Handson Coaching: Inspiring Conversations

Audley Stephenson – The Engine You Already Have

What does it actually take to be bold inside a life that was not designed for it? Most of us have been taught that boldness belongs to certain kinds of people. The ones who took the leap. The ones who walked away. The ones with the perfectly timed story of risk and reward. But Audley Stephenson [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theaudman/] spent over 30 years inside public service, one of the most cautious institutional environments imaginable, while simultaneously building one of Canada's longest-running independent podcast networks. More than 3,000 conversations. Six shows. And not once did he wait for the perfect conditions. His upcoming book, Living Your Best Audacious Life, arrives this spring. But what this conversation sits with is something quieter than the boldness we celebrate. The kind that shows up inside ordinary days. Inside organisations that were not built for it. Inside the moments when life hands you uncertainty and no clear script. Because audacity, as Audley sees it, is not a personality type. It is a practice. And that changes everything.So the question worth sitting with is this. What small act of boldness have you been postponing, and what is it actually costing you? If you lead people, feel the pull between playing it safe and living with more intention, or simply wonder whether there is a bolder version of your working life waiting, this conversation might land closer than expected. #InspiringConversations [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23inspiringconversations&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #HappinessAtWork [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23happinessatwork&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #Leadership [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23leadership&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #Audacity [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23audacity&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #WorkplaceWellbeing [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23workplacewellbeing&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #BoldLiving [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23boldliving&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #podmatch [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23podmatch&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED]

Kevin Hubschmann - Funny Until It Isn’t: What Comedy Reveals About How We Actually Show Up at Work

Funny Until It Isn’t: What Comedy Reveals About How We Actually Show Up at Work Most organisations are not short on communication. Meetings happen. Messages are sent. Presentations are delivered. Everything looks clear on paper. And yet people leave the same conversation with different interpretations, different levels of trust, and very different energy. Because communication is not just about what you say. It is about what actually lands. Kevin Hubschmann [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-hubschmann/] works in a world where that gap cannot hide. As a stand up comedian, improviser, and former enterprise salesperson, he has learned something most workplaces quietly avoid. You only know if you are connecting when you see how people respond in real time. No slides. No buffer. No polite nodding. Through his work with Laugh Dot Inc, Kevin uses humor, play, and applied improv to help teams see, often for the first time, the difference between intention and impact. Not in theory, but in the moment. In this conversation, we explore: • Why being clear is not the same as being understood • What bombing on stage reveals about failure and recovery • How humor builds trust faster than competence alone • Why “being professional” can quietly reduce real connection • What improv teaches about listening when there is no script This is not about adding more fun to the workplace. It is about making communication more honest. #leadership [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23leadership&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #communication [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23communication&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #teamwork [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23teamwork&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #workplaceculture [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23workplaceculture&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #listening [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23listening&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #improv [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23improv&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #publicspeaking [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23publicspeaking&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #podmatch [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23podmatch&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED]

Ethan Reisboard - When Your Nervous System Says No

What Is Your Body Trying to Tell You? Most professionals push through. That is what we are trained to do. The headache that will not quite leave. The tension that follows you home. The feeling of being permanently switched on, even when nothing urgent is happening. We explain it away, adjust, and keep going. And the body keeps score anyway. Ethan Reisboard, CHt [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanreishypnotherapy/] knows this from the inside. In 2021, he spent over six months unable to function normally, locked in a cycle of debilitating migraines and physical dysfunction that no conventional treatment could touch. What finally shifted things was not another specialist. It was working with the subconscious mind. In this conversation, we will explore what chronic stress is actually doing beneath the surface, why high-functioning people so often carry physical symptoms nobody connects back to pressure, and why the most effective interventions are sometimes the ones we are most skeptical of. This is not about relaxation. It is about what happens when your nervous system never really gets the message that it is safe to stop bracing. And maybe the question worth sitting with is this. What if the symptoms you have been managing are not the problem, but the signal? If you lead people, feel the weight of constant pressure, or simply cannot remember the last time you truly switched off, this one might land closer than expected. #InspiringConversations [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23inspiringconversations&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #HappinessAtWork [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23happinessatwork&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #Leadership [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23leadership&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #MindBodyConnection [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23mindbodyconnection&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #WorkplaceWellbeing [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23workplacewellbeing&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #Hypnotherapy [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23hypnotherapy&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #podmatch [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23podmatch&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED]

Kelly Schuknecht - Visibility Feels Uncomfortable, That’s The Point

Owning Your Voice: How Thought Leadership Helps You Lead, Work, and Live with Clarity Kelly Schuknecht [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyschuknecht/] has spent almost twenty years helping entrepreneurs and professionals elevate their message and build visibility that actually means something. As the founder of Two Mile High Marketing and the host of Beyond the Bestseller, she has guided countless women to share their stories with confidence and grow platforms that reflect who they are, not who they think they should be. In this conversation we look at the real value of thought leadership. Not the polished buzzword version, but the kind that helps you show up with clarity, make decisions you can stand behind, and lead without losing yourself. Kelly’s journey through leadership, motherhood and meaningful work gives this topic a very human edge. She brings practical insight on how to refine your message, find your voice and create space for others to do the same. If you care about visibility, authentic leadership and building a career that aligns with your values, this session will give you something useful to take back to your own work. #InspiringConversations [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23inspiringconversations&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #ThoughtLeadership [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23thoughtleadership&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #WomenInLeadership [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23womeninleadership&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #MarketingStrategy [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23marketingstrategy&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #ProfessionalGrowth [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23professionalgrowth&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #HappinessAtWork [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23happinessatwork&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #Leadership [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23leadership&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #Listening [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23listening&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #PodMatch [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23podmatch&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED]

John Geraci - Why Smart Leaders Still Fail to Communicate

The Subconscious Advantage: Why Better Thinking Doesn’t Fix Broken Communication Most organisations do not have a communication problem. That might be the problem. Conversations are happening all the time. Meetings are full. Messages are constant. Strategies are explained, repeated, documented. On the surface, everything looks aligned.And yet, something does not quite hold. People leave the same conversation with different interpretations. Agreements sound clear in the moment but drift in execution. What felt like alignment turns out to be polite agreement with very different meanings underneath. Nothing is obviously broken. But something is not quite working either. So we respond in familiar ways. We try to be clearer. More structured. More precise. We repeat ourselves, refine the message, add another slide, another explanation, another follow-up. And still, the gap remains. John Geraci has spent years looking at that gap. Not as a failure of intelligence or effort, but as something deeper. His work explores how much of what drives understanding sits below awareness, shaping how people listen, interpret, and respond before conscious thinking even begins. Which shifts the question entirely. If people are not reacting to what we say, but to what they think they heard, what does “clear communication” actually mean? In this conversation, we explore why better thinking and better tools do not automatically lead to better understanding, why storytelling works but often misses the mark, and what changes when leaders focus less on speaking and more on how others are actually processing the message. And yes, we will go there. Does AI help us communicate better, or does it quietly scale misunderstanding faster than ever? If you have ever left a meeting thinking “that went well,” only to realise later that everyone took something different from it, this one might feel familiar. Join us. Listen closely. Or at least differently. #ClarityIsOverrated [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23clarityisoverrated&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #UnderstandingMatters [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23understandingmatters&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #SayLessListenMore [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23saylesslistenmore&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #InterpretationGap [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23interpretationgap&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #InspiringConversations [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23inspiringconversations&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED] #podmatch [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23podmatch&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED]