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Do you listen to music whilst you work? There are countless studies and arguments on whether music can really make us more productive. We often hear radios playing in forecourts, offices and shops, and since the launch of Spotify and shrinking of headphones, playing music at work has become much less frowned upon. But what is the scientific impact on our brains? Should we be encouraging or discouraging our teams to embrace Beethoven whilst working? (or in Marks case, Metallica…) GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes Leadership & Life Chat - Practical guide to de-stressing with Havening Technique expert Tony Burgess Impromptu Business Chat - Up Your Energy - Increase your energy levels (part 1 of 2) Andrew Huberman – Huberman Lab podcast Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

This conversation is far from a laugh riot, but is a fascinating insight into the reality of what it’s like for many teams members out there right now working under bad bosses. The stats will blow your mind! Fearless Organisation Practitioner Rob Kalwarowsky, famous for his speech ‘How to Avoid Becoming an As*hole Boss’; outlines the 6 different destructive leader types: •    The arrogant or violent boss  •    Abusive narcissist  •    Messy boss •    Cowardly boss (ghost managers) •    Passive aggressive boss •    Passive egocentric boss Do you recognize yourself as any of these? If so, it might be time to make a change. They seem extreme but Rob outlines the data and research behind how these categories came into the lexicon and how too much stress on teams will result in costs for businesses in the long term. There is a demand for the right people needed in businesses, but there’s a disconnect with the overall quality of leadership in businesses across the world – recent trends of quiet quitting and the great resignation are directly tied to specific managers.  Rob believes that his insights can literally help to change your business and the lives of those working with you, forever. GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes Contact Rob: elitehighperformance.com Watch the full speech How to Avoid Becoming an As*hole Boss here Find Rob on: Instagram Youtube Linked In TikTok Spotify Thanks to www.expertbookers.com - visit them and find out how they can help support your podcast! Mindfulness Meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn Jamesclear.com No Bad Parts - Dr Richard Schwartz Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself – Michael Singer 7 Rules of Power: Surprising - But True - Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance your career – Jeffrey Pfeffer Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

In this episode we talk all things chaos theory. No, not the ‘interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions’ (thanks Wikipedia). Rather, how our unpredictable behaviour can impact our work and those around us. Mark and Becky discuss how there’s a difference between chaotic and energetic, how the differences impact our productivity, and how the pros and cons of what can be perceived as chaos in the workplace impact our relationships.  GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes Leadership & Life Chat - How to cultivate creativity at work Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

Psychotherapist, Gin Lalli, supports people in finding practical solutions for mental fitness when feeling out of control, and how to avoid negative thinking with the aim of limiting your stress. Stress is a consequence of negative thinking, and the responses come from the part of your brain that is designed to keep you safe – they were vital for survival in caveman days, but we don’t need them daily in 2024. We can retrain our brains to understand that thoughts and internal chatter are NOT facts. It takes time and commitment, but it is possible. Gin outlines the scientific role sleep plays in our mental health; how to cope if we don’t get enough sleep; the importance of micro-interactions; what the cause and effect of modern-day stress is and how our cortisol levels really work for and against us. There’s a lot of polar bear talk, supermarket self-checkout rage, and ‘Producer Lizzie’ even manages to wedge in the psychological benefits of horror films! GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes: Visit Gin's website at Ginlalli.com Gin’s book - Solution-Focused Therapy Handbook: How to Empty Your Stress Bucket & podcast - Stress Bucket Solutions The Chimp Paradox – Prof Steve Peters The work of Trevor Moawad Susan Jeffers – Feel the Fear and do it anyway Just One Thing – Michael Mosley podcast Sleep is your superpower – Matt Walker TED Talk Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker  Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

We are back for series 7! Loyal listeners will know that Mark and Becky are huge fans of Jim Collins, so they decided it was time to dive deep into his work, and look at the seven key questions he claims all leaders need to ask themselves. They outline how each question can help with recruitment and retaining our talented people! Jim once said leaders should be “rigorous, not ruthless.” Can this really be applied to success? GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes Jim Collins – Good to Great Value setting within business episode of Leadership & Life Chat –  Working 9-5, not the only way to make a living Leadership & Life Chat - You’ve got the power The 7 questions Are you beginning to lose other people by keeping this person in the seat? Do you have a values problem, a wills problem or a skill problem? What is the person's relationship to the window and the mirror? Does the person see work as a job or a responsibility? Has your confidence in the person gone up or down in the last year? Do you have a bus problem or a seat problem? How would you feel if this person quit? Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

Do you think you’ve grown as a person, or as a leader, or have you allowed your challenges or failures to hold you back? Human Potential Coach Kamini Wood is passionate about helping people to understand their worth and grow their personal and professional paths, or as she puts it, “I mess with how people think!” Do you ever feel like you don’t belong? You don’t fit in? What do you allow your inner critic to tell you? Kamini started her journey into personal development after realising, as a mother of five, she needed to start adopting a more conscious parenting tactic, as she was projecting too much of her own emotion onto her children. She could see people doing this at her family law firm too. Our relationship with ourself is the most important one we’ll ever have, so Mark and Becky chat to Kamini about how we can tap into our goals and values, and reject the fear response for the better of our businesses and brains! GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kamini.wood.5  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itsauthenticme/?hl=en  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaminiwood/ Kaminiwood.com RiseUp - Live Joy Your Way podcast Atlas of the Heart – Brené Brown Viktor Frankl Russ Harris – The Happiness Trap    Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

