Impactful Authenticity: Recent Episodes
Lucy Rowell
Impactful Authenticity is a weekly podcast for anyone who is looking for inspiration and actionable insights into how to both develop themselves to show up more authentically in life as well as to create teams and organisations with authenticity at their core. I hope you enjoy the show. Lucy x
Today I’m super excited to chat with Marybeth Gregg. Marybeth is the President and Founder of the Gregg Resource Group and the International Center for Women's Leadership.
Marybeth is an International Coach, Speaker and Author of the book How to Soar with a Broken Wing - Finding Tiny Moments of Joy Every Day. She is also a contributing author in the new book, Wellness Wisdom.
What you’ll hear about:
- Learning through grief
- Knowing you’re not alone
- It’s not selfish to receive help
- Finding small moments of joy use the ABC method – Aware, take a Break, get Curious
- Spend time outside and take a pause
- Living your values
- Understanding your perfectionism
- If it’s not joyful, I’m not doing it!
- The power of women in leadership
- Our everyday interactions mean so much
- We’re all leaders in our own life regardless of our role
- Listening to our hearts and live with intention
Weekly Challenge : Spend time being self aware. Get away from the noise and electronics.
Power of Music : Don’t worry be happy by Bobby McFerrin
Links:
Gregg Resource Group Website
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Today I welcome Alun Bedding to the show. Alun has worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a statistician for over 30 years and four years ago qualified as a coach through the Academy of Executive Coaching in 2020, gaining the International Coaching Federation credential of Associate Certified Coach in 2023.
Since 2020, he has amassed over 400 hours of coaching working with individuals and teams. A passionate advocate of coaching, he has appeared on podcasts, webinars and blogs extolling the benefits of coaching.
He believes that coaching is for everyone and that anyone can benefit from a good coach.
What you’ll hear about:
- Leaders as coaches
- Creating space for people to think
- You don’t have to know all the answers
- Find people around you to practise with
- The art of not interrupting people
- The beauty of silence
- Finding the people who help you show up authentically
- Don’t become the advice monster
- Stay curious and ask questions
- The confusion around the word “coach” and whether it’s directive or indirective
- Who am I?
Weekly Challenge : Be present in a conversation. Be an active listener and be in a world of not knowing.
Power of Music : In the end by Linkin Park
Links:
Alun’s LinkedIN
Alun Bedding coaching and consulting website
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Today I speak to Geoff McDonald. Geoff was previously the Global Vice-President of HR, Marketing, Communications, Sustainability at Unilever, and is now a global advocate, campaigner and consultant in addressing the stigma of mental ill-health in the workplace and elevating wellbeing to a strategic priority in the C suite.
He is a very much sought-after keynote speaker, who inspires and provokes organisations to put wellbeing at the centre of everything they do, with a reputation for energising and motivating audiences to take action in creating workplaces that enhance the lives of all employees.
What you’ll hear about:
- The powerful emotions of love and hope
- Being open to talking to friends and colleagues
- The stigma of mental ill–health
- Understanding anxiety and depression
- How companies are supporting people with mental ill-health in the workplace
- Reflect on your own relationship to mental-ill health
- Start the conversation on mental-ill health in your team/company
- Tell your story
- Bring in an external catalyst to gain awareness and start the conversation
- Move from the rationale to the story-telling
- Understanding not everyone is a great story-teller
- Get the right permissions before you share your story
- What does asking for help mean?
Weekly Challenge : See if you can take on some “CAN DO” everyday - Connection, Be Active, Be Nice to someone, Discover, Observe
Power of Music : Don’t let the old man in by Toby Keith
Links:
Geoff’s LinkedIN
Geoff’s Website
Minds @ Work
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Today I speak to Kristelle Siarza Moon. Kristelle is a business executive, non-profit founder and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in digital communications and leadership. In 2014, she founded Siarza Social Digital – a 360 degree digital marketing firm that pivots on innovation, curation and creativity.
As a proud Filipina, Kristelle founded the Asian Business Collaborative to support Asian business owners – an often underrepresented group in the business community. The collaborative was founded when Kristelle identified a lack of small business support to Asian owned businesses during the 2020 pandemic, the “non-profit in the making” was formed to focus on prosperity with a cultural competency lens.
What you’ll hear about:
- The importance of family in driving your purpose and priorities
- Finding a mentor
- Building community and its influence in decision making
- Jumping fully into opportunities
- Using community to grow and evolve
- Starting up a non-profit organisation
- Getting comfortable failing forward
- Being authentic can be a differentiator
- Don’t be boring
- Compassion for each other in a team
- Focussing on teachable moments
Weekly Challenge : When you wake up in the morning what do you ask yourself and when you get home are you the person you wanted to be during the day?
Power of Music : Love Train by The O’Jays
Links:
Kristelle’s LinkedIN
Siarza Agency
Asian business collaborative
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I’m super excited to chat with Michele Kuei today. Michele is your go-to coach in Visibility Marketing and a wizard at content and email marketing strategies.
She’s the founder of Elevate LifeCoaching, where she's all about helping
Female coaches turn their passion into a thriving business. Her journey has taken her from playing small with physical disability to hiking Machu Picchu, and now, she's a rising star in the marketing world. Michelle is the kind of person who not only knows her stuff but also knows how to make a real connection and light up a room.
What you’ll hear about:
- Most of us walk around thinking we’re authentic when we’re not
- Authenticity has to embody truly who you are
- The hard lesson of acceptance
- Body shaming
- The importance of hitting rock bottom to motivate you
- Self-reflection
- Putting yourself as the priority
- Recognising the small wins from being dedicated
- A pivotal moment in asking for help
- Everyone of us has a Hero inside
- Owning the room
- Having commitment for yourself
- 5 step confidence process
- The importance of belonging
Weekly Challenge : Find one thing that makes you forget about the time and you can indulge in
Power of Music : Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes
Links:
Michelle’s LinkedIN
Michelle’s Instagram
Elevate Life Coaching Website
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Today I chatted with Brian Sachetta. Brian is the author and owner of Get Out of Your Head®, a brand and book series that seeks to help folks overcome anxiety and depression.
By trade, Brian is a software developer. He combines his experiences in the tech
world with previous mental health battles to draw parallels between computer
systems and the human mind and give readers practical strategies for evading
their own psychological demons.
Brian currently has two books launched, “Get Out of Your Head: A Toolkit for
Living with and Overcoming Anxiety” and “Get Out of Your Head Vol. 2: Navigating
the Abyss of Depression.”
His mission is to help as many sufferers as possible.
What you’ll hear about:
- Using your personal story to help others
- The benefit of frameworks
- Creating cathartic moments for yourself
- Make sure your capabilities match what the market is looking for
- Managing expectations
- Self-inflicted pressure
- Authenticity creates better conversations
- Authenticity being a branding tool
- Not being authentic can lead others to pigeonhole you in the wrong areas
- The importance of tough love
Weekly Challenge : Find someone this week to share something you don’t usually share
Power of Music : Self Revolution by Killswitch Engage
Links:
Brian’s LinkedIN
Get out of your head Instagram
Get out of your head website
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Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. From our last four guests on the podcast : Darby Vannier, Claire Brittain, Victoria Pelletier, Margaret Mary O’Connor
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
- Let it Go by Dame Stephanie Shirley
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- What they don’t teach you in Catholic College. Women in the priesthood and the mind of Christ by John Wijngaards
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Today we chat with author Margaret Mary O’Connor. Margaret has been called, “The Modern Day David” on many occasions. On a mission to reveal carefully guarded secrets of the Catholic Church, she unveils the truth through her well-researched writings.
Author of Scandal in the Shadows and Journey of a Celiac’s Soul, Margaret Mary is a force to be reckoned with. She also hosts her own podcast Your Radical Truth for those wanting to get monthly insights from Margaret and her guests.
What you’ll hear about:
- The importance of early childhood memories in creating a purpose
- Women’s ordination
- Women in the priesthood
- The motivation that comes from finding your purpose
- Keep asking questions, even when others think the answer is definitive
- The importance of diversity in decision making
- Cultural prejudice
- Listen! If you are spending money and time to investigate a topic. Listen to what the results are saying
- Get out of your comfort zone
Weekly Challenge : Go back to an area you think you’re an expert and do a further deep dive and see if there is an alternative viewpoint you haven’t considered.
Power of Music : I will survive by Gloria Gaynor
Links:
Margaret Mary O’Connor LinkedIN
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Today we welcome Victoria Pelletier on the show. Victoria is a 20+ year Corporate Executive, Board Director, #1 selling author and Professional Public Speaker. Nicknamed the “Turn Around Queen” and the “CEO Whisperer” by former colleagues and employers, Victoria inspires and empowers her team and clients to change mindsets and drive growth in business, leadership and culture.
As someone who does not subscribe to the status quo, she is always ready for new challenges becoming one of the youngest Chief Operating Officers at the age of 24, president by 35 and a CEO at age 41.
Victoria has delivered keynotes discussing the significance of Whole Human Leadership - being an empathetic and authentic leader, as well as the importance of personal branding and its impact on professional growth; the power of DEI on corporate cultures and building a life of resilience.
What you’ll hear about:
- Whole human leadership
- The unseen employee
- Leaning into what makes your feel uncomfortable
- Strategic intentionality
- The importance of personal branding
- Radical candour
- Being confident
- Building Resilience
- Creating belonging within organisations
- You can not be what you can not see
- You're the CEO of your career and brand
Weekly Challenge : Figure out their Brand Why. What makes you different from others?
Power of Music : Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Links:
Victoria’s LinkedIN
Victoria’s Website
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As April is world autism day I asked Claire if she’d be willing to come on the podcast to help raise awareness around autism and authenticity.
Claire Brittain is a medical statistician who has worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry for 20 years supporting trials across many therapeutic areas. Claire has an overwhelming passion for inspiring the next generation of statisticians whether that be through her non-profit work, mentoring as well as the people she’s managed through her career. Claire has 3 boys aged 12, 8 and 7 of which 2 have been diagnosed as autistic. In her spare time she likes to run and in 2023 she completed 12 half marathons for Beyond Autism. So impressive!
What you’ll hear about:
- The broad diversity in autism diagnosis
- The changing understanding of autism within the general public
- Young careers support
- Support for neurotypical children
- Finding time for yourself
- Don’t worry about terminology. The conversation is the important part
- Superpowers
- Living in a state of wonder
- Resetting what “normal” is
- Neurodiversity often isn’t just one condition
- Needing to think about the whole person
Weekly Challenge : Follow someone on social media who thinks differently to you (Some options below may be a quick win)
Power of Music : Ride this feeling by Kate Miller-Heidke
Links:
Claire’s LinkedIN
Amanda Kirby LinkedIN
Ellie Middleton LinkedIN
Beyond Autism
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Today we welcome Darby Vannier on the show. Darby has over 20 years of experience, as a seasoned leader adept at building and growing organisations.
As President & CEO of Indispensable Leadership Group, he excels as an executive coach, consultant, speaker, and fractional COO, focusing on strategic and leadership development.
Darby built his career on the philosophy that developing the right people is the key to success. Which is something we are absolutely going to dig into more. He is also the author of The Indispensable Leader: How to Use Your Inner Manager and Visionary to Achieve Leadership Success
What you’ll hear about:
- Making the right decisions not the easy decisions
- Using data to back-up your decisions
- Communication and education
- Balancing holding back and speaking your truth
- Owning your mistakes
- Understanding our impact on others as leaders
- Enabling spaces for people to be authentic
- Finding your best manager and visionary characteristics
- Understanding we all have an impact in our organisations
- Informal leadership
- Be Kind
Weekly Challenge : What are those moments you may have seen as insignificant which may be huge to someone you interacted with
Power of Music : Any Caribbean style music
Links:
Darby’s LinkedIN
Indispensable Leadership Group Website
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Today you’ll hear about 5 different books. From our last four guests on the podcast : Kristin Demoranville, Jack Leigh, Bernadette Smith, Kate Galli
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- The Big Leap by Gay Hendrix
- Throne of Glass series by Sara J Maas
- The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
- The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle
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Today we welcome Kate Galli on the show. Kate is a health coach and author. She is relentlessly focused on creating a healthy, happy, compassionate world. She specialises in creating the Mindset that makes your best eating and exercising choices simple and sustainable. She also hosts the The Healthification Podcast.
What you’ll hear about:
- Walk the talk
- Align a goal with a value
- Meet people where they are in any advocacy work
- Censoring yourself all the time
- Lead with delicious food
- The importance of mindset
- Reframing words towards positive
- Overcoming overwhelm
- Lower the bar to raise your chance of success
- How’s that working for you?
- How to increase self-care
- Use your beliefs and values as a filter
- Filter the people you spend time with
- The pleasure of taking action
- Back yourself
Weekly Challenge : Elicit your personal values and link it to your goals and ambitions
Power of Music : The logical song by Supertramp
Links:
Kate’s LinkedIN
Strong Body Green Planet Website
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Today we chat to Bernadette Smith. Bernadette is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Speaker and is also a Bestselling Author. Her 4th book, Inclusive 360: Proven Solutions for an Equitable Organization was an instant bestseller.
For over 10 years, Bernadette has spoken to thousands of enthusiastic business leaders and her expertise has been sought after by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Fast Company. She’s appeared on the Today Show, the BBC, National Public Radio, CNN and more.
Bernadette is the host of her own weekly podcast, 5 Things In 15 Minutes: Bringing Good Vibes to DEI.
What you’ll hear about:
- Appreciating where you are
- Being true to what you love
- Finding connection in your work
- Knowing your boundaries
- Identity crisis
- Impact and financially viable
- Journey of self-love and self-worth
- Know your personal story Why is DEI personally important to you
- Know the data!
- It’s not enough just to train and recruit to hit your DEI ambitions
- Moving out of your comfort zone
- Intention is required and taking accountability
- Measuring metrics that matter
- Using the ARC method to help you speak up for yourself and others
Weekly Challenge : Follow the ARC method - Ask, Respect, Connect
Power of Music : Traditional Irish pub songs – The Wild Rover
Links:
Bernadette’s LinkedIN
Bernadette’s Website
The ARC Method
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Today we chatted with Jack Leigh. Jack has been working in the video production industry for 12 years, involved in a variety of projects, from high-end film and TV productions like 'Fast and Furious 6', 'Peaky Blinders', and 'Last Tango in Halifax', to directing documentaries around the world in Africa, the US, and even the Arctic. For the last seven years, Jack has been leading a production company called Eight Engines, which produces commercial and marketing films, as well as broadcast and arts work.
