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Life Beyond The Numbers

Susan Ni Chriodain

What really makes work-life fulfilling?Through stories, reflections and insights from leaders, thinkers and creatives, we shine a light on the invisible forces that shape our work lives — what it means to be human. This isn’t just something to tune into — it’s something to attune to. Hosted by award-winning author Susan Ní Chríodáin, Life Beyond the Numbers is for people who care about people. Because while numbers matter — people matter more.

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#36 Three Pillars to Thrive - Talita Ferreira

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2021/03/30

"...understand how powerful the people dimension is and how investing more time in it, more growth and development, more attention to it earlier you can up your game and you can do much more successful projects and bigger projects." Talita Ferreira. Talita's passion is to change the business world one analytical professional at a time and starts us off with a story about how she learned to adapt her style for individuals and learnt to be vulnerable and trust her team and specialists. Talita has

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#35 Health, Wealth & Happiness - Tony Pound

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2021/03/23

"We're into that instant gratification. Like we see what we want and we want it now. But the reality is for things to last, it takes a bit of time to get there." Tony Pound. Tony Pound takes an holistic approach to his work. As well as planning for a financially resilient future he can help people become healthier so that enjoy their health with some wealth or their wealth with their health! We talk about planning and how to create a vision for your future. Working out what you want to do is the

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#34 People & Money - Rebecca McCaffry

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2021/03/16

"If you think about staff engagement, staff satisfaction. Well, if those people aren't happy, they're going to leave. Same with your customers. People are not going to hang around, so they're not financial indicators, but they do have financial impact eventually." Rebecca McCaffry. Rebecca and I talk about people and money being the lifeblood of business with a focus on the people side. The language of accounting can be austere and finance people might be seen as unhelpful if they are unbiased,

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#33 High Performing Teams - Billy O'Connor

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2021/03/09

"All your problems come with a head and two arms and two legs. Then you have two people coming together and you have four people coming together and you can square the number of problems and challenges because you've different personalities, you have different attitudes and you have different backgrounds." Billy O'Connor. Billy explains to me why he sees himself as a 'why merchant' and as someone who makes it easy for people to effect a change in their business. We cover Herzberg's motivating

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#32 Serial Entrepreneur - Kevin Ashley

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2021/03/02

"From a business point of view, you need to have the willingness to continuously learn and remain open and then be willing to pivot. And this is where I see a lot of people fail so often as they fixate on a framework of what success looks like to them. And when they come up to a blocking point they don't know how to just pivot and change". Kevin Ashley. Kevin Ashley is one of the founders of Java House, an East African coffee house and diner. We talk about the early days of Java House and the

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#31 Showing Your Personality - Robin Kiziak

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2021/02/23

"We've got a lot to offer beyond just giving a set of accounts to somebody. And it comes down to the fundamental fact that we're all people at the end of the day and it's all about relationships and building those relationships..." Robin Kiziak. Robin and I discuss storytelling - with words and numbers. Robin illustrates the power of bringing numbers to life with a story about why a particular set of numbers (6, 2015, 15 & 107,398) is important to him. We talk about breaking down barriers at work,

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#30 Leading Change - Lisa LLoyd

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2021/02/16

"When people are able to pause and are given permission to pause by their leaders and they know the necessity of pausing, in terms of their brain being so much more productive and you'll be so much more engaged and so much more successful after a pause. And then that's where the magic happens." Lisa LLoyd. Lisa and I talk about putting the human factor back into workplaces and treating people like people. We talk about the return on investment (ROI) of investing in staff and how a one-size

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#29 Connect the Dots - Andi Lonnen

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2021/02/09

"The very first training course I delivered I thought this is it. I have actually found my thing. This is what I was put on this planet to do. I just cannot explain the explosion of happiness inside when I'm delivering training and just working so hard with different individuals". Andi Lonnen Andi Lonnen chats to me about how she discovered her love for training and how she infuses that training with energy and enthusiasm. She talks about training non-finance people to help them understand the

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#28 Breakthrough - Gib Bulloch

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2021/02/02

"Businesses are fairly unhappy places to be at the moment. People, young people, bright people who've done everything right, who've got a good education they've paid through the noses for, who've worked hard and they've got into these elite organisations and are saying "Is this it? Is this what I want to do?" They look 30 years ahead 40 years ahead to the bosses and say, "Is that what I want to be?"" Gib Bulloch. Gib talks about how he began to question his 'lovely yuppie lifestyle' in London, in

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#27 Healthy High Performance - Sheila Walsh

