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Decisions That Count21. The Cost of Not Making a Decision: With Behavioural Scientist Penny LocasoIs Your Silence Sabotaging Your Success? - Penny Locaso on Fear, Leadership & Decision FatigueAre you holding back from making a decision that could change everything?In this powerful episode of Decisions That Count, neuroscientist Dr. Shawn Watson and co-host Michelle O’Brien sit down with behavioral scientist, leadership coach, and founder of HackingHappy.co, Penny Locaso, to explore the hidden cost of inaction—especially for ambitious women navigating fear, self-doubt, and societal expectations.We unpack the science behind decision fatigue, the authority gap, and why so many high-achieving women struggle to label them...
2025-07-0457 min
Power Of Women podcastEp.39 Penny Locaso | Are You An Expert?Are you or do you identify as an expert?In her recent research, Penny Locaso was curious about women, who were clearly experts in their field, struggling to identify as such. So, as a Behavioural Scientist, Penny went to the evidence to understand; What is it that makes someone an expert, and why are so few women prepared to identify as one?What she found, was this misnomer in society – that experts were born. How can that be? Expertise is not something we are born with. This was the basis for Penny’s recently rele...
2024-12-1531 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoNeuroscience, sleep and why transformation takes timeMy brain is bending in ways I never imagined.
I’m currently buried in Neuroscience.
It’s blowing my mind around what I’m learning about the biology of the brain and how it is impacted by our behaviour and our environment.
Connecting dots as I do I partner this feeling with something else that I keep hearing from my early-stage coaching clients.
It’s but a simple question. Why aren't things happening fast enough?
I get it when I first started this journey, I’d try something new, put something new o...
2022-10-1714 minHacking Happy with Penny LocasoToxic productivity versus healthy high performanceWe are experiencing a human energy crisis.
Can you feel it?
We have to ask ourselves how did we arrive here? Arrive in a place where productivity has become our disease at the expense of healthy and happy high performance.
How is it that we now use the label quiet quitting for people who do the job they are paid to do without sacrificing their lives and their health for it?
In this week’s podcast, I want to start a conversation about how toxic productivity is driving a human energy crisis and how...
2022-09-3015 minHacking Happy with Penny LocasoConfessions of a validation junkieImagine you're a highly successful executive in investment banking managing a global team but secretly, you're unfulfilled, sleepless, and laid low by migraines.
Held back by expectations... mostly your own you find yourself frightened to leave. Instead you settle for a sabbatical to create the space which is where your journey into what's next begins. Excited by what's possible, you soon come to the confronting realisation that your biggest barrier to change is your need for the validation of others.
Meet Jo Bowles, a woman in transition and one of my beloved coaching clients.
2022-09-1828 minHacking Happy with Penny LocasoI Almost QuitI’ve just had the biggest month I’ve ever had in my business by more than double. I smashed my monthly target that I set as a goal at the start of the year completely out of the park.
I never considered that I, with just an assistant who works a day a week for me and a social media support person, could achieve such a result and yet here we are. It feels overwhelmingly abundant but it also feels like a moment of truth.
This podcast is about stripping back the layers in a wor...
2022-09-0517 minHacking Happy with Penny LocasoDance like no ones watchingIn this podcast episode, I thought I might take a little time to share what I’ve been up to over the past couple of weeks and share a perspective on a concept I call the space for self-disruption. A concept that has changed my life and continues to inject joy, presence, connection and unbelievable opportunities into my life.
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2022-08-1615 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoTime FreedomHas productivity become your prison?
The prison of productivity means calm feels elusive, and presence with loved ones feels like a struggle.
We've literally wired our neural pathways to believe that being still and present is unproductive because all actions should result in a task ticked off a to-do list. Being a human being is no longer valued, and yet it's where time freedom lives.
That's why in this week's podcast, I want us to have a conversation about Time Freedom, what is it, why it matters and where you can start to create more of it!
This podcast is...
2022-07-2124 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoFinding CALM Amidst The ChaosFinding calm is a practice. Consistent cries for CALM from working mums around the world have flooded my inbox and my ears since I shared my White Paper on the impacts of COVID-19 on working mums. That's why this week I want to share with you why I created my new group coaching program The Calm Collective and how you can start to cultivate a practice of CALM in what feels like a chaotic world.Subscribe & Review The Hacking Happy PodcastThanks for listening to this week's episode! If this podcast helped you in your journey...
2022-05-2217 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHow To Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First Without Feeling GuiltyAre you burnt out?
In last week's podcast I spoke about the trends I am seeing in my Psychology research around burnout in working women and specifically how it's impacting working mums.
In this week's episode, we continue this conversation but shift focus toward what the psychology says about why you feel so exhausted, why it needs your urgent attention and what you can do to start putting your own oxygen mask on first and without guilt.
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2022-05-0220 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhy We Need To Support Working Mums In Putting Their Own Oxygen Masks On FirstWorking mums are burnt out.
I'm pissed off.
I'm frustrated.
I'm sad.
And I'm not going to be silent any longer.
What I am seeing in my work with professional working mums is disturbing and something has to be done.
I have spent the last eight weeks interviewing dozens of women who have reached out to me off the back of social posts I have shared around an alarming trend in working women around pervasive burnout.
There have been so many tears, so many cries for help, stories of needing to see a Psychologist and having to wait 5 months, significant...
2022-04-1526 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoStories Of Transformation | Part 2Real stories from real people. In part 2 of our series on stories of transformation, we connect with a beautiful soul who was a successful Joint Venture Manager in a global giant and walked away from it all so as to raise his son.
Aden Murphy is a unique human and dear friend with a compelling story of transformation and self-discovery.
This week's podcast is for anyone who finds themselves stuck in the void between intention and action and unable to find the right path to progress their dreams.
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2022-04-0837 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoStories Of Transformation | Part 1Real stories from real people. What comes to your mind when you think of the word transformation?
For me, it's a visual of a little caterpillar one day deciding its time, so she spins her little cocoon to encase herself and soon after reappears as a beautiful butterfly. Transformed into the next iteration of who she wants to be, it's intentional and it's beautiful.
Whilst I love this visual I know all too well the truth of transformation. It's messy, it's uncertain, uncomfortable, it requires failure, experimentation, persistence and resilience. This is why so many of us spend our lives...
