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| Trailer | Welcome to The Impact List | 17 Mar 2026 | 00:01:13 | |
The Impact List is a leadership podcast for professionals who want more than soundbites and surface-level advice. Hosted by Laurie Fainer, CEO of Dynamic Alchemy Advisors, The Impact List features candid conversations with leaders shaping the future, not by titles, but by how they show up. Each episode explores the real moments behind leadership, the decisions made under pressure, the conflicts that demand clarity, and the practices that create lasting impact. This show cuts through leadership noise to focus on presence, integrity, and human-centered leadership in modern organizations. Guests include executives, founders, operators, and people leaders who share hard-won lessons on navigating responsibility, building trust, leading through uncertainty, and creating cultures that actually work. The Impact List is for:
New episodes are released twice a month and offer thoughtful insight, grounded reflection, and practical perspective you can apply immediately. Website: https://amplified-authenticity.com/ | |||
| 003: Kindness Is Not a Soft Strategy. How Simona Costantini Builds Businesses That Actually Care | 25 Mar 2026 | 00:34:37 | |
What if you’re not burnt out… you’ve simply outgrown the life you built? In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Simona Costantini, Founder and CEO of VOLT Productions, to talk about what it actually looks like to build a business rooted in values - not as a mission statement, but as a daily operating decision. Simona's values are kindness, care, and connection. She doesn't just say that. She turns away clients who don't reflect them. She doesn't care when her team works as long as the work gets done. She leads a podcast production agency supporting more than 20 shows a week from a place of genuine investment in the people around her. This conversation gets into the leadership she wished she'd had, what she unlearned from corporate, and the question she comes back to constantly: are you adding more good into the world, or more noise? The answer shapes everything. In this episode, you’ll discover:
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Music created and produced by Riley Fouchier, DarkSky Productions | |||
| 002: Success Isn't Built Alone. What Two Decades of Exec Search Taught Nadia Caira About Leadership | 25 Mar 2026 | 00:40:15 | |
What if the strongest leaders aren’t the loudest… but the most grounded? In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Nadia Caira, Co-Founder of Beacon Talent Group, to explore what grounded leadership actually looks like in practice — inside the high-pressure, high-stakes world of executive search. Nadia brings a coaching lens to everything she does. She asks better questions before offering answers. She creates alignment before going to market. She builds partnerships, not transactions. And when things get loud around her, her instinct is to slow down, not speed up. This conversation covers the moment that defined her leadership, the unlearning that came with building Beacon from scratch, and the advice that stopped her in her tracks: cherish the relationships and recognize your cheerleaders. Because success, as Nadia sees it, is never built alone. In this episode, you’ll discover:
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Music created and produced by Riley Fouchier, DarkSky Productions | |||
| 001: I Called Myself an Entrepreneur Out Loud for the First Time. Here's What Happened Next. | 25 Mar 2026 | 00:10:04 | |
What happens when you stop blending in… and start building something that actually reflects who you are? In this solo episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer shares the story behind the show and the turning point that led her to leave corporate and step into entrepreneurship. After years in executive HR and Chief of Staff roles, Laurie found herself asking a different question. Not “what’s next?” but “what actually matters?” The answer wasn’t another role. It was ownership. This episode is about what it actually takes to leave corporate — not the logistics, but the unlearning. How to decouple your identity from your title. How to stop shrinking to fit other people's idea of who you're supposed to be. And why the inner work isn't optional if you want to lead other people without losing yourself. She's recording this one scared. Which means it was time. In this episode, you’ll discover:
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Music created and produced by Riley Fouchier, DarkSky Productions | |||
| 005: When Leadership Feels Stuck. What's Really Happening Beneath the Surface | Numrah Irfan | 22 Apr 2026 | 00:42:39 | |
Most leaders are trained to treat a stall as a failure signal - something to push through, smooth over, or explain away. Numrah Irfan sees it differently. In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Numrah Irfan, founder of Wren Ave Consulting and former Deloitte leader with over two decades of experience inside large-scale transformation. Numrah makes a case that the moments where progress seems to stop are often where the most important work is actually happening - if you're willing to name what's underneath rather than keep moving. This conversation is practical and honest. It covers what actually blocks transformation (hint: it's rarely the strategy), how Numrah has built confidence without needing to have all the answers, and why she believes relationship building is the golden key to everything. In this episode, you'll discover:
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Music created and produced by Riley Fouchier, DarkSky Productions | |||
| 004: The Best Leaders Don’t Have the Answer. Here’s What They Do Instead | Hannah Yardley | 08 Apr 2026 | 00:33:59 | |
The best leaders don’t have all the answers, and the ones who think they do often hold their teams back. In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Hannah Yardley - who has spent two decades advising Fortune 500 companies, leading people strategy at a global SaaS platform, and earning a seat at some of the most consequential executive tables in tech - to explore the leadership mindset shift from expert to leader, and what great leaders do instead. She’s also back in school, in a room with 47 strangers: defense workers, oil refinery managers, school teachers, people who are - right now - shaping how she leads today. That’s not a contradiction. That’s the point. As your career grows, so does your experience. One of Hannah's most important discoveries is that the more experience you accumulate, the more intentional you have to be about when to use it - stepping back, asking better questions, and trusting others to think, decide, and lead. This is the shift from being the smartest person in the room to building rooms full of capable people. In this episode, you’ll discover:
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Music created and produced by Riley Fouchier, DarkSky Productions | |||
| 007: You Don't Build Trust in Easy Moments. On Leadership & Finding Your People | Michael Murphy | 20 May 2026 | 00:32:05 | |
You know the person who's working against you? The one where the tension is real, the dynamic is off, and neither of you is saying it out loud? Michael Murphy was that person for Laurie. And instead of letting it become permanent, they named it. What happened next shaped the kind of leader Michael became and the kind he now deliberately builds around him. Michael Murphy is a Partner and AI Operating Model Lead at ADAPTOVATE, a global consultancy helping large organizations build the agility to drive transformation. He spent two decades inside some of the most complex change environments in North America and Europe, including senior roles at Deloitte's Human Capital practice where he led agile transformations across Canada, the US, and Germany and co-authored Deloitte's Global Adaptable Organization Methodology. In this episode, they get into his "Consulting Scared Straight" framework, what the apprenticeship model looks like when AI is reshaping the entry-level path, and why the legacy that actually matters has nothing to do with the PowerPoints. In this episode, you'll discover:
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Music created and produced by Riley Fouchier, DarkSky Productions | |||
| 006: You Can't Lead From Empty. What Burnout & the Nervous System Are Telling You | Caroline Baird | 06 May 2026 | 00:39:04 | |
What if the most powerful thing a leader can do... is stop? In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Caroline Baird, HR executive, leadership strategist, and holistic coach with more than 30 years of experience inside some of the largest organizations in North America. Caroline has held senior HR leadership roles inside multi-billion dollar companies, sat at the table for complex culture challenges, and now runs her own practice working with executives and leadership teams at the intersection of strategy, culture, and what she calls somatic leadership. This conversation gets into what's actually happening to leaders right now - the exhaustion that gets misread as burnout, and why we've spent decades training people to carry more without teaching them how to lead without losing themselves. Caroline breaks down what the body signals before the mind has words for it, what white space actually looks like inside a real calendar, and why the leaders who slow down are often the ones who lead best. Because leadership, as Caroline sees it, is always a choice, even when the choices are hard. In this episode, you'll discover:
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Music created and produced by Riley Fouchier, DarkSky Productions | |||