Focus on WHY

What's your worst fear? Is it public speaking? If so, your worst fear is how Steve Bustin makes his living. As both an accomplished public speaker and public speaking coach, the stage is a place of great joy for Steve. Striking a balance between his work with leisure, Steve ensures that he derives great pleasure from all he turns his hand to whether that's with his clients or in his garden. Throug...

Influenced by success in high performance sport, Charlie Whyman applies these winning methods into the world of sales and marketing. With a strong focus on her WHY and adopting the core values of authority, credibility and empathy, Charlie ensures that her marketing clients also exhibit these values to their clients. Identifying that curiosity is the key to unlocking success in sales and marketing...

Skilled at building profitable, scalable and purpose-driven businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible, global business leader, Brendan McGurgan is focused on making a positive and profound impact. With a commitment personally and professionally to achieving significant growth, Brendan is driven by his own purpose to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leade...

With his mum as a nurse in elderly care and a life that has always revolved around the care sector, it was always the destiny for Care Connector, Iain Clague to build a care-focused business. Iain's mission evolved from a passion to help those in care to have the best life possible and for those working in the industry to provide the best service. Borne out of frustration seeing how the sector cou...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections with actions from these recent podcast episodes: 239 Play a Much Bigger Game with Paul Avins 240 Artistry of Nature with Kalindi Jordan 241 Slides Save Lives with Dave Henson 242 Find Your Own Way with Tasneem Ali 243 Ask Better Questions with Mike Pagan   KEY TAKEAWAY "Questions are essential in life. They are the root for all your learning as you use them to...

How is your mental wealth? How much time do you spend on it each day? Do you recognise and appreciate the power of your support network? Are you ready for the next transition in your life? Who is the next version of you? As you are constantly evolving the one constant and primary focus should be your self-care according to mental wealth advocate, Mike Pagan. Ensuring you are not self-sabotaging, i...

As an introvert living in an extroverted world growing a career in a corporate world was not easy for Tasneem Ali. Having trained as a coach it was this challenge that brought Tasneem to combine her two passions together; authenticity with leadership. What Tasneem does is empower and support introverts by showing them how to live their authentic selves, how to lead their careers and their teams in...

Do your slides suck? Do you work in congruence with your slides like a professional partner? On a mission to banish bad visual communications so audiences are not left feeling cognitively exhausted, Slide Presentation Man, David Henson helps people to communicate better. Not only does he design and produce better presentations for you, he can train you to get information across in a way that is so...

What does it mean to be in our pleasure? What does it feel like to be consciously connected? With a real passion around the themes of sexuality, pleasure and sensuality, Kalindi Jordan helps people to self-inquire, self-evolve and deepen their relationships with themselves and the planet. Life is so unpredictable and anything can happen, yet to feel bliss, ecstasy and sexual pleasure you need to f...

Staring down death after a four and a half minute cardiac arrest, Paul Avins came to terms with his own mortality and allowed his ego to die in that moment. With the maxim of do more, be more, have more, give more, in his new role of the guide not the hero, Paul is now helping businesses to 'level up, team up and scale up.' He's coached over 550 UK companies through his business growth system with...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections with actions from these recent podcast episodes: 233 Refocus, Re-energise and Reconnect with Leon Bamforth 234 Creating Brave Spaces with Sarah Fox 235 Success Not Perfection with Andy Bounds 236 Written in the Stars with Sajna Rahman 237 Who Thinks Wins with Marcus Dimbleby   KEY TAKEAWAY "Are you in the water waiting to be saved or are you striding purposeful...

In today's 21st century world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), the necessity for applied critical thinking is more obvious than ever. A need for plans with optionality for businesses to survive and thrive. Enabling all those within organisations with the capabilities to use their brains to achieve effective immediate efficacy and instant applicability, Marcus Dimbleby...

Hitting rock bottom was the beginning of a new life for Sajna Rahman. Making the decision to do well in her career, Sajna focused on a clear vision, a purpose and a plan. Unlocking her purpose, Sajna took herself on a spiritual journey of self-awareness that she walked in faith to achieve. Vibrationally aligning with what she truly believed, one night in Bangladesh, she lay on a house rooftop with...

