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19: Taming Your Inner Child For Leadership Success
Brooke Bownes helps businesswomen release limiting beliefs and step fully into their power, confidence and ability to lead others.
Brooke Bownes is an accredited trauma coach, therapist, global No.1 bestselling author and speaker. She works with businesswomen who struggle with feeling stuck and beliefs that are holding them back, helping them find their power, confidence and release any limiting beliefs, so they can lead themselves and others.
Brooke is passionate about this as she once felt powerless & was scared to show up in the world as herself. She then started working on her mindset, doing the inner work, she discovered who she was & loves the feeling of inner contentment & confidence. She went from scared to speaking on stage.
Brooke describes herself as "an introvert that discovered how to rewire my mind & regulate my nervous system, release my beliefs that held me back so I could achieve my dreams & now I help people do the same. I can hand on heart say ‘I know it can be done, I have walked in similar shoes to yours, I have felt your fears, I have been frustrated by my outdated beliefs."
Our episode discusses the importance of self-leadership and the impact of limiting beliefs on behaviour. It explores the challenges of self-leadership, the influence of limiting beliefs, the process of rewiring belief systems, managing emotions and conflict, and strategies for overcoming limiting beliefs.
Connect with Brooke on LinkedIn here
Or book a breakthrough call with her here
Takeaways
- Self-leadership is crucial
- Limiting beliefs impact behaviour
Chapters
- 00:00 The Challenge of Self-Leadership
- 07:05 Rewiring Belief Systems
- 13:05 Managing Emotions and Conflict
- 19:01 Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
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18: How To Engage And Energise People In The Moment
I explore Million Dollar Moments, why small intentional actions matter and how the power of pausing can transform your leadership.
In this episode, host Jackie Handy discusses the concept of Million Dollar Moments® in more detail, and their impact on workplace engagement and performance. She emphasises the power of small, intentional actions and behaviours, providing practical examples for people leaders to apply with themselves and their team members. The episode explores the impact of small moments, the power of pausing, the 60-second reset, building trust and inclusion, and the importance of noticing and responding to small moments with care.
Check out the FREE FlowFinder Quiz here
Takeaways
- Million dollar moments
- Power of pausing
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17: Activating The Awesome To Re-engage Your Team
Michelle McKown-Campbell flips the switch on disengagement, helping people reignite confidence, embrace strengths and lead better.
Michelle McKown-Campbell is a Re-engagement Strategist and Transformational Speaker with over 25 years in HR, recruitment, coaching, and leadership development. She’s the creator of the Activate the A.W.E.S.O.M.E.® framework and has empowered thousands - from teens to CEOs -to reignite confidence, embrace their strengths, and reengage with purpose. Known for her high-energy style and interactive delivery, Michelle blends humour, heart, and practical tools that spark momentum. Her sessions don’t just inspire - they activate. Michelle helps people flip the switch on their potential and leave ready to lead, connect, and shine brighter than ever.
The conversation with Michelle covers life in the US, leadership challenges, and the opportunity of re-engagement. It also delves into the misunderstanding of disengagement and re-engagement, focusing on strengths, and celebrating what is working.
Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn here
Join Michelle's newsletter by visiting her website here
Takeaways
- Reframing disengagement as a re-engagement opportunity
- Focusing on strengths and celebrating what is working
Chapters
- 00:00 Misunderstanding Disengagement and Re-Engagement
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16: How Burnout and Disengagement Hide Beneath Language
I explore the language of disengagement, what it tells us about burnout and how leaders can respond to the signs with real impact.
In this episode, host Jackie Handy explores the language of disengagement and its connection to burnout. She shares linguistic signs of disengagement and provides insights on how leaders can address and respond to these signs effectively.
Takeaways
- Language of disengagement
- Signs of burnout
Chapters
- 00:00 The Language of Disengagement
- 05:22 Resigned Language and Loss of Agency
- 11:18 Responding to Disengagement
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15: Leadership Change From The Inside Out
Violet Meyer believes most organisations have misdiagnosed burnout, and that misdiagnosis is why every intervention keeps failing.
Most organisations believe they have a burnout problem.
Today’s guest believes they’ve misdiagnosed it, and that misdiagnosis is exactly why every intervention keeps failing.
Violet Meyer spent a decade in progressive management career before she burnout in 2017, experienced chronic fatigue from 2020, and spent years rebuilding her own health that directly shaped The C.H.A.N.G.E Method and fuelled her path to becoming a Chronic pain and Fascia specialist.
She spent six years treating hundreds of high-performing professionals and discovering the same thing every time — burnout and chronic pain are not two separate problems to be managed in leadership. They are the same, the body and nervous system, being systematically misread by the organisations responsible for the people experiencing them.
Her argument is direct, evidence-based, and the data is catching up with it fast.
Our conversation delves deeper into the misdiagnosis of burnout and the impact of fascia on chronic pain. Violet's framework for recovery and its application in organisations is explored, along with practical tips for managing burnout. The importance of connection and peace is highlighted as key takeaways from the discussion.