2022-04-0348 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThe Secret To Realising PossibilityMake progress towards possible. I've been spending a lot of time reflecting of late on what in my transformation journey has been most impactful in propelling me forward. Moving me closer to what I term a growth lifestyle. A lifestyle that is in alignment with how I want to show up and enjoy this wild and wonderful experience that is life.
It's that reflection that was the catalyst for this podcast which I have to say surprised and delighted me in terms of how it unfolded.
I never appreciated how critical such a simple step as investing in the right...
2022-03-2015 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhen it's time to get out of your own wayUsing science to elevate confidence. Back early on in my career at the ripe old age of 20, I got my first job in a corporate environment working for a woman who I looked up to as a role model. She seemed kind and helpful through the interview process, but not long after I started, I felt like every task I undertook was under a criticism microscope. The longer this went on, the more I tried harder to please her, the less happy she became and the more my confidence eroded.
I was astounded at how my environment had a significant...
2022-03-1116 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoFrom Sluggish To FlourishDefine flourishing on your terms. It took me 40 years to define and start living flourishing on my terms. How long will it take you?
Today I want to gift you the clarity of what flourishing looks like on your terms so that you can realise the benefits of injecting more of it into each day.
Enjoy!
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2022-02-2517 min
Hacking Happy with Penny Locaso3 Ways to Find the Time to Transform NOW!Find the Time to Transform. Do you ever hear yourself say:
"If I had more time I'd change"
"There's just not enough time for me to make the change"
"I wish I had more hours in the day then, I'd change"
One of the most consistent barriers my clients share to transforming into the life they long for, is time...
This is why in today's podcast I want to provide you with 3 ways to find the time to start your transformation, whatever that is, NOW!
Experiment with them and shoot me an email at hello@hackinghappy.co and tell me...
2022-02-1017 min
Hacking Happy with Penny Locaso2022 Start HereThis year will be different. There's something about a new year that gives us that mojo to want to shift gears into freedom mode.
Do you find yourself saying things like...
"This year's going to be different"
Or
"Fuck it, I'm not going to do life this way anymore"
... then this episode is for you.
I'm not going to go through grand plans for 2022, goal setting, or big lofty visions. Instead, I'm going to help you start simply because just the idea of change for many of us is overwhelming enough to hold us back.
My intention is to help...
2022-01-3013 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThe Lessons of 2021An opportunity to reflect. It's almost the end of the year, and whilst many people race around I always find myself pressing pause at this time.
Creating the space to reflect on the year that was, and the lessons it has to offer.
So, whilst I've been playing in this space I thought I would share with you in this week's podcast a beautiful reflection tool in the hope that it might inspire you to reflect on your 2021 and consider how you might intentionally adapt your plans as you move into 2022.
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2021-12-1523 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWord WellbeingSidelining should. You should, I should, we should.
What does this word should mean to you?
How does it make you feel?
I've been noticing it in my vocab a lot lately, moving through my day thinking I should do this, I should do that.
It has me thinking about how this word makes me feel... which is often shitty, depleted, and like I'm not doing enough, not being enough.
So, I thought in this week's podcast we might deep dive into a little word wellbeing. I want to explore how the language you use impacts your ability to make...
2021-12-0816 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoInvest In Your ZenFind your zen. We are in the lead-up to Christmas. We're out of lockdown and it feels a bit like turning 18 years old or 21 in the US and being able to get out and party legally.
We feel like we can make plans again without them being pulled out from under us at the last minute, and on the work front, there is always a race to get things done before the Christmas deadline. Which turns on the busy buttons and pushes us toward burnout.
It's for all of these reasons that I want to explore in this week's podcast...
2021-11-3015 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThankfulGratitude for wellbeing. It's Thanksgiving this week in the USA and Canada. This beautiful day is a celebration of the harvest and other blessings of the past year.
Just thinking about it makes my heart light up.
Because my daily gratitude practice is one of the things that helped me mentally get through 6 lockdowns.
It's why in this week's podcast I want to focus on being thankful through the practice of gratitude. I want to share with you the scientifically proven benefits of gratitude and a couple of simple ways to experiment with a gratitude practice to find what works...
2021-11-2408 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoIntentionally Adapt Or Be AdaptedThe science of IAQ. In case you missed it in last week's episode, I shared how my intentional adaptability tool has now been scientifically validated as a psychological psychometric that can predict and elevate change readiness and life satisfaction.
In this week's episode, I want to share with you as an individual and equally as a leader, if that's a role you play, the key findings of the research that was undertaken to scientifically validate IAQ.
Why?
Because I want to gift you a feel for why building this critical skill is foundational to thriving or as we call it...
2021-11-1719 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoExperimenting Your Way To FlourishingIntentional Adaptability as a science. This past week I have realised a major milestone in my business and equally in my life. I've achieved something that I never dreamt of, and it's come off the back of experimentation and intentionally adapting. Off the back of being true to who I am and practicing what I preach and teach.
Allow me the indulgence of sharing in the hope that it might inspire you to experiment your way to flourishing.
You are capable of so much more than you realise, and the courage to experiment is foundational to unlocking your potential and...
2021-11-1015 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoMums In Lockdown - Part Four | with Laetitia AndracThe soulful business doula. The Mums In Lockdown series continues this week as we explore firsthand the challenges of navigating a disrupted life with Laetitia Andrac. She calls herself a Soulful business Doula and has a gift in providing a sacred space for women willing to create soul-aligned businesses, careers, and lives. She's also the Mumma of two little girls and a new puppy who quit her executive position to start a soul-led business at the start of the pandemic.
Together we explore how COVID life can provide a lesson in self-trust, how using a wave can help us process...
2021-11-0347 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoMums In Lockdown - Part Three | with Ali SmithHR professional, mother of four. Welcome to part three of our special series Mums In Lockdown. This is where working Mums in lockdown share firsthand their challenges, how they are navigating life, and any hacks they have discovered that enable them to inject more of what matters into each day.
This week we speak to Ali Smith, a Human Resources professional, student of psychology, and mother of four. Ali is also an experimenter who is forever curious and looking for ways to enable herself and her family to thrive.
Together we explore the idea of ruthless prioritisation as a family...
2021-10-2535 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoMums In Lockdown - Part Two | with Lisa StephensonA mother and C-Suite Coach. Welcome to part two of our special series, Mums In Lockdown. This is where working Mums in lockdown share firsthand their challenges, how they are navigating life, and any hacks they have discovered that enable them to inject more of what matters into each day.
