We spend time with Jemma Regis, a courageous and inspiring woman who for many years has battled with her mental health, and yet has continued to move forward despite the challenges and set backs. Jemma is a successful entrepreneur, author, podcast host, mental health advocate and speaker. Listen to Jemma as she speaks very honestly about how she has handled living with depression for the last 35 years and yet continued to lead and move forward.

 

In this episode you will hear about:

-Living with depression and practical things Jemma has done

-The place of faith in the midst of challenging times

-Leading through adversity

-Setting up new businesses

-The importance of communication in leadership

-Looking to the examples of others to inspire action

 

In this moving and gritty episode, you will get an insight behind the scenes into a leader with a wealth of experience built on a lived experience of seeking to trust God day to day.

 

If you want to connect with Jemma just head over to her website here.

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Stu Wright is a partner at GiANT London specialising in leadership coaching and consultancy of senior executives and teams. He started his career as an engineer then spent 21 years in church leadership including leading a resource church in an urban deprived area of London. He specialises in building multicultural teams and in unlocking the potential and purpose of people’s lives.

In this episode we look at themes like

-Transitioning into new roles

-Discovering your unique shape

-Putting family first

-How to make big life decisions

-Maximising your potential

If you want to find out more or connect with Stu for a follow up conversation do reach out via his LinkedIn.

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We chat with Rosie Conroy who is an XLP youth worker based in North London working with local churches, schools and embedded in the local community. She lives and breathes incarnational ministry and you can hear her passion for young people and calling out the best in those around her. 

A moving episode where we discuss:

-Youth work in challenging places

-What it was like to be a young person in lockdown

-Digital poverty

-Calling out the good in people

-The power of listening and remembering names.

If you want to get in touch with Rosie she gave her email address: [email protected]

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Listen in to our conversation with filmmaker and storyteller, Tom Harmer. Not only is Tom a highly skilled and effective communicator and creative, who is seeking to tell the story of our humanity, shining a light on God’s creation, but he also has his own story to tell. Tom has a story of dependence and trust in God for his provision, direction, inspiration.

 

We include topics such as:

-Holy Discontent

-Uncovering God's purpose for your life

-Principles for storytelling

-Tips for leadership communication

-The creative industry in the pandemic

-Free-lancing

-and more…

 

Tom created an exceptional piece of work during the pandemic, '52 humans’ which you can find here. You can also connect with Tom via his website or social channels.

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Listen in on our conversation with Seth Pinnock,  @sethanthonyp who is a singer, songwriter, founder of Symphony Co, head of African and Caribbean Engagement at Tearfund, as well as a business consultant. We chat with with Seth about:

Discovering Your vision

Being a 16 year old founder of a God given vision

Leading in a post pandemic world

Building team

Bridging the gap with our communities

…and more

If you are a leader and looking for a bit of encouragement and inspiration, listen to this conversation with an amazing leader making a tangible difference as he follows the Lord. 

 

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We spend time with the phenomenal Bayile Adeoti, founder and director of Dechomai, a social enterprise that aims to 'Deliver on-demand leadership and enterprise courses and programmes through strategic partnerships to change mindsets and empower female BMEs with the skills to advance their business and ideas while creating memorable events and products for businesses and individuals'.

Bayile is a serial entrepreneur, a pastor in her church, a presenter and speaker, as well as a wife, mother and follower of Jesus.

 

Listen to an incredible conversation as we discuss:

-Prayer and leadership

-The impact of Covid on leadership

-A vision for leadership

-Finding a good balance when there is always more to do

-Leaning on others

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Another bite-sized episode for you to get your teeth into as we reflect on some leadership learnings from the last week. We get Jon out of bed in a different time zone to record a conversation that covers:

-Real time learnings about building team

-What you look for as you're building an advisory group

-Thinking about the process vs. the destination. Both as so important.

-The place of prayer in leadership

-Stepping back for the big picture

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We have been listening to themes that have emerged over the last 18 months as we've been speaking to people about leadership learnings and things they have been leaning into. What we've discovered is that these things have simply been highlighted by the events of the pandemic. Things have been intensified, but these principles always stand true in any season.

These are the first a number of themes that we're going to drop in from time to time and today we look at:

1.There will always be a new and now

2.Leaders don't always have the answers

3.In leadership, the journey is as important as the destination

4.Be clear about your purpose.

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Happy International Podcast Day! 30th September is when podcasts get their own special recognition and The New Now thought it would be a good time to release a shorter episode, a New Now 'bitesize' if you will, by way of a round up and a catch up on Matt and John and what they have been thinking about and reflecting on in their own leadership contexts. Covering:

-Some Fun Podcast stats

-Job Changes

-Being present vs. being future orientated

-3 Spheres of influence

-How they're connecting with God

-Current Books

-Spiritual formation

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Rachel Ivers trained as a business psychologist, has a lot of experience in the corporate world and now works as a consultant for Giant London. We enjoyed spending time with  with Rachel hearing about the importance of knowing ourselves to lead those around us, learning about 'Cockram's Law', and even getting Jon a bit of impromptu coaching! Rachel mentions that you can connect with her via her email and offers everyone a free resource too.

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