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Dropping your armour

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Frequency: 1 episode/54d. Total Eps: 26

Dropping your armour is a podcast where we will listen to stories from thinkers, doers, and dreamers on what it means to be human in the modern workplace. Tune in to come face to face with fearless leadership in all its glory, messiness, and authenticity. //Host: Neha Sharma // Producer: Saskia Stengele & Philipp Fricke // Research & Scientific Foundation: Carrie Schlauch //

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🇫🇷 France - management
15/03/2025
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14/03/2025
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Dr Steve Graef on creating your own terms of life

Season 2 · Episode 7

Thursday, March 6, 2025 • Duration 50:36

In this episode, Neha speaks to Steve Graef, a counseling psychologist with specific expertise in sport and performance psychology. Neha digs into Steve’s background, how he came to found Mindurance, and how he continues to use his guiding principle – LEGS – in his life and work. Their conversation considers both the theoretical and practical aspects of choosing to “dance” on your own terms. A thoroughly engaging, “excellently average” episode, we hope you find it insightful and enjoyable!

Steve and Neha reference Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek a couple of times during their conversation Details of that book are

Ferriss, T. (2007). The 4-hour workweek: Escape 9-5, live anywhere, and join the new rich. Crown Publishing Group.

Steve also mentions his past experience with Gestalt training, including “polarities.” If you wish to read a bit more about such polarities, I suggest the following:

Maurer, R. (2002). Managing polarities: An interview with Barry Johnson, Ph.D. Gestalt Review 6(3), 209-219.

Reach out to Dr Steve Graef via https://www.linkedin.com/in/drstevegraef/ or follow him on Instagram https://linktr.ee/mindurance

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Spotlight on Talent Selection with Dr. Richard Hossiep

Season 2 · Episode 6

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 • Duration 49:23

In this spotlight episode, Tolga shines a light on talent selection with Dr. Richard Hossiep. Richard is the co-founder and managing director of Applysia, a company that supports clients across industries with their unique assessment software. As an organizational psychologist with a diverse set of experiences including academia, consulting, and being a business leader, Richard has developed his keen interest in talent selection. Listen in as Tolga and Richard discuss the importance and impact of doing talent selection well.

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Brian Stoll on what it means to drop your armour

Season 1 · Episode 16

Thursday, December 15, 2022 • Duration 57:17

Welcome to our special end-of-year episode, where Neha talks with past colleague and current professional peer Brian Stoll. Together they reflect on what it means to them to drop your armor – at work, at home, and with friends. As part of this conversation, they also dig into sharing on social media, “emotionally unloading” to our friends and loved ones, perfectionism, psychological safety, and how all these different things can support, block, and degrade true vulnerability.

Useful resources for this episode

Bruk, A. (1 November 2021) Other people don’t think you’re a mess. Scientific American.

Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2018). Beautiful mess effect: Self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(2), 192–205.

Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2022). You and I both: Self-compassion reduces self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(7), 1054-1067.

Forest, A. L., Kille, D. R., Wood, J. V., & Holmes, J. G. (2014). Discount and disengage: How chronic negative expressivity undermines partner responsiveness to negative disclosures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(6), 1013–1032.

Grant, A., & Brown, B. (2021). Taken for granted: Brené Brown on what vulnerability isn’t. TED.com podcast.

Rosh, L., & Offermann, L. (October 2013). Be yourself, but carefully. Harvard Business Review.

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Spotlight on Buddhism with Maurice Jonquet van Brunschot

Season 1 · Episode 15

Monday, October 17, 2022 • Duration 47:09

In connection to the episode on creating a compassionate world (link), where we briefly touched on the philosophy of Buddhism, this spotlight episode explores this topic further. Today our guest host Joachim Stempfle is talking with Maurice Jonquet, a practicing Mahayana Buddhist. Together they discuss how we can apply the spiritual teachings in connection with neuropsychological aspects in our modern world and how it can help us on our journey to a more compassionate leadership.

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Dr. Paul Gilbert on creating a compassionate world

Season 1 · Episode 14

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 • Duration 59:51

Guest host Joachim Stempfle speaks with Compassion Focused Therapy founder Paul Gilbert. Paul shares how his early training and experiences helped him appreciate the importance of compassion and explains how Compassion Focused Therapy is linked to both scientific realities and spiritual philosophies. Joachim and Paul also discuss how compassion is not just a therapeutic tool, but something that is essential to thriving schools and workplaces. Paul’s warmth is infectious, and we hope it provides you with some positive, uplifting “emotional textures” to take away.