One of the specialities of EIght engines is working with interviewees, especially those who have experienced intense trauma, to help them appear relaxed and authentic on camera. Since speaking on camera can be very challenging for our interviewees, Eight Engines devote significant time to coaching them, ensuring their authenticity throughout the process.
What you’ll hear about:
- Learnings from having worked in a blame culture
- The challenges of freelance working
- Knowing what environments allow your authenticity to shine
- Empathy versus detachment
- Creating impactful stories
- Giving people the space to talk and you just listen
- Growing confidence on video
- Get good at editing
- Tips to showing authenticity on screen
- Focus on having a conversation versus reading a script
- Don’t worry about the quality, concentrate on the content
- Give yourself the chance to make mistakes and don’t panic
- Finding an engaging and creative way for any topic
- Understanding what you client and their customers want
- How to influence
Weekly Challenge : Book an hour long call to record some content and see how many one minute videos you can make from it
Power of Music : American Pie by Don Maclean
Links:
Website: https://www.eightengines.com/
Jack’s linkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackleigh/
Rich is the Life: https://vimeo.com/270342907?share=copy
PolyPipe: https://www.eightengines.com/case-studies/polypipe-a-question-of-regs
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Kristin Demoranville is the visionary Founder and CEO of AnzenSage, a cybersecurity firm focused on the food industry. With a quarter-century in the tech sector, Kristin is pioneering a transformative approach by intertwining cybersecurity and food protection culture. She challenges conventional tech boundaries by centering her philosophy on the pivotal role of people and processes.
Her collaborations with Fortune 500 powerhouses and an academic background in Environmental Management equip her with a holistic perspective that allows her to make unique connections between people, processes, and technology. A recognized figure in leading publications and a coveted speaker at various events, Kristin stands as a bridge between food protection and cybersecurity.
Beyond her corporate feats, she's the charismatic host of the "Bites & Bytes Podcast," fostering enlightening dialogues between food and cybersecurity professionals.
What you’ll hear about:
- Taking brave steps
- The importance of common sense
- Reacting to expectations and negative feedback
- Hiding yourself within a protection cocoon
- Self-analysis
- Embracing who I am or Do I shrink
- Using feminine power as a mask
- Stepping into the role of a CEO
- Mentoring the next generation
- Finding your voice
- Getting the right people around you
- Don’t ask for my opinion if you don’t want it!
- Diverse opinions increases security
- Advocate for yourself
- Belonging
- The Bites & Bytes podcast
Weekly Challenge : Be present. Be curious about why people & yourself react in certain ways
Power of Music : The Journey by H.E.R
Links:
Kristin’s LinkedIN
AnzenSage
Bites and Bytes podcast (website) also available on your favourite streaming platforms
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Today you’ll hear about 5 different books. From our last four guests on the podcast : Michael Ostland, Genevieve Piturro, Bill Benjamin, Jenn Cordz
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- J. P. Pawliw-Fry - Performing Under Pressure
- Heinrich Boll - An Anecdote Concerning the Lowering of Productivity
- Ed Mylett - The power of one more
- Emily Frisella - Relationships first
- Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Ryan Hamilton.
Ryan is the creator and founder of the wine experience which has been going for over 12 years and in 2022 he founded Universimm which is an Entertainment app that focuses on hyper-relevant content, like-minded engagement & better social connections!
Universimm is a tale of the underdogs who dared to challenge the titans of social media with an opposing business model. Their ultimate goal is to revolutionise a new market segment creating big disruption in this space!
What you’ll hear about:
- Ryan’s entrepreneurial journey
- Discovering purpose and values unlocked his authenticity
- The need for self-reflection
- Being open to vulnerability
- Embracing imperfection
- Going the extra mile & being proactive
- Know your boundaries
- Finding the courage to be yourself
- Journey of self-discovery
- Social authenticity
- Overcoming fear
- Take that first step
Weekly Challenge : Set some boundaries this week. Grow in confidence saying No.
Power of Music : Love you ‘till the end by The Pogues and Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
Links:
Ryan’s LinkedIN
Universimm website
Universimm Instagram
You can download the UNIVERSIMM app via your app store.
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Bill Benjamin on the show. Bill is a partner at the Institute for Health & Human Potential, who are global leaders in delivering Culture and Emotional Intelligence training.
Bill is a mathematician & computer scientist who learnt the power of managing emotions while he was in the tech industry. He is known for his honesty about the struggles he had early in his career as a leader.
His degrees in mathematics and computer science lead him to take a practical and scientific approach to helping people understand how the brain responds under pressure, and to leverage that to increase leadership and performance.
Bill has over 30 years of business experience and has provided his expertise on performance and leadership with diverse groups in many high-pressure environments, including the U.S. Marines, NASA, Intel and Amazon
What you’ll hear about:
- Being your best & speaking your truth in your last 8% moments
- Managing your emotions
- Growing comfortable with stepping into the difficult moments
- Authenticity is the number 1 ranked competency for emotional intelligence
- Build up self-awareness practices
- Understanding your emotional responses
- People remember how you show up in those critical moments
- How memories are stored in your memory
- The importance of connection and courage within culture
- Knowing your emotional triggers and finding ways to manage them where possible
- Having agency around your emotions
- Your initial imprints are made by the age of 5
- You’re not alone. We all struggle
Weekly Challenge : Listen to the video and see where you start dropping markers to start your journey of awareness.
Power of Music : Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin
Links:
Bill’s LinkedIN
Bill’s video on understanding your emotional responses
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Jenn Cordz. Jenn is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Avnir.
Jenn is leading the digital transformation of two decades of professional services methodology into a Generative AI-enabled platform to digitize strategic relationship identification, nurturing, development, and capitalization.
She currently serves on two non-profit Boards, lending her expertise to various environmental and sustainability initiatives. Jenn is also a member of the United States Women's Fly Fishing team.
What you’ll hear about:
- Finding what your passionate about
- Sticking up for your core values
- Continually re-evaluating whether your core values align with who you are today
- Asking questions with the intent of learning
- Being confident in being a beginner and not looking bad
- The exponential learning curve working in a start-up company
- The importance of holding your space
- Rely on your skills & be undeniable at what you do
- You don’t have to be the smartest in the room, but you need to contribute in a valuable way
- Find your allies
- Leadership is not an inherent trait
- Paying attention to the fundamentals when it comes to leadership
- Continual feedback loops & maintaining your curiosity
- Pay attention to the things not being said or opportunities not being offered
- Asking good questions if you want good answers
- Invest in others and yourself
- The importance of continual learning
Weekly Challenge : Create a time in your calendar (10-30 mins) to improve your own self-growth
Power of Music : Perfect by P!NK
Links:
Jenn’s LinkedIN
Jenn’s webpage with Anvir
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Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. From our last four guests on the podcast : Kelly J Mendenhall, Derek Newborn, Sean BW Parker and Cynthia Corsetti
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers
- The down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- The universe has your back by Gaby Bernstein
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Genevieve Piturro. Genevieve is all about Purpose and The Human Connection. She was a successful television marketing executive until a sudden inner voice challenged her direction and she dramatically altered the path of her life. She found her true purpose when a simple question from a six-year-old girl in an emergency shelter changed everything. In 2001, she jumped off the corporate ladder and founded the hugely successful national non-profit, Pajama Program.
