
100 episodes

Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell Dr Margie Warrell
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4.9 • 40 Ratings
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Welcome to my Live Brave Podcast!
This podcast was inspired by the many conversations I’ve had with people around the world who confided how often they let their doubts and fears hold them back from going after what they want or changing what they don’t.
You’ll not only hear my own hard-won wisdom, but insights and inspiration from world-renowned leaders, luminaries and incredible people on how to take those chances and make changes - in your career, relationships, leadership and life. People like General Stanley McChrystal, Steve Forbes, Harvard's Amy Edmondson, Olympian Jacqui Cooper, Dr Phil… and many many more.
I hope each episode will embolden you to own your power, dial up your courage and live the biggest life you’re capable of living.
Margie
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Kirstin Ferguson: Leadership is a series of moments requiring both head and heart
Leadership isn’t about position or title. It’s about the decision we make, moment by moment, to show up… with head and heart and be a force for good in the lives of others.
In my conversation with Kirstin, we discuss her new book Head & Heart and how you can be the leader the world needs you to be. We talk about staying self-aware (easier said than done!), being humble, having the courage to say sorry and to bring both your head and heart to making each moment better for others. No small task, but one we’re all called toward in some form.
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Amy Edmondson: Psychological safety de-risks candor and fuels courage.
"Unsafe cultures endanger everyone," says Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor at Harvard Business School.
Amy and I unpack why courage and psychological safety are two sides of the same coin, and why fostering psychologically safe workplaces requires people to trust that the pay off for courage is worth the pitfalls.
Regardless of your position, making people feel safe to be honest and vulnerable with you – including sharing things you may not enjoy hearing - is vital for any meaningful relationship to flourish, personally or professionally.
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The Integrity Deficit: Do what’s right and clean up your slip-ups
You like to think of yourself as a person with integrity, right? Yet, doing what’s right is easier said than done. In a world where examples of poor character are easy to find, it’s easy to rationalize cutting corners or telling “little white lies". However, we often underestimate the cost of compromising what we know, deep down, is the right thing to do.
This episode is a siren call to the highest angels of your nature, guiding you in cleaning up any fractures to your integrity, in your relationships and in your life. If you want to move forward lighter, more rooted to your deepest values and guided by your True North, listen up then lean in to level up how you’re running your life. Doing so will spare you a considerable amount of mess down the track. -
General Stanley McChrystal: What we get wrong about risk that makes us more vulnerable
Stanley McChrystal spent his military career navigating the real and deadly risks of combat, finishing a four-star General in Afghanistan overseeing 147,000 soldiers. He has walked the path of courage in ways most of us never will, concluding that the greatest source of risk lays in us - in how we identify, assess, respond and learn from risk.
We cover a lot of ground in our conversation – from the need for more moral courage in leaders today to raising resilient kids.
If you want to navigate risk better and lead smarter, this episode is for you.
EPISODE LINKS:
RISK: A User's Guide
The McChrystal Group
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We are all response-able! Reclaim the power you give to your circumstances, blame and excuses
This episode is inspired by chapter one from my book Find Your Courage: The Courage To Take Responsibility
The quality of your life directly correlates to your willingness to own your experience of life and resist the temptation to blame others or pity yourself. We live in a culture that encourages people to feel powerless and operate from a victim mindset. Yet your greatest power lays in taking full and compete ownership for your life. Sure, you cannot always choose your circumstances, but you always get to choose your response.
In this episode, I unpack what it really means to be responsible for your life and challenge you to stop making excuses and justifications for what’s not working. Taking responsibility is not always comfortable, but it’s absolutely essential for living a truly rewarding life.
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Find Your Courage: 12 Acts for Becoming Fearless in Work and Life
Margie’s other books can be found at www.margiewarrell.com/books
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It’s time to Take Courage! New series introduction
Let’s face it, if it were easy to be brave with our lives - to lean into our fears, choose ‘courage over comfort’ and lay our pride, ego and vulnerability on the line, more of us would. Truth is, our deep seated fears often keep us from taking the very actions that would help us create more rewarding lives. In this new series, I invite you to step back and consider where and how you’re being called to step up and ‘take courage’ even as that little voice in the back of your head urges you not to.
If you need a little encouragement right now, you’ve landed in the right place!
I'll be sharing insights from my first book Find Your Courage (McGraw Hill, 2009) throughout this series. Check out this book and all my books at www.margiewarrell.com/books
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Customer Reviews
Mentorship on my time. What a gift!
Margie,
You will never know just how far and wide the impact of your courage, wisdom, and vulnerability reaches. The ripples will long outlive you. From a mother of two, business owner, and nurturer of women, you have changed my life. You’ve empowered me to live and lead in profound ways. You’re example has consistently reminded me I am not alone. Your courage has inspired me to keep going when I didn’t think I could.
“Thank you” will never feel like enough.
I pray you are blessed beyond measure for all the lives you’ve impacted with your message and your skill for delivery.
Forever grateful.
Crystal
Who you want to be
I have loved every episode I have heard, but this one really hit home. A friend of mine brought up this topic just this week, and I chewed on it for two days. Then I saw it as the topic for your most recent episode. Very helpful to think about power virtues you want to embody even before you get to your WHY. Thank you for all the good work and love you put into every episode.
20/20 clear vision for 2020-30
Phenomenal wisdom shared and motivation to stop and reflect on what you will do this one beautiful life we have ❤️