Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #185 Adele Spraggon Creating a Brain Shift

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #185 Adele Spraggon Creating A Brain Shift

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #185 Adele Spraggon Creating a Brain Shift

Creating A Brain Shift

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Adele Spraggon about creating a brain shift, the 4 steps to personal empowerment and human behaviour.

We also dive deeper into the existing patterns in our brain, neuroscience, and uncovering what makes people unhappy.

Adele Spraggon – Creating A Brain Shift

Adele Spraggon is the author of the award-winning book Shift: 4 Steps to Personal Empowerment, an international trainer, and a fearless speaker. Her fascination with neuroscience and human behavior has led her to uncover what makes us unhappy and to offer practical solutions for personal empowerment.

With a Master’s degree in Humanities/Humanistic Studies from York University, Adele has been recognised for her outstanding contributions in the field of customer experience, behavioral expertise, and personal empowerment. She was awarded the 2020 Woman of Inspiration: Customer Experience Award and the 2021 Top Behavioural Expert of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals and was recently featured on the cover of the Top Industry Professionals magazine.

Adele talks about:

  • How her childhood affected her perspective of human behaviour
  • Living in affluence in contrast to living in poverty
  • The human behavior that causes the dynamic between the rich and the poor
  • Fear of the unknown
  • Surviving by knowing
  • Creating a brain shift
  • Helping people take charge and make decisions
  • Fascination with human behaviour and being a behavioural change expert
  • Having a purpose in life
  • Shift: 4 Steps to Personal Empowerment
  • The brain pattern
  • Rewiring the brain and shifting behaviours
  • Lifetime technique of pattern shifting

Tweets

“There’s one thing that every human being on this planet fears, and it’s one shared fear amongst all of us, and that is the unknown. So that’s why we get trapped in situations where we know we’re not happy, but we don’t know how to get out of that, because to get out of that, we have to make a leap of faith.” Adele Spraggon talks about fear of the unknown on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“I think though coaching is one of those things that if you love doing it, it really becomes a huge purpose in life because it’s so meaningful to be able to support somebody out of those places where they think I’m trapped and I can never get out.” Finding meaning through coaching with Adele Spraggon on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“Our human brain is such that it creates patterns or neural pathways. And so every time that a child learns something, the brain stores that away in the form of a pattern so that it can repeat that behaviour in the future. So we tend to rely on actions that we’ve already done in the past. And once our brain has a pattern, it tends to take that action over and over again, which is why somebody can make the same mistake repeatedly knowing it’s a mistake but not being able to change it.” The neural pathways of the human brain with Adele Spraggon on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Adele Spraggon www.adelespraggon.com
Adele Spraggon Linkedin
Adele Spraggon Instagram
Adele Spraggon Facebook
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:

Shift: 4 Steps to Personal Empowerment Book

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #171 Grant Herbert The People Builder

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #171 Grant Herbert The People Builder

The People Builder

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Grant Herbert about The People Builder, emotional intelligence, parenthood and leadership, authenticity and living in a super VUCA world. 

We also delve into the power of vulnerability, neuroscience, a journey of imperfection, developing as a leader, emotional and social intelligence, and the performance trap.

Grant Herbert – The People Builder

Grant Herbert is an Emotional Intelligence Expert known as the People Builder, Executive Leadership Coach and Founder of People Builders Institute. He is a genuine down to earth human being with 5 amazing children, who loves helping people be their best authentic self.

With a background in neuroscience, positive psychology and social and emotional intelligence, he has a focus is on empowering today’s great technical managers to become exceptional leaders in a VUCA world. His career includes roles in the Australian Army, National Hire Group (Now Coates Hire) and Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration before becoming self employed in the Professional Development industry.  

Grant Herbert talked about:

  • How do we allow the past to shape the future
  • Lessons from parenthood into leadership
  • A super VUCA world
  • The power of vulnerability
  • Being left on a doorstep as a baby
  • The story we make up inside our head
  • The compounding effect of give meaning to life 
  • Unconditional love
  • The people builder
  • The performance trap
  • Work on your own identity
  • Start with self approval 
  • What could I do differently moving forward?
  • Reprogramming your mini me
  • Leaning into the voice inside your head
  • Getting leadership right is difficult
  • Emotional intelligence and social intelligence
  • Perform out of a position of self approval

Tweets:

“Performing is what you do. Your identity is who you believe you are and who you believe you aren’t.” Grant Herbert talks about identity on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Expose yourself and make mistakes. Mistakes can be your greatest teacher if you filter through your own self approval.” Turning mistakes into lessons with Grant Herbert on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Manage your response to it and manage your behavior, rather than manage your emotions.” Emotional and Social Intelligence with Grant Herbert on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Who I am didn’t change. What I do didn’t change. How I did it changed.” Gran Herbert on dealing with change on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Grant Herbert www.grantherbert.com
Grant Herbert LinkedIn
Grant Herbert YouTube
Grant Herbert Instagram
The People Builder Podcast
People Builders www.peoplebuilders.com.au
People Builders Institute www.peoplebuildersinstitute.com.au
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

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #167 Vanessa McCamley

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #167 Vannessa McCamley Recharge Your Brain & Rewire For Success

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #167 Vanessa McCamley

Recharge Your Brain & Rewire For Success

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Vannessa McCamley about Recharge Your Brain & Rewire For Success, dealing with constant change and information overload, and applying neuroscience in real life situations.

We also dive deep into conversation about increasing performance, productivity and revenue through the power of neuroscience, leadership, storytelling and business performance strategies. 

Vannessa McCamley – Recharge Your Brain & Rewire For Success

Vannessa McCamley  is the author of recently released “Rewire for Success” and is a key facilitator of the IAG Insurance Leading Change and one of 12 facilitators globally to roll out Microsoft Change Management & Coaching program to 15,000 Leaders.

She has a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing from Macquarie University, Marketing management executive Program at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and studied in sales, behaviour profiling and an Advanced Diploma in Neuroscience of Leadership. 

Her career has included Marketing roles at Microsoft, Kronos and Trend Micro before making a career shift to found the neuroscience company Link Success and consult for EnHansen Performance.

fascinated by peak mental performance in the workplace and is passionate about helping people be more resilient, innovative, happier and healthier employees.

Vannessa talks about:

  • Who her most outstanding leader is
  • Explaining BURNOUT or what is BURNOUT?
  • Neurochemical Perspective
  • Neuroscience for Leadership
  • Recharge Your Brain & Rewire For Success
  • Confusion between GOAL and WISH
  • Being adaptive on the Changes on your life
  • Finding and understanding her purpose in life
  • What does a real GOAL look like?
  • Doing anything in a brain friendly way to avoid Burnout
  • Why people aren’t using Business storytelling
  • Visualising the Problems and the options to change it
  • Applying Neuroscience in Real life situations
  • Understanding where are you having your best ideas
  • Recharging your Brain
  • Learning a lot from writing her book 

Tweets

“Setting my own goals and expectation of what I want to achieve but at the same time being kind” Vannessa McCamley talks about Recharge Your Brain & Rewire For Success, on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast

“Once you’ve done it over and over and over and over again, so when you are creating a new wiring within the brain it’s about that repetition, it’s doing over and over again and over time it gets easier.”Talking about neuroscience with Vannessa McCamley on the Inspiring Great Leaders

“When you know what you purpose is and you know what you direction is, it’s more easily to make decision based going on that path.” How to deal with constant overload with Vannessa McCamley on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Vannessa McCamley LinkedIn
Vannessa McCamley Facebook
Link Success www.linksuccess.com.au
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Recommended Reading:

Rewire for Success book