Magical Learning Podcasts

Episode 172 - The Power of Fiction (with Kanika Chopra)
How can fiction help us in business? How can we utilise it to become a tool to become better leaders and employees?
In today’s conversation, we break all that down with Kanika Chopra; Co-Director of the National Young Writer’s Festival, founder and editor of More Than Melanin, and our very own social media manager.
Kanika share’s their story on what fiction means to all of us, how to start out if you aren’t sure about fiction, and what writing fiction can do for you.
If you want to buy the latest issue of More Than Melanin, you can do so here:
Episode 171 - Why Part-Time Work is a Critical Driver of Inclusion (with Belinda Morgan)
Episode 170 - Finding Balance
Episode 169 - Being Bold
This week we are back to a classic edition Magical Learning Podcast with no guests and just the team.
We take on the subject of Being Bold. We know that fortune favours the bold, but how do we actually drum up the courage to do so?
What can you do to be bolder?
Episode 168 - The Art of Unlearning and Relearning (With Rowena Millward)
Episode 167 - Gamifying Your Work (With Caelan Huntress)
Episode 166 - How to Be 100x More Interesting Every Day (with Penny Terry)
What makes some people interesting, and some people boring?
Well, our guest today Penny Terry actually thinks that no one is boring, and it all may have to do with the questions we ask and how we have been trained to respond. Penny is a multi-award-winning podcast creator, producer, and presenter. She has a real knack for turning tough topics into un-turn-off-able listening. She has 10 years of experience working at the ABC as a presenter, and has spent a lot of that time finding amazing stories from everyday Aussies.
Penny teaches us how to get interesting answers out of anyone, how to be more interesting to others, and how to have better conversations everyday.
To find out more about penny, check out the links below;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennyterry/
https://www.instagram.com/healthytasmania/
And check out Penny’s podcast here:
Episode 165 - Performance and Sustainability of Ourselves (with Jess Stuart)
Episode 164 - Embracing Your Creativity (Monthly Theme)
Episode 163 - Unthinkable Living in Flow for Magical Expansion (with Marcel Kuhn)
How can you be in flow more often? How do you get out of your comfort zone so that you can grow more in your life?
Today the team talks to Marcel Kuhn; Swiss visionary speaker, author, coach, father, dreamer, and soul surfer who passionately explores the edges of his comfort zone and what it means to create an unthinkable reality through FLOW: Finding Love and Oneness Within. Marcel has spent over a decade immersed in personal development, traveling globally to work with top experts from coaches, speakers, and trainers, to spiritual healers and shamans.
In this episode, we talk about how do you create a space at your workplace for creativity from you team, how to get into flow more, and how you can love yourself so you can best love others.
To read Marcel’s book Unthinkable – Life Teachings From a Soul Surfer check out this link:
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1734863870?keywords=unthinkable%20marcel%20kuhn&geniuslink=true
And to get in contact with Marcel:
Episode 162 - When You Expand Your Worldview, You Open up a World of Possibility (with Sophie Krantz)
Episode 161 - Work and Personal Life Integration (with Joe Hart)
Episode 160 - Psychologically Safe Leadership & Culture (with Jeremy Khoh)
Are you a leader that wants your team to feel psychologically safe in your workplace? Do you want to your team to bring the most of themselves to your workplace culture?
In today’s podcast, we are joined by returning guest and expert Jeremy Khoh to talk about just that. Jeremy talks about the cost of not having a psychologically safe workplace, his own experience and how he turned his style around, and what you can do to have a workplace where employees can bring all of themselves.
A bit about Jeremy:
Jeremy is a Principal Consultant at Inspirational Management Australia and specialises in creating high performing teams through Psychological Safety. He has coached and mentored business leaders at all levels and in every continent in the world (except for Antarctica). Jeremy also has a background as a Chartered Accountant, formerly at KPMG until 2015 and Financial Controller of Kelsen Group (Hong Kong) in 2018. He is passionate about using data and an evidence-based approach to elevate team performance and wellbeing, particularly in the midst of accelerating change, uncertainty and interdependence.
To find out more a out Jeremy or get in contact with him:
Episode 159 - Communicating for Impact
Episode 158 - Teamership (with Keegan Luiters)
Episode 157 - Knowing When Something is No Longer Serving You as a Leader (with Bernie Kelly)
As a leader how do you know when something that was once important to you no longer is helping you or your team? it can be hard when it is something that made you who you are, but times are changing and we all have to learn to adapt.
