When I decided to forget about dieting and focus on living, it changed more than my weight, it changed my life.

I'd grown up around trucks and when I was a little girl I went to work with my dad a lot and naturally I wanted to be a truck driver just like him. My father had a long history of driving international trucks in the 50’s and 60’s and in the 70’s he worked in Gove and Weipa, back before there was “fly in/fly out”, which meant we didn’t see him for a long time.

In 2012, I finally got my opportunity to make that little girl's dream a reality when I got on a project in Weipa operating a 60 Tonne rigid (which I learnt to operate on the job).

I worked on 2 more projects after Weipa; McArthur River and Maules Creek. There was a lot to love about this work, and one of them was living in a camp. Whilst most complained that they put on lots of weight as the food was all supplied, I always lost weight. I was just so happy living life that I was no...

Happiness actually isn’t very highly rated; it is highly coveted, but not highly rated in regards to the value it can add to your life.

Yet the ROI on happiness is massive!

It:
Lowers your risk for cardiovascular disease
Lowers your blood pressure
Enables better sleep
Improves your diet
Boosts digestion
Reduces stress and anxiety.
Boosts your immune system
Reduces inflammation in the body
Reduces auto immune problems
Improves blood flow through your body by releasing tension from your body
Releasing tension from the body reduces migraines, headaches and aches and pains
Improves brain function (all the increased blood flow clears thinking)
Increases mental health
Increases emotional health

All of which helps you to maintain a healthy body weight because when you feel good you make better food choices, you want to exercise more, drink less alcohol and generally you have all round better health habits because happy people make happy healthy choices.

Imagine what you could do if...

What do you do when you get a phone call in the middle of the afternoon to tell you your daughter has been involved in a hit and run and is in intensive care and she lives 2 states away from where you are?

Debbie Barker shares how she got through that very challenging time and how she applied her skills as a Reiki master to help her daughter and her family.

In this heart-warming interview Debbie (who was a PT and Pilates coach for nearly 30 years) and I share some great weight loss tips and do a deep dive into energy work.

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The other day I popped a post in about what’s gone on in the background to get up my business up and running. The post was about how I needed to learn everything from scratch, basically I put myself through what I laughingly call “Katie University” as I’ve tried to work it all out and put the pieces of the business puzzle together.

And you know what, as I look at that post, I can see that’s exactly how dedicated I was for the 25 years preceding it when I was putting myself through another version of “Katie University” when I was trying to work out how to lose weight and stop relapsing and putting it back on. I wish I’d logged the hours I’d spent reading and listening to audiobooks, CDs, going to workshops, seminars, and taking courses. Not to mention my fetish for constant note-taking and writing down ideas and insights which filled many journals over the years as I tried to piece together the puzzle that is human behaviour....

I had a very lively and funny interview with Annette, who launched her book recently: How To Eat A Shit Sandwich and Keep Smiling, the story of her life up until she was 25 years old. I think the title says it all about Annette’s sense of humour and how she deals with life.

She talks with great bluntness and honesty about her career in journalism, a failed business venture with a family member, weight loss surgery, and watching her mum give up the fight as cancer took her away along with a hilarious recounting of bungy jumping in a bikini when she was in her 20’s and how most of life’s problems can be solved through the wisdom found on Grey’s Anatomy.

Annette learned early in life through a forward-thinking teacher, that her happiness is dependent on her and no one else, so whilst most people are waiting for “the other shoe to drop” in life, Annette thinks that when it does, it’s going to be a big sparkly stiletto that’s going to take...

I became a Dietless Living expert after being stuck in dieting hell for 25 years.

It didn’t matter what I did, nothing ever addressed or resolved the underlying issue behind my weight problem.

I’d reached a few crisis points over my life and each time I cleaned up my life and went to the next level in health and wellness.

Over 25 years I tried every diet, exercise program, alternative wellness programs, talking therapies and a full range of body and healing workers, and moved my life to all things organic, took every pill, powder and potion, but none of it gave me control of the driving force inside me.

In that time I also became a Master of NLP & Neuro Re-Patterning, Kinesiology, became professionally trained in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Results Coaching & Subconscious Reprograming, Suicide Intervention Skills, Pyschosomatic Therapies and studied to be a Naturopath because I wanted to know what drives our thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

Learning about human...

You think you know someone after meeting them through networking and having conversations, but it’s not until we ask real questions do we get real answers. Everyone has deep stories that are their life. Kelly Asmus Albornoz shares with us today some very personal hardships she’s been through in her life and how she has overcome having a pedophile for a father and an abusive relationship in her teens to meeting the love of her life in Antarctica, the man she still calls her Latin lover as husband sounds so boring to how they have both had to overcome the loss of their first baby.

But Kelly has done the work and gotten past the traumas of her life and with her love of photography and passion for science, goes on adventures with her husband and kids in their caravan, exploring natures beauty.

And if you’re someone who wants to quit smoking, Kelly is also known as the Quit Lady and has a 95% success rate helping people quit smoking in 60 minutes.

I hope you enjoy...

I met a person recently who asked what I do for a living. When I told them I’m a weight loss coach and that I help my clients overcome weight loss obstacles, they said “Oh, you’re a coach, that’s really the trend now isn’t it, being a life coach of sorts.”

It wasn’t until later that I realised why that would be the perception of some, that there’s a trend, a band wagon that people jump onto, it happens every day doesn’t it?

And I realised that it was fair for them to make that comment as they don’t know what’s gone on behind the scenes for me to actually be a weight loss coach.

They wouldn’t know that the idea germinated back in 2012 after I lost 25kgs in 2011 using a program I developed and that at that time the only thing I knew how to do was to coach, train and mentor.

I’d never owned a business, I knew zero about sales, marketing, social media, building websites, writing blogs, networking and all the...

Talking with Andy Steer is like chatting with an old friend, he is quite, relaxed, and has a unique view of life that’s shaped everything he does.

And the interesting thing about Andy is he doesn’t need to see the whole plan to be able to move forward and this has allowed him to step into some interesting changes in his life. Andy doesn’t really see anything as a hardship, not even the breakdown of relationships; everything is seen as a positive move forward into a new future.

He shares easily his stories about how he helps small businesses and the trail of breadcrumbs that lead him to start his own small business.

I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed chatting with Andy.

I recently had the pleasure of being invited to Sally Estlin's Magic Mic Moments and sharing about the great obstacles that we face in our weight loss journeys and indeed in all areas of life.

Sally and I both have the same desire to ensure our older generations have not only a greater quality of life but receive the respect they're due as they move into aged care facilities. We also both share the same view points and desires to ensure that home carers, whether they're looking after their parents or a family member or loved one, are equally remembered and supported as it's these unsung home heroes that are being quietly forgotten and yet they experience some of the biggest obstacles that life can throw our way that impact every area of their life: mentally, emotionally, physically, financially and socially.

I hope you enjoy the interview.

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