The Heart Smart Leader

Let's become alive in leadership!

We are two months into the year, holiday festivities are a distant memory, new years resolutions may have ceased, so its a great time to sink our teeth into who we want to BE as a leader in 2024. 

Join Mareena as she shares her 3 key questions for all leaders to ask themselves. These questions will reinvigorate why you lead and have you feeling alive and inspired to lead yourself and others with greater love. 

Mareena also shares how living in alignment, and intune with her heart led her to know this episode is the season finale!

Don't miss the season finale of The Heart Smart Leader. 

Have you ever wondered why things happen in life, like the time you met your partner or best friend. Or the timing of when you found the perfect car, or stumbled across the best cafe that turned out to be your next employer. Times in your life when things seemed to fall into place. 

Or maybe these days life does not seem so magical, as we have been hurt or let down and we don't have many people we can trust. 

Join Mareena as she shares the lessons she has learnt from the books that sit on her shelf unread for years and the joy they can bring with the perfect timing.

This episode reminds us of the wonders life has to offer to those that are ready to see it - is your heart open or closed?

Sometimes we can get caught in the microdetails of the day to day and forget to zoom out and see the overall perspective. 

But whats even great is when we can start to see the world, the business, the team from the eyes of others. 

Join Mareena as she shares the power of perspective to increase your leadership impact and business efficiency. She also shares her recent experience of visiting a large coffee chain to see perspective in action. 

When we get perspective, we really start to inspire and make a difference to those we lead. 

How often do you ask yourself questions? 

Have you asked yourself the question that could spark fulfillment in your life?

Join Mareena as she shares the pivitol moment she discovered with her husband, that has changed the direction of what she expects out of life. 

Asking this question, shifted the standards for her relationships, wellbeing, leadership and so much more! 

Join us to discover the question that may be the spark you're looking for.

..... and also to see if Daniel invited himself back for his second episode :-)

In this episode, Mareena is joined by her first guest, her husband Daniel to share what they have recently learnt about each other, through using 'Human Design'. 

Improving relationships is a very effective way to improve performance in leadership and life, and in this episode Mareena and Daniel shares how using 'Human Design' can be a very useful guide to help us at work, but also in personal relationships. 

Learning to embrace all our parts is what helps us find alignment in life and learning to live as the magnificent human we were created to be. 

After 25 years of marriage, they are still learning about each other in what they call a 'dance' of what life has to offer. Its available to everyone, if we are open to recieving it. 

Is it our jobs as leaders to know everything?

As a parent, do you know everything?

Of course not! That's the joy of being human and the adventure of our experience on earth.

So how do we learn and grow if we don't know? 

Join Mareena in this episode as she shares:

• The key to growth and how accessible it really is when we know we have access to it. 
• How we can avoid some awkward moments when we know to ask for it, and we're open to receiving it.
• How we can learn it from our collegues, our leaders, our parents, our children, our partners....

Are we really ready to grow? 

Ask for it, recieve it and get ready to launch into your highest potential. 

Starting a new year as a leader of a team and business can feel very refreshing, and also full of pressure on what to focus on first. 

Join us in this episode as Mareena shares the number one activity that is recommended to have your team engaged and fired up for a great 2024. 

If you are after greater connection, clarity and confidence, prioritising this one action will make a big difference to the performance of your team and your effectiveness as a leader. 

No more wasting time with mediocre conversations, we're moving to meaningful! 

It's the end of the year and the long awaited break from work has arrived! 

.....but why do we find ourselves still busy? Can being busy ever stop?

We all know about the benefits of rest, so what happens over the Christmas / New Year break when our work stops? 

To ensure you don't return to work as exhausted as you left, tune in with Mareena as she shares some helpful insights about what might be going on for you, and how to ensure we find peace this festive season. 

Why can leading change sometimes be so hard with people, especially sustaining change. 

Join Mareena as she explores the heart of leading change, how we can improve the effectiveness of implementing and most of all sustaining it. 

When we consider both the head and the heart of change management, we are more likely to achieve the desired outcome with a highly engaged team. 

It's the festive time of year, we are wrapping up 2023, and emotions are elevated. 

Maybe the year hasn't turned out as expected, maybe family gatherings are triggering more emotions, especially as we may be getting less sleep and still trying to get things done before the end of the year.