This week, we speak to Lisa Stephenson a high-impact leadership coach who works behind the scenes with C-Suite executives and high profile individuals... she's also a single mum of three.
Strap yourselves in this is a must-listen.
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2021-10-1930 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoMums In Lockdown - Part One | with Patty Di ParsiaOff the back of the literature review I recently undertook for my psychology studies on how COVID-19 restrictions have accelerated mental health and wellbeing issues in women, I decided to create an interview series with Mums in lockdown. I wanted to share firsthand their challenges, how they are navigating life, and any hacks they have discovered that enables them to inject more of what matters into each day.
Today we kick off with Patty Di Parisa a Clinical Psychologist who has over 20 year's experience in the treatment of anxiety, panic, stress, trauma, grief, and depression, in older adolescents (>16 years) and...
2021-10-1346 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHow COVID-19 restrictions are accelerating mental health and wellbeing issues in Australian womenWomen struggle to keep up. Over the past 18 months, I have watched a shift, a visible shift in mental health, in wellbeing, and a particular shift in women. I've felt the shift in myself.
I couldn't ignore what I was seeing. It's the reason I have gone back to university to study psychology and why I chose to do my first assignment on how social isolation, the increased workload in the home, and escalating uncertainty driven by COVID-19 restrictions are accelerating the level of mental health and wellbeing issues in Australian women.
In this episode of the Hacking Happy podcast...
2021-10-0415 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoAbundance MindsetLessons at 46. This week I turned 46, clocked over 235 days in lockdown and counting, watched Melbourne tradies in their thousands protest against the right for freedom of choice, and experienced the biggest Melbourne earthquake in 50 years... all the while feeling truly abundant.
In this episode of the Hacking Happy podcast, I want to share with you the lessons I have learnt in my 46 years that help me to cultivate an abundance mindset and extend to you a special invitation to join me in amplifying your abundance for free.
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2021-09-2717 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoI wish I had time to thinkThinkology is your advantage. If I asked you "What would be most helpful to you right now in making the change you seek?" what would your response be?
One of the number one responses to this question, when it's posed at the end of the Hacking Happiness Assessment, is "the time to think, the time to reflect."
Creating the space to be alone with one's thoughts in a way that is constructive rather than destructive in the current environment provides the basis for us to step forward with intention and greater clarity.
That's why in this week's podcast I'm sharing...
2021-09-2120 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHow To Say NODeliver a NO with confidence. When was the last time you said "yes" to something you didn't want to do? For many people, I meet this is a daily practice that affects our productivity, our impact, our happiness, and our wellbeing.
In this week's episode of the Hacking Happy podcast, I'm going to share with you 5 simple steps to help you start practicing your NO with intention and impact.
Why? Because every unconscious "yes" you give to someone else could very well be a "NO" to creating the space for what matters to you.
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2021-09-1315 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhy I delivered a keynote in my bathing suitWhat scares you shapes you. What would be possible if you could unlock your most courageous self? How would that make you feel?
This is the exact question I asked myself at the beginning of my hacking happiness journey and it provided the catalyst for cultivating a courage practice that transformed my life, and now enables me to support others in doing the same.
In this week's podcast, I share the story behind why I delivered a keynote in my bathing suit in the hope that it might inspire you to look at fear through a different lens and demonstrate...
2021-09-0421 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoIt's Time To Make Fear Your FriendBehind every fear lies growth. When I say the word 'fear', what comes into your head?
It's the one thing that feels pervasive at the moment here in Melbourne and I suspect in many other places experiencing long-term lockdowns.
In this week's podcast, I want to challenge you to imagine what it would look like for you to make fear your friend?
The reality is, fear provides us with the opportunity to look at the world through a different lens.
To ask the question "what would happen if I used this fear as an accelerator rather than a hand brake?"
...
2021-08-1920 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoLockdown LessonsAdaptability is your friend. Another week, another lockdown.
Here in Melbourne, we are at No 6. I'm starting to feel like a bit of a lockdown expert, whilst wishing I wasn't.
For me, it feels like so much can shift from one day to the next. Amazing opportunities get turned on, and shortly after, turned off. It's a little like a roller coaster ride that you can't take a break from.
So, to help you smooth out the ups and downs, just a little in this week's podcast, I'm sharing the lessons I've learnt that are helping me navigate uncertainty from...
2021-08-1627 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWe Don't Have To Be Alone TogetherThe Lonely Century Is Alive... I'm lonely.
5 Lockdowns and cutting off a massive human connection energy source will do that to you.
I'm not alone in the traditional sense of the word, I'm surrounded by people who love me, be it most of the time virtually.
But I feel lonely and I know I'm not the only one feeling this way.
In this podcast, I wanted to talk honestly about loneliness and explore how it impacts us and a couple of simple ways to try and shift it when it presents.
I'm drawing heavily on the work of Noreena Hertz...
2021-08-0816 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThe Hell Yes ListWhat have you said Hell Yes to in the last 12 months?
What does this list tell you?
Ever wondered what would happen if you used the insights from these two questions to create a Hell Yes list and used it to evaluate opportunities?
This is exactly where we are going this week. Why? Because it's helped me navigate uncertainty, enabled me to keep myself in alignment daily, and injected more of what makes me feel good into each day...
...and I'm confident it can do the same for you.
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2021-07-2919 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhat would you call your next chapter?Processing feelings is powerful. I don't know about you but this time, since nature decided to send us a clear message, feels blurred around the edges, it's this weird combination of fast and slow, loss and awakening, grief and joy all mixed into a melting pot with the dial turned up to high.
In this week's podcast we explore feelings:
•what they tell us about us
•why processing them is fundamental to our ability to navigate the uncertainty
•where to start in a fun and creative way
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2021-07-2511 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoLearning To Love A NOUnlock possibility through rejection: How often do you let fear of rejection of the answer being NO, stop you from asking for what you want?
What if rejection actually held the key to possibility?
Have you ever considered that you can't get a YESs unless you get NOs? That unlocking the door to what you want, to opportunity, is a numbers game. Unless we learn to love a NO and embrace rejection as a positive thing, we are leaving our hopes and dreams unlived and our skill in resilience underdeveloped.
