What Juices You Podcast

What fuels leaders to lean into uncertainty and help others do the same? In this episode of the What Juices You podcast, facilitator and leadership coach Boyan Djefersky shares how he finds energy in moments of stretch—his own and others'.

Boyan reflects on key life moments where stepping forward required courage, and how those experiences shaped the way he supports people and teams through challenge, discomfort, and transformation. With humility and presence, he unpacks what it means to trust the process—and lead from a place of curiosity and care.

Key points from this episode:

• How discomfort and courage unlock growth—for ourselves and the people we lead
• Why leaning into vulnerability is a leadership superpower
• The role of compassionate challenge in supporting team transformation

Join Boyan to explore how courage, presence, and purposeful stretch can unlock new energy—for you and those you lead.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. 

•  Leadership Training Programs
•  Learning Experiences
•  Leadership Resources
•  Webinars & Workshops
•  About Juice  

What if scaling back is the most powerful way to lead forward? In this episode of the What Juices You podcast, executive coach and author Stephanie Woodward shares how helping leaders reduce noise and return to what matters most creates energy, alignment, and momentum.

Stephanie reflects on the insights behind her book The Big Scale Back, and how her own leadership journey has led her to help others let go of over-functioning, over-doing, and over-extending. She offers practical wisdom on how less can be more—especially when it comes to sustainable leadership.

Key points from this episode:
- How scaling back clarifies purpose and sharpens focus
- Why saying no can be a powerful act of leadership
- What happens when leaders stop pushing and start realigning

Enjoyed this conversation? Subscribe, share, and join us to discover how reclaiming clarity and capacity can transform how you lead—at work and in life.

Get Amazon Bestseller The Big Scale Back by Stephanie Woodward at https://stephaniewoodward.com/

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. 

•  Leadership Training Programs
•  Learning Experiences
•  Leadership Resources
•  Webinars & Workshops
•  About Juice  

What fuels exceptional leaders in moments of tension? In this insightful episode of the What Juices You podcast, author, TEDx speaker and Juice Inc. co-founder Brady Wilson opens up about his lifelong passion for creating energizing connections—transforming tension, conflict, and fragmentation into integration, trust, and meaningful collaboration.

Brady shares deeply personal stories, including formative childhood experiences of being a connector in family conflicts, and how these early lessons shaped his unique perspective on leadership and communication. Listen in to discover why Brady believes that true trust only emerges after effectively navigating conflict and tension. He offers practical insights on how adopting a benevolent view and charitable interpretation can dramatically shift workplace dynamics, helping leaders resolve conflicts in ways that energize teams and individuals.

Key points from this episode:

• Why tension is a necessary ingredient for workplace trust and high performance.
• How leaders can transform conflict into powerful opportunities for connection.
• The importance of viewing others benevolently to unlock deeper potential and collaboration.

Join Brady to explore how energizing connections can change the way you lead, communicate, and inspire your teams—even in the most challenging circumstances.
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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. 

•  Leadership Training Programs
•  Learning Experiences
•  Leadership Resources
•  Webinars & Workshops
•  About Juice  

What deeply energizes someone who thrives on making meaningful progress and tangible contributions? In this insightful episode of the What Juices You podcast, Juice Inc.'s General Manager Jean-François (JF) Hivon shares how the drive for purposeful, effortful work energizes his life, both personally and professionally.

JF reflects openly on his lifelong relationship with work, shaped early on through experiences in sports, where effort and perseverance mattered as much as skill. He explains how his passion for working hard naturally evolved into a commitment to creating meaningful structures, contexts, and frameworks—empowering others to be at their best. JF emphasizes how crucial it is to align our energizing activities with contribution, cautioning against the tipping point where even energizing tasks can become depleting if disconnected from their purpose.

Key insights from this episode:

• How purposeful, gritty work and seeing tangible progress fuels JF’s personal and professional life.
• The value of creating clear, supportive structures that enable others to thrive autonomously.
• Recognizing the delicate balance between energizing activity and depletion when disconnected from meaningful contribution.

JF’s wish for listeners is profound: to find awareness around the critical point where what energizes you begins to drain you, and to stay connected to the deeper purpose behind your efforts.
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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. 

•  Leadership Training Programs
•  Learning Experiences
•  Leadership Resources
•  Webinars & Workshops
•  About Juice  

What energizes exceptional coaches to help leaders flourish? In this engaging episode of the What Juices You podcast, Kathy Kaye, coach and facilitator with Juice Inc., shares her passion for guiding leaders through transformative journeys—helping them move beyond survival mode into thriving mindsets.

