Founder interviews

Podcast

How plant medicine transformed Catriona Wallace's leadership

How I Work November 12, 2025

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Founder interviews 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Seven hours of ayahuasca confronted ego, not enlightenment
• Accepting your shadow — not fighting it — is how it releases
• Swap 'what's my purpose?' for 'what is needed of me?'

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AI tools & automation

Podcast

AI workflow to replace your morning news scroll

How I Work November 9, 2025

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AI tools & automation 9

Automation & tools 7

Productivity & habits 5

• One prompt replaces hours of daily AI news monitoring
• Rank signals world-changing to noise, not just summarise everything
• Refine conversationally, then schedule to run automatically each morning

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Culture building

Podcast

How Inventium rebuilt team trust after its hardest year

How I Work November 5, 2025

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Culture building 9

Management 8

Work-life balance 5

• Why a 'deal or no deal' exercise cleared the path to rebuilding
• A bimonthly team health monitor that replaces slow engagement surveys
• Leader vulnerability is the prerequisite for any trust repair

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AI strategy & adoption

Podcast

Using AI as a thought partner, not a time-saving shortcut

How I Work November 2, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Deep work & focus 6

Communication 5

• Leaders chasing efficiency alone are missing AI's bigger opportunity
• AI excels at getting you unstuck, not just finishing tasks faster
• Full leadership team augmentation takes six months and starts with the CEO

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Communication

Podcast

Inside Inventium's hardest year: leadership lessons from inside the team

How I Work October 29, 2025

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Communication 9

Case studies 7

• High performers working in silos destroy team cohesion faster than low performers
• Self-censoring leaders create distance that erodes trust across the whole team
• Trust rebuilds through small consistent moments, not single grand gestures

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AI tools & automation

Podcast

How a CEO used AI to reclaim 20 hours a week

How I Work October 26, 2025

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AI tools & automation 9

AI strategy & adoption 7

Case studies 6

• A custom GPT cut a CEO's workload by 20–25 hours weekly.
• An AI writer's room challenges your writing without replacing your voice.
• Over-relying on AI risks eroding the synthesis skills leaders need most.

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Motivation

Podcast

What jealousy reveals about your true ambitions

How I Work October 22, 2025

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Motivation 8

Founder interviews 7

• Jealousy at a friend's success exposed ambitions Holly had buried.
• Ambition energizes her; competition paralyzes — knowing the difference matters.
• Catching envy early and redirecting it back to the work is the practice.

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

How Holly Wainwright manages energy cycles and chronic burnout

How I Work October 22, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 8

Processes & SOPs 5

• Why recognising your burnout pattern still doesn't stop it repeating
• The 'yes, but' boundary replaces guilt-driven refusals with conditions
• A never-again list removes the decision load from repeat mistakes

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Management

Podcast

How Atlassian builds real team connection across 13,000 distributed employees

How I Work October 15, 2025

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Management 9

Processes & SOPs 8

AI strategy & adoption 6

• Quarterly purposeful gatherings beat daily office attendance for lasting connection
• Banning PowerPoint forces denser, more honest meetings through written pages
• Non-technical HR staff built onboarding AI agents with no engineering support

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Culture building

Podcast

What teams get wrong about psychological safety

How I Work October 12, 2025

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Culture building 8

Management 6

Mental health & wellbeing 5

• One unsafe team member can break trust for everyone.
• Partial psychological safety is as dangerous as none.
• A simple simultaneous rating ritual surfaces hidden culture gaps.

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Communication

Podcast

How to lead without fear of saying the wrong thing

How I Work October 8, 2025

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Communication 9

Resilience & grit 7

Management 6

• Angry pile-ons entrench defensiveness; calm explanations actually change minds
• Good apologies are short, unqualified, and stop before adding fuel
• Fear of saying the wrong thing makes leaders indirect and less effective

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Relationships & family

Podcast

Keeping relationships strong when life gets busy

How I Work October 5, 2025

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Relationships & family 8

Work-life balance 5

• Relationships compound like assets — neglect them and the returns disappear.
• One rule: tell someone something nice the moment you think it.
• A monthly 'life dinner' keeps couples aligned without it feeling like a chore.

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Management

Podcast

Standing out in the job market and leading teams effectively in the age of AI

How I Work October 1, 2025

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Management 8

Identity & self-belief 6

AI strategy & adoption 5

• A short video application cuts through AI-generated resume noise.
• Critical thinking means challenging AI output, not nodding along.
• New leaders should coach with questions, not jump to giving advice.

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Procrastination, flexible work, and AI workflows with Dr. Amantha Imber

How I Work September 24, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Automation & tools 8

Management 5

• Estimate task hours to silence anxiety and start moving
• Right-to-disconnect laws clash with how modern flexible work actually runs
• Custom GPTs and a meeting-to-proposal pipeline cut sales prep to 15 minutes

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AI tools & automation

Podcast

Using AI as an email assistant: context, voice, and when to skip it

How I Work September 21, 2025

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AI tools & automation 9

Copywriting 5

• AI fails at email because it lacks context about your relationships
• A briefing doc plus voice guide, saved in a project, fixes everything
• 60% of emails don't need AI — here's which ones do

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