Graeme Cowan helps leaders and teams to be more caring and resilient and enjoy growing together.

He was the founding Board Director of R U OK? and host of The Caring CEO podcast, where interviews CEOs who champion a culture of care AND high performance. In his earlier career, he worked in senior leadership positions with Johnson &Johnson, Pfizer, and the management consulting company, Kearney.

In 2000 he went through a 5-year episode of depression that his psychiatrist described as the worst he had ever treated. He emerged from this crisis with a different view about how we can increase our resilience, mood, and performance. Graeme’s dedication and commitment to creating mentally healthy workplaces have seen him named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices for 2022 in the Mental Health & Resilience space.

He is the author of 4 books, including the internationally acclaimed BACK FROM THE BRINK, which has a testimonial from the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and which has become a best seller in China.

He is also the Co-Founder of WeCARE365, which creates simple, scalable eLearning to prevent mental health issues.

In this episode, Graham Cowan shares:

• What is a Moodometer and how to use it to feel better, productive, influential and creative?
• How to use a Moodometer to help manage and lead your team.
• Graham’s truly ‘Life-Changing Question’–Are you ok?
• Why should we keep an eye out for people around us and ask ‘RUOK?’

Acronym-ALEC: 

• Ask–RUOK?
• Listen-be interested and non-judgemental, and encourage them to speak and feel heard and understood.
• Encourage–we show we care by listening with empathy and identifying one action they can take to move forwards and encourage that.
• Check–follow up and see how they are doing.
• If someone is really ‘not ok’, what should we do? Encourage them to see their GP, and get connected with employee assistance programs.
• Don’t be afraid to ask: ‘Are you thinking of harming yourself?’If they are, get them help-call the suicide hotline with them or get them to a professional/GP.
• How to create a culture of care for yourself and your team by asking RUOK?|Am I Ok?|Are we ok?
• His research shows the top 3 factors of high-performing teams: 1. Care for each other, 2. Have each other's back 3. Enjoy themselves.
• Teams:


1. Do we feel connected (like we belong)?
2. Do we feel safe (and free to try new things)? Do we have an attitude of what we can learn from this?
3. Do we share a future? (Can we evolve from this?)

• Googles Project Aristotle-psychological safety is the most important factor of high-performing teams.
• The importance of curiosity and vulnerability for a leader.
• Selfcare is not selfish.
• WeCare365-How to lead mentally healthy teams.
• And much more...

Resources Mentioned in This Show:

https://graemecowan.com.au/

https://wecare365.com.au

Bob Chapman-Everybody MATTERS

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Valentina Borbone has taught Digital Marketing for blue-chip organizations and small businesses since 2008.
Valentina heads up an experienced team of 19 at Banter Group, a full-service, can-do marketing agency.
She prides herself on being down-to-earth, completely transparent and helping businesses achieve great success by offering marketing support from experienced professionals.  With an extensive agency-side marketing career spanning 20+ years, Valentina and her team have worked across most industry sectors and enjoy the challenge of finding solutions.

Valentina shared in this episode:

• How her life transformed when she became a mum and was made redundant.
• How her desire for marketing and helping business owners led to starting her own business.
• How she grew to 8 employees in just 8 months.
• How she set up her business so her team can work flexible hours and be with their family.
• The importance of being Collaborative, Creative, and Constructive.
• How conversations lead to solutions.
• How she dealt with post-natal blues by speaking it out loud.
• Mistakes business owners are making with marketing, and what to do about it
• Her Life Changing Questions:

What are you built for? 
What is my purpose in life?
How can I help people?

• How she helped people during the bushfires, baking food and sheltering pets.  How has she been able to join the board to help with disability services for kids
• And how she helps by giving 20 people jobs and helping them thrive with their families.

