IMPACTFUL Teamwork

Julia Felton
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This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team? In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to learn from them what has worked for them and importantly what hasn’t. Rest assured there will also be a good dose of wisdom from the natural world as I believe that nature contains a blueprint for how we can all work together to create engaged, enthusiastic, empowered teams.

  1. 3 days ago

    Visible, Honest, and Wrong — Why Certainty Is Costing You Credibility

    Julia Felton explores two research findings: 65% of leaders would rather appear decisive and be wrong than admit uncertainty and be right, and “invisibility is no longer read as neutral” but as avoidance. Drawing on a Forbes article by Doug Melville, she argues that C-suite credibility now depends on visible, human storytelling aligned with operational truth, not polished messaging, especially amid rapid change like AI and expectations of headcount reduction. She contrasts this with the “decisiveness crisis” research on “certainty theatre,” linking it to shame, threat responses, and transformation failure driven by uncertainty resistance. Felton argues the real issue is teamship: performing certainty trains teams not to surface doubts, undermining co-ownership. She invites leaders to name a current unknown aloud as an invitation to think together and suggests modeling “I’m not sure” without apology. 03:14 Visibility Is Credibility 07:03 Imperfect Presence Builds Trust 10:57 The Decisiveness Crisis 13:46 Shame And Certainty Theater 16:56 Where Research Meets Reality 19:02 Teamship And The Horse Herd 20:39 Make Uncertainty Safe 21:58 Weekly Challenge And Close 23:51 Final Takeaways And Next Steps Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

  2. 6 Jul

    Overcoming Decision Fatigue To Prevent Decision Paralysis

    Carrie Gallant and Julia Felton collaborate on a joint episode of The Tall Poppy Revolution Radio Show and the Impactful Teamwork Podcast to discuss how leaders can create conditions for better decision-making amid uncertainty and pressure. They explore decision fatigue, reluctance to decide, and how inaction is still a decision, linking these patterns to engagement, agency, and culture. They argue that consultative decision-making, context, and psychological safety improve buy-in and reduce bottlenecks at the top, while frontline input often leads to better outcomes. They also highlight that decisions are influenced by emotions, intuition, and energy, using stories from workplace leadership, hiring, and horse-assisted work to emphasise stillness, somatic intelligence, and adaptability, concluding with resources for strategic conversations and Julia’s team roadmap and quiz. 02:10 Decision Fatigue Today 03:50 Doubt and Agency 05:48 Engagement and Ownership 10:50 Consultative Decisions 16:09 Context and Buy In 17:14 Emotions Drive Choices 20:14 Gut Instinct Hiring 23:07 Energy and Culture Fit 25:11 Horses Sense Energy 25:45 Firefighting Leadership 26:37 Laser Focus Purpose 27:23 Undecided Energy Lesson 28:25 Human Design Blueprint 30:41 Intuition Inner Teacher 31:29 Stillness And Flow 34:22 Decision Speed Myth 39:51 Psychological Safety Culture 42:48 Adapting In Change 44:04 Closing And Resources Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

  3. 29 Jun

    Leadership Fatigue: The Problem Nobody Wants to Admit

    Julia Felton argues that the UK has a leadership problem driven by chronic, unrelenting pressure that the nervous system isn’t designed to sustain, leading to slower decisions, reduced trust, political caution, and emotional exhaustion. She contrasts short-term pressure (where humans perform well) with long-term dysregulation that organisations often suppress through policies and norms, creating numbness that looks like professionalism. Felton explains why AI cannot solve trust deficits or poor collaboration, citing Gallup engagement data and failure rates tied to silos, and notes AI can’t “read the room” or detect safety and withdrawal. She describes how horses provide immediate, unedited feedback on presence, coherence, and trust, shares a client example revealing hidden indecision, and advocates distributed, shared leadership via her Unbridled Teamship roadmap. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage 00:46 LinkedIn Leadership Storm 03:08 Chronic Pressure Biology 04:43 Suppressed Emotions Culture 06:03 Why AI Falls Short 09:09 Horses As Mirrors 11:08 Arena Breakthrough Story 13:06 Rethinking Leadership Models 14:55 Distributed Leadership Lessons 16:45 Building Team Resilience 18:51 Team Audit Invitation 20:06 Wrap Up And Subscribe Take the Turbocharge Your Team audit at www.businesshorsepower.com/quiz Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

