This week's episode gets raw and real.
Sope shares his personal experiences of business setbacks in 2025, the global rollback of DEI initiatives, the collapse of so-called "safe" investments, and the harsh reality of an unstable world.
He explains why staying stuck in bitterness will only hold you back and how reclaiming ownership of your mindset is the only way forward.
You’ll learn the neuroscience behind resilience and why your greatest asset isn’t the economy, your job, or the market.
It’s you.

• The harsh truth of 2025’s business landscape
• Why DEI rollbacks are costing brilliant people opportunities
• The stock market crash and the illusion of financial "safety nets"
• The neuroscience of taking ownership and building resilience
• Why no one owes you anything and why that's empowering

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Website | Youtube | Instagram | LinkedIn

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We dive into Lilah's journey from growing up as the youngest of 11 children to leading at some of the world’s biggest tech companies like Microsoft, Oracle and now Google. But what stood out most to me was her raw honesty about burnout, worthiness, and the powerful transformation she experienced through creating silence in her life.

We explore how that one decision to prioritise stillness led to her first personal offsite and later, a global retreat that’s helping other women do the same. This conversation is full of real talk on identity, ego, values and what it actually takes to hear your own voice again.

If you’re feeling stretched thin, disconnected from yourself or just ready to move differently this one’s for you.

• How to create intentional space for stillness and clarity
• Why worthiness is the foundation of personal power
• What it means to partner with your ego instead of letting it run the show
• How to run your own personal offsite to reset your life
• The difference between joy and happiness and why it matters
• How to align your life with your values not someone else’s
• What it really looks like to lead from the inside out

Connect with Lilah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilahjones/

Learn more about her Mexico retreat (May 1–4): https://www.lilahjones.com/retreat

Learn more about my work and how I help leaders like you: https://www.lilahjones.com/

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🔥Quotable Moment: “I really struggle with the word ‘entrepreneur’. When I go to networking events, I see how people introduce themselves with this glee when they say entrepreneur, but it’s actually just a grind. It’s just tough.”

In this episode of Everyday Leadership, I am joined by Tola Alade, serial Founder and a creative maverick with deep experience in founding and scaling businesses across multiple industries.

Currently, Tola is building a next-gen digital media company, Marmalade Ventures, on a mission to build a new mainstream audience shaped by Africa’s culture, stories and emerging brands.

In this episode, we explore his path as a creative entrepreneur and the moments that shaped his career, from securing $2M in VC funding to launching the world’s first rum infused with natural plantains, after an April Fools joke went viral.

Episode chapters:

✅ The complexity of the entrepreneur's identity

✅ From Nigeria to the UK

✅ Changing the perception of Africa through creativity

✅ Losing the joy of what you’re building

✅ Being creative vs being commercial

✅ From a social media joke to a new brand

✅ The Alpha Reset

✅ Start by leading yourself

Don’t forget to connect:

Connect with Tola
LinkedIn | Marmalade Ventures | DÒDÒ

Connect with Sope

Website | Youtube | Instagram | LinkedIn

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In this conversation, Bolaji opens up about growing up in a Nigerian household where hierarchy shaped his early mindset — and how he slowly dismantled those internal limits. We explore the tension between creativity and conformity, surviving 18 years in corporate while holding onto purpose, and how faith, failure, and fierce vision kept him grounded.

You’ll hear how he used music, events and ministry as an early training ground for leadership — long before stepping into business. Now, as the founder of Altitude AI, Bolaji is building tools that empower entrepreneurs to scale using smart, accessible tech.

We unpack:

🔥 The journey from subservient to self-led
🔥 Why AI is a tool to unlock potential — not replace it
🔥 Faith, failure, and staying power in entrepreneurship
🔥 How to unlearn cultural norms that keep you playing small
🔥 The mindset shift from challenger to champion

Expect real talk about leadership, tech, identity, staying power… and why the world doesn’t need more safe goals — it needs people who dare to try.

Whether you’re navigating corporate life, exploring entrepreneurship, or trying to reconnect with your purpose — this episode will inspire you to break your own limits and step into your next level.

Connect with Sope

Website | Youtube | Instagram | LinkedIn

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Chasing work-life balance is not only impossible—it's damaging your happiness, fueling guilt, anxiety, and burnout. In this powerful episode, Sope Agbelusi dismantles the myth of balance, revealing how the pursuit of an impossible ideal sets us up for constant stress and dissatisfaction.

