Life Beyond The Numbers

#112 Go Outside - Caitlin Cockerton

"Keep it simple. It's free. Go outside. There are so many reasons to do it. It's so funny we love to complicate things. Our human brains are like, surely we should be paying for this meeting room and if only we could be doing some weird technical thing as part of our team bonding experience, then we'll be doing the right thing. But no, let's get back to basics".  Caitlin Cockerton
 
Caitlin Cockerton is an avid advocate for spending time, including work time, in nature. She explains that nature is a great metaphor for us and a mirror for what is happening inside. When we are outside we move into a state that enables us to tap into something deeper. We intuitively know the benefits and say things like "I need to go for a walk" or "I need to go and clear my head." But what about the benefits to teams and organisations? When we are caught in a cycle of back-to-back meetings and zoom calls are we really paying attention to what matters most? Slowing down and being in the best space, outdoors, can help us reconnect with ourselves and others, assess our priorities and have some deep and meaningful conversations about our people and our systems. Caitlin and I discuss some simple ways of taking work outside. And Caitlin tells us about her recent retreat in a Spanish desert. 
 
Caitlin Cockerton (PhD, MSc, CPCC) is a Life and Leadership Coach – Canadian roots, with years of experience in fast-paced London business consulting, and now based in the French Alps. Her work focuses on reconnecting people to themselves, one another and the world around us, in service of creating more meaning in the work we do and lives we lead. She does 1:1 coaching, team building and leadership retreats, and facilitates one-of-a-kind seasonal mountain retreats.
 
Connect with Caitlin:
Through her website Great Heights Pathways
 
Resources Mentioned:
Trail Haven Retreats

#111 Success - Kris Lantheaume

"Success for me now is trusting myself and being patient enough to see what emerges rather than rushing to create some version of success that makes sense to other people." Kris Lantheaume
 
Kris Lantheaume learned to find safety in success from a young age. After years of being "successful" at work she found that there was this internal restlessness that would come and go and a voice saying is this really where you wanna be putting all your time? Always focusing on accolades and the next promotion became a habit but knowing she was meant for something else led to an existential career "crisis". We talk about how Kris transitioned to being more in the driver's seat of her life and her work. We talk about how the path to success is different for everyone and as we follow our paths, the most important part, is making sure that it's our path that we're following. And we spend time talking about workplaces and ask the question what can be done to make work a more engaging and meaningful experience?
 
Kris Lantheaume is a business coach and operations strategist helping heart-centered business owners launch and grow their businesses. Sounding board, business advisor, coach, accountability partner and cheerleader, Kris brings decades of high level thinking, deep empathy, and proven problem solving to help her clients navigate the emotional and logistical complexities of business ownership. Given that we all have unique strengths and gifts, Kris is committed to helping people find their own path to doing business in a way that is both financially sustaining and personally fulfilling.
 
Connect with Kris
Through her website 
On LinkedIn and Twitter
 
Resources Mentioned:
Author Sue Monk Kidd
Fear-Setting with Tim Ferris

#110 Four-Week Streaks - Susan Ni C

"So instead I thought, well, what about four weeks? What if I do it in four weeks? And actually that works out perfectly because there. 13 sets of four ... 13 fours is 52." Susan
 
I turned 49 a couple of weeks ago and so began my 50th year on this planet. This led to some reflections on the last 49 years as well as thinking about the future and setting an intention for the next year. I wanted a system that might work for me so rather than thinking for the whole year I broke my year into streaks - and came up with a plan for 13 four-week streaks. Will this work? As the Irish would say 'go mbeirmid beo ag an t-am seo aris' or 'may we be alive at this time again' and if we are we'll find out! 
 
