Genius Leadership: Overcoming Everything Podcast Anna Liebel

Imagine you are running an international, impact-driven business, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (we are talking a multi-million-dollar deal with global impact) lands on your table. Imagine declining that offer because you want to focus on your family and your impact on your nearest and dearest. Are you then crazy? Or selfish? Or, actually, a very mature entrepreneur who walks his talk about being a thought leader and a caring business owner?
This week's guest is Sebastian Bates, who did just that - declined a multi-7-figure deal. Sebastian is the Founder and CEO of the Warrior Academy and The Bates Foundation charity. Originally from the UK, he has over 25 years of experience in 6 different styles of martial arts as well as a strong competition background competing from amateur to professional level both nationally and internationally.
Sebastian originally started Martial Arts as a child to develop his confidence and help him transition through bullying. Now he and his team are helping thousands of children through their challenging transitions every week.
In this episode, you will learn about:
Sebastian's contrarian take on bullying that every parent should embrace for themselves and their kids
entrepreneurs' special abilities that can become their blessing or a curse
choosing an impact that truly matters to you
Sebastian's hiring mistakes and learnings about building and nurturing company culture
Stay safe and #standwithukraine,
Anna
Resources:
Connect with Sebastian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-bates-4b70412b/
Learn more about The Warrior Academy and The Bates Foundation: https://warrioracademy.ae/
Join the free yoga classes I teach every Monday and Thursday: https://annaliebel.as.me/lytmorning
Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 
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Are you a leader who cares about employees? I bet no leader answers "no" to this question. But how many leaders DO care, in action? How do they work with employees' mental health and well-being? When is it time to work on that? And how do they measure their results?
I invited Hrefna Sif Jónsdóttir, Managing Director of Tixly, and Helena Jónsdóttir, Founder of Mental ráðgjöf, to discuss how they worked together on Tixly's culture and their employees' mental health.
In this episode, you will learn about:
how to know when it is time to invest in your people's mental health
aligning managerial behaviors across 12 countries where Tixly has employees
common fears of managers about investing into mental health of their team members, and ways to address those
a surprising outcome from creating procedures and guidelines within the company
Stay safe and #standwithukraine,
Anna
Resources:
Connect with Hrefna: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrefnasif/
Check out Tixly: https://tixly.com/
Connect with Helena: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helena-j%C3%B3nsd%C3%B3ttir-79a52133/
Check out Mental ráðgjöf: https://mentalradgjof.is/
Join the free yoga classes I teach every Monday and Thursday: https://annaliebel.as.me/lytmorning
Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 
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How do you rebuild yourself after a serious injury that challenges your whole identity? How do you decide on your next step as a founder? How do you build something that your clients truly need and will actually use and value? These are some of the questions I discussed with my today's guest, Augusta Klingsten Peytz.
Augusta is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Mental Health Tech start-up Aesel, which offers a SaaS tool for therapists to monitor and visualize the progression of patients. Augusta has a background in venture capital and management consulting. Most recently, she supported a German mental health VC fund and, before that, worked at Boston Consulting Group. Augusta is driven by impact, and Aesel is her 3rd impact start-up. Previously, she founded the Female Leadership Academy - Denmark's largest leadership education for young professionals.
In this episode, you will learn about:
Augusta's discovery of a surprising way to remember who you are after an 8-month recovery journey post-concussion
her eureka moment that led to the birth of Aesel
growing a healthy separation between you as an individual and your startup
what to focus on as an early-stage founder, and what does it mean in practice
Stay safe and #standwithukraine,
Anna
Resources:
Connect with Augusta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/augusta-peytz/
Check out Aesel: www.aesel.co
Join the free yoga classes I teach every Monday and Thursday: https://annaliebel.as.me/lytmorning
Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 
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If you as a leader are feeling like your business is a bullet train going full speed on tracks you have no control over, stop. Take a breath. And let's talk about what it means to lead teams and organizations in 2024.
Bill Dickinson, a former Roman Catholic priest who left the priesthood to be more authentic as a leader and show up as a whole self which included coming out as a gay man. Through his more than 30 years of leadership experience, Bill has learned about empathy, self-awareness and self-regulation, and is now helping us understand how we can secure our success as leaders in the modern world.
In this episode, you will learn about:
why you can't bypass working on yourself to practice empathy towards others
how can leaders design their teams and work to promote employees' continuous learning
the issues with top leadership that we both decline working with
the ways you can get to know your employees and help them grow
which skills we see as valuable in the near future
Stay safe and #standwithukraine,
Anna
Resources:
Connect with Bill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billdickinson-leadership/ 
Craft your personal value proposition with Bill's e-book: https://www.c3leadership.org/craft-your-value-proposition/  
Learn more about Bill's book 'Optimizing Self' at: https://bit.ly/OptimizingSelf 
Join the free yoga classes I teach every Monday and Thursday: https://annaliebel.as.me/lytmorning 
Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 
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Being a leader is very hard. Managers need to navigate the constantly changing business context with new strategic directives, employee turnover, new technology, etc. Outdated one-size-fits-all approaches to leading, irrespective of the team members' background, group dynamic, and leaders' personal needs and preferences. Conflicting priorities of different stakeholder groups that have to be juggled and combined without any adverse effects on the team's productivity. And as a cherry on the cake, the classical lack of time for leader’s important, yet not urgent tasks.
I developed a simple framework and self-assessment that has been helping my clients and workshop participants to get out of overwhelm for over 3 years now. We break the complex leadership role into three dimensions and examine each of them. You quickly see the patterns - what are your strengths that you are ignoring but can leverage even more instead; which areas actually stress you out, and how can you put intentional effort into improving those.
Stay safe and #standwithukraine,
Anna
Resources:
Download the workbook with the 3D Leadership assessment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pg28al9m8gbtv7m7klVwrajqHxhNNZHN/view?usp=sharing
Need more support with your boundaries? Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 
Join the free yoga classes I teach every Monday and Thursday: https://annaliebel.as.me/lytmorning
Support Ukraine: https://u24.gov.ua/

Boundaries seems to be a cringy topic for many clients and connections of mine. But it doesn't have to be! Instead of seeing yourself as a harsh, selfish (in a negative way) person if you set and protect your boundaries, you can see them as the way to live the life you desire and deserve. So let's dive into a mindshift that will help you see the boundaries in a new, beautiful light.
Stay safe and #standwithukraine,
Anna
Resources:
Join the free yoga classes I teach every Monday and Thursday: https://annaliebel.as.me/lytmorning
Need more support with your boundaries? Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall 
Support Ukraine: https://u24.gov.ua/