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For leaders who want to thrive - not just survive.
Leadership can be lonely, overwhelming, and emotionally draining. But it doesn’t have to be. Join Master Certified Coach Jean Balfour as she brings honesty, depth, and warmth to conversations about what it really takes to lead with resilience, clarity, and purpose.
In The Fulfilled Leader, Jean explores the inner world of leadership—the doubts, the burnout, the self-sabotage - and the transformative practices that help leaders feel more grounded, empowered, and fulfilled.
You’ll hear practical insights from neuroscience, psychology, coaching, and real leadership experience. Whether it’s solo reflections or conversations with inspiring guests, this podcast is your space to pause, reflect, and grow.
Listen every week and watch the way you lead, and live your life, transform forever.
New episodes every week.
Subscribe now and join a global community of leaders who are redefining success from the inside out.
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31 minutes
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English
United Kingdom
126 episodes
since Dec. 2, 2021
episodic
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How often are you dragging yourself to work at the moment? Too much work and rising pressure are real problems, but underneath them there may be something we rarely talk about: motivation.
In this short episode, Jean revisits the classic theories of Maslow and Herzberg before turning to Daniel Pin…
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Every career has a bump in the road: a redundancy, a role that went to someone else, a mistake, a step back or a difficult piece of feedback. These moments often stay hidden, and while they’re hidden they don’t go away. In this episode, Jean explores shame at work: what it is, why it lingers, and h…
When work is hard, it's easy to lose sight of where your career is taking you. In this episode, Jean explores two ideas about what makes a fulfilling career:
Gay Hendricks' Zone of Genius and Jim Collins' encodings. She also shares a simple daily practice, taking just a few minutes…
Many successful and rewarding careers rarely unfold the way we imagine, and Melanie Bell's is proof. Melanie grew up on a small farm in Australia and now leads industry go-to-market for APJ telecom, media and entertainment at the data and AI platform company Snowflake, from Singapore. In this …
Coaches are trained to ask questions, not hand over tools - but Jean has spent the past year quietly breaking that rule, and in this episode she explains why. Drawing on everything from a taxi driver in Singapore to her own therapist's approach, Jean makes the case for self-coaching, and shar…
Psychological safety gets talked about constantly, but rarely broken down into something you can actually do on a Tuesday morning with your team.
In this episode, Jean is joined by Helen Sanderson MBE - author of 20+ books, and co-founder of the self-managed home care organisation Wellbeing Teams…
We're living through a wave of headlines about burnout, disillusionment, and generational rebellion at work. Millennials are exhausted. Gen X are questioning why they're still doing this. And yet, alongside all of this, Jean is coaching people who are genuinely thriving in the same landsc…
Anxiety is everywhere at the moment, but the most exhausting part is not always what’s happening in the world. It’s what happens inside us when our mind sprints into the future and our nervous system hits panic, shutdown, or people pleasing. We sit down together to bring mindfulness back to earth a…
We live in worrying times. Whether it's job security, the impact of AI, or simply the overwhelming feeling of having too much to do, worry at work is something most of us are experiencing right now.
But worrying rarely leads anywhere helpful, and often makes things worse. In this episode, Jea…
Have you been feeling stuck, lost, or uncertain about what comes next in your work or career? You're not alone - and there's a name for what you're experiencing.
In this episode, Jean shares her own journey through what Jim Collins calls the fog — the disorienting period that follows…
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