Allyship: Shifting the burden, the importance of culture and dropping the mask

Living with Intent: Learning rejection, agreeing to disagree and building an everyday practice

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

Emigration: Finding yourself, loving the news and living in the moment

The impact of moving from Ireland to the UK in the late 1980’s

Gaining a new perspective on the place you live

Realisation on who I wanted to be & what I wanted to mean to other people

People’s perception versus reality

Going against the grain on career choice

Being honest with myself

Living in the moment

A love of the news

Authenticity in politics

Importance of giving feedback

Self-judgement

Authentic Inaction: Being in choice, authentic contributions and learning to say NO!

Writing Habits: Noticing what’s around you, finding new insights and breaking the mould

Confidence : Standing up for yourself, the importance of being a mentor and the state of mental health in the Tech industry

Connecting : Getting out of your comfort zone, holding people accountable and reconnecting with your past.

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.

Dream big: Learnings on how to support you in making your dreams a reality

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:

Wonder : RJ Palacio

There There : Tommy Orange

Private parts : Eleanor Thom

Love for imperfect things : Haemin Sunim

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.

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.

What you’ll hear about:

Why Native Americans are often under-represented in Economics and Teaching

Economics needs to start to speak to a broader range of people

Diversity and inclusion is making progress

How to be myself in a conservative state at a very traditional university

Survivance : Survival & resistance

For businesses to remain relevant they need to keep up with what the next generation are pushing for

We need to practise what we preach

Learning more from your students, than you teach to them

What is power to Native Amercians

We need to keep pushing forward or we’ll get swept back

Pay versus value to society

How to keep going against diversity

Book Club 2. Observations on life, war and a lot of books made into movies

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.

This week I took some advice from my lovely listeners and embarked on a solo show.

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

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!

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.