In today’s episode, we are joined by Bernie Kelly, who is positively elevating leaders and executive teams and has a great story to tell. He explains how to find things that no longer work, and how to become a more well-rounded leader in the process.
You can find more about Bernie here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/berniekelly100/?originalSubdomain=au
Episode 156 - Strategic Process (with Emma Gibbens)
Episode 155 - Supercharge Your Performance (with Dr. Greg Wells)
Episode 154 - How Your Brand is a Tool to Build Trust (with Natalie Davison)
Many people want to improve their brand’s value, but it seems hard to fully understand what that means. What is my brand? Why is it so hard to convey it? How do I avoid getting lost in the crowd?
In today’s amazing conversation, we are joined by Brand Integrity expert Natalie Davison, who also is a realtor. Natalie’s approach to branding and understanding what your brand can be is a unique and inspired lens that has helped us better understand how we are percieved. Enjoy this amazing chat!
Find more of Natalie here:
Episode 153 - Taking Responsibility as a Leader
Episode 152 - Monthly Theme: Diversity & Inclusion
Episode 151 - Harnessing Neurodiversity in the Workplace (with Callum McKirdy)
Do you feel like you could be doing more for your neurodivergent employees? Do you think you could be better utilising them to the best of their abilities?
In today’s podcast, we are joined by guest Callum McKirdy, a speaker, podcast host and an expert in harnessing neurodiversity in the workplace. Callum has been diagnosed with both ADHD and Dyslexia, meaning he brings a lived experience to this conversation. Plus he is an absolute joy to talk to. If you want to harness the most out of all your workers, this is a great place to start.
More about Callum:
His website: https://www.callummckirdy.com/
His amazing podcast: https://www.callummckirdy.com/podcast
Check out his website to find out more about him and to get in contact with him.
Episode 150 - How to Look After Yourself as a Leader (with Rita Cincotta)
Episode 149 - Finding your Work Style
Episode 148 - Career Questions: Leaving a New Job + Joining a Brand New Team
Have you ever wanted to quit a new job? Have you ever joined a completely new team and felt totally out of place?
In today’s bonus episode, the team breaks down how to tackle these tough questions, and how to leave you and your employers in the best position.
Episode 147 - Effective Delegations and Empowerment in Leadership
Episode 146 - Goals and Habit Setting
Episode 145 - Habits and Happiness
Episode 144 - Lessons From 80 Years (with Aileen Fenton)
Bonus Episode - ML Team Solves: Leaving a New Job and Joining a Completely New Team
Episode 143 - Achieving the Impossible (with Amy Fenton)
Have you ever achieved something you thought was impossible? Do you have any hurdles in your life that seem insurmountable? In today’s episode, the team breaks down thier challenges that seemed impossible, and how they overcame them. They talk about physical, emotional, financial and other challenges and how they fought to get out the other side. Our guest is Amy Fenton, who has travelled over from USA to celebrate Danette’s mum’s 80th birthday. She shares her own interesting challenge with something that felt impossible and how she overcame it
ML Recommendation:
14 peaks – https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81464765
Episode 142 Building Strong Professional Relationships: The Key to Success
Episode 141 - 2022 Wrap Up
Episode 140 - The Intelligent Leader
What makes a leader an ‘intelligent leader’? How can we all become better at leading people and ourselves? In today’s episode, looking at the question through the lens of Jahn Mattone’s concept of ‘The Intelligent Leader’, our team breaks down good and bad leaders they have had in the past, how to become better, and why it’s important to become an intelligent leader.
Episode 139 - OpenAI's ChatGPT on Business Culture
Episode 138 - Fostering Safety in the Workplace (with Marie-Claire Ross)
Episode 137 - Wise Counsel (with Louise McDonough & Helen Innes)
What should you do in situations where you aren’t sure of the next step? What makes someone a good person to turn to for advice? In today’s podcast, the team talks to Louise McDonough and Helen Innes of Metis Coaching and Training; an organisation committed to exceptional public service – to make Australia a better place to work and live. They break down understanding wise counsel, how to be it for others, and how to find wisdom for yourself.
To find out more about them, go check them out here: https://www.metiscoaching.au/
Episode 136 - The Impact of Kindness
Episode 135 - Aboriginal Inclusion (with Dr. Connie Henson and Felicity Chapman)
Episode 134 - Long Covid without Covid (with Dr Kirsten Peterson)
Have you found adjusting to the world after the Covid lockdowns harder than you expected? Is burning out become more common for you? In today’s podcast, the team is lucky enough to be joined by Dr. Kirsten Peterson, who has worked for the Olympic teams in both the USA and Australia in various capacities, but specifically as a sports psychologist. She shares her journey to becoming a sports psychologist, why we are feeling the drain in a post-covid world and how she is turning years as a sports psychologist into a performance coach. She also has a new book coming out this month called “When Grit is not enough: Reworking and Purpose for Easier Effort in Hard Times”. We will update you on that when it is released.
