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We are all extraordinary. Some of us just haven't figured out how yet! In this leadership podcast, you're going to hear from people at the very forefront in their fields and also those who have overcome great challenges. I bring you powerful and probing interviews with business leaders, entrepreneurs, world-leading coaches, scientists, athletes and performers from around the world. We'll be getting under the skin of who they really are, what inspired them in developing as leaders, and their ...
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In this very special episode, Adam Pacifico of The Leadership Enigma podcast got together with Dr Gary to talk all things The Unlock Moment. We talked about Gary's personal journey and how he discovered purpose in coaching, speaking and podcasting. And we discovered a powerful Unlock Moment in Adam's own journey, the day he dropped his daughter off…
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This episode is a fascinating journey of deep discovery with top leadership coach Andy Martiniello, which had us landing on the idea of 'Accountability Untethered'. Join us on this wonderful exploration of a true Unlock Moment. Andy Martiniello is an accomplished Executive Coach with over 25 years of business development and team leadership, bringi…
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Hi, it’s Gary here. Welcome to a very special episode of The Unlock Moment. This is something we’ve been planning for a long time, and at the same time it’s something we didn’t plan at all. Something quite remarkable that gets right to the heart of The Unlock Moment. Back in October 2022 I was joined by Maika Leibbrandt in Episode 42 of The Unlock …
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A coach, a mentor and an expert in strategic insight, Febronia Ruocco’s career has taken her around the world. A career history that includes such world-leading brands as McDonalds, Heineken, GSK and Twinings Tea, she’s an expert in knowing what’s going on in the market and how to find out if you don’t know. So in our quest to navigate uncertainty …
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Back in 2019/2020 when I started on this journey of coaching, speaking, podcasting and writing, I had the great privilege of training on the Henley Business School coaching programme here in the UK. My guest today is an esteemed Professor at Henley and I was fascinated by her recent choice to trade places and become a student on the same programme …
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Today’s guest is one of the very top coaches in the world. Michael Bungay Stanier grew up in Australia, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and now lives in Toronto. His work centres around coaching and curiosity, the challenges of change at an individual and organisational level, and how to stay focused on work that matters. In 2023 Michael was awarded…
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Last year it was my great pleasure to speak at Carfest, a huge summer festival here in the UK where the health and wellbeing zone Spafest brought together many leading lights in the areas of holistic wellbeing, mindfulness and the general pursuit of happiness. And twas there that I met the force of nature that is Donna Easton. Donna is a Joyologist…
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My regular listeners will know that The Unlock Moment is a podcast about leadership, but more importantly a podcast about purpose. By diving into the moments of remarkable clarity when we suddenly figured out the path ahead, we unlock new connections and understanding of those deepest drivers of our fundamental purpose. It’s been fascinating to tra…
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Hello dear listener and welcome to another episode of ‘The Unlock Moment’ podcast. And what a special episode. It’s our first returner, and a chance to welcome back my very first guest on the podcast, the hugely talented and all-round master of merriment Samuel Haughton. I can’t tell you how many people from all walks of life have reached out to te…
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This is a difficult story, but a powerful one. It’s a story of having it all, losing it all and finding the strength to build again, from the very beginning. It’s a story of struggle, of grit, of commitment in pursuit of freedom and empowerment for a mother and her three children. When she walked out on her husband with three children in tow, she l…
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One of the books that fundamentally changed my outlook early in my coaching journey was Challenging Coaching, by John Blakey and Ian Day – one of the UK’s best-selling leadership books. It explores a way to bring powerful challenge into the coaching conversation in a way that resonates strongly with senior leaders and helps them to accelerate their…
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Genuinely one of the most remarkable people I have ever had on the podcast, Inga Stasiulionyte is an Olympian and an elite performance and leadership coach, whose passion and prowess for throwing the javelin took her to the Beijing Olympics back in 2008 representing Lithuania. I was very kindly introduced to Inga by fellow Olympian Joe Jacobi who y…
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Now there are many reasons why I knew that today’s guest would be someone you’d really enjoy learning from, not least the title of his most recent book, “Exploding Turkeys and Spare Trousers, Adventures in Global Business”! Ken Pasternak has a unique background that combines executive education, keynote speaking, management consulting, institution …
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On this podcast I learn about many different types of Unlock Moment. Some of them are subtle – the voice in your head telling you “this isn’t the right path for me.” Some of them are clear – the doctor telling you you have to change your lifestyle or suffer significant consequences. And some are dramatic – a sudden, remarkable clarity that leads to…
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These days so many people, so many leaders I work describe themselves as stuck on the hamster wheel, firefighting the daily crises and struggling to find time, get their head up and properly look to the future. So it is perhaps timely that today I’m welcoming one of the world’s foremost authorities on vision and visionary leadership to the podcast.…
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In a world where organisations are facing into huge volatility, challenge and uncertainty, we need leaders who can dig deep and go searching for the powerful truths that unlock the potential in all our people. And if you’re looking for someone who is an expert in going digging, find yourself a person who cut their teeth as an undercover agent in th…