In this week's podcast, I want to explore with you...
2021-07-1719 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoStorytelling Your Way To HappyStories connect us. "Where passion meets pain, we find purpose." Danielle McApline Johnson lives and breaths this mantra through her inspiring work as a documentary maker. Her most recent Directorial accolades include:
•Beyond The Fire, a documentary series following the unsung heroes of the Black Summer Bushfire Crisis as they recreate life from ashes, and...
•Behind The Sash' a documentary series following powerful Australian women as they fight for the voiceless in the social justice landscape.
In this week's episode, I talk to Dani about how she uses her love of storytelling through film to highlight issues of injustice and shar...
2021-07-1226 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoMental WealthBuilding the skills to thrive. What are you seeing or not seeing that has you raging inside at the moment?
For me, it's that the government has media conferences every day about COVID and restrictions yet there seems to be no nationwide pro-active education on how to help people navigate the uncertainty and build skills that will enable them to create mental wealth.
We are around 18 months into this pandemic, with no end in sight and there is a clear opportunity to prioritise skill-building in wellbeing at scale and do it now!
So, my vision for how I direct my...
2021-07-0220 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoZoomed Out?Zoom fatigue is real! Are you zoomed out?
I recently spent 24 hours across three days on Zoom undertaking a training program thanks to another Melbourne lockdown.
By end of it, I felt like my soul had been sucked out.
I had a massive headache, and my brain wouldn't take in any information even though I was hugely passionate about the content.
Have you ever felt like this?
This experience (whilst an extreme example) made me curious about how our dependence on Zoom in the Covid world is impacting our physical and mental health along with our ability to be effective.
...
2021-06-2622 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHappiness Is Not A DestinationHappiness is a state of being: I was recently asked if I find it stressful trying to be happy all the time?
And I wondered what your thoughts might be on this?
I liked this question so much I thought I would use it as the topic for this week's podcast so that together we could dig a bit deeper into...
•how you define happiness, and how that impacts your ability to experience it and not be stressed by it
•where happiness is commonly found so that no matter where you are at on this crazy Covid journey you can inje...
2021-06-2121 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhen The Guilt Never EndsUsing guilt for inner peace. Here in Melbourne, I've been immersed in lockdown 4.0, and conversations with clients and friends have centred around the guilt of not being able to get all the things we want to be done in a day.
Feelings of not being able to keep up seem pervasive and it has me questioning the long-term impacts of not dealing with feelings of constant guilt?
Can you relate?
In this week's podcast I want to explore with you how you can use your guilt to be kinder to yourself and in the process unlock a little more inner...
2021-06-1118 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoFrom Surviving To ThrivingParenting to thrive: Enabling teenage girls to build skill in thriving rather than surviving is no easy job. But FlourishGirl.org founder Mandy Dante has stepped up to the challenge with a whole lot of heart.
Having now impacted the lives of nearly 6000 young women with trans-formative right of passage social and emotional wellbeing programs, Mandy has some powerful insights to share.
This interview is a must for parents wanting to support their kids in enjoying the journey that is life.
Mandy and I discuss
•how listening is more important than fixing
•why stories that relate matter more than advice
•how un...
2021-05-3039 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWTF Now?Any chance you're feeling burnt out, overwhelmed by the scale of change, and distracted by the question WTF now?
I hear you!
The reality is the past year has shifted our perspectives on what is possible in a short time frame. The pain of the pandemic has gifted us the opportunity to open our eyes to the magic of possible and it's left many of us asking WTF now?
In this week's episode I'm digging into:
•why this is a healthy question to explore... providing you don't let certainty hold you back from your journey
•a couple of practical ways I'm...
2021-05-2427 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThe Gift Of ListeningGain 4hrs and more happy: What if practicing 3 simple things consistently could not only make you happier but could also gift you 4 hours back in your week?
Curious?
In this week's episode of the Hacking Happy podcast, I'm talking to what I term the global guru on listening, Oscar Trimboli to explore how listening can help us lead happier, healthier, and more productive lives.
Together we discuss how listening is perhaps not what you think it is, why so many of us struggle with it and how to become a better listener in the context of yourself, others, and the...
2021-05-1542 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoEmbracing Your Inner ImperfectImperfect experimentation: What's the cost of not embracing imperfection? Is it an unrealised dream, relationship, career... perhaps it's your inner peace?
Today I want to talk about perfectionism and why it's a barrier to realising the happiness and the potential that you have that you don't even know you have... if that makes sense.
I want to explore with you how I learned to let go of perfect, claimed the title of recovering perfectionist and learned to love the magic that sits on the other side of imperfect experimentation.
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2021-05-1017 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoDefining Happiness On Your TermsChoose your happiness: The language you use determines your ability to make change!
We rarely create the space to reflect on how we define the words that enable us to shape our lives in a way that is meaningful... and trust me, it matters.
That's why in this week's podcast I'm creating the space for you to reflect on how you define happiness, whether that definition is serving you, and if not, how you can redefine happiness on your terms.
Why? Because how you define happiness is foundational to supporting you in injecting more of it into each day.
For...
2021-04-3021 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoPodcasts Make Me HappyNourish Your Soul & Brain: My little Hacking Happy podcast has just clocked over 10,500 downloads and I wanted to say a huge thank you to all the budding Happiness Hackers out there.
I created this podcast with the simple intent of enabling you to inject more of what makes you happy into each day.
To celebrate I thought I would do a podcast on podcasts because when I think about it, podcasts make me happy, they inject that little something extra into the day whether it's a story I can relate to, a laugh or the ability to learn something new.
...
2021-04-0924 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoRose, Bud, ThornGratitude for good and bad: We cannot control what life throws at us, but we can control how we choose to show up.
My Mum is my Hacking Happiness mentor and I could not be more proud of where I've come from. She was a farmer who raised three children on her own and then retrained as a yoga teacher at age 60. She went on to start her own yoga business teaching the elderly and youths with disabilities.
2020 was a tough year for many of us, but for mum, it was exceptionally challenging with her best friend of 50 years found...
2021-04-0943 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoIs Success Making You Sad?Defining success on your terms: Have you ever stepped back and considered how you define success and whether that definition is making your happy?
Is it possible that your definition of success is not your own and your pursuit of it is actually sidelining your happiness?
