IMPACTFUL Teamwork

Julia Felton

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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    Regenerative Leadership: What Nature Already Knows (That Most Businesses Don't)

    In this Impactful Teamwork episode, Julia Felton explores what nature teaches about regenerative leadership, inspired by adopting a lamb named Charlie and observing Canadian geese offspring. Using Yellowstone’s trophic cascade, she explains how removing wolves collapsed ecosystem relationships and how reintroducing them restored balance—paralleling how organisations remove key relationships and then wonder why performance collapses. She critiques extractive, command-and-control leadership that fuels silos, poor collaboration, CEO bottlenecks, and change fatigue, citing data on business failure and cross-functional unity. Drawing on lichen and horse herds, she highlights interdependence, rhythm over relentlessness, and relationships as infrastructure, and outlines three regenerative leader behaviours: investing in relationships, building “teamship,” and leading with attention. She also identifies sabotage patterns: extraction disguised as standards, busyness as avoidance, and mistaking compliance for commitment, and invites listeners to connect via businesshorsepower.com. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage 00:47 Nature Inspired Leadership 01:53 Yellowstone Regeneration 04:07 Extraction Leadership Trap 07:08 Accountability Breakdown 08:30 Lichen Interdependence 10:12 Horse Herd Teamship 13:25 Three Regenerative Principles 14:21 Regenerative Leadership Practices 18:41 Sabotage Patterns 22:49 Choose Regeneration 24:03 Closing And Subscribe 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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    Mindful Leadership: Why Your Nervous System Is Shaping Your Team’s Performance

    In this Impactful Teamwork episode, Julia Felton talks with neuroscience-based mindfulness expert Kelly Corbett about the inner game of leadership and how mindfulness improves presence, connection, creativity, and decision-making. Kelly explains “beginner’s mind” as approaching meetings without labels or fixed assumptions, and shares evidence that mindfulness/meditation strengthens the prefrontal cortex and executive function. She describes how reframing problems can unlock innovation, including a company that replaced harmful chemicals with water by rethinking industry standards. Practical tactics include mindful breathing—especially the “cyclic sigh” technique—to calm the nervous system, plus walking meditation and time in nature (shinrin-yoku/forest bathing) to reduce cortisol and boost natural killer cells. They discuss leader “entrainment,” gratitude practices, and how Aetna saw reduced healthcare costs and improved retention from meditation programs, with resources available at kellycorbett.com. 00:45 Meet Kelly Corbett 02:53 Mindfulness and Beginners Mind 04:30 Science and Creativity Wins 07:07 Leading With Openness 09:36 Breathwork for Calm 10:49 Cyclic Sigh Demo 14:33 Walking Meditation Nature 17:37 Gratitude and Daily Anchors 19:39 Loving Kindness Practice 23:51 Leader Entrainment Ripple 26:55 Mindfulness ROI at Work 29:11 Resources and Contact You can connect with Kelly here. 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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    15 Ways to Reinvent Your Business in the Age of AI

    Host Julia Felton shares why teamwork is a competitive advantage and argues businesses are in a full-scale reset driven by AI, citing widespread company failures, declining revenues, layoffs, and the reality that team members now face around 10 major changes at once. She explains that success now depends less on pressure and more on the pace of reinvention, as companies must reinvent roughly every three years rather than optimise old models. Drawing on insights from the Reinvention Academy and shifts in consulting, she outlines 15 practical areas for reinvention—products/services, platforms, holistic solutions, ideal customers, customer experience, revenue streams, processes, teamship-based organisation, resilient supply chains, expanded markets, partnerships/distribution, brand meaning, purpose/vision, experimentation-friendly culture, and clarifying the “why.” She challenges listeners to pick one or two shifts, take her Turbocharge Your Team quiz, and focus on trust, energy, and curiosity to make reinvention natural. 00:50 AI Reset Reality 03:21 Reinvention Imperative 06:31 Horses And Alignment 07:07 15 Reinvention Lens 07:49 Offer And Platform 09:42 Solutions To Experience 12:33 Revenue And Process 15:41 Teamship And Supply 17:33 Markets And Partners 20:22 Brand Purpose Culture 23:08 The Final Why 23:59 Pick One Shift 25:34 Quiz 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

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    Curiosity Is Not a Soft Skill, It Is a Leadership Survival Skill

    Host Julia Felton welcomes Ryan Ware, CEO of Connective Consulting Group, to discuss why curiosity is essential in business, especially in construction where teams and conditions constantly change. Ryan explains how “hand-me-down” answers and routines can prevent validation and learning, and how fear on both sides of change can block curiosity, making psychological safety critical. They explore connecting the human side of work to technology and process shifts (including AI), building relationships as social capital, and reducing judgment through asking better questions. Ryan shares an example of leading a change-fatigued team by apologising for past churn, creating space to learn, testing like a laboratory, and building shared ownership that enabled larger national projects and leadership growth. He closes with his legacy: helping people build stronger relationships with change through empathy, clarity, choice, and connection. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 01:00 Why Curiosity Matters 02:49 Questioning Old Habits 04:45 Fear and Psychological Safety 07:45 Connecting Humans to Change 12:02 Building Connection on Projects 16:04 Social Capital and Conversations 19:47 Case Study Leading Through Change 24:57 Experimentation and Industry Shifts 30:10 Legacy and Staying Curious 32:29 Where to Find Ryan 34:17 Final Takeaways and Goodbye You can connect with Ryan at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryankware/ 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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    How Coaching Stops Leaders Being the Bottleneck in Business

