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  • Celebrating Max Ekesi

    Podcasters united cross three countries, United Kingdom, United States and Nigeria. Paula Okonneh, Tesse Akpeki and Sade Marriot joined podcast guest Max Ekesi, President / CEO of the Agile Ausitn Organisation and IT Senior Manager at Paypal. Max has been leading Agile Transformations since 2007 in large enterprises specifically leveraging Agile & Kaizen principles.

    Max's 47th Birthday visiting Disneyland California was special. He spent quality time with his family. Turning to work, Max shares how the agile mindset that focuses on value, being fluid, adaptable, purposeful, nimble and committed to making a difference has given so much value to his life. "You are either adapting or being disrupted as you are choosing to be proactive or reactive. Creating high performing teams in Bangalore, Singapore and Lagos and doing these together meet the hopes and dream of people in developing countries. " "Clarity of expectations and a focus on potential underpins agility.

    ChatGPT which is the human interaction with AI is an exciting development towards adaptability and growth. What is essential is learning and growing together."

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    30 min
  • Sara Comes Dancing

    The choreography of life leads to a growing realisation that dancing in leadership is more relevant as ever. Dance like no one's watching, Sara Ramsey's love of dancing led her to dance in the world amateur championships at the Royal Albert Hall.

    During the Covid lockdown she reconnected with her love of dance. Bragging rights? She did her fair share of Fox trotting with Anton Du Beke pre his fame. While people baked sourdough bread, she studied the psychology of dance and has developed a course for teams. "Dancing is really good for connecting people. People dance in sync with each other, build trust and connect with others" says Sara."

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    24 min
  • Thriving on Vulnerability
    "I just kind of stopped having shame. I thrive on vulnerability. I get to just be me , I get to make mistakes, and I get to learn from people who have a lot more experience. I think any particular wisdom that I might have at this point in my life just comes from being willing to talk about all the things with people, and hear what they have to say" (Trust, leadership and ethics speaker Dallin Cooper, author of Get On The Bull Answers to meeting our goals in life probably depend on trust. We model what we see and reciprocate. Vulnerability is the other side of trust. Vulnerability extends trust. Trusting calls for vulnerability. We need to trust others first. We are trusting them not to hurt us. Scarily, there are no guarantees! We have to put ourselves in a spot where we run the risk of getting hurt. Ironically, to build trust, we have to give others the chance to become trustworthy.
    29 min
  • Selfless Caring
    "Emotionally it's very difficult to start seeing the person that you love slip away. This is my second round of caregiving. My heart goes out to all carers of patients with dementia. It's hard for the carers. Really, really hard. It's hard for the person being cared for too. I can't, you can't take care of someone else unless you take care of yourself. I've been out five times in the evening in the last two years without my husband. That's not much. As Frank's ability to do things has decreased, my need to spend a little more time away to go to the theatre or whatever has increased." Carol's honesty is heart-warming. Something most people will relate to is her Covid experience. "I'm a very social person, and so being at home alone has really been difficult. And I wasn't alone, I was with my husband. But having been on the road for 28 years and doing a hundred to 150 cities a year, this was really just like the door slamming in your face. And I'm sure a lot of people experience that and much worse." Carol shares her story of coping with Covid, running a business and dealing with a much-loved husband with Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson's disease. He also has spinal stenosis. She includes tips for self-care, caring for a loved one while running a business, and at the same time not losing your mind.
    31 min
  • The Accidental Doctor
    Dr Mick Rogers or "the accidental doctor "as he describes himself says "It's all about the people, not just process". Anywhere people are part of the process, they're the most important part of the process. The soft aspects of people are the tricky stuff, the stuff that you can't apply a model for, or you can't work out on the spread. It requires engagement and trust and risk and exposure with people. This is where story telling matters. Stories are so important because it's how we relate to each other. "We still create stories that help us explain what's going on around us. And it's the engagement in those stories, I think which is important and exceptional "stresses Mick. Rich discussion can start us thinking and talking differently about what good looks like and what progress look like. Our considerations can rest on how we like to be with the other people in the organisations we find ourselves in. Accidentally Mick stumbled into being accepted for a doctorate course. "I had a kind of commercial agreement with my company and I had an emotional agreement with my wife to do some more studying for a few years''.
    28 min
  • A Home Away Fom Home

    A home away from home describes Marta Maretich. Marta was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. "I thought it was the best thing ever. I thought it was the coolest thing ever."

