The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life – Détails, épisodes et analyse

My wife and I are huge fans of the highly successful Traitors TV show. And if you’ve watched it then in Season 2 of the UK series you’ll remember the big-hearted Welshman Andrew Jenkins, playing a Traitor and whose banishment at the last round table set the series up for a memorable finale.

But the story of Andrew’s journey starts long before he was on TV. Two decades ago, at the age of 21, he was in a horrendous car accident and was thought to be dead at the side of the road. In a coma for 4 weeks he was fighting for his life and doctors told his family he would likely have severe brain damage. He proved his doctors wrong and learned to walk and talk and live again, but the journey over the next 20 some years of physical rehabilitation, mental recovery and rebuilding connection with those around him would come to define him as a person.

We met recently and today Andrew is on a mission to inspire others and to try and end the stigma around mental health. We’ll be talking about the journey he’s been on and the Unlock Moments of remarkable clarity that helped him to figure out the path ahead.

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Andrew Jenkins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjenkinsspeaker/

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This raw, unflinching account of burnout and recovery from leading psychotherapist Anna Mathur is one of the most emotionally-charged conversations I've had to date here on The Unlock Moment.

Anna is widely celebrated for her accessible mental health advice she offers across her platforms – including her Instagram page, incredibly popular podcast ‘The Therapy Edit’ and five-star rated online courses on Reframing Anxiety, People Pleasing and Self-Worth. With an audience of over 210,000 on Instagram, Anna regularly features in titles including the Telegraph, Grazia, Marie Claire, The Sun, Closer, Stylist and Mother and Baby.

Anna’s books include “Mind Over Mother” and “Raising a Happier Mother” Her new book is called “The Uncomfortable Truth – Change Your Life by Taming 10 of your Mind’s Greatest Fears”.

But behind the profile of any successful public persona, there is a human story. I am curious to discover more about Anna’s journey, the challenges she faced and what she has learned that she can share with you. And we’ll be talking about the Unlock Moments of remarkable clarity that helped her to figure out the path ahead. 

One not to be missed!

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Anna Mathur: https://www.annamathur.com/

Anna Mathur on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annamathur/

The Uncomfortable Truth: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uncomfortable-Truth-Change-Taming-Greatest/dp/0241707196

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Enjoy this remarkable extended podcast episode with Emmy Award-winner Topaz Adizes, in which he chronicles the search for home, his exploration of questions and his pursuit of the transformative power of deeper human connection.

We’ve had many wonderful guests and today is no exception – a master in the art of powerful storytelling.

Topaz Adizes is a writer, a director and an experience design architect. His work has been selected for prestigious festivals such as Cannes, Sundance and SXSW, and featured in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair and the New York Times. As well as an Emmy for new approaches to documentary, he has won two World Press Photo awards for immersive storytelling and interactive documentary.

Topaz is the founder and executive director of experience design studio The Skin Deep, with almost a million followers on YouTube. Their first project, ‘THE AND’, was an instant hit, now experienced by over 150 million people, and winning an Emmy. Over almost a decade they have filmed thousands of honest and authentic conversations, documenting human connection in all its forms.

So in the pursuit of connection, really there is no-one else with the unique experience and insight of Topaz Adizes. I can’t wait to hear his take on how we build connection and how an exploration of his own Unlock Moments will help us to understand who he really is and how this work serves his own vision and purpose.

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Topaz Adizes: https://www.topazadizes.com/

The Skin Deep: https://theskindeep.com/

THE AND on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSkinDeep

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Tayo Rockson calls himself a polymath-in-progress. He is a writer, speaker, consultant, podcaster, poet, professor, co-founder and brand strategist at UYD Management, a strategic consulting firm that empowers organisations to incorporate sustainable diversity and inclusion practices. In this short extract he talks about his philosophy in life and how a dramatic life event gave him remarkable clarity about the path ahead. Enjoy this Unlock Micro-Moment with Tayo Rockson!

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Tayo Rockson: https://tayorockson.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tayorockson/

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In my book The IDEA Mindset, I wrote “Freedom is the day you realise that it’s ok not to be good at everything. Choose the path that plays to your strengths.”

It sounds so obvious, but often the simplest things are the ones you need to pay most attention to.

I spent a lot of my life trying to overcome my weaknesses and fill my gaps. I noticed what I couldn’t do much more than I noticed what I did really well. It led me down a lot of divergent paths as I saw myself as some kind of human multitool that needed to do a bit of everything.

This week's exercise is about acknowledging and activating your strengths. In it you’ll find some freedom. And with that freedom you’ll start to unlock some of that potential that’s been stored up - ready for the day you can open the box and let it fly.

