The Mind Takeaway Podcast

The Mind Takeaway Podcast


Latest Episodes

Unpacking Success: Scaling Leaders and Teams for Startup Growth
December 03, 2023

In this episode, Dan Parry and Jonathan Farrow, co-creators of Journey into Product, a Berlin community for product managers and startups that organises monthly meetups, invited us to a masterclass about what it takes for teams to scale up successfully wi

How to Overcome the Fear of Making Mistakes in Leadership Roles
November 12, 2023

The fear of making mistakes can affect creativity, collaboration and your ability to trust people and delegate opportunities for growth and learning from their experience.See also this episode, as this topic links well with the fear of failure.https:/

Irrational Retaliation: When We Make Decisions From a Space of Anger, Urgency, and Frustration
October 29, 2023

Irrational Retaliation:When we make decisions from a space of fear, urgency, and frustration, we still have an emotional charge attached to a situation; those decisions are often ones we can come to regret, and there will be learning opportunities.

The Importance of Being Yourself as a Leader
October 15, 2023

It's our 50th Micro Episode (our 121st episode), which we recorded for you on location in Bordeaux a few weeks ago!This new episode explores the importance of being yourself as a leader and at work, as the alternative to being inauthentic takes too

How to Give Feedback Without Upsetting People
October 01, 2023

How to give feedback is one of the most requested topics for us to unpack when we have conversations with companies about leadership development and when we coach and develop leaders, so we packed a lot of value for you into this 15-minute episode, where

Episode 118 - Why Leaders Need to Read More Books with K Rajeev Narayan
September 02, 2023

We talked with K Rajeev Narayan, CEO of Leadership Elements, Inda, about why leaders need to read more books and how investing time into your professional development is a good use of time and will always be a good return on investment in the future. Ex

Episode 117 - You Don't Have to Shout to be Heard
June 22, 2023

Sometimes, when leaders don't believe in what they are saying, they make it louder so it sounds more true. In the context of a meeting, that can often lead to others speaking with a louder voice, and everyone stops listening.  We were in Belgrade a f

Episode 116 - Why Leaders Have to be Present with Their Team
June 08, 2023

In this episode, recorded at Ada Lake in Belgrade, Serbia, we talk about why being present with your team is essential to building trust and psychological safety, developing relationships, dealing with challenges before they become problems, and driving i

Episode 115 - How to Learn From Challenging Relationships
May 21, 2023

The most challenging relationships often offer us significant growth and learning. We recorded this episode with love on the Balearic Island of Ibiza when we were there recently to do work and have some natural downtime.

Micro Episode 44 - How to Overcome the Fear of Failure
May 07, 2023

What do the fear of failing, the fear of making mistakes, and the fear of being criticised have in common? It feels to us that the world will end, and there won't be any life after, so we stay stuck in our comfort zone and miss opportunities for growt