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We Brave Leaders

Welcome to We Brave Leaders, the podcast designed for rising leaders ready to step into their full potential. If you’ve ever doubted your abilities, struggled with imposter syndrome, or felt overwhelmed by the pressures of leadership, this series is for you. Each episode dives into the real challenges you face—like managing self-doubt, navigating tough decisions, and balancing ambition with well-being. Using the BRAVER framework, we’ll give you actionable strategies to grow your confidence, lead authentically, and overcome the fears holding you back. Subscribe now. Become a braver leader.
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Episodes

Why is it so hard to resist distractions?

At school most of us at some point will have been told to be more focussed and be less distracted. So why is it that we find distractions so difficult to control? These days we are surrounded by distractions and we welcome them into our lives often through technology we buy. Sometimes those distractions can seriously knock us off course and use a lot of our energy to recover, sometime distractions are a necessary condition of creativity where extreme focus allows us to miss the things that matte...

Dec 04, 202111 min

Zip and Zap - the energy equation

Have you ever noticed how some days you finish up feeling lethargic and it's been one challenge after another and dread the next morning repeating it all again, yet other days you're filled with enthusiasm and energy and can't wait for tomorrow to come? Our lives are filled with things that zap our energy yet around us are also things that make us go zip. Having our own sense of energy equation is all about controlling the balance so we avoid burnout. The template I refer to in this podcast you ...

Dec 04, 202112 min

Why you can't manage time

Look at the bookshelf for productivity books and there are thousands, each imploring us to make every moment count, to drive more action into the available time. Often the drive to productivity tries to emulate being a machine rather than a human being with a pulse. Often as we strive for greater productivity we seek to eliminate "unnecessary downtime" which often also then translates into skipping physical exercise, diet, family time, relationships and other things that are important to our exi...

Nov 26, 20218 minSeason 1Ep. 3

How to avoid over-work

Welcome to the Energy Leader podcast the place where we master our energy levels and beat burnout. One of the things we’ve become used to is toughing things out when life gets hectic at work. Working hard can be deeply motivating and satisfying but overworking can be dangerous. In this episode I’ll be taking a look at how over-work creeps up on us and leads us towards burnout and then one simple truth that everyone needs to recognise. Welcome to episode 2 which is all about how we pay the price ...

Nov 26, 202110 minSeason 1Ep. 2

Beating Burnout

From the moment we wake to the time we eventually fall asleep we face a daunting list of things that need to be done. From the first electronic chimes of the alarm telling us to get up to the first blue flickering of our phones we face a torrent of information, messages, notifications, emails all demanding our attention and our energy. Our minds start to swirl in a soup of decisions, things we need to remember to do, the things we never got to yesterday but should have and finally when we collap...

Nov 26, 20218 minSeason 1Ep. 1
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