What If 40 Was Just the Beginning? with Anne-Marie Deieso

What if the timeline you think you should be following has very little to do with what you’re actually capable of? My guest on this episode of Leading You, Anne-Marie “Ani” Deieso, didn’t begin what she now considers her career until she was around 40. After making a deliberate choice to stay hom…

Why is Asking For Help So Damn Hard?

Why is asking for help so hard, especially when you’re usually the capable one? I recently found myself exhausted, overwhelmed and lying awake at 2:00 am trying to solve every problem in my life at once. When a friend asked a very simple question, “Why don’t you ask for help?”, my immediate respon…

When Your Voice Gets Louder: The Midlife Reckoning No One Talks About

Have you reached the point where you know you’ve had enough, but you have absolutely no idea what you want instead? I seem to be having this conversation with women everywhere. They’re less tolerant of things they once accepted, more protective of their time, more willing to speak up and less pre…

Could Having Lunch With 500 Strangers Change Your Life?

What could change if you became a little more willing to put yourself out there? My guest on this episode of Leading You, Nick Bendel, set himself an unusual challenge: to have lunch with 500 complete strangers. For an introvert who preferred staying home with a book and a cup of tea, it wasn’t t…

Who is Your Biggest Competitor? It Might Not Be What You Think.

What if your biggest competitor isn’t another business, another leader or someone offering exactly what you do? What if it’s irrelevance? In a world where customer expectations, technology, workplaces and buying behaviour are constantly changing, being good at what you do is no longer enough. The…

Is It Them or Is It You? The Leadership Blind Spot Destroying Team Connection with Kylie Paatsch

What if the engagement problem in your team isn’t really an engagement problem at all? When people become disengaged, it’s easy to look outward - workload, culture, generational differences, competing priorities or the people themselves. But sometimes the more useful question for a leader is: How…

Self-Advocacy: Why Staying Quiet Costs More Than You Think

What is staying quiet costing you? Self-advocacy is often associated with asking for a pay rise, negotiating a promotion or learning to be more assertive. But it goes much deeper than that. Self-advocacy is your willingness to participate in the decisions that shape your health, career, relations…

Burnout, Reinvention & Finding Yourself Again with Jacqui Hawkins

Trigger warning This episode includes discussions of vicarious trauma, suicide, child death, sudden death and breast cancer.   What happens when you've achieved the career you once dreamed of... but something inside you knows it no longer fits? In this episode of Leading You, Julie Hyde sits do…

What are You Trying to Prove? And to Who?

How many warning signs have you ignored because you convinced yourself you could just keep going? In this solo episode of Leading You, Julie Hyde explores a pattern she sees far too often in high-achieving women and leaders... pushing through exhaustion, ignoring the signals their bodies are sendi…

The 3am Wake Up Call | Sleep, Performance and Leadership | with Dr Jemma King

What if one of the biggest factors affecting your leadership isn't another course, another strategy or another productivity hack... but the quality of your sleep? In this episode of Leading You, Julie Hyde is joined by behavioural scientist and performance expert Dr Jemma King to explore the scien…