Impactful Authenticity

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:

• 6 tips to support you in your dreams
  • Have a clear outcome for the year
  • Sanity check it’s your outcome
  • Where are you today
  • Who or what do you need around you
  • Is it ambitious, yet realistic
  • What is a small step you can take today 

Weekly Challenge : Set your outcome for 2023

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As the end of the year draws closer. I'm excited to share with you today another book club episode. That may inspire you to snuggle up on the sofa with a hot drink or vino and take some time out for yourself at a time of year which can be equally amazingly special and overwhelming. 

Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. Three from our last 3  guests on the podcast :Larry Chavis, Jenny Whitham and Jaqui Spencer and as it’s the last show in this series I have added in a book recommendation from myself. 

You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :) 

What you’ll hear about:

• Wonder : RJ Palacio
• There There : Tommy Orange
• Private parts : Eleanor Thom
• Love for imperfect things : Haemin Sunim

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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.  

What you’ll hear about:

• Believing in your authenticity when you feel out of your depth
• Not being afraid to ask questions and show vulnerability
• Hire great people!
• Leaving a legacy 
• Wanting to be a role model
• 3 career stages
  • Idealistic achievement, Pragmatic endurance, Reinventive contribution
• Foundations of good teams
• Focus on being the best version of yourself in a team 

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Today joining me on the show is Jenny Whitham. 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. 

A few hints of what you'll hear about

• What is endometriosis
• Recognising the achievements that you’ve accomplished you may not have felt possible
• Coming to terms with balancing the roles and opportunities that she loves with what is right for her health 
• How she has grown to be confident to be up front when apply for roles that she has endometriosis   

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Larry is a teaching professor at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is a powerful voice on campus for diversity and inclusion, he served over three years as director of the American Indian Center, and was elected to the university faculty council. 
Along the way, he has been honoured with two eagle feathers from North Carolina tribes for support of Native students and communities, inducted into UNC’s oldest honour society, and has a fellowship with the American Council on Education. He is and will continue to be a source of pride for so many people in his tribe and other Natives in North Carolina.

What you’ll hear about:

• Economics needs to start to speak to a broader range of people
• Survivance : Survival & resistance 
• For businesses to remain relevant they need to keep up with what the next generation are pushing for 
• What is power to Native Americans
• Pay versus value to society
• How to keep going against diversity

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As you start to think about some great gift ideas for the holiday season. I hope this book club session will give you a little inspiration. I talk to our last four guests of the podcast:  Matt Webster, Lara Bezzara, Carl Emerson and Dr. Ardeshir Mehran to share a book that made an impact on their lives and why.   

You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :) 

What you’ll hear about:

• Imperial life in the emerald city : Inside Baghdad's green zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• Any books written by Philip Dick
• Dao de Jing : The book of the way - translation by Stephen Mitchell 
• Lost Connections : Johann Hari 

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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.  

A few teasers about what you’ll hear about:

• The emotional bill of rights
• Transforming how we think about emotions
•  7 experiences we are supposed to have in our lives for fulfilment
• How your emotional state can spread positively and negatively to others around you without anyone being aware
• His personal experience with depression and curiosity to understand why people are depressed or anxious

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

A few insights into 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

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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!     

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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.

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Visit the Impactful Authenticity Website to find out more about the episode and follow us on Instagram or Lucy's LinkedIN

You can listen to the Impactful Authenticity playlist via Spotify