Out of the Comfort Zone

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  Outwitting the Swirl of Mind Drama with Donna Jackson Nakazawa 23.09.2026 49min

  Send us Fan Mail You know the experience – something happens at work, you can’t stop thinking about it, you keep talking about it, the feelings are intense and you probably feel the tension in your body. You keep ruminating over and over. How can you stop the cycle? How can you take back control? Listen in for insight and tactics. Donna Jackson Nakazawa is the author of five books that explore the intersection of neuroscience, stress, and emotion, including Girls on the Brink, named one...
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  Debriefing to Drive Performance with Jeff “Bones” Bonner 16.09.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail We believe that experience is the great teacher and that what we do in a classroom or team room isn’t as powerful as learning by experience. I have seen people learn the wrong lessons from experience and I have seen people repeat the same mistakes over and over. Without reflection and a process for reflecting, performance is highly unlikely to improve. Finally someone has the same insight along with a solution for how to reflect in a way that doesn’t lead to blame. List...
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  Shadows in Leadership with Steven D’Souza 09.09.2026 47min

  Send us Fan Mail As leaders, all of us are capable of doing things for “the greater good” and all of us also have a shadow side that can cause stress in those we lead, maybe even harm at times. These two - the bright side and the shadow side - have been researched for years including in the well-known Hogan Assessment series. I see both in all the leaders I work with. However, we are not particularly brilliant at seeing how both sides co-exist in ourselves. To be the best leader you cou...
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  Taking Time Off with DJ DiDonna 02.09.2026 30min

  Send us Fan Mail What if your company offered a sabbatical? How does a sabbatical help you be a better leader and help your company at the same time? What are best practices? Is a mini-sabbatical effective or not? Those are the questions we are talking about. DJ DiDonna is a senior lecturer of business administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches MBA courses on entrepreneurship and building meaningful professional and personal lives. He has spent his career translating social s...
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  Doing Better Good with Scott M. Curran 26.08.2026 43min

  Send us Fan Mail Rarely do we talk about ways to boost our mood, build a sense of community and just plain feel good about ourselves. Doing good for others is one way of feeling good. How does this work? How can you think differently about your opportunities to do good? How can you engage your team and your organization in doing better good? ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wandat...
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  Being Effective and Doing Great Work with Melissa Swift 19.08.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail The pressure is on. Demands on your time and attention are unrelenting. The fears from AI abound. The team expects an incredible amount of your time and energy. Everything feels chaotic. Given that state of affairs, what can you do to make sure that you are being effective and delivering work that matters and has an impact? Listen in for practical tips. ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/ ► Instagram: htt...
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  Finding a 25th Hour with Neal Schore 12.08.2026 48min

  Send us Fan Mail There are two facts I would like you to consider: 1) If you are working in a role that matters, there will never be enough time. 2) You waste more time than you realize. How do you carve back minutes and hours that are unproductive? We have tactics for you that will work. ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wandatwallace/ ► Main YouTube: https://www.youtu...
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  The Power of Pace with Elizabeth Svoboda 05.08.2026 37min

  Send us Fan Mail The pace of everything today in every aspect of life takes a toll eventually. How do you know when enough is enough? What can we learn from athletes about pacing? What do you do without damaging your reputation? ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wandatwallace/ ► Main YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wandawallace/ ► X: https://x.com/AskWanda ► Website: https://www....
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  Phenomenal Communication with Jennifer Logue 29.07.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Communication is everything in business – getting people to understand, to change, to see an opportunity, to buy into your approach, to buy into you – everything. The more effective you are at communication the more successful you will be as a leader. All the skills are learnable, contrary to popular fears. What do you need to know and to do to be phenomenally persuasive? ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthos...
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  Data-Inspired Organizations with Sebastian Wernicke 22.07.2026 44min

  Send us Fan Mail Data is king – or is it? What pitfalls should we watch out for as we move towards a more data-centric, AI world? What are we getting wrong about how we use data to drive decisions? What do we need to do as leaders to create a culture that is data inspired? ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wandatwallace/ ► Main YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wandawallace/ ► X: h...
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  How Your Brain Creates Reality with Daniel Yon 15.07.2026 42min

