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.

  1. -6 H

    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

    28 min
  2. 13 AVR.

    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

    31 min
  3. 6 AVR.

    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

    27 min
  4. 30 MARS

    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

    30 min
  5. 23 MARS

    Building Psychological Safety Through Small Experiments

    This episode of the Impactful Teamwork Podcast focuses on “Reward the Try” and how psychological safety enables innovation, decision-making velocity, retention, and accountability in frenetic, uncertain business conditions. The host argues most teams have a “psychological safety debt,” causing risk avoidance, silence, politics, and leader dependency, and asks listeners to rate how safe their teams feel to experiment. Drawing on Amy Edmondson’s definition and Google’s Project Aristotle findings, the episode explains that psychological safety supports learning, high standards with low fear, and effective team dynamics. Four practices are offered: frame work as learning, lead with fallibility, replace blame language with learning questions, and respond well when people speak up. A practical “TRY loop” (Test small experiments with guardrails, Reward learning without judgment, Yes/apply learning and change) is illustrated with examples from corporate experience, Virgin Airlines, and the Barings Bank guardrails failure, plus a reminder that leader body language can undermine safety. 00:00 Why Teamwork Wins 00:46 Reward the Try Intro 01:51 Psychological Safety Debt 04:02 Risk Scale Self Check 05:31 Healthy Curiosity Framework 06:31 Corporate Story Taking Risks 08:58 Small Experiments Guardrails 12:12 What Psychological Safety Means 14:00 Google Project Aristotle 15:51 Four Ways to Build Safety 20:00 The TRY Loop Method 22:14 Virgin Airlines Reward Example 24:15 Decision Line Empowerment 25:48 Body Language and Permission 27:00 7 Day Experiment Challenge 28:46 Wrap Up 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

    31 min
  6. 16 MARS

    Lessons from Leading a Volunteer Based Charity with Simon Errington

    In this special Podcaston Week episode of the Impactful Teamwork Podcast, host Julia Felton speaks with Simon Errington, CEO of Children in Distress, about the charity’s 35-year journey from supporting Romanian children after the fall of communism to evolving its focus toward funding grassroots projects in the UK while maintaining legacy work in Romania. Simon shares current initiatives including Casa Maria in Bucharest for children with neurological and physical disabilities, an annual 5,000-shoebox Christmas campaign, and UK pilot programs in Hull that build community, education, and confidence through cooking clubs and heritage-language learning. He discusses the leadership challenges of running volunteer-led organisations, emphasizing trust, relationships, community, and communicating impact to engage younger supporters, and he explains how to donate or volunteer via childrenindistress.org. 00:00 Why Teamwork Wins 00:46 Podcastathon Week Intro 01:10 Meet Simon Errington 01:59 Charity Origins in Romania 03:19 Casa Maria and Shoeboxes 04:09 Pivoting to the UK 05:55 UK Projects in Hull 09:48 Key Pillars for Youth 11:59 Why Simon Volunteers 14:42 Leading Volunteers as CEO 18:43 Shoebox Campaign Community 21:52 Engaging Younger Supporters 25:16 Small Charity Big Impact 28:04 How to Donate and Volunteer 29:57 Wrap Up and Subscribe You can learn more about Children in Distress and volunteer here www.childrenindistress.org 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

    31 min
  7. 9 MARS

    Health: The Leadership Advantage Many Business Owners Ignore

    Host Julia Felton welcomes health and fitness expert Brian Parana to discuss how leaders’ physical and mental fitness affects business performance, team energy, and credibility. They argue self-care must be treated like a business department and built through systems and processes rather than relying on discipline or willpower. Brian explains how health influences confidence, clarity, and professional outcomes, sharing an example of a client who lost 13 pounds and secured a $65,000 higher salary. Practical foundations include adequate hydration, daily movement (10K steps), strength training 2–3 times weekly, 6–7+ hours of sleep, and nutrition focused on food quality and portion control using a protein-vegetable-starch framework and limiting fats. Brian emphasises planning for busy days with backup meal options and offers a “30 tips in 30 days” resource. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 01:58 Busy Leaders and Self Care 05:53 Self Care as a Business Department 08:25 Health Impacts Credibility 11:02 Confidence and Career Gains 13:40 Small 1 Percent Habits 15:33 Core Four Foundations 17:09 Nutrition Basics and Portions 19:27 Meal Timing and Planning 20:33 Protein Veg and Carbs Guide 22:51 Systems Over Willpower 25:04 Salt The Oats Motivation 28:14 Water Habits That Stick 32:03 Plan B For Busy Days 35:28 Framework Not Meal Plans 37:39 Food As A Budget 40:32 Resources And Final Takeaways Connect with Brian at https://brianparana.com/ or on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/coachbrianparana 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

    45 min
  8. 2 MARS

    The Leadership Journey from Corporate Success to Nature-Inspired Teamship

    In this 100th birthday episode of the Impactful Teamwork Podcast, host Julia Felton reflects emotionally on reaching 100 episodes, her love of lifelong learning, and why she keeps guest conversations organic amid concerns about losing human connection to AI. She shares her backstory as an award-winning business owner, Amazon bestselling author, and creator of the Unbridled Business Blueprint and Unbridled Teamship roadmap, inspired by nature and equine-assisted leadership. Julia recounts building a global hospitality data analytics business inside Arthur Andersen/Deloitte, the impact of the Enron scandal on trust and stability, and her eventual burnout. A sabbatical led her to horse rescue work in Colorado and conservation and safari-guide training in Africa, deepening lessons on presence, energy, and interdependence. Returning to the UK, she realised her horses mirrored her leadership style and chose to reinvent her work through leadership retreats with rescued horses, helping scaling-company leaders build trust, unlock potential, and create lasting impact. 00:45 100th Episode Celebration 03:50 Why Authentic Matters 05:26 Who Is Julia 07:27 Corporate Rise and Success 09:28 Enron Trust Collapse 15:13 First Horse Toby 17:45 Sabbatical to Africa 22:43 Nature Leadership Lessons 24:32 Horses Teach Leadership 27:29 Leaving Corporate Reinventing 29:35 Teamship Philosophy Today 32:26 Retreats and 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

    37 min

À propos

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.