Episodes
Wednesday May 01, 2024
53. Connecting through facilitation with Leanne Hughes
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
In this episode I talk to Leanne Hughes.
Leanne Hughes’ mission is to help you realise what’s possible, is possible for you and your business.
She is a consultant, speaker, and facilitator helping you maximise your team’s potential by creating influential, contagious work experiences.
Clients work with Leanne for her energy and unique approaches that provide cut-through strategies for embarking on a change initiative, or to shift performance or culture to achieve next-level success.
She was inducted into The Million Dollar Consulting® Hall of Fame in 2022, recognised by peers as being among the world leaders in consulting, as evidenced by empirical accomplishments in client results, professional contributions, and intellectual property. In 2021, Leanne was the winner of the Asia Pacific Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year. She’s a proud mentor as part of the Minerva network: Women supporting Australian women in the business of sport.
Leanne hosts both the First Time Facilitator and Leanne Hughes’ Work and Live Large podcasts and is the author of The Two Hour Workshop Blueprint.
You can connect with Leanne:
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via her website
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Join Leanne’s Facebook group, The Flipchart
Episode highlights
Leanne was a guest on episode 47, recorded waaaay back in August 2020. We have had so many amazing conversations since then, that I thought we should record another one for you! We talked about:
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the fabulous Nick Gray and his blind date in Tokyo that has taken Twitter / X by storm (you can follow him here), and how being brave and putting yourself out there can reap so many rewards
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adapting to change during COVID
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connecting across borders
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the power of vibe - and yes, we were influenced by the fabulous Australian movie The Castle 😂
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the underestimated power of interpersonal connection in business
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Leanne’s book "The Two-Hour Workshop Blueprint”
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setting boundaries
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AND SO MUCH MORE!
Resources
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Listen to episode 47, my first chat with Leanne
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Buy Leanne’s book "The Two-Hour Workshop Blueprint"
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Buy Nick Gray's book "The Two-Hour Cocktail Party"
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Buy a ticket to Leanne’s workshop with Michael Bungay Stanier
About your host: Mel Kettle
Mel Kettle is a leadership communication strategist, speaker, author, and facilitator. She works with leaders and teams to help them communicate so they create real connection and sustained engagement.
Mel’s work positively impacts people personally and professionally, whether she is facilitating a communication strategy workshop, running a training program on how to talk about menopause at work, or speaking about self-leadership at a conference.
In 2022 and 2023 Mel was one of only seven Australians recognised by leadersHum as one of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership.
She is the author of two books, the best-selling Fully Connected and The Social Association.
Like this show?
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Please leave me a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Instagram handle so I can thank you personally.
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Connect with Mel on LinkedIn and let her know your top takeaway from this episode
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
52. Connecting through social media
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Join leadership communication strategist Mel Kettle as she explores how you can become more successful in business and in life by becoming more connectable.
Mel has almost 30 years of experience working with leaders and teams that want to build connected and trusted organisations.
When we connect first with ourselves, we are better equipped to communicate and connect with others, leading to stronger and healthier relationships.
In this episode I talk about:
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the importance of social media for connection
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the early days of Twitter and how it led to friendships, community and trust
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using LinkedIn for business
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building a strong online presence.
Resources
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Connect with Mary Butler on LinkedIn and read her West Wing and leadership series
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Need help with raising your social media profile? Get in touch!
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Dello Mano brownies - they really are the best!
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Buy a copy of The Social Association
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Download LinkedIn in 10 Minutes a Day - for free
About your host: Mel Kettle
Mel Kettle is a leadership communication strategist, speaker, author, and facilitator. She works with leaders and teams to help them communicate so they create real connection and sustained engagement.
Mel’s work positively impacts people personally and professionally, whether she is facilitating a communication strategy workshop, running a training program on how to talk about menopause at work, or speaking about self-leadership at a conference.
In 2022 and 2023 Mel was one of only seven Australians recognised by leadersHum as one of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership.
She is the author of two books, the best-selling Fully Connected and The Social Association.
Like this show?
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Please leave me a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Instagram handle so I can thank you personally.
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Connect with Mel on LinkedIn and let her know your top takeaway from this episode
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
51. This Productive Life with Donna McGeorge
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Join leadership communication strategist Mel Kettle as she explores how you can become more successful in business and in life by becoming more connectable.
In this episode, I talk to productivity expert Donna McGeorge.
Donna McGeorge is all about doing things your future self will thank you for.
Donna challenges existing concepts of time management and productivity, championing a new, more personalised approach. She knows the best way to combat the myth of "wasted time" is to live deliberately, and she is passionate about empowering individuals, teams, and organisations to be more purposeful.
She is the author of 11 books and publications, including the best-selling productivity series, It’s About Time, and her latest book, The ChatGPT Revolution.
Episode highlights
Donna and I talk about:
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the levels and types of friendship
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how small changes can leave a big impact
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using AI and ChatGPT to meal plan
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creating capacity in our days and weeks
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productivity is about more than hacks and tips
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making decisions to make life easier
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rest, fuel, movement.
Resources
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Oura Ring (save $US40 with this affiliate link)
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Spooks (on Amazon Prime)
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Bones (on Disney+)
You can connect with Donna:
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Please leave me a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Instagram handle so I can thank you personally.
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Connect with Mel on LinkedIn and let her know your top takeaway from this episode
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Follow Mel on Instagram
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
50. Becoming Fully Connected - Thrive don't survive
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Episode highlights
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This episode is based on my book, Fully Connected
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Leadership is hard and has many challenges - loneliness, priorities, pressure
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The first step to regaining control is deciding that something needs to change
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Know what gives / saps your energy
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Different ways you can take back ownership of your life
Resources
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Download Ch 1 of Fully Connected for FREE
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Download the 90-day plan workbook for FREE
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Other podcast episodes mentioned:
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Sleep (e22)
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Rest (e24)
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Know your purpose (e26)
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Ask, listen and observe (e39)
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About your host: Mel Kettle
Mel Kettle is a leadership communication strategist, speaker, author, and facilitator. She works with leaders and teams to help them communicate so they create real connection and sustained engagement.
Mel’s work positively impacts people personally and professionally, whether she is facilitating a communication strategy workshop, running a training program on how to talk about menopause at work, or speaking about self-leadership at a conference.
In 2022 and 2023 Mel was one of only seven Australians recognised by leadersHum as one of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership.
She is the author of two books, the best-selling Fully Connected and The Social Association.
Like this show?
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Please leave me a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Instagram handle so I can thank you personally.
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Connect with Mel on LinkedIn and let her know your top takeaway from this episode
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Follow Mel on Instagram
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Episode 49
Leadership Lessons from Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Women in Leadership Summit
Episode highlights
- Speaking at a conference with Hillary Clinton!!
- Making your leadership style your own
- Why we need to talk about menopause, endometriosis and women’s health at work
- The importance of being persistent
Resources
- The Hatchery
- Why we need to talk about menopause at work – free resources
About your host: Mel Kettle
Mel Kettle is a leadership communication strategist, speaker, author and facilitator. She works with leaders and teams to help them communicate so they create real connection and sustained engagement.
Mel’s work positively impacts people personally and professionally, whether she is facilitating a communication strategy workshop, running a training program on how we can talk about menopause at work or speaking about self-leadership at a conference.
In 2022 and 2023 Mel was one of only seven Australians recognised by leadersHum as one of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership.
She is the author of two books, the best-selling Fully Connected and The Social Association.
Like this show?
- Please leave me a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Instagram handle so I can thank you personally.
- Connect with Mel on LinkedIn and let her know your top takeaway from this episode
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
48. Yep, I'm back!
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
I’m back!
And yes, I had a very long podcast break.
Find out what I was up to.
This episode is super short, and I’m excited to bring you some great guests and stories over coming episodes.
About your host: Mel Kettle
Mel Kettle is a leadership communication strategist, speaker, author, and facilitator. She works with leaders and teams to help them communicate so they create real connection and sustained engagement.
Mel’s work positively impacts people personally and professionally, whether she is facilitating a communication strategy workshop, running a training program on how to talk about menopause at work, or speaking about self-leadership at a conference.
In 2022 and 2023 Mel was one of only seven Australians recognised by leadersHum as one of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership.
She is the author of two books, the best-selling Fully Connected and The Social Association.
Like this show?
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Please leave me a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Instagram handle so I can thank you personally.
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Connect with Mel on LinkedIn and let her know your top takeaway from this episode
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
#47 Facilitation with Leanne Hughes
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.
She combines her experience in marketing with her education in human resources and psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences – that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and popular Facebook group The Flipchart.
You can connect with Leanne via her website and on LinkedIn.
Listen to this episode via the link above, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or via the podcast app on your smartphone.
What Leanne Hughes and I talked about
- Bias and judgement when you meet someone
- Brené Brown
- True connection – how you turn up
- Having a QLC – Quarter Life Crisis
- Working for Wicked Campers
- Pat Flynn and his DeLorean
- Creating engagement over Zoom
- Books
- It’s the Manager by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter
- Pivot by Jenny Blake
- Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weiss.
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
#46 Tech Girls are Superheroes with Dr Jenine Beekheyzen OAM
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Dr Jenine Beekhuyzen OAM, is the Founder and CEO of the Tech Girls Movement Foundation and the CEO of Adroit Research. She is a futurist with international recognition for her advocacy and leadership, her research, and her university teaching through which she has impacted tens of thousands of students over the past 18 years.
Jenine’s vision is to empower others to embrace technology, and to use it to their advantage. She is committed to creating a workforce capable of building the technology of the future and she doing this by mobilising a tribe of next generation leaders who are committed to solving real world problems with technology.