  Send us Fan Mail What if what you think you see is not actually what is really present? What if you knew that your brain was constructing reality? Would that cause you to re-think your decisions, how you see people or your interpretations of what is going on? Would it cause you to be better capable of managing disagreement? It turns out that humans make all sorts of mistakes as our brains create a world that makes sense, in a unique way to each of us. Want to know more? Want to know how this ...
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  The Elevated Leader with Laurie Maddalena 08.07.2026 43min

  Send us Fan Mail I know you are busy, are you having the impact you want to have? Are you stuck in too much execution without enough time to see the larger landscape? How do you shift into facilitation mode as a leader and leverage yourself out of execution mode? Finally, how do you avoid the six barriers that keep far too many leaders stuck? ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wanda...
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  How the Marvel Characters Influence Your Leadership with Sy Islam 01.07.2026 44min

  Send us Fan Mail All of us are influenced by others in what we think is the right way to lead, collaborate, team up or even ask for help. Some of those influencers are other people in life, particularly in early life. Some of those influences come from movies and books. Often we don’t stop to analyze why we are comfortable with some choices over others, and we do not stop to question whether it’s time to move away from our comfort zone or not. In this episode, we are taking a fun dip in...
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  Surviving the Aftershock with Caroline Stokes 24.06.2026 41min

  Send us Fan Mail The shock forces are coming from all directions and they are powerful. How ready are you as a leader to navigate not just the shocks but also the aftershocks? What do you need to do to be mentally, emotionally and socially prepared? ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wandatwallace/ ► Main YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wandawallace/ ► X: https://x.com/AskWanda ► ...
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  Making Decisions in an Uncertain World with Haywood Spangler 17.06.2026 41min

  Send us Fan Mail There is never enough data to be certain any given decision is a good one or not. The more senior you become, the harder it is to be sure. Data is incomplete and unclear, there are competing interpretations, and advice goes in different directions. It is uncomfortable admitting you don’t know or you don’t know what the data means? So, we seek certainty. There is a better way to approach such situations. How do you reach a decision when there is conflicting information?...
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  Wired on Wall Street with Tom Hardin 10.06.2026 39min

  Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the choices we make work out brilliantly, for the “greater good”. Sometimes the choices we make do not work out so well. And sometimes those choices are a slippery slope that puts you making more choices you never expected to make. It could happen to any of us. How would you react? What would you do to bounce back from a tough situation? How could you muster the courage to talk about the situation publicly. Listen in for the real story of someone who had to make suc...
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  Keeping Your Team Engaged with Nick Smallman 03.06.2026 36min

  Send us Fan Mail A Nightmare Scenario: You have a massive project to deliver, you and your team are just barely managing the tasks, and an important team member resigns unexpectedly. It’s more common than you might think. So what can you do to make sure it doesn’t happen to you? What are the reasons people leave? What should you do to keep your team engaged, committed, thriving even? Listen in for an insightful conversation. ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wa...
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  Jolts That Leave You Wanting to Quit with Anthony Klotz 27.05.2026 44min

  Send us Fan Mail One day, something happens and you snap. Maybe you loved your work yesterday, but today you are ready to just walk away. Maybe it’s a new manager you are not happy with, maybe it’s some other change, maybe your colleagues are leaving. Everyone is one jolt away from quitting their job. What are those jolts? How common are they? What should you do if you are experiencing a jolt? And the ultimate question, do you quit or do you stay? ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https:/...
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  Calming Your Brain in an Always On World with Shaady Harrison 20.05.2026 34min

  Send us Fan Mail You think you can handle the stress in your life. Your team will tell you otherwise because they live with the consequences. As a leader, you cast a long shadow that destroys the team’s productivity. An off-handed comment by you because you are rushed or overwhelmed leaves the recipient worrying for several hours which means they are not being productive or strategic. Being in a constant state of reacting and fire-fighting is not good for you and it’s not good for anyon...
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  Leading at Edge of Familiarity with Amy Clark 13.05.2026 43min

  Send us Fan Mail Breaking out of your comfort zone is breaking away from the need to know everything about the work your team is doing. It is also about breaking away from the familiar, the known, the day-to-day and facing that edge of uncertainty. How do you do that? Where do you start? How do you get comfortable with the uncomfortable? That’s what this episode is about. ⬇️ Connect with me! ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/ ► Instagram: h...