Leading with Passion

Nicola is a coach and neuroscience expert who helps leaders to ‘find their fire’ and lead with passion.  She joins me to talk about why leading with passion is so important.  We discuss: Why passion matters with leaders? What is going to help you be passionate outside of work for those energising energies? Passion is not necessarily all about work How you can make Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs work for you. Why Nicola is passionate about people taking real ownership of their diary. Listen for ways to spot when you’ve lost your passion. We dive straight into discussions about how we revert to patterns of behaviours and how the brain works to stop us seeing the good things in life and the achievements we have made.   Nicola shares an exercise she does with her clients to help them recognise the wins and reignite the passion within us.   Could you write 50 reasons why you’re great at what you do?  This is something Emma has her clients do.    Nicola shares her experience of corporate career and how she grew through the years and wanted more in life and ending up struggling with severe anxiety and depression.  It was her learning in neuroscience that really made a difference to her.   Listen in for her explanation of her journey and what helped to bring her where she is today and how she has fallen in love with coaching and what her mission is for the next 10 years.   13.00 Nicola shares why she thinks passion matters for leaders.   15.45 Emma shares her tips for people who feel exhausted and overloaded so that they can get their passion and energy back.   18.00 Hear Nicola’s tips for finding your fire and passion and how you can create your own version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.   21.00 Nicola and Emma talk about boundaries and how important they are and the decisions you can make and how to identify if they are not working for you.   24.00 Listen to ways you can look for clues that show you’re not feeling passion.   Your passion lies in your purpose.   Connect with Nicola on Linked in  Find Nicola's website HERE   Please do make sure you hit ‘subscribe’ so that don’t miss an episode.     If you haven’t yet  left a review, please do go and find the little button to leave a review and let me know your thoughts, key take-aways and what you value from the podcast.   Join my corporate leadership and wellbeing newsletter HERE    If you want to be increasing your performance so that you’re more resilient in these current times, so that you can focus easily, use tools and techniques to deal with all the current and unknown challenges then make sure that you either drop me an email to [email protected] .   Or head over to my website at http://www.emmalangton.com