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the topic of finding balance, especially in the context of this volatile, uncertain world we’re living in. Often people tell me they can’t find balance because they don’t seem to be able to step off that hamster wheel. Well today I’m delighted to welcome a guest to the podcast who is going to help us think di…
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It's always a privilege to interview a true pioneer on the podcast, and today I'm delighted to welcome Loree Draude, who became one of the first women to fly combat jets in the US Navy. Now she's a seasoned leader and entrepreneur who advises and coaches executives and founders on how to improve their leadership. She is the author of the recently p…
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Sometimes I have conversations with people on this platform who can speak to subjects that others might be thinking about but have never expressed openly. I met today’s guest recently and it is my huge privilege to bring his story to the podcast. Rob Kalwarowsky is an impactful leader whose quiet realisations give his community loud transformations…
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One of the reasons why I love the world of ballroom dancing is because it connected me with an amazing global network of friends who, off the dance floor, come from all walks of life. Almost twenty years ago I met my wife Mildred through dancing, and through Mildred I met today’s guest and a very good friend over many years, Vicki Sato. When she’s …
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Let's just say this isn't the conversation I thought we were going to be having. Raw, emotional, unflinchingly honest and vulnerable - this is a story of commitment and compromise, connecting with purpose and priorities in balancing a hugely demanding career with family. It's a deeply memorable episode and I know it will resonate with so many of yo…
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If you’ve been listening for a while then you might remember my conversation with world-leading coach Morag Barrett back in episode 35 of The Unlock Moment. Well today I’m delighted to be welcoming one of her colleagues and co-authors on to the podcast. Eric Spencer’s passion is designing and facilitating executive & leadership development programm…
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In this amazing episode of The Unlock Moment, we tap into the mindset of a world-leading performance coach who won Olympic gold in the challenging currents of whitewater canoeing. We talk about how the places that feel safe are not always the places with highest opportunity. And we delve deep into the thoughts of one who is a true expert in the art…
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This is a conversation about coaching, about leadership, about the work ethic and discipline that sparked an extraordinary career of success. We also touch on the power of AI, the perils of ChatGPT, purpose, plagiarism and prehistory in a fascinating and wide-ranging interview with one of the pre-eminent executive and leadership coaches of our time…
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As my long-time listeners will know, I’m deeply curious about what makes people who they are, and Dax Grant has really had a remarkable life’s journey. Born the daughter of a Bosnian coal miner and a shepherdess, she worked her way up, first to Cambridge where she studied economics and then into banking and finance where she became a Director at Vi…
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We often think about overcoming a fear of failure, but have you ever thought about whether you have a fear of success? Many of the people I work with in coaching struggle the first time they feel exposed as a leader, the first time they feel people's expectations of them, the first time they feel that the consequences of their actions impact much m…
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Today’s episode is one we’ve had in the planning for months, and I’m delighted that we can bring this powerful story to you today. I heard Oa being interviewed on the BBC earlier this year and I immediately reached out to invite her on to the podcast – I’m so pleased she said yes. She is a brilliant storyteller, and the epitome of a humble and quie…
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I met today’s guest a few months ago at a major national wellbeing event and was struck by her ability to make complex psychology simple in helping people to understand and deal with life’s tricky problems. In this episode you're going to hear about someone who has shaped a career based around making the biggest difference by focusing on the smalle…
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In this episode we’re going Down Under to Melbourne, Australia with Master Coach Mel Leow. He's an inspiring speaker whose philosophy 'Live. Be. Brave.' is a powerful mantra for finding empowerment and fulfilment in work and life. With almost three decades in leadership, coaching, and unlocking human potential in the Asia Pacific region, Mel serves…
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Do you have a coaching relationship today and you're trying to get the most of it? Or maybe you're looking to find a coach to help you figure things out in your life or career? Either way, this is the episode for you! You're going to learn all about how to Become Coachable and get the absolute best from a coaching relationship, from two of the very…
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Today it is my huge privilege to welcome George Mumford to The Unlock Moment. George is a globally-recognised speaker, teacher, and coach. He’s worked at the highest levels in elite basketball - Michael Jordan credits George with transforming his on-court leadership, and he has also worked with the late Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal and countless o…
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Now, I really like having big thinkers here to talk about their experiences, their learnings and their perspective. I met Yannick Jacob recently and was fascinated by his outlook on the meaning of life and how he brings a sharp clarity to the complexity of how our minds work. I know you’ll enjoy hearing from him too. Yannick is a coach, trainer and…
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I was honoured to be a guest speaker at the recent Retail Trust Together Fest employee wellbeing event and today I’m absolutely delighted to be welcoming Chris Brook-Carter, the CEO of the Retail Trust. From 1832 onwards, the Retail Trust has been caring for and protecting the lives of people working in retail. They believe the health of retail col…
