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Psychologically Speaking with Leila Ainge — 72 episodes

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What are you protecting and why? | Reflection Room August

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Could One Room Tell Your Story? | Reflection Room August Week 3

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What Threshold Are You Standing On? | Reflection Room August Week 2

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Are You Leaving Yourself Out of Your Own Story? | Reflection Room August Week 1

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Evidence Over Ego: Why Curiosity Leads to Better Decisions

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63. Build What the World Needs - Tif Bryant on innovation and risk.

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62. The Five-Figure Decision. The psychology of risk taking with Niki Hutchison and Leila Ainge

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61. She quit the job she'd worked years to get. - Louise Duncum

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60. The patriarchy has been squatting in my temple - Emma While

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59. Backing Yourself When the Stakes Are High

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Why Does This Feel So Hard? | Imposter Phenomenon, Risk & the Psychology of Difficult Things

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58. Your Whole Axis Shifts: What Grief Changes About Work and Life

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57. Off the Beaten Path: Identity, Belonging & Building a Career That Actually Fits

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What if interviews don’t just reveal what we think… but actually change it?

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I Refuse to Hate Myself: Emma Seville on 'Starting Again'

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Bonus: Everything we know is shaped by where we stand in the world.

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55. From War Zones to Motherhood: The Unexpected Path to Building a Business

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54. Can Digging in the Dirt Really Improve Your Mental Health? : The Science of Gardening and Wellbeing

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53. Goals Don’t Fail, They Reveal: What Happens After the Plan?

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What Actually Happens After You Set a Goal?

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“Nothing Bad Happened”: What Visibility Teaches Us About Confidence

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Are you Avoidance Crafting?

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Sustainable Goals in an Unsustainable World

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BONUS - Goal Derailment

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48. Lights, Camera… Courage: Dany’s Arctic Documentary Journey

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47. The Cupboard Under the Stairs: Emma’s Year of Coherence

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46. Creative Confidence: The Goal That Strengthens Self-Worth with Bhavini Lakhani

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45. From Stretch Goals to Finish Lines: Goal Setting, Marketing Growth & Marathon Mindset with Hannah

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44. The Ripple Effect: Women, Money, and Mission-Driven Growth with Lucy Green

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43. Animation, Ambition, and the 2026 Plan with Duncan Caterall-Mason

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42. The Psychology of Goal Setting: Flexibility, Identity & Belonging

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41. Drawing Belonging: Darren Scotland on ambition and place, the goal experiments

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40. From Procrastination to Publication — with Rebecca Slater

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39. Jen Vaughan on Balancing Nurture and Profit, The Goal Experiments

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Women, Ambition & the Profit Silence

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Your secret weapon against burnout and stress

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How to Stop Over-Striving and Start Feeling Fulfilled

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Unfiltered & Unapologetic: Women in Focus with Karen Staniland-Platt

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You are not that important: finding Joy and doing weird stuff with Hannah Isted.

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The Joy of being a Generalist (and specialist) with Katie Elliott

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Run With Me: A Short Episode on Mindset and Doing Hard Things

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Is Imposter Phenomenon Blocking Your Joy?, Psychology-Backed Solutions

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The weight of Joy: Choosing joy, autistic joy and art.

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Does Your Environment Spark Joy?

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How Joy Moves

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The Joy Experiments: A New Season of Psychologically Speaking

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The Pause Is Part of the Progress

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Mind the Gap: Why Knowing Isn’t the Same as Doing

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Worn Thin: The Emotional Cost of Doing What You Love

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When Your To-Do List Becomes a ‘To-Prove’ List.

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You’ve Already Arrived: Confidence, Success & The Power of Metaphor

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Passion, Purpose, and Perseverance: My Journey through Self-Doubt

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Why Self-Love Isn’t About ‘Bouncing Back’ or ‘Fixing’ Yourself"

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Leopard Logic: Katie Cope on Brand Identity

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Psychologically Speaking: January Review Special

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Side-by-Side Success: How Body Doubling Changes the Game

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Ripples of Accountability

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The Neuroscience of Drift: Why Spontaneity Boosts Success

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Twixmas and thinking of the future

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Psychological Ghosts at Christmas: Reflecting on Regret, Unfinished Business, and Decision-Making

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Ultra Visibility: What it Means for Black Women in Online Spaces with Collette Philip

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'It helps me to know what I'm not' comparison and visibility with Ayo Abbas

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Imposter through the lens of Intersectionality with Liana Fricker

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I miss her, I miss me? imposter in midlife with Menopause Expert Emma Thomas

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Competition and Comparison with Lucy Werner

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Owning Your Authenticity and Making a Splash with Helen Hill

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Gratitude, My Unsung Hero.

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Dress for You, Not the Doubt: The Psychology of Fashion. With Guest Samantha Harman

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Don’t Fake It, Make It Safe. Fostering a Culture of Trust, with Guests Christina Clark & Laura Stearn

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Who's watching? Imagined audiences and the imposter experience

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Behind the "Imposter" Label: Unmasking the Systemic Roots of Self-Doubt

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