Inspired by Jay-Z's orchestral performance at Radio City Music Hall, Sope introduces the transformative concept of work-life harmony—a beautiful integration rather than rigid separation of life's roles.

You'll discover:

• Why the concept of balance inherently creates guilt and stress.
• Real-life examples showing the pitfalls of strict balance and the freedom found in harmony.
• Proven research from organisational and positive psychology supporting work-life integration.
• Practical strategies to shift from exhausting balance to energising harmony.

Stop chasing balance. Start orchestrating harmony.

Key highlights:

1. The three ways balance sets you up to fail.
2. Powerful real-world stories illustrating harmony.
3. Actionable steps to achieve resonance in your life.

Join the conversation: What does harmony look like for you?

Remember: Balance is the beautiful lie; harmony is your achievable truth.

Connect with Sope

Website | Youtube | Instagram | LinkedIn

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🔥 Quotable Moment: “My positionality had to change from believing that I could stop this to can I reduce this? Because I now know I can reduce instead of stop, it enables me to sleep at night. If I can save one young buck other there, then I’m a good man.”

In this episode of Everyday Leadership, I am joined by Craig Pinkney, Criminologist, Urban Youth Specialist and Chief Executive of SOLVE: The Centre for Youth Violence and Conflict.

Craig has over 20 years of experience as an outreach worker, transformational speaker, international gang exit strategist, training facilitator, mentor and filmmaker.

He is internationally known for working with some of the country’s most challenging young people, potential high-risk offenders, victims of gang violence and youth who are deemed most hard to reach.

In today’s episode, we learn more about Craig’s journey from his upbringing, being diagnosed with dyslexia and autism during his undergraduate degree to his important work as a youth worker and building SOLVE.

Episode chapters:

✅ Being diagnosed with dyslexia and autism at university

✅ Childhood reflections & influences

✅ From no GCSEs to completing his PHD

✅ The crucial role of mentorship

✅ Bridging the Gap between academia & the street

✅ The ethics of research

✅ Navigating Trauma & self-care

✅ Understanding privilege

✅ Challenging hyper-masculinity & building community

Don’t forget to connect:

Connect with Craig

LinkedIn| SOLVE

Connect with Sope

Website | Youtube | Instagram | LinkedIn

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🔥 Quotable Moment: “Recovery is a journey. You haven’t failed because you’ve engaged with your behaviour once more. Every hour is the opportunity to do something that’s recovery promoting.”

In this episode of Everyday Leadership, I am joined by Emilie Faure, founder and CEO of Juniver, the science-based recovery program for disordered eating.

Having struggled with an eating disorder herself, Emilie shares her personal journey from a career in the arts to starting Juniver to revolutionise the way to recovery and helping others spot the signs of eating disorders earlier.

We also dive into common misconceptions about this addiction, the role of social media and technology and Emilie’s advice for practical strategies to get closer to recovery.

Episode chapters:

✅ Emilie’s early career & her personal journey with eating disorders

✅ The need for innovation

✅ The role of shame & self-trust in recovery

✅ Community & navigating influences on social media

✅ Gender disparities in healthcare and research

✅ Common misconceptions in eating disorders

✅ Why an eating disorder is an addiction

✅ Taking the first step in recovery

✅ Defining leadership in healthcare

Don’t forget to connect:

Connect with Emilie
LinkedIn | Juniver | Use the discount code ‘JUNIPOD’ to get your personalised Juniver AI coach for a year.

Connect with Sope

Website | Youtube | Instagram | LinkedIn

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🔥 Quotable Moment: “I’m just who I am. It’s authenticity - what you see is what you get with me, and I search for that in other people.”

In this episode of Everyday Leadership, I am joined by Lee Anderson, founder and managing director of LeBern Property Services, founding partner of Genesis Property Network, non-executive director of Forbes Family Group, and founder of whoma.

In this conversation, we take it right back to the start from Lee’s journey as an inspiring footballer, to becoming a father and navigating the ever-changing challenges as a business owner and leader.

In today’s episode, we explore:

✅ Lee’s journey from football to banking and property

✅ Navigating the financial crash

✅ Finding your core values

✅ Learning from mistakes

✅ Building deep relationships

✅ Learning to listen without ego

✅ Building an authentic personal brand

✅ Disrupting the property industry

✅ Bringing people on your journey & having influence

Don’t forget to connect:

Connect with Lee
LinkedIn | Instagram | LeBern Property | whoma

Connect with Sope

Website | Youtube | Instagram | LinkedIn

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