With many events happening, and not alot of time to process how we feel about it all, how do we Leaders navigate uncertainty and our emotions in a 'heart smart' way. 

Join Mareena as she brings normality to emotions, and a handy strategy that will help you build relationships and achieve better outcomes, regardless of how you might be feeling. 

Many Leaders are aiming for the end of year finish line..... but what is at the finish line?

What are we rushing for, pressuring our teams to deliver? Do we really need to get to a point of exhaustion, flop over the finish line and be too tired to enjoy the festive season? 

Could there be a different approach to end the year strong? Is there a different way to achieve optimal wellbeing AND performance?

Join Mareena in this discussion to locate our 'on-off' switch and how we might be able to invest in rest that brings greater fulfillment in our busines, our teams and ourselves. 

Have you ever felt sick thinking about a conversation you need to have? Worried how the other person might react, what if you say the wrong thing, and doubt your ability to have the conversation? Of course, we all have, because we're human!

In this episode, Mareena explores why we find having conversations challenging, how our relationship with conflict influences this, and our urge to avoid conversations that only prolongs the pain and wastes time and energy. 

But its not all bad! As there is another way we can learn to jump in and have the conversation with greater confidence, and achieve better outcomes. And of course, gain back time and energy we were once wasting!

Lets have the conversations we need to have. 

Have you ever said 'Yes' when you really wanted to say 'No'? 

Why do we do this to ourselves? 

Join Mareena to discuss why so many of us say 'Yes' too often and why we avoid saying No.

Understand the risk to our health when we become too generous with 'Yes' and how we can learn to say No more often. 

Get ready to say yes more often to yourself, win back some time and improve your health!

Back fresh from LA, Mareena shares her greatest learning from her experience when living life through the intelligence of the heart and how suprising and joyful life can be. Learning to embrace the unknown and creating opportunities to build emotional fitness, Mareena shares in this episode how you can build a healthy relationship with uncertainty. 

When things don't go to plan, its normal to feel disappointed, but heart smart leaders don't simply chuck it in, overthink it, self sabotage and beat themselves up. Heart Smart Leaders, pause and wait for a inspiration to drop in.

Mareena recently experienced this on her travels to LA, recording her Podcast in her hotel, that just didn't work. She paused, went for a walk, kept her energy high, having recently recorded For the Love of Leadership for her Audio book soon to be released, she shares her introduction to her new book 'For the Love of Leadership' 

Enjoy this episode as you recieve the first snippet of the audio book!. 

Was it just the good old days that we could have fun at work, or is something else at play? 

Is there a connection between an increase in fear driven illnesses and injuries at work, and the decrease in fun? 

Join Mareena as she explores who may have stolen the fun from our leaders, what can bring back the fun and why fun can improve productivity and grow your business. 

It's time to have some fun!

When Mareena read that 67% of Australian and New Zealand employees are quiet quitting, she spotted an opportunity for growth in our people and business. 

But what is it we need to do as leaders in business to reduce the amount of employees quietly quitting, meaning 'doing the bare minimum'? 

The answer may lie with the leaders themselves. 

Join Mareena's wave of thought and inspiration to see how leaders can reignite the spark in their team, and possibly their own!

Leaders really do make a difference to our performance and wellbeing at work. Mareena looks back at the leaders that have supported her over the years in her career, what they specifically did to help her progress. Heart Smart Leaders really do leave an imprint on our lives and the way they make you feel. 

What do your clothes have in common with your thoughts? Tune into this episode as Mareena shares her moment angels sung to her as she put on a fine quality tshirt. Life will never be the same for her, or her thoughts. 

Learn how our thoughts can change the direction of life and leadership, and how you can choose which way you want to go.  

It's time to wake up wellness in our workplaces, get out of spending so much time in our heads overthinking every strategy, and constraining our team members tightly. 

To do this, we need to activate the under estimated and underused intelligence that lays in our hearts. 

The answer to wellness lies in all of us, and we have the opportunity to use this and be the leaders the world needs right now, to support the health of out people and our businesses. 

If this sounds like something you want to access, welcome to 'The Heart Smart Leader' podcast. 

I am Mareena Corbett and I'm here to share my insights and expereince of leading thriving teams when we integrate the head and the heart in leadership. 

Let's get started!