This week, Mark and Becky reflect on a topic which keeps coming up with their guests – the importance of emotional intelligence. They look back on their AI episodes and how the human in the loop theory will become more important in the future, extending past the technical aspects of a job, and into how to retain the people in your team; after all, people join organisations but leave managers.  They discuss how EQ skills can be taught and learned, and why it’s so important for leaders to get hold of their own self-awareness, set the drum beat and audit their own emotions and how others perceive you.  GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes AI Special roundtable with Alison & Alix Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

This episode is a complete refresh on the topic of leadership. Antonio Garrido, former architect and author of My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success, has dedicated the latter half of his career to helping CEO’s better tap into their emotional intelligence, understand the art of truth telling and create more productive working relationships. His energy and experience offers a reinvigorated perspective on modern day business, as he philosophises with Mark over the reality of business ownership and management in 2023, he gives some uncomfortable examples of the type of personalities still allowed to operate at top levels, and why those businesses open themselves up to failure. Do you want to create a carrot or stick culture? GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes LinkedIn www.mydailyleadership.com Email Antonio: [email protected] Blinkist  Leadership & Life Chat – How to cultivate creativity at work My Daily Leadership book Example of someone who has worked from the bottom up – Karen Hester COO of Adnams on Tourism Business Chat. Books Freedom from Command and Control: A Better Way to Make the Work Work Ted X – Itay Talgam - Lead like the great conductors The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller 10x Is Easier than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less, Dan Sullivan  Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders Seth Goden books Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results The Creative Act: A Way of Being Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

The world of business is changing again and, where once we were encouraged to be proactive in our businesses, now, thanks to the advancement in AI, we might have to start being predictive – but how easy is this for humans, and will the world look like Minority Report!  Mark and Becky reflect on their special roundtable chat this summer with AI experts, Alison Alexander and Alix Rübsaam, and discuss their fears around AI and the reliance that we might put on it, going forwards. They discuss the bias that will exist in the algorithms, how we must always be questioning AI’s answers, the potential stunt in creativity, and the possible dangers around predicting human behavior, especially in business.  GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes •    AI SPECIAL - Roundtable with Alix Rubsaam & Alison Alexander •    Jocko Willink - Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win •    Minority Report (2002) Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

Studies suggest that selling your business or retiring early do not necessarily make someone happier. Dawn Bloomer, a former veterinarian turned strategic advisor, knows this all too well.  Dawn guides us through her journey after selling her successful practice and finding herself adrift – she hadn’t planned what to do next! She chats to Mark and Becky about the importance of exit plans and considering ‘what comes next’. They talk about the accountability and logistics often over-looked in any move, and the toxic ‘workaholic’ culture that still exists despite its known impact on our wellbeing. Dawn prefers to look at work-life balance as ‘integration’. This is a great episode for anyone looking to climb the career ladder, but who’s worried about the sacrifices they think are needed; those planning for an exit; and managers who need to better understand the implications of their teams returning after maternity, sickness or other forms of leave.  GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here You can find all of the Leadership & Life Chat episodes here Show notes Contact Dawn - www.productivepressure.com Linkedin Larking Gowen Corporate Transactions Books Transitions (40th Anniversary): Making Sense of Life's Changes - – William & Sue Susan Bridges The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level – Gay Hendricks Reinventing Yourself – Steve Chandler – get the audio-book! Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

We’re back for series SIX, and what better way to start than letting Mark do what he does best – philosophise about himself! He muses around what ‘being a creative person’ really means, and how we can embrace creativity and innovation in our businesses.  Mark and Becky look at how creativity can’t be forced and how the pressures of work diaries, workloads and deadlines, particularly for business owners, can stunt creativity and what impact this has on your work and wellbeing. They discuss practical ways to empower your teams and how permission to think outside the box is sometimes all a person needs to find that spark!  GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We’d also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify;  this really helps people find us! You can also watch us on YouTube! Click here Show notes The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin Impromptu Business Chat with Damian Horner - The Dark Art of Marketing (2021) Leadership & Life Chat - Practical guide to de-stressing with Havening Technique expert Tony Burgess  Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP 

How can you use, shape and lead AI in business – with experts Alix Rübsaam and Alison Alexander.  Should we be worried? What does the future of humanity really look like? You might aready be familiar with ChatGPT, but there’s a whole world of AI out there, and it’s rapidly impacting how we live and work.  For this special roundtable episode, we invited previous guests, Alix Rübsaam, Head of Curriculum and Expertise at Singularity Education Group and an expert on the human influence on algorithms, and Alison Alexander, the co-founder of Metacampus, and expert on Web3.  This conversation takes us into the world of large language models, government legislation and policy, prompt engineering, Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), the human fear response, historical tech trends and, most importantly, the philosophical and moral implications of using AI in our businesses.  This episode will help you navigate the real-life application of AI in your work, and learn how business owners can avoid a ‘wild-west’ situation with unintended consequences simply by implementing policy, systems and boundaries.  If you’re still scratching your head wondering what on earth is going on, this one is not to be missed!  GET IN TOUCH! We would love to hear your thoughts on today’s episode, email us at [email protected].  We would also love it if you could rate us 5 STARS on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, this really helps people find us! You can also now watch us on YouTube! Click here to watch this weeks episode Show notes Alix •    Alix on LinkedIn •    Singularity Group Alison •    Alison’s Substack  •    Alison on Twitter - @AMETAVERSEA •    Alison LinkedIn    •    Metacampus  General •    DALL.E 2 •    Claude 2 Anthropic AI