The Right Questions Podcast

Simon Ash
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The Right Questions Podcast

Wherever you are on your leadership journey, join us to learn more about how to effective leaders of ourselves and others. All you need is an inquisitive mind!

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    How to Brainstorm Ideas Using Lateral Thinking and Forced Association

    Which brainstorming technique do you use to get new ideas? How do you improve your creative thinking? What do we mean by brainstorming?What is brainstorming and why should we do it?Brainstorming is about thinking creatively and generating new ideas to start initiatives or solve problems. Effective brainstorming encourages lateral and divergent thinking, allowing us to explore ideas beyond the expected approaches to challenges.By forcing our brains to think divergently or laterally about somet...

    4 min

  2. 20 JAN

    How To Maintain a Good Balance in Life (Going Beyond Work-Life Balance)

    How do you maintain a good life balance? People often talk about work-life balance but the problem with thinking about balance in these terms is that it is purely binary. But work is an aspect of life, not a separate entity, and there are many other aspects of our lives that we should consider when maintaining balance. I found this out the hard way when I burnt out, physically and emotionally, but I learned a lot in the process. I have found that it is useful to think about life bal...

    6 min

  3. 13 JAN

    What Is Your Personal Brand and How Can You Create One?

    If you could sum up your life purpose in a statement on a t-shirt, what would it say?What do you tell people when they ask you what you are about? What is your life purpose and how would you sum it up?When we talk about ourselves, we frequently share details such as what we do for a living, what we are studying, where we live or where we are from. But even though those things give some clues to who we are, they don’t necessarily reveal our principles, dreams, or life purpose. Our persona...

    4 min

  4. 28/10/2024

    How to Create Your Own Life Journey Map

    How to Create Your Own Life Journey Map The metaphor that life is a journey is a popular one. Many of our favourite stories, from historical literature such as The Odyssey and The Canterbury Tales, through to modern classics including The Lord of the Rings and The Alchemist, use this premise. We are naturally drawn to such adventures and can relate to the idea of travelling and challenges in life (even if not faced with actual sirens or orcs!)When we thread together the events in ou...

    4 min

  5. 21/10/2024

    How to Make Your Own CV or Résumé

    What is a CV or résumé?A résumé is a document that summarises your professional experience including your work history and qualifications. 'CV' stands for the Latin ‘Curriculum Vitae’ meaning ‘the course of my life’, and a resume is effectively a concise version of your work life. To create your own CV or resume, just follow these 5 steps:Content. Write out your CV in full.Tailor. Adjust your content for the specific application.Edit. Reduce the resume to under two pages of text.Format. ...

    5 min

  6. 14/10/2024

    The Hero’s Journey: The 12-Step Story Arc

    The Hero’s Journey is a structured story arc, and common template, used by storytellers, from authors of ancient mythology through to Hollywood screenwriters. If you think of tales of heroes, be that Odysseus or Luke Skywalker, Perseus or Katniss Everdeen, you can see the underlying similarities.A 17-step structure was proposed by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949) and this was refined into a 12-step process by Christopher Vogler in The Writers Journey (2007). But both t...

    8 min

  7. 07/10/2024

    Understanding Life Priorities By Examining How You Spend Your Time and Money

    What are your priorities in life? How does the way you use your time and money reflect your priorities?We all have priorities, whether we recognise them or not. We all have priorities, whether we recognise them or not. Even if we think we know our priorities, it is good to reflect on our actions to see how well our ideas and behaviours align.A good way to examine our priorities is to look at the evidence of how we spend our time and money. It is effectively an audit of our schedule and f...

    5 min

  8. 30/09/2024

    The Meaning of Vocation and How to Find Work That You Love

    What are your passions? What motivates and drives you? How about your job? Do you do what you love? Work isn’t always fun, but most people want to do a job that they are passionate about, something they can enjoy, where they feel they can make a difference, all while earning some money.We all have a unique blend of skills, passions, and strengths. When these are expressed in how we spend our work time, then we have a vocation. This episode introduces The Spark Tool that you can use ...

    5 min
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Wherever you are on your leadership journey, join us to learn more about how to effective leaders of ourselves and others. All you need is an inquisitive mind!

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  • Creator
    Simon Ash
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    58
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    Clean
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    © 2025 The Right Questions Podcast
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