The Illumify Game Changer podcast takes you on the leader’s journey. It’s hosted by Marianne Gobeil, Founder and CEO of Illumify Inc., an internationally award-winning expert on expressing high impact leadership who has over 25 years of experience working with C-suite executives and other leaders around the world. In this podcast, you accompany one person, Jonathan Hill, as he answers each of the 57 questions essential to illuminating a meaningful change and being able to ignite it. This is ...
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Season 1: 16 – The Leader’s Courage
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Jonathan began his Illumify Game Changer experience protesting that he’s not a leader. And yet after a lot of what he calls “digging”, he has illuminated a vision of a change that could be meaningful not just to him but to countless others in Europe and beyond. Challenging the status quo is no small feat though. This final Illuminate question asks …
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Season 1: Episode 15 - The Leader’s Feelings
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In this episode, Jonathan surfaces what is essential to standing on that new ground and breaking with the past. He’s starting to see more of the big picture, and how to express it as a leader. In answering this next Illuminate question, he then reveals that his vision means we look at each other differently as we walk the city streets. REFLECTIONS …
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When you see what could be that isn’t yet, as Jonathan now does, that can be a change in itself. You’re now in a different place, at a fork in the road. Where do you go from here? Do you stay on the path you know, the one that promises more of the same? Even when less than ideal, there may be some comfort in that. Or do you step off that well trodd…
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Season 1: 13 – The Vision Lands in Reality
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Having a vision of change is how leadership begins to emerge. It represents the difference between what is now and what could be. It takes effective leadership to bridge that gap and that can be quite daunting. Could seeing into the future help? 00:58 Illuminate Question 12 02:38 There are people who are swimming against the tide because their inne…
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Season 1: 12 – The Leader’s Vision Emerges
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Jonathan is about to hit pay dirt after all the digging he’s done to surface the change most meaningful to him. In mere minutes, he expresses what he now sees that could be that doesn’t yet exist. His vision of it becomes even more vivid and compelling as he reflects. 04:15 Final Answer 07:02 The individual’s freedom can not be violated. 10:38 How …
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Season 1: 11 – The Leader’s Reliance on Others
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This episode begins with Jonathan continuing to explore the meaning of home, all the while holding his ground on how to express his purpose. He then answers the very question that can determine whether or not he even needs to be a leader. 00:58– 1:00:30 Reflection: Jonathan shares his concept of nest, reflects on the state of disrepair inside and o…
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Season 1: 10 – The Leader’s Reason for Being
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How do you distill your life’s purpose into just 5 words? Even for the wordsmith, this proves challenging. But if you want to spend your life doing what is most meaningful to you, you have to know what that is. As this episode reveals, even when we give ourselves clues, it can still be difficult to piece it all together. 01:05 Illuminate Question 9…
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Season 1: 09 – The Leader’s Search for Joy
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This episode goes right to the heart of it, exploring the connection between joy and igniting meaningful change. It’s interesting that Jonathan, a self-described non-believer, is so attuned to the soul. 00.55 Reference Cards: The difference between “I think”, “I believe”, and I know” 05:40 Illuminate Card 8 11:00 There’s joy in being with the crowd…
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Season 1: 08 – The Leader’s Resistance
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This episode begins with Jonathan reflecting on why he hit resistance with the last question, delving into pride, nationalism and the power of emotion to sway. He considers the importance of focused attention and its relationship to meditation. Then he answers the next Illuminate question, diving deeper into what matters to him: the power of langua…
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Season 1: 07 – The Leader’s Opportunity for Change
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This next question proves challenging – so challenging that at one point Jonathan, the master wordsmith, is at a loss for words. And that’s ok because it reveals a lot about why resistance to change can come from deep within ourselves, even when we know something has to change. Fasten your seatbelt for this one as there are a few sharp curves in th…
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Season 1: 06 – The Leader’s Inner Wisdom
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In this episode, Jonathan is prompted to answer the question by listening to his inner wisdom. Within mere seconds, he answers with a powerful declaration of what could be different. The conversation then veers into community, how it’s unified and fragmented, and explores unison and truth. It’s another big conversation. If you listen carefully, you…
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Season 1: 05 – The Leader’s Integrity
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In this episode, Jonathan answers the Illuminate question designed to reveal what is most meaningful to him. You could say his answer gets to the heart of the matter. Integrity plays a pivotal role in this conversation, and we see new dimensions of a leader’s vision. 00:58 Reference Card Reading 03:12 Illuminate Question 4 07:11 The heart as tool o…
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Season 1: 04 – The Leader’s Heartache
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This episode focuses on the heart to help point Jonathan to what he cares about that needs to change. He speaks of dignity, wholeness and heartache, all while experiencing a wide range of feelings coming from his heart. 00:58 Illuminate Question 3 05:07 What makes my heart ache is the suffering of children. 08:18 Dignity not always the word in the …
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Season 1: 03 – The Leader’s Intolerance For What Is Now
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This episode begins with Jonathan sharing his reflections on the last question where he grappled with the prospect of being significant. This next Illuminate question gets to the heart of him seeing what perhaps only he can see that needs to change. But first he has to wrestle with intolerance and how words can serve the truth. 01:01: Reflections o…
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Season 1: 02 – The Leader’s Significance
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Now the Game Changer begins. This is the first in the Illuminate phase of the questions, each of which surfaces insights to illuminate the change most meaningful to you. This first question is a loaded one, deliberately. 00.59: Reference Cards: Illumify Definition & Guidelines for Play 09.00: Listening with your heart instead of your head 15.00: Wh…
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Season 1: 01 – The Leader’s Journey Begins
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In this episode, we begin the leader’s journey by meeting Jonathan who, upon agreeing to play the Game Changer publicly through this podcast, cautioned me “I’m not a leader”. As you listen, you may hear him reveal otherwise -- whether he recognizes it yet, or not. 1.54: Discovery of language 3.00: Love for Europe begins 10.38: Urgent need to talk a…
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The Illumify Game Changer podcast takes you on the leader’s journey, as you accompany one person, Jonathan Hill, as he answers each of the 57 questions. This is your front row seat to his journey from, in his own words, “not a leader” to a leader with a big vision, ultimately willing and able to ignite his meaningful change. It’s for those committe…
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