  4. 22 Jun

    Why Sales Team Culture Decides Performance More Than Talent Does

    On the Impactful Teamwork Podcast, host Julia Felton interviews sales-team coach Luke Jorgenson, who spent 10 years in US door-to-door solar sales, about resilience, coaching, and building high-performing sales teams. Luke explains how repeated rejection builds a “sales muscle” and says leaders should help new hires break fear quickly by getting them in the field with support and mentoring. He argues coaching should be normalised in business, as in sports, to accelerate learning and uncover blind spots. Luke shares his “Proven Five Sales Systems” framework—compensation, incentives, sales training, team culture, and leadership mentoring—emphasising a holistic approach where culture and environment can be the biggest sales drivers. He describes using experience-based incentives to create camaraderie and retention, and advises individuals to sell authentically by asking better questions and listening. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage 00:45 Meet Luke Jorgenson 01:48 Door To Door Sales 03:30 Rejection Resilience 04:41 Training New Reps 08:35 Why Coaching Matters 12:18 Proven Five Systems 15:30 Building Winning Culture 18:07 Culture Keeps People 19:37 Working for Free Culture 19:57 Coaching Lessons for Sales 21:04 Culture Is Who Leads Daily 23:11 Sales Is a Universal Skill 25:23 Authentic Selling Mindset 27:39 Ambiverts and Adaptability 29:11 Questions Over Pitching 32:37 Energy and Belief in Product 34:29 Reputation and Long Game 35:21 Where to Find Luke 36:19 Final Wrap and Subscribe You can connect to Luke on: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukejorgenson/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/coach_lukej/ Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

  5. 15 Jun

    Has Your Org Chart Outlived Its Use? What the Herd Already Knows

    The episode argues that teamwork is a key competitive advantage and explores why work often gets stuck departments due to unclear ownership and accountability. Drawing on Deloitte’s 2026 Human Capital Survey, it highlights that 66% of C-suite leaders say pushing beyond traditional functions (HR, finance, IT, legal, procurement) is critical, yet only 7% report real progress, creating a 59-point gap. It describes simultaneous pressures on functions—cost-cutting via shared services and automation, alongside executive calls for substantial reinvention—while noting structure and “turf” impede change. Using a horse herd and the diamond model of shared leadership as an analogy, it contrasts “running the business” (repeatable work suited to automation) with “growing the business” (cross-functional work requiring dynamic leadership). Examples include Moderna, Unilever, Cisco, Workleap, and Highmark Health, and the host invites listeners to assess where energy leaks and consider the Unbridled Teamship roadmap and a team audit. 00:46 Work Stuck Between Teams 01:34 Deloitte Gap Revealed 03:30 Why Functions Strain 07:09 Running Versus Growing 09:44 Horse Herd Leadership 12:28 Tension And Delays 16:36 Decouple Expertise 20:35 Turf And Clarity 23:16 Unbridled Adaptability 26:56 Key Takeaways 28:14 Teamship Invitation Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

  6. 8 Jun

    Breathwork for Leaders: Regulate Stress, Boost Performance & Build Impactful Teams

