Unleashing Brilliance

I was once asked – “What do you do for fun, Janine?  When was the last time you played?”

What if you were told that the power of play fuels your brain power. That learning to thrive at work and at home would boost your productivity and performance, unleashing your brilliance to do more?

So many were exhausted at the end of 2020.  Burnout was on the increase, zoom fatigue a daily occurrence and the exhaustion of balancing work and life as we were working from home didn’t always lend itself to much fun or play.

In this podcast episode I chat to Dr Jenny Brockis the author of 4 books with her latest being, Thriving Mind: How to Cultivate a Good Life.

As a board-certified lifestyle medicine physician and best-selling author, Dr Jenny’s vision is to enable everyone to be a happy, thriving human. She started life as the Principal GP of a group medical practice, then founded a workplace-based consultancy Brain Fit in 2009 specialising in brain health, mental wellbeing and social connection.

Listen in as even those that know this stuff still fall off the wagon from time to time.

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A true business leader and influencer, Naomi Simson is Australia’s most followed person on the business networking platform. She has authored two best-selling books Live What You Love, and Ready to Soar, and appeared as the #RedShark in four seasons of Shark Tank Australia.

In this podcast we discuss:

-       The importance of purpose in a business

-       What leaders need to do today to lead in to tomorrow

-       The importance of uniting people to a cause and holding them accountable

-       Naomi’s passion for small business

-       And why emotional resilience needs to be strengthened in all of us.

Following the growth of Red Balloon and the experience economy Naomi co-founded the Big Red Group (BRG) with business partner David Anderson in 2017. With the shared purpose to ‘shift the way people experience life’, BRG  serves ‘activities’ to different audiences through its various marketplaces: RedBalloon, Adrenaline, Lime&Tonic, Redii.com. A proudly Australian owned and operated business its goal is to serve an experience sustainably every second by 2030.

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Constantly curious, forever the student and passionate about building cultural magnificence in her own organisation as well as helping other organisations do the same. Alison Hill is passionate about making work an extraordinary experience.

Alison is a registered Psychologist and CEO of three-time AFR Fast 100 company, Pragmatic Thinking. She was awarded Educator of the Year in 2018, is an international keynote speaker and author of two best-selling books; 'Dealing with the Tough Stuff: How to achieve results from key conversations and Stand Out: A real world guide to get clear, find purpose and become the boss of busy. Alison is also the host and producer of one of Australia’s top podcasts, Stand Out Life

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Alison can be found at:

Pragmatic Thinking https://pragmaticthinking.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/alihill

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fromalihill/

What if you were told that your own Ignorant Truths is getting in the way of progress?

What opportunities could exist if you owned your Ignorant Truth to collaborate, learn and connect more?

And how do you feel about the need for Ferocious Warmth is leadership?

Tracey Ezard is an author of two books, ‘The Buzz – Creating a Thriving and Collaborative Staff Learning Culture’ designed for education leaders to support schools to bring about transformation in the classroom and ‘Glue. The Stuff that Binds Us Together to do Extraordinary Work’ for leaders across all sectors who want to lift beyond convention to create high performing teams. She is currently working on her third book ‘Ferocious Warmth: Connecting Heads and Hearts to Transform Education’.

As a speaker, author, educator and mentor, Tracey helps teams thrive by focusing on building collaboration and learning.  Her Buzz Diagnostic has been used by over 400 schools and has had over 4000 educators participate. Tracey has run leadership programs for education and system leaders for over 15 years in all education sectors in a number of states and in New Zealand. She has presented in conferences on programs alongside educational global leaders such as Professors John Hattie, Michael Fullan, Carol Dweck and Lynn Sharrat, Maggie Farrar and Pasi Sahlberg.

She builds the capacity of leaders and staff to create an energy buzz about the work and alignment on the future plans. She helps leaders and staff co-create and collaborate - and most importantly, learn deeply with each other as they do so.

In this podcast we talked about:

-       The duality of leadership

-       The need for Ferocious Warmth amongst our leaders

-       Creating the space for learning and unlocking the brilliance of others

-       How our own assumptions, our Ignorant Truth, gets in the way.

Find out more about Tracey and her work at www.traceyzard.com

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How do you determine what feedback to listen to when you are starting out with an idea?

How is Covid-19 changing the digital landscape?

When you have a big new innovative idea how do you manage the self-doubt and internal questioning?

These are just some of the topics I discussed on the latest episode of Unleashing Brilliant with Kelly Slessor.

Kelly is a digital strategist, and Founder of Shop You (an artificially intelligent personal stylist). Kelly’s focus is on creating emotional connections and developing technology to solve real customer problems. She describes herself as a Digital Anthropologist, passionate about connecting technology with people, to ultimately make people’s lives easier and to save time.

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Doing The Impossible w/ Jen Brown

Jen Brown knows a thing or two about helping unlock belief and possibility. She was a Corporate Lawyer treading the floorboards of organisations and now is an Endurance Sports Coach.  She has a unique ability to understand the intricacies of what individuals and teams hope to achieve, the motivation underlying their goals, the roadblocks and challenges they might face, and then helping them achieve it.

specialises in helping emerging leaders recognise their full potential, and then unleash it to create transformational changes in their team, organisation and life.

