Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #189 Jade Green Unlocking Potential Through Happiness

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #189 Jade Green Unlocking Potential Through Happiness

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #189 Jade Green Unlocking Potential Through Happiness

Unlocking Potential Through Happiness

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Jade Green about unlocking potential through happiness, nurturing relationships with your people, and the issues of today’s workforce.

We also dive deeper into having and building an entrepreneurial mindset while being a people and heart-centered leader, building resilience, inspiring personal development, and how to be a better leader.

Jade Green – Unlocking Potential Through Happiness

Jade Green is the #RippleMaker, one of Startup Daily’s Top 50 Most Influential Women, an award-winning culture coach, the Uncorporate Speaker, and a consultant who believes that happiness holds the key to unlocking a team’s full potential. She not only built a team from 5 to over 50 but also proved that determination and resilience can shatter any glass ceiling.

Driven by her values and a passion for creating positive change, Jade ventured into the world of entrepreneurship and founded her own recruitment consultancy, Velocity Consulting. Through her visionary leadership, she transformed her venture into a thriving company, catching the attention of The Entourage Growth fund along the way.

Jade talks about:

  • Growing up in trailer parks and being the legal guardian of two younger siblings at age 14
  • How a child’s environment shapes their personality
  • Looking at the world through other people’s lenses and perspectives without judgment
  • Building an inclusive culture by reducing the times we can exclude people
  • Unlocking potential through happiness is the greatest productivity hack
  • Technology in creating better opportunities
  • Having an entrepreneurial mindset and putting it to good use
  • Looking into how to be a better leader and business person
  • Being curious to constantly improve and grow
  • Leadership is not just a role but a responsibility
  • Learning about your own people can make you a better leader
  • Training people and growing teams
  • How we live the value of personal integrity
  • Striving for a happy space by being inspired by the future

Tweets

“That requires you as a leader to know your humans. And so I think that that’s the skill that people need. Have real empathy, real care, real wanting to get to know them, ignoring the kids’ noise, knowing the partner’s name, know how old they are, know what their hobbies are, know why they get up every day and come to work.” Jade Green discusses building personal relationships with your people on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“That’s what really drives me. It’s like, I’m not going to just coach you on making 100 cold calls today. What else is going to help you as a human being? And I think that’s always just given me that zest to constantly push and constantly grow.” Learning in leadership with Jade Green on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“Your people are giving you the most precious resource they have in their entire life that they can never get back their time. And in most corporates, in most roles, we give more hours to the job than we do anything else combined. So how about how about just a little bit of attitude of gratitude for the fact that they show up and a little bit of ownership over if they’re not giving you what you expect and they are not performing how you want them to perform, where are you at?” Jade Green talks about gratitude being a two-way street on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Jade Green www.jadegreen.com.au
Jade Green LinkedIn
Jade Green Twitter
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #176 Melo Calarco Beating Burnout Finding Balance

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #176 Melo Calarco Beating Burnout Finding Balance

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #176 Melo Calarco Beating Burnout Finding Balance

Beating Burnout, Finding Balance

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Melo Calarco on his new book Beating Burnout, Finding Balance, normalising mental health conversations in the workplace, and exploring the world while staying physically and mentally fit.

We also dive deep into burnout in the workplace, creating realistic and healthy boundaries inside the organisation, and seeking happiness and mindfulness.

Melo Calarco – Beating Burnout, Finding Balance

Melo Calarco is a highly-regarded mindfulness and performance coach with over 30 years of experience. 

He teaches individuals and companies how to perform at their best without burning out by using science-based techniques grounded in mindfulness, human behavior, leadership training, and other unique tools.

He has a vast background working in mental health and psychiatric clinics and is the founder of Mindfulmooves, a new approach to meditation that blends the scientific, evidence-based practice of mindfulness with a series of moves to help attain connection with the body and mind.

What sets Melo apart is his life experience of cycling and trekking more than 30,000 kilometers across five continents, which has given him the ability to manage highly stressful situations, build mental endurance, and rise above adversity.

He has used this experience to develop popular corporate programs that have helped Fortune 500 companies, CEOs, directors, corporate executives, medical surgeons, Olympic athletes, actors, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and individuals to achieve their goals.

