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IMPACTFUL Teamwork

This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do

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35:09

The Power of Masterminds: Building Psychological...

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2026/10/04

Host Julia Felton welcomes Jay Fairbrother (“The Mastermind Guy”) to discuss masterminding as a leadership tool for building stronger teams and businesses. Jay clarifies that true masterminds, rooted in Napoleon Hill’s concept, are not networking groups or guru-led coaching but a facilitated process that draws collective wisdom from the room to create an “invisible, intangible” force. He shares how masterminds helped him scale his first company from $1M to $10M revenue and later provided crucial

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27:06

AI and Cultural Debt: The Hidden Trust Risks Shaping...

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2026/09/28

This episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast argues that AI is changing organisational culture whether leaders intend it or not, and that the biggest risk is cultural debt—unaddressed behaviours, tensions, and unwritten rules that compound over time. Drawing on Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends survey, it highlights that 42% of workers say their organisation rarely evaluates AI’s impact on people, and 80% of leaders worry colleagues use AI to appear more productive. The host outlines five

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26:56

Are We Automating Away Our Humanity? The Leadership...

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2026/09/21

This episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast explores whether organisations are “automating our way out of humanity” as AI accelerates.Julia highlights rare agreement among AI leaders—Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk—on the need to pace AI development, noting Amodei’s argument that governance and safeguards are lagging behind capability.The episode argues the biggest AI leadership challenge is human, not technological: efficiency can become a dangerous addiction, and

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28:28

The Environment You Create Impacts The Candour In...

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2026/09/14

Host Julia Felton argues that silence on leadership teams is often a rational response to the environment leaders create, not a lack of courage, and that psychological safety is built continuously through everyday interactions. Citing Kurt Lewin’s idea that behaviour is a function of the person and their environment, she describes Amy Edmondson’s hospital findings that better teams report more errors because admitting mistakes is survivable, warning that “clean” error logs may signal suppression

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34:13

Learning From Failure: How Psychological Safety Helps...

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2026/09/07

On the Impactful Teamwork podcast, host Julia Felton interviews Rachel Franco, founder of Fail Smarter, about why teamwork and learning from failure are competitive advantages.Franco shares how her Fortune 500 innovation enablement work and a Northwestern capstone on barriers to learning from failure led her to focus on helping leaders and teams overcome fear of failure so they can innovate.The conversation emphasises psychological safety—making it safe to speak up with ideas, concerns, and

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20:46

Your Leadership Team Is Not Under-Led. It Is...

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2026/08/31

The episode argues that teamwork is a key competitive advantage and that many organisational problems—failed change initiatives, low engagement, and poor collaboration—reflect outdated leadership models. Drawing from June Gunter’s book "Chaos to Clarity" and the host’s training with horses, it introduces the diamond model of shared leadership based on herd dynamics: the lead mare provides direction from the front, the lead stallion protects and unifies from behind, and sentinels lead from the middle

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41:21

Your Best Engineer Is Not Your Next Leader with Craig...

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2026/08/24

Host Julia Felton welcomes Craig Bromage, Head of Infrastructure and Platforms at National Highways and creator of The Everyday Leader, to discuss teamwork and leadership. Craig reflects on nine years in the RAF, noting promotions often tied to courses, time served, and poor management with little HR correction, and contrasts this with civilian leadership development. They explore how technical experts are frequently promoted into management without the right skills, creating bottlenecks and divided

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29:29

Your Leadership Team Is Not Misaligned. It Is Far Too...

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2026/08/17

This episode argues leadership teams are often not misaligned but overly “agreeing,” confusing verbal consent with true alignment, which is behavioural, accountable, and must hold under pressure. It explains how meetings can produce nodding and positivity yet no change in the following weeks, because silence is treated as consent, seniority distorts discussion, offsite decisions don’t survive real-world conditions, and agreement avoids hard trade-offs. Citing Gallup mid-2026 data (49% know what’s

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35:07

Servant Leadership: The Strategy That Builds...

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2026/08/10

On the Impactful Teamwork podcast, Julia Felton interviews David Guttman, a three-time Inc. 500 entrepreneur with multiple eight- and nine-figure exits, about servant leadership and building high-performing teams. Guttman shares how a misdiagnosis of terminal cancer at 24 prompted him to shift from achievement-obsession to putting coworkers first, arguing leaders serve their people and that caring can’t be faked. They discuss authenticity, trust, assuming positive intent, and the ripple effect of

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41:18

Leading Through Care and Presence: Horse Wisdom with...

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2026/08/03

Host Julia Felton welcomes Kelly Wendorf, founder of Equus and author of "Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living," to discuss how horses and nature inform leadership and teamwork. Wendorf shares her journey from equestrian ambitions to coaching and equine-facilitated leadership, emphasizing experiential learning and presence. They explore modern disruption as a catalyst for evolution using nature’s adaptive cycle (new beginnings, growth, consolidation, letting go) and

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34:15

AI And Organisational Culture: Why It Amplifies...

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2026/07/27

The episode argues teamwork is a key competitive advantage amid record-low global engagement (20%) and falling manager engagement (30% to 22%), noting managers drive 70% of team engagement variance and disengagement costs an estimated $10 trillion annually.It warns leaders that AI won’t fix culture but will amplify it, making intentional culture design urgent. Drawing on Peter Matthies and the Conscious Business Institute, it outlines four culture levels:Level 1 output culture (mechanistic,

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35:43

Business Energetics and the Power of Empowerment

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2026/07/20

On the Impactful Teamwork Podcast, host Julia welcomes Jean Walters, a personal growth consultant and seven-time Amazon best-selling author, to discuss teamwork as a competitive advantage and how “business energetics,” universal laws, and metaphysics influence organisational success. Jean argues that everything is energy and that leaders can either work with it consciously or suffer its effects, emphasising gratitude, positivity, and empowerment over criticism. She shares an exercise contrasting

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27:11

Visible, Honest, and Wrong — Why Certainty Is Costing...

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2026/07/13

Julia Felton explores two research findings: 65% of leaders would rather appear decisive and be wrong than admit uncertainty and be right, and “invisibility is no longer read as neutral” but as avoidance. Drawing on a Forbes article by Doug Melville, she argues that C-suite credibility now depends on visible, human storytelling aligned with operational truth, not polished messaging, especially amid rapid change like AI and expectations of headcount reduction. She contrasts this with the

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46:53

Overcoming Decision Fatigue To Prevent Decision...

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2026/07/06

Carrie Gallant and Julia Felton collaborate on a joint episode of The Tall Poppy Revolution Radio Show and the Impactful Teamwork Podcast to discuss how leaders can create conditions for better decision-making amid uncertainty and pressure. They explore decision fatigue, reluctance to decide, and how inaction is still a decision, linking these patterns to engagement, agency, and culture. They argue that consultative decision-making, context, and psychological safety improve buy-in and reduce

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21:46

Leadership Fatigue: The Problem Nobody Wants to Admit

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2026/06/29

Julia Felton argues that the UK has a leadership problem driven by chronic, unrelenting pressure that the nervous system isn’t designed to sustain, leading to slower decisions, reduced trust, political caution, and emotional exhaustion. She contrasts short-term pressure (where humans perform well) with long-term dysregulation that organisations often suppress through policies and norms, creating numbness that looks like professionalism. Felton explains why AI cannot solve trust deficits or poor

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37:45

Why Sales Team Culture Decides Performance More Than...

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2026/06/22

On the Impactful Teamwork Podcast, host Julia Felton interviews sales-team coach Luke Jorgenson, who spent 10 years in US door-to-door solar sales, about resilience, coaching, and building high-performing sales teams. Luke explains how repeated rejection builds a “sales muscle” and says leaders should help new hires break fear quickly by getting them in the field with support and mentoring. He argues coaching should be normalised in business, as in sports, to accelerate learning and uncover blind

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31:17

Has Your Org Chart Outlived Its Use? What the Herd...

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2026/06/15

The episode argues that teamwork is a key competitive advantage and explores why work often gets stuck departments due to unclear ownership and accountability. Drawing on Deloitte’s 2026 Human Capital Survey, it highlights that 66% of C-suite leaders say pushing beyond traditional functions (HR, finance, IT, legal, procurement) is critical, yet only 7% report real progress, creating a 59-point gap. It describes simultaneous pressures on functions—cost-cutting via shared services and automation,

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31:52

Breathwork for Leaders: Regulate Stress, Boost...

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2026/06/08

Host Julia Felton welcomes high-performance coach and breathwork expert Lucas Kulbis to discuss how breathwork helps leaders regulate stress and improve team performance.Lucas shares his journey from an AI-focused computer science path and startup burnout to discovering breath as a foundational tool for state control, presence, and resilience. They explain how shallow breathing can reinforce anxiety and how intentional breathing can shift the nervous system from fight-or-flight (amygdala-driven) to

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27:33

Why Your Leadership Team Is Accountable for...

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2026/06/01

This episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast explores “decision drag,” where routine decisions climb back up the hierarchy and leave leaders returning from holiday to a backlog of unresolved calls. Citing McKinsey research that executives spend 37% of their time on decisions that could be made lower down, the host explains how leaders inadvertently train teams to wait, creating an accountability trap that limits scale. Julia reframes accountability as proactive ownership of outcomes (not blame),

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34:44

Customer-Centric Leadership with Nate Robinson

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2026/05/25

In this episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast, Julia interviews senior retail and quick-service restaurant veteran Nate Robinson about building customer-centric teams and improving the customer journey. Nate explains his “Three I” framework—Inspire, Invest, Innovate—sharing how leaders can learn employees’ “why,” invest in team development, and use creative training methods (including games like Diner Dash) to build skills like urgency. They discuss how leadership requires adapting to

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