Oct. 23, 2025

🌴297. 3 Ideas About Growth, Perspective, and Getting Out of Your Own Way

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Show Notes

Hey, it’s Leanne — and this week, three ideas have been looping in my brain. They’ve all got a theme of growth, but not in the hustle-bro, “reinvent yourself completely” kind of way. More like—snap yourself out of autopilot, change your key, and stop overcomplicating life.

Here’s what I riff on in this episode:

🎵 1. The Soundtrack of Doing Life Differently

Sometimes, joy hides in the small key changes — like swapping a planned hike for an accidental half marathon under Brisbane’s blooming jacarandas. I talk about why Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer” made me emotional mid-run, how a key change snaps us out of sameness, and how we can apply that concept to our own lives this week.

Try this:

Work from a totally different spot.
Call instead of text.
Change your walking route.
Dance at 3PM like no one’s watching.

Because you can’t stay in the same key forever.

🇺🇸 2. When Two Aussies Walk Into the White House

It sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s actually about perspective. Watching our Prime Minister and Kevin Rudd get roasted by POTUS this week reminded me—no matter how bad my workday gets, it’s probably not that bad.

I unpack why we take ourselves too seriously, how to zoom out, and how laughter might just be the secret to better performance.

🏃‍♀️ 3. The Million and One Reasons Trap

Confession: I’m already planning the 2026 New York Marathon… before I’ve even left for Nepal.

But here’s the trap—we can always find 1,000,001 reasons not to do the thing. Budget. Timing. Weather. “American coffee.”

There will always be obstacles. The question is whether the thing you want is worth navigating them for.

💭 Reflection questions:

What small key change could snap you out of your current pattern?
What would you tackle differently today if you remembered—it’s probably not as serious as it feels?
What are you waiting to do until the million and one reasons magically disappear?

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