In this episode of the Hacking Happy podcast I want to explore with you
•Why the societal definition of success is flawed and more often than not, creates feelings of overwhelm and not being good enough.
•What you can do to redefine success on your terms and inject more of what makes you feel good...
2021-04-0925 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoIf The Dead Could Talk...Inject happiness in death... What if there was a pro-active way to inject a little happiness into grief?
This week I want to share with you a beautiful happiness hack that still puts a smile on my face and brought so much joy to others when my beautiful grandmother passed.
This is a hack with a difference, it brings together a unique combination of happiness and sadness, provides a beautiful support mechanism to process grief, not to mention an intentional means to connect with those we love most before it's too late.
I hope you enjoy!
For more simple ways...
2021-04-0316 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoJournaling For GrowthExperience the magic of journaling: One of the questions I am asked most often is how do I journal and what prompts do I use to process thoughts, energise myself and inspire creativity in life.
That's why this week I'm sharing how I journal for growth and providing you with a little one-on-one journaling session.
Together in this episode of the Hacking Happy Podcast we will explore:
•What journaling is
•The scientifically-proven benefits
•The diverse range of ways in which you can use journaling
•What journaling feels like through a journaling experience
•My favourite journaling tools
P.S. If you're looking fo...
2021-03-2129 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhy You'll Never Be Ready - Part Oneand why it doesn't matter: Ever asked yourself what is the cost of never being ready, the cost of never realising the life that I know could make me happier?
I asked myself this question six years ago and in my view, it was too much. I came to the realisation that ready and all that goes with it was holding me back.
Is it holding you back?
If you've longed to make a change in your life (for I'm guessing around 2 or 3 years) and you haven't taken action because you're 'not ready', then this podcast is for you.
Across...
2021-02-1413 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThe Tech Sabbath ExperimentSwitch off to switch on: Imagine being without your phone for 24 hours... worse still, imagine if your laptop or your Apple watch was gone too.
Now imagine if this happened every week and it was an intentional choice... welcome to the Tech Sabbath Experiment.
A 4-week experiment where my good friend Lisa Leong and I decided that every Friday night from 5.30pm we would completely disconnect from all technological distractions in order to rest and recharge our brains and reconnect with ourselves and the world around us.
In this podcast we explore how:
•switching off enabled us to switch on
•to c...
2021-02-1429 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoBounce Forward With BoundariesAmplify energy with Intentional boundaries: How would it feel and what impact would it have if you were to make more intentional choices each day that clearly articulate (to you and to others) what you value through your action?
In this podcast, I want to challenge you to look at boundaries through a new lens and consider how critical they are to amplifying your energy, your mental wealth, and your happiness.
This podcast is for anyone looking to find the time for more of what matters, anyone feeling exhausted by life and longing for the energy to change the status...
2021-02-0529 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHow To Build The Confidence To Say NoSay NO without guilt: When was the last time you said yes to something you didn't want to do?
How did it feel, how long did it take, what did it take you away from?
For most of the people I meet, saying yes to things they don't want to do because they'd prefer to avoid the discomfort a NO brings is a daily practice.
A practice that impacts our happiness, and our ability to live the life that we want.
In this podcast I want to explore with you:
•the word NO and how using it more often can cr...
2021-01-2932 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoBusy Is The Enemy Of HappinessDitch Doing Embrace Being: I've been thinking a lot lately about time and how our use of it impacts our level of energy, anxiety and our happiness.
Why?
Because if I had a $ for every time I sat down with a smart, successful woman who told me her dream and then told me she didn't have the time to make it happen because she was too busy... I'd be a wealthy woman.
My aim in this podcast is to help you take back control of your time so that you can eliminate the distraction and create the space for more...
2021-01-2434 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoPut A Dream In Your DrawerTurning dreams into reality: In 2014 I turned my life upside down in pursuit of happiness and started my own business.
At the time I had no idea what I was doing or where it was going to take me. All I knew to be true was that I wanted to positively impact the lives of others, be more humanly connected and live more in each moment.
At the time I also had a dream that one day my work and its impact would be validated.
I would write an article for the esteemed Harvard Business Review on how I was...
2021-01-1834 min
Hacking Happy with Penny Locaso2021 Where To Start?Make 2021 your year: Longing for 2021 to be different? Know you could be happier in your work, your relationship, your life (or perhaps all three) but not sure of what it looks like or where to start?
Start here!
In this podcast, I share a simple framework I use to set the tone for how I want my year to feel. The framework provides the space to embrace uncertainty, spontaneity, and flexibility all within the service of moving you closer to the life you long for.
So what are you waiting for? Listen now and start your 2021 the way you want!
...
2021-01-1030 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThe Fastest Slow Year EverNothing happened, yet everything happened. Feel like it's been the fastest slow year ever? You are not alone.
Take a listen to this live stream podcast and learn a really simple reflective practice to close out 2020 with joy... rather than write it off.
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2020-12-2124 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHarnessing Your Everyday Creative In AdversityHarnessing Your Everyday Creative In Adversity. In this weeks episode of The Hacking Happy podcast host Penny Locaso is joined by everyday creative Mykel Dixon. Mykel is an award-winning speaker, learning designer, event curator, musician, and the author of Everyday Creative - a dangerous guide to making magic at work.
On this will ride of conversation Penny and Mykel explore:
•Why joy is an act of rebellion
•How to open your mind to what's next when COVID has stripped away all that was familiar
•Why at the end of the day we all just want to be seen, heard and loved
...
2020-12-0238 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoFear(less) YouFrom paralysis to possibility: What if I told you this fear that you feel is not your barrier, it's the doorway to the growth and expansion you seek in your life?
Off the back of the hugely successful Fear(less) You Webinar, we've decided to take the audio and turn it into a podcast. We want to provide as many of our tribe as possible with the tools to look at fear through a different lens.
The objective of Fear(less) You is not to teach you how to get rid of fear - that's neither possible nor healthy. The...
2020-11-1153 minHacking Happy with Penny LocasoHarnessing Your Everyday Creative In AdversityHarnessing Your Everyday Creative In Adversity. In this weeks episode of The Hacking Happy podcast host Penny Locaso is joined by everyday creative Mykel Dixon. Mykel is an award-winning speaker, learning designer, event curator, musician, and the author of Everyday Creative – a dangerous guide to making magic at work.On this will ride of conversation Penny and Mykel explore:Why joy is an act of rebellionHow to open your mind to what’s next when COVID has stripped away all that was familiarWhy at the end of the day we all just want to be seen...
