Welcome to The Soul Leader Podcast, the home of authentic leadership from the heart, hosted by journalist / broadcaster Nadine Dereza and Rasheed Ogunlaru, coach-speaker-author and founder of Soul Leader.

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About your hosts

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Rasheed Ogunlaru is an accomplished leadership coach, speaker, and leadership coach. He is author of Soul Trader – Putting the Heart into Your Business and The Gift of Inner Success.

His clients include entrepreneurs, entertainers, executives and organisations including the NHS and Civil Service. He often speaks in the media including appearances on ITN and BBC News. He is the life & business coach partner to the British Library’s Business & IP Centre.

Rasheed qualified as a coach with distinction from The Coaching Academy in 2004 and has served as an associate coach with the academy for well over a decade.

Rasheed is also a singer / songwriter and a former Co-Director of Samaritans (Central London Branch).
He is founder of Soul Leader and Soul-Trader. He is known for his unique ‘become who you are’ approach and helps people of all backgrounds find lasting fulfilment – from within.
www.rasaru.com

Nadine Dereza

Nadine Dereza is an awarding-winning international broadcaster, journalist, keynote speaker, conference host and co-founder of Babaco Media.

Nadine recently presented for the world’s number one business and financial news network CNBC, hosting their technology programme, IoT: Powering the Digital Economy. She has also presented for Associated Press, BBC, CNN, SABC, Simply Money, Sky TV and Summit TV.

Nadine is a judge for the International Broadcasting Convention’s ‘Accelerators Media Innovation Programme’ which explores solutions to industry-recognised challenges in media and entertainment. She is co-author of the 5-star rated best seller Insider Secrets of Public Speaking.

www.nadinedereza.com

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Podcast Episodes

Episode 5: New Job, New Role

In this episode journalist / broadcaster Nadine Dereza and Coach-Speaker-Author Rasheed Ogunlaru explore how to settle in to and shine in a new job and new role. Stepping into any leadership role can be challenging – and a great opportunity – whether it’s your first time in leadership or if you’re stepping into a more senior leadership role. But the stakes and expectations on all sides can be high. So what should you do and think about in the first day, week, month and three months and indeed year in a new role – be it in a new organisation or within your current one? This episode will help you to consider this key stage holistically including: giving yourself credit for gaining the role; reviewing / resetting / renewing your leadership brand, style and approach; and exploring how to manage the practicalities, personalities, politics and context of your new role. As always Nadine poses rich questions and observations, and Rasheed shares top tips and insights to help you on your leadership journey. Enjoy the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/6urXXwgePD8 In this episode journalist / broadcaster Nadine Dereza and Coach-Speaker-Author Rasheed Ogunlaru explore how to settle in to and shine in a new job and new role. Stepping into any leadership role can be challenging – and a great opportunity – whether it’s your first time in leadership or if you’re stepping into a more senior leadership role. But the stakes and expectations on all sides can be high. So what should you do and think about in the first day, week, month and three months and indeed year in a new role – be it in a new organisation or within your current one? This episode will help you to consider this key stage holistically including: giving yourself credit for gaining the role; reviewing / resetting / renewing your leadership brand, style and approach; and exploring how to manage the practicalities, personalities, politics and context of your new role. As always Nadine poses rich questions and observations, and Rasheed shares top tips and insights to help you on your leadership journey. Enjoy the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/6urXXwgePD8

Episode 4: Difficult Conversations

In this episode journalist / broadcaster Nadine Dereza and Coach-Speaker-Author Rasheed Ogunlaru explore Difficult Conversations with colleagues, customers, staff, seniors, stakeholders and others. What conversations do many leaders and managers find challenging? What are the pitfalls? What are the fundamentals of effective communications in these situations? How do you manage your emotions, the conversation and the relationships in a way that effective, authentic and compassionate? As always Nadine poses rich questions and observations, and Rasheed shares top tips and insights to help you on your leadership journey.

Enjoy the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/ZaDIMUCKjOU

Episode 3: Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance may be easy to say / talk about but is much more difficult to achieve. In this episode journalist and broadcaster Nadine and Coach-Speaker-Author Rasheed explore: What is it? Have we got the words ‘work-life’ balance the wrong way around? How do you achieve it? What can get in the way? What can the challenges be? And how, as leaders, can we create the conditions to help achieve better work-life balance for our teams? We also look at it in the work-life balance in the wider context of organisational wellbeing.

Enjoy the video version of this episode https://youtu.be/MTT_zodPGuI

The Soul Leader Podcast for authentic leadership from the heart hosted by Hosted by journalist / broadcaster Nadine Dereza and Rasheed Ogunlaru, Coach-Speaker-Author and Founder, of Soul Leader: https://www.Soul-leader.biz Each episode we lift the lid on an important or often challenging issue in leadership life – and Rasheed shares his top tips on how to navigate it – but always through the lens of being authentic, heart-centred and compassionate.

Episode 2: Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome is one of the biggest challenges that many aspiring and established leaders wrestle with. But what is it? What causes it? How might it be holding you back in your life and work and as a leader? How can you overcome it? In this insightful episode, Nadine asks Coach-Speaker-Author, Rasheed to explain more and to share his top tips.

Enjoy the video version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2INA3Zfv5t4

Episode 1: Authentic Leadership

In this first episode of the Soul Leader Podcast Nadine asks Rasheed to explain: What is authentic leadership? Why is it (seemingly) so rare? What stops us from feeling as though we can be authentically ourselves in the workplace and as a manager / leader? Rasheed also highlights some of benefits and risks – and share his top tips on becoming more authentic and impactful.

Enjoy the video version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoG2oiT9x3Q

The Soul Leader Podcast: The preview

Welcome to the Soul Leader Podcast series for authentic leadership from the heart hosted by journalist / broadcaster Nadine Dereza and Rasheed Ogunlaru, coach-speaker-author and Founder of Soul Leader.

Tune in, meet our hosts and enjoy this special series preview which will help you:

Get a flavour of what to expect from this podcast series and how it will help you as leader, manager, supervisor
Discover what is a Soul Leader and the 8 Soul Leader principles and qualities
Hear some of the key issues and challenges that affect leaders and why is becoming an authentic, compassionate Soul Leader so important?

Enjoy the video version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwsQ3Fh4Bf4

The Soul Leader Podcast: The teaser

Get ready for The Soul Leader Podcast for authentic leadership from the heart. Hosted by journalist/broadcaster Nadine Dereza and Rasheed Ogunlaru, coach-speaker-author and Founder of Soul Leader.