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2021/01/26

"We're really focused on the core fundamentals of organisational clarity, communicating that clarity, over-communicating that clarity, minimising confusion and politics. And when that's present, then you have the good stuff. And for me, the good stuff is that you're creating that environment for people to flourish and thrive." Sheila Walsh. Sheila Walsh takes me through the tumultuous year in a tech company in the travel sector. We talk about keeping teams engaged when everyone is remote working

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#26 Guinness & Tea - John Collins

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2021/01/19

"We have a very progressive organisation that values its people, but the most satisfying and motivating thing about an organisation like Pukka is the genuine feeling that we are making decisions for the right reasons." John Collins John Collins saw his accounting qualification as a passport and had opportunities to travel with Diageo - he says he was a 'walking stereotype' (Irish, red-hair and works for Guinness). We discuss working out what you really want to do and exploring extrinsic and

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#25 Your Career Story - Megan Haupt

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2021/01/12

"A professional summary and professional summaries, in general, tend to be these sort of really abstract statements." "There's no sort of connection to the human being. It could be anybody. I'm like, well, let's try to find a way where we can actually write these professional summaries that relate to the human being on this piece of paper." Megan Haupt. Megan Haupt started career storytelling as an exercise to help people write their professional summaries. We talk about how working takes up a

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#24 Changing the Status Quo - Gillian Fawcett

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2021/01/05

"We are, the first international mentoring scheme for public finance, the first, scheme to be totally virtual for public financial by management." "I see public finance by women as being a powerful network to try and influence the status quo and change the status quo." Gillian Fawcett. Throughout her career, Gillian has focused on making public services more efficient and more effective on a local, national and international level. We discuss the impact she wants to have on the world and the

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#23 Work-Life Magic - Various

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2020/12/29

In this episode, I've pulled together some insights from guests on 'work-life balance' - what is work-life balance, how do you know you have it, does it exist and more. I introduce the episode with an overview of 'body-budgeting' - a phrase coined by neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett. She is the author of 'How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of The Brain'. This episode includes: John Hayns (#14) on attuning to your body and work-life magic Kim Bowden (#17) on a work-life

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#22 Work-Life Insights - Various

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2020/12/22

This week's episode includes a selection of insights from seven of the first 21 episodes. We start off with stories of how we can compromise ourselves at work from Mags de Valois (#13) and Mark Samowitz (#21). Then a story from Helen Joy (#6) about how your personal life influences your work life but also how you can learn from good and bad experiences. Marcus Thompson (#15) tells us the secret to flourishing at work. Sue Rosen (#1) talks about how her head was full of the shoulds, the

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#21 Empowering People - Mark Samowitz

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2020/12/15

"And if you don't understand the language and the financial impacts of the words being used in that language you're completely in the dark, right? No wonder people are dead scared and have this fear. So we want to remove the fear of the language and empower people to speak finance confidently." Mark Samowitz. We chat about the fear non-finance people often experience when it comes to working with accounting and finance teams or when they deal with numbers. Although non-finance people can be

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#20 Happy at Work - Aoife O’Brien

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2020/12/08

"I have been in situations in the workplace where it was just a toxic environment. How do we protect workers from entering into that type of scenario? How do we help companies to make better decisions when it comes to hiring to help them to retain staff, to create a better and more collaborative environment. But also how do we match?" "How do you find that match between a person and an organisation?" Aoife O'Brien Are you happy at work? In this week's episode Aoife and I explore the concept of

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#19 Cross-Cultural Contexts - John Cammack

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2020/12/01

"If we can understand other people's culture, whether it's racial culture or national or organisational we are then in a better place to start making those bridges and making sure that we can work together effectively and actually benefiting from other people's cultures and understanding." John Cammack. John began his career in International Development with the job title Disasters Accountant and his latest book, Cross-Cultural Organizational and Financial Training, is where anthropology meets

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#18 Letting Go - John Purkiss

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2020/11/24

"I realised, okay, so I've done all this left-brain clever stuff, you know, like accounting, finance, languages, strategy, marketing, dah, dah, dah. I feel suicidal. So clearly I am missing something. My father was in sales, my brother is in sales and I realised there were people who were far less academic than me who were leading much happier lives and were not trying to kill themselves." John Purkiss. John finds himself drawn to anything that helps change the world in a positive way including

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#17 ”Queen of Finance” - Kim Bowden

Life Beyond The Numbers ·

2020/11/17

"...one of the days the security guard said to me, "why weren't you in on Sunday?" It was like, Oh God, I know I haven't got this right." "...the last couple of months have shown us that spending time, doing things with people you love and being able to take time to read books and go for walks ..... makes you more productive at work." Kim Bowden. Kim got into accountancy by accident and has gained considerable experience in both the commercial and non-profit world despite saying she still

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