This year, the Program celebrates its 22nd anniversary, having delivered more than 7 MILLION magical gifts of new pajamas and new books to children through its 42 chapters across the U.S.
Genevieve is now an inspirational speaker and purpose consultant inspiring individuals, groups, and companies to find their purpose & embrace the human connection for success.
Her first book, sharing life and leadership lessons she learned through her Pajama Program journey, is an Amazon best seller and the winner of five awards.
What you’ll hear about:
- Asking the question is this enough?
- Finding your purpose
- Taking a big leap in life around your purpose
- Building a legacy
- Gaining confidence to tell people about a change
- Gather your cheerleaders
- Do what you can handle, keep it simple
- Embracing joy
- Relax, trying to live up to others expectations
Weekly Challenge : 90 minute purpose challenge
Power of Music : Don’t Stop Believing by Journey
Links:
90 minute Purpose Challenge
Genevieve Piturro website
The Pajama Program
Genevieve’s LinkedIN
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Michael Ostland. Michael has led large statistics functions, he’s also led large matrix teams driving the R&D and commercial side of a number of drugs and now is the Head of development in Europe for Denali therapeutics.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Michael for many years and watching the interesting and diverse career he’s had. I was extremely curious to know more about Michaels motivations and how authenticity had played into some of the big decisions he’s made so I was over the moon when he agreed to come on the show.
What you’ll hear about:
- Authenticity changes as you grow and as experiences shape you
- The importance of finding places that can accelerate your growth and learning
- Keeping options open, exploring, keep learning about yourself, and evolve
- The evolution of work
- Curiosity - understanding who you work with to be effective
- Going beyond the baseline of curiosity to really understand the why about others and their functions/teams
- Broaden experience in your early career
- The need for good functional management is still needed
- Choosing the right next career step for you
- That’s different …. What do you choose to do next?
- Business culture differences between the US and Switzerland
- Building a support network
- Being constructively difficult
Weekly Challenge : Calendar stealth audit : Spend some time assessing where you’re spending your time
Power of Music : All of You - Keith Jarrett Trio
Michael’s LinkedIN
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This week I share a wonderful conversation I had with Kelly J Mendheall. Kelly describes herself as a disabled author, artist, speaker, and advocate. Kelly has been raising awareness about and fighting against medical gaslighting since 2017. When she had a sudden medical disability.
Kelly made a name for herself as a medical journalist and blogger, writing the websites BlastingNews.com, SpineNation.com, and her own blog, Nerdzilla Lives!
In 2019, Kelly published her first book, Skin in the Game: The Stories My Tattoos Tell, receiving rave reviews. Most recently Kelly launched the #affordableartrevolution in December 2022, and this year served as keynote speaker at Disability Awareness Day in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
What you’ll hear about:
- A drive to do and know better
- Learning to be an expert
- Medical gaslighting
- New perspectives on where to spend energy
- You drown from staying in the water
- Choosing laughter over tears
- The power of creativity
- Mental, physical and spiritual health
- Refinding your childhood dreams
- Breaking free of self doubt
- Knowing your value
Weekly Challenge : Dream like a kid again
Power of Music : Beautiful Disaster by 311
Links:
https://kellyjmendenhall.com/
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Derek Newborn. Derek has been a teenage father, a construction worker, a personal trainer, a fitness model, and a business owner. He describes himself as having been a liar, a cheater, a back stabber, and a narcissist. Through his trials, tribulations, and downfalls he has learned that it’s never too late to turn your life around.
He now dedicates his time to helping victims of narcissists gain back control in their own lives through the Newborn blueprint.
What you’ll hear about:
- The more success he had on the outside the more self sabotage he was doing on the inside
- Living two lives
- Self-reflection
- The common denominator in all my problems was myself
- Needing someone to meet you at rock bottom
- Recognising you have the opportunity to change everything from today!
- Asking for help
- Taking extreme ownership
- The impact of social media
- Removing the things which aren’t serving young
- Being my most authentic allows me to be my most vulnerable
Weekly Challenge : Write down everything that you tell yourself when things go wrong in your life. On the opposite side, write down the positive alternate statement.
Power of Music : Fighting by Tyler Joe Miller
Links:
the Newborn blueprint
@dnewborn on Instagram
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Sean BW Parker. Sean is a British writer, artist and academic in art, cultural theory and justice reform. He lived in Istanbul for ten years until 2014 where he lectured at Istanbul University, and gave a TEDx talk 'Stammering and Creativity'.
He has published or contributed to a number of books, won six Koestler Arts awards (including a platinum for his play The Wolfstadt-Wire) and a Perrie Lectures essay award in 2019.
Sean is Editor of False Allegations Watch, for the Empower the Innocent organisation.
What you’ll hear about:
- The enigma of stammering
- Stammering Pride
- Accepting your disfluency
- Taking control and being open to talk about your speech impediment
- Turning internal language processing into creativity
- Balancing a state of aspiration and integrity
- Being pragmatic through changing a name
- R is the hardest letter to pronounce in the English language
- Finding community while in prison
- Keeping strong to maintain your innocence
- Not letting things define you and putting it down as another chapter in your life
Weekly Challenge : Reach out with curiosity to someone you know with a speech impediment to learn more.
Power of Music : Don’t believe the hype by Public Enemy
Links:
Sean’s LinkedIN
Sean’s Youtube
TED X Sean BW Parker Stammering and Creativity
Stamma Org
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This week I spoke to Cynthia Corsetti. Cynthia is an executive coach and author of the upcoming book "Dark Drivers". With more than 20 years of corporate leadership roles and over 11 years of executive coaching experience, she works with high-performing executives, startups, and Fortune 500 companies.
What you’ll hear about:
- What are dark drivers
- The goal of coaching is not therapy, but making connections
- Understanding your brief systems that are driving behaviours
- Choosing which version of you is driving the bus
- Understanding your memories may not be accurate
- Leaders need to understand that people come with so much history
- The importance of empathetic leaders
- Learning to really understand yourself and not others beliefs
- CARE to lead philosophy
Weekly Challenge : Look for patterns in your own behaviour
Power of Music : El-Shaddai by Amy Grant
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiacorsetti/
https://www.cynthiacorsetti.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cynthiacorsetti/
Book pre-lauch acess : https://darkdrivers.presale.manuscripts.com/registration/select
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Today you’ll hear about 5 different books. From our last five guests on the podcast : Jenn Fenwick, Kyle Dufford, Louise Coughlan, Danny Covey and Natalie Mullin
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Walking the Amazon: 860 days one step at a time by Ed Stafford
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
- How to be a Human by Ruby Wax a neuroscientist and a Monk
- When the body says no by Gabor Mate
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Natalie Mullin. Natalie is a Certified Wellness Educator, Speaker, Facilitator, and Life Coach. As the host of "From a Full Cup," a mental wellness podcast, Natalie inspires women to dream big and take action. She draws from her own struggles during a mental health breakdown. She has now emerged as a thought leader on Disruptive Wellness.
