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Ray Martin, author of Life without a Tie, also known as the Daily Explorer brought a "Ray" of Sunshine into the studio,. He's an interpreter and an award-winning business leader, a coach, a mentor, a facilitator, a speaker " In life without a Tie a random unforeseen series of events helped Ray strengthen his inner guidance, deepen his humanity and forge a new authentic path. He shares the highs an...

Today we celebrate an amazing coach – Max Ekesi. "I put myself in other people's shoes" recounts Max. Empathy is speaking to courage and boldness and forgiveness and the capacity to be agile and to diversify. I learned to navigate those different cultures." He connects multi-generationally across the generational gaps.. Max fosters an understanding and a respect for older people. His approach has...

Erin Randall is indeed a treasure trove and fragrance. When asked how she would like people to notice about her, Erin answers humbly "I want to be noticed as the coach who will be with you and stay with you. The coach who reflects back your loveliness so that you can work with that. "Ever the skilled and compassionate coach, Erin reminds us of the work of Caitlin Walker PhD, Director of Clean Lear...

Jane Duncan-Rogers shares with us her story of grief and how it's become her treasures and gifts to others. "My husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2010. It stops you in your tracks. He got treatment, we hoped for the best, but actually the worst happened and I ended up being a widow." This was the beginning of Jane's grief journey. Jane's greatest fear had come true. She was on her own a...

Lisa Hammett talks about how she dealt with burnout and found a way out. "My mother, was bipolar, diagnosed late in life. It was chronic anxiety related. There were periods in my life growing up where she wouldn't talk to me for like a week. If I did something to really upset her, she would just completely shut me out. I developed people pleasing tendencies and hyper achieving tendencies. I was al...

Podcasters united cross three countries, United Kingdom, United States and Nigeria. Paula Okonneh , Tesse Akpeki and Sade Marriot joined podcast guest Max Ekesi , President / CEO of the Agile Ausitn Organisation and IT Senior Manager at Paypal. Max has been leading Agile Transformations since 2007 in large enterprises specifically leveraging Agile & Kaizen principles. Max's 47th Birthday visiting...

The choreography of life leads to a growing realisation that dancing in leadership is more relevant as ever. Dance like no one's watching, Sara Ramsey's love of dancing led her to dance in the world amateur championships at the Royal Albert Hall. During the Covid lockdown she reconnected with her love of dance. Bragging rights? She did her fair share of Fox trotting with Anton Du Beke pre his fame...

"I just kind of stopped having shame. I thrive on vulnerability. I get to just be me , I get to make mistakes, and I get to learn from people who have a lot more experience. I think any particular wisdom that I might have at this point in my life just comes from being willing to talk about all the things with people, and hear what they have to say" (Trust, leadership and ethics speaker Dallin Coop...

"Emotionally it's very difficult to start seeing the person that you love slip away. This is my second round of caregiving. My heart goes out to all carers of patients with dementia. It's hard for the carers. Really, really hard. It's hard for the person being cared for too. I can't, you can't take care of someone else unless you take care of yourself. I've been out five times in the evening in th...

Dr Mick Rogers or "the accidental doctor "as he describes himself says "It's all about the people, not just process". Anywhere people are part of the process, they're the most important part of the process. The soft aspects of people are the tricky stuff, the stuff that you can't apply a model for, or you can't work out on the spread. It requires engagement and trust and risk and exposure with peo...

A home away from home describes Marta Maretich. Marta was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. "I thought it was the best thing ever. I thought it was the coolest thing ever." "We had a different background. I always felt different - like we knew about a bigger world. When you spoke to people in Bakersfield, you were met often with incomprehension. They really didn't get it. There is something about be...

Carole Levy is an avid cartoonist with a unique combination of wit and depth. She loves analyzing the tricks of the human ego on her popular blog . And she's published a humorous illustrated book called "The Bumpy Road To Collaboration" (paperback, Kindle, iBook ) She is a culture change partner and a senior executive coach and facilitator. She shares her life map.