    in this episode of the Impactful Teamwork Podcast, Julia Felton explores how leaders can scale without becoming the business bottleneck by shifting from control to coaching. She explains how leaders become the “answer person,” creating dependence, decision drag, mental clutter, and stalled momentum even though they appear busy and visible. Using herd leadership and “Teamship” as a model, she contrasts compliance-driven control with capability-building coaching, emphasing that the goal is transferring judgment, not just delegating tasks. Practical coaching prompts and a meeting reset question (“What’s stuck and what needs to happen for it to move?”) help teams build ownership and decision velocity. She lists signs of bottleneck leadership and offers three weekly shifts: ask better questions, audit a recurring meeting, and coach with context and guardrails. She invites listeners to explore support via the Unbridled Teamship roadmap and the Turbo Charge Your Team audit quiz. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage 00:48 Leader Bottleneck Problem 04:10 Hidden Costs and Drag 07:37 Horses and Teamship 08:34 Why Leaders Stop Coaching 11:37 Control Versus Coaching 13:28 Coaching Questions in Action 15:50 Delegate With Judgment 18:46 Trust Lessons From Horses 21:54 Bottleneck Warning Signs 22:46 Three Shifts This Week Take the Turbo-Charge Your Team Quiz 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

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    Authentic Leadership with Anthony Garone

    On the Impactful Teamwork Podcast, Julia Felton interviews Anthony Garone, founder of Edify Content, which helps B2B tech companies create sales and marketing content. Anthony shares how he discovered writing as his “superpower” after years in IT leadership and a company acquisition, then went all-in on content when COVID ended face-to-face selling. The conversation focuses on authentic leadership, helping team members bring their whole selves to work, and building strong relationships to uncover hidden talents. Anthony argues many leaders get stuck playing a role, and advises subtracting what isn’t essential to better serve customers, using the question “How is that working for you?” to cut through reality distortion. He challenges “just keep grinding” advice and leaves listeners with his key message: be serious and reject the reasonable life. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage Intro 00:46 Meet Anthony Garone 01:36 Finding a Writing Superpower 04:43 Leaders Unlock Hidden Talent 07:41 Authenticity at Work 09:47 Subtract to Lead Better 12:57 How Is That Working 15:20 Reject the Grind Mindset 19:39 Music Channel and DNA 24:56 Calling and Being Unreasonable 27:46 Final Takeaways and Wrap You can connect with Anthony at https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonygarone/ 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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    The Hidden Reason Your Team Has Stopped Improving

    This Impactful Teamwork Podcast episode, inspired by Ron Friedman’s Harvard Business Review article “How to Build a Super Team that Keeps Getting Better,” explains how top “super teams” improve over time and links the ideas to the host’s Unbridled Teamship roadmap (trust, contribution, adaptability). Drawing on research from 6,000+ knowledge workers, it highlights that super teams manage time/energy/attention well, make one another feel better, and continually build skills. The episode focuses on seven practices: run more small experiments and reward intelligent risk-taking; model curiosity and admit what you don’t know to build psychological safety; ask “what are you stuck on?” to surface blockers; stay close to the work without micromanaging; make feedback frequent and supportive; encourage growth even when it doesn’t directly benefit the leader; and lead with meaning, not just metrics, to connect work to purpose. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage 01:24 Super Team Research 02:27 Teamship Mindset 03:55 Experiment Often 06:49 Lead With Curiosity 08:58 Name The Blockers 11:13 Lead Close To Work 13:40 Feedback That Fuels 17:37 Support Growth Beyond Roles 20:50 Purpose Over Metrics 23:01 Seven Step Recap 24:17 Design A Superpowered Team 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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    Embracing Ancient Wisdom in Modern Leadership

    Host Julia welcomes transformational coach Sheila Belanger to discuss how leaders can resource themselves as business paradigms shift and old models become unfit. Sheila emphasises reconnecting with nature and activating “other ways of knowing” beneath the strategic mind: body/gut instinct, heart wisdom and emotional intelligence, and imagination. She offers practical steps such as breathing before meetings, feeling feet on the ground, and briefly touching the heart to regulate and sense the room. Sheila also introduces “inner team” stewardship—tracking who has “the keys to the car” (e.g., wounded or reactive parts) and returning leadership to the wiser self. She shares an elemental-season framework (earth/summer grounding, water/autumn emotional release and sovereignty, air/winter navigating change, fire/spring renewal, ether throughout) and defines “edge work” as moving through the unknown without reverting to old roles. 00:00 Why Leadership Must Change 01:39 Meet Sheila Belanger 03:12 Beyond Strategic Thinking 05:09 Practical Body Heart Tools 09:12 Animal Instinct and Horses 11:42 Steward Your Inner Team 14:40 Elemental Spiral Seasons 18:49 Edge Work in Uncertainty 22:36 Self Care and Maintenance 26:21 Resources and Closing Takeaways Connect with Sheila and take the free elemental spiral quiz. https://ontheedgesofchange.com/ 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.