Habits that have given her success: 

• #1 is discipline - start 6.20 am every day, non negotiable
• Daily task list, with 3 non-negotiable each day.
• Empower your people, no micro-managing.
• Teach, not tell.
• Routines are important; planning quarterly in advance.
• Delete, Delegate or Do it.  No double touching of emails.
• Why you should not give up - keep going.  Stick to what you are good at, and get help with
• And much more.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
ChatGPT

https://www.instagram.com/banter.group/

https://www.bantergroup.com.au/

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Holly Jean Jackson, Revenue and Performance Consultant, Speaker, Podcast Host, Author, and founder of Business Builder Throw Down. 

Her career spans from technology to communications as well as organizational change, public relations, and content strategy.

She has a holistic approach to business and as such, she is a black belt in karate and has played in Carnegie Hall as first chair clarinet.

In today’s show Holly shares:

• Develop more revenue, plug the profit holes, and amplify customer experience.
• How to overcome the competition by putting yourself in your customer's shoes, and giving them a better experience
• How to help your clients get over ‘buyers remorse’
• The power of client gifts, and handwritten notes to delight your customers along the way.
• How you can DELIGHT your customers, and create phenomenal experiences.
• Why you should be OBSESSED with resolving your client's problems.
• Why you should look at data points along the customer journey.
• How you can reach 50 million homes in 40 countries & also 1 million downloads per month.
• How to maximise profitability if you are promoting a business book… hint, it is not through book sales.
• The importance of going out of your comfort zone in business if you want growth and success. 
• A powerful lesson Holly learned from Sean Stephenson
• Her life-changing question:  What legacy do you wish to be remembered for?
• How to get in tune with your superpower… by asking your friends “what do you think my superpower in business is?” And listen to what they have to say; get clear on your 4 core values; and take an inventory of what inspires you.  
• Her non-negotiable morning routine:  Meditation, Affirmation, Oracle Cards, Journal & Exercise, including rock climbing.
• How to schedule your day, with the ‘perfect day formula’.
• What are you waiting for?  Take action today by identifying what baby step can you start with.
• And much more.

Resources mentioned in todays show:
https://hollyjeanjackson.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollyjjackson/

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Book: Never lose a customer again

Movie: What about Bob?  

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Christin is a Startup Strategist, the Founder and CEO of Increpreneur, and the host of Model the Master podcast.

She is an International Transformational Speaker, who, for more than 25 years, has helped thousands of people to shift their mindsets, empowering them to step outside of their comfort zones and into their highest potential.

In today’s episode, Christin shares:

• What is an ‘increpreneur’… how to continuously take the next step.
• How she helps people go from dreaming to a fully launched business in 63 days.  
• How she is passionate about creating a support system for start-up business owners because she didn’t have much support when she started.
• Lessons you can apply in growing your business (that she has learned from owning 20+ businesses)
• “What can I do that is important to me, that excites me and lights me up so I can’t wait to get to work?”
• The importance of continual learning and self-improvement.
• All business skills are learnable - ask yourself: ‘How do I do this myself?’  Once you learn that skill, you can use it to help other people, and make businesses from them.
• Importance of delegating if you want to become unlimited and scale your business.
• Why Christin does not take ‘NO’ for an answer?
• If you have tried and failed in business, why you should try again.
• How successful entrepreneurs pick themselves up and try again.
• ‘What if this business idea was the one that changed your whole life?’
• How to get clear on WHY you want to start a business & 3 critical steps to make it happen.
• Her life-changing questions:
  “How is this happening for me?”
  “What does my client really need and how can I provide more value to them?”
• 7 steps from turning your dreams into a reality.
• What is habit stacking and how you can apply that in your life to get great results. 
• Why if we are not learning we are dying.   
• And much much more…

Resources Mentioned In The Show:

Increpreneur.com

Instagram: @ChristinGGutierrez

The 7 Steps for Achieving Your Goals.

ModelTheMaster Podcast <Link TBC>

Episode 144 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/144-lessons-from-a-serial-entrepreneur-with-a/id1166018987?i=1000590198835 

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