How To Be A Changemaker

Welcome back to part 2 of reflections on well-being, doing & thinking. I wanted to follow on from the theme of changing our attitude, our approach, and our mindset to well-being, thinking and doing, so that we can ultimately change the world. In this episode I ask more questions aimed at getting you to drive forward, new ways of being, innovating, curating, connecting, and communicating. We must lead differently, we must be different, and especially in these times, which are calling for us to be adaptive. These questions are designed to help you to start thinking about how you can handle change with confidence.

9.18 - What is 1 action you could take to make a difference to your wellbeing a year from now?

12.23 - What do you not want anyone to know about in your working life?

14.37 - What resources are you not tapping into?

17.24 - When did you feel you couldn’t support someone to your best ability?


“Until we get better at understanding what resources we have and don’t have, how we can tap into them and when we need to, we won’t be the best versions of ourselves.”

Resources: 

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

>>>Order my new book LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT or watch my TEDx Talk 

This episode is the first of two parts where I ask you questions on where we can really cultivate a richer understanding of our inner well-being as Changemakers. Within that we will be delving deeper into what it means to really change our attitudes and approaches to well-being, our thinking and our doing that we can ultimately change the world, change our businesses, and change the ecosystems that we are part of.

“If we can change the wellbeing, the way we do things, the way we think, we can change the world” - Samantha

2.01 - Taking the time to think about your inner wellbeing

3.24 - Highlighting the need for inner wellbeing

8.34 - When was the last time you lost your voice in a work or personal situation?

13.14 - How do you empower yourself and others to create great change?

16.11 - What would be possible if you were no longer willing to settle?

Resources: 

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

>>>Order my new book LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT or watch my TEDx Talk 

Today, I wanted to lean into all things stress and anxiety. Why? Well, I often hear a lot from my clients that stress is something that has been creeping up to crazy levels over the course of this year. So, because of this I wanted to discuss what we can start to do to notice what we do with stress, and with ourselves when it builds up. Also, how we can support others, either personally or professionally, who are going through varying degrees of stress and how they're exhibiting that stress too.

“Pain is to the body what stress is to the mind.” - Samantha

2.37 - The science behind stress

4.33 - What are the moods, environments and situations that bring up stress for you?

9.33 - How do we respond to stress?

16.57 - Creating the right interventions for stress

23.13 - Building awareness of others in stress

Resources: 

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

>>>Order my new book LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT or watch my TEDx Talk 

Welcome to another episode and this week we are talking all about how to discover the power of deliberate rest, shorter working hours and managing our digital distraction. I speak with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, who is the author of the book Shorter, which really distils how we can work better, smarter, and less. He identifies ways in which the four-hour working week has been successfully introduced across different companies, and he really investigates why it's an area that we should lean into a lot more and how the future of work will see us working in a more deliberate manner to increase our productivity and performance without burning out. His other book, Rest, is about why you get more done when you work less. He asks, how can we start to really harness the power of ritualizing and inviting rest into our lives, to become better communicators build stronger relationships and increase our creativity?

“Learning to respect rest, to layer it into our daily lives, helps us be more creative, helps us do better work and helps us have longer, more original lives.” – Alex

Timestamps:

7.19 - Rest helps us be more creative

13.29 - How to identify ways to rest better

17.45 - The revelations Alex has found from the 4-day week

20.06 - Is the 4-day week a utopia or can it realistically be rolled?

29.59 - How could you promote a 4-day week within your company?

39.43 - What leadership skills should be enhanced to make this work?

44.54 - What could be the next disruptive change to work and life?

Connect with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/askpang?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


Resources: (books, products, websites, other podcasts)

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

Welcome to this episode and today I am talking about the great wellbeing farce, which has become the new big topic in the workplace. This is an important episode for Changemakers looking to really ensure the wellbeing of workers, and there are key things within this to consider. Listen as I discuss common problems with wellbeing strategies and how we can truly sustain happiness in the workplace.

“If you don’t have the right mix of people who are influencers, you will be overcome by people blocking the change and resisting it” - Samantha

1.40 - Looking at businesses exposed for toxic cultures

3.11 - How do we create a wellbeing agenda?

6.09 - What are we looking to discover within our wellbeing plan?

10.40 - Find out the problem with lots of wellbeing strategies

14.22 - Discover the key to sustaining happiness and wellbeing in a company

Resources: (books, products, websites, other podcasts)

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

>>>Order my new book LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT or watch my TEDx Talk 

Connson Locke is an incredible professional lecturer in management at the London School of Economics, where she teaches on leadership Organisational Behaviour and negotiation. She is also the author of Make Your Voice Heard, with a particular emphasis on how you can boost your presence and your personal impact in the workplace, especially working remotely. We spend quite a bit of time delving into her experience over 30 years, working as an educator and a consultant in the Asia Pacific, North America, Australia and Europe. And so we honed in on a lot of the cross cultural communicational issues and barriers, how we understand and navigate power structures across different cultures. We also look at what it takes to manage upwards more effectively with compassion and empathy, and we delve a little bit deeper into what are some of the knowledge bombs that she's sharing with her students to prepare them for the world of work, and how you can use some of these to really help facilitate growth on your teams and across your company.

