Focus on WHY

When you learn to be kind to yourself and learn to like yourself, you cut through the noise to master your self-talk and you see the true power of your thinking. Kim-Adele Platts believes that your greatest gift in life is to lend your belief because if you lend others your belief, they can find their own. For Kim-Adele, everything in life is either a lesson, a blessing or both and she says if you...

When you mix your passion with your vocation with your mission and profession, you find fulfilment in your work. This is what Dan Kent-Smith has found when creating his business Next Play. Leveraging the best of the LinkedIn platform alongside the people who worked there, Dan's WHY is to serve those who want to future-proof their career and business by helping them to identify transferable skills...

Drawing on his experience as a formerly renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey Shaw is used to observing life from both sides of the lens and sees it as a huge gift. Like a photographer composes an image, now as a speaker and small business consultant, Jeffrey shows business owners how to compose the often-chaotic pieces of running their own business to create sustainable success and gain control...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes: 113 Five to Seven Seconds with Tony K Silver 114 Speaking of Influence with John Ball 115 Tread Lightly on the Earth with Jerry Tate 116 Find Your Story with Rachel Maunder 117 Control Your Environment with Tom Libelt 118 The People Stuff with Zoë Routh   KEY TAKEAWAY "Celebrate life and recognise the gift of l...

From the wild rivers of northern Ontario to the remote regions of Australia, Zoë Routh has spent the last thirty years showing teams struggling with office politics and silos how to work better together. Focusing on the 'People Stuff', Zoë helps CEOs and their teams work on their biggest challenges to build fabulous teams and great work cultures. Zoë's latest book, 'People Stuff' has just been awa...

Tom Libelt learned from a young age how to sell and negotiate business by getting haggled by Russian vendors. His family moved from Poland to the US to escape communism and his parents took any job they could to survive. Seeing all this as a young man motivated Tom to control his environment, never want a job and keep moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher, salesman and one of the top Polish...

You don't need to have a big story to be a great speaker! You just need to know how all your little stories that have life lessons within them can be crafted into a captivating presentation. A talk that has your audience totally spellbound from the very first moment you open your mouth leaving them wanting more when you finish. This is what Rachel Maunder does as she helps speakers to find and hon...

Driven by his desire to generate creative, pragmatic and unique architectural solutions, Jerry Tate is influential across all his projects ensuring design quality is paramount. Sharing the responsibility of sustainability within the ecosystem of the building industry, Jerry works with developers who are focused on quality of life to consciously create sensitive landscape settings. KEY TAKEAWAY "Th...

Having always loved performance in some way, shape or form, John Ball developed a passion for public speaking years ago. On his speaking and storytelling journey, John discovered that there are lots of ways that we are influenced and persuaded often without our knowledge and through his own podcast and trainings, John now shows people how this happens and how people can in turn use persuasion and...

Five to seven seconds is all you have to make an impression and catch someone's attention on LinkedIn, sometimes it's even less than that. LinkedIn profiler Tony K Silver helps you to stand out amongst the crowd and has become the go-to LinkedIn profiler often being ranked No.1 by the platform in its search criteria. With all his knowledge and years of experience, Tony is able to deliver successfu...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes: 107 Plan to Retire with Claire Yew 108 Persistence Always Wins with Jeremy Meadowcroft 109 Science of WHY with Pieter Kruger 110 Why Not Me? with Lisa Brown 111 Performing as You with Diana Theodores   KEY TAKEAWAY "Grit, perseverance, determination, resolution, extraordinary effort, willpower, resolve, hard wo...

As a Business Leader, you perform many roles. However, your greatest role, the one in which you are always centre stage and in the spotlight, is in 'performing as you'. So many talented, accomplished, committed leaders report that their deepest desire is to 'be more themselves' in their leadership performance and connect to a deeper sense of self and authenticity. This is when you are most alive,...

Having worked in the NHS for over 20 years, Lisa Brown decided to pursue her passion in property. A chance encounter led Lisa to develop a property for a young man with complex needs and this led her to discover the Supported Living space. Lisa loved combining her 'nursing brain' and her 'property brain' to create a home for life for this individual, however she encountered many challenges in deve...

