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  • Four years, 131 episodes, 38 guests and three presenters later, it’s time to say goodbye to the Leadership & Life Chat ‘band’ as we know it.

    In this episode, original presenter, James Lay, makes a triumphant return and, alongside Becky, questions Mark on exactly how he’s been able to pre-plan and orchestrate his retirement at only 49, and the lessons he’s learnt on the way.
    Mark is, as always, open about his views on taking control of one's life, and recognising choices while always having a focus on a roadmap for the future, both in business and personal life. The team also dive deep and reflect on the importance of embracing personal purpose.

    They discuss the insights of previous guests around living to your values, stepping out of your comfort zone, overcoming fear, the power of support and encouragement, fears of public speaking, making sacrifices, challenging the perception of success, the importance of continuous learning, the power of asking questions and so much more.

    In this final EVER episode, Mark reflects on his past success and failures, shares the advice he would give to his younger self, and looks back on what he’s learned throughout his career, including the importance of being brave and speaking up, avoiding black and white thinking, and developing an internal locus of control.

    *Insert profound heavy metal lyric in honour of Mark here*…. Producer Lizzie can’t think of any, she’s a Taylor Swift fan…

    Show notes
    Impromptu Business Chat/Leadership & Life Chat episodes:
    • Interview with Paul McVeigh - the power of beliefs in business
    • How to be an AWESOME leader and achieve a great work-life balance, with coach and author Ben Coomber
    • Selling up is hard to do. What comes next? With business strategist, Dawn Bloomer
    • Highway to the conquer zone with profit hunter Freddie Bennett
    • Interview with Dr Chris Mason on Leadership Success
    • Find meaning in your work: Meaningful May
    • Power of public speaking with Andrew Brammer
    • Special interview episode with Damian Horner: The Dark Art of Marketing

    Marks Books/Podcasts

    Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! The Way of Wyrd Never Finished David Goggins The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawke Reality Blind: Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens podcast
  • In this episode, Garath Symonds, the founder of Reconnect Coaching, joins Mark and Becky to discuss his upcoming book, ‘The Anxious Leader’.

    They explore how anxiety impacts decision-making and leadership, the importance of rational thinking and ego reflection, as well as strategies for tolerating anxiety as opposed to rejecting it. They delve into the role of meditation and self-reflection for leaders, along with managing trauma's impact and the importance of vulnerability and psychological safety in top level roles, and ultimately, embracing life’s lessons.

    Tune in for fascinating insights into leadership and personal growth in the podcast’s penultimate episode!

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    Show notes
    Connect with Garath on LinkedIn
    Reconnectcoaching.co.uk
    Books
    The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World – Ronald A Heifetz
    The Bhagavad Gita – Eknath Easwaran
    What Matters Most – James Hollis

    Keep your eye on Garaths channels for the release of his upcoming book 'The Anxious Leader' - due to be published in 2024

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  • In a world of quiet quitting and the ‘Great Resignation’, what should employers be doing to keep their best people?

    This week Mark chats to Steve Jacobs, a director at WTW, to discuss the importance of employee benefits and how to navigate the ever-changing trends in the workplace.

    With the shift in employee expectations post COVID-19, and a focus on flexibility and work-life balance, they look at the differences between employer and employee perspectives on what constitutes a ‘benefit’ now and, in particular, what employees sometimes value above money. They discuss diversity and inclusion, global differences in legislation and the challenge of the multi-gen workforce.

    With a background in the Merchant Navy, and now working for WTW, a world leader in data driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital – Steve has seen it all, and his business has helped businesses to navigate stormy, unpredictable waters.

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    Show notes

    • Connect with Steve on LinkedIn
    • Find out about the work of WTW: wtwco.com & UK: wtw-healthandbenefits.co.uk
    • Leadership & Life Chat – Andy Nicol and Sue Liburd
    • Brené Brown podcasts
    • Ken Blanchard: ‘The One Minute Manager’
    • Ravin Jesuthasan: The future of work

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  • You might not think this topic applies to you – but it’s a conversation that might be important for someone you love.

    TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains mention of drug addiction, depression and suicide

    We open the LAST EVER series of the podcast with Mark and Becky chatting to Nick Jonsson in one of our most frank, honest and powerful episodes surrounding the often brutal reality of leadership and its toll.

    Nick opens up about his personal journey with executive loneliness and his own ‘rock bottom’, what led him to seek help, and his path to creating a safe space for senior executives and business owners to discuss their challenges.

    Nick is the co-founder and Managing Director of EGN, one of Asia's premier networking organisations, and his path takes him from his native Sweden to Australia and beyond!

    Nick is passionate about the need to change the perception of vulnerability and encourages leaders to embrace it as a strength.

    This conversation is a powerful dive into the realities of identity and purpose in the workplace, the impact of isolation on younger generations and the dangers of inflated ego in CEOs and business owners!

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    Show notes
    Nick's website
    Nick’s book: Executive Loneliness
    SUICIDE SUPPORT – UK: SAMARITANS Call 116 123
    USA: Call or text 988 or text TALK to 741741
    Vistage – peer network
    Leadership & Life Chat: Be more Labrador! Building trust at work with Darryl Stickel PhD

  • Do you listen to music whilst you work? There are countless studies and arguments on whether music can really make us more productive. We often hear radios playing in forecourts, offices and shops, and since the launch of Spotify and shrinking of headphones, playing music at work has become much less frowned upon. But what is the scientific impact on our brains? Should we be encouraging or discouraging our teams to embrace Beethoven whilst working? (or in Marks case, Metallica…)

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    Show notes

    Leadership & Life Chat - Practical guide to de-stressing with Havening Technique expert Tony Burgess

    Impromptu Business Chat - Up Your Energy - Increase your energy levels (part 1 of 2)

    Andrew Huberman – Huberman Lab podcast

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  • This conversation is far from a laugh riot, but is a fascinating insight into the reality of what it’s like for many teams members out there right now working under bad bosses. The stats will blow your mind!

    Fearless Organisation Practitioner Rob Kalwarowsky, famous for his speech ‘How to Avoid Becoming an As*hole Boss’; outlines the 6 different destructive leader types:

    • The arrogant or violent boss
    • Abusive narcissist
    • Messy boss
    • Cowardly boss (ghost managers)
    • Passive aggressive boss
    • Passive egocentric boss

    Do you recognize yourself as any of these? If so, it might be time to make a change. They seem extreme but Rob outlines the data and research behind how these categories came into the lexicon and how too much stress on teams will result in costs for businesses in the long term.

    There is a demand for the right people needed in businesses, but there’s a disconnect with the overall quality of leadership in businesses across the world – recent trends of quiet quitting and the great resignation are directly tied to specific managers. Rob believes that his insights can literally help to change your business and the lives of those working with you, forever.

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    Show notes

    Contact Rob:

    elitehighperformance.com

    Watch the full speech How to Avoid Becoming an As*hole Boss here

    Find Rob on:

    Instagram
    Youtube
    Linked In
    TikTok
    Spotify

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    Mindfulness Meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn
    Jamesclear.com
    No Bad Parts - Dr Richard Schwartz
    Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself – Michael Singer
    7 Rules of Power: Surprising - But True - Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance your career – Jeffrey Pfeffer

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  • In this episode we talk all things chaos theory. No, not the ‘interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions’ (thanks Wikipedia). Rather, how our unpredictable behaviour can impact our work and those around us.

    Mark and Becky discuss how there’s a difference between chaotic and energetic, how the differences impact our productivity, and how the pros and cons of what can be perceived as chaos in the workplace impact our relationships.

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    Leadership & Life Chat - How to cultivate creativity at work

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  • Psychotherapist, Gin Lalli, supports people in finding practical solutions for mental fitness when feeling out of control, and how to avoid negative thinking with the aim of limiting your stress.

