Mia Northrop Podcasts

In this episode, Mia and Dinah tap into the expertise of coach Nicole Alesios to discover how your money mindset and archetype impact your relationship with money, your habits and decisions about money management, saving, investing and outsourcing. About Dr Nicole Alesios Nicole is an economist, money mindset coach and speaker who is passionate abo…

In this episode, Mia and Dinah dive into how to share the mental load, drawing on expertise from relationship expert and psychologist Dr Morgan Cutlip. About Dr Morgan Cutlip Morgan Cutlip has a PhD in Psychology, is a wife, mom to two kids and life-long lover of all things relationships. Dr Morgan's work centres on creative content development for…

In this ep, Mia and Dinah talk to an expert about the life admin side of investing - it's a great way to build your wealth but also comes with paperwork and passwords. While anyone of working age has investments through their superannuation, in the last two years there’s been a surge of first-time share investors. About Sophie Dicker Sophie Dicker …

In this ep, Mia and Dinah share their experiences and top hacks to streamline life admin for new parents. Conventional wisdom recommends parents-to-be focus their discussions and planning on housework and parenting. But there is a third dimension of domestic life to discuss and organise: life admin. Life admin explodes when you have a baby, just at…

With the cost of living on the rise, a key way to save money is to comparison shop your major household bills. In this ep we’ll help you get an understanding of the payoff to a methodical approach, seven steps to make your choices straightforward and point you to the best comparison websites. We start this episode talking about why you need to make…

At some stage, we all have to navigate appropriate aged care for ourselves or a loved one, so in this episode we turned to aged care expert Grace Petherick to demystify it for us all. Many of us are in the sandwich generation, and are the support people for parents as well as young children. Some of us are also of an age where we’re having to inves…

In this episode, we interview Ayla Toyokawa, certified wedding planner and founder of WedSites, about the key steps in planning a wedding. About Ayla Ayla Toyokawa is a certified wedding planner and founder of WedSites, an all-in-one project management platform designed for collaboration and streamlining the wedding planning process for modern coup…

There are challenges to life admin but they’re not what you think they are. In this episode, Mia and Dinah dispel the most common myths they hear that people tell themselves when it comes to life admin. We’ve been talking to people about their life admin for the last 4 years: one-on-one with friends and coaching clients, in corporate presentations …

About Christie Flora Christie Flora is the owner of florandorder, she’s a Time Trainer and Goal Strategist and she’s the one overwhelmed professionals turn to when they want to ‘do life differently’. Christie’s strategies around time management, combined with her heart-centered and gentle approach keeps her clients on track to accomplishing their g…

In this episode, we talk about planning and making time for managing the clothes, accessories and shoes for you and your family. Keeping you and your family clothed might not automatically come to mind as life admin but it most certainly is. The shopping, storing, and eventual decluttering of our clothes, accessories and shoes doesn’t happen by its…

There are more than three million homes across Australia that have rooftop solar, but with installation costs in the thousands, it can be difficult to figure out if it makes sense for you. This ep gives you all the shortcuts to figure it out, including how to optimise your investment if you already have a system. The first thing Mia and Dinah discu…

If you’re looking for the motivation, apps, and process to get your digital photos sorted once and for all, this ep where we interview Carly Michael is for you. About Carly Michael Carly Michael has spent her whole life surrounded by photos having grown up in her family's camera store - Michaels Camera Video and Digital in Melbourne's CBD. When cov…

It is important to have a mental model of what life admin is in order to be able to approach it in a more systematic way Mia and Dinah start the episode by discussing how: for most people, life admin is a blurry amorphous bundle of tasks - and with no mental model of the different categories and types of tasks is can be difficult to approach or sha…

It's hard to keep up with best practices for technology and the latest apps, so in this episode we chat to expert Lynette Coulston to get her tips on essential digital life admin tools. About Lynette Coulston Lynette Coulston had a 30+ year career in software development and IT but in 2012 she left that all behind to create iTandCoffee, a business …

This episode explores why transitions can be stressful, the key tools and processes you need to have humming to support daycare and school admin, and Mia and Dinah's top hacks for saving time, money and sharing the load. Mia and Dinah reveal that in a survey they conducted earlier this year, one in three respondents reported that their child starti…

In this episode, we interview Tina Paterson, remote working and productivity expert, about burnout and how to avoid the ultimate level of exhaustion. About Tina Paterson Tina Paterson has worked across nine industries and 12 countries over the past 20+ years. She has led large departments, governed billions of dollars of assets and her teams have d…

We chatted with parenting expert Michael Grose about how we can get our kids to contribute more, relieve the life admin burden and grow up to be efficient at their own life admin. Michael Grose, the founder of Parenting Ideas, is one of Australia’s leading parenting educators, informing and inspiring audiences in Australia and around the world for …

Get up to speed with the good, bad and ugly state of Mia and Dinah's life admin. Since Mia and Dinah have been writing their Life Admin Life Hacks book they have optimised their life admin processes even further. In this episode they bring you up to speed on their life admin systems with a focus on the foundational tools: password manager, cloud st…

This episode will give you Mia and Dinah’s top hacks for fuelling the admin for your car maintenance and repair. The average two-car household in Australia spends around $17,000 or 13-14% of their income per year on car-related costs, so keeping on top of all your car admin not only saves you money but also gives you peace of mind that your car is …