    Host Julia Felton welcomes high-performance coach and breathwork expert Lucas Kulbis to discuss how breathwork helps leaders regulate stress and improve team performance. Lucas shares his journey from an AI-focused computer science path and startup burnout to discovering breath as a foundational tool for state control, presence, and resilience. They explain how shallow breathing can reinforce anxiety and how intentional breathing can shift the nervous system from fight-or-flight (amygdala-driven) to calmer, clearer decision-making (prefrontal cortex), supporting emotional regulation and co-regulation with others. Lucas teaches practical techniques including the physiological sigh for rapid resets, a bedtime diaphragm-breathing practice to improve sleep, and coherence breathing (about 5.5 seconds in and out) to align heart, breath, and brain. He also describes client results, including a 10X revenue increase alongside broader life improvements, and invites listeners to his free Skool community and coaching. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage Intro 00:46 Meet Lucas Kulbis 01:55 From Startup to Burnout 02:45 Why Breath Matters 04:03 Breathwork for Leaders 05:02 Stress Reset Framework 08:54 Safety and Co Regulation 12:06 Neuroscience of Breathing 15:52 Crisis Breath Exercise 20:02 Sleep and Daily Habits 21:21 Client Results and Revenue 25:19 Coherence Breathing Basics 28:43 Resources and Closing Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

  7. 1 Jun

    Why Your Leadership Team Is Accountable for Everything and Owns Almost Nothing

    This episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast explores “decision drag,” where routine decisions climb back up the hierarchy and leave leaders returning from holiday to a backlog of unresolved calls. Citing McKinsey research that executives spend 37% of their time on decisions that could be made lower down, the host explains how leaders inadvertently train teams to wait, creating an accountability trap that limits scale. Julia reframes accountability as proactive ownership of outcomes (not blame), distinguishes it from responsibility, and outlines three levels—individual (clarity, capability, psychological safety), team (mutual investment or “teamship”), and organizational (systems that reward or punish ownership). Julia shares five behaviours of high-accountability teams and three immediate actions: publicly declare ownership, stop rescuing, and review weekly “committed vs delivered,” plus an invitation-only forum on June 17. 00:49 Holiday Decision Pile 02:42 Decision Drag Costs 04:51 Accountability Trap 06:52 Redefining Accountability 07:46 Responsibility vs Ownership 10:06 Three Accountability Levels 10:51 Individual Accountability شروط 12:31 Team Accountability Teamship 14:13 Organizational Systems Matter 15:41 Five High Accountability Habits 16:00 Public Ownership 16:51 Stop Rescuing 18:02 Monday Momentum 18:36 Challenge Every Direction 20:27 Named Owner When Wrong 21:26 Three Actions Now 23:41 Executive Forum Invite 25:21 Final Leadership Takeaway Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

  8. 25 May

    Customer-Centric Leadership with Nate Robinson

    In this episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast, Julia interviews senior retail and quick-service restaurant veteran Nate Robinson about building customer-centric teams and improving the customer journey. Nate explains his “Three I” framework—Inspire, Invest, Innovate—sharing how leaders can learn employees’ “why,” invest in team development, and use creative training methods (including games like Diner Dash) to build skills like urgency. They discuss how leadership requires adapting to individuals rather than following a one-size-fits-all playbook, the importance of culture and authenticity, and the challenges middle managers face balancing KPIs with increasing coaching and wellbeing expectations. Nate also outlines the value of clear “non-negotiables” (e.g., punctuality, uniform, asking questions) and closes by inviting listeners to reflect on three words that describe themselves. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage Intro 00:52 Meet Nate Robinson 01:54 Customer Service Roots 02:46 Quick Service Explained 03:27 Motivating Frontline Teams 08:20 Three I Framework Origin 10:28 Inspire Invest Innovate 11:46 Generations Pay Training 14:47 New Manager Boundaries 16:54 Non Negotiables Standards 21:36 Purpose Engagement Culture 26:46 Three Words Authenticity 30:36 Middle Manager Squeeze 32:14 Connect Wrap Up You can connect with Nate on LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-robinson-015a1594/ Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team? In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to learn from them what has worked for them and importantly what hasn’t. Rest assured there will also be a good dose of wisdom from the natural world as I believe that nature contains a blueprint for how we can all work together to create engaged, enthusiastic, empowered teams.

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  • Creator
    Julia Felton
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    120
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    © Copyright 2026 Julia Felton
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