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Welcome to another Mere Mortals interview. Kelly was 10 when her grandparents’ home was sold and her and her family (grandparents, parents, uncle, brother and sister) were forced to rent. Seeing her grandmother, a very stoic woman, upset at the kitchen sink, worrying about losing the house, a young Kelly made a decision to buy her grandmother another house when she got older. Seeing the distress that not having a family home had on her family, Kelly made it her business to help people buy houses, and to achieve financial security through real estate investing.As you might be able to surmise, Kelly has a rich and powerful background that has carried her to the person she is today. Amongst her new delights with a puppy, to making her way in this world through the love of property and helping others out, Kelly was a delight to chat with and we hope you take away just as much as we did from this conversation.As always, enjoy.Timeline:0:00 - Introduction to Kelly & overview1:23 - Mere Mortal Moment4:30 - Humble beginnings6:00 - Loosing the family home and a promise9"00 - Understanding money at 7 years old11:30 - Managing money as a young individual18:00 - Why Kelly's business is different20:10 - How to bottle Kelly's learnings26:30 - Negotiation34:50 - Yearly goals40:30 - Save your buttcheeks off43:10 - Understanding rent and ownership50:50 - Kelly's story of her mentorAs always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Kelly Cameron's Links:Get Real Finance Website: https://getrealfinance.com.au/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getrealfinance/About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortals_media/Facebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show

A more serious episode this time on an issue that touches all of us in our daily lives. In this themed episode Juan and Kyrin discuss the topic of 'Anxiety'. As usual the crew starts with their Mere Mortal Moments, before diving into the definition (particularly focusing on the difference between anxiety, stress and fear). They also explore their previous disagreement from Episode #91 about whether there are any benefits to feeling anxious.The bulk of the episode then is centred around anxiety disorders, therapy and general healthcare. A quick caveat here, neither of the Mere Mortals are medical professionals and you should seek proper medical advice for any problems with anxiety you may have. Some personal stories arose such as Juan's aversion to needles and Kyrin's disconcerting experience with a local GP. The final discussion centred around the healthcare system and general therapies/remedies for fixing high anxiety levels.Timeline:0:00 - Intro & Mere Mortal Moments3:53 - Definition6:25 - The difference between anxiety, stress and fear10:41 - A Mere Mortal disagreement16:58 - Are there any benefits to anxiety?20:31 - The type of anxiety disorders25:45 - Specific phobias and Juan's fear of needles29:48 - PTSD & acute stress disorder35:40 - SSRI's and therapy42:25 - Healthcare system failings for long-term care51:08 - Mere Mortals anxiety levels53:19 - Where to find the Mere MortalsAs always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortals_media/Facebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show

Some Mere Mortal advice, don't watch The Social Dilemma as it is rubbish! In this episode of 'Musings' Juan and Kyrin discuss: why Juan intensely disliked the recent documentary on the dark side of social media, hypocrisy amongst people and how to fix it with accountability, developing patience through annoying computer issues, the fitness challenge and how Kyrin is an absolute weapon, the inbuilt restrictions of the Global Positioning System and some thoughts of knowing when to stop yourself, even though you are capable.Timeline:0:00 - Intro and The Social Dilemma4:15 - Hypocrisy and accountability8:25 - Freewill, kids and social media9:44 - Computer issues and patience10:44 - The Mere Mortals fitness challenge14:28 - GPS were built with limits15:15 - Just because you can, should you?18:56 - How to support the MM'sAs always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortals_media/Facebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show

Something that was recently shared by Gary V and also discussed on a few podcasts of ours, to deal with Chaos you can use the GAP principles.. Gratitude, Accountability and Perspective.As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Meanderings, Interviews & Themed Podcast.Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortal_mediaFacebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show

Will you join Juan in his recent conversion to subsisting on purely oxygen and sunlight? In this episode of Meandering Juan and Kyrin discuss: the recent changes to the Mere Mortals brand and content, taking responsibility for mistakes, spreading some love to those who have helped us, breatharians (the hottest new diet), talking/arguing to people with extreme views, knowing your why and the types of interview questions that are useless and those that are beneficial.Timeline:0:00 - Introduction & Mere Mortal Moments6:45 - Call outs and call ins10:41 - Shouts outs to our collaborators and helpers14:15 - Breatharians18:08 - Getting to a common ground with extreme views22:34 - When to lead someone in an argument24:25 - Is there a negative on knowing your why?30:30 - Useless interview questions36:00 - What is a good interview question?38:33 - Meet the Mere Mortals in personAs always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortals_media/Facebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show

