Whenever I hear "We are a family here" from a CEO about their workplace, it's curiosity time with lots of follow-up questions. Does it mean we have no boundaries? How is it to fire your family member? How do you work with the company's bottom line then? Often, we use the words without fully contemplating what they can mean to the others involved, and that is a slippery slope.

I invited Matthew Brackett for a conversation about the attitude of "business-as-a-family". We explore the good, the bad and the ugly that this approach can result in. With Matthew's leadership experience in different countries on multiple continents, within church and in the US Navy, he has many insights in how a mission-driven organization can shape their culture to be successful and sustainable.

In this episode, you will hear about:

• what leaders should be aware of when using the family analogy with future hires or current employees

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Anna

Resources:

Connect with Matthew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-brackett/

Learn more about him: https://linktr.ee/matthewbrackett

Listen to Matthew's other interviews: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46teuREIWhXRMrJ1AzNCqq

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Ever had a moment when someone reacts to you in an unexpected way, like snapping, or vice versa, you are ignored completely? How does it make you feel? And, more importantly, what do you make it mean? Often, in our brittle states, it's easy to give these situations a lot of negative meaning about ourselves. 

You can handle it better. With the tool I am sharing today, you can learn to snap out of that drama soon and maybe even have some fun on the way!

In this episode, you will hear about:

• why it's good that you are not the center of the universe

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Resources:

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

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In this episode, you will hear about:

• how I realized I had burnout

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Resources:

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

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What do you do when you suddenly don't recognize your reflection in the mirror? Do you just accept the pain in your body every morning as a normal way of ageing? What do those physical changes do to your mind? Jason Donnelly had that bitter aha-moment seeing his photo and not liking the man who stared at him. In his recent book "Cold Feat: How I Froze My Mid-Life Crisis Right Off...", he shared a deeply personal story of facing that image and turning his life around. Jason combines a story with practical information on how you can deal with your crisis, and I wanted you to hear a bit of both.

In this episode, you will hear about:

• why Jason decided to freeze his mid-life crisis with ice-cold water

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Anna

Resources:

Connect with Jason: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonwdonnelly/

Follow his journey: https://www.coldfeat.com/

Grab your copy of his latest book: https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Feat-Froze-Mid-Life-Crisis/dp/B0CDQVDCDR/

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

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Founders are visionaries whose passion and drive create amazing and valuable things in this world. But are vision, drive and passion automatically make a founder a leader? I invited Patrick Flesner, an experienced growth mindset leadership advisor, board member, TEDx speaker and author of The Leadership House and FastScaling (Amazon's no.1 bestseller), to discuss what it takes for founders to be leaders.

In this episode, you will hear about:

• leadership as a privilege

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Anna

Resources:

Connect with Patrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickflesner/

Grab your copy of The Leadership House: https://www.amazon.de/dp/1394191138/

Learn more about Patrick's work: https://www.unloqgrowth.com/

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

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Jeremy Blain is an award-winning Business Leader, Futurist, New Era Learning Professional, Author & Conference Speaker. Jeremy is the founder and CEO of Performance Works International (PWI) where he and his team are committed to helping organizations and leaders be fit and ready for the future. Our conversation is based on the recent report they have released about trends in the leadership space.

In this episode, you will hear about:

• what is leadershift and how you can be a part of it

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Anna

Resources:

Connect with Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyblain/

Learn more about Performance Works: https://www.performanceworks.global/

Get the Transformational Leadership Report: https://tlai.org/

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

Support Ukraine: https://u24.gov.ua/

What do you think of when you hear the word slow? Does it bring up images of being stuck in traffic, or of someone testing your patience? Aside from a delicious method of cooking, is there anything beneficial about going slow? What about if someone had asked you the following question in your formative years: what kind of life do you want? How would you have answered then, and are you living that life? 

In this episode Maria Alva Roff and I wrap up the third sprint in our Sustainable Leadership Navigator for Founders project. We discuss meetings we had in the past two weeks, including with well-known talk show host and university lecturer Sirrý Arnadóttir, who has learned the art of living slow. We also spoke with a founder who learned the hard way that choosing your founding team well almost can be a life-or-death matter, and who also now embraces going slow. Finally, in our quest to find out more about how mental health can be more effectively embedded in education, we talk about the newest generations of youth, and how they think and live.

In this episode, you will hear about: 

• How taking things slow doesn’t necessarily mean you’re lazy or unproductive

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Anna

Resources:

Learn more about Maria: https://alva.mystrikingly.com/

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

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This solo episode is dedicated to the concept that has literally changed my life. I want you to try it for yourself in an honest moment of reflection. 

And before sharing the main points of the episode, let me invite you for an "Easter egg hunt" in this episode =) Find some audio surprise from my daughter and send me (via email or LinkedIn) the timestamp and your guess of the nature of the sound, and get a chance to win a €50 Amazon gift card.

So, in this episode, you will hear about:

• the book that changed my life the most and why

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Anna

Resources:

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

Support Ukraine: https://u24.gov.ua/

How is it to go through the world-known Y Combinator? How does this program affect founders' mental health? What if the founders' startup is actually working on a solution for better, more sustainable high performance in workplaces? To get the answers to these questions, I sat down with Shane Correa, co-founder of NudgeLabs, a Sweden-based startup that was a part of YC W22 cohort.

In this episode, you will hear about:

• Shane's personal relationship with burnout

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Anna

Resources:

Connect with Shane: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanecorrea/

Learn more about NudgeLabs: https://nudgelabs.com/

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

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After nearly a dozen hours of interviews and chats with local and international founders, investors and community leaders, has anything new been discovered? Is there a viable way to reach out to entrepreneurs before they hit the wall? Or are there certain character traits that define the kind of person who’s willing to risk it all for their startup? 

In this episode, I talk again with my collaborator Maria Alva Roff about what we learned during Sprint 2 of the Sustainable Leadership Navigator for Founders project. We go over a number of the main ideas that arose during our chats with leaders in the field of founders’ wellness and discuss whether it’s time to pivot from our original focus to something more relevant for the Icelandic business landscape. 

In this episode, you will hear about: 

• Whether early education about longterm health and wellness is the key to avoiding later burnout

Stay safe and #standwithukraine,

Anna

Resources:

Learn more about Maria: https://alva.mystrikingly.com/

Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter

Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 

Support Ukraine: https://u24.gov.ua/