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09/09/2026

Your client just spent $50,000 on a sofa. When you suggest allocating the same for art, the conversation stalls.

Kym Elphinstone has spent decades advising collectors, curating exhibitions, and working alongside designers to integrate art into homes from the concept phase. Not after construction. Not as a styling afterthought. From the beginning.

Her perspective shifts how designers approach the conversation: art isn't decoration. It's what makes a space feel alive.

Without it? The room becomes naked. Soulless.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation

04/09/2026

This week’s Finding Sanctuary felt heavier than most, in the best way. Psychologist Mounir Bechara from Guiding Light Psychology and Monsignor Shora sat down to talk about silent depression in men. It does not look like sadness. It looks like anger, addiction, withdrawal. Husbands going short with their wives. Dads checking out. Successful men hitting forty and feeling empty. If you have a man in your life worth checking in on this week, send him this conversation.
Mounir Bechara from
Guiding Light Psychology

Monsignor Shora from
Christ the Redeemer - Maronite Catholic Parish of the Hills

Full episode in comments.

24/08/2026

What do you say to someone who's lost a child?
I heard Kathy and Ross Abraham answer that on She Wasn't Born Yesterday. Not "how are you". Not a tidy cliché. The thing that opens a grieving heart, Kathy said, is simply: tell me about them.
They lost their son Jayden, then built Beautiful Crazy, comfort packs for families in ICU, sparked by one stranger's kindness.
Grief isn't healed, they say. It's carried.
Full episode in the comments. What helped you most when you were grieving?

18/08/2026

What happens when a financial adviser has to take her own advice?

Gemma Mitchell spent 15 years guiding clients through divorce, job loss and retirement. Then life handed her the same plot twist, and she learned that knowing the numbers is not the same as managing the emotion.

Her 12-step Money Reset starts with one honest step: take stock of where you actually are.
Listen to the full conversation on Money, Faith and Finance.

13/08/2026

What does staff welfare look like when the work itself is traumatic?
I heard Det. Supt. Linda Howlett answer this on She Wasn't Born Yesterday. She leads the NSW Child Abuse Squad, 230 detectives across 19 locations, and her model is deliberate: servant leadership, embedded clinicians, wellness rooms, welfare dogs, and a rule that nobody carries it home alone.
Her line that stayed with me: "I work for my staff. They don't work for me."
Listen to the full episode - link in comments

10/08/2026

Are you parenting the way you want your kids to behave?

Registered psychologist Anna Ponnudurai from Succeed Psychology says early experiences literally build neural pathways. Repeated loving connection wires safety and trust into a child's developing brain.

And here's the part most parents overlook. Children don't absorb what you say. They mirror what you do.

What behaviour are you modelling that you'd want them to carry into adulthood?

06/08/2026

The SMSF rules changed. From 10 August there is no borrowing for residential property. Here is why the strategy is not dead, just different.
General advice only. Not personal financial advice. Consider your own circumstances before acting.

03/08/2026

Being married to a medico and us trying to juggle work and personal commitments, such wisdom is invaluable:

The SMSF rules changed on 23 June, and from 10 August you can no longer borrow to buy residential property inside your fund. If that news landed with a thud, it is worth stepping back before reacting. The real question is not what you have lost. It is why you set the fund up in the first place. For most high income professionals, residential borrowing was never the whole strategy. Control was the reason. Tax efficiency was the reason. Making super work harder than a default fund ever could was the reason. None of that has quietly disappeared because one door narrowed. It helps to read the fine print here. The ban applies to residential lending only, which means commercial property inside your fund is completely untouched.

For practice owners, that opens one of the most compelling plays in the whole structure. Your fund can own the premises, your business can pay it rent, and you effectively become your own landlord, with the rent flowing back to your own super rather than to a stranger. There is another angle worth sitting with too. If the borrowing capacity in your own name is already spent across your home and your investments, your super may be the lever you forgot you owned. It has been sitting there the whole time.

Watch the YouTube segment, found in the comments!
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Produced by Derrick Yeoh at SoundMesh.

23/07/2026

What actually helps when someone is overwhelmed by financial stress?

Rosie Kendall, CEO of Hope Economy , has spent 19 years helping Australians move from financial distress to a clear path forward. Her five steps don't start with a budget — they start with a conversation.

Talk to someone. Slow down. Be honest. Create margin. Stay connected.

Simple in principle. Transformational in practice — especially when someone walks alongside you through each one.

Which step would make the biggest difference for you right now? We'd love to hear from you below.

Produced by me, for Hope 103.2

20/07/2026

What happens when you're excellent at your craft but running a business you were never taught to run?
Architect Brooke Aitken ran her studio for over ten years before she realised how much she didn't know about billing. She could pay her staff. She couldn't pay herself.

The shift came through a podcast, a hard conversation with herself, and a decision to treat the business like the design problem it was.
She sat down with Linda Habak on Build Beautiful to talk through all of it.

So honoured to be able to produce this podcast for Build Beautiful.
Episode link in comments

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