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If you hold a leadership position or aspire to be in one then this episode may be of interest to you.

We speak to Sabina Nawaz, a global CEO coach, leadership keynote speaker, and writer working in over 26 countries. She advises C-level executives in Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits and academic institutions. Sabina started her career in software development at Microsoft and then led the company’s executive development and succession planning efforts for over 11,000 managers and 700 executives. She spoke at hundreds of seminars, events, and conferences including TEDx. Currently, She sits on the board of Power and Systems, a leadership development institute.

Sabina believes the greatest privilege of working with executives is bearing witness to their acts of courage. You can read her articles on Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Inc.

Before we start our conversation with Sabina, Peter and I would like to invite you to join the Authentic Leaders Community where we explore our innate capacity to lead, be creative, draw on our own resilience and build human connection in an age of technology, digitisation and information overload.

You can also find the link in the show notes: www.themindtakeaway.com/authenticleaderscommunity
Enjoy listening!

You can connect with Sabina and find out more about her here:

Website: http://www.sabinanawaz.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabina-nawaz-41a25b5/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sabinanawaz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sabinacoaching/

TimeStamps:

01:05  Sabina recalls her life-changing story of holding a knife to her own throat in India, Calcutta.

08:44 How taking leaps of faith can be beneficial when everything in your brain is screaming “Don’t go there!”

10:19 Why it takes an imbalance of positivity to have a balanced hearing, as we humans tend to pivot on the negative. The ratio of 5 positive voices: 1 critical voice creates balance.

11:20 The more senior you are, the less truth you receive in your role and the challenges of receiving the truth.

13:48 How we love to have heroes and villains, and this is part of the human condition.

16:06 How to get people to listen to feedback and act on it.

19:13 You have to come back to your own why first, and by wanting to be better your business results will improve.

20:19 How can leaders set up a system to withstand pressure so you are not putting everything on your shoulders?

23:00 Why is it leaders comfortable in their own skin are able to handle challenges during a crisis?

25:07 One of the relationships that get ignored the most during this crisis is the one with ourselves.

29:35 All bets are off, everything has changed, so let's challenge these assumptions that we have.

31:44 Sabina talks about some of the ways we get in the way of ourselves and our immunity to change.

38:07 How the practice of gratitude has been a game-changer for Sabina and how it can benefit you too.

#35: Inner Voices and Leadership Lessons with Sabina Nawaz

If you are an entrepreneur, thinking of starting a business or interested in podcasting, then this episode may be of interest to you.

In this episode, we speak to James Mulvany, a successful entrepreneur who over the past 10 years, has built multiple internet companies plus a property portfolio and has made a range of angel investments in startups! Having actually never had a job in his life, he started his first business when leaving school. James is the founder of Podcast.co and Radio.co, two companies doing pioneering things in the online audio space.

You can connect with James and find out more about him here:
Social Media: https://jamesm.com/connect
Podcast.co: https://www.podcast.co
MatchMaker.fm: https://www.matchmaker.fm
Radio.co: https://radio.co

Timestamps:

5:22 How James turned two of his interests with passion and creativity into the seeds of what became his success businesses

8:18 For his many successes, James had more failures which he sees as being a crucial part of being an entrepreneur.

9:16 James shares his learnings from his first big setback when a deal with AOL and his first business didn’t go as planned.

15:11 Why it is important to think about what is working and focus on that one thing vs constantly trying to come up with new ideas because you only have so much mental bandwidth to give it your all.

16:25 Why is it really valuable to identify your strengths and weaknesses plus hire people who are way better than you in doing certain things?

18:47 How it’s really important to trust your people, give them autonomy, delegate and let them get on with things.

21:01 The big, fancy, expensive machine in his tech company is his people.

22:57 Our creative ideas from the past are never wasted, they just transform into something more relevant to where you are at any given moment.

28:25 Why is it more important to look at what people's capabilities, their experience and if they would be a good culture fit for your team rather than the qualification when you are hiring talent.

31:22 What are the first steps to start your business or create a new product?

35:15 What are the basic requirements for starting your own podcast and why it's never been a better time to start one?

#34: Unpacking Entrepreneurship and Podcasting with James Mulvany

In this episode, we speak to John Murphy,  a results-oriented business coach and mentor to senior executives and CEOs. He's a great communicator with broad experience and is skilled at discussing issues that make businesses and individuals grow and thrive. John lives and works in the south of France, originally from Ireland. Before starting his own business, John enjoyed a highly successful career in the corporate world. He began as a door-to-door life assurance salesman and culminated as the CEO of a Pan European Life Assurance Company in Ireland. John started his business, John Murphy International, in 2004 and has worked worldwide across a broad range of industries. His clients include major corporates such as Pfizer, Circle K, Merck, State Street Bank, Vodafone and others. 
Enjoy listening as we talk about the future of leadership, relationships, vulnerability, authenticity and workspace culture.
You can connect with John and find out more about him here:
Email: john@johnmurphyinternational.com
Website: johnmurphyinternational.com  
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmurphyinternational
10 Key Traits of Top Business Leaders: //www.johnmurphyinternational.com/10-key-traits-free-download
Timestamps:
00:08:00 What is the difference between success and winning and how a misunderstanding do the two create dysfunction?
00:16:00 How can we create psychological safety?
00:20:00 Why do you need to be real/authentic/yourself, warts and all, to be a leader?
00:24:00 Old-style managers need to transform into leaders because what worked in the past doesn’t work any more
00:30:00  For the growth of the organisation, culture is more important than any strategy.
00:36:00 What should we look for when recruiting new members into our team?

#33: The Future of Leadership with John Murphy

Mira and Peter celebrate what it is to be human in an age of technology, digitisation and information overload. In each episode, they go on a deep exploration of resilience, creativity, leadership, authenticity, passion and intuition while encouraging others to do the same. What underpins all of our conversations is human connectedness, collaboration and community.