The Threshold

Amanda Ramplin

The Threshold is a podcast for leaders when more is being asked. Of them. Of their team. Of their work. The space between who you were as a leader, and who the role is asking you to be. Hosted by Amanda Ramplin, founder of EOS Coaching and a former senior leader at ANZ, The Threshold explores the conversations on the inner game of leadership. The conversations that don't tend to happen out loud. The work that mostly happens in private. Each fortnight, Amanda goes deep on the experience of being at a threshold, drawing on neuroscience, coaching practice, and two decades inside corporate Australia. Reflective. Honest. Unhurried. For leaders who are quietly carrying questions about who they're becoming, and who want a place to think about it. Find Amanda at eoscoaching.com.au or on LinkedIn.

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    When Competence Stops Being Enough

    There's something most of us learn early. The way to handle anything is to work harder at it. It built our careers, earned us the seats we now hold, and at a certain point, it stops working. We hit something that doesn't yield. We push harder. Nothing changes. So we add more. More preparation, more hours, more effort. And we get more tired, less effective, and more stuck. In this episode, Amanda explores why working harder fails at the threshold, what we tend to do instead, and what actually shifts things. She tells the story of a senior team member sitting through another over-prepared meeting, watching her own thinking slowly stop happening. And she names the four shapes the over-doing tends to take, in ourselves and in the leaders around us. Episode 2 includes: The four shapes of over-doing (over-preparing, over-functioning, over-strategising, over-controlling)Why the trust between leader and team erodes in both directions when one of these patterns runs uncheckedThe competence curve, and why the strategies that built your career stop carrying you at a certain pointThe science of why uncertainty feels like a threat, and why we reach for familiar tools when nothing is workingWhat endurance athletes call threshold pace, and what it teaches us about leadershipA reflection prompt for leaders who suspect they might be working harder at something that isn't asking for harder work The Threshold is hosted by Amanda Ramplin, founder of EOS Coaching and a former senior leader at ANZ. Episodes drop fortnightly. Reflective. Honest. Unhurried. If this episode landed, the most helpful thing you can do is share it with one person you know who's currently working harder than they should have to, and quietly wondering why it isn't working. And if you have time, leave a review. Your review genuinely helps other leaders find this work. Find Amanda at eoscoaching.com.au or on LinkedIn at Amanda Ramplin.

    22분
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    The Performance of Having it all Together

    Most senior leaders are performing some version of themselves at work. Not all the time. Not in every conversation. But often enough that it has become the way they move through their days. A leadership voice. A leadership face. A leadership way of holding themselves in a room. Most of the time, they don't even notice they're doing it. Until one day, somewhere quiet, they feel the cost of carrying a version of themselves they didn't realise they'd been carrying. In this episode, Amanda sits with the most exhausting and least talked about part of being at the threshold. The work of looking like we've got it together when we don't. Of sounding certain when we're not. Of leading from a face we've put on, rather than from a place we've actually arrived at. She names where this comes from, what it costs us, and how we might start to set it down. Episode 3 includes: The four shapes performance tends to take in senior leadership (certainty, energy, decisiveness, having it together emotionally)The distinction between presence and performance, and why only one of them is sustainableThe science of emotion regulation, and why sustained performance depletes the same capacity we need for complex decisionsWhy people can see the performance even when they can't name it, and what that costs our authenticity and our ability to connect with our teamThe four small moves that start to change our relationship with the performanceA reflection prompt for leaders carrying more performance than they realised The Threshold is hosted by Amanda Ramplin, founder of EOS Coaching and a former senior leader at ANZ. Episodes drop fortnightly. Reflective. Honest. Unhurried. Find Amanda at eoscoaching.com.au or on LinkedIn at Amanda Ramplin.

    18분
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    The Voice in Your Head at 5am

    Episode 4: The voice in your head at 4am Most senior leaders have had a morning like this. You wake before the alarm. The voice is already running. It builds a case, sometimes a reasonable sounding one, for why you should pull back, hand something off, step away from the work you've been leading. By the time the sun is up, you've nearly made a decision that would have changed the trajectory of your career. In this episode of The Threshold, Amanda tells the story of one specific morning during her time as a senior leader at ANZ. She was leading a major piece of work and the 4am voice had been running for months. And what she learned from that morning, and the practices she developed in the months afterwards, are the ones she now draws on in her coaching work. Episode 4 includes: The story of one morning at ANZ that almost cost Amanda a project she'd been leading for six monthsThe three recurring themes the 4am voice runs on for most senior leaders (pressure, impact on people, am I doing the right thing)The neuroscience of why the voice activates in the early hours, and why its catastrophes feel so convincing at that timeThe three practices Amanda uses to work through it (naming what's happening, not acting before mid-morning, giving the brain something else to do and coming back to it later)Why vulnerability still gets read as the opposite of leadership, and what real leadership actually requiresA reflection prompt for leaders who's own 4am voice keeps returning to something specific The Threshold is hosted by Amanda Ramplin, founder of EOS Coaching and a former senior leader at ANZ. Episodes drop fortnightly. Reflective. Honest. Unhurried. If this episode landed, the most helpful thing you can do is share it with one person you know who wakes too early with the voice running, who hasn't quite had language for what's happening. And if you have time, leave a review. Your review genuinely helps other leaders find this work. Find Amanda at eoscoaching.com.au or on LinkedIn at Amanda Ramplin.

    20분
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    What Ultramarathons Taught Me About Leadership

    Episode 5: What an ultramarathon taught me about leadership There's a moment in any hard piece of work when the conditions you trained for stop being the conditions you're in. The plan was sound. The preparation was real. And the day, when it actually arrives, asks something different from you than the work you'd been doing to get ready for it. In this episode of The Threshold, Amanda tells the story of one specific moment that taught her this. Thirty kilometres into the Tarawera Ultra in New Zealand, with twenty kilometres still to run, her nutrition had failed, her feet were rubbed raw and she had a decision to make. What she chose, and what the next twenty kilometres taught her, became some of the most useful thinking she now brings to her coaching work. Episode 5 includes: The story of one decision Amanda made at 33km in the Tarawera Ultra, with no plan for how she would finishWhy the plan and the conditions are different things, and what this means for leaders whose current role is asking for something different from what they trained forThe central governor model in exercise science, and what it teaches us about the difference between a protective voice and a genuine limitThe relationship between willingness and capacity, and why the version of you who can hold this role often hasn't fully arrived yetThe principle of reducing the scale, drawn from how an ultramarathon actually gets runA reflection prompt for leaders standing in conditions they didn't train for The Threshold is hosted by Amanda Ramplin, founder of EOS Coaching and a former senior leader at ANZ. Episodes drop fortnightly. Reflective. Honest. Unhurried. If this episode landed, the most helpful thing you can do is share it with one person you know who's standing at a threshold of their own, trying to decide whether to keep going. And if you have time, leave a review. Your review genuinely helps other leaders find this work. Find Amanda at eoscoaching.com.au or on LinkedIn at Amanda Ramplin.

    20분

소개

The Threshold is a podcast for leaders when more is being asked. Of them. Of their team. Of their work. The space between who you were as a leader, and who the role is asking you to be. Hosted by Amanda Ramplin, founder of EOS Coaching and a former senior leader at ANZ, The Threshold explores the conversations on the inner game of leadership. The conversations that don't tend to happen out loud. The work that mostly happens in private. Each fortnight, Amanda goes deep on the experience of being at a threshold, drawing on neuroscience, coaching practice, and two decades inside corporate Australia. Reflective. Honest. Unhurried. For leaders who are quietly carrying questions about who they're becoming, and who want a place to think about it. Find Amanda at eoscoaching.com.au or on LinkedIn.