    "We had a different background. I always felt different - like we knew about a bigger world. When you spoke to people in Bakersfield, you were met often with incomprehension. They really didn't get it. There is something about being someone like me, where none of it is obvious. If we don't have a conversation, you'd never know. So you have to know me." "I feel I spend a lot of my work trying to explain my life and get people to pay attention to its details. You can look at my life in a superficial way which is the tip of the iceberg. You can say, oh, she's just this girl from California, went to Berkeley, it's all fine.

    But when you start picking it apart, nobody's life is really like that." The Possibility of Lions". It is a story about loss, love and the difficulty of finding a home in a changing world. The fictional book speaks about an American family, the McCall family, and they've always lived in Nigeria. The Biafra civil war comes in 1967 and they have to flee Nigeria as refugees and return to the United States, where they returned to a small town in San Joaquin Valley, California.

    21 min
  • Carole Levy - Skits, Cartoons, and Trust

    Carole Levy is an avid cartoonist with a unique combination of wit and depth. She loves analyzing the tricks of the human ego on her popular blog. And she's published a humorous illustrated book called "The Bumpy Road To Collaboration" (paperback, Kindle, iBook) She is a culture change partner and a senior executive coach and facilitator. She shares her life map.

    33 min
  • From Acting to Facilitation
    As an actor, I watched amazing people struggle with life. I was interested in helping people see each other through the experience of each other and hope that they are going to now together do really important work in the world. Sharon talks about DEI which stands for "Diversity Equity and Inclusion". "During the pandemic, my heart broke and changed shape. It had more capacity for courage. I had lots of conversations with my courage in 2020. And I invested in the education. I wanted to have bravery and to have a voice, and to take up space, and to know how to stand much stronger in my dignity. And I did that with deep support, from many sources and many people and other leaders who have gone before me."
    33 min
  • Renee Reisch - my personal story
    Renee Reisch's personal story is honest and vulnerable. Thoughts about care, compassion, and kindness soak through Renee's voice. "Showing kindness, compassion and caring to yourself is not selfish, it's selfless. It is not possible to pour from an empty cup. You need to you fill your own cup for and then pour from the overflow. Sometimes we need to go within, rather than searching outside of ourselves. The journey is not just about the losses, it's the total picture - what we find along the journey of our life." says Renee. " I lost my voice. My voice was a metaphor for what I needed to find in my own life." " I didn't know what the new normal would be for me, with no voice interacting with people. I had learn a new way to communicate from all the years of just speaking my own voice but never speaking my true voice. And then losing it was to be able to find the true voice that was always within." The Wizard of Oz, an American musical fantasy produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is close to Renee's heart. Dorothy is directed to follow a yellow brick road that goes to the Emerald City, The Wizard of Oz's home. "The first was a "Scarecrow" who was looking for a brain. He was the smartest one there. Then they came across a "Tin man" desires a heart. He had the biggest heart of all "The Cowardly Lion" lacks courage, but turns out, has all the courage and more. The Wizard is revealed to be just an ordinary man when Toto (the dog) pulls back a curtain." reminds Renee. The Wizard reminds the three friends that they always had the qualities they sought. Dorothy always had the power to return to Kansas with the help of the ruby slippers, but had to find that out for herself. "There is no place like home" Dorothy gratefully exclaims.
    19 min
  • Loving Better - The Power of Conscious Thinking
    " Everybody's life is precious, if we can come from that place to give ourselves a chance to remember that sometimes. Be really generous and kind with ourselves when we don't remember it. " Becoming human is the phrase that really resonates. Becoming, evolving and developing is something that never stops. Deborah has lived in rural Sussex most of her life. She had her son at 27, and then another two children at the time she was 33. "I've always really valued the family life, and friends, and making meaning." She has been driven by wanting to make a difference. When I encountered the arts, it helped her find an important way of making sense and understanding the world." She was the first person in her immediate and extended family to go to university. That was a real gift, It took a lot of courage to go, because there wasn't any history of anyone having had any academic achievement and she experienced a lot of imposter syndrome. She absolutely loved it and she loved the learning. Today, her youngest daughter is doing her PhD!
    18 min

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