    Stress is a consequence of negative thinking, and the responses come from the part of your brain that is designed to keep you safe – they were vital for survival in caveman days, but we don’t need them daily in 2024. We can retrain our brains to understand that thoughts and internal chatter are NOT facts. It takes time and commitment, but it is possible.

    Gin outlines the scientific role sleep plays in our mental health; how to cope if we don’t get enough sleep; the importance of micro-interactions; what the cause and effect of modern-day stress is and how our cortisol levels really work for and against us.

    There’s a lot of polar bear talk, supermarket self-checkout rage, and ‘Producer Lizzie’ even manages to wedge in the psychological benefits of horror films!

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    Show notes:

    Visit Gin's website at Ginlalli.com

    Gin’s book - Solution-Focused Therapy Handbook: How to Empty Your Stress Bucket & podcast - Stress Bucket Solutions

    The Chimp Paradox – Prof Steve Peters

    The work of Trevor Moawad

    Susan Jeffers – Feel the Fear and do it anyway

    Just One Thing – Michael Mosley podcast

    Sleep is your superpower – Matt Walker TED Talk

    Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker

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  • We are back for series 7! Loyal listeners will know that Mark and Becky are huge fans of Jim Collins, so they decided it was time to dive deep into his work, and look at the seven key questions he claims all leaders need to ask themselves. They outline how each question can help with recruitment and retaining our talented people! Jim once said leaders should be “rigorous, not ruthless.” Can this really be applied to success?

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    Show notes

    Jim Collins – Good to Great

    Value setting within business episode of Leadership & Life Chat – Working 9-5, not the only way to make a living

    Leadership & Life Chat - You’ve got the power

    The 7 questions

    Are you beginning to lose other people by keeping this person in the seat? Do you have a values problem, a wills problem or a skill problem? What is the person's relationship to the window and the mirror? Does the person see work as a job or a responsibility? Has your confidence in the person gone up or down in the last year? Do you have a bus problem or a seat problem? How would you feel if this person quit?

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  • Do you think you’ve grown as a person, or as a leader, or have you allowed your challenges or failures to hold you back?

    Human Potential Coach Kamini Wood is passionate about helping people to understand their worth and grow their personal and professional paths, or as she puts it, “I mess with how people think!” Do you ever feel like you don’t belong? You don’t fit in? What do you allow your inner critic to tell you?

    Kamini started her journey into personal development after realising, as a mother of five, she needed to start adopting a more conscious parenting tactic, as she was projecting too much of her own emotion onto her children. She could see people doing this at her family law firm too. Our relationship with ourself is the most important one we’ll ever have, so Mark and Becky chat to Kamini about how we can tap into our goals and values, and reject the fear response for the better of our businesses and brains!

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    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kamini.wood.5 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itsauthenticme/?hl=en LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaminiwood/ Kaminiwood.com RiseUp - Live Joy Your Way podcast Atlas of the Heart – Brené Brown Viktor Frankl Russ Harris – The Happiness Trap

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  • This week, Mark and Becky reflect on a topic which keeps coming up with their guests – the importance of emotional intelligence. They look back on their AI episodes and how the human in the loop theory will become more important in the future, extending past the technical aspects of a job, and into how to retain the people in your team; after all, people join organisations but leave managers.

    They discuss how EQ skills can be taught and learned, and why it’s so important for leaders to get hold of their own self-awareness, set the drum beat and audit their own emotions and how others perceive you.

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    Show notes

    AI Special roundtable with Alison & Alix

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  • This episode is a complete refresh on the topic of leadership. Antonio Garrido, former architect and author of My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success, has dedicated the latter half of his career to helping CEO’s better tap into their emotional intelligence, understand the art of truth telling and create more productive working relationships. His energy and experience offers a reinvigorated perspective on modern day business, as he philosophises with Mark over the reality of business ownership and management in 2023, he gives some uncomfortable examples of the type of personalities still allowed to operate at top levels, and why those businesses open themselves up to failure. Do you want to create a carrot or stick culture?