Connect with me:
Send me a message on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter
Or go ahead and send me an email - I'd love to hear from you
 
Resources Mentioned:
Seth Godin Akimbo
Alison Jones: Practical Inspiration Publishing and The Thousand Days Lesson, Episode 276, of Extraordinary Business Book Club Podcast
Inc Magazine Article - 13 Hard to Learn Skills
Atomic Habits by James Clear
 

#109 Collective Joy - Pete Bearder

"If you consider we're living through a mental health epidemic, there is an urgent need for us to pioneer new ways to create collective joy and collective ecstasy, the very things which are an antidote to loneliness." Pete “the Temp” Bearder
 
Pete “the Temp” and I begin our conversation talking about laughter and the role of laughter in our lives: as a healing modality, as a way to release tension, the giggles and the practice of laughter yoga and meditation. We delve into the culture that gave birth to the modern work environment and one that suppresses creativity and art in the name of profit and efficiency. Pete shares how he came to dedicate his life to the spoken word. We talk about the involvement of our bodies in speech and how class, gender and power all play a role in how we interact. And we discuss the differences between the spoken word and the written word. 
 
Pete “the Temp” Bearder is an award-winning spoken word poet, author, comic and laughter yoga instructor. He has toured around the world as a performer, delivered workshops with organisations such as The British Council and featured on BBC national and international radio and television. Pete has worked extensively as a spoken word educator through the Spoken Word Education Programme in collaboration with Goldsmiths University and cultural institutions. In 2019 he released a book about performance poetry called Stage Invasion: Poetry, Renewal and the Spoken Word Renaissance.
 
Connect with Pete:
Through his website
On YouTube, on Instagram and Facebook
 
Resources Mentioned:
Stage Invasion: Poetry & The Spoken Word Renaissance by Pete Bearder
Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
Emmy the Harp

#108 The Answers Are Inside - Robyn Harris

"You can't find the answers out there. The answers aren't out there. The answers are inside. And until you look inside and find your own answers, answers that you have from outside won't work." Robyn Harris
 
Robyn Harris explains that our bodies don't make mistakes. We explore a more conscious approach to wellbeing, the language we use when speaking about illness, the body's ability to heal and the learning we are offered when we are sick. Robyn shares how she learnt to take to back her power after giving it away and abdicating her responsibility and ability to make her own choices. She found what made her heart sing with the help of nature and Wonder, Intuition, Love and Dance (W-I-L-D). We also talk about meta consciousness, shame and guilt and the magic of finding our answers inside.
 
Robyn Harris has been described as a Wellbeing Alchemist who brings a new and transformative perspective, which invites and enables people to step into a whole new way of being that feels liberating and helps to shift their wellbeing to a new level. She finds joy in supporting passionate, deeply caring people to start falling in love with Who They Really Are, enabling them to rediscover their sense of clarity, energy and fun – without getting swamped by overwhelm or feeling like it has to be hard work.
 
Connect with Robyn
On LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube
Through her website - Equenergy 
Her Wild Wisdom Wellbeing Facebook page 
 
Resources Mentioned
Episode 56, Gut Health with Caroline Peyton
Depak Chopra
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Gabor Mate, Brene Brown, Bessel VanDerKolk, Abraham Hicks, Neil Donald Walsh, Andrew Cohen, Wayne Dyer, Bruce Lipton

#107 Be in the Room - Ellen Leith

"You have to be in the room. You've got to be a part of the conversation." "If you're not talking to each other and you're not in the room where it's happening then you are a step behind others who are thinking differently." Ellen Leith
 
Ellen Leith loves to connect people has also been interested in areas of business, or life, that is fundamental to people. And a key facet for all of us throughout our lives, Ellen says, is the aspect of paying for something or being paid for something. This led her to launch the Purchase to Pay Network in 2008 and today this network includes over 15,000 key decision makers across a variety of different industries. We talk about knowledge-sharing and learning. Ellen explains that every time she puts on an event she wants people to feel (1) that it has been a valuable use of their time, and (2) that they have learned something new. We also chat about technology and tech humanism, curiosity, collaboration, celebrating success and lost more. 
 
Ellen Leith is passionate about people, processes that work and technology that does what it says it will. She brings together leaders across Finance, P2P, AP and Procurement to elevate careers, share knowledge and facilitate learning. Ellen is the founder of the Purchase to Pay Network that gives best practice advice, offers benchmarking results, conducts market research, industry news, white papers, jobs, the annual P2P Summit, roundtable events and webinars. PPN also offers its sponsors a chance to connect with new channels and enjoy being a part of a real P2P community.
 
