Lessons for Leaders 75: Leading with Passion with Nicola Buckley

Oct 14, 2022 | Podcasts, Lessons for Leaders

Nicola is a coach and neuroscience expert who helps leaders to ‘find their fire’ and lead with passion.  She joins me to talk about why leading with passion is so important.  We discuss:

  • Why passion matters with leaders?
  • What is going to help you be passionate outside of work for those energising energies?
  • Passion is not necessarily all about work
  • How you can make Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs work for you.
  • Why Nicola is passionate about people taking real ownership of their diary.

Listen for ways to spot when you’ve lost your passion.

Leading with Passion

Nicola is a coach and neuroscience expert who helps leaders to ‘find their fire’ and lead with passion.  She joins me to talk about why leading with passion is so important.  We discuss: Why passion matters with leaders? What is going to help you be passionate outside of work for those energising energies?

We dive straight into discussions about how we revert to patterns of behaviours and how the brain works to stop us seeing the good things in life and the achievements we have made.

Nicola also shares an exercise she does with her clients to help them recognise the wins and reignite the passion within us.

Could you write 50 reasons why you’re great at what you do?  This is something Emma has her clients do. 

Nicola shares her experience of corporate career and how she grew through the years and wanted more in life and ending up struggling with severe anxiety and depression.  It was her learning in neuroscience that really made a difference to her.

Listen in for her explanation of her journey; find out what helped bring her to where she is today; how she has fallen in love with coaching; and what her mission is for the next 10 years.

13.00 Nicola shares why she thinks passion matters for leaders.

15.45 Emma shares her tips for people who feel exhausted and overloaded, so they can get their passion and energy back.

18.00 Hear Nicola’s tips for finding your fire and passion and how you can create your own version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

21.00 Nicola and Emma talk about boundaries, how important they are and the decisions you can make and how to identify if they are not working for you.

24.00 Listen to ways you can look for clues that show you’re not feeling passion.

Your passion lies in your purpose.

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Find Nicola’s website HERE.

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Emma Langton

Emma Langton

Executive Leadership Coach

Emma hosts the Lessons for Leaders podcast. Each week she brings you lessons, learnings, tips and advice to enable you to lead with ease in business, without stress, doubt and overwhelm so that I help you to increase your performance, be resilient and thrive in life. Emma has been providing coaching, training and therapeutic support for executives since setting up her business in 2011. Prior to that she spent over 20 years with people at the top of national and multi-national training and communication businesses.

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