Starting with WHY is one of the most crucial elements needed for sports, businesses, organisations or for individual approaches to achieve sustainable performance. Pieter Kruger shares the science of WHY, explains how we respond to different levels of pressure and how we apply the WYSIATI principle to filter information in life which in turn impacts our judgment, decision-making, reactions and beh...

Can you see the broader picture within the funding landscape? Finding the right funding is not always easy and according to Jeremy Meadowcroft, persistence is key. Jeremy shares his valuable insights in the world of lending and explains what the relevant questions are to be asking when considering how to raise funds for your business. Jeremy has truly walked the walk of commercial lending, public...

Working hard, climbing up the corporate ladder, a casual conversation one day with her partner at the time instigated Claire Yew's pursuit of her WHY. He told her that he was planning to retire at the age of 45. This prompted Claire to question her own retirement plan for the first time in her life. At the age of 30, she started to actively search for a way to make her retirement possible using th...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes: 100 The Ripple Effect with Amy Rowlinson and Guests 101 Pay it Forward with Diksesh Patel 102 Lean in to Change with Adelle Martin 103 Fear and Resilience with Mark Wingfield 104 Free the Story with Stacia Keogh 105 Create Your Legacy with Louise Righton   KEY TAKEAWAY "With sage advice rippling through the age...

'SSAS Superstars' author, Louise Righton is educating and inspiring people to achieve financial independence by taking control of their own personal economy. With an initial desire to provide security for her husband and two daughters who both have special educational needs and disabilities, Louise found a way to create a legacy for them should anything happen to her and now she is helping others...

With a diverse and rich background in performance and teaching, Stacia Keogh creates and tells stories as a Performance Storyteller. On a mission to 'free the story', Stacia empowers women to use their own voice to tell their story of value, purpose and possibility. Real stories from real women, extracting wisdom, sharing true experience and enabling their story to shine like a beacon.   KEY TAKEA...

Being threatened with acts of aggression and violence in their workplace is a common occurrence for many frontline staff. Using a variety of techniques in controlled environments, trauma therapist, Mark Wingfield deliberately frightens people to see how they would respond to threats helping them deal with real life situations by learning how to stand up for themselves.   KEY TAKEAWAY "The idea is...

With a misdiagnosis of anxiety at a key point in her career, Adelle Martin had to take time out of her corporate banking role to understand why her body was changing and how she could manage those changes. She did not want to choose between her body or her well-earned career but this was what she was told had to happen. When she was finally given the diagnosis of an early menopause, she was presen...

Leaving behind a programme management career in investment banking to pursue property development full-time in 2017, Diksesh Patel found his calling along the way when he transformed his own body dropping over 50kg and appearing in Men's Health magazine. Now working as a Total Performance Coach, Diksesh focuses on seeking spiritual peace and advocating a stress-free, zero anxiety lifestyle being p...

Everyone has a story to tell! 100 episodes since the launch of this podcast, there have been many laughs and there have been many tears. In fact there has been a whole range of emotions as each guest has taken the audience with them on a unique journey whilst sharing their WHY. To celebrate this 100th episode landmark, host Amy Rowlinson invited members of the podcast audience from all over the wo...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes: 093 Unlimited Choice with Amit Sodha 094 Be Something in Your Life with Manj Mahal 095 Truth with Clarity with Martin Morrison 096 Do What Makes You Happy with Bushra Mohammed 097 Stand Out in Your Field with Hayley Appleby-Burtt 098 Path to the Main Stage with Li Hayes   KEY TAKEAWAY "Think of purpose as the b...

Just after a redundancy, a serendipitous phone call from her brother led Li Hayes down a new path. Leaving the corporate environment behind her, Li entered into an industry that she now loves and where she is able to shine the spotlight on others. Establishing a successful business around fulfilment, Li helps emerging speakers to find their way onto the main stage and with all the key elements inv...