Connect with Ellen
On LinkedIn 
On Twitter
Through the P2P Network website or LinkedIn group
 
Resources Mentioned
P2P Focus Week
PPN Annual Awards
P2P Annual Summit will be held on June 6th 2023
 

#106 Time to Rest with Previous Guests

"I think you can only build that inner resilience if you do actually accept that we do all need rest and recovery, not just the annual long holiday, but actually building that into everyday life." Sue Rosen
 
The last weekend in October is the weekend the clocks change and here in the UK that signals winter is on the way. This made me think about hibernating. But also the importance of rest, pausing, stopping and taking breaks and holidays. So, I've put together a compilation of snippets from earlier episodes, outlined below, on this very topic. 
Episode 12 with Javed Bobat
Episode 30 with Lisa LLoyd
Episode 1 with Sue Rosen
Episode 50 with Kiki Kirby
Episode 35 with Tony Pound
Episode 29 with Andy Lonnen
Episode 61 with Lisa LLoyd 
 
Connect with Previous Guests
You can connect with all of these guests, and me, on LinkedIn
 
Resources Mentioned
James Clear 3-2-1 Newsletter
Beant K Dhillon on Twitter

#105 Create the Content You Want to See in the World

In this solo episode I talk about creating the content we want to see in the world.
This was inspired by the International Women's Podcast Awards 2022. And by my recent commitment to writing a book. 
 
Connect with me:
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Twitter
 
Resources Mentioned:
Episode 87 and Episode 60 of Life Beyond the Numbers
International Women's Podcast Awards 
Alison Jones and Practical Inspiration Publishing
How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Answer to How is Yes by Peter Block
Consolations by David Whyte
Episode 10 and Episode 47 of Life Beyond the Numbers with Steve Haines
 

#104 Your Intention - Katie McLaughlin

"Your intention has a huge impact .... the impact of what you say or do may not match up with your intention. And so that's where we have to, as leaders, continue to be emphasising that intention through our words, through our actions..."
 
Katie McLaughlin speaks to me about how she uses her background in theatre to facilitate transformation at work. Katie says we need more artists in the world of business as there's less of a science to business and more of an art. We talk about how your intention matters and to be wary of the unintended impact of your intentions. We talk about vision, values, connection, meaning and the skill sets we need to better communicate, collaborate and understand each other. We also cover unfulfilled potential in our workplaces, workplace hurt and the value of felt lived experience. 
 
Katie McLaughlin is on a mission to stop workplace hurt. She is passionate about creating a better world through happier workplaces and teams. She created her McLaughlin Method to put an end to boring, theory-based training and move past theories of leadership to step into common situations to develop tangible skills and change behaviours. Theatre is her passion and her secret sauce to transforming your current understanding of the people you lead. 
 
Connect with Katie:
On LinkedIn
Through her website 
 
 

#103 Just Go For It - Natasha Tomlinson

"....it was really, really difficult to walk away from a very solid career. And I think I wanted from the life coach validation, just someone to say, go for it, you're not being stupid, you're not being crazy, just go for it." Natasha Tomlinson
 
Natasha Tomlinson stepped away from a 20 year career in accounting to pursue her passion. Tasha studied psychology in university and when offered a job in accounting she took it. She got to the point where in her heart of hearts she knew she wanted to go back into psychology. We talk about how Tasha made that happen. And we talk about the business she co-founded to improve resilience and social skills of students some of whom are disengaged with education, display challenging behaviour, experience distress due to mental health/medical conditions and have significant attachment and/or trauma needs.
 
Natasha Tomlinson has a degree and Master’s in Psychology and is a psychotherapist. She has worked in mental health for many years, in the charity sector, in a corporate setting and as a mentor, counsellor, fitness & wellbeing instructor. Her passion is health and wellbeing. She is trained in mindfulness and it’s a technique she uses every day. Together with Luke, she runs Life Skills Hub. She leads the KIDS partnership project working with young people with autism and anxiety/depression and also takes care of the finance director and company secretary roles within the business. 
Connect with Tasha
On LinkedIn 
Through Life Skills Hub
 
Resources Mentioned
Young Minds
National Autistic Society (UK)
Episode 84, Sibling Special, Life Beyond the Numbers