To find out more about Kirsten:
https://www.kirstenpetersonconsulting.com/why-grit-might-not-be-enough
Episode 133 - Why Your Energy Management Matters (with Heather Hutchings)
Episode 132 - Your Persona
Episode 131 - Why Developing Ourselves as Leaders is so Important Today (with Dr. Mike Smith)
What makes a great leader, and why should we all strive to be one? Even if you aren’t in a position of power in your workplace, why should we try and become better leaders? In today’s podcast, we are lucky enough to be joined by Dr. Mike Smith, CEO of John Mattone Global and Intelligent Leadership Coaching International. He also was a part of the U.S Air Force for 26 years and has a PhD in Industrial & Organizational Psychology, with a specialization in Leadership Development and Coaching, from Walden University. So if there was anyone ever to give a holistic and well-rounded view on the power of leadership, and how we can all utilise it; it is him.
For more of Dr. Mike Smith:
Episode 130 - Being the Spotlight that Helps Others Shine (with Sherri Skeans)
Episode 129 - How Happiness Affects Peak Performance (with Dr Greg Wells)
Episode 128 - What Inspires You
We have a lot of podcasts about things that you can apply to your work, your life, or your daily practice, but today we wanted to learn a bit more about the people on this podcast and what inspires them. This is a fun, funny and interesting look at what inspires the team on the ML podcast!
ML Recommendation:
Episode 127 - R U OK: How to Be There for Someone
Episode 126 - Leadership and Becoming a Great Human Being pt. 2 (with Harry Koras)
Episode 125 - Leadership and Becoming a Great Human Being pt. 1 (with Harry Koras)
Another classic 2 part interview with a great guest! Today, we break down life, leadership and being a great human being with our dear friend and CEO of Life Worldwide Harry Koras. Harry has done it all; from founding to selling a security business, speaking at huge functions, to mentoring people from CEOs of multi-million dollar companies to blue collar hard workers, he has a great richness of experience to draw from. Plus he blast to talk to!
To find out more about Life Worldwide, check out the links below:
Episode 124 - Collaboration (Quick Bite)
Episode 123 - On Kindness
Episode 122 - Flow States (and How to Find Them)
Flow states are a concept that gets thrown around a bit. But what are they and how do we get into them? In today’s episode, the team breaks down what they are, how to get into them, and what they do to get into them. They also have a bigger discussion about whether you can get into a flow state by getstrying something new. ML Recommendation: Cinema Therapy – https://www.youtube.com/c/CinemaTherapySolutions
You can find Stu here: https://www.instagram.com/ylccstu/
and for more info on what else he is doing look here: https://instabio.cc/3101615SxrX3D
ML Recommendation:
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/notes-on-grief
Episode 121 - Adaptability Quotient (AQ)
Episode 120 - Growing Young Leaders pt. 2 (with Stu Saunders)
Episode 119 - Growing Young Leaders pt. 1 (with Stu Saunders)
Our first ever 2 part episode! And what a guest to do it with.
In today’s episode, the team chats with Stu Saunders; founder and owner of YLCC (Youth Leadership Camps Canada) which has been running for 30 years. He also runs the OSLC (Ontario Student Leadership Conference, which is the largest multi-day youth leadership conference in Canada. He has also been awarded the Canadian Leader of Distinction award, and was named one of the top 30 leadership trainers in the world, a list that includes Stephen Covey, Robin Sharma and Tony Robbins.
He talks about how to make your kids better leaders and people after the pandemic, how to parent better, and how to become comfortable with discomfort.
You can find Stu here: https://www.instagram.com/ylccstu/
and for more info on what else he is doing look here: https://instabio.cc/3101615SxrX3D
ML Recommendation:
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/notes-on-grief
Episode 118 - Creating Better Working Environments For Women (with Samantha Jung-Fielding)
Episode 117 - Starting Again (with Eric Fenton)
Episode 116 - Experiencing Awe
What does experiencing awe really mean? How can you do it on a daily basis, and why is that good?
In today’s episode, the team breaks down what awe is, why it’s good, and what you can do to experience it. There may be more ways than you think.
