Welcome to Take New Ground

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