Storytelling Podcast
Adam Ward is an executive coach and operational consultant with nearly two decades of experience helping leaders eliminate friction and optimize performance. With a foundational background in technical engineering at Honda R&D, he combines systematic, data-driven frameworks with real-world leadership strategy. He’s also an accomplished endurance athlete who has tackled 19 Ironman 70.3s, two World Championships, and an Ultraman.
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Steve Vear MBE JP is someone whose life has been shaped by resilience, service, and an unwavering determination to succeed. Born with cerebral palsy, he's never let it define him. He enjoyed a successful career in senior operational leadership, including leading production and logistics at one of the UK's largest examination boards, before taking on a new challenge during the COVID lockdowns by studying law. He was called to the Bar in 2025 and is now beginning the next chapter of his career as a pupil barrister. Alongside his professional achievements, he has dedicated decades to public service as a Magistrate, Samaritan, School Governor, Chairman of the Southern Premier Cricket League, and Trustee of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. And in 2018 His commitment to volunteering was recognised with an MBE.
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Maria Greenwood is a wills and trusts specialist who is passionate about helping people protect what matters most and plan confidently for the future.
After a successful 22-year senior career in the design and manufacturing industry, she followed her passion for helping others by moving into estate planning. Today, she works with individuals and families, providing expert guidance on wills, trusts, lasting powers of attorney, and probate support, always making the process as straightforward and reassuring as possible.
She believes estate planning is about more than paperwork—it's about protecting loved ones and giving families lasting peace of mind.
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Bayo Igoh is a business coach who turned an extraordinary and unconventional upbringing into a powerful foundation for helping others succeed. With leadership experience across the public, private, and voluntary sectors, they founded Bigoh Coaching to show that success doesn't have to come at the cost of burnout.
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Jennifer Fraser is an author of five books, award-winning educator, and international presenter on the neuroscience of abuse cultures and how we can transform them. She writes a series for Psychology Today called "The Bullied Brain" and works with organizations to create brain-healthy, happy, high-performing cultures.
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https://www.amazon.com/Gaslit-Brain-Gaslighting-Institutional-Complicity/dp/1493090925
Patrick Oluyide is someone who believes sustainable growth isn’t built on ambition alone, it’s built through the leadership, systems, and habits that help people and organisations scale.
He helps organisations and individuals strengthen leadership capability, build better habits, and create the systems needed to turn growth into consistent delivery.
His belief is that growth is not a personality trait, it’s a set of practices: clear priorities, repeatable routines, honest feedback loops, and a culture that turns learning into action.
He works in the space where strategy often breaks down helping people and organisations translate intention into execution through stronger leadership, better decisions, and effective operating habits.
Because when those foundations are in place, people don’t just perform, they compound.
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Sophie Preston Hall is a remarkable entrepreneur who built a successful hospitality recruitment business from the ground up with just £300, no business experience, and a determination to succeed.
Leaving school at 16 with no GCSEs and severe dyslexia, she worked her way up through hospitality before taking the leap to start her own business as a single mum. Twenty-five years later, that business has become a respected agency built on relationships, hard work, and a genuine commitment to helping people.
Today, she's also serving her community as an Essex County Councillor for Rochford North, championing local businesses and working people.
On the podcast, she shares her journey of overcoming adversity, raising a family, building a business, and proving that where you start in life doesn't determine where you can end up.
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Peter J. Novak is a world-class communications expert working at the intersection of leadership, clarity, and storytelling. As the founder of The Strictly Speaking Group, he has coached thousands of professionals, from emerging leaders to Fortune 50 executives, to communicate confidently in high-stakes situations. A top-rated LinkedIn Learning instructor, his course on clear speech for global professionals has reached more than 250,000 learners and has been translated into six languages. Known for his work with multilingual leaders, he blends linguistics, cultural intelligence, and inclusive communication to ensure every voice is heard. With a doctorate in Dramaturgy from Yale and a career rooted in both academia and performance, he brings a unique combination of rigour and creativity to the world of business communication. In this episode, he shares what it truly means to communicate with clarity, authenticity, and impact.
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Mimi Bland is a world-class thought leader helping high achievers unlock their greatest potential from the inside out. She works privately with founders, visionaries, and leaders who are seeking a deeper sense of alignment, fulfilment, authenticity, and inner peace as they create lives of genuine meaning and impact.
Her work bridges emotional intelligence, energetic recalibration, and neuroscience-backed transformation, guiding her clients to master the art of fulfilment from within. Through her signature process, The Authentic Self Mastery Method, she helps individuals dissolve patterns of survival, return to inner clarity, and create lives led by truth rather than conditioning.
In this episode, she shares what it truly means to live in alignment with who we are, and how to create from a place of inner truth rather than external expectation.
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Eleanora Heart is a Certified Emotional Mastery Specialist, Sophrologist, Human Rights Consultant, and international speaker. In this episode, she joins us to discuss her powerful book, The Code of I AM, a guide to awakening your Voice of Truth and mastering your emotions in life, love, and business. Eleanora shares practical and spiritual insights on self-leadership, authenticity, and the deep connection between emotional mastery and personal freedom. Listen to a heartfelt conversation that will inspire you to remember who you truly are.
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