In the past six years at the helm of the Tech Girls Movement Foundation, she has engaged over 8,000 schoolgirls in STEM entrepreneurship across more than 1,000 schools, matched with 1,000+ mentors who have volunteered 7,500+ hours of their time. She has also distributed 80,000+ free Tech Girls Are Superhero books to Australian schools.
You can connect with Jenine on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and through her websites Tech Girls Movement Foundation and Adroit Research.
Listen to this episode via the link above, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or via the podcast app on your smartphone.
What Dr Jenine Beekhuyzen and I talked about:
- STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
- Community – helping each other
- working to our strengths
- being one of few women studying IT
- Giving girls choices in life
- Tech Girls Movement Foundation
- Encouraging all girls to find their superpower / strengths –
- Being awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM)
- Jenine’s latest book – 5 Things you can do to engage girls in STEM
- (A) Autonomy (E) Ethos (I) Involvement (O) Otherness (U) Usness
- Experiment vs Pilot Program
- digital literacy
- homeless women over 55 years of age
- Books – The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle.
You can connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #thisconnectedlife and tagging me @melkettle. I’m always happy to hear from listeners, and if you have a guest you would like to nominate or would like to nominate yourself, you can apply here.
Also, if you enjoyed this podcast, I would love you to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or via the podcast app on your smartphone. If you REALLY loved it, please leave me a rating and review on iTunes.
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Connecting in court with John Cahill
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
John Cahill is a barrister from Brisbane. He works primarily in the areas of criminal law, family law and regulatory law.
Prior to going to the Bar, he worked as a solicitor for the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney, for the state government in child protection and in corporate regulation at the federal government level.
In his spare time, he’s a writer, primarily of poorly thought out Facebook updates and Instagram posts but every so often the odd column and web series. He lives in Brisbane and has one child, a 50 kg Labrador called Fred.
You can connect with John on LinkedIn.
Listen to this episode via the link above, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or via the podcast app on your smartphone.
What John Cahill and I talked about:
- Criminal, Family and Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Meeting on ABC Brisbane with Kelly Higgins-Devine
- lawyers are trained to doubt everything
- lawyers are paid to worry and to think the worst
- looking for inconsistencies in your opponent’s case
- a jury is like a small theatre – people can smell blood when things are not going right
- An interesting start to law – via the Conservatorium of Music
- How journalism and law are similar
- adrenalin keeps you going when you’re terrified
- anxiety means you have a greater level of care
- Mentors and imposter syndrome
- Tik Tok videos during Covid.
You can connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #thisconnectedlife and tagging me @melkettle. I’m always happy to hear from listeners, and if you have a guest you would like to nominate or would like to nominate yourself, you can apply here.
Also, if you enjoyed this podcast, I would love you to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or via the podcast app on your smartphone. If you REALLY loved it, please leave me a rating and review on iTunes.
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Talking tech with Dr Catherine Ball
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Associate Professor Catherine Ball is a scientific futurist, speaker, advisor, author, founder, executive producer, executive director, company director and charity patron working across global projects where emerging technologies meet humanitarian, education and environmental needs.
Catherine also likes to create businesses and champion movements, collaborate with peers, and advise game-changers.
A sought-after voice across the start-up, futurist and tech world, Catherine works globally across a wide range of projects from creating documentaries and world leading conferences and events, to advising on the use of novel approaches (e.g. drones) across environmental and humanitarian projects.
Catherine is a proponent of community engagement with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), likes to demystify emerging tech and has recently been named as the official 2020 Patron of the Tech Girls Movement Foundation.
Catherine lives in Queensland with her husband and two sons.
You can connect with Catherine through her website, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
Listen to this episode via the link above, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or via the podcast app on your smartphone.
What Dr Catherine Ball and I talked about:
- Zoom throat – too many zoom calls and meetings
- Self-care
- Our mutual love of and obsession with Suncoast Fresh fruit and vegetable boxes
- Australian Survivor’s Tarzan and his lime farm on the Sunshine Coast
- Your network is your net worth
- Connection is everything
- Dr Genevieve Bell at the Australian National University
- 2020 for World of Drones and Robotics Conference in Brisbane
- Science communication, science engagement and science empowerment
- TED Talk – Talk Nerdy to Me by Melissa Marshall
- Feeding our bodies and our brains
- Currently writing 5 books
- We choose how we consume
- Girl Geek Academy and Sarah Moran
- 2020 Patron for Tech Girls Movement Foundation, founded by Dr Jenine Beekhuyzen.
You can connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #thisconnectedlife and tagging me @melkettle. I’m always happy to hear from listeners, and if you have a guest you would like to nominate or would like to nominate yourself, you can apply here.
Also, if you enjoyed this podcast, I would love you to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or via the podcast app on your smartphone. If you REALLY loved it, please leave me a rating and review on iTunes.