Journalling has been identified as one of the four top practices to help leaders be more strategic. Writing your thoughts, beliefs and emotions enables us to explore the depth of our human experience. It helps you understand what drives your reactions. Checking on one's intention and scrutinising them to enable us to act for the highest good. All these are particularly important when we are in leadership roles. These roles require us to be a better kind of human, lest we become a tyrant whose power corrupts.

Simple questions like "What did I learn about myself today?" or "How did I reach to challenges?"

In this episode, I explore the seven main ways to journal.

1. Journaling for goal setting and planning
2. Reflecting on what went well and what didn't
3. Tracking progress
4. Mindset work
5. Mind dumping
6. Recording progress
7. Gratitude

One of the things I have been advocating in my business is to have separate journals for different things, particular for the negative mind dumping - I personally call that journal the "poison journal". It has a black cover and I dispose of it after I complete the journal.

Writing things by hand enables us to retain and understand information better. It also enables us to put a distance between us and our thoughts which then enhances our ability to be critical of them. We are not our thoughts. Our thoughts do not define us. We can choose to activate certain thoughts because they serve our bigger purpose and let go of thoughts that don't.

If you would like me to support you in mindset work in your leadership or entrepreneurial role, book a discovery session with me. If you would like to learn how to make difficult decisions with the help of tarot, sign up for my newsletter to receive the details of my upcoming workshop with this link.

Most of us can get by in life without facing what I call CEO decisions. At one point, though, some of us will. What is a CEO decision? It's a decision that affects not just us but others that are either in our care or that we love.

These decisions feel much more important. They have such consequences that I believe we need a better decision making process that helps us get it right. In this episode, I share the four processes that can be used.

1. See a psychic about it. I recommend listening to EP 35 first where I give you guidance on how to get the best psychic reading. This is not for everyone. Personally, I love this process especially if I have a trusted psychic I can get a reading from. Ultimately, it needs to be our decision.
2. Ask friends and family for advice. I caution against this in the episode.
3. Make a list of pros and cons.
4. Use the seven step process that I have honed over the decades of working with clients.

We will be discussing this process in my upcoming webinar on tarot for decision-making on the 24th of June. To sign up, join my newsletter. This seven step process is also described in my decision journal available on Amazon.

Emma's leadership journey started in her teens where she was put in positions to lead in various activities she took part such as brownies and later student representative. Then she went to work as a lecturer and had to rewrite the curriculum in the Health Science Department. This was the first time she experienced burnout. She felt she was under constant scrutiny by her peers but also her students and this drove her perfectionism to new heights. Her burnout manifested as anxiety, insomnia and self doubt.

As a lot of people do, instead of taking stock and redefining her life, she pushed through, hoping that after each deadline, the hard work would stop. It never did. The thing that helped her the most to recover from that first bout of burnout was listening to her body.

Leadership forced Emma to look at her shadow aspects, in particular her demons. Her upper limit also came up a lot as well as her core wound, which is not enoughness. Moving has been her medicine, especially outdoors.

To find out more about Emma, visit her website, find her on Instagram or Facebook.

As entrepreneurs and leaders, we are often pressed for time. In this episode, I share with you three things you can do to create more time for yourself. My invitation is to be very intentional with the extra time you create so that it is used for your growth and wellbeing rather than just adding more things to do.

Before we dive into these three things, it is incredibly important that we challenge the version of success that we are pursuing. Too many of us, especially in our younger years, tend to live other people's versions of success. Interestingly, these versions of success often link to having more money or having more time, as if you had to choose between the two. The good news is that there is an energetic portal open now that allows you to have both. No need to choose anymore. In order to do this, though you need to abandon your attachment to the "working hard" mentality because subconsciously it will sabotage your entering that new paradigm.

Here are the three processes that will help you have all the time you need:

1. Retrain your mind when you experience a money or time pinch
2. Learn to harvest time
3. Curate an ideal day

In the episode, I mention journaling for success. Sadly when I searched for it, I realised it was published on another podcast that is no longer available so you will have to wait for it to be republished. One more reason to continue to listen to this podcast. It will be released after the interview for this month (Mary 2026).

