Episode 9 - The Year of Yes

In this episode of The Coach Potatoes we are back!  Join Lara and Andrew as they try to unpack the last 6 months and our respective experiences. Following the year of saying yes, we discuss saying no and we also discuss the search for work life balance and re-balancing our lives. We would love your feedback and questions that you’d like us to address in future episodes.  You can connect with Lara on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraquie/ You can connect with Andrew on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjparkersg Please do rate and review the podcast so that others can find it.

In Episode 14 of the Coach Potatoes Podcast, Lara Quie interviews Gail Gibson, the “Can Do Mindset” coach. Gail is a performance and leadership coach and founder and CEO of the Gaisha Consultancy Ltd. She is the author of three books and host of the “Can Do Way” podcast. Her latest co-authored book is called “The Working Women's Guide to Menopause: When the Heat is On, Don't Sweat it!” And she is also the co-author of “The Rise of See-19 Leadership”. Gail shares her story of growing up in Western Australia and how she adopted a can-do attitude to cope with the challenges she faced as she was growing up. She then tells us about getting the travel bug and living overseas. She currently lives in Johor, Malaysia. She talks about leadership styles and her book “The Rise of See-19 Leadership”. She then talks about her new book on the topic of the menopause and how she is hoping it will make the subject less of a taboo, especially in the workplace. Get in touch with Gail Gibson: You can connect with Gail at her website: www.gailmgibson.com You can listen to her Podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qwmHYqimNsZAi6UoEpBYc/ You can connect with Lara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraquie/ Or on her websites: https://www.laraqassociates.com/ Please do listen to the show and rate and review the Podcast to help others find it.

In this episode of The Coach Potatoes Andrew interviews Cindi Wirawan.  Cindi Wirawan is a Singapore based millennial career coach and corporate trainer who helps professionals to be their best selves. Besides coaching professionals to reach their career goals using Linkedin and networking, she also helps leaders to better engage their millennial teams during uncertain times. She is fluent in English, Indonesian and Mandarin and she has a Master of Cross-Cultural Communication and a Bachelor of Business Administration and has lived in numerous countries. Cindi is also a self-professed Ambivert and we pick up on this towards the end or our discussion. In this episode, as a Millennial Coach, Cindi shares with us all about Millenials, their strengths, and how best to work with Millenials. Cindi also shares her tips and tricks for finding your voice online, the ABC’s of LinkedIn, and introduces Andrew to FIRE (it all makes sense to Andrew in the end!). If you would like to connect with Cindi you can connect through: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindiw/ Instagram: @coachcindi

In this episode of the Coach Potatoes Interview Series, Lara Quie interviews Mary Barrett.  Mary is the Owner and Chief Enthusiasm Officer (CEO) at Mary Barrett Global. Mary is a mindset coach, hypnotherapist, and podcaster. She is an expert in emotional intelligence and communication skills and an ABNLP certified NLP trainer and Master Practitioner. For over three decades, Mary has been educating, inspiring and empowering C-suite, senior executives and entrepreneurs to clear the chaos of their mind and gain clarity to make transformational sustainable changes to increase both personal effectiveness and business results. Mary shares her background and journey into coaching, which began during her 18-year career at Barclays Bank in the UK.  She also lived in Sweden and worked at BMW before moving to Singapore and becoming a mother.  She talks about neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and facing her fears during her time training with Tony Robbins.  Tune in to learn all about Mary and why you should invest in yourself and get your own coach. You can connect with Mary on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-barrett On her website: https://www.marybarrett.global/ Or listen to her Podcast - A Cup of Tea with Mary B https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/a-cup-of-tea-with-mary-b/id1516141440/ We would love to hear your suggestions for topics, questions or comments so please feel free to connect with us: Lara Quie https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraquie/ https://www.laraqassociates.com/ Andrew Parker https:www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjparkersg/ https:www.wasabi-consulting.com/

In this episode of the Coach Potatoes Podcast, Lara Quie interviews Agi Heale. Agi is a leadership coach and author of Generation Panic, a new book to help people overcome anxiety in this fast moving world.

