KAREN CHASTON Asks, If You Are The Only Person You Will Spend Your Entire Life With, Why Do You Put Yourself Last And Give Up On Your Dreams? And, When You Drift Apart From The Real You, Life Does Not Work. So What’s the Solution?

Mature Preneurs Talk with Diana Todd-Banks

Karen Chaston was CFO of an Australian publicly listed company, so you would think that life would be pretty sweet. After all, isn’t rising to the top in your chosen field, what defines you as being successful? Many people think it is. For Karen, the constant effort of juggling work, family, the big house and cars, and the stress was taking its toll on her even before tragedy struck when her son unexpectedly and suddenly died at a young age. After a break, Karen went straight back to work, working more, eating more and drinking even more, just to get through her very long days. It took another 15 months when she chose redundancy, which allowed Karen to ‘wake up’ and take a long conscious loving breath. One that allowed her to sit back and evaluate exactly where she was in life and where she wanted to be - a good life lesson for anyone suffering stress and doing tasks they don’t enjoy doing. By learning new concepts, slowly her awareness changed, and Karen realised not only how diseased she was, the horrible part was, all her corporate peers were the same. They all were dog-eat-dog, in survival mode where it truly was survival of the fittest, though physically, none were physically fit. Finally, by listening to her inner knowing that the ‘Live Love By Design’ brand was founded, with Karen creating online and off-line courses, trainings and writing paperback and e-books. Listen to this podcast, as Karen shares many tips and suggestions plus 3 of her Live Love Gems, one of which is, you don’t have to spend your health to get your wealth. You can learn more about Karen here and download a PDF of her book: livelovebydesign.com