Being Leaders Podcast Special - UNLEARN

Being Leaders Podcast Special - UNLEARN

By Brett WhiteBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Being Leaders Podcast Special - UNLEARN episodes

  • UNLEARN - Becoming Before Leading

    Leadership is not a skill problem — it’s an identity journey. The final episode brings the series together around one central question: who are you becoming as you lead — and what will it cost if nothing changes?


    8 min
  • UNLEARN - When Leadership Doesn’t Work

    Most leadership growth happens in disappointment, not success. This episode reframes failure, loss, and unmet expectations as leadership formation moments — and shows why resilience is built through reality, not results.


    7 min
  • UNLEARN - Don’t Let Data Replace Humanity

    In a metrics-driven, AI-accelerating world, leadership risks becoming efficient but less human. This episode challenges leaders to hold performance and dignity together — and explains why empathy and presence are now strategic, not soft.


    8 min
  • UNLEARN - The Courage to Unlearn

    Learning adds — unlearning costs. This episode examines why experience can become a leadership liability, how certainty hardens into blind spots, and why teachability and humility are now core leadership strengths.


    9 min
  • UNLEARN - Stop Performing. Start Being Present.

    Many leaders are performing leadership instead of practicing presence. This episode explores why busyness, polish, and constant output are eroding trust — and why presence, not performance, is becoming leadership’s most powerful differentiator.


    8 min
  • UNLEARN - Your Leadership Model Is Expiring

    The leadership traits that built your success — certainty, control, speed, confidence — may now be quietly limiting your impact. This episode names the outdated leadership myth many are still following and why the future demands a reset, not an upgrade.

    9 min
  • Keisha Gani: Challenging traditional leadership models

    In this episode I am chatting with a super young leader, Keisha Gani, who was born and raised in Sri Lanka. Keisha is an emerging leader who is now working as the Acting Country Manager at SHE Investments, a social enterprise based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Keisha is passionate about creating opportunities for other young leaders to challenge traditional leadership models, try new things, fail, and learn from their mistakes - after all, that's the only way to grow! We chat about opportunity and permission, challenging traditional leadership models, imposter syndrome and releasing that special 'gift' in a person that sets them apart. www.sheinvestments.com


    38 min
  • BLUE WEST: Shame, trusting yourself & being true to your own story.

    In this episode, I am chatting with Blue West, a vulnerable, creative and colourful young leader from Sydney. Blue is a facilitator at 'The Man Cave', a charity organisation designed in delivering programs of Emotional Intelligence Skills to youth, in particular boys. Blue has had a spectrum of professional and personal experience in Leadership and Well-being across Australia and is an advocate for mental health and Queer inclusion for people of all ages. I have personally known Blue his whole life, and it was exciting to connect with them in this podcast. We chat about the power of shame, trusting and knowing yourself, owning your story and whole lot more. An honest, raw and insightful conversation, with another incredible young leader. www.themancave.life

    39 min
  • LOUISA KECK: Feedback, taking risks, using your voice and relationships before results.
    In this episode I am chatting with Lou Keck, an incredible, insightful and generous young leader with more than a decade's experience working with individuals and groups to overcome challenges. Lou is the Head of Participation at the Reach Foundation, an organisation she has been heavily involved with since she experienced her first workshop aged 16, 13 years ago. Lou is a trained facilitator and has spent the last decade working with groups of all ages to develop their leadership, sense of resilience and connection. As the Head of Participation, Lou now works to ensure Reach has the funding it needs to be able to impact 50,000 young people every year, and sits on the organisation’s senior leadership team. www.reach.org.au
    37 min
  • MOLLY TAYLOR: leading through volunteering, building resilience and sharing your story
    In this episode, I am chatting with Molly Taylor from London, UK. Molly is a young changemaker with a passion for the charity sector. She has worked in the non-profit sector and volunteered for a variety of organisations with the hopes of making a difference in the world. It’s a wonderful conversation covering a number of topics related to learning leadership by doing it as you go. An inspiring, resilient and captivating young leader.
    41 min

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UNLEARN — the leadership reset the future demands is a 6-episode podcast where Brett White shares six leadership resets modern leaders must embrace — through challenge, reflection, and real-world…