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A nuanced discussion of how people move through space and ping-pong.
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Conscious Creative Leadership is a series of informal conversations about leadership in the 21st century, between close friends, trauma therapist Darren Abrahams and Leadership Mentor Nadine Benjamin MBE. Darren and Nadine are both professional singers, entrepreneurs and Certified High Performance coaches and together they explore what it means to be a leader in a changing world - starting with leading yourself. Now in our second season, each half hour chat focuses on a different element of ...
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In this final episode of season 2 we conclude our exploration of the everyday challenges of leadership by discussing how to make good decisions. Making choices is Conscious Creative Leadership in action. To be empowered is to feel that you have the agency to make choices about your life, and the energy to see them through. But so many factors, both…
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“Money makes the world go round” but how do you manage this important energy as a Conscious Creative Leader in a world of scarcity? As serial entrepreneurs and creatives, money is something we’ve both struggled with in our lives. Much of our personal work has been about redefining and taking charge of our relationship with money so that it works be…
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Fear - What Lies Beyond The Comfort Zone...?
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Today we're looking at Fear - the underlying energy that informs every other episode in this season about the challenges of leadership. Whether it’s fear of failure, fear of exposing too much, or fear of not being good enough, the biggest challenge we have as Conscious Creative Leaders is to manage our fear and keep moving forward. In this wide-ran…
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This week we zero in on Failure - an inevitability for anyone taking a leadership role! But it's one that can be challenging to navigate. We don’t really believe in failure as such, but we do recognise that things don’t always go to plan and recognise that this can have long term consequences for our reputations, resilience and self esteem. So join…
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Imposter Syndrome! What Does It Look Like?
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This week we discuss Imposter Syndrome - that creeping feeling inside that whispers you’re not good enough... even when you’re beyond qualified. Various surveys from the 1970’s to the 2020’s suggest that between 30% and 70% of us experience imposter syndrome at some point in our lives, depending on our context and identity, and we know it's somethi…
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Today we 're diving into the challenges of finding clarity in our professional identity. As multi-passionates, we have both struggled with explaining to the world who we are based on what we do! We love doing lots of different things, but the challenge has been to define the connecting values within those that make sense of all our different projec…
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Season Two! What Is Public, What Is Private?
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Welcome to Season Two of the Conscious Creative Leadership Podcast! In this series we’re focusing on the everyday challenges to Leadership - the things that can trip us up, derail our plans or even stop us in our tracks. Not so much the externals, but the attitudes and choices that shape the way we navigate our leadership and our lives. And of cour…
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In this final episode of Season One of the Conscious Creative Leadership Podcast we focus on Commitment. We talk about the importance of consistently showing up over the long term for yourself and for others, about risk taking and our relationship with money. Commitment is an essential part of Leadership and to round off the season we talk about wh…
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This week is all about Purpose, that driving force that gives meaning to your life and gets you out of bed in the morning. A Conscious Creative Leader’s purpose is aligned with their values and is focused on how to make the world around them better for everyone. In this episode we talk about growth and how all the principles discussed so far in thi…
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Today we talk about Influence. For us Influence is less about being “An Influencer” and more about walking your talk. A major part of Conscious Creative Leadership is role modelling, but not only in what you do. Influence is more effective if there is integrity with who you are being too. Join us as we talk about becoming authentic in your leadersh…
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Productivity is one of the main reasons clients seek us out as coaches, but in this episode we focus less on “getting things done” and far more on getting things completed. Productivity for a Conscious Creative Leader is often about holding a vision rather than doing all the tasks to get you there. And it’s about surrounding yourself with the right…
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Episode 4 focuses on Courage, the essential element necessary for growth. We discuss the relationship between Courage and Fear and how without Courage, there is no integrity. We talk about the lived experience of addiction and abuse, and the courage it takes to walk away and start a new life. If you have been affected by any of these issues here ar…
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This week we talk about Energy, how to generate it, what can block it and how it affects your interactions with others. Energy is the wellspring of everything that allows you to do the things you desire in life. As a Conscious Creative Leader being mindful of your energy is the essential element that draws people to you and keeps life juicy and fun…
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In this second episode of the Conscious Creative Leadership podcast, we begin defining a toolkit of High Performance practices that help us consistently show up in our lives as leaders. Our focus today is on the foundational principle of Clarity, our ability to define our needs, goals and boundaries and share them with other people. What are you cl…
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In this first episode of the Conscious Creative Leadership podcast, we discuss what exactly we mean by Conscious Creative Leadership. Tune in for some definitions and to hear us talk about our own journeys into leadership. It’s not been a conventional journey for either of us! What has been your own journey into leadership? Drop us a line or leave …
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Our first podcast. Topics of discussion: Drake's evolving ping-pong persona, new sponsors, and an exclusive interview with Ben Bernanke.By Skrrrch Media
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