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What's the difference between listening to the inner voice of fear versus listening to our intuition.

Learn how from world record breaker, Faith Dickey.

Faith holds all of the womens' world records and an incredible list of achievements including being the first woman to pass the 100 meter mark on a slackline and being the only woman who regularly free solos highlines.

As Shakespeare’s Hamlet would say,

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” ~ Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)

Watch her world record breaking highline walk here.

Paul and Asha look back on the episodes created in 2023 as part of Series 1 of The Pocket Dojō podcast and pull together some of highlights to start the year.

We revisit the backstory of how we met and why we're partnering together in producing this podcast and the Leadership Retreat for Women Who Lead.

We playback the wonderful interview with Jennifer Hamady all about finding your voice.

We recap why thinking about why thinking about our inner and outer nature is an important part of the process of regenerative leadership.

We also look at embodied practice as part of leadership practice and explore the martial of aikido and its relevance.

Thank you for joining us on this journey. We can't wait to see how 2024 unfolds.

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The latest episode from the The Pocket Dojo video podcast explores the idea of renewal from several different angles.

First, we look at how renewal on the inside interweaves with renewal on the outside and how we can't have one without the other.

Secondly we speak with Cameron Chapman, the General Manager at Broughton Sanctuary to understand more about its history and the role that renewal plays in their work and his daily life. We also share the reason behind why we chose this as the location for the renewal retreat for women for lead.

Lastly, for a little bit of 🎄seasonal fun 🎄, we share a short reel of bloopers made during the recording of the episodes to date.

It's been quite a steep learning curve for both Asha and me to learn how to put each episode of the podcast together and get this far. The amount of work that goes into pre-production, recording, editing and distribution is significant and it’s brilliant fun.

We owe Andy Greenhouse a huge thank you for his Selfie Video School and 30 day challenge to get ourselves in front of the camera. Whilst we know we can always improve, we know we’ve learned a great deal about how to get out of our way and some important lessons about putting video together.

So, it was inevitable in our first outings in Series 1 that we were going to make some mistakes and we wanted to share them with you to put a seasonal smile on your face.

Vote for your favourite here: Vote for your favourite here. (No email required). We hope you enjoy them!

To everyone that has watched, listened and commented on the first four episodes, thank you. Please consider sharing this episode with others who may find it informative and useful.

Many thanks.

Resources:

To find out more about the Renewal Retreat For Women Who Lead next April, follow this link 🪴

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We hope you enjoyed this episode.

The latest episode from the  @mypocketdojo  explores the idea of renewal from several different angles.

First, we look at how renewal on the inside interweaves with renewal on the outside and how we can't have one without the other.

Secondly we speak with Cameron Chapman, the General Manager at Broughton Sanctuary to understand more about its history and the role that renewal plays in their work and his daily life and the reason behind why we chose this as the location for the renewal retreat for women for lead.

Lastly, for a little bit of fun we share a short reel of bloopers made during the recording of the episodes to date. It's been quite a steep learning curve for both Asha and me to get this far and it was inevitable we were going to make some mistakes. We hope you enjoy them!

Vote for your favourite at this link (No email required).

To find out more about the Renewal Retreat For Women Who Lead next April, follow this link 🪴subscribepage.io/XHIw4t

To read more of Asha's writing, follow this link to 🗞 https://ashasingh.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=5flfv

To read more of Paul's writing, follow this link to his substack at 📖 https://thepocketdojo.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=5flfv

Sarah Puello is a remarkable woman leading a multi-disciplinary team in a remarkable place, the Avalon Wellbeing Centre at Broughton Sanctuary here in the UK.

She is the first in a series of guest interviews with the team that brings the vision of regeneration and renewal to life.

In this episode, she describes her role as a custodian, someone who aims to help the people around her rise to their full potential to support the ground breaking work of regeneration and renewal being done by the team at Broughton.

We also share some of the details of our approach to designing specific elements of the retreat. We take a look at the GRACE Framework, what it is and how it offers an advancement in developing leadership practice and developing leaders.

If this episode piques your interest, you can find our more about the Renewal Retreat for Women Who Lead at the website.

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In this episode we share an interview with the fantastic Sarah Pullos who leads the team at the Avalon Wellbeing Centre at Broughton Sanctuary in West Yorkshire in the UK. We find out about her background and her outlook and philosphy on the themes of renewal and regenerative leadership.

Broughton Sanctuary is where the Renewal Retreat for Women Who Lead is being held in April 2024. We take you behind the reasoning for the retreat and how and why it's been designed the way it has as an antidote to traditional leadership development training for women.

