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Fast Track To Fearless
Fast Track Your Leadership, Fearlessly with Tracy Forsyth's Fast Track To Fearless Coaching Corner. Bite-size episodes full of proven tools, techniques, and mindset strategies to overcome imposter syndrome and be fearless about your career.
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Why adaptability is more powerful than strength
You don’t need me to tell you the world around us is going through huge change: technological advancements, digital disruption, climate change, social norms…
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What to do if you are standing in the corridor
You know the saying ‘one door shuts, another opens but standing in the corridor is THE WORST’ So this week, I wanted to talk about what to do if you suddenly…
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Problems? Take The Balcony View
This is something I wish I’d known earlier. Taking the balcony view. What does it mean? Well, it’s having an awareness and understanding of what your problem…
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5 Ways to Stay Grounded in Turbulent Times
At the time of speaking to you, here in the UK we’ve just had Storm Isha and are about to have Storm Jocelyn. Many people around the country with trees blown…
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How to Lead with Empathy
How much does empathy play a role in your leadership style? Are you ‘old school’ and think anything like that is a bit too soft to merit serious consideration?…
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Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear and Incomprehensible?
It might be useful to know that there’s a new acronym for the state of the world and its BANI. BANI stands for Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear and…
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Passenger vs Driving Seat - which suits you better?
When my husband and I went to pick up our daughter from university, the weather was awful, and the motorway was busy. My husband is a confident driver, but I…
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5 Ways to Deepen Your Sense of Self
Do you have a strong sense of who you are, how you operate best, what you stand for and what really makes you thrive? If not, I really recommend taking the…
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How Not to Be a Wallflower in a Meeting
Do you often feel like you are a bit of a wallflower in meetings? What I mean is, rarely saying anything, being scared to ask a question or raise a point in…
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How to keep your self-belief in a volatile industry
I work mainly with people in the creative industries and from what I can see this is the toughest year yet in the 30 years that I worked. Fluctuations in the…
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Coaching Corner: What do to about the 4am wake up & worries
I know it’s not just me who occasionally wakes up around 4 a.m. with worries on my mind. One minute, you are sleeping soundly; the next minute, you are wide…
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Coaching Corner: What to say when you don’t know what to say
It’s such a distressing time in the news at the moment and it’s unfortunately going to be distressing for quite a while. At times, I’ve felt doubt about having…
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Coaching Corner: The VOHSAC Method of Achieving
Do you want a highly effective method for achieving? Try VOHSAC, a method or framework for achieving that I discovered most highly effective leaders do without…
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Coaching Corner: Tackling the January Gloom
This is for people who find January hard. Post-holiday season let down, tiredness because of said holiday season, or the loneliness for many during holiday…
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How to Make your 2024 Memorable not Mediocre
2024 is upon us and it is that time of year when people start thinking about what they want to be different. One tool I think is absolutely brilliant at this…
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How to survive the holidays!
Last year, I think I told you how much I turn into a Bah Humbug Scrooge at Christmas, what with the extra expense, consumerism, buying, wrapping, clearing up…
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Coaching Corner: Take a dip in Lake You
I don't know about you but when I think about 2023 I’d say it’s been like being in a tumble drier. It makes me think of the three witches in Macbeth saying…
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Coaching Corner: How to Show Up With Impact
You know how they say there are some people who walk into a room and the atmosphere changes? In a good way? There are people who make their presence felt, who…
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Coaching Corner: Change Can Be “Positively” Scary
Most people are scared of change, frightened by the unknown and the feeling of not being in control of what’s going to happen. But I think there’s a way to…
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Coaching Corner: If at first you don’t succeed try these 5 Rs
“If at first you don’t succeed…try, try again!” goes the saying. But I think that misses a crucial bit between the ‘not succeeding’ and the ‘trying again’. If…
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Coaching Corner: Progress, not Perfection
Most of the people I work with are perfectionists. Driven, determined, focused on getting things right and doing the absolute best they can. And there are a…
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Coaching Corner: Don't Forget The Good Stuff
Don’t forget the good stuff. Stop and notice it. I think it’s good for the soul,never mind the body and the mind. This week, my family and I were thrilled to…
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Coaching Corner: How To Reframe Redundancy
You know that saying, ‘What am I - chopped liver?’ Well, that’s what I remember thinking when I was made redundant a few years ago. ‘How come you don’t want…
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Coaching Corner: A Smooth Sea Never Made A Skilled Sailor
Often in coaching, you are working with a client who is in transition - from stepping up into a more senior role or company or making a career change. They are…
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Coaching Corner: Love all, Serve all. What I learned from a Hard Rock Cafe waitress
When I was about 16 I went to school in Yorkshire and we went to London on a history trip. And the great excitement about that trip was not the history…
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Coaching Corner: What "Succession" Teaches Us About Purpose
Did you watch the HBO show “Succession”? Don’t worry, no spoilers here if you haven’t yet watched the grand finale but suffice to say, I thought it was…
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Coaching Corner: A Diamond Won’t Shine At the Bottom Of A Cave
I saw this quote the other day as I was scrolling and loved it: “A diamond won’t shine at the bottom of a cave.” Along with it was a story about an old car…
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Coaching Corner: How To Stop Being A People Pleaser
Are you a ‘people pleaser’? And if so, what’s wrong with pleasing others? I often hear people say, ‘I’ve got to stop being such a people pleaser’ like it’s a…
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Coaching Corner: 5 Great Questions About Coaching
It was International Coaching Week back in May, which was a weeklong global celebration of the power and impact of professional coaching. So in honour of that…
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Coaching Corner: What A Dog Can Teach Us About Purpose
In this episode I explore ‘Purpose’ - Purpose is the reason for which something (or someone) exists or the reason you do things. For my dog Purdey nothing…
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Coaching Corner: Confidence Is Not The Absence Of Fear
In this episode I explore the quote “Confidence is not the absence of fear, it’s the knowledge that you’ll be okay despite your fear." When it comes to…
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Coaching Corner: Spring Clean your career
In this episode I explore Spring Cleaning and what that would look like for your career. With any declutter you have to get everything out, sort through it…
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Coaching Corner: Regrets, I’ve had a few
I’ve been humming Sinatra’s song ‘My Way’ especially that line... ‘Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention.’ And it got me thinking about…
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Coaching Corner: Learn to Take a Compliment
How good are you at taking a compliment? Terrible? Do you bat it off, push it away, deny the truth of whatever is being said or go to great lengths to explain…
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Coaching Corner: How to stop questioning “Am I Enough?”
