Episode 24: Not Being Taken Seriously featuring Brienne Hennessy and Jillian Webber
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Episode 24: Not Being Taken Seriously featuring Brienne Hennessy and Jillian Webber

It’s likely that at some point in everyone’s professional or personal life, they haven’t been taken seriously with the after-effects of these moments having a lasting impression on us.

From the lens of emerging leaders, these impressions often have a direct correlation to how we lead from the trenches, and so, in this episode, we’ll explore some of the reasons why people, specifically emerging leaders, tend to not be taken seriously, we will offer some tips to calm the self-doubt inside ourselves, and finally, we will reach into our leadership tool boxes and hand out some practical tools to enable each other to ensure everyone is heard as much as they want to be.

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Episode 23: Survivorship Bias (It’s not what you think) and Making Fully Informed Decisions featuring Simon Kardynal
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Episode 23: Survivorship Bias (It’s not what you think) and Making Fully Informed Decisions featuring Simon Kardynal

Here’s the thing, at its very core, survivorship bias is a kind of mental model where people tend to only look at what has worked in the past and use this as a metric for future success. But what about all of those stellar failures that we’ve experienced? Is there nothing for us to learn from these fails?

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Episode 17: Your Leadership Journey is Yours, It’s Important, and it WILL Shape You featuring Ryan Carey
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Episode 17: Your Leadership Journey is Yours, It’s Important, and it WILL Shape You featuring Ryan Carey

Your leadership journey is yours alone. Your experiences, your triumphs, your failures, your hard times and your easy times, they’ve all been shaping you and how you act as a leader.

The trick is to be accepting of your failures and your wins, to see how each of your experiences has shaped you, and then ensure your evolution as a leader is in tune with the kind of leader you want to be.

In this special Remembrance Day episode, we are speaking with Ryan Carey, who will discuss his leadership journey from his youth to professional football player to Canadian Armed Forces veteran, and being to an advocate for increasing awareness surrounding concussions across all fields.

Ryan’s story is meant to remind us that each of our leadership journeys are unique and special, and once we create a path that follows our personal values, we can, and WILL, make the differences that we want for ourselves and the world.

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Episode 16: Understanding Our Leaderships Wins and Failures Makes us Better Leaders featuring Sara Greco
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Episode 16: Understanding Our Leaderships Wins and Failures Makes us Better Leaders featuring Sara Greco

Ask any renowned leader who they look to for inspiration and they will name someone they view as their leadership guiding light. Leaders never say that they are their own inspiration, and that’s because most leaders recognize that a person’s individual leadership style has been adapted from examples, good and bad, that they have experienced or witnessed during their lives. We use these examples to shape the leaders we want to be, taking the parts we want to use, remembering the examples of how we don’t want to be. All the while, we are building our leadership toolbox.

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Episode 15: Understanding Yourself to Wear Clothes Like the Boss You are! featuring Patrice Bisiot (Part 2 of 2)
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Episode 15: Understanding Yourself to Wear Clothes Like the Boss You are! featuring Patrice Bisiot (Part 2 of 2)

In last week’s episode we talked about the need to be genuine and authentic with yourself and if we are honest with who we are, then, and ONLY then, can we begin to understand the leadership image we want to project.

In this week’s episode, we’ll continue this discussion, further explaining how to see these connections right in the moment, and understanding how to use this knowledge to project YOUR leadership brand.

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Episode 13: Fear is NOT the Enemy featuring Simon Kardynal
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Episode 13: Fear is NOT the Enemy featuring Simon Kardynal

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines fearlessness as being free from fear.  The thing is, fear is one of the most basic evolutionarily related instincts from common to all species, and that’s because the need to be able to recognize how and when we need to persevere to survive is an integral method for all of us to keep moving forward.

In this episode, we will talk about understanding fear and fearlessness, helping dispel the myth of living fearlessly.  Rather, we will talk about harnessing the power of fear, using it to help focus our mind to help us overcome our personal and professional fears.

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Episode 11: Mindfulness and Leading, They REALLY are connected featuring Courtney Johannesen
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Episode 11: Mindfulness and Leading, They REALLY are connected featuring Courtney Johannesen

Being an experienced leader is stressful. Being a new leader, either for the first time, or starting with a new team can be down-right dreadful. And this is when things are going great, and your team is tight-knit, and you are within budget, and the time constraints are being respected. However, in reality, there is usually something going wrong, often minor, but something that requires the leader to be pushed emotionally and/or physiologically.

In this episode, we will be talking to Courtney Johannesen, a Corporate Wellness Provider and Well-Being Coach who will teach us some tricks and tips to help us remain centred on ourselves and the task at hand.

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Episode 10: How to be an Effective Active Listener featuring Simon Kardynal
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Episode 10: How to be an Effective Active Listener featuring Simon Kardynal

When you’re talking to a colleague, a friend, or your boss, how often do you find yourself cut-off just at the end of your sentence? How often have you seen the person with their mouth open, hands raised, just chomping at the bit to speak? Now, how often have you not felt truly heard by these people, felt rushed or misunderstood and felt as though you didn’t have the voice you would have wanted?

In this episode, we will be talking about the invaluable art of active listening. We will discuss what it means to be an active listener versus a passive listener, and we will talk about why active listening is so crucial for leaders. And finally, we round out the episode with some ways to help all emerging leaders be the very best active listeners that they want to become.

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Episode 09: The Gang’s All Here featuring the Sketchs Ink Team (Part 3 of 3)
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Episode 09: The Gang’s All Here featuring the Sketchs Ink Team (Part 3 of 3)

Welcome to the third and final episode in this 3-part podcast mini-series with the team from Sketchs Ink Custom Paint and Hydrographics.

In the first episode we heard from Brandon and his leadership philosophies, and in the second episode we heard from his team, asking if and how Brandon lives into his leadership values, but now, in this episode, we’re bringing the whole gang together. That’s right, we’re wrapping this mini-series up by bringing Brandon and his team together to discuss how Brandon relied on his team’s faith in his leadership to model the way, thereby creating a tight-knit community.

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