2020-11-1038 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoPermission To Dream AgainPermission To Dream Again. If fear or overwhelm has you feeling stuck or a little sad at the moment then this conversation with the amazing Milo-Arne Wilkinson is a must listen.
Together we explore:
•The science behind why we feel more exhausted, more afraid and more triggered than ever and what we can do to bring our mental wellbeing into balance.
•Why now is the time to give yourself permission to have hope for the future and dream again how to use your internal conversation to turn fear into freedom.
THE COURAGE CHALLENGE
For those of you interested in learning how...
2020-11-1047 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoInside The Journal Of A Happiness HackerAwkward, uncomfortable and cathartic. In today's episode of The Hacking Happy Podcast I'm trying something different. I'm taking you inside my inner thoughts and opening up my journal to demonstrate the power of leaning into vulnerability and small acts of courage. This felt awkward, uncomfortable and cathartic all at once. The tribe has spoken and asked me for hacks on being more courageous and I felt doing this was a great way to show you what it looks and feels like.
I share a recent event that triggered feelings of failure, low self-worth and shame (yes I have these moments...
2020-10-2622 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhen You're Sitting In Your True Self, Who Are You?Alison Rice's true self: How do you shift your life into alignment when you realise the stories you're telling are not the ones you want to tell? This was the question Alison Rice confronted as a distinguished and multi award-winning digital publisher.
This week Offline Founder, conscious coach and tribe leader Alison Rice joins Penny Locaso on the Hacking Happy couch. Alison shares how she walked away from what appeared to be it all, only to unlock the door to surrender, alignment, and a life of fulfilment.
Penny and Alison dig deep around:
•Having the courage to write yourself out of...
2020-10-1453 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHacking Happiness In Stage 4 LockdownHow do you amp up your happiness when you can only leave your home for one hour a day of exercise and physical connection outside of your home is cut off? This week, reformed corporate lawyer and the host of ABC Radio National's show and podcast, "This Working Life" Lisa Leong joins Penny Locaso on the Hacking Happy couch. Lisa shares how she structures her day to nourish her soul and dial up her energy.
Penny and Lisa also get real and raw around:
•How happiness is about a commitment to joy each and everyday
•Why gifting yourself the start of t...
2020-09-261h 05
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoFalling Through The COVID-19 CracksAdapting to support asylum seekers: Have you stopped to consider who might be falling through the cracks of COVID-19? Penny Locaso joins Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Innovation Leader Abiola Ajetomobi as she shares the effect of COVID-19 on those seeking asylum. There is no safety net for those who have contributed to our society whilst their visa applications are being processed, which means they are just one of many groups of humans falling through the cracks.
This Week We Explore:
•Embracing content as a skill at a moment of pause
•How life has become small environmentally and how that impacts our...
2020-05-2533 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoAdapt At Any Age71 and Teaching Yoga: To celebrate Mother's Day and share a story that has already inspired 8,000+ people on LinkedIn, I decided to invite my amazing Mum, Sandra Reed, onto the Human First podcast couch. Since COVID-19 hit I have been committed to sharing stories that uplift and encourage a little more joy into our days. This week is no exception.
At age 60 my mum (who had been a farmer) decided to reinvent herself and become a yoga teacher. She went on to start a small business that provided yoga to those in her community who were aged over 60 and wanted to...
2020-05-1231 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThe Artists WayCreativity In Crisis: How important is creativity and it's expression to humans? This week Penny Locaso is joined by Actor, Singer & Producer Blake Bowden. Blake shares the effect of COVID-19 on the arts industry and the unconsidered implications for a workforce that is casual in nature.
This Week We Explore:
•How this time of pause can deliver magic if we allow ourselves to lean into it
•How many artists are falling through the cracks in terms of financial support to meet their basic human needs at a time of crisis
•What innovation now looks like in the arts - check out th...
2020-05-0338 min
DNA Of Purpose PodcastPenny Locaso: Happiness Hacking & The Intentional Adaptability QuotientToday's guest came into my world towards the end of last year when I was blessed to meet her at The Singularity U conference in Sydney. Her name is Penny Locaso and when we started working together - I knew that the right person had entered my life at exactly the right time.At that time, on a personal level I was working around the clock and I was struggling to balance the long list of priorities that came with being an entrepreneur, along with being a relatively new mum, a fionsai, daughter and friend. In many ways I...
2020-05-0151 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoVirtual Leadership In CrisisLeading when certainty doesn't exist: In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso is joined from the COVID-19 epicentre by Leadership Guru and one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the world, Dorie Clark. Together they discuss what it really feels like for the average person on the street in New York, the role of the leader in this new normal, and how to challenge reactionary behaviour that may not serve you.
As a true illustration of Penny's comment in this episode "every day it changes", since recording this episode with Dorie only 13 days ago, the death toll...
2020-04-2940 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHow Has This Crisis Changed The Scientific Community?The science of humanity: The way science is being done around COVID-19 is vastly different from anything before. In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso joins biologist Tiffany Vora as they discuss how cultural habits and the way of doing science has been turned on its head. Tiffany also shares how she and her family are navigating the complexity of the current situation, simple hacks to get through the next 24 hours in a full house, and how this crisis in many ways has been a gift.
This Week We Explore:
•How to create space with your family at...
2020-04-2342 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoSurviving The Next 24 HoursMaintaining Mental Health In Solitude: Welcome to the launch of Season 3 of the Human First podcast. This season, we will be talking to interesting humans about how they are personally navigating the complexity of the current situation, the opportunities this challenge presents, their hopes for the future, and any simple hacks to not only get through the next 6 months, but also the next 24 hours.
In this timely episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso joins behavioural scientist Milo-Arne Wilkinson as she shares the effect enforced isolation can have on us physically and emotionally. If we listen to what our...
2020-04-1041 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoThe Pursuit of HappinessWhat does happiness really look like? What if your version of happiness and success isn't what you thought it was?
In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso joins Beth Lepely as she shares how a move from US to Australia forced her to re-assess who she is as a human being and what defines happiness. This episode will make you re-think about what actually drives your happiness.
This Week Explore:
•How improv comedy can help you build the skills to thrive in the future
•Why the bad stuff and negative emotions are necessary for maintaining happiness
•How your d...