“Am I enough?” This is one of the frequent things that come up when talking to coaching clients about what they worry about. ‘Am I enough?’ But what is…
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Coaching Corner: One door shuts, another one opens, but standing in the corridor is a b*tch
Today I want to talk about this expression - "When one door shuts another one opens" When I was leaving a big job and didn’t know what I was going to do…
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Coaching Corner: Eat It Up & Leave No Crumbs!
This is my favourite rallying cry of the moment: ‘Eat it Up and Leave No Crumbs!’ One of the benefits of having teenage kids is that you get to hear these…
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Coaching Corner: Be “Very Unapologetically” You
I watched an interview with Rihanna’s Choreographer after the Super Bowl show a while ago, and what I liked most was her reply to this question: How would…
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Coaching Corner: Timeboxing – How to do it all
Do you have a never-ending To Do list? Do you often spend time doing the easiest stuff and have the difficult stuff hanging over your head like a dark cloud?…
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Coaching Corner: How To Be The Best Meeting Of The Day
So often when we have a big meeting we think about OUR agenda, what we want to say, what we want to get out of it, what we want. We look at it from our own…
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Coaching Corner: Professional Bragging - how to do it without the ‘ick’
This week’s coaching corner is inspired by an article I saw in the Times titled, ‘Brag Like an American To Get Ahead at Work’. It reminded me that so many…
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Coaching Corner: Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you
Be You. Don’t worry about what everyone else is doing. They don’t all have the answer. Nor do they have it all worked out. As a younger person, I used to look…
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Coaching Corner: "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"
What Winston Churchill’s quote “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” teaches us about perspective. When you look at your life, own history…
Fast Track To FearlessCoaching Corner: Christmas Special
As we head into the festive season, Tracy shares 3 gifts to help you work towards the career and life you want. Tracy Forsyth is a Leadership & Career Coach…
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Coaching Corner: How to career pivot to passion and purpose
As we approach the end of 2022, perhaps you’re wondering what next year has in store for you. A new career direction perhaps? Join Tracy as she shares her top…
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Coaching Corner: Why failure is development in disguise
No one likes to fail whether that’s in their personal or professional life. But this week’s Coaching Corner challenges you to reframe failure and learn to…
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Coaching Corner: Why you should get comfy feeling uncomfortable
If you want to grow in your career, Tracy believes you need to step outside your comfort zone and into your growth zone. This week she talks about the 4 stages…
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Coaching Corner: How to approach career transition
Tracy Forsyth is a Leadership & Career Coach working with senior leaders who want to make a big, positive impact on the world. Over the years, Tracy’s found…
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Coaching Corner: Scorch the Earth with your talent
Do you believe in your own talents and that you can have an impact? This week Tracy’s inspiration comes from the late American journalist André Leon Talley who…
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Coaching Corner: If not you, then who?
Do you hold yourself back out of fear of failure? If so, this episode is for you. Tracy explains why you should stand up, speak up and take the leap. Because…
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Coaching Corner: Know where you're going
How often do you stop and ask yourself “where am I going, and why?” This week Tracy explains why it’s important to pause every now and then and think about…
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Coaching Corner: Do you catch more flies with honey than vinegar?
How do you go about persuading people to your way of thinking? Are you charming and sweet or do you take a more forceful approach? This week Tracy challenges…
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Coaching Corner: Why you should treat yourself like a Formula One car
If you’re ambitious, driven and high performing, how often do you pause for a pit stop? This week Tracy explains how and why you should think of yourself as a…
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Coaching Corner: What Julius Caesar can teach us about purpose
I came, I saw, I conquered. That was Julius Caesar’s purpose statement, a simple line that sums up what he did and why. So, what’s yours? In this episode Tracy…
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Katy Hill: Why life doesn’t stop at 50
Katy Hill is best known for presenting the long-running children's programme Blue Peter. She went on to forge a hugely successful career in broadcasting before…
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Coaching Corner: How to cope in 'Permacrisis'
A pandemic, political upheaval, war and a cost of living crisis. We’ve been living in a constant state of crisis and this week Tracy shares her tips on how to…
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Coaching Corner: Preparing the perfect pitch
Do you have your skills, talents and achievements perfectly summarised in one neat paragraph? If that’s something you struggle with, this week’s episode is for…
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Coaching Corner: Why you shouldn’t let the good stuff pass you by
Do you let imposter syndrome stop you from celebrating your achievements? This week, Tracy gives her top tips on how to step back and take a moment to…
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Denise Nurse: How to earn the salary you want
You might recognise Denise Nurse as the face of the BBC's Escape to the Country, but she has many more strings to her bow. She’s a business success coach as…
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Coaching Corner - How to use your energy the right way
Do you leave enough time in your busy schedule to fill up your energy cup? Do you know which activities or people drain you? Join Tracy Forsyth as she gives…