This episode will give you Mia and Dinah’s top hacks for navigating Australia’s government payments and allowances. There are over 26 different payments and benefits available from Centrelink. Mia and Dinah talk about the 8 broad categories of payments available: families with children age pensions disability support carer support study-related sup…

This episode will give you Mia and Dinah’s top hacks for managing maintenance and repairs to your home. While completing home maintenance and repairs is not life admin, planning it, scheduling it, organising equipment and supplies and finding and engaging tradespeople are all squarely life admin tasks you have to do. Mia and Dinah start the ep by d…

We interview Tracey Spicer, longtime broadcaster and recent NSW Premier's Woman of the Year, on how she and her partner organise and share their home life and careers. Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs and in 2018 was chosen as one of the Australian Financial R…

In this episode, we interview Anna Hacker, the host of the ‘What Happens When I Die?’ podcast, about digital estate planning. Anna Hacker is the National Manager of Estate Planning in the Trustees Services arm of Australian Unity. She trained as a lawyer and is an accredited specialist in Wills & Estates. She hosts the popular podcast “What Happens…

Dinah and Mia interview frequent flyer expert, Daniel Sciberras, from PointHacks.com on the best way to earn and redeem points for maximum value as well as credit card features that help build your balance fastest. During the interview we chat with Daniel about: choosing which frequent flyer programs to belong to based on your own travel patterns u…

In this episode, we interview psychologist and host of the Potential Psychology podcast, Ellen Jackson. About Ellen Jackson Ellen Jackson is a psychologist, host of the Potential Psychology Podcast, internationally published writer, speaker, coach and consultant to organisations Australia-wide. Ellen has a personal passion for self-care and individ…

In this episode we interview productivity and innovation expert, Dr Amantha Imber, about how she manages her life admin. She gives us her top hacks on scheduling, to-do lists and outsourcing This episode is the first in a series of interviews where we will be interviewing others to see how they tackle their life admin. About Dr Amantha Imber Dr Ama…

This episode will give you the tops hacks to make your next move as harmonious as possible Moving house is on the list of life change events that stress people out. This year, due to covid-19 more of you may be moving or thinking about moving due to a change in income or for a tree/sea change as remote working becomes a more viable option for many.…

This episode will talk you through the practical life admin issues you will need to address if you embark on the path of separating from your partner There have been media reports that the divorce rate is expected to spike due to COVID-19. Search engine data for divorce usually increases after Christmas and New Year, but Google has revealed that pe…

Mia and Dinah give you top hacks for planning for Christmas in the time of COVID-19. They talk about how coronavirus will likely impact our plans for Christmas this year including: budgets being impacted due to the job and income loss facing many families limits to numbers of people at indoor and outdoor parties and events unprecedented demand for …

This episode will help transform your smartphone into your biggest productivity weapon to make your life admin easier. Most Australians hang on to their smartphone for more than three years, so it's really worth your while to learn your phone’s features and install must-have apps to minimise and optimise your life admin. Mia and Dinah’s top hacks a…

This episode will give you all the hacks to ensure your pets are a stress reducer not a stress inducer Looking after a pet properly is a long term proposition. Cats and dogs live on average 10 human years and the responsibility of their welfare adds up over time. It's important to think about how to make it easier for yourself and use your life adm…

This episode will inspire you to find the small steps necessary to hack your life admin in challenging times. This episode addresses the challenges introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the dilemma of feeling like extra time at home should lead to some major life admin overhauls versus the economic, emotional and physical impact of living in this…

Find out how much life insurance cover you need and what to do if you need to get some more. This episode talks about how to find out how much cover you already have, how to estimate how much cover you need and how to get the best deal on insurance if you need to make some changes. Mia and Dinah discuss: four key types of insurance: Life Insurance,…

This episode will help you understand your mobile phone bill and switch plans in under an hour! This episode talks about the paradox of choice when it comes to choosing from the more than 300 mobile phone plans available. Mia and Dinah talk about the things you need to consider including: Network reliability Network coverage Value for money Contrac…

Prioritise and plan your social life. This episode talks about some of the things you need to think about when you are organising your social life including: the value of social connection consciously organsing your social life prioritising how to spend your time to nurture your important friendships people priority vs event priority tools to help …

Decide if you need a credit card and if so, choose the best one for your purchasing and payment habits. There are over 200 credit cards on offer in Australia, and this episode talks about how you can get the right credit card for you. Things to consider include: your spending habits your ability to pay off the outstanding balance each month your cr…

This episode will help you understand why you may need to help others with their life admin and some of the legal and practical considerations you need to consider if you take on that role. We consider some of the things you need to think about when you need to help someone else with their life admin, including: what the signs are or the events tha…

Deal with the admin generated by and organised for children, which starts as soon as you get pregnant and never seems to end. This episode talks about how you can address the many admin tasks you need to sort when you have kids, including: health daycare, school and school holidays social life including birthday parties extracurricular activities d…

This episode will help you understand what sort of budget you need, get it done more efficiently and actually stick to it! This episode talks about the reasons you need a budget, the tools you can use to prepare a budget, and how to monitor your budget once you have set it up. Mia and Dinah talk about the range of reasons why preparing a budget is …

This episode will help make planning and preparing for your holiday more efficient so you can get away smoothly and make the most of your time away While many of the listener survey respondents didn’t feel that booking holidays was life admin, Dinah and Mia firmly believe it qualifies, given all the research, comparing, booking, planning, communica…