Starting a business with others - with Steve McIntosh
Release Date: 01/17/2022
The responsibility of life changing choices
In Pursuit of the Better You
Knowledge is empowering - once you know better, you have the ability to do better. But - sometimes we wish we didn't know certain things - because that means we have to make a choice: Ignore the new knowledge OR implement the change - and embrace the impact the change will bring. Is this a barrier for you if you want to develop yourself further? Once you know new things - are you ready to implement the change and are you prepared for that change? We talk today about managing that change - perhaps we need to give ourselves permission to go slowly, to get things wrong, and feel...
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How you do anything is how you do everything!
In Pursuit of the Better You
How you do anything is how you do everything! - This statement gets us thinking - is this true? Perhaps on a very big picture level - but certainly not when you get into the nitty-gritty of a situation. Perhaps this way of doing things comes in waves throughout our lives - it's not linear, depending on what we're doing at any given time. What are your thoughts? Contact Fay - Rebekah - Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production:
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How personal branding can help your success
In Pursuit of the Better You
Personal branding - perhaps not something you think about unless you're a business owner. When you work in an organisation, you may not often think about your personal branding in the role you have. Personal branding: what do you want to be known for? Personal brand is about knowing your purpose - what are you here to do? How do you visualise that? And how does that sit with your values? And this can be helpful in terms of how you climb the ladder of your career; the types of jobs you do; the types of organisations you will want to work with/for. Understanding your personal brand...
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How acceptance will help you to move on
In Pursuit of the Better You
In this episode we're looking at making the best of situations - acceptance of what's going on for ourselves. When things happen to us, our sympathetic nervous system is activated - our fight, flight and freeze response. Accepting what happens in our lives can help to bring our nervous system out of the fight, flight, freeze response and back to our executive functioning so that we can get on with our lives in a healthy and sustainable way. In order to do this, we can accept. Feel the feelings and think the thoughts, which will help us to move on. Contact Fay - Rebekah - ...
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Starting something is a decision
In Pursuit of the Better You
Talking about being ready to do something. Being ready is actually a decision that we make! What does this mean? It means we make a decision to do something - rather than waiting for the motivation to start. Sometimes we get out dopamine from things that fly in the face of the things we want to achieve - so making the decision to do something means that you have to be aware of what could stop you, how it makes you feel, think and behave - and what needs to be different. Keep the end result in mind! Contact Fay - Rebekah - Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production:
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In Pursuit of the Better You - We're 100!
In Pursuit of the Better You
A special episode. This is number 100! A milestone. We're celebrating being in pursuit of the better you! We're re-visiting the essence of the podcast and chatting about what it means to us to be in pursuit of the better us. Contact Fay - Rebekah - Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production:
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New identity and life after leaving the US Army, with Dr. Tony Cerella
In Pursuit of the Better You
In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Tony Cerella ACC, who talks to us about transitioning from a long standing service in the US Army. How this is, when 23 years of your life and identity is one thing, to then being in a whole new world. Tony talks about navigating his feelings, his meaning, his worth - for himself and his family. He talks about being coached at the start of his transition and how coaching changed his life - so much so, that he is now trained as an ICF accredited coach, to coach others. You can connect with Tony on LinkedIn . Contact Fay - Rebekah - Thank...
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Managing difficult conversations
In Pursuit of the Better You
How can we have difficult conversations in a healthy and productive way? Often we avoid the difficult conversation - but in doing this, we're not helping ourselves - it doesn't make the issue go away. Difficult conversations and situations will always exist - and subjects might be emotive, so we need to consider how we need to be in order to sort them out well. Understanding the person we're having the conversation with is vital and setting up the communication so that it's objective (perhaps processes need to be in place). Simon Sinek says it's important to lean into having these...
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How to ignite your creativity
In Pursuit of the Better You
What happens when you don't feel creative? When you're not on it. How do you turn those feelings around? What does creativity even mean to you? We're talking here about how creativity may look different to how you think it should - perhaps we need to be creative about how we're creative. Are you giving yourself permission to think that you can have good ideas and be creative? Creativity doesn't always come when you want it to. You likely won't be creative when you're sat at your desk. Your brain needs some downtime in order to fire those creative thoughts - doing different things helps. ...
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Are you 'all or nothing' or 'slow and steady wins the race'?
In Pursuit of the Better You
We've realised we actually disagree with each other on something! Shock horror! Fay is very much an 'all or nothing' kind of person. Becki is more 'slow and steady wins the race'. We both have the same goal at the moment - but we're approaching it from different ways. We'll have to wait to see which may work better - if any! But when you consider how you approach your goals - which way works best for you? Contact Fay - Rebekah - Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production:
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The team are based all over the world, what are the challenges?
What about cultural differences?
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Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com - or join my FREE Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/betheleaderfayblakey
Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk
Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk