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Take New Ground

Take New Ground

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Enabling leaders to recalibrate and re-author the next chapter. Laura-Jean Evens, a certified executive & team coach, who enables leaders to recalibrate & author the next chapter, considers how we can make the biggest impact in the time we have? Her conversations explore legacy and elevate strategies to create capacity for effective leadership. Finding inspiration & insight from high performing professionals who achieve business results but live with purpose.Solid Gold Podcasts and Audiobooks
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  • Taking Conscious Breaks | Petro du Pisani

    Taking Conscious Breaks | Petro du Pisani
    Aug 15 2025
    The significance of a strategic pause.

    In this episode, Laura-Jean Evens (an executive coach who enables leaders to recalibrate and re-author the next chapter) talks to Petro du Pisani - an award-winning podcaster (On-Change) and executive coach, focused on holistic life. She is writing a book on Conscious Breaks where she shares stories of transformation and reinvention.

    In this powerful episode, I sit down with Petro du Pisani, a former high-flying mining executive who stepped off the corporate treadmill to design a life more aligned with her purpose and values.

    Petro shares how she spent 25 years climbing the corporate ladder, only to realise that true success wasn’t about titles or perks — it was about living intentionally. She courageously took a year-long sabbatical to rest, reconnect with nature, explore coaching, and challenge herself with the Three Passes Trek in Nepal.

    Together, we explore:
    • The mindset shift from “busyness as a badge of honour” to intentional living
    • How conscious breaks (whether a few minutes a day or a full sabbatical) can help you recharge and find clarity
    • Practical ways high achievers can slow down without sacrificing impact
    • How tiny, consistent habits can build towards transformational change

    If you've felt the pull to redefine success on your own terms, this conversation will inspire you to pause, realign, and create a more meaningful future. Find out more about Petro and her book or podcasts · Follow Laura-Jean on LinkedIn · Follow Take New Ground on Instagram · Follow Take New Ground on X · Follow Take New Ground on Facebook · Follow Take New Ground on Substack
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  • Welcome to Take New Ground

    Welcome to Take New Ground
    Aug 15 2025
    If you're a high flyer, you may be in a C-suite position and you're thinking, "is there an end to this road?" Or "what's next? What got me here might not get me to where I want to be." You might be in the hum of activity, overwhelmed by busy schedules, climbing corporate ladders, or raising families. You might be caring for ageing parents and find yourself sandwiched between two generations. You might be wanting to reinvent yourself and show up in the world in a more meaningful, purposeful way.

    Well, that's why we're here, and hopefully this unlocks something for you. We want to explore three different aspects. Firstly, in the professional space, we get locked onto one dimension of success. We think that we can put on hold our personal success if we just focus on our professional space. When in truth, it's not really possible. The two have to coexist. Success is holistic, mental, emotional, physical in all areas of our life, and how we show up in one area personally, we show up in the other professionally. So we're going to unpack this with some high flying executives who have walked this road and considered what legacy means or what's next.

    The second set of conversations that we're going to explore is how do you slow down? How do you push pause on this treadmill? How do you take a conscious strategic break? Whether that's a long break in a physical space like the Bush, the Bourg beach, but we're not really only talking about physical breaks, but actually how do you slow down? How do you take a break and pause and think about where you're at and how to bring restoration and rest into your life as well as productivity and contribution and how to balance these and still achieve what you want to achieve.

    And lastly, we want to look at what experts in endurance sports and professional sports have to say about how our minds and our attitudes fuel our functioning, the functioning of our bodies in business and in sports. We want to look at the underpinning neuroscience strategies that athletes use in terms of visual pictures of how they get to where they really want to be.

    So if you are any one of those or if anything has really jumped out at you, then stay engaged. This is why we're recording these conversations for you. I'm Laura Jean Evans. Welcome to Tech New Ground. Follow Laura-Jean on LinkedIn · Follow Take New Ground on Instagram · Follow Take New Ground on X · Follow Take New Ground on Facebook · Follow Take New Ground on Substack
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    2 m
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