Kathy describes the deep fulfillment she finds in coaching, particularly when holding space for leaders to navigate challenging feedback and shift their behaviors to unlock new potential. She candidly explores how accountability can be both compassionate and powerful, inviting leaders to courageously face barriers and pursue meaningful change. Through empathy, curiosity, and gentle prodding, Kathy helps leaders discover clarity, confidence, and growth, especially in times of uncertainty and ambiguity.

Listen in to discover:

• Why genuine empathy and accountability create profound shifts in leadership.
• How Kathy supports leaders in moving from resistance and fear to thriving and clarity.
• The impact of creating safe spaces where vulnerability leads to transformative insights.

Kathy’s wish is for leaders to spend more time in a calm, clear-headed "thriving mindset," enabling greater empathy, creativity, and resilience in their work and lives.
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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. 

•  Leadership Training Programs
•  Learning Experiences
•  Leadership Resources
•  Webinars & Workshops
•  About Juice  

What energizes someone to stand confidently amidst chaos, offering both deep acceptance and challenging clarity? In this captivating episode of the What Juices You podcast, Heather Watt-Kapitain, facilitator and coach with Juice Inc., shares powerful insights into what drives her passion for guiding others through transformative journeys.

Heather dives deeply into her personal sources of energy, from family and community to daily routines in nature, highlighting her commitment to maintaining balance and intention in life. As an experienced facilitator and coach, Heather describes the immense satisfaction she finds in supporting people to shift from resistance to genuine engagement—leveraging straight talk and compassionate challenge. She emphasizes the critical distinction between mere change and genuine transformation, encouraging leaders to see their behaviors clearly and to courageously choose their impact.

Heather openly shares her profound personal realization: that at her core, she is love. This deeply held belief influences how she shows up as a coach and facilitator—offering both ruthless compassion and unconditional acceptance to those she supports.

Key insights from this episode:

• How embracing chaos and tension leads to genuine transformation and possibility.
• The power of straight talk combined with profound acceptance to create meaningful shifts.
• Understanding the difference between superficial change and true transformation through awareness.

Heather’s wish for listeners is authentic self-expression—encouraging everyone to cultivate awareness, courageously acknowledge reality, and express themselves fully from a grounded sense of self.
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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. 

•  Leadership Training Programs
•  Learning Experiences
•  Leadership Resources
•  Webinars & Workshops
•  About Juice  

What drives deep curiosity about human potential, relationships, and personal growth? In this heartfelt episode of the What Juices You podcast, Christine Robinson, practice lead in innovation at Juice Inc., shares her lifelong fascination with the inner worlds of people and how meaningful connections can transform lives.

Christine openly reflects on powerful experiences from her childhood—observing her parents navigating trauma and conflict, and witnessing moments of social injustice among peers—that ignited her passion for psychological safety, authentic relationships, and personal transformation. She shares vulnerable insights about managing fear and control in parenting, recognizing potential without overpowering autonomy, and maintaining a non-judgmental presence that creates powerful opportunities for growth.

Listen in as Christine describes what happens when individuals feel truly seen and safe, and how she harnesses her deep curiosity to help others authentically express themselves, confront barriers, and step courageously into their full potential.

Key insights from this episode:

• How genuine curiosity about human potential fuels authentic, transformative connections.
• The impact of creating psychological safety and non-judgmental spaces in coaching and leadership.
• Personal reflections on balancing fear, control, and autonomy in parenting and relationships.

Join Christine to explore how curiosity, authenticity, and courageous self-expression can unlock new levels of personal and professional potential.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. 

•  Leadership Training Programs
•  Learning Experiences
•  Leadership Resources
•  Webinars & Workshops
•  About Juice  

What really energizes a great leader? In this heartfelt episode of the What Juices You podcast, Juice Inc. senior facilitator Kris MacQueen shares personal stories and reflections about discovering purpose and meaning through his unique contributions to others.

Kris talks openly about his passion for helping individuals connect deeply with their own creative contributions, especially during challenging or uncertain times. He explores resilience not just as a way of getting through difficulty, but as a means to create something beautiful and impactful. Kris also shares a profound personal story about how one of his songs unexpectedly touched the lives of hundreds of students, revealing a new definition of success.

Listen in to discover:

• How connecting people with their personal contribution can profoundly energize teams.
• The importance of resilience and finding beauty even amidst adversity.
• The unexpected, energizing power of making a genuine impact on others.

If you're a leader who believes in creating meaningful connections and cultivating resilience, this conversation with Kris MacQueen will inspire you to find and ignite your own unique contributions.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. 

•  Leadership Training Programs
•  Learning Experiences
•  Leadership Resources
•  Webinars & Workshops
•  About Juice