ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
For over a decade, Nicky Perfect BEM served as a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator, working with people and families in moments of extreme crisis. She went on to become Course Director for the UK’s National Negotiation Course and has trained negotiators and leaders across the world.
Alongside her operational career, Nicky has studied psychology, relationships, human behaviour, personal development, and coaching. In this podcast, she brings those experiences together to show how the principles of hostage and crisis negotiation can transform everyday communication.
Because communication is at the heart of everything we do — in families, at work, in leadership, and in the toughest conversations we face. When relationships break down, it’s usually because communication has broken down first.
Each episode offers real stories, practical strategies, and powerful insights to help you:
- 🎧 Listen in a way that makes people feel heard
- 💬 Navigate conflict with calm and confidence
- 🌱 Build stronger, healthier relationships at home and at work
Learn the skills that save lives — and discover how they can change yours.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
23 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
133 episodes
since Nov. 5, 2017
episodic
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Your body isn’t “betraying” you when your heart races before a presentation. It’s doing its oldest job: trying to keep you safe. We sit down with communication and vocal coach Helen von Dadelsen to unpack why brilliant, high-performing people can still freeze on stage, go quiet in meetings, or avoi…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Most couples don’t break up because of one huge betrayal. They break up because they stop being friends, stop noticing each other, and let parenting, work, and exhaustion push the relationship to the bottom of the list. We sit down with Dr. Harry Benson to unpack what actually changed his own marri…
An earthquake hits, your team looks to you, and your nervous system screams, “Take control.” That moment reveals your leadership defaults fast. Former US diplomat Jen Brown joins us to share what 23 years in the Foreign Service taught her about crisis leadership, calm decision-making, and why the s…
Step parenting can feel like walking into a story halfway through and being expected to know your lines. I talk candidly about what surprised me most when I became a step parent in my 40s, why good intentions are not enough, and how quickly everyday moments can trigger big emotions in a blended fam…
A 14-hour bus ride, four hours along some very challenging roads and a village welcome filled with singing and dancing.
It sounds like a travel story, but my trip to Tanzania became something much more.
I came home thinking about communication, community, education and how much we can understand ab…
One small moment can light a fuse: a late sleep-in, a sharp comment, a meeting that goes sideways, a family gathering where you brace for tension. I’ve just come back from a life-shifting trip that left me feeling deeply grateful, and it also got me thinking about why we struggle so much with the c…
Trust is harder than ever to win, and easier than ever to lose. We sit down with Bradley Harris, a boutique strategic advisor with years in boardrooms and high-stakes environments, to break down what trust actually looks like in real communication, not theory. When media channels are fragmented and…
The news can make your chest feel heavy in seconds. One brutal headline, one angry debate, one more “nothing I do will matter” thought and suddenly you’re stuck in helplessness. We wanted to sit with that feeling and ask a simple, uncomfortable question: do we actually have choice when the world fe…
“You’re nice to us.” That’s what the kids said when Sally Michaels asked why they could learn in her setting but not in school, and it’s the line that frames everything we explore here. Sally runs Blue Squid, a non-school alternative provision supporting young people aged 9 to 16 who are struggling…
The moment you realise you need to say “Mum, Dad, we need to talk” can hit like a wave. Not because you don’t love them, but because the topics are loaded: driving safety, memory changes, money worries, and the painful question of whether they can still live independently. I’m sharing a solo, hones…
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