“If you listen to really amazing speakers like Martin Luther King Jr, and just listen to what he does with his voice, there's so much more we can do with our voice, and we just don’t” - Connson

Timestamps:

7.26 - What was the pivotal point that led Connson to teach Leadership skills?

11.48 - Connson explains power distance

17.41 - How to move into a space where you are speaking up for yourself comes naturally

19.58 - Agentic and Communal leadership styles

24.48 - How to exercise leadership adaptability

30.12 - Discover the power of paralinguistic communication

33.05 - Competence leading into more confidence

41.57 - How can you empower your teams to be more agile and knowledgeable in their thinking?

Connect with Connson Locke

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ConnsonChouLocke/


Resources: (books, products, websites, other podcasts)

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

In this episode I talk about navigating transitions. How do we navigate this transition now, as, especially in the UK, things are starting to open up, and people are moving from maybe working fully remotely to being part in the office? This is coming with a mixture of anxiety, or maybe a bit of excitement about seeing co-workers again. it's important for us to think about how this pandemic has had wide reaching and lasting transformations into how we think about work. Today I look at how we can start to empower our people to make better decisions for themselves, as well as the managers to step into a place of leading more effectively and drawing out the best in their people.

“Identify ways to get specific answers and be better in your questions to get clarity and a deeper understanding.”

1.57 - Experimenting in new ways to create better results

3.04 - The architect and firestarter stages of evolution of attitudes

5.25 - How do we create certainty, autonomy and meaning?

10.49 - Why are people investing in your company?

14.26 - Avoiding losing time because of stress and overwhelm

16.09 - The 3 ways to navigate change

Resources: (books, products, websites, other podcasts)

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

>>>Order my new book LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT or watch my TEDx Talk 

Vanessa Johnson-Burgess is a HR and employment law expert. She's also the founder and CEO of Inclusive Recruiting, a disruptive recruitment agency challenging the mindsets and behaviours around recruitment, training and consultancy. She is really about how do we bring an embed true inclusion and belonging in the workplace. She dives into what it means to create more integrity around your inclusion and belonging practices? How do leaders start to have these conscious conversations around inclusion in the workplace? Where have we been going wrong? How do we include the different generational attitudes and interpretations around inclusion and belonging?

“Build an appropriate DEI strategy, build it to be changemaking and stretching and striving for justice across your organisation.” - Vanessa

Timestamps:

6.22 - How can you think about equity at the heart of your HR strategy?

9.12 - Has the murder of George Floyd shown that we been sleepwalking with our DNI strategies?

12.41 - How to assess gaps in your company across generations?

19.00 - How can companies harness the voice of the younger generations?

27.41 - Vanessa shares initiatives that work

32.08 - How we can ensure the technology we use doesn’t lean into bias?

42.13 - The importance of being aware of your wellness

Connect with Vanessa Johnson-Burgess

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inclusiverecruiting?fref=nf


Resources: (books, products, websites, other podcasts)

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

Fiona Buckland is an international coach, facilitator, author and speaker who has worked one-on-one with hundreds of clients, and lead thousands in public and corporate workshops, trainings and events. She is also the author of Thoughtful Leadership. Fiona helps you realise and discover your potential to lead. She takes us through some of the key components to building self-awareness as a leader and finding your true purpose. Allowing you to understand the difference between humility and how you free yourself from your ego in your leadership. She also gives and clear practical activities can you put into play to understand the impact of your leadership, how you motivate others and just what you're here to do to make a difference in the world and in your business. We go deep, really investigating mind body, heart and soul and all of the intricate nuances of leadership, especially in today's dynamic and changing world.

“Thoughtful leadership is about how you make everybody feel included and also to hand responsibility over to people.” - Fiona

Timestamps:

4.46 - Why you should cement your thoughts around thoughtful leadership

9.23 - How do you build the self-belief to show up as a leader?

17.18 - Recognising the 5 stress responses in yourself

24.42 - How leaders need to be thoughtful in moments of crisis

29.52 - The importance of taking the time to know your team

38.45 - How to think about thoughtful leadership in the hybrid office

46.56 - How to create dignity and trust as a new leader

Connect with Fiona Buckland

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fionabucklandcoaching


Resources:

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

 by Fiona Buckland - http://www.fionabucklandcoaching.com/the-book

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en

Daniel Murray-Serter is the co-founder of Heights, a supplement company that prides itself on using science to inform the creation of its products. He is also the host of the number 1 business podcast, Secret Leaders. Daniel gives insights on how to become a changemaker through techniques such as working with psychologists to help align the values of co-founders, and how values are important not just for your company but for brain care as well. He also reveals ways in which you can utilise radical candour to achieve company objectives.

“You can have any kind of company, but we felt like by defining values first, that would be a great way to start.” – Daniel

Timestamps:

24.39 – Galvanising your team and purpose with a clear company mission

27.05 – Techniques to align founder values

35.30 - What do values look like in action?

35.46 – How to practice radical candour in your company

40.13 – How to run a company during a pandemic

Connect with Daniel Heights

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/danmurrayserter?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


Resources:

• >>>Read Samantha Clarke’s book - Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Leave-How-Happy-Work/dp/1913068080

Connect with Samantha Clarke:

• >>>Discover Love It or Leave It on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_loveitleaveit_/?hl=en