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The IDEA Mindset: https://theideamindset.com

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Whatever we do in our work or in our life, we're all selling something. Influencing others is selling. Getting buy-in is selling. Teaching is selling. Sharing an idea you're passionate about is selling. And when you ask people who they think is the best salesperson on the planet, alive or dead, most commonly they say 'Martin Luther King Jr.', 'Steve Jobs', 'Jesus'. Selling isn't only about selling products and services.

Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown sought out some of the most successful people from all walks of life, CEOs, entrepreneurs, doctors, trial lawyers, professional athletes, military leaders, and countless others in the hope of understanding why they're so extraordinary. They found that as different as all these incredible people were, they all had an eerily similar approach to selling. It didn't matter if they were perceived as optimists or pessimists, logical or emotional, introverted or extraverted, jovial or stoic - they were all unsold on what it meant to sell and unsold on who people expected them to be.

Colin and Garrett’s book 'The Unsold Mindset - Redefining What It Means To Sell', just newly published, reveals a counterintuitive approach to not just selling, but life. This book is a journey toward an entirely new mindset — because the greatest sellers on the planet aren't successful because of what they do, they're successful because of what they think.

Colin and Garrett are now professors at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. And they teach a fantastically popular class, Sales Mindset for Entrepreneurs. They’ve both worked in a variety of emerging technology companies and were senior leaders in an identity management software as a service company called Bitium which was acquired in 2017 by Google. They’ve been on an incredible journey ever since.

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Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown: https://www.colinandgarrett.com/

Purchase  'The Unsold Mindset': https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unsold-Mindset-Redefining-What-Means/dp/0063204908

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My name’s Dr Gary Crotaz, award-winning author of ‘The IDEA Mindset’. In this Unlock Micromoment, you’re hearing a short extract from one of my top guests on The Unlock Moment podcast.

Nick Novak is a good friend, a social impact entrepreneur, an investor, non-executive director and consultant. With over 15 years of driving growth for social enterprises across the UK, US and Africa, Nick is passionate about building customer-centric organisations that deliver positive impact. In this short extract he talks about how a conversation in the car helped him recognise and respond to burnout, finding remarkable clarity about the path ahead. Enjoy this Unlock Micromoment with Nick Novak!

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Nick Novak: https://nicholasnovak.com/

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This morning I was thinking about how running used to be so much easier than it is today. I wish I'd been more appreciative at the time.

It makes me think about how regret holds us back in life. We regret decisions we made, or didn’t make. We regret opportunities not taken. We regret not trying harder when, with hindsight it feels like that was our big moment.

But in reality, the only moment that matters is the moment right now. The only thing you can control is what happens next. And the only person who can take control of this moment is you. And that’s what came into my mind this morning when I decided to carry on running.

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The IDEA Mindset: https://theideamindset.com

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Today’s guest on The Unlock Moment is John Baldoni, renowned US coach, keynote speaker and the author of no less than 16 books translated into 10 languages. He hosts the ‘Grace Under Pressure’ interview series on LinkedIn Live, and famously integrates piano improvisations into his keynotes – now that’s definitely a love we share.

Thinkers 360 has named John a Top 10 Thought Leader for both Leadership and Management. Global Gurus ranks John a Top 15 global leadership expert. In 2021, the International Federation of Learning and Development named John a World-Class Mentor and named him to its Hall of Fame.

John is also a member of the renowned 100 Coaches, founded by Marshall Goldsmith – if you’ve been listening for a while then you have enjoyed hearing from a number of this elite group of coaches, with more recording in the coming months.

John’s previous books include Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World; GRACE: A Leader’s Guide to a Better Us; MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership; Lead with Purpose; Lead Your Boss; and The Leader’s Pocket Guide.  

His new book Grace Under Pressure: Leading Through Change and Crisis is out at the start of April and focuses on three things leaders need to do when change and adversity strike.

After all of that, what John doesn’t know about managing and leading through change and crisis surely isn’t worth knowing. I’m looking forward to hearing more about the journey that shaped him and the Unlock Moments of remarkable clarity he experienced along the way. And I’m hoping that you, my listener, will find a path to your own Unlock Moment through something you hear in this conversation.

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John Baldoni: https://www.johnbaldoni.com/

Grace Under Pressure: https://www.johnbaldoni.com/books/

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My name’s Dr Gary Crotaz, award-winning author of ‘The IDEA Mindset’. In this Unlock Micro-Moment, you’re hearing a short extract from one of my top guests on The Unlock Moment podcast. Hayley Thomas is the vibrant and dynamic founder of Eleven Loves, an online fashion brand centred around effortless style, feelgood designs and sustainability. In this short extract she talks about how her husband’s cancer diagnosis changed her perspective on whether to act or whether to wait to start her business. Enjoy this Unlock Micro-Moment with Hayley Thomas!

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Eleven Loves: https://elevenloves.co.uk/

Eleven Loves on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevenloves.co.uk

Hayley Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-thomas-ab615817/

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