Through focusing on her holistic wellbeing, conducting a thorough life gap audit and crafting a strategic life roadmap to fill the gaps, she regained her footing, proving to others that it's possible to carve a life path aligned with one's values, goals, and future vision.
What you’ll hear about:
- Disruptive wellness
- The 12 elements of wellness
- Slowing down
- Really understanding who you are
- Breaking free of the hustle
- Marriage separation & reconciliation
- Finding inspiration and confidence through others stories
Weekly Challenge : Spend some time with yourself. Check-in on how you’re feeling? And how do you feel about that?
Power of Music : Joy by for King and Country
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-mullin/
https://www.nataliemullin.com/
https://www.instagram.com/nataliemullin/
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This week I share a wonderful conversation I had Danny Covey on the show. Danny has faced many battles in his life. He underwent eight heart surgeries. He has nearly died on the operating table three times, and was repeatedly told he would never physically excel. And yet, after much blood, sweat, tears, and prayer, he fulfilled an unimaginable childhood dream.
The fact that he is alive and well, and has achieved what many believed to be impossible, is a miraculous story that I’m excited for him to share with us about and for us all to learn from.
What you’ll hear about:
- Finding what gives you inspiration
- Accepting you’ll never know why some things happen
- Accepting what you can learn from an experience
- Don’t take No for an answer
- Risk responsibly
- Building resilience as a parent
- What can I do today that I couldn’t do yesterday
- Be grateful for what you have
- Embrace what scares you
- Life is unpredictable …. Face it!
Weekly Challenge : Do something that scares you this week and write down what you’re grateful for
Power of Music : Hope by NF
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/danny.covey
https://www.instagram.com/covetastic/
https://twitter.com/DannyCovey
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-covey-m-a-50181453/
www.dannycovey.com
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This week I share a wonderful conversation I had Louise Coghlan. Lou is a writer, speaker, communicator & motivational coach from County Kildare, Ireland. Her writing has been published in The Irish Independent, U Magazine & The Irish Times. She has also worked as a full-time journalist for The Offaly Topic while also working for national radio station Newstalk as a researcher & contributing documentaries & being a guest panelist on Midlands 103.
Louise also ran her own company Ceol PR for many years, helping artists and entertainers, as well as older people learning to use technology. She is very active on all social media platforms particularly with her Facebook Family on ‘Living and Laughing with Lou’ with over 20,000 followers. She writes weekly along with producing a mini podcast every Friday on https://livingandlaughingwithlou.substack.com
Since launching the book in October of last year, Lou has completed a ten week Irish tour, then took to the states for a three week trip meeting and greeting many of her fans across New York, Boston and Cape Cod. On her return she was invited to attend London Book Fair where she spent time with The Duchess of York, Sarah Fergusson who now has a copy of Granny Nancy's story in her home. Lou is now back travelling Ireland speaking about her love, loss and grief as she helps and heals people who are finding life heavy and continues to share her motto of 'looking up'. She will return to the states before the year is out. Her future is very bright as she carries the legacy of Granny Nancy in her heart to one and all.
With her upbeat enthusiasm for people, Lou is making quite the name for herself , along with her social media live streams and her love of hugs, tea and smiles, this girl is just what the world needs.
What you’ll hear about:
- Realising bad things happen and building acceptance
- Building resilience
- Overcoming grief
- When life is good….enjoy it!
- Learning to lean in and lean out
- Knowing what you individually bring to the table
- Don’t let your mind not tell you something that isn’t true
- Say YES to fun and the power to say NO!
- You are braver than you believe, You are stronger than you seen amd you smarter than you think
- Invest in people
Weekly Challenge : Smile at as many people as you can. For those brave, say Hello!!
Power of Music : Let somebody go by Coldplay and Catch and Release by Matt Simons
Links:
www.loucoghlan.com
www.livingandlaughingwithlou.com
www.facebook.com/livingandlaughingwithlou
https://livingandlaughingwithlou.substack.com
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This week I share a wonderful conversation with Kyle Duford.
Kyle is a president and executive creative director who specialises in crafting outstanding advertising and branding for global brands looking to own winnable market share. A former magazine editor, he spent much of his career focused on e-commerce in the fashion, outdoor, and sports industries. Kyle's unique blend of advertising, branding, and digital expertise allows him to create and lead some of the foremost brands through his work at The Brand Leader.
As a thought leader focusing on business leadership, Kyle grew the agency from five people to more than 30 in just three years, winning five Best Places to Work awards in the process. He prides himself on growing people first and building high-performing teams based on trust and vulnerability.
His first book, Twice Found: Getting a Second Chance at Life, Love, and Understanding God, is a memoir of his life-long struggle to find God while simultaneously searching for the love of his life after not seeing her for more than 20 years.
What you’ll hear about:
- Building space for vulnerability within team culture
- Creating an environment where people feel loved
- Growing people of character first in business
- It’s the small things that can make a big difference
- The power of appreciation
- Using a period of life to say Yes to whatever comes your way
- The ability of faith to nourish you and reminds you of how you’re seen
Weekly Challenge : What can you say Yes to this week
Power of Music : Good Life - One Republic and Living my Best Life - Ben Rector
Links:
Kyle’s LinkedIN
The Brand Leader
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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Jenn Fenwick. Leaders say that working with Jenn is like rocket fuel; she is a coach - sounding board & protector of headspace to leaders all across the globe. Her absolute sweet spot is working with leaders to nail their first 90 days in new roles and set themselves up for success.
Jenn has spent 19 years working in STEM, supporting 1000s of people as they take bold steps in their careers. From working with first time managers to first time CEO's, supporting tech startups in hyper growth phase to Fortune 500s, she's pretty much seen it all.
The most rewarding and challenging role she has ever had is that of mum to 3 yr old twins who keep her on her toes constantly.
What you’ll hear about:
- The need to create time and space to think
- The impact of burnout
- Don’t let your thoughts drive behaviour
- We do leaders need to be in this next evolution of their career
- Underestimating the stress and challenge of the first 90/180 days in a new role
- Finding flow when you have the culture to be embarrassed as yourself
- Your USP is YOU!!
Weekly Challenge : Make time on your calendar to look at what the next chapter looks like for you in life
Power of Music : Anna begins - Counting Crows
Links:
Jenn’s LinkedIN
Jenn Fenwick’s website
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Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. From our last four guests on the podcast : Jen Gilhoi, Rachael Griffin, Karen Jean-Francois, Kim Hacquoil
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters
- The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
- Unapologetically Ambitious by Shellye Archambeau
- The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress and the Key to Human Resilience by Scott Carney
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This week I spoke to Jen Gilhoi. Jen Is an advocate for and creator of healthy social experiences that decentralise alcohol. Her journey spans two decades of alcohol misuse, eight years of an alcohol-free lifestyle, corporate roles, and entrepreneurial ventures. She shatters stigmas around choosing not to drink by inviting others to engage in self and societal inquiry to heal and be well.
