It's an Inside Job

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Research has shown that gratitude can improve general well-being, increase resilience, strengthen social relationships, and reduce stress, anxiety and depression . The more grateful people are, the greater their overall well-being and life satisfaction. In this episode, we explore the  underpinnings of gratitude: How do memories for...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Kristin Omreng , the global HR director of PGS, a leading provider of seismic data for the energy sector. In our conversation, Kristin shares her personal journey of balancing the demands of work and motherhood, and the three tools and practices she uses to stay grounded and pres...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Lucy Brazier OBE is one of the world’s leading authorities on the administrative profession. As CEO of Marcham Publishing , specialist publishers of Executive Support Magazine , Lucy’s passion is for the Assistant role to be truly recognised as a career and not just a job. With access to the most forward-thinking, passionate and kno...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. In this extended episode, I am joined by Jimmy Westerheim , founder and director of The Human Aspect . At the age of 13, Jimmy sat in a tree and planned how he would take his own life. From that moment on, his challenges became both his burden and his superpower. His life took him on a journey around the world via sports, Coast guar...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. As part of an ongoing series focusing on business leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs and how they face adversity and build resilience with themselves and their  organisation, Markus Gjelseth joins me this week. He is a  restaurateur who owns and operates, alongside his brother Joppe Gjelseth , three of Oslo's most known...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Where we choose to place our focus dictates how we invest our cognitive energy. The big challenge is that we are not always conscious where we put the spotlight of our attention. When we feel crushed by pressure or uncertainty, our focus tends to favour pessimism and negativity. From my experience, when we are under pressure, we nee...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Dr. Ann Kaplan is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, television host and former star of The Real Housewives of Toronto. Being corporate herself, she embodies the “unhousewife-housewife” – displaying her humorous antics and lack of tolerance for the intolerable weekly on SliceTv. In her “real” life, Ann Kaplan is the Founder of i...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Max Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia. When he was ten years old, Hungary occupied Slovakia and eventually in 1944 his family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most of them were immediately murdered in gas chambers. Max, his father and uncle worked as slave laborers, but 2 months later his father and uncle were select...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Mark Henick’s hit viral TEDx talk about the stranger who saved his life has been viewed and shared millions of times. Over the last two decades, he has appeared in hundreds of television, radio, print and online features about mental health. His bylines include CNN, CNBC, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, and many others. PEOPLE Magaz...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Welcome to Season 2! This episode we explore the psychology and neuroscience of forging psychological. safety. Anytime people work together there is a tendency for natural dysfunctions to creep into the relationship. An investment in time and effort is required  to overcome these inherent challenges to relationships and to create st...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Well here we are at the end of the first season. This short episode is a thank you for your listenership. Many have you have spread the word and the reach of this podcast has grown organically. It's showing up in small towns and big cities on every continent, So a big thanks for that. When I first started this sojourn back in J...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Roar is a facilitator, advisor, and mediator, and he founded Waegger Negotiation Institute (WNI) in 2017. Up to 2017 has Roar been working as a lawyer with employment and labor law, and he has previously worked as a tax-lawyer. With his experience and training from Harvard PON's and Pepperdine’s Straus' Institute in negoti...

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Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Aloysius Goh is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sage Mediation. Certified as an international mediator, Aloysius has a strong track record of achieving practical solutions to complex commercial disputes. His mediation clients include listed companies, as well as charities, non-government organisations, and public sector e...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. In this week's episode we explore how to improve our skills at constructive conflict. Many of us dislike having a challenging conversation with someone, especially if we consider them to be diligent workers who only need development in a couple of places. What happens quite often is instead of taking up the issue with the perso...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments.  Welcome to this episode where I'm joined by Christine Lindholt Wittusen , a coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator, who is passionate about interpersonal relationships, communication, and personal development. Christine believes that the key to better relationships is a deeper understanding of ourselves and others, and in th...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Mikael Engström is a world-leading expert in the field of trust and intuition. During his career, he has built great knowledge within these areas and developed their meaning in todays society. Being the initiator of several ground-breaking projects, including Swedish TilliT Glada Nyheter , meaning Trust Happy News where Mikael has b...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. From my experience, the fear of failure is one of the biggest hurdles we set in front of ourselves. Unfortunately, this irrational fear can prevent us from ever achieving our potential. The fear of failure stands in the present, but our gaze is toward the future. As a result, our minds fuel worse-case scenarios that could play-out i...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Tone Ringstad has worked with leaders in large international corporations in Norway and Europe. She is a trained geophycisist and was part of Exxon Exploration. She has been Director of Global HR in Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines and later built living-the-brand solutions in Dinamo.  She was trained as an executive leadership facilitati...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Amela Koluder debuts as a Norwegian-Bosnian author with Yutoland - a true story fairy tale , a bilingual picture book. Originally from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she came to Norway as a war refugee in 1993. Her debut book shows the turbulent journey from a calm, happy youth life to an involuntary refugee life. Koluder is passio...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. PROCESSING EMOTIONS From my years of working in clinical and corporate settings, some of the most substantial roadblocks to development and growth are not dealing with the residual emotions of challenging events. Ignoring and shoving them away helps temporarily, but they come back with even more mite, and sometimes with such strengt...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. In the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Mateos was deep in the world of narcotics, crime and violence. That lifestyle took a toll on him physically and psychologically. When he hit the bottom, there were moments when he wanted to give up and let go. He asked himself, "How long will I keep this going?" Since then, it's been a...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. When we keep our troubles bottled up, this can create more unintended problems. The brain has the absurd ability to overthink a situation. It can turn a worry into an unmitigated crisis.   Talking about our concerns with a trusted person can help us work out what is bothering us and to figure out what we can do about it. It also hel...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic has been voted one of the top Most Influential HR Thinkers in the world since 2015 by HR Magazine. She is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Management Shift Solutions Limited , providing leading edge services for individual and organisational transformation using her evidence-based The Management Shift a...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Active awareness is the essence of resilience. Where we choose to invest our attention is what we have flagged as important. When something is important to us, it means we have assigned it with value, and we have given it meaning. This meaning defines the search parameters of the RAS, which in turn creates the lens of how we perceiv...