For example, we share an overview of the GRACE Framework and explain why adapting the principles of aikido out on the Yorkshire moors help women reconnect and rediscover their voice.

More details about the retreat can be found here subscribepage.io/XHIw4t

We're at the halfway point in Series 1 and appreciate everyone who has taken time to watch, listen and comment on what we're up to.

If you have a question you'd like to ask about anything we've covered in the episodes to date, please leave us a voice message at https://www.speakpipe.com/ThePocketDojo

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If you read around the topic of leadership long enough, you come to the conclusion that:

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The theme of the first series of The Pocket Dojō is women who lead and what really needs to change to support them in the workplace.

As we shared in Episode 1, it was very clear from speaking to senior women leaders that what was required was not something that would ‘fix’ them.

In the book, "How Women Rise" by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith write about and discuss the challenges that women face in the workplace and how to overcome them.

Unsurprisingly they echo the voices of the women we spoke to and found that rising to take on more senior roles in organisations was found to be easier where womenL

* Learned to speak up and take credit for their accomplishments.

* Developed the ability to self-promote and advocate for their own interests.

* Overcame the tendency to downplay their achievements and minimise their contributions.

* Built a network of mentors and supporters.

* Learned to navigate gender-based stereotypes and biases.

In this episode of The Pocket Dojō podcast, we take a deeper dive in to this topic and, from a positive perspective, look at two important ideas that we sense form the foundation of bringing about positive change.

If speaking up, taking credit, self promoting and self advocating are what contributes to women thriving and elevating their career to reach senior roles, this suggests that they need to find their individual and collective voice.

We speak with our guest, Jennifer Hamady, who is a seasoned practitioner, author, coach, counsellor and subject matter expert on the subject of Finding Your Voice.

Jennifer speaks far beyond the traditional cliché that is 'the expression to ‘find your voice’, to a series of ideas and practical exercises that help you do just that.

The second idea is concerned with how we manage our state. And in this context state means how we think how we feel and how we behave in a specific context.

This becomes important when we consider Marshall and Sally’s lesson around navigating gender-based stereotypes and biases in the workplace well.

I think there's a real skill in being able to celebrate our differences and navigate them well rather than simply identify label them are stereotypes and biases. Yes they exist, but if we simply stay with those labels then our ability to make progress beyond them is perhaps restricted.

We need a practice to help strengthen our ability to thrive rather than strive.

We’ll share a simple exercise called ‘Recovering Your Centre’, created by Sensei Wendy Palmer, you can do to help manage your state. It helps you sit the eye of the storm - you can still feel the intensity of the hurricane swirling around you, but you're not getting tossed around by it. In a nutshell, it’s an exercise that’s like taking the ultimate chill pill.

We’ll show you the beginnings of a whole series of practices to cultivate a sense of inner stillness and balance, and letting emotions come and go without getting swept away by them. It’s an exercise about using self awareness of the position of our body and observing your thoughts and feelings without judgement, rather than actively managing them.

Whilst it might, to some, sound ‘woo-woo’, there’s plenty of science behind this exercise that, as the Physical Intelligence Institute would say, turns the ‘woo-woo’ into ‘wow, wow!’

We will delve into the science behind this and other helpful practices in greater depth in future episodes.

In the meantime, we look forward to your comments and questions.

Welcome to Episode 2 where we begin to share some of the key ideas and content that we'll be working through at the Renewal Retreat For Women Who Lead in April, 2024 at Broughton Sanctuary, here in the UK.

Today we are exploring two key topics:

• Finding Your Voice
• Reconnecting With Your Personal Power

Our guest for this episode is Jennifer Hamady who is one of the world's leading experts on the art and science of Finding Your Voice. She is on hand to explain what this sometimes clichéd phrase really means and offer some simple exercises that help you find your voice.

Similarly, we look at the idea of personal power and share a simple practice to help you reconnect with your personal power.

In this episode we share some of the research - our own and others - about the challenges women who lead face in the workplace.

The lived experiences of men and women at work are significantly different. Despite being aware of the gap, organisations are still a long way from closing it. Many organisational techniques have focused on mending the women rather than the organisation, encouraging them to be more demanding, to lean in, to be more like men.

Despite the obstacles, there are women in these institutions who are thriving.

What we think you'll find interesting is the differences in the language used in the conversations from our own research and the language that social media platforms and business publications use.

We also share more about Broughton Sanctuary, our own backgrounds and examples of the work we have done and the work were planning to do there in April 2024.

You can watch the video version of the podcast here (highly recommended) or download it from wherever you usually get your podcasts from.

We love to receive your questions and answer them on each subsequent episode. To ask your question, please leave us a voice message here