With a simple and clear maxim of communicate better and sell more, the focus is always on the desired outcome of an action or an agreement. Learning how to master the art of effective and efficient communication from a very young age growing up with a blind mother, Andy Bounds shows people how to adopt his brilliant technique of AFTERs. With a long-lasting and positive impact on his clients the po...

Amplifying voices from those people who are not usually heard from the creative industries and with a philosophy of Do Good and Do Well , Sarah Fox's contribution to the world is to bring forth the empowering role models in senior leadership that she at one time needed herself. Not afraid of change, acting as a catalyst for changemakers, agents of change and leaders of change to make the world bet...

Creating potential and reducing suffering is at the core of the work of commercial mediator, business consultant and professional speaker, Leon Bamforth. Using powerful reflective mediation, 'think through talking' processes and a Focus on WHY, Leon helps businesses to succeed by building connected teams that share visions and avoid nightmares. To do this they first need to refocus, reenergise and...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections with actions from these recent podcast episodes: 227 Voyage of Discovery with Tom White 228 Using Data Smarter with Sam Knowles 229 Your Authentic Path with Kate Trafford 230 Recalibrate Your Thinking with Dr Lynda Shaw 231 Time Well Spent with Scott McArthur   KEY TAKEAWAY "Aristotle said that 'we are what we repeatedly do' so living with authenticity really m...

With over 300 stories in his backpack mixing and matching them to be relevant to his corporate audience, professional keynote speaker and storyteller Scott McArthur was forced by the pandemic to turn his hand to refocus. As the archaeologist of his own life, switching to broadcasting and music, Scott now continues to focus on the most important number in life - 28000 - the average number of days s...

In a world where everyone is far too busy or believe it is too hard to embrace or enable change, a simple recalibration of the brain is what is needed. Dr Lynda Shaw shares how this is achieved by making little tweaks which make a very big difference. Change then not only becomes achievable but manageable. With a love for anthropology, freedom of choice and adventure and captivated by the world of...

How often do you think about the moments when you feel most fully alive and what does that tell you about who you really are? Beginning her career as a professional engineer Kate Trafford found her authentic "WHY" as a coach and consultant helping busy professionals to set themselves up for enjoyable, deeply meaningful and sustainable success. Purpose is a lifelong journey of self-discovery and if...

Living in the knowledge economy surrounded by data how do you filter out the noise to process and understand it? Helping people and organisations to ask better, smarter questions so that they can get the data they need to surface and articulate the insights to their customers is what Sam Knowles specialises in. Decades ago, Sam fell in love with stories, story structure and storytelling. Now throu...

Are you reimagining your future through learning, development and growth? Challenging, stretching and progressing yourself whilst getting the balance right? This is the vision and mission of Tom White. With a thirst and hunger to know and explore more, to understand why certain things are the way they are and why people do what they do, Tom has just started his Master's degree in Psychology which...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections with actions from these recent podcast episodes:   221 Power of Vision with Carey Conley & Laurel Wilson 222 Future of Speaking with Maria Franzoni 223 The Gift of Conflict with Jo Berry 224 Being Human with Gary Hosey 225 Moments of Truth with Steve Catchick   KEY TAKEAWAY "Remember where you are and who you are today is as a result of who you were and where y...

Equipping businesses to develop a Secret Salesforce of Brand Ambassadors in order to drive engagement, reduce churn and win more business, Steve Catchick has been at the front line of customer service for over 25 years. Knowing that people can make or break a brand, Steve focuses on people, communication and developing the culture as every interaction is a moment of truth.   KEY TAKEAWAY "Every ti...

Focused on supporting leaders and developing their behaviour and performance around how they show up with emotional intelligence in the workplace and their everyday world, Gary Hosey has now worked with over 7000 leaders from over 100 global organisations as a coach and trainer. His approach with EQ Influence™ captures the distilled wisdom from many thousands of 1:1 conversations with leaders worl...