Takeaways
- Misdiagnosis of burnout
- The impact of fascia on chronic pain and burnout
Connect with Violet on LinkedIn here
Chapters
- 00:00 Misdiagnosis of Burnout
- 06:05 Understanding Fascia and Chronic Pain
- 11:54 Conventional Leadership Training vs. Meyer's Methodology
- 18:06 Practical Tips for Managing Burnout
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14: How Great Leaders Handle Conflict At Work
I explore the conflict continuum, types of conflict and practical tips for building a culture of healthy, respectful disagreement.
In this solo episode, Jackie Handy discusses the importance of conflict in team performance and the need for a safe environment for healthy disagreement. She explores the types of conflict, the conflict continuum, and practical tips for dealing with conflict. Jackie emphasises the creation of an environment that normalises healthy conflict and encourages respectful disagreement.
Takeaways
- Conflict is necessary for team performance
- Creating an environment of healthy disagreement is essential for effective leadership.
Take Jackie's FREE Flowfinder quiz here
Chapters
- 00:00 The Importance of Conflict
- 05:10 Types of Conflict
- 13:00 Creating an Environment of Healthy Disagreement
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On Other Podcasts
Conversations I've joined as a guest, talking culture, leadership, and belonging with hosts around the world.
Jackie Handy - Inclusion - Rikki Arundel
I share my journey from recruitment to inclusion expert, the lessons from The Little Book of Belonging and simple steps to change.
I learned about diversity and inclusion the hard way — through my own negative personal experiences. And that journey, from a background in recruitment to becoming a D&I expert and Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association, is what this conversation with Rikki Arundel is all about.
I share how those experiences changed me, and how they have helped me change attitudes and practices in the corporate world — including speaking across the global speaking federation in 2020 and travelling as far as Namibia to share this work.
We also dig into my book, The Little Book of Belonging — a practical, accessible guide to building inclusive habits — and explore the simple, positive steps anyone can take to begin showing up more inclusively, wherever they are.
Takeaways
- How personal experience of exclusion shapes the most powerful inclusion work
- The journey from recruitment to diversity and inclusion expert
- How to change attitudes and practices in corporate organisations
- Key lessons from The Little Book of Belonging
- Simple positive steps to becoming more inclusive, starting today
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Unconscious Competence with Jackie Handy - Amy Rowlinson
I share my personal journey from excluded and isolated leader to inclusion expert and how small steps are all it takes for change.
From struggling, excluded leader to inclusion specialist - this episode is a personal one.
In this conversation with Amy Rowlinson, I share both sides of the coin: what it felt like to be isolated and unrecognised as a leader, and how that experience became the foundation for everything I do today. Having lived through exclusion, I made it my mission to equip other leaders with the answers to the questions I wished I had known.
I explore the concept of unconscious competence - the ultimate goal for any inclusive leader — and how culture change happens not through grand gestures, but through small, consistent steps. In a world that challenges us in our own unique ways, I believe love always prevails. Small steps. That is all it takes.
Takeaways
- How personal experience of exclusion shapes inclusive leadership
- Why unconscious competence is the goal for every people leader
- How to inspire culture change and empower teams
- The power of equipping leaders with the answers they wish they had
- Small steps, consistently taken, create lasting change
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Jackie Handy Connected Conversations with. Kirsten
I share my recipe for inclusion and leadership success, the role of human behaviour and why making inclusion a habit matters most.
Two decades as a top-performing manager gives you a lot of material to work with.
In this episode with Kirsten Roberts, I share the recipe I have developed through my own leadership experience and personal journey — the one I now give back to others to help them accelerate their performance and build truly inclusive cultures. I explore how a deeper understanding of human behaviour, and why we do what we do, is at the heart of great leadership and genuine inclusion.
I also share what inclusion really looks like as a consistent, simple practice — not a policy or a one-off initiative, but a weekly habit that anyone can build. It is what inspired me to write The Little Book of Belonging, and it is what I bring into every training room and every stage I speak from.
Takeaways
- The recipe for leadership and inclusion success
- How human behaviour shapes the way we lead and include others
- Why we accept or challenge the behaviour of those around us
- How to make inclusion a simple, consistent weekly habit
- The thinking behind The Little Book of Belonging
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Jackie Handy - The Art of Living Proactively - Tony Winyard
I share my recruitment background, key lessons from that world and why playing the long game always leads to dividends in the end.
From recruiter to TEDx speaker — my journey has taught me a lot about value, patience and playing the long game.
In this episode with Tony Winyard, I share the lessons I learned from a background in recruitment — a sector not traditionally known for adding real value — and how I chose to do things differently. I talk about how I delivered a better service to both candidates and employers, the importance of training people and companies, and why holding back everything you can offer often leads to far greater results down the line.
I also share what it meant to step onto a TEDx stage and how the principles I developed in recruitment — over-delivering, building genuine relationships and thinking long-term — translated into everything I do today.
Takeaways
- Lessons from a career in recruitment and how to offer genuine value
- How to deliver a better service to both candidates and employers
- Why playing the long game leads to greater dividends in the long run
- How to win a prospect's trust without showing all your cards at once
- The journey from recruiter to TEDx speaker
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