Welcome to another Mere Mortals interview. Sally Hetherington is an author, CEO and recipient of The Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM). Sally's backstory is of travelling to Cambodia in her 20's and learning of the negative effects of voluntourism. To make up for her own inadvertent contribution to this she began working with local Cambodians to register the charity organisation, Human and Hope Association Cambodia (HHA). This interview began with a detailed look at her backstory and the tangible effects of voluntourism on the local communities. Sally provided some interesting anecdotes of her own failures and subsequent learnings of helping on the ground. This naturally led onto the topic of volunteering in general. How one can start out making sure that good intentions are actually good and actually lead to positive benefits. To finish off Sally answered some questions on travel, goal setting and how she read 170 books in one year!Timeline:0:00 - Introduction to Sally & overview1:02 - Mere Mortal Moment2:45 - Sally's Cambodian backstory8:09 - What is voluntourism?10:54 - Frustrated with crappy resumes17:11 - The backstory of voluntourism20:24 - Empowering and supporting locals31:16 - Prioritising your volunteering role34:16 - Clarifying intentions, red flags and resilience38:40 - Managing dichotomies within the charity sector44:40 - Influential books, travel and goal setting48:13 - Reading 170 books and bookstagram52:54 - Sally's book, charity and useful linksAs always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Sally's Links:Charity Website: https://humanandhope.orgCharity Brand: https://hopeonpurpose.org/Sally's Website: https://www.sallyhetherington.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sallymareehetherington/About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortals_media/Facebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show

Are you prepared to hear some impossibly awful accent impersonations? In this themed episode Juan and Kyrin discuss the topic of 'Accents'. These are defined as 'a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class.' They differ from dialect, which a particular form of language using different words. Isolation and evolution contribute to a common baseline language developing different accents, then different dialects before transitioning into a completely different language.Juan showed his information research power this episode coming up with some doozies. These ranged from the accents apparently developed in Philadelphian sign language, waking up one day and speaking in a completely foreign accent and the changing accents of the mythical Dutch and Scottish chimpanzees. We had a lot of fun this episode and hope you enjoy as much as we did. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:0:00 - Introduction & Mere Mortal Moments5:03 - Definition and etymology6:51 - Difference between accent and dialect8:16 - Stories of terrible accents12:37 - Did you know sign language can have accents?15:18 - Has your accent ever changed?19:47 - Strange accents can get you killed21:32 - Languages develop through isolation & evolution24:33 - Crying contains melodies of speech patterns27:55 - Foreign accent syndrome30:13 - Mechanical Spanish vs American Spanish33:33 - Dutch and Scottish chimpanzees34:59 - Accents are all about input36:02 - Amy Walker and 21 Accents40:10 - Outro and more MM impersonationsAbout Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortals_media/Facebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show

Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? The Mere Mortals crew on the first Thursday of every month go over their progress from the previous month and where they are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings and why they didn't achieve their goals and how they will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why? Let us know in the comments, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:0:00 - Introduction1:13 - Review of September 20207:02 - Stretching, running and fitness points10:48 - Holidays, intercambios and podcast reviews13:26 - Exuding confidences and doing good deeds17:11 - Building Mere Mortals and keeping healthy20:13 - Book review, maxims and acquiring followers26:11 - Wif Hof breathing and learning languages30:36 - Volunteering and the Buddhist religion36:34 - Mein Kampf takeaways38:45 - What I talk about when I talk about goalsSupport the show

Do you also feel there is something a bit weird in the bookstagram community? In this episode of 'Musings' Juan and Kyrin discuss: the infinite feeds available on social media and techniques to avoid losing yourself in the never-ending void of content, Kyrin's big booty and how it is NOT necessary for the Mere Mortals brand, some lessons and practical take-aways from a year's worth of podcasting, the small innocuous comments that can really kill a passion and why Juan's dad was correct; he is in fact too big. As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:0:00 - Introduction0:28 - Infinity social media pools5:21 - Creating a story without big booty pics6:10 - Choosing TikTok over sleep12:27 - Following thought rabbit holes13:21 - The dark side of Bookstagram18:09 - WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO19:00 - Learnings from a year's worth of podcasting25:06 - Following your passion and it being ok29:37 - Juan my son, you're getting too big32:11 - The two places to goSupport the show

What is the one thing you can concretely rely on.. your effort. Today's Monday Movement rolls quickly into a discussion of effort.As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Meanderings, Interviews & Themed Podcast.Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortals_mediaFacebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show