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    LinkedIn www.mydailyleadership.com Email Antonio: [email protected] Blinkist Leadership & Life Chat – How to cultivate creativity at work My Daily Leadership book Example of someone who has worked from the bottom up – Karen Hester COO of Adnams on Tourism Business Chat.

    Books

    Freedom from Command and Control: A Better Way to Make the Work Work Ted X – Itay Talgam - Lead like the great conductors The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller 10x Is Easier than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less, Dan Sullivan Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders Seth Goden books Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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  • The world of business is changing again and, where once we were encouraged to be proactive in our businesses, now, thanks to the advancement in AI, we might have to start being predictive – but how easy is this for humans, and will the world look like Minority Report!

    Mark and Becky reflect on their special roundtable chat this summer with AI experts, Alison Alexander and Alix Rübsaam, and discuss their fears around AI and the reliance that we might put on it, going forwards. They discuss the bias that will exist in the algorithms, how we must always be questioning AI’s answers, the potential stunt in creativity, and the possible dangers around predicting human behavior, especially in business.

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    Show notes

    • AI SPECIAL - Roundtable with Alix Rubsaam & Alison Alexander
    • Jocko Willink - Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
    • Minority Report (2002)

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  • Studies suggest that selling your business or retiring early do not necessarily make someone happier. Dawn Bloomer, a former veterinarian turned strategic advisor, knows this all too well.

    Dawn guides us through her journey after selling her successful practice and finding herself adrift – she hadn’t planned what to do next! She chats to Mark and Becky about the importance of exit plans and considering ‘what comes next’.

    They talk about the accountability and logistics often over-looked in any move, and the toxic ‘workaholic’ culture that still exists despite its known impact on our wellbeing. Dawn prefers to look at work-life balance as ‘integration’.

    This is a great episode for anyone looking to climb the career ladder, but who’s worried about the sacrifices they think are needed; those planning for an exit; and managers who need to better understand the implications of their teams returning after maternity, sickness or other forms of leave.

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    Show notes

    Contact Dawn - www.productivepressure.com

    Linkedin

    Larking Gowen Corporate Transactions

    Books

    Transitions (40th Anniversary): Making Sense of Life's Changes - – William & Sue Susan Bridges

    The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level – Gay Hendricks

    Reinventing Yourself – Steve Chandler – get the audio-book!

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  • We’re back for series SIX, and what better way to start than letting Mark do what he does best – philosophise about himself! He muses around what ‘being a creative person’ really means, and how we can embrace creativity and innovation in our businesses.

    Mark and Becky look at how creativity can’t be forced and how the pressures of work diaries, workloads and deadlines, particularly for business owners, can stunt creativity and what impact this has on your work and wellbeing. They discuss practical ways to empower your teams and how permission to think outside the box is sometimes all a person needs to find that spark!

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    Show notes

    The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin Impromptu Business Chat with Damian Horner - The Dark Art of Marketing (2021) Leadership & Life Chat - Practical guide to de-stressing with Havening Technique expert Tony Burgess

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  • How can you use, shape and lead AI in business – with experts Alix Rübsaam and Alison Alexander.

    Should we be worried? What does the future of humanity really look like? You might aready be familiar with ChatGPT, but there’s a whole world of AI out there, and it’s rapidly impacting how we live and work.

    For this special roundtable episode, we invited previous guests, Alix Rübsaam, Head of Curriculum and Expertise at Singularity Education Group and an expert on the human influence on algorithms, and Alison Alexander, the co-founder of Metacampus, and expert on Web3.

    This conversation takes us into the world of large language models, government legislation and policy, prompt engineering, Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), the human fear response, historical tech trends and, most importantly, the philosophical and moral implications of using AI in our businesses.

    This episode will help you navigate the real-life application of AI in your work, and learn how business owners can avoid a ‘wild-west’ situation with unintended consequences simply by implementing policy, systems and boundaries.

    If you’re still scratching your head wondering what on earth is going on, this one is not to be missed!

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    Show notes

    Alix
    • Alix on LinkedIn

    • Singularity Group

    Alison
    • Alison’s Substack

    • Alison on Twitter - @AMETAVERSEA

    • Alison LinkedIn

    • Metacampus

    General

    • DALL.E 2

    • Claude 2 Anthropic AI

  • Darryl’s journey is nothing short of inspirational. Darryl was already living with degenerative eyesight, resulting in becoming legally blind, when he was brutally attacked at 17. Rather than recoiling from the world and pursuing resentment, he decided to embrace empathy and his life and career of thinking was brought hastily forward. Darryl achieved his doctorate at Duke University and wrote his thesis on building trust in hostile environments.

    Inspired by Darryl’s guide dog Drake, who serves as his company’s ‘Director of Goodness’ (DOG), they talk about how to pursue a life of positivity, integrity, embracing neutrality in toxic work relationships, and how vulnerability is the key to building trust, which is proven to improve business levels.

    Mark and Darryl nerd out on their shared interest in tribalism and the bigger philosophical questions around leadership and discuss Darryl’s equation: Uncertainty x vulnerability = risk.

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    Building Trust - Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World – Darryl Stickel

    trustunlimited.com

    Leadership & Life Chat - The new office, and the generation gap

    Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman

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  • ‘Stuff’ happens, as Becky politely put it– but how do we deal with it now we’re all facing a new wave of challenges? There’s a lot going on; geo-political, environmental, and economic pressures and worries infringe on all our lives in some way, so Mark wants to revisit resilience. But that’s a bit of a buzz word now, so they work on the peripherals of what this encompasses, looking back on the Locus of Control technique; how you can learn, rather than defend yourself, in tricky situations; and how to avoid pity parties.

    They take inspiration from the work of Dr Lucy Hone and psychologist Owen Fitzpatrick.

    You can watch on YouTube here

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    Show notes

    3 secrets of resilient people – Dr Lucy Hone

    Leadership & Life Chat – You’ve got the power!

    Impromptu Business Chat – Owen Fitzpatrick, a practical guide to psychology in business

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  • It’s widely considered that the US Marine Corps is one of the best examples of leadership in the world. Veteran Janet Polach chats to Mark and Becky about how best to leverage the skills of your team and avoid being a selfish leader.

    They examine each step of Janet’s book, The Seven Mistakes New Managers Make, and delve into Janet’s ‘make it worse’ technique. After discussing the importance of people knowing their responsibilities and role, and the value in one-to-ones, they reflect on the impact of the transition between feedback frenzy in school, into the feedback desert that is the workplace.

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    Contact Janet – [email protected]

    LinkedIn

    The Seven Mistakes New Managers Make - Janet Polach

    Adam Grant PODCAST/WORK

    Attitude of gratitude - Leadership & Life Chat

    Olga Dies Dreaming – Xochitl Gonzalez

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  • Mark is inspired this week by a TEDx talk which leads him to reflect on one of his favourite topics – evolution, tribes and what makes humans tick.

    It’s a tough question to ask yourself, but are you creating a cult or a culture? Mark and Becky discuss where the idea of culture comes from and what it really means for businesses. “Cult leaders see greatness in themselves”, whereas, if you operate as a culture, you see greatness in the team.

    They also discuss the impact the CEO/owner has on a culture and why active engagement is important. They consider the negative connotation behind the term ‘HR’ and why, perhaps, this no longer fits the modern world…

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    Show notes

    Corporate Anthropologist, Michael Henderson – TEDx
    Michael Henderson website
    Jocko Willink – Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win
    Jim Collins – Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
    The three secrets of resilient people – Lucy Hone – TEDx

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