Stand up and own your expertise - you can create an impact and be influential through what you already know. 

How can owning who you are and what you do develop you further - how can you get out of your own way so that you own it?

Are you letting the limits of your expertise - the stuff that you still need to learn - hold you back from showcasing where you are right now?

Does language get in the way for you - do you grapple with being an 'expert'?

If you're answering 'yes' here - then listen to this episode and hear our thoughts and the tools we share to help you own yourself and your expertise a lot more. 

On undertaking a 'Strengthscope' test, Fay's greatest strength, within the context of work, came out as 'common sense' - and it made her feel a little bit weird. 

On mentioning this to Becki, Becki laughed!

And so, in this episode, we're exploring common sense.

Becki questions whether common sense is even a thing - on the back of our common sense coming off the back of our personal lived experience - and we're all different - so how much is actually common?

We'd love to hear your thoughts. 

Contact

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

Today, we're talking about innovation and what it means to you. 

We both shy away from the word 'innovation', it's always felt like quite a big thing - world changing with a great sense of meaning, new inventions for example - but in reality we can be innovating all the time - small things that change the way we do certain things to make things better for ourselves. 

This episode brings this meaning home and we explore how we can be innovative, daily and the barriers you might see to innovation. 

Contact

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

This week we're challenging a  well known phrase "there's no 'I' in team!"

Teams are full of individuals - and each individual is an entity in their own right - and the team will be made up of differing behaviours and strengths - and all of this is valuable to strengthen the team. 

Understanding the team will help you to communicate well and work together to a point where you're not stifling innovation, creativity and growth. 

As humans, we all require recognition and as individuals as part of the team, we need to recognise where recognition lies - who with and why.

Contact

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

Special guest, Ruth Kudzi, joins us today to talk about her own personal develpment journey. 

Ruth is a successful entrepreneur  - founder of Optimus Coach Academy - training coaches to ICF standards, and Ruth Kudzi Coaching - combining evidenced based approaches of neuroscience and psychology and is passionate about behavioural change. 

Ruth shares that, for her, personal development is about understanding yourself a bit better and being able to improve all areas of your life. 

This podcast explores Ruth's journey and her thoughts and insights into the wonderment of personal development and how it's supported her in her entrepreneurial and personal growth.

Find out more about training to be an ICF certified and accredited coach with Optimus Coach Academy, and working with Ruth at Ruth Kudzi Coaching which includes coaching, coaching membership and retreats. 

Contact

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

The issue of clarity often comes up during coaching sessions - who we are, what we want to do, what we want to achieve, who we want to be, etc.

All our thoughts and possibilities jumble in our head and we can struggle to make sense of them alone. We can find ourselves doubting our abilities and talking ourselves out of what we want, as we try to order our thoughts. 

Often, talking out loud can help us understand our thought processes - can help us make sense of our thinking. Especially if we can get specific - by defining where we are now, where we want to be - and then we can work on how we get there (the plan).

We also know that, neurologically, when we know what we want, our brain helps things stand out for us, which will help us achieve our goals. 

Contact

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

What's in the phrase "you need to see it to be it!"

How true is this for you?

We know what's available for us through seeing other people doing their thing. 

However, with changes in technology at such a vast rate - we don't even know what might exist in the future for us! So we have to be open to the opportunities - and perhaps be trail blazers. 

Perhaps you're a trail blazer right now - what are you doing to be the inspiration for others?

"Admire, Aspire, Acquire"

Contact

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

Talking about boundaries today - setting, maintaining and updating them as our life and work change. 

How do you feel about setting boundaries and do you do this effectively?

When we think about boundaries - we need to think about why we want them - what do we want to have in place and how important is this to us? Knowing this will help us to keep these boundaries!

It's all about communication - managing your own and others expectations - and giving yourself and others permission to do things the way we want to. 

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

The bullsh*t we tell ourselves - the instances that stay with us that we make meaning of throughout our lives. 

We all do it but I guess the stories and the bullsh*t varies!

In this episode we both talk about times of our lives that we've made meaning of - and how this plays out in who we are today. How we show up, how we speak up, who we are. 

But how true is that and how can we look at this differently? 

Contact

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

Role models - have you had role models?

Fay certainly has - but Becki hasn't had a role model.

So in this episode we discuss this - why I have found role models important and inspiring and how Becki has managed without!

Contact

Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com 

Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk

Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk