Author Archives: J Madsen

All in – in just eight days I leave Australia for the rest of 2024! It’s going to be an amazing adventure jam packed with new people, new learnings, and lots and lots of new experiences. The core of this adventure is the Homeward Bound program Voyage to Antarctica with 98 women from 18 countries.Continue reading “Counting down to Antarctica!”

If you speak confidently enough on any topic, some of your audience will consider you an expert. I once made an instagram story walking along a beach talking about sand dunes.My knowledge on the topic came from a few things I’d heard growing up, a little googling for key terms, and literally just taking timeContinue reading “Jack of all trades, master of none.”

City or country? Which one do you count yourself amongst? I like to think I’m half-half, but I had a sharp reality check tonight in Mudgee when I ran into two people I’d seen around town. The first, who I hadn’t seen since I was last here a month ago, invited me to have aContinue reading “Country social”

So often we find ourselves tempted to get things done while tired. Send that email, drive from A to B, talk to that person.Yet all too often, we don’t get the result we wanted. I find emails I write tired are worse than emails written with alcohol in my system.We all know driving tired isContinue reading “Don’t do things tired”

Do you ever find yourself in a constantly cycle of getting bored?You start a new job, for the first few months you’re focused on what you need to know, who you need to know, where you need to be, when. This time is great – learning every day.Then suddenly, it begins to slow down. I’mContinue reading “Thank you, next”

Stick with me. I know the concept of ‘energy’ (outside the electrical type of energy) can seem a bit woo-woo. If you think too deeply, the electrical energy is a bit beyond belief too – something that we can’t see, calculated with imaginary numbers, yet we see the outcomes and understand a bit about howContinue reading “Comfort through energy”

I noticed this week that I walk into a workshop and feel comfortable, even if it’s one I’ve never been in before. I’m happily able to hold conversations with the people, be aware of my surroundings, and occasionally say something mildly intelligent about the work going on. I observed this week that one of theContinue reading “Comfort in new situations”

Moving back to where I grew up has had its ups and downs. Ups being, of course, being close to so many friends and family that it’s so easy to be with. Having a network I can see in person when I’m feeling lonely. Downs being expectations of me being the same person and notContinue reading “Sometimes we don’t need to be understood, just accepted”

I’ve now jumped up into my first gig as a manager, and honestly, I’m making a lot of mistakes. I realised today that one of these has been reactivity. In the past week I’ve been excessively reactive when under time constraints and passed that down the chain, expecting my people to come up with answersContinue reading “Reflection, introspection”

A while ago, I lost my morning routine. On the farm, there were cows depending on me getting myself out of bed and starting my day running around on a motorbike and divvying out feed. Initially when I left the farm, I was in a good habit of waking up at 5:30/6am. But why? WhatContinue reading “Being kind to yourself”