ML Recommendation:
Episode 115 - Understanding The 4 Day Work Week
Episode 114 - Improving Online Learning (with Craig Crowther)
Episode 113 - Taking Responsibility
Do you find that no one at your work takes responsibility? Is it something that you struggle with?
In today’s great episode, the team breaks down what makes people feel they can’t be responsible, what makes people more comfortable with it, and how you can do it better to improve you and the company.
ML Recommendation: Golden: the power of silence in a world of noise by Justin Zorn & Leigh Marz
Episode 112 - Practicing Mindfulness
Episode 111 - How to Stay Consistent
Episode 110 - Learning to Love Reading Again
Did you used to love reading, but now struggle to find the energy or motivation? Do you want to experience the wonder of reading again?
In today’s laugh filled episode, the team break down how to get back into the joy of reading, and how to not put pressure on yourself when it comes to books.
Episode 109 - Removing Self-Doubt (with Scott Woolford)
Episode 108 - Making a Mid-Life Comeback (with Kylie James)
Episode 107 - How to Value Add
Value Adding is a bit of a buzz word at the moment, but it is also a great way to get new clients, and to have them come back. In today’s episode, the team break down what value adding is, why it’s good, and how to do it effectively, not only in business, but also for yourself.
Episode 106 - Tips for Starting a Business
Episode 105 - Leadership 101
Episode 104 - Creativity For Non-Creatives
Creative or not creative is a state of mind. Whether you’re running a massive corporation, or a one person business, creativity keeps you agile and responsive to the world. In today’s special episode the team breaks down not only some of the mythology around what is and isn’t creative, but also what are some simple tips to inject it into your business (and life).
Episode 103 - Developing Your Power Skills
Episode 102 - Changing Your Approach
Episode 101 - Looking on the Bright Side of Life
Are you struggling to see any good in the world? Is it hard to look forward to things? In today’s episode, the team discusses not only how to change your perspective, but also how it feels to change it. John and Allen both discuss their own journeys to a positive perspective and how that has worked out for them.
Episode 100 - Everyday Inspiration
Episode 99 - Empathy
Episode 98 - Getting Out of a Rut
Are you feeling like you are in a rut? Do you need something to push you out of it? In today’s episode, we are talking to the team about not only how to identify if you are in a rut, but how to get out of one, and what things can cause it.
Episode 97 - Activating Your Creativity
Episode 96 - Self-Awareness (with Claire Markwick)
Episode 95 - Being Present with Others
Are you finding that the magic is a bit lost in your life? Do you need a richer experience If so, you may need to be more present with others in your life. In today’s episode, Danette, Grahame, John and Jez all break down why presence is the key to feeling great, and how to become more present.
Episode 94 - The Power of Patience
Episode 93 - Starting The Year Right
Episode 92 - Leadership Conversation on the Isle of Man with MANX
Happy New Year (almost)! Once more, we are still on holiday, so we have the second and final episode of our unreleased interviews over the break. This was from 2019 when Danette and Grahame were doing work with the Isle of Man. You will learn a bit more about thier philosophy and their business history, as well as some good lessons for us all.
Episode 91 - Leadership Conversation at Digital Trades School, Ontario
Episode 90 - What We Learned From 2021
Episode 89 - The Impact of Negative Experiences at the Workplace
Negative experiences at work can have a lot of reverberations not only at the workplace, but also in your life. And this can be for both employee and employer. In today’s conversation, Danette and Jez all talk about not only negative workplaces that they have worked in and the lessons they learned therein, but also how having a negative work experience can affect you short and long term.
Episode 88 - Influences in Your Life
Episode 87 - Making a Change
Episode 86 - The Impact You Have on Others
Many people don’t know the impact they have on others. However, if you feel like you want to see more of your impact, this podcast may help you to be better at it. In today’s episode, Jez is joined by Grahame, Danette, John and Kanika as they all talk about the ways you can make your impact. It may feel overwhelming, and you may not know where to start, but I think you’ll see it doesn’t have to be hard at all.
Episode 85 - Emotional Governance for Higher Performance (with Jeremy Khoh)
Episode 84 - How You Can Make a Difference
Episode 83 - Leadership in the Workplace
Are you someone who feels like there needs to be more leadership in your workplace? Do you want to be a leader, but not know where to start? In today’s episode, Danette, Grahame, John, Allen and Jez all tackle this topic through different lenses, and look at the difference between leadership and mentorship, and how important Self-Awareness is to a leader.