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I met for lunch today with an old friend of mine. We were talking about how much of life is determined by our work – it shapes where we live, how much time we spend commuting, where we send our children to school. In reality wherever we’ve lived for the last twenty years has always been strongly influenced by the work we do, how we get there and ho…
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Today is really special, because it’s the 100th episode of The Unlock Moment podcast. Joining me in this special centenary episode is a fantastic guest, NASA astronaut Dr Charlie Camarda. He's a world-leading expert in how to get to space and back in one piece, and he doesn't hold back here in his views on the NASA culture, what has and hasn't been…
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I was reminded this week of the Maya Angelou quote, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Time and again, my guests on The Unlock Moment talk about how the remarkable clarity they found was about how they realised that their purpose was to serve ot…
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I was approached for a big role recently. The kind of role that would be higher profile than I’d ever had before, more responsibility than I’d ever had before, higher pay than I’d ever had before. It was seductive. Shiny things are seductive. But in the back of my mind I also knew that it would represent a step back, from the life I’ve built today …
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When your Unlock Moment of remarkable clarity starts with you letting go of the bridge and then talking about what happened next ... well that's just the beginning of this powerful story of self-discovery and renewal that mental health advocate and executive coach Uwe Dockhorn went on. He's a brilliant storyteller and you can't help but get drawn i…
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My regular listeners will know that I have many world-class leaders and coaches coming on the podcast. And I also invite people who I like to call ‘ordinary people with extraordinary stories’. I love the power of vulnerable storytelling to help people to unlock their thinking, feel connected and less alone and lonely in their own journey. For today…
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You want authentic leadership? I'll give you authentic leadership! This is the straight-talking, unflinchingly honest account of how a successful tech CEO took accountability for his own failings and drew back from the precipice to shape a successful business and a hit podcast, 'Honey, I Blew Up The Business'. You'll learn how as a leader you can't…
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This episode of The Unlock Moment with rugby league star and mental health campaigner Stevie Ward is just so special. He’s such a powerful storyteller, he paints vivid pictures that bring you right into the moment. For a guy trained to put his body on the line, he’s remarkably in touch with his emotions and his vulnerability, and he’s got an extrao…
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We’re in disruptive times here in the coaching world, with a massive acceleration of coaches being trained, a plethora of new digital coaching platforms like Better Up, CoachHub and Ezra, and new non-human digital coaching experiences like KultraLab where I'm Chief Coaching Officer. And then on top of that we’ve got ChatGPT, Google Bard and a myria…
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As my regular listeners know well, I consider it just such a privilege to get to spend precious time with world-leading coaches on this podcast and today is no exception – my guest is someone who I’ve been hoping to convince to come on for a very long time! Alisa Cohn is simply the best startup coach in the business and has worked with C-suite exec…
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We took our dogs swimming last week. They’re both Pomeranians – not much dog but a lot of fluff. And they both have a bit of an aversion to water. One hates it on her feet, so the merest contact with a puddle and she’s frantically wiping herself on the curtains to get dry. The other hates to drink it, so will go for hours avoiding hydration until s…
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Today we’re talking about talking – finding openness and trust in our leadership and our relationship with the people around us, and unlocking authentic leadership in the process. Peter de Silva is a highly experienced financial industry executive and board member. A former Harvard University Senior Fellow for the Advanced Leadership Initiative, he…
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I had the great pleasure of meeting Simon Sinek the other week. He was doing a speaking engagement at the Royal Festival Hall in London with Steven Bartlett, raising funds for a new piece of choreography for Rambert, where I’m involved as a board member. We were talking about my idea of ‘Alone, With Others’ – that sense of it being just you in the …
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The forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books of one of the world’s leading business thinkers, Dr David Burkus, are helping leaders build their best team ever. He is the bestselling author of five books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. Since 2017, David has been …
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David Noble is a deep expert in leadership and strategy, and a more recent convert to the coaching world. With over 20 years at the top echelons of global finance and consulting institutions including Morgan Stanley, Kearney and Oliver Wyman, these days he is the founder of leadership and strategy consulting firm VIEW Advisors, a senior advisor to …
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In this special episode, I’m bringing you a live recording of The Unlock Moment. In May 2023 I presented The Unlock Moment on stage at the Climb23 Innovation conference in Leeds here in the UK. Climb is the UK’s festival of innovation, industry and investment and is brought to you by Investor Ladder and CRSI. You can find out about next year’s even…
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Now if you’ve been listening for a while then you’ll remember a powerful conversation with a friend of mine, and a brilliant coach, Beatrice Zornek. It’s one of the most downloaded episodes of all time on The Unlock Moment. So when Beatrice approached me recently and said ‘why don’t we turn things around and put you on the spot’, I thought it might…
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