2020-01-1424 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoCrushing The Stigma Around Mental HealthA better way to finding your happy. What does it mean to be human? To Aaron Williams, it means being present, surrounding yourself with family and friends, and enjoying the simplicity of life. However, sometimes finding your happy place is not as easy as it sounds.
In this powerful episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso joins Aaron Williams to talk about their shared passion for mental health. In response to Aaron's own struggles with depression and suicidal thinking following the tragic death of a young mate in 2003, he started exploring leadership in mental health. Why was it difficult...
2019-12-1623 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoBuilding the Next Generation of Innovation LeadersHow do we lead teenagers into this complex age? In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso talks role models, real innovation, and selfies with Madeleine Grummet, an authentic human being that shows up as she is. As a co-founder, investor, and startup mentor, Madeleine works across the innovation ecosystem bridging the gap between education and the tech industry.
This Week We Explore:
•What innovation actually means, and is it solving real problems
•To whom do young girls look, and who is going to lead them into this complex age
•The misconception around STEM (or STEAM)
•The You Are Not...
2019-12-0833 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHow To Be A Dreamer, Wanderer, and WondererRaising your visibility to realise your potential. In this week's episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso sits with Sarah Anderson as she shares her fascinating path from art history at Melbourne University, to running social and digital communications at ANZ, to starting her own business, and to becoming a yoga instructor. What is the mindset that has helped her along her journey?
This Week Explore:
•How social media gives people, especially women, a voice
•What lies at the intersection of being authentic and putting yourself out there
•How to use mindfulness and reflective journaling to reach one's potential
•Her Huma...
2019-12-0236 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoFinding Wobbly Balance in LifeForget about finding balance in life, find tilt instead. In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso interviews Brooke McAlary, author of the book 'Slow', and discusses how she is imperfectly embracing being an author, being a mother of two children, and trying to live mindfully.
This week we explore:
•How Brooke lives more mindfully by 'Tilting', rather than 'Balancing' her life
•What is 'Wobbly Balance' and how that helps her
•What's got Brooke curious at the moment
•The human element of building a community, the sense of belonging, to feel seen and be heard, and to feel more hum...
2019-11-2436 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoReviving The Lost Art Of Letter WritingWhen was the last time you wrote a letter? In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso talks about the power of creativity and our inner muse with Melanie Knight, a human being who is passionate about human connection and spreading safe spaces around the world for people to be creative and social in subtle and playful ways. Melanie is reviving the lost art of letter writing through two big projects - Dead Letter Club and The Library of Letters.
This week we explore:
•Why her creative letter writing movement has been one of her most life-changing projects
•How...
2019-04-1533 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoAccidental Entrepreneur With A Human FocusCome to s p a c e ... What happens when unlikely people connect humanly? In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso talks about the power of shared ideas and cross-sector collaboration with Cj Holden, a genuine, down-to-earth human being who is building engaged communities through immersive experiences. Having been in Australia for only 18 months, Cj is about to launch a first-of-its-kind event with hundreds of unlikely people with a similar vision of being a force for change.
This week we explore:
•The importance of respecting other people's journeys
•Why Cj sees himself as an accidental entrepreneur
•Cj's journe...
2019-04-0827 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHow Bravery Drives Real ChangeHow do you effectively drive change? In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso talks bravery, gender equity, and the advantages of being difficult with Dr. Francesca Maclean, a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM. As a champion, mentor, sponsor, and multi-dimensional human being, Francesca is breaking barriers for gender equity in STEM and encouraging people to be brave, step up, say something, and do something.
This Week We Explore:
•Francesca's honest process for creating space for deep thinking and exploration
•Why "being difficult" has fueled her work in disrupting the status quo
•Her journey in effect...
2019-04-0125 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoMaking Work More HumanWhat is your infinite unfinished goal? In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso talks purpose, failure, and the journey of self-discovery with Steven Ma, a curious person whose purpose is to make work more human. As Chief Purpose Officer and Agility Executive at No Moss, Steven co-designs organisations for empathy and agility, emphasising a more human purpose to work.
This Week We Explore:
•Steven's best failure
•The radical thing he makes every employee do when they first join No Moss
•How to bring your whole self to work
•What it means to create an environment where people can live...
2019-03-2527 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoCuriosity and Cultivating CreativityWhat could you do to be more creative? In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso talks curiosity and creativity with Stephen Gates, a designer and someone who loves to teach, coach, and help the world get more creative. As Head Design Evangelist at Invision, Stephen helps teams elevate the impact of design inside their organisations. What could you do to have better ideas?
This Week We Explore:
•How to summon your creativity on demand
•Why creativity is no different than sports psychology and athletics
•The process for unpacking a great idea
•Why social media creates false expectations of creat...
2019-03-1819 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoLet's Get Real and HumanLet's Get Real and Human A raw look at being human on your entrepreneurial journey.
In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso gets vulnerable and honest about what it means to be human on this entrepreneurial journey. Hint: It's coming to terms that there's no silver bullet or shortcut in realising your dream.
This week, we explore the lessons Penny has learned in her intentional adaptability™ journey:
•Change comes with sacrifice. Be conscious about what you'll need to give up, and accept that choice
•Self doubt does not go away. The closer you are to your dream, the bi...
2019-03-1012 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHabits, Humanity and Taking Action with Global Game Changer Holly RansomHabits, Humanity and Taking Action. In this episode of the Human First Podcast, I share coffee and conversation with the always thought-provoking, Holly Ransom. CEO at Emergent, professional moderator, and a brilliant mind, Holly is forensically curious about the world around her.
This Week We Explore:
•What it really means to be human, beyond our connectedness with each other and the environment
•The internal tug-of-war between our digital self Vs the real self, and its effect on the younger generation
•The hunt for authenticity and why companies need to care
•Why this is a fascinating time to reimagine the way we do th...
2019-03-0422 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoAI For Humanity and For GoodBringing spirituality and morality to technology. Rita Arrigo, Digital Advisor at Microsoft, shares how engaging with customers who look at the world in different ways has shaped her perspective on how AI can truly amplify human potential, and not replace it.
This Week We Explore:
•How AI can be a force for good, assisting countries that face water issues, climate change, and wildlife conservation challenges
•Leveraging AI for inclusivity, and helping people with disability find a more streamlined way to do work, enjoy life, and be a part of society
•Engaging AI for humanitarian action, and serving people who are displa...
2019-02-2528 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoTechnology's Two-Headed DragonJust because it can be done, does it mean we should. Raymond McCauley, scientist, engineer, investor, Chair, Digital Biology at Singularity University, and co-founder bioCurious. With too many titles to fit on a business card, when Penny asked who Raymond is as a human being, his number one response was a Father, and his most important role, that of being a curator of experience for his 12-year-old twin boys.
This week, Raymond shares with Penny his insights into the world of biotechnology and DNA sequencing, discussing his wish for us to know what the basic technologies are, understand what they...
2019-02-0230 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhat If Success Looked Like Discovering That What You Thought You Knew Was Wrong?When did you last surprise yourself? Human First host Penny Locaso finds herself doing this a lot lately as she pilots the world first Intentional Adaptability™️ Program with fifteen brave intrapreneurs, from a global giant. Listen and learn how IAQ™️ is a foundational skill set for navigating and shaping the future. It's a place where using your curiosity to challenge everything you thought to be true, is highly valued. Listen and learn how discovering you are wrong can be more powerful than finding you are right.
This Week We Explore:
•Using your curiosity to challenge everything you thought to be true
•Cer...
2019-01-2710 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoLess Doing More Being In 2019Create The Space For More Being Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso shares her 2019 commitment for creating intentional space for less doing and more being. Focusing on how you show up in the every day may very well enable you to realise the magic in the journey that is life.
•Remove the word busy from your vocabulary
•Set micro-goals for a more valuable being
•How will you create the space for less doing and more being in 2019?
Where To Find Penny
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Resources Referenced By Penny In This Podcast:
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2019-01-1708 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoYin & Yang of TechnologyConversation, Curiosity & Exploration - Futurist In Residence at MYOB, Keran McKenzie, and Penny, have a discussion around the exciting world of data availability, and its corresponding cause for concern.
This Week We Explore:
•Voice interface technology
•Fostering innovation and curiosity and wrestling with immediacy of available answers
•Simplicity of access to data comes with the risk of relaxed sharing
•Social media drug of addiction
•Fostering the discovery of solution
Where To Find Keran:
LinkedIn
2018-12-1012 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoImpact InvestingAI Lock-in Loop - Mike Butcher, Editor At Large at TechCrunch London, chats with Penny about the technology trends Mike has observed as having the largest impact on society and how they have provided permission to change society's conversations around the refugee crisis.
This Week We Explore:
•The AI lock in loop with an exponential effect on businesses, it's a drug of addiction
•AI as an arms race
•Giving politicians permission to change the conversation around refugees
•Impact investing - future-proofing a society against polarisation and racism
•How to learn, not just what to learn
Where To Find Mike:
LinkedIn
Techfugees
2018-12-0618 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoMoney With HeartUsing Banking For Good. Holly Ziegal Ruxin, CEO & Founder Montcalm TCR, just off a jet from San Francisco, sits down on the Human First couch with Penny to discuss curiosity, perfection, and how life-changing lessons can be learnt from a 5-year-old.
This Week We Explore:
•What exactly is perfection
•Why it's important in Holly's life to be of service to others
•Constantly being curious and constantly asking the question, the answers come, and it's really fun
Where To Find Holly
LinkedIn
Montcalm TCR
If you loved your Human First podcast experience, please subscribe and leave a review. Do you have a frie...
2018-11-2616 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoWhy Busy = BullshitAre You Jack Of Busy? Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso shares a hack that has fundamentally shifted her life and the way that she looks at what she's doing with her time. How removing the word 'busy' from her vocabulary has created the space to be more human.
This Week, Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso challenges you:
•What would you do with your time if you weren't so busy?
•Create a space for stillness or boredom
•Remove the word busy from your vocabulary
Where To Find Penny
Email
Instagram
LinkedIn
Resources Referenced By Penny In Thi...
2018-11-1812 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoEmpathy In The WorkplaceWhat is the global mind? Dot Connector, Brian Lim - IT Manager/Consultant at Fishburners and HyperCubes Co-Founder joins Penny in a frank discussion around using technology to serve humanity to remain relevant, through empathy.
This Week We Explore:
The use of satellite technology to gain insight for agricultural and mining resources
Brian's excitement in the realm of space travel, it's on our doorstep
Why digital biology and blockchain are Brian's biggest technological fear
It's not what the technology is, it's what you do with it
Where To Find Brian
Brian Lim | LinkedIn
Solving Problems For A Billion People
Fishburners
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2018-11-1119 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoDigital Native Vs Digital ImmigrantLoved, Loathed, Longed For, Learnt... Dom Price, Work Futurist and Head of R&D at Atlassian, sits on the Human First couch with Penny to explore how he sees the advancements in tech and AI affecting the future of work in the unprecedented multi-generational workforce.
This Week We Explore:
· Without change, an otherwise effective existence will not remain relevant
· Dom's insights on leading a multi-generational workforce
· The mental health impact of increased long periods of complex work, as AI takes the lighter mix away
· You can't tell me to be curious between 9-5 Monday to Friday, it's absurd
· Dom's 4 Ls hack...
2018-10-1916 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoSecret Weapon To Thrive In The FuturePerpetual Learning = To Thrive ..... Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso shares her hacks on developing the skills needed to thrive in an unprecedented future of artificial intelligence and technology.
As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, uncertainty is becoming the new normal, how do we remain relevant in the context of change? How can we help our children to adapt in this new world we find ourselves in?
This Week Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso shares her perspectives on:
· Why your Adaptability Quotient is critical to thriving in a world of exponential technological growth
· Six fo...
2018-10-1918 min
Hacking Happy with Penny LocasoHappiness Hacking With Penny LocasoWhat is a happiness Hacker? We start the season with Penny Locaso Human First host and Happiness Hacker digs deep in a reverse interview with her game-changing friend Sheree Rubinstein, Founder and CEO of One Roof.
In this episode we unpack:
•Who Penny is as a human being and how she became the worlds first happiness hacker
•What she's excited about in the future
•Why many are afraid of the future and how Penny uses fear to help others embrace the age of uncertainty
•What Penny is afraid of at the moment and how she's tackling it.
•Her insights from her time a...
2018-09-1938 min