Inner Chief Podcast

“If you can't look after your body, how can you look after a company? You need to be healthy to be a good leader.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our guest today is the CEO of Stride Equity, Maria Halasz. Her full episode is titled "Merging career experience to find your niche, equity crowdfunding, and why healthy leaders make better organisations" and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

“If you can't look after your body, how can you look after a company? You need to be healthy to be a good leader.” In this episode, we chat to the CEO of Stride Equity, Maria Halasz, on merging career experience to find your niche, equity crowdfunding, and why healthy leaders make better organisations.

“I think the biggest mistake is we wait. We wait for other people to recognise our greatness instead of claiming our own greatness.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our guest today is Mastery of Money Guru and Founder of The Shred Method, Adam Carroll. His full episode is titled Owner’s Mentality and Building a Bigger Life and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

“Every one of us had taken ownership and we wanted the ball in our hands. We wanted to be on that field. Pick me so I can go and show you why I'm the best there is.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our guest today is Triple US Olympic Team Gold Medallist, Leah Amico. Her full episode is titled How to build a GOLD standard, boosting confidence and empathetic teamwork and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

“If a bald-headed British biker can be swanning around with the Pope, Elon Musk and Richard Branson on his speed dial, then you have no excuses.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our guest today is the Concierge to Billionaires, Steve Sims. His full episode is titled Going for Stupid, how to gamify life and work, and building priceless relationships and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

“I think the biggest mistake is we wait. We wait for other people to recognise our greatness instead of claiming our own greatness.” In this Best of Series episode, we feature Mastery of Money Guru, Adam Carroll, on Owner’s Mentality and Building a Bigger Life.

“I have a weekly reset where I sit down for about an hour every Monday morning, and I look at everything on my plate personally and from a business perspective, and I plan my week in a fair amount of detail.”   In today’s minisode, I am going to go through how I build my operating rhythm and how you can too. There is a great quote from author William Edwards Deming, "If you can't describe what you're doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing." And this is absolutely a process.  

“If a bald-headed British biker can be swanning around with the Pope, Elon Musk and Richard Branson on his speed dial, then you have no excuses.”   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we speak to the Concierge to Billionaires, Steve Sims, on Going for Stupid, how to gamify life and work, and building priceless relationships.  

“A story wins the heart, and then the moral of the story wins the head.” In this Best of Series episode, we hear from globally-acclaimed freelance direct marketer, Alex Mandossian, on ethical influence and the art of storytelling.

“A plan executed aggressively now is better than a plan executed perfectly in a week's time. Let's just get on with it and we can finesse and refine as we go, as opposed to sitting on it and dreaming for another week.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we speak to Paris Thomson, Founder and Creative Director of SIRAP, on manifesting success and inspiration through full-sensory visualisation, and relationship-building in the flesh.

“I can't imagine coaching without these three strategies in my toolkit because it would be nearly impossible to deal hope.”   In today’s minisode, we are going to talk about how to prepare to run performance reviews. These are your one-to-one coaching sessions when you are assessing talent, or when you're about to go through a performance management process. Often, managers can run into trouble; either you can’t get a low performer to lift, or you are running out of inspiration and dealing hope to a high performer. So I will give you three strategies to move past stalling in a review.

“For anyone in a position that requires responsibility and decision-making, if you are un-overwhelm-able, you bring an enormous amount to the table.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we speak to Nicho Plowman, Co-Founder of the world’s number 1 meditation app, Insight Timer, on beating overwhelm and stress to think clearly everyday.

“One of the things that can make it a dream job is that if your suck factor is 20% or less, sweet spot baby!” In this Best of Series episode, we hear from speaker and author, Mitch Matthews of Dream, Think, Do, on bringing science to dreaming, and igniting your career.

“We've seen a societal shift on inclusivity and parenting and there's no magic bullet. Every family is quite different and unique.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we speak to Grainne O'Loughlin, CEO of Karitane, on parenting for executives and the first 2000 days of a child's development, and the inspiring legacy she is building.

“So many times we’re waiting for someone to save us. We’re not taking that ownership. No one’s coming.” In today’s episode we are going to turn the tables! That’s right, our Head of Production, Rob Flude, is going to interview me. Chiefs, we have recorded 272 episodes and it has been all me. I’ve either been the interviewer or the bloke giving you some short, concise advice in the form of minisodes. So today, I’m jumping into the hot seat and you are going to hear from me about my background, and my journey towards founding and running Chief Maker and the Inner Chief podcast, as well as searching for a life beyond my wildest dreams. I’ll also answer some of the regular Inner Chief CEO episode questions, and you’ll get to hear my no bull advice I have for future generations of leaders and executives.

“Too much granular data can stifle creativity and innovation, and it can also make people feel like they're carrying the weight of the world around on their shoulders.”   In this episode, we are launching a Chief Maker first! And that is a panel interview where we deep dive on a particular topic, which today is how these 3 Council of Chiefs members and former Inner Chief podcast guests go about using data, metrics and scoreboards to run their businesses.

“Often, CEOs get fixated on their competition. I think it's a really big mistake because you just end up impersonating them. Just look after your customers and give them a great product and service, such that you don't even have to be concerned about your competition.” In this Best of Series episode, we hear from Accidental CEO of AV1, Keith Wootton, on finding inspiration, daily disruption, and crafting a magnetic culture.

“Do you want to work in a company where your values align or are you okay with the fact that they don't?” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we speak to Julie Mathers, Founder of Flora and Fauna and CEO of Snuggle Hunny, on being adventurous, bootstrapping a business, and first mover advantage.

“As a Chief, working on the business is both defining what it is you need to do AND how the business performance is assessed, and then executing and doing this consistently.” In today’s minisode, we are going to talk about how to work on the business, and in particular, the mindset that you can bring in order to absolutely nail your role as a senior executive. Working on the business is the role of a Chief, but it took me a number of years to truly understand that the business is actually an asset. It's something that has a value, it's something that has an impact, something that plays a role.