As an actor, I watched amazing people struggle with life. I was interested in helping people see each other through the experience of each other and hope that they are going to now together do really important work in the world. Sharon talks about DEI which stands for "Diversity Equity and Inclusion". "During the pandemic, my heart broke and changed shape. It had more capacity for courage. I had l...

Renee Reisch's personal story is honest and vulnerable. Thoughts about care, compassion, and kindness soak through Renee's voice. "Showing kindness, compassion and caring to yourself is not selfish, it's selfless. It is not possible to pour from an empty cup. You need to you fill your own cup for and then pour from the overflow. Sometimes we need to go within, rather than searching outside of ours...

" Everybody's life is precious, if we can come from that place to give ourselves a chance to remember that sometimes. Be really generous and kind with ourselves when we don't remember it. " Becoming human is the phrase that really resonates. Becoming, evolving and developing is something that never stops. Deborah has lived in rural Sussex most of her life. She had her son at 27, and then another t...

Andy Temte's take on second chances. Most of us are out of balance, and most of us need that kind of heavy introspection at times, and really need to look inside and ask ourselves questions about who we are, who we want to be, and the impact that we're having on others. "If somebody that's placed me in a box actually spent the time to really understand what makes me tick, they would find a much, m...

As part of an inclusive environment, how can we start? How can we, how can I create an environment that is inclusive, that is generous, that is caring, that is kind and nourishing and also produce the goods? Professor Binna Kandola admits "This is a process of learning and learning, being self-reflective, getting feedback and actually trying to do better is the most important thing. "I had to educ...

Relationships matter to Desire Anderson because as a young recruit Desiree was exposed to fantastic pieces of work where she helped with diversity and equity programmes and leadership development. She was inspired by Nelson Mandela who having been released took the whole quality of forgiveness, collaboration and diversity to a different level. She mirrored this devotion by implementing practices n...

"Everybody has something to give and you don't have to be a Beyonce or, you know, a Rhianna or someone huge to be able to give, just give what is within, what you have to offer, what you can afford to offer, no matter how small it is, it's still valuable What you think is really small might actually be really huge to someone else. We hear success stories, what we don't know; the story behind these...

The story of Robert McCrea - a successful producer and actor, reads like something out of a Hollywood movie. His personal journey screams "resilience through adversity ." Rob's father managed to escape from the prison camp. He was a refugee from Burma at the end of the second world war whose reference for fathering was the Japanese prisoner of war camp which wasn't much fun. His grandfather was ex...

During the pandemic, a new meaning came to Dr Nate with compassion mixed with accountability. This is even more valuable, and the work with clients is more important at that time, when compassion needs to be reconciled with accountability. Every day with Covid -19 opens a different chapter. The need for balance has never been more important as every day it takes on a new meaning. Dr Nate admits th...

Life can be Poetry in Motion as Kate Hammer invokes the call of Madonna ( as mother ) "not about performance or conformance, the invitation is to walk, step in, or step out with compassion, care, soothing and empathy. " Inside the rings that Kate and her husband exchanged were the letters WWO the number 2 and the letter B, which stands for where we ought to be from a Quaker song based on the tune...

Self love matters! Nancy White tells us why. It not only empowers us, it also helps us to be able to love and empower other people. We're all unique and different. If we can't love ourselves first and foremost, we can not love anybody else. Part of self-love is those things that are not only in our physical and financial arena, but in the spiritual and emotional arena. Whether it's setting goals,...

Award winning author, Esua  Goldsmith grew up  "being an only " in a  white working class neighborhood in the 1950s in south London. She was the mixed race daughter of a white single mom and a Ghanaian father who she never knew as a child. Often being "an only one", Esua describes the feeling of being "an alien dropped  from outer space".  This pervasive emotion ran like a thread  throughout her l...

In search of meaning, looking for new experiences, moving to new place, having fun, learning new languages led Chinese born Melody Song, co founder of Do Good Here to Canada and then to Berlin, Germany. Her mum, a translator for cultural ministries took her to ballet as a child which gave her access to ballet shows. She lived in Canada for 20 years, 15 of those years she served as a fundraiser at...