness, resilience and wellbeing, Jay's message is that success isn't about avoiding challenges — it's about mastering them with clarity, energy and purpose. He has been featured in Forbes, Authority Magazine and Medium, and is based in New Jersey.Connect with JayLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayabbasi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayabbasi_ Website: https://jayabbasi.me/ Podcast: Unstuck with Jay Abbasi — available on YouTube and all podcast platformsKeywordsresilience, leadership, high performance, burnout, pressure, mindfulness, self-awareness, curiosity, communication, intuition
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Welcome to Work and Wellness, the podcast for anyone who wants to feel great and perform at their best, without burning out. I’m Ange Davies, a wellbeing speaker and ex-corporate leader, here to help you create a life that feels as good as it looks. Each week, I’m joined by guests who bring real stories and practical insights on what it means to thrive both at work and beyond. Ready to live well and succeed on your own terms? Hit follow and let’s get into it!
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