The Executive Edge

Episode 55

Released October 28, 2021

On this week's show I have Stephanie Slocum who founded Engineers Rising. She has extensive experience of supporting women in to technical areas as well as encouraging them to stay. Stephanie is on a mission to normalize engineering, technology, science, and math (something she refers to as STEM). She feels  there are not enough women in these fields and particularly in leadership positions.

She helps women become influential leaders while having a life. Stephanie also helps organizations committed to gender equity in STEM, create work environments that retain and engage their women.

This was the main issue we discussed during this episode. |Young people can be encouraged in to the fields but even after they’ve completed their degrees, they may not continue on to work. When they do start work, the drop out rate can be as high as 50%...

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Episode 54

Released October 21, 2021

This week's guest is Andrew Bull www.interstellarway.life

With a background was in the film industry Andrew learned a lot about teamwork, and especially what made a team work well. He refers to himself as a Team and Culture specialist, and on the show he talks about building teams to thrive and succeed. 

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Episode 53

Released October 14, 2021

I am primarily an expert in Stress and have supported Executives both as a professional speaker, and 1:1 adviser, for 30 years.

On this week's show I talk about stress management in detail. It’s an essential life skill and something a lot of us don't have time to better understand let alone work through. 

I hope that this week's show, complete with tips and guidelines on what actionable steps you can take to reduce the stress in your life.

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Episode 52

Released October 6, 2021

This week's guest is Phil Pelucha, who describes himself as a growth strategist. He runs a company aptly named ‘Billionaires in Boxers’ (www.billionairesinboxers.com).

On the show, Phil shares his main strategies for growth and in particular, how to profit from a podcast or suitable online media.

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Episode 51

Released September 29, 2021

Carrie Morey is a working mum with 3 girls. She began her business with her mother Callie. Although Callie had a catering company at the time, it was Carrie who thought she could market and promote quality biscuits. This was because there was no-one else doing this in her part of the US at the time – and particularly online.

On the show Carrie talks about how she saw a gap in the market and subsequently took the business to significant growth with 70 employees in 16 years since it began in 2005. Now she has a thriving brand with 4 outlets and a mobile food truck.

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Episode 50

Released September 23, 2021

Rick Heyland is a successful consulting Executive who has built a business and sold it. With an MBA and many years’ experience, his business emphasises the importance of continuous improvement and small business success. He has written a white paper called ‘The 7 strategies for small business to solve the biggest challenges of 2021’ and that forms the starting point for the discussion on this  week's show. 

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Episode 49

Released September 15, 2021

Amy Rose Herrick is a chartered financial consultant. On this week's show she talks to Sue about her new ebook: ‘The Power of 10’.

The Power of 10 refers to is that any action you take (because it costs you something as an initiative), needs to be multiplied by the costs of doing this same action for the next 10 years. When you look at all your costs through this lens, it brings a rather revealing and refreshing view into focus!

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Episode 48

Released September 9, 2021

Lou Everett, and Sherri McManus, husband and wife team from The Lou Everett Group are this week's guests. 

Sherri McManus talks about the experiences that lead her to leave the business she worked for and start work as a consultant and trainer.

This often happens, it seems, because someone has an entrepreneurial idea and wants to go it alone. But, in Lou and Sherri’s case, it was also because she found herself exhausted by mismanagement of the team she was in.

Lou worked for the company too in a leadership role.  Despite this apparent ability to influence things, he found it equally difficult to alter their work practices. The two of them share their story of how they decided to offer training, coaching, and speaking, to teach better ways to communicate and prevent a toxic culture.

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Episode 47

Released September 2, 2021

Tom  Kereszti joins the podcast to talk about his book "C-Suite and Beyond, the 4 keys to leadership success".

In particular, Tom talks about what we need to do to become successful and a strong, capable leader.

Tom’s expertise and coaching concentrates on helping people realise their ‘sweet spot’ is the cross-over between 3 concentric circles. These are about identifying who you are, what you’re passionate about, and what you’re good at. Recognising this, says Tom, is the first and most valuable step.

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Episode 46

Released August 26, 2021

This week's guests is Jan Hoath, who talks about JOY www.janhoath.com

Jan's message is to encourage leaders to understand and embrace the powerful benefits of experiencing joy. It may seem easy to do, but I don't believe it is. Many Executives I work with are adrenaline junkies and want to push hard at life without ever really stopping. This becomes a deeply ingrained habit often sacrificing joy in the process. It can cause stress for some people, because they don’t take much down time or stop working. Jan’s message is about building joy in to your life so that it becomes a priority rather than a secondary benefit from achieving something.

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