In this episode Andrew interviews Wesley Boers over coffee. After a career in biochemistry engineering in R&D at Procter and Gamble and Ecolab, Wesley has has discovered that what makes him tick is not the chemistry in the bottle but the chemistry between a team's players. Following this discovery and his passion, Wesley is today a certified integral and systemic coach and he is the founder of INN-Gage where he helps organisations unlock their human potential for innovation. During our discussion Wesley shares his career journey to date, the innovation lessons he learnt at P&G, what systemic thinking and coaching is, and his key advice on how to dive an innovation culture in your organisation. Wesley can be contacted via: Web: www.inn-gage.com E-mail: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesleyboers/

Welcome to episode 9  of the Coach Potatoes Podcast. In this episode Lara and Andrew discuss Lara's "Year of Yes", energy levels, burnout, quotes of the episode and where they would like to travel to for their first post-pandemic trips.  We'd love to hear from you with any questions, comments or suggestions, so please feel free to contact us.  You can connect with us: Lara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraquie Email: [email protected] Web: https:www.laraqassociates.com Andrew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjparkersg Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.wasabi-consulting.com Please support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribing so that you don't miss any episodes. 

In this episode, Lara Quie interviews Adrian Sutton, CEO and Co-Founder of Vortex IoT. Vortex IoT is a designer and manufacturer of sensor systems used for environmental air quality monitoring, rail track monitoring, and smart parking. In this conversation Adrian discusses: - How he played semi-professional rugby until age 22 but got injured and had to move on. - His early career and being a slow starter but eventually finding a passion for project management. - Working as a freelance management contractor in eight different police forces and the Home Office to help find efficiencies and cost savings through digital transformation. - How understanding the nature of the business with empathy is important before implementing change. - How he co-founded Vortex IoT four years ago after meeting his co-founder at a trade show in Asia. - The satisfaction he gets in working in a business that is making a difference to the environment. - How COVId has impacted the business over the past year and the importance of having a support network. - Being resilient and walking in the shoes of your customers. Really understanding them and having empathy. - Building the business from 12 to 34 people in the pandemic and using coaching and mentoring internally. - How he has been coached and mentored and believes you need to be challenged and helped to grow. - His advice that it is never too early to start networking. People you know will become influential and life-long supporters. You can connect with Adrian on LinkedIn at http://linkedin.com/in/adrian-sutton-43b44a9 You can connect with Lara on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/laraquie Andrew on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-parker-6ab5a995 Or email: [email protected] and [email protected]

Welcome to the Christmas Special and end of year episode by the Coach Potatoes. In this bumper edition we have gone wild and thrown out our script (which scares one of us!) and we take a look back at what we’ve learnt from 2020, our reflections on a year that has stretched all of us, we chat about what we’re looking forward to in 2021 and we finish our discussion with some inspiring quotes that will hopefully get you in the right frame of mind to make a strong start to the new year. We’d love to hear from you with any questions, comments or suggestions, so feel free to connect with us anytime. Lara: [email protected] or through LinkedIn at https://www.Linkedin.com/in/laraquie Andrew: [email protected] or via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjparkersg/ Thanks for joining us this year and subscribing to our podcast. We will be back in January with more interviews and episodes; so in the meantime, the Coach Potatoes wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and successful 2021.

Nick Jonsson is the Founder & Managing Director of EGN (Executives’ Global Network) Singapore where he works with senior executives in confidential peer groups where they can help each other face challenges and identify opportunities. As you will hear in our interview, Nick is Swedish but has worked and lived in Asia, Australia and Europe. He is passionate about assisting people who are suffering from executive loneliness and sharing his own experiences of executive loneliness. Nick’s passion for mental health awareness has paved the way for him to write his first book; "Executive Loneliness: How to avoid the workplace isolation”, which will be published in early 2021. We spoke with Nick as he was part way through his 14 day quarantine period in Singapore following a trip to Europe. We’d love to hear from you with any questions, comments or suggestions, so feel free to connect with us anytime. Lara: [email protected] or through LinkedIn at https://www.Linkedin.com/in/laraquie Andrew: [email protected] or via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjparkersg/ You can connect with Nick through LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickjonsson/ or via e-mail at [email protected]. You can also find out more about EGN at www.egn.com.