To learn more about Paul’s work and Compassion Focused Therapy, visit the Compassionate Mind Foundation (https://www.compassionatemind.co.uk/). We also suggest the following books:

Gilbert, P. (2009). The compassionate mind. Robinson.

Gilbert, P., & Simos, G. (Eds.). (2022). Compassion focused therapy: Clinical practice and applications. Routledge.

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Spotlight on Emotional Agility with Andreia Lungulescu

Season 1 · Episode 13

Sunday, April 3, 2022 • Duration 48:37

This is a Spotlight episode, where the goal is to shine a light on certain topics together with an expert and explore it through different lenses. In this episode, we discuss emotional agility: What it is, why it’s important, and how to develop it as a skill. We speak with Andreia Lungulescu, who is a hands-on people and organizational development consultant and coach with a passion for nurturing and championing human potential. She has a background in clinical psychology and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, with specializations in schema therapy, co-active coaching, and compassion-focused therapy. Her knowledge about human emotions and behavior, combined with her years of practical experience in organizations and her spot-on pop culture references, make this an insightful and fun conversation.

Further readings and resources mentioned in this episode:

Brown, B. (2021). Atlas of the heart: Mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience. Vermilion.

Interview of Brené Brown by Oprah Winfrey on this book and related topics: https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a38569758/brene-brown-o-talks/

David, S. (2016). Emotional agility: Get unstuck, embrace change, and thrive in work and life. Avery.

Brené Brown podcast (part 1) with Susan David: https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-dr-susan-david-on-the-dangers-of-toxic-positivity-part-1-of-2/

Brené Brown podcast (part 2) with Susan David: https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-dr-susan-david-on-the-dangers-of-toxic-positivity-part-2-of-2/

TED How To Be A Better Human podcast with Susan David: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-nurture-your-emotional-agility-with-susan-david/id1544098624?i=1000544114715

Maysoun Ramadan on the importance of health

Season 1 · Episode 12

Monday, March 7, 2022 • Duration 46:35

Neha has a moving conversation with Maysoun Ramadan, who has forged a long career in the healthcare industry. In this conversation, Maysoun describes how her values have informed and motivated her life and her work and helped her address her own personal experiences with illness and grief.

Additional resources and reading related to this episode:

There are many charitable organizations worldwide which provide bereavement support. In Europe, your can find a list of potential organizations in your country here.

Boccalandro, B. (21 January 2021). Why your values belong at work. Harvard Business Review.

Clear, J, (2018). Atomic habits: An easy and provien way to build good habits and bread bad ones. New York: Avery.

Rabow, M. W., Huang, C. S., White-Hammond, G. E., & Tucker, R. O. (2021). Witnesses and Victims Both: Healthcare Workers and Grief in the Time of COVID-19. Journal of pain and symptom management, 62(3), 647–656. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.01.139

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Marie-Louise Howett on the myth of "having it all"

Season 1 · Episode 11

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 • Duration 50:33

A conversation with Marie-Louise Howett, the Chief Human Resources Officer at Cint. With more than 20 years of experience, Marie-Louise reflects on her career and the choices she made that stretched her out of her comfort zone and have brought her into her current dream job. The dual realities of those choices - the sacrifices, but also the joy - is an important lesson on the myth of "having it all."

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Spotlight on Transformation with Joachim Stempfle (Part 2)

Season 1 · Episode 9

Thursday, December 9, 2021 • Duration 26:27

Our spotlight episodes aim to provide a deep, comprehensive view of key topics. For our first spotlight episode, Neha talks with Joachim Stempfle about transformation. Bringing together ideas from philosophy, psychology, and business across two episodes, Neha and Joachim give us a lively and enlightening look at the concept of "organizational transformation" and how a human-centric approach enables both the inner transformation of people in the organization (part one) and the outer transformation of the organizational operating system (part two).

For further reading on concepts, authors, and primary sources mentioned in this spotlight, we suggest:

Frankl, V. E., (1959). Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press
[Original German publication: Frankl, V. E. (1946). Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager. Verlag für Jugend und Volk]
Frankl, V. E. (1979). The Unheard Cry for Meaning. Touchstone.

Koan (n.d.) MBO vs. OKRs: What are the differences? (blogpost) Inside the Labyrinth. via https://www.koan.co/blog/mbo-vs-okrs.

Rigby, D., Sutherland, J. & Takeuchi, H. (2016 May). Embracing agile: How to master the process that's transforming management. Harvard Business Review, 40-48, 50.

Weaver. W. (1948) Science and complexity. American Scientist 36(4), 536-544.

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