In her life and work, Jen is fascinated with the art of gathering and intentional conversations. She’s an event experience strategist and founder of Sparktrack; a writer and conversationalist cracking open society’s role in addiction at jengilhoi.com; and cofounder of Zero Proof Collective, where business leaders and those interested in the non-alcoholic beverages industry thoughtfully connect, collaborate, and share resources to advance zero-proof options, experiences, and social spaces.
Jen is also a board member of Dissonance, an organisation that promotes mental health and recovery in and through the arts.
What you’ll hear about:
- Addiction and authenticity
- Setting the right tone to support individuals not drinking alcohol
- A part of the sobriety journey is missing
- The need to communicate how highly addictive alcohol is
- Glamorisation of alcohol needs to change to change its perception in people's minds
- The need to normalise alcohol free lifestyles
- Be open to exploring your alcohol use
- Forgiveness and grace within the process
- Supporting individuals to have positive experiences that can be built upon
- The tie to alcohol as part of workplace culture
- Where companies have made progress in creating the right cultural tone
Weekly Challenge : Find your special non-alcoholic beverage and understand the ritual alcohol has in your life
Power of Music : Willow by Taylor Swift
Links:
Article with Marin Nelson around Soberforce - Salesforces workplace community
Jen’s LinkedIN
Jen Gilhoi website
TED x Talk: Sober Not Somber: An Enlightening Way to Evolve Drinking Culture
delivered Oct 29, 2022, and due out soon.
In the meantime behind the scenes on the process is here:
https://www.jengilhoi.com/sobernotsomber/the-tedx-talk-process-for-speakers
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Today I do another solo show and I'm excited to share insights I've gather both through lived experience as well as through a lot of reading!
What you'll learn:
- Understand yourself and your leadership style
- Understand the context that a leadership role is in, to predict if this will be a context that works for you and your style
- What people you lead need from you
- What peers and stakeholders need from you
- The context of the company
- Don’t be distracted by flashy titles. Be confident to say No to things that aren’t right for you
Links
Own your own leadership workshop
Book recommendation:
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? What It Takes To Be An Authentic Leader by Robert Goffee, Gareth Jones
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This week I spoke to Karen Jean-Francois. Karen is an analytics manager passionate about how data science and analytics can support businesses. While she finds digging into data is fun, experience taught her that it’s only a small part of the job, and she believes that focusing on personal development and having access to role models is key to having a successful career – no matter what your definition of success is.
This is why she created the TheTrivingAnalyst.com and the Women in Data Podcast in partnership with Women in Data UK and In 2020 she was recognized as one of the top Twenty in Data and Technology.
What you’ll hear about:
- Being able to stop being who others are expecting you to be
- Going on a quest to understand who you are
- Understanding your differences are your strengths
- Creating a role that works for you
- Breaking free of impostor syndrome
- The need for a support network
- Living with no regret and standing behind your decisions
Weekly Challenge : Pause every day and think what was authentic about me today
Power of Music : Feel the love - Freetown collective
Links:
Karen’s LinkedIN
Thrivinganalyst.com
Women in Data Podcast
Secret thoughts of successful women book
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This week I spoke to Rachael Griffin. Racheal is a breast cancer survivor of 11 years, and now a passionate advocate. She works in R and D in the pharmaceutical industry and is trying to invoke change, and give patients a voice from inside the industry.
She also is working as a volunteer with NICE helping review and re-write their breast cancer guidelines. A proud mum to an amazing 6 year old called Elliot and lives with her partner Marc and 13 year old cat Bobby.
What you’ll hear about:
- Building resilience after grief
- Being willing to change your plans
- Developing mental gymnastics
- Finding those things that spark joy
- The amazing wonder of your body
- Know me not my cancer
- Understanding everyone’s journey and needs are different
Weekly Challenge : Live your words. Don't just speak them.
Power of Music : My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit
Links:
Racheal’s LinkedIN
Young Breast Cancer Network on Facebook
Blackwomenrisinguk on Instagram
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This week I spoke to Kim Hacquoil. Kim has worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a statistician for over 15 years. She is Chief Data Scientific Officer at Exploristics, a global provider of biostatistics consultancy services and specialised statistical software supporting the development of new medicines, medical diagnostics and devices. Her work there helps deliver dynamic and innovative analytics solutions to the biomedical sector and she is passionate about harnessing data more effectively to drive better decision-making.
Kim is also an active member of PSI. As Careers Director she leads initiatives promoting medical statistics to school and university students as well as supporting members working in the industry with continued professional development
What you’ll hear about:
- Overcoming the feeling of guilt when you’re balancing many commitments
- Prioritise and sequencing
- What’s a future me problem
- Living in a VUCA world
- Learning to say No
- Pushing yourself out of your comfort zone
- Using time-boxing to give yourself more control
- Stop worrying about what others think of you
Weekly Challenge : Consciously think about what you have on your plate. What could you take away? Being mindful about what you add.
Power of Music : You spin me around (Like a record) - Dead or Alive
Links:
Kim’s LinkedIN
Exploristics Website
PSI Website
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Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. Three from our last four guests on the podcast : Mark Agnew, J-Ney Antique, Renee Dineen and Dan Cornell.
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- The Arrogance of Power : The Secret World of Richard Nixon by Anthony Summers
- Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed
- The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
- The God of small things by Arundhati Roy
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This week I spoke to Dan Cornell. Dan is a Managing Consultant at PA Consulting helping his clients embrace organisational agility in the Defence & Security sector. He has a keen interest in how teams come together to respond to change and volatility and how diversity and inclusion improves that ability.
He also leads PA's Global Pride network building equity for LGBTQ+ people in PA and beyond. Dan's work in Equity and Inclusion also extends in his own community supporting the Nottinghamshire LGBT Network, a charity supporting LGBT+ people in Notts and the surrounding area.
His background is in Software engineering and data science and he lives in Nottingham with his partner and their dog.
What you’ll hear about:
- You can’t have agility and innovation with diversity of thought
- Inclusion is critical to authenticity
- Culture is core to inclusion
- The requirement for allyship at a leadership level
- Move the burden off the under represented group
- Allyship requires activism
- Privilege is the opportunity to learn about bias rather than living it
Weekly Challenge : Consider the masks you're wearing at work
Power of Music : Nobody - Half-alive
Links:
Dan’s LinkedIN
Notts LGBT+ Network
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This week I share a fun and inspiring conversation with J-Ney Antique. J-Ney is a life sciences marketer for over 9 years. He is driven by putting the humanity in to marketing as well as a deep passion for helping to discover new treatments for diseases that help make patients' lives better.
He is a staunch champion of DEI, Mental Health and Wellbeing, and a qualified Mental Health First Aider.
What you’ll hear about:
- The importance of setting the context
- Being a cultural melting pot
- Living and breathing authenticity
- Accepting vulnerability
- Learning rejection to build character
- Agree to disagree
- Living with intent
- Information overload
- Authenticity is an everyday thing
- Keeping mentally fit
- Say something nice
Weekly Challenge : Walk 20,000 steps
Power of Music : One more time - Daft Punk
Links:
J-Ney’s LinkedIN
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This week I will take on another solo show. Sharing with you some reflections I’ve found useful when going through a transition in life, whether that be starting university, jobs, being a parent, wife…. the list goes on.
