Are You Listening? A solo episode

Are You Listening? A solo episode

May 14, 2026 · 37 min · Episode 225

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Susan reflects on the themes of voice and creativity in her solo episode marking two years since her book's publication.

"There's a lot more that hasn't been said. A lot of the book is about voice and not leaving things unsaid. And I sometimes realise that I don't use my voice as much as I could. I can retreat from things. In a way, that's what writing the book does. It brings things to the surface that wouldn't otherwise come through. I don't think that's done. I just think there's a lot of creativity still waiting to emerge." Susan This is a solo episode to mark 2 years since the publication of Leading Beyond the Numbers. It begins with a poem written on a the side of the street in London and moves through what it has been like to live alongside a book in the world. I explore what it means to uncover or recover our dreams, and what stands between us and acknowledging them. Tim Gallwey's formula: Performance = Potential – Interference surfaces alongside a mishearing that reframed interfere as inner fear: the way our most protective thoughts can be the most cleverly disguised. I cover the shortlisting party I nearly talked myself out of attending and a moment afterwards, a hug from a fellow author who hadn't made the shortlist, that turned out to matter most. And underneath all of it: outsourcing…

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