What if scaling back is the most powerful way to lead forward? In this episode of the What Juices You podcast, executive coach and author Stephanie Woodward shares how helping leaders reduce noise and return to what matters most creates energy, alignment, and momentum.

Stephanie reflects on the insights behind her book The Big Scale Back, and how her own leadership journey has led her to help others let go of over-functioning, over-doing, and over-extending. She offers practical wisdom on how less can be more—especially when it comes to sustainable leadership.

Key points from this episode:
- How scaling back clarifies purpose and sharpens focus
- Why saying no can be a powerful act of leadership
- What happens when leaders stop pushing and start realigning

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Get Amazon Bestseller The Big Scale Back by Stephanie Woodward at https://stephaniewoodward.com/

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years
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What fuels exceptional leaders in moments of tension? In this insightful episode of the What Juices You podcast, author, TEDx speaker and Juice Inc. co-founder Brady Wilson opens up about his lifelong passion for creating energizing connections—transforming tension, conflict, and fragmentation into integration, trust, and meaningful collaboration.

Brady shares deeply personal stories, including formative childhood experiences of being a connector in family conflicts, and how these early lessons shaped his unique perspective on leadership and communication. Listen in to discover why Brady believes that true trust only emerges after effectively navigating conflict and tension. He offers practical insights on how adopting a benevolent view and charitable interpretation can dramatically shift workplace dynamics, helping leaders resolve conflicts in ways that energize teams and individuals.

Key points from this episode:

• Why tension is a necessary ingredient for workplace trust and high performance.
• How leaders can transform conflict into powerful opportunities for connection.
• The importance of viewing others benevolently to unlock deeper potential and collaboration.

Join Brady to explore how energizing connections can change the way you lead, communicate, and inspire your teams—even in the most challenging circumstances.
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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years
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Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

• Leadership Training Programs
• Learning Experiences
• Leadership Resources
• Webinars & Workshops
• About Juice

What deeply energizes someone who thrives on making meaningful progress and tangible contributions? In this insightful episode of the What Juices You podcast, Juice Inc.'s General Manager Jean-François (JF) Hivon shares how the drive for purposeful, effortful work energizes his life, both personally and professionally.

JF reflects openly on his lifelong relationship with work, shaped early on through experiences in sports, where effort and perseverance mattered as much as skill. He explains how his passion for working hard naturally evolved into a commitment to creating meaningful structures, contexts, and frameworks—empowering others to be at their best. JF emphasizes how crucial it is to align our energizing activities with contribution, cautioning against the tipping point where even energizing tasks can become depleting if disconnected from their purpose.

Key insights from this episode:

• How purposeful, gritty work and seeing tangible progress fuels JF’s personal and professional life.
• The value of creating clear, supportive structures that enable others to thrive autonomously.
• Recognizing the delicate balance between energizing activity and depletion when disconnected from meaningful contribution.

JF’s wish for listeners is profound: to find awareness around the critical point where what energizes you begins to drain you, and to stay connected to the deeper purpose behind your efforts.
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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years
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Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

• Leadership Training Programs
• Learning Experiences
• Leadership Resources
• Webinars & Workshops
• About Juice