The Lesley Hawkins Podcast

Lesley Hawkins
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Anchored by the question, "What’s one pivotal moment in your life?",  Lesley hosts candid, personal conversations that reveal the turning points that shape who we are. With her signature empathy, wit, and warmth, Lesley creates space for guests to open up, sparking insights that challenge assumptions, stir reflection, and ignite growth. Each episode blends honest stories, surprising insights, and moments of laughter, leaving listeners feeling inspired, seen, and more deeply connected to the human experience.

  1. 16h ago

    Dori Adams - Taking The Leap

    Some people wait for the perfect moment to pursue an idea. Our guest decided that maternity leave was hers. While most people use that time to simply survive the newborn stage, she used it to quietly build a two-sided marketplace gig platform that had been living in her mind, waiting for its moment. But having an idea and actually making the leap are two very different things. So she returned to corporate life, back to the world of advertising she knew well. Until her agency offered a one-month sabbatical, and something in her knew, this was the moment. She took the leap. Since then, her platform has captured more than 1,500 events. But the road from idea to execution has been anything but smooth. Scaling a tech business means moving beyond the comfort of your inner circle. It means sitting with failure in a way that feels entirely different when you're the founder, when it's your vision, your name, and your mental health on the line. This is a conversation about reinvention, the gap between a great idea and the courage to act on it, and what entrepreneurship really costs. #pivotalmoment #entrepreneurship #shutterb Send us Fan Mail Lesley Hawkins is a keynote speaker with her signature keynote "The Courage To Define and Own Your Worth", workshop developer (The Leadership Mirror and The Leaders Table), leadership strategist, and storyteller who believes growth happens in the everyday moments that define who we become.  Drawing on years of experience leading, guiding, and mentoring teams, Lesley brings authenticity, curiosity, and heart to the conversation as each interaction is an opportunity to define what truly matters. One question. One turning point. One powerful story.  To learn more about Lesley: www.lesleyhawkins.ca / www.marsley.ca @the_lesley_hawkins_podcast The Lesley Hawkins Podcast is a Marsley Canada production.

    52 min

  2. May 24

    Emily O'Brien - From Prison to Popcorn: The Story Behind Comeback Snacks

    Our guest was a business owner. Driven, entrepreneurial, building her own social media company. Then she met a client and what started as a business relationship led to a vacation in the Caribbean. But when she returned to Canada, she was arrested with 2kg of cocaine strapped to her body. What followed was a period of her life she never anticipated: a 4-year prison sentence. Behind those walls, with everything stripped away, she came face to face with herself. And she made the choice to rebuild. To rebuild her health, her family, her community, and her life. Today, her popcorn company is on the shelves of more than 1,300 stores across Canada. And many of the people she hires are walking the same road back that she once walked herself. This is a conversation about second chances. About rebuilding from the ground up. And about how the hardest chapter of your story can become the foundation for something extraordinary. #pivotalmoment #prison #popcorn #comeback Send us Fan Mail Lesley Hawkins is a keynote speaker with her signature keynote "The Courage To Define and Own Your Worth", workshop developer (The Leadership Mirror and The Leaders Table), leadership strategist, and storyteller who believes growth happens in the everyday moments that define who we become.  Drawing on years of experience leading, guiding, and mentoring teams, Lesley brings authenticity, curiosity, and heart to the conversation as each interaction is an opportunity to define what truly matters. One question. One turning point. One powerful story.  To learn more about Lesley: www.lesleyhawkins.ca / www.marsley.ca @the_lesley_hawkins_podcast The Lesley Hawkins Podcast is a Marsley Canada production.

