Leading Beings – Détails, épisodes et analyse

What is an Indie Leader? Why is this way of working and leading on the rise? And why might it be exactly what you need to shape your career, business, and impact in 2025?

In this episode of the Leading Beings Podcast, Kate McCready introduces the concept of Indie Leadership—a mindset, a movement, and a way of showing up in work and life with independence, innovation, and intrinsic motivation.

Kate unpacks:

✅ What defines an Indie Leader (and why you might be one!)

✅ The rise of indie leadership and why it’s reshaping work and success

✅ The challenges indie leaders face and how to navigate them

✅ Why building a community of indie leaders is crucial for impact

If you’ve ever felt like traditional career paths don’t fit, or you’re carving out your own unique way of working and leading, this episode is for you.

🎧 Tune in, and if this resonates—let’s make it a movement!

Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@katemccready

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In this episode, I open up about my personal journey of managing professional responsibilities amidst personal upheaval. I share my experiences after the loss of my and how it led me to reassess my professional and personal life. This episode explores the profound identity shifts that can arise from various life changes such as loss, caring responsibilities, or a midlife crisis and more. Join me as I provide practical tips and strategies for navigating these challenging transitions, including taking time to explore, treating the period as a learning phase, creating a transition plan, and seeking support. Tune in to gain insights on how to realign your work with your evolving life circumstances and find a fulfilling path forward.

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Meaningful Career Change Course
Purpose Statement Workbook

00:00 Introduction

01:04 Personal Story and Challenges

03:49 Navigating Big Identity Shifts

08:45 Tips for Successful Transition

24:51 Conclusion and Support

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In this episode I chat with Kelly Dent. Kelly is the Global Director of External Engagement at World Animal Protection and is a leader, influencer, campaigner, advocate and strategist for social change with 25 years’ experience working at the forefront of global development. Her focus at the moment is on working to end the wildlife trade, but she's worn many different hats throughout her career, including as a speaker at the UN Climate Talks and an Aid Worker in Gaza.

Join Kelly and I as we discuss:

• Leading work that goes beyond a “career”
• Collective action towards big goals
• The importance of listening to and building connection with diverse voices as a change-making leader
• Leading people from values, strengths and alignment towards a mission
• Taking a holistic approach to work and life as a leader
• Challenging dominant narratives and changing systems for meaningful change and impact

You can find Kelly on LinkedIn or Twitter and World Animal Protection at https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.au/ 

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Being productive can play an important role in using our potential to have an impact. The world of productivity hacks, tools, systems has become a minefield of options. But is that what we need to really improve our productivity?

In this episode I explore what it takes to develop a more personalised approach to productivity. Rather than trying to adopt the methods and tools of others, how can we use them as inspiration, but then create ways of working that actually work for us as individuals? Ways that take into account our values, our natural strengths, rhythms and the context in which we live and work. 

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Whether you're leading an organisation, a team, a mission, your family or even just yourself, it's important to make time and space for the things that get you out of the weeds and be the best you can be.

In this episode I offer up eight different types of 'Space' we need to create for ourselves to be the best leaders we can be. 

• Space for thinking & reflection
• Space for planning, strategising & innovating
• Space for action & reaction
• Space for listening & understanding
• Space for connection & relationships
• Space for learning & development
• Space for being & wellbeing
• Space for authenticity & expression 

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In this episode I speak with founder and CEO of The New Happy, Stephanie Harrison. Stephanie is an expert in happiness and lasting behaviour change and before starting The New Happy led learning and Thrive Global.

Join us as we discuss defining and creating happiness based on what's truly important in life.

As well as exploring Stephanie's own personal story and inspirations, we dive into:

- The fascinating insights from Stephanie's positive psychology related research on happiness
- Why, as a society, we are so stuck in a cycle of achievement
- The importance of making your unique contribution in the world
- Breaking through perfectionistic tendencies
- The tiny actions we can take towards more conscious success
- Some things you can do to live and work your New Happy

You can find Stephanie and her incredible work at https://thenewhappy.com

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Have you struggled with traditional goal setting in the past? Maybe you (like me) and tried SMART Goals and found them a bit dull and lackluster. 

In this episode I dive into how you can start to create more mindful goals that help you make meaningful progress.

I'll explore things like how your approach, self and circumstances can impact your goals, as well as sharing my alternative to SMART goals, iBecome Goals.

In this episode I also mention my Goal Exploration Canvas. This is a free tool you can download to dig deeper into what's important to you to set more intentionally aligned goals.

You can download the Canvas here: https://leadingbeings.ck.page/

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Ricci-Jane Adams is an intuition expert, writer and founder of the Institute of Intuitive Intelligence. Bridging science and spirituality, including a PHD in metaphysical realism, Ricci-Jane is on a mission to lead the revolution in excellence in the intuitive sciences. Join Ricci-Jane and I as we discuss themes of breaking away from the New Age ghetto, knowing ourselves as quantum beings, belief and suffering and leading with intuitive intelligence. 

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Sometimes when we go through a phase of personal and transformation and growth, things can change with the people closest to us. In this episode I discuss the theme of reshaping the expectations others might have of us. This reflection episode came from my discussion with Nicho Plowman in the previous episode. Make sure you check that one out for context. 

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