What you’ll hear about:
- Trust in others
- Trust in yourself
- No-one is liked by everyone
- Find what fuels your inner confidence
- Be kind to yourself
- Find someone who can call bullsh1t!
Weekly Challenge : Find what can give you a spark of inner confidence
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This week I share a great conversation I had with Mark Agnew. Mark's day job for the last 20 years has mostly been focused on advising and supporting politicians at the national and local level in the UK. Most recently this was for the elected Mayor of Hackney and his Cabinet.
By night he is one of the co-hosts of the podcast 'Tomorrow's World Audit Time' an extremely long and fascinating show in which Mark and his friend Russ look back at the old BBC science series Tomorrow’s world to finally find out just how much we were lied to when we were all growing up.
What you’ll hear about:
- The impact of moving from Ireland to the UK in the late 1980’s
- Imagining a completely different life, which stopped him living his life
- Gaining a new perspective on the place you live
- Realisation on who I wanted to be & what I wanted to mean to other people
- Going against the grain on career
- Living in the moment
- Authenticity in politics
- Importance of giving feedback
- Self-judgement
Weekly Challenge : Take a photo each day for a week to see things differently and try not to be so judgemental of yourself
Power of Music : Losing my mind : Imelda Staunton
Links:
https://twitter.com/twaudittime
https://www.instagram.com/twaudittime/
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This week I share a great conversation I had with Renée Dineen. Renée is an international thought leader playing at the intersection of business, leadership, psychology and well-being.
Prior to launching her own coaching & consulting practice, Renée spent over 20 years in international senior leadership roles in the high tech and biotech industries. Renée has presented on dozens of global stages and has been featured in high profile media publications such as Fortune, Financial Times, Elephant Journal and Ladders Career Magazine.
Most recently Renée co-authored an anthology titled “The Art & Truth of Transformation for Women” which is an Amazon International Best Seller.
In February 2020, Renée took her own story to the TEDx stage. Her talk titled Authentic Inaction: Undoing the Doing in a Do Crazy World is an account of her own trials and tribulations as a “doing addict” and workaholic, which has reached over 600K views and supports her mission to revolutionise the way we work, play & relate to one another and our purpose.
What you’ll hear about:
- What is Authentic Inaction
- Our addiction to being busy
- Making tough choices
- Breaking the myths around saying No
- Adding white space to your calendar
- Companies are not going to make it easy for you
- Are your boundaries serving you?
- Fake it till you make it, is not how you build confidence
- Confidence is an energy that supports you getting what you want and need in life
- When you’re confident you’re more interested in learning than getting it right
Weekly Challenge : Pick 3 things to say No to and one thing to say heck YES!
Power of Music : You say - Lauren Daigle
Links:
Renee’s LinkedIN
Renee's Website
TEDx: Authentic Inaction: Undoing the doing in a do crazy world
https://www.authenticinaction.com
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With our little break in the show over new year I managed to catch up on a lot of the recommendations from previous guests and I’m ready to start with a new batch of awesome books.
Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. Three from our last four guests on the podcast :Tara Safaie, Brenda Harrington, Jo Franchetti and Kate Munro.
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- Americanah : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Season of the Witch : David Talbot
- Out think the competition - How a new generation of strategists see options others ignore: Kaihan Krippendorff
- The City We Became : N K Jemisen
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This week I share a great conversation I had with Kate Munro. Kate has been in the pharmaceutical industry for a number of years and is now moving into communications with a side-hustle in writing. She recently wrote 3 powerful posts on LinkedIN about her experiences so far with the menopause
What you’ll hear about:
- Building a writing habit
- Taking time to observe what's around you
- Utilising LinkedIN to bring people into your work
- Social media engagement formulas
- The reasons behind not engaging openly with social media content
- What is original content??
- Training your brain to think about things in a new way
- Don’t be narrowly confined by the context your in
- Showing different reflections of your personality on different platforms
- Start writing what you notice everyday. It doesn’t need to be shared
Weekly Challenge : Take 7 days to write down 7 observations. What it means to you to observe that, what insights do you draw from,, what questions does it raise – you don’t have to publish!
Power of Music : Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue and You’re Free by Ultra Nate
Links:
Kate’s LinkedIN
Don’t use the M word Part 1
Don’t use the M word Part 2
Don’t use the M word Part 3
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This week I share a great conversation I had with Jo Franchetti. Jo is a Developer Advocate at Spotify. She is passionate about teaching best use of the web and its technologies. She’s got 10 years experience as a front end developer and has worked in various parts of the tech industry from start-ups, agencies, charities to large organisations. Jo is a mentor and organiser at codebar.io and at Front End Foxes where she is able to act on her passion not only for teaching but also for improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.
What you’ll hear about:
- The difficulties she’s faced in a male dominated industry
- Using her frustration to build confidence to call out diversity issues
- The diversity glass ceiling
- The importance of mentoring
- Mental health concerns in the tech industry
- The cycle and expectations of “keep working hard” and keep going creates burn-out
- The importance of finding a company with the right culture for work to support you as an individuals
- The stress of not being stressed
Weekly Challenge : Make a diary of how you’re spending your time throughout the day and how you’re feeling while being in those times.
Power of Music : Apocalyptica - Cold Blood
Links:
Jo’s LinkedIN
Codebar
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This week I share a great conversation I had with Brenda Harrington. Brenda is the founder of Adaptive Leadership Strategies LLC, and the author of ACCESS DENIED: Addressing Workplace Disparities and Discrimination. As a Certified Executive Coach, she works with leaders globally across a variety of sectors to help them develop the professional habits needed for them to achieve their goals.
What you’ll hear about:
- Trying to fit into an archetype not your own limits your impact
- The continuum between influence and authority
- The need to create a space of psychological safety for people to be confident to be their whole selves
- Gaining confidence by taking small steps into something new
- We have to move away from thinking of diversity, equity and inclusion as a tick-box exercise
- Companies need to hold people accountable for desired and expected behaviour
- Having diversity does not automatically assume inclusion
- Using story to get out ouf your own head and try different approaches
- Setting the right expectations for yourself
- Taking ownership and thinking strategically about what you have the power over to do differently
Weekly Challenge : Do something which makes you uncomfortable and find comfort in being uncomfortable
Power of Music : I Wish - Stevie Wonder
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This week I share a fascinating conversation I had with Tara Safaie right at the end of 2022. Tara is a director, managing the portfolio for IDEOs Health group. She works closely with clients who aim to use design to change their organisation in human centred ways. Tara is also a first generation Iranian-American who speaks openly about the impact the situation in Iran is having on her and how she authentically shows up.
What you’ll hear about:
- The overlapping venn diagram between the person in and out of work
- Recognising at times in life you need your close friends and family around to allow you to really show up authentically
- Be kind to yourself & don’t be afraid to sit with your fear
- The importance of company culture in allowing you to show up authentically
- The deliberate rise to centre stage of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace
- Don’t worry about getting everything perfect. Just get started.
- The power of human centred design
- Consideration into the impact of incentives
Weekly Challenge : Find a hidden incentive
Power of Music : Welcome to the Jungle - Guns and Roses
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This week I will take on another solo show. With the aim to support you in getting towards some ambitious outcomes in 2023.
What you’ll hear about:
- 6 tips to support you in your dreams
- Have a clear outcome for the year
- Sanity check it’s your outcome
- Where are you today
- Who or what do you need around you
- Is it ambitious, yet realistic
- What is a small step you can take today
Weekly Challenge : Set your outcome for 2023
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As the end of the year draws closer. I'm excited to share with you today another book club episode. That may inspire you to snuggle up on the sofa with a hot drink or vino and take some time out for yourself at a time of year which can be equally amazingly special and overwhelming.
Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. Three from our last 3 guests on the podcast :Larry Chavis, Jenny Whitham and Jaqui Spencer and as it’s the last show in this series I have added in a book recommendation from myself.
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- Wonder : RJ Palacio
- There There : Tommy Orange
- Private parts : Eleanor Thom
- Love for imperfect things : Haemin Sunim
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Today I speak to Jacqui Spencer. Jacqui has been working in the healthcare industry for over 30 years and is the founder of Anything is Possible. She shares interesting reflections on how she’s built up confidence to be herself when surrounded by more experienced people, reflections on the three stages of career people tend to follow and the foundations of building strong teams.
What you’ll hear about:
- Believing in your authenticity when you feel out of your depth
- Not being afraid to ask questions and show vulnerability
- Hire great people!
- Leaving a legacy
- Wanting to be a role model
- 3 career stages
- Idealistic achievement, Pragmatic endurance, Reinventive contribution
- Foundations of good teams
- Focus on being the best version of yourself in a team
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Today joining me on the show is Jenny Whitham. Jenny shares her journey with Endometriosis and the challenges and opportunities that she experienced living with a chronic, often very painful condition, while working in the fast paced world of the media. She’s worked in TV production, with orchestras and is now an events producer for BBC audiences.
A few hints of what you'll hear about
- What is endometriosis
- Recognising the achievements that you’ve accomplished you may not have felt possible
- Coming to terms with balancing the roles and opportunities that she loves with what is right for her health
- How she has grown to be confident to be up front when apply for roles that she has endometriosis
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Larry is a teaching professor at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is a powerful voice on campus for diversity and inclusion, he served over three years as director of the American Indian Center, and was elected to the university faculty council.
Along the way, he has been honoured with two eagle feathers from North Carolina tribes for support of Native students and communities, inducted into UNC’s oldest honour society, and has a fellowship with the American Council on Education. He is and will continue to be a source of pride for so many people in his tribe and other Natives in North Carolina.
What you’ll hear about:
- Economics needs to start to speak to a broader range of people
- Survivance : Survival & resistance
- For businesses to remain relevant they need to keep up with what the next generation are pushing for
- What is power to Native Americans
- Pay versus value to society
- How to keep going against diversity
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As you start to think about some great gift ideas for the holiday season. I hope this book club session will give you a little inspiration. I talk to our last four guests of the podcast: Matt Webster, Lara Bezzara, Carl Emerson and Dr. Ardeshir Mehran to share a book that made an impact on their lives and why.
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
What you’ll hear about:
- Imperial life in the emerald city : Inside Baghdad's green zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Any books written by Philip Dick
- Dao de Jing : The book of the way - translation by Stephen Mitchell
- Lost Connections : Johann Hari
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This week I have Dr. Ardeshir Mehran with me. Ardeshir is a pioneering psychologist, leadership coach, and a business mentor. His first book You are not depressed, you are unfinished comes out next year.
A few teasers about what you’ll hear about:
- The emotional bill of rights
- Transforming how we think about emotions
- 7 experiences we are supposed to have in our lives for fulfilment
- How your emotional state can spread positively and negatively to others around you without anyone being aware
- His personal experience with depression and curiosity to understand why people are depressed or anxious
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This week I took some advice from my lovely listeners and embarked on a solo show.
A few insights into what you'll hear about:
- What is authenticity
- Examples of authenticity in context and an awareness of conflicts that may arise
- 4 tips to building your authenticity practice
- Getting started on defining your core values
- How core values can help you with life choices
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After experiencing his second redundancy Carl Emerson decided to set-up his own business InsideOut Solutions. He shares his thoughts on the importance of self-reflection and being able to listen to others and how this can help to unlock our understanding of different views and experiences of the world. Which can shine a lot on what our individual superpowers are. I'm excited to find out mine!
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I had the pleasure to speak to Lara Bezzara this week who after a successful 27 year career in the corporate world has ventured out on her own to build the company Work Coherence.
Lara has a deep spiritual connection with the work and impact she is driving in the world. Helping to bring people in harmony within their own lives and recognising the power of happiness within people in enabling companies to be successful.
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In this episode we speak to Matt Webster, a senior civil servant working in the UK government's Cabinet Office.
Matt was diagnosed with dyslexia at 7 years old. In this episode he openly shares the challenges and opportunities that have arisen over the course of his career including time in Her Majesty's Treasury and No. 10 Downing Street.
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There is nothing better than finding a book you can’t put down. Curling up with a cup of tea, glass of wine or being squashed on the underground as you delve deeper into a new world.
I asked our first four guests of the podcast: Teresa Graham, Dewi Kuipers, Timm Urschinger and Rebecca Pope to share a book that made an impact on their lives and why.
You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :)
- Give and Take by Adam Grant
- The Human Brain : A guided tour by Prof. Susan Greenfield
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Harmonic Wealth: The secret of attracting the life you want by James Arthur Ray
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In this week's episode the lovely Rebecca Pope joins us to share a number of heartwarming insights about the power of family and the importance of having open and respectful conversations to help educate and shine a light on areas we still need to see improvements, such as around equality in STEM and so much more.
Rebecca is the UK digital and data science innovation lead at Roche.
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This week I speak to Timm Urschinger who is one of the founding members of Live Sciences and co-creator of Teal around the World.
In this episode we tap into Timm’s experience on some of the advantages and watch-outs for companies moving to newer ways of working e.g. Agile, Teal.
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I spoke to Dewi Kuipers this week, kicking off with some amazing advice her mum gave her as a young girl that’s shaped how she has shown up authentically through-out her life.
Dewi is a HR manager and Gallup certified strengths coach who has broad leadership experience from her work at a variety of global fast growing companies such as OnLogic and West Coast Supply Group.
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I was excited to kick-off the podcast with Teresa Graham, who is the head of Global Product Strategy within Roche.
She has been an influencer without realising it in my own authenticity journey at work and I know you’ll gain some interesting insights from her as she talks about how she’s leant in and out of showing up authentically the impact it’s had on her and the importance of authenticity and trust when you’re in senior leadership positions.
Welcome to the Impactful Authenticity Podcast!! A weekly show hosted by Lucy Rowell.
Every Monday you can expect to hear:
- Personal stories from a range of diverse careers
- Helpful and actionable tips to try in our Weekly Challenge segment
- How authenticity has created new opportunities in peoples companies, jobs and lives
- Learn what has encouraged people to lean further in and areas where they’ve felt they’ve had to step back
- And we’ll sprinkle in a little bit of fun and nostalgia by hearing about a song that has made a meaning impact to our guests