Bold Business Podcast

"Good ideas come to me easily." It sounds almost too simple. But what if your creativity isn't actually the problem - what if it's the way you've been trained to chase it?   We've built entire careers around productivity systems, packed calendars, and the belief that output is the measure of value. And somewhere in all that busyness, we lost the thing that actually drives innovation: the ability to slow down and let ideas find us.   "You're not going to get good ideas if you're running around on the hamster wheel with your hair on fire. They just don't have any place to be."   Jess Dewell brings together three practitioners who approach this problem from very different angles - Catherine Morgan (business consultant and transitions strategist), Claire Uncapher (intuitive life coach), and Dr. Janice Campbell (acupuncturist and somatic practitioner) - for a conversation that's equal parts practical and perspective-shifting.   What emerges isn't a case for self-care. It's a case of rebuilding your relationship with time itself. For trusting the pause. Recognizing that the traits you've spent years working around - the slowness, the tangential thinking, the need for space - might be exactly where your best ideas live.   In this episode Why your physical and internal environment shapes your output more than any strategy or tool How to run a 2-minute experiment this week that can crack open creative thinking The difference between self-care and mindfulness as a genuine business practice What it actually means to trust yourself - and why most of us were trained out of it early How to reframe the traits you see as weaknesses into your sharpest creative assets   "Mindfulness is life. Not just self-care." It's "the ultimate productivity hack". This is one of those conversations that quietly shifts how you see your own work.   It is BOLD to intentionally build the conditions for creativity. This episode shows you how.   If you want to reclaim your strategic clarity, break free from reactive operations, and ensure you're focused on the right priorities for growth, explore the Present Retreat™ approach. This will help you lead with intention and make the time you already have more impactful — so you can see and seize your next big opportunity.  -------------------- You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter,  LinkedIn or Red Direction website.

The leap from leading yourself to leading others is one of the most underestimated transitions in business. The self-awareness, discipline, and clarity that made you effective as an individual contributor don't disappear — they evolve. And the leaders who thrive are the ones who learn to extend those qualities outward. In this episode, Jess Dewell sits down with Tim Fortescue, Founder of 40 Watt Coaching, to explore what it really takes to build a team that moves with purpose. They dig into how honest self-knowledge becomes the foundation for trust, how the way you communicate your vision determines whether your team feels aligned or adrift, and why slowing down to reflect is often the fastest way forward. You'll also discover how to uncover your grandest ideas and plan for them — planting seeds for the future, knowing your key performance levers, and finding what keeps you going when things get hard. Because the small wins matter: they build momentum, reinforce how your company does its best work, and deepen relationships through shared success. This episode is a practical and honest look at what truly drives performance — in yourself and in the people around you — and how to build the kind of momentum that compounds over time, one small win at a time. --------------------   If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business. -------------------- You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter,  LinkedIn or Red Direction website.

Evaluating the capacity of our team and our entire organization starts with introspection within ourselves. To build capacity, we must be actively engaged lifelong learners who can guide and direct the development of teams to maximize success. Jess Dewell talks with Nadine B Hack, Social Responsibility Leader and CEO, beCause Global Consulting, about a leader's responsibility for Direct Impact on Core Business.