Category: Podcast

Sometimes it’s hard to get your point across to your work colleagues. Trying and failing to persuade someone to your point of view can be extremely disheartening.  But what if there were techniques you could use to help you? In this episode, award-winning educator and NLP master, Brigitta Hoeferle, explains everything there is to know about neuro-linguistic programming and how it can help you get your ideas across and create better relationships with your co-workers. (more…)

What happens when you burn out? How do you take a step back, recover and make sure it doesn't happen again? This week Matt Appleby, a yoga teacher and well-being expert, discusses his own personal experience of burnout and how he now helps people avoid and recover from burnout.  We cover the importance of creating boundaries, the challenges of managing parenthood with your professional life and how people can recover from burnout. (more…)

Is it realistic to find a job for life or is it ok to change jobs every few years? In this episode Becca Ribbing, coach and author of The Clarity Journal, discusses why so many people look for new jobs every few years.  Becca explains how to recognise that things need to change, the issues that can arise with having a rigidly defined career path, and the ways you can improve your job satisfaction. (more…)

How do you negotiate your salary when applying for a new job?  And what about negotiating a pay rise within your existing job? In this episode we’re joined by Margaret Buj, an interview coach who helps professionals get hired, get promoted and earn more. Margaret explains how to assess how much you’re worth, how to handle salary negotiations when you’re interviewing for a new job and how to approach a request to increase your salary in an existing role without burning any bridges. (more…)

Do you spend hours working on tasks that should already have been submitted?  Are you missing deadlines at work because you don’t complete projects until they are ‘perfect’? In this interview, career coach Isabeau Iqbal dives into what perfectionism means, how being a perfectionist can hold you back and how to harness the characteristics associated with perfectionism and use them in a positive way. (more…)

Do you apply for new jobs because they match your previous experience, even though past roles didn’t make you happy?  Have you accepted new positions in the past because they came with a higher salary, only to find that you were unhappy with the day-to-day tasks?  Do you feel like you want to change jobs but you’re not sure in which direction to go?  In this interview, Career Leap founder Misha Rubin explains how you can start to map out your values, strengths and unique career criteria to identify exactly what you need in your next job in order to thrive. (more…)

Being let go from your perfect job sounds like everybody’s worst nightmare.  But what if you could turn this negative into a positive? In this episode, we’re joined by Donna Tashjian, a life mastery coach, ordained minister, podcaster, author and founder of Vibrant Living International. Donna shares how she was able to start working in a field directly related to her passion, the importance of doing what we like to do, and the power of listening to expansive voices. (more…)

The Covid pandemic has highlighted how mental health challenges affect everybody and the importance of looking after our mental health. Your physical health is something you can fairly easily monitor: you can keep track of your weight, and if you injure something you usually know about it. But what about your mental health?  How do you know if you're mentally fit and well and what can you do if you think there's some work to do? In this episode, we’re joined by success coach and corporate wellbeing trainer Melanie Pritchard to discuss how we can build positive mental health and wellbeing practices in the workplace and what you can do personally to look after your mental health. (more…)

You’re fed up with your current career, but you fear what you might lose if you decide to make a change.  Will you have to take a pay cut?  Will you be throwing away years of experience?  And what will friends and family think? In this interview, Carol Parker Walsh explains how to overcome the fears that are holding you back from making a career change and how to evaluate the transferable skills you’ve acquired which you can take into your future career. (more…)

Do you find yourself doubting your abilities? Do you worry that, one day, someone will ask you if you really know what you’re doing? In this interview, Charlotte Crabtree of Reflex Coaching discusses how to deal with feelings of self-doubt and imposter syndrome, and offers some useful tools and techniques you can use to overcome people-pleasing and not setting boundaries. (more…)