    35 min

  3. May 17

    Rachel Barbaro - Listening to Your Inner Voice

    From the outside, our guest was living the life. A beautiful family, a career as an executive in the public sector with upward momentum. She had the kind of résumé that screamed success, prestige, power. But something was off. A persistent, uncomfortable feeling that the life she had built wasn't quite the life she was meant to live. So she did something that took equal parts clarity and conviction. She stepped away, taking an unpaid sabbatical for a full year, to finally get quiet enough to listen. And what she heard changed everything. This is a conversation about the gap between a successful life and a fulfilling one.  #pivotalmoment #innervoice #passion  Send us Fan Mail Lesley Hawkins is a keynote speaker with her signature keynote "The Courage To Define and Own Your Worth", workshop developer (The Leadership Mirror and The Leaders Table), leadership strategist, and storyteller who believes growth happens in the everyday moments that define who we become.  Drawing on years of experience leading, guiding, and mentoring teams, Lesley brings authenticity, curiosity, and heart to the conversation as each interaction is an opportunity to define what truly matters. One question. One turning point. One powerful story.  To learn more about Lesley: www.lesleyhawkins.ca / www.marsley.ca @the_lesley_hawkins_podcast The Lesley Hawkins Podcast is a Marsley Canada production.

    39 min

  4. May 10

    Stephen Clements - When the Family Business Is More Than Business

    His father opened a sports store in Toronto, and from an early age, the family business wasn't just where he worked, but where he grew up. But not everything built with love is easy to sustain. So he walked away, not from the work, but to save the relationship that mattered most.  He forged his own path in entrepreneurship, until his father called him back. This time, not to run the business, but to sell it. Then came the hardest transition of all. Learning, for the first time, to work for someone else. What followed was a masterclass in people leadership, built on a foundation his father had laid years before. This is a conversation about family, identity, and a legacy that has nothing to do with what you sell and everything to do with how you make people feel. #pivotalmoment #family #leadership #legacy Send us Fan Mail Lesley Hawkins is a keynote speaker with her signature keynote "The Courage To Define and Own Your Worth", workshop developer (The Leadership Mirror and The Leaders Table), leadership strategist, and storyteller who believes growth happens in the everyday moments that define who we become.  Drawing on years of experience leading, guiding, and mentoring teams, Lesley brings authenticity, curiosity, and heart to the conversation as each interaction is an opportunity to define what truly matters. One question. One turning point. One powerful story.  To learn more about Lesley: www.lesleyhawkins.ca / www.marsley.ca @the_lesley_hawkins_podcast The Lesley Hawkins Podcast is a Marsley Canada production.

    40 min

  5. May 3

    Keeley Simpson - Turning Personal Experience Into Sound Financial Advice for Women

    When our guest was in university, her family faced two crises at the same time. Her mother, a business owner, fell seriously ill. And without proper financial planning in place, a health crisis quickly became a financial one too. That experience lit a fire that would shape the entire direction of her life. She became a wealth advisor on a mission to make sure other families never face what hers did. And at the heart of that mission is a belief she holds deeply: that every woman deserves honest, straightforward financial advice. This is a conversation about family, resilience, and what becomes possible when a painful personal experience is channelled into a life's purpose.   #pivotalmoment #family #financialadvice Send us Fan Mail Lesley Hawkins is a keynote speaker with her signature keynote "The Courage To Define and Own Your Worth", workshop developer (The Leadership Mirror and The Leaders Table), leadership strategist, and storyteller who believes growth happens in the everyday moments that define who we become.  Drawing on years of experience leading, guiding, and mentoring teams, Lesley brings authenticity, curiosity, and heart to the conversation as each interaction is an opportunity to define what truly matters. One question. One turning point. One powerful story.  To learn more about Lesley: www.lesleyhawkins.ca / www.marsley.ca @the_lesley_hawkins_podcast The Lesley Hawkins Podcast is a Marsley Canada production.

    35 min

  6. Apr 26

    Sonia Houle - A Brutal Diagnosis at 28 Changed Everything

    At 28 years old, our guest received a diagnosis that stopped her life in its tracks. Breast cancer. And with it, medically induced menopause that no one her age expects to navigate. So she did what many high-achievers do when life becomes unmanageable. She threw herself into work. A demanding career in marketing became both her anchor and her escape.  But the body keeps score. And eventually, hers sent a message she could no longer ignore. Her nervous system was running on empty.  So she walked away from the noise of city life and started over, building a short-term rental business in the quiet countryside. This is a conversation about what happens when you finally stop outrunning yourself, and about slowing down not as a retreat, but as an act of profound reinvention.  #pivotalmoment #breastcancer Send us Fan Mail Lesley Hawkins is a keynote speaker with her signature keynote "The Courage To Define and Own Your Worth", workshop developer (The Leadership Mirror and The Leaders Table), leadership strategist, and storyteller who believes growth happens in the everyday moments that define who we become.  Drawing on years of experience leading, guiding, and mentoring teams, Lesley brings authenticity, curiosity, and heart to the conversation as each interaction is an opportunity to define what truly matters. One question. One turning point. One powerful story.  To learn more about Lesley: www.lesleyhawkins.ca / www.marsley.ca @the_lesley_hawkins_podcast The Lesley Hawkins Podcast is a Marsley Canada production.

    39 min

  7. Apr 19

    Leisse Wilcox - Nothing Will be Enough for You, Until You are Enough for You!

    She built her dream life. A beautiful home. Three gorgeous daughters. A marriage that checked all the boxes. But inside, something didn’t fit. There was a quiet whisper she couldn’t ignore. A growing realization that nothing would ever be enough for her until she was enough for herself. No house, no role, no relationship could fill a space that required her own self-worth. Listening to that voice meant making a gut-wrenching decision: walking away from her marriage and stepping into the unknown. What followed was the deep, uncomfortable work of untangling who she was from who she had been trying to be, and asking what truly fulfilled her. This is a conversation about identity, courage, and what it takes to choose alignment over optics, even when the cost is high. #pivotalmoment #divorce #courage Send us Fan Mail Lesley Hawkins is a keynote speaker with her signature keynote "The Courage To Define and Own Your Worth", workshop developer (The Leadership Mirror and The Leaders Table), leadership strategist, and storyteller who believes growth happens in the everyday moments that define who we become.  Drawing on years of experience leading, guiding, and mentoring teams, Lesley brings authenticity, curiosity, and heart to the conversation as each interaction is an opportunity to define what truly matters. One question. One turning point. One powerful story.  To learn more about Lesley: www.lesleyhawkins.ca / www.marsley.ca @the_lesley_hawkins_podcast The Lesley Hawkins Podcast is a Marsley Canada production.

    39 min

  8. Apr 13

    Farhan Lalji - From one hard conversation to a Hall of Fame career

    Sometimes the path you’re meant to follow starts in the most unlikely place. For today’s guest, it began on Christmas Day, watching football games on TV while the rest of the world celebrated the holiday. That quiet tradition sparked a love for the game that would shape the course of his life. His career started in university sports communications. It was steady, predictable, comfortable. Until a tough conversation with his boss, and a hard look at his friend’s résumé, forced him to choose his path.  The outcome? A remarkable career in sports broadcasting and an equally impactful career coaching youth football. Today, his impact has been recognized at the highest level, with induction into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. This is a conversation about pushing beyond your comfort zone and leaning into your passion. #pivotalmoment #football #cfhof Send us Fan Mail Lesley Hawkins is a keynote speaker with her signature keynote "The Courage To Define and Own Your Worth", workshop developer (The Leadership Mirror and The Leaders Table), leadership strategist, and storyteller who believes growth happens in the everyday moments that define who we become.  Drawing on years of experience leading, guiding, and mentoring teams, Lesley brings authenticity, curiosity, and heart to the conversation as each interaction is an opportunity to define what truly matters. One question. One turning point. One powerful story.  To learn more about Lesley: www.lesleyhawkins.ca / www.marsley.ca @the_lesley_hawkins_podcast The Lesley Hawkins Podcast is a Marsley Canada production.

    49 min
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Anchored by the question, "What’s one pivotal moment in your life?",  Lesley hosts candid, personal conversations that reveal the turning points that shape who we are. With her signature empathy, wit, and warmth, Lesley creates space for guests to open up, sparking insights that challenge assumptions, stir reflection, and ignite growth. Each episode blends honest stories, surprising insights, and moments of laughter, leaving listeners feeling inspired, seen, and more deeply connected to the human experience.

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  • Creator
    Lesley Hawkins
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Lesley Hawkins Podcast
  • Show Website
    The Lesley Hawkins Podcast

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