Jen is the Founder of Sparta Chicks, an online community and coaching business that supports women who participate in endurance sports and outdoor adventures, by sharing experiences, honest conversations and practical tools.

She also hosts the popular podcast 'Sparta Chicks Radio' which was launched in 2017 and which has been downloaded almost 300,000 times. The podcast explores how you find the courage and bravery to chase dreams by sharing practical, tried-and-tested-in-the-real-world advice from professional athletes, successful businesswomen as well as everyday women chasing their goals and dreams.

In her spare time, Jen is a trail runner, ocean swimmer and coffee lover and in this podcast she challenges us to:

-List 50 things that you have done that you once thought were impossible

-Choose our response to fear and self doubt

-Surround yourself with the right success crew.

You can find Jen at https://www.spartachicks.com/about/

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Andrew Baxter is one of Australia’s most trusted business, marketing and communications advisors. He’s passionate about helping companies unlock topline growth through sharp strategy and executional excellence. Andrew has worked with many of Australia's largest companies, brands and government bodies over two decades at Y&R, Ogilvy and Publicis, the latter two agencies as their CEO. Andrew is now a Senior Advisor to both KPMG and BGH Capital, and the Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the University of Sydney.

Andrew is also Chair of Australian Pork, and Tjapukai, as well as a former Chair of The Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation and of Deakin Business School. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and a Board member of the National Basketball League.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Business in Marketing from Monash University, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute, as well as the winner of Australian Marketing Institute's Sir Charles McGrath Award for his significant contribution to the field of marketing. He’s also been the marketing columnist for The Australian for the past seven years, and in 2019 launched his first podcast series, The Marketing Commute.

Listen is as we talk about:

- investing in a crisis

- creating a plan to navigate through and out of a crisis

- resilience requires breaking things down one piece at a time

Kyle Hegarty argues that whilst conversations have multiplied as the majority of the world has been forced to move on-line, the issues and challenges of working globally across cultural boundaries have equally multiplied.

From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, Kyle empowers leaders and teams to find new ways to communicate and lead across our shrinking planet. His programs help clients increase business across regions, strengthen teams, build trust, and re-focus company cultures towards global innovation.

With upwards of 70% of foreign ventures failing due to cultural differences, Kyle shows how anyone can beat these odds by learning new skills to adapt in today’s fast-paced, technology-driven planet. His first book, The Accidental Business Nomad: A Survival Guide for Working Across a Shrinking Planet is available in North America now and the rest of the world this August.

In this podcast we discuss:

-Strategies for working globally

-The need for smarter questions and the development of a soft connection before moving into the tactics of doing business

-Why we need to shift our perspective to treating people how they want to be treated.

Join me for a fabulous conversation into the challenges of working and leading across global boundaries and the opportunities that exist for all of us.

You can find out more about Kyle’s work and download the resources he references in this conversation here:

https://www.leadershipnomad.com/businessnomad 

https://www.leadershipnomad.com

Imagine being an accomplished lawyer working for the largest international law firm in the world, to deciding one day to trade in your heels for running shoes and setting off to change the world through highly collaborative social impact campaigns.

That’s exactly what my guest today did – and she certainly didn’t make the change in half measures!

Samantha is described as a trailblazer in the endurance world. She was the first woman and the youngest person at the time, to complete the Four Deserts Grand Slam - one of the world’s toughest endurance competitions that spans 1000kms across the hottest, coldest, driest and windiest deserts on earth.

With over 25,000kms under her feet and years of pushing her mental and physical boundaries - she now uses running as a vehicle for social change through advocacy; peer to peer fundraising and integrated digital campaigns.

There is so much magic in this conversation - from Samantha’s personal insight and learnings through to the questions she poses for all of us to think about as we navigate our own version of an endurance challenge.

In this podcast Samantha challenges us to stop selling ourselves short and instead continuously be thinking about the nest best plan.

To find out more about Samantha visit her website

https://www.samanthagash.com

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What happens when you align your lifelong passion with your business?

- You impact over 800,000 children EVERY week

- You are celebrated as a finalist in the NSW, Australia Export Awards

- You are a sought-after keynote speaker

- You are able to contribute more on a global scale

My latest guest, Clint Salter is an award winning entrepreneur, starting his first business at 16. By the age of 28, Clint founded and sold three companies along with being named the youngest Senior Celebrity Agent in Australia. And if that isn’t enough he is a sought after keynote speaker and best-selling author of 2 books.

Today, he is the Founder and CEO of the Dance Studio Owners Association. The largest community of Dance Studio Owners worldwide. With clients including the top 20% of dance studio owners across the globe, Clint has helped over 32,000 dance studio owners to navigate growth and impact their local communities while being able to create a successful business and life.

Clint’s impact reaches over 800,000 children weekly through the work he does with his dance studio owner clients...the largest impact that any dance educator has within the industry. His impact was further celebrated in 2019 being named a finalist in the NSW Export Awards.

A firm believer in 'giving back’, Clint also worked with World Teacher Aid to build a performing arts classroom in Africa.

As an educator and more importantly a learner, Clint knows the value of how the arts can transform the lives of children everywhere and can't wait to bring the gift of education to children in need.

His advice:

- Be curious always about the world around you

- Never stop anything that makes you happy – live a truthful life

- Always allow your truth to bubble to the surface

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