The last way to speed up time is to work in the akashic records. If you don't know what the akashic records are, click here to listen to EP 57 If you would like to learn how to do that, the best way is to work one to one in my VIP container. Book a discovery call to find out more about it.

Don't forget to sign up for my newsletter so you can attend my Tarot for decision-making webinar on the 27th of May 2026 at 7 pm UK time.

The traditional image of leadership is of a person who speaks up, makes decisions and doesn't seek approval. All these traits are important but in my view the most important of all is listening. Better than that even, it's active listening. So in this episode we explore what it looks like, tips on how to be a better listener and the benefits of active listening.

I also explore how active listening can be more challenging, though not impossible, for neurodivergent individuals.

Active listening requires of us to engage in self enquiry so that we know what our biases are in order to prevent them from polluting our interactions with other people and in order for us to recognise when they are being activated.

We can also use spiritual tools such as tarot to find out what is being unsaid. I am offering a free webinar on the 27th of May 2026 where I will show you how to use a deck of tarot to enhance your understanding of a situation. To receive the booking link, subscribe to my newsletter. In addition to the link you will also receive a coupon to book your first session at a discount. Here is the link to subscribe.

If you would like to work with me to learn how to be more self aware and a better listener, book a discovery call.

Today we are exploring an internal shift that is essential for all leaders and that is the shift from blame to taking ownership of how we react to situations. This doesn't mean that we repress our feelings around a certain situation or event. What it does mean, however, is that we shift from asking "Why is this happening to me?" to "What can I learn from this?"

It is important to acknowledge our feelings in this process and not to rush into seeing the gold in the situation. Feelings, if not truly felt, stay trapped in the body and can actually lead to illnesses. The link between the mind and the body is powerful.

If you need help to see a situation in a different light, I would love to help you. When we look into the bigger picture we are shown information that not only helps us deal with the situation but sometimes even transform our perspective in such a radical way that we now see an opportunity rather than a challenge. To book a discovery call, click this link.

I mention in the episode my Sage in Your Pocket Package. You can find out more about it on this page.

As a leader it is easy to find yourself in a position where you are under pressure to cave in to opposing interests. I recently watched the Post with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks which illustrates it beautifully. On the one hand you have Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep who want to do the right thing. On the other hand you have the investors and the banks and even the Justice Department, who want you to do the opposite.

How do you make sure you do the right thing?

By first aligning yourself internally, and then aligning with the energy of the business or project you are working on, so that the energy you bring to the room is in integrity - we talked about the energy we bring to a room in EP 6. The second thing you want to do is align with the energy of the business itself.

And then you can use the Sacred Heart to place the whole situation in it.

You can learn more how to do this in the episode. If you want to learn how to use spiritual tools to enhance and bring ease into your leadership, book a discovery call to find out how you can work with me.

Bristol born Dan Bartlett is a two-time founder, TRE practitioner, a coach and a long life practitioner of meditation in many different forms. As a self taught engineer, he embarked on a journey of entrepreneurship with the enthusiasm of youth. He co-founded a social network platform for meditator, which he then sold. His second venture, Almanac, a workflow tool and demanded that he worked around the clock to stay in touch with stakeholders in different times zones. Then the pandemic hit and his marriage fell apart creating the perfect storm.

Burnout hit big time with fatigue, pain in the body and numbness. Feelings of incompetence drove him to work harder, which, instead of solving the problem, compounded it. Dan experienced very scary feelings and took four weeks off but as soon as he came back, the burnout symptoms returned. He felt resentful and cynical, which surprised him as this was not in his true nature.

When he finally stepped away, he felt like a failure. He worried about having let people down.

The thing that helped him the most were long walks in nature, cold plunges and forest bathing.

To read Dan's account of his journey, click here.

Dan's personal website can be found here.

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