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Episode 85: The Chocolate Bar Life: Redefining Success and Finding Fulfillment on Your Own Terms

Karen is joined by Danielle Colley, author of "The Chocolate Bar Life," who is an integrative life coach, speaker, event facilitator, and writer, to talk about redefining Success and Finding Fulfillment on Your Own Terms. 
In this episode, Karen and Danielle explore the philosophy behind The Chocolate Bar Life and discuss how it can transform your approach to everyday living. They dive into the challenges of perfectionism, offering practical strategies to overcome the relentless pursuit of flawlessness and explaining why it's crucial to let go of this mindset. The conversation also delves into societal expectations, encouraging listeners to question external pressures and create a life that truly aligns with their values and desires. Additionally, they unpack the wisdom behind the chapter Be Careful What You Wish For and discuss the importance of embracing playfulness and joy in daily life, revealing why these elements are vital to our overall well-being. Join Karen and Danielle for an insightful and inspiring discussion that will leave you rethinking how you live, work, and play. 
 
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Episode 84: Transformative Blueprint for Leaders to Thrive with Vision, Empathy, and Resilience in the 21st Century

Karen is joined by Karen Ferris, the organisational change and service management rebel with a cause! As the author of "The Leadership Mindset – Be R.E.M.A.R.K.A.B.L.E.," she offers a transformative blueprint for leaders to thrive with vision, empathy, and resilience in the 21st century.   
Karen and Karen explore the "REMARKABLE" acronym that speaks to essential leadership qualities: 
Resilience: The capacity to bounce back from setbacks and thrive in challenging environments. 
Empathy: Understanding and responding to the needs and emotions of others. 
Mindfulness: Self-awareness and emotional regulation. 
Adaptive: Flexibility and agility in leadership style. 
Resourceful: Making the most of available resources. 
Known: Establishing a strong personal brand and reputation. 
Accountable: Taking ownership of actions and outcomes, including mistakes. 
Brave: Courage to make tough decisions and embrace vulnerability. 
Listening: Actively listen to understand, engage and gain insights. 
Empowering: Set clear goals and allow autonomy with support when required. 
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Episode 83: High Cost of Poor Leadership: Why Bad Bosses Can't Stay

Karen is joined by Michelle Gibbings, an accomplished author, global keynote speaker, and workplace culture expert, to discuss the High Cost of Poor Leadership: Why Bad Bosses Can't Stay 
Karen and Michelle explore: 
Real cost of poor leadership.
The need for leadership at all levels of the organisation.
The criticality of the leader of leaders not side-stepping the tough conversations when they have bad leaders in their team.
Why becoming an effective leader requires genuine interest in people.
Leading in the time of AI requires more, not less from leaders. 
 
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Episode 82 : Finding the Courage To Be You

Joe Pane, a renowned expert in human behavior and creator of the Emotional Fitness Formula, joins Karen to discuss how you can find the courage to be yourself.
 
Karen and Joe explore 5 core principles of emotional fitness: 
Identity:  know who you are 
Life stages: know where you are 
Values:  know where you are going 
Emotional flexibility:  know how to get there 
Perspective:  know what matters most. 
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Episode 81: Ending Body Burnout

Karen is joined by Filipa Bellette, a Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Coach, Trauma Therapist, and PhD Scholar, to discuss about ending body burnout.
Karen and Filipa explore: 
The impact of stress on body systems & how to test for imbalances. 
The deepest root causes of body burnout  
Why pain and symptoms in the body stick around, even after “physically” treating with diet and supplements.  
How to reprogram the unconscious, regulate the nervous system and retrain the brain so body systems can heal. 
How to eat and exercise if you are in a state of body burnout. 
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Episode 80: Sales Leadership - Building a High-Performance Sales Team and Culture

Karen is joined by Fran Pratt the Founder and Director of Metisan – Sales Solution Architects to talk about Sales Leadership - Building a High-Performance Sales Team and Culture. 
Karen and Fran explore: 
Fran’s soon-to-be-released book – More Sales, Less Marketing 
Hiring and Onboarding:  Identifying the right sales personalities for your team. Building a strong onboarding process to equip new hires for success. 
Building a Sales Culture: How leaders can cultivate a team environment that prioritizes selling by every member of the team? 
Coaching & Motivation: Strategies leaders can use to coach and motivate their sales teams to achieve peak performance intrinsically. 
Connect with Frances Pratt on LinkedIn

Episode 79: The Performance vs. Wellbeing Myth

Karen is joined by Graham Winter the brilliant mind behind the best-selling book "Think One Team" and co-author of new book Toolkit for Turbulence:  the mindset and methods that leaders need to turn adversity to advantage, to talk about Achieving both high performance and wellbeing. 
Karen and Graham explore the often-perceived conflict between pushing for high achievement and maintaining mental and physical wellbeing. 
Challenge the idea that high performance requires sacrificing well-being. 
Discuss the well-being and performance connection based on science. 
 
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Episode 78: Taming the Black Dog

Karen is joined by Adam Blum, the author of "Easy Target: Taming the Blackdog," a keynote speaker, First Responder Firefighter, and host of the TrueBlueConversations Podcast, to discuss the steps you can take to overcome depression.
Karen and Adam share their own experiences of battling for mental health, and explore: 
Childhood experiences and their impacts 
Tools they each used to go from surviving to thriving in life. 
The power of speaking up; both in enabling self-healing and helping others. 
 
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Episode 77: Why Soft Skills Are the New Hard Skills That Every Leader Needs

Karen welcomes Leah Mether, an expert in communication and human skills, a seasoned speaker, trainer, facilitator, and two-time published author, to explore why soft skills have become the essential hard skills every leader needs.
 
Karen and Leah explore: 
What soft skills are and how do they differ from hard skills 
Why soft skills matter as much as they do to being an influential leader 
Essential soft skills every leader needs 
How leaders can develop essential soft skills in themselves and the people they lead.
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Episode 76: Why Leadership is Broken

Dr. Paige Williams, a renowned keynote speaker, organizational psychologist, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, joins Karen to discuss why leadership is broken and what we need to do about it.
Karen and Paige explore: 
What we’ve been told good leadership looks like simply isn’t enough to meet the needs, challenges and opportunities leaders are facing now and in the future. 
Leaders are burnt out and don’t have time to learn how to become impactful in leading their teams. 
There isn’t one solution to why leaders need an ecosystem of ideas to meet the uniqueness of the people and systems that they lead.
Connect with Dr.  Paige Williams on LinkedIn now!