Melo’s latest book, Beating Burnout, Finding Balance, provides practical advice on how to create a healthier mindset, improve your well-being, and prevent overwhelm. He draws on his wealth of experience to share proven techniques and tools that top performers use to conquer burnout and achieve their goals. 

Melo talks about:

  • Childhood and going out of the mold
  • Working in mental health and psychiatric clinics
  • Suppressing thoughts and emotions
  • Coping strategies when facing big and small emotions
  • Beating Burnout, Finding Balance
  • How corporate and organisation leaders can open a safe space for its people
  • Normalising mental health conversations in the workplace
  • Creating boundaries in the workplace
  • R U OK model
  • Cycling and trekking for 30,000 kilometers
  • Exploring the world and different cultures
  • Seeking happiness and gratitude
  • Mindfulness and self-awareness as a leader
  • Being present
  • Differentiating burnout from fatigue or stress

Tweets

“Happiness is your natural state of being. It’s around you all the time, we just have to open our eyes to see it” Melo Calarco talks about finding happiness and gratitude on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“One of the fundamentals of any good leader is self-awareness. Being aware of your own energy, capacities, behaviours, how you lead and how you work and mindfulness is the best way to develop self-awareness.” Melo Calarco on leadership on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“As simple as doing something just for yourself every single day, is the first step to beating burnout and finding balance in your life again.” Physical and mental self-care to beat burnout with Melo Calarco on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Melo Calarco www.melocalarco.com
Melo Calarco Linkedin
Melo Calarco Instagram
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Recommended Reading:

Beating Burnout, Finding Balance Book

active CEO Podcast 142 Penny Locaso

active CEO Podcast #142 Penny Locaso Hacking Happiness

active CEO Podcast 142 Penny Locaso

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Penny Locaso about hacking happiness, her fascination with human behaviour, the busy epidemic, microbravery and leaders transforming from an expert into an experimenter.

We also talk how she overcome imposter syndrome at Shell, human connections, positively impacting the lives of others, being present in a moment and success as a by-product of happiness

Penny Locaso – Hacking Happiness

Penny is an internationally acclaimed TEDx and keynote speaker, educational innovator and creator of The Intentional Adaptability Quotient® (IAQ), A world-first Hacking Happiness measurement tool and educational program. She is the CEO of HackingHappy.co, one of Australia’s most influential female entrepreneurs, and a passionate entrepreneur who has partnered with prestigious brands such as Google, Microsoft and Deloitte, Penny Locaso.

Her studies have included an MBA in Marketing and Management from Swinburne University and has held numerous volunteer roles at organization’s such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Australia Indigenous Community Volunteers, and the Smith Family. As a manager, Penny has held roles in marketing and commercial at Shell, been a Board Director at Big Brothers Big Sisters Australia, co-founder of the FBOMB show, activator at SheEO, and faculty member at Singularity University.

Penny talks about:

  • Living on a farm and go hiking in COVID.
  • Conversations in nature with her son.
  • Her fascination with Human behaviour.
  • Why do p[people operate in different ways.
  • Each company speaks a different language.
  • Determining what success is.
  • Hacking Happiness.
  • What makes me happy is my compass.
  • Happiness is a practice, mindset and behaviour.
  • Being able to ride the wave of every emotion that life throws at you.
  • Eject more joy into each day.
  • The busy epidemic.
  • Our brain does its best work in default network mode.
  • Leaders must transform from an expert into an experimenter.
  • Intentional adaptability.
  • Busy equals bullshit.
  • Telling yourself that you are busy, makes your mind go faster.
  • Put yourself out in the world.

Tweets

“My life is full, but I am doing things that I love?” Hacking Happiness with Penny Locaso, on the active CEO Podcast.

“Being able to ride the wave of every emotion that life throws at you, knowing that you can come out the other side just a little bit better than what you were before. Because you have the right skills, the right resources and the right structure around you to make that happen.” Penny Locaso defines happiness, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Hacking Happy www.hackinghappy.co
Penny Locaso Instagram
Penny Locaso LinkedIn
Penny Locaso Facebook
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Recommended Reading:

Hacking Happiness Penny Locaso

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