Videos

Sept. 4, 2025

🌴248. The Day She Walked Straight Into the CEO’s Office

Today’s walk-and-talk episode is all about a brilliant story that came out of a Work Fame webinar I ran this week. One of the participants shared how, in her very first week at a big multinational, she got asked to get a CEO’s signature. Instead of following “the process,” she…

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Sept. 3, 2025

How to create a community of clients

🕔 Thursday 11 September, 5pm ET (Martini Time) ☕ Friday 12 September, 7am AEST (Coffee Time) Hosted by Alan Weiss & Leanne Hughes Most communities are feel-good echo chambers. Lots of cheerleading, very little buying. In this edition of Talk the Walk, Alan Weiss and Leanne Hughes get straight to…

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Sept. 3, 2025

🌴247.Why I Dropped $299 on AI Glasses

So… five minutes before I hit record today, I did something I’ve never done before: I pre-ordered a piece of tech that hasn’t even been made yet. Yep, I dropped $299 USD on a pair of Halo glasses from a startup called Brilliant Labs. Why? Because the potential of these…

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Sept. 2, 2025

🌴246. The Night I Drove Back for Hot Chips (And Why It Matters)

Tonight’s episode wasn’t meant to be this one. I was planning to reflect on my Virgin Australia workshop (and my friend Sally Prosser’s brilliant cameo on voice skills)… but then dinner happened. I’ve got this little ritual: when I’ve had a big delivery week, I treat myself to a vegetarian…

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Sept. 1, 2025

🌴245. Why 8 out of 10 Candidates Prefer AI Recruiters

Today’s episode is a wild update on something I experimented with a few weeks back: my “job interview with the enemy.” If you missed it, I shared how I jumped on a tool called Tavi.ai that lets you do job interviews with AI avatars. Yep—imagine logging into Zoom and instead…

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Aug. 31, 2025

🌴244. Why Every Meeting Needs a Min & Max

I was driving the other day, catching up on some old Alan Weiss recordings (yep, I upload them into my own private podcast feed so I actually listen to them instead of letting them die in a Dropbox folder). One simple but powerful Consulting 101 lesson hit me right between…

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Aug. 30, 2025

🌴243. From Collingwood to the Conference Room feat. Mark McKeon (Weekend Rewind)

I’m joined by Mark McKeon (https://markmckeon.com/) —ex-AFL player, high-performance coach with Collingwood, creator of The Go Zone and Everyday Counts. We dig into the real-world parallels between elite sport and facilitation: preparation, energy management, room design, AV (yes, batteries!), and what it truly means to be audience-centric. Why listen If…

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Aug. 29, 2025

🌴242. Three Questions to Find Your Purpose feat. Dr. Fergus Connolly (Weekend Rewind)

If you’ve been hanging around here a while, you’ll know I love sport. Playing it, watching it, analyzing it—I’m in awe of what athletes and high-performing teams pull off under pressure. That’s why I was so excited to chat with today’s guest, Dr. Fergus Connolly. Fergus is a coach, teacher,…

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Aug. 28, 2025

🌴241. Results of the 12-Hour Ticket Experiment

Hey, thanks for tuning in today! Yesterday I shared my crazy little experiment with you—what would happen if I gave myself just 12 hours to see if a brand-new event idea had legs? No venue, no speakers, no fancy marketing—just a vision, a date, a location, and a cap of…

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Aug. 27, 2025

🌴240. The 12-Hour Ticket Experiment

Today’s episode is a first: I’m recording this while riding my exercise bike (training for Nepal waits for no one!). I wanted to share what’s happening in real time with Con Con. At this stage, it’s still a fictional event—but I’ve set up a 12-hour experiment to see if it…

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Aug. 26, 2025

🌴239. AI Suggested These 10 Topics

Truth be told, I had no idea what I was going to talk about when I hit record. So, I did what I often do when I’m stuck: I asked ChatGPT to give me 10 episode title ideas. Instead of choosing one, I decided to read them out loud and…

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Aug. 25, 2025

🌴238. The Lowest Hanging Watermelon: How I Chose My First Book Topic

Today I’m answering a great question from a friend: “Do you decide to write a book and then pick the topic, or do you already have the topic and then decide to write?” For me, the answer was simple — I just wanted to be an author. That identity was…

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Aug. 24, 2025

🌴237. Makeup + Money

What this one’s about: I riff on a killer Diary of a CEO roundtable (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVlAOIUA71Y) (Codie Sanchez, Alex Hormozi, Daniel Priestley) and share a study on grooming, attractiveness and pay—plus my $150 Mecca “makeup school” hack I used before a 350-person talk. My big takeaways: • You don’t need capital…

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Aug. 23, 2025

🌴236. The L&D Detective: Proving Your Workshop Works feat. Kevin Yates (Weekend Rewind)

We’re all doing great work… but is it working? Today I chat with Kevin M. Yates, (https://kevinmyates.com/) the global L&D detective who measures whether learning fulfills its purpose. He shows us how to move beyond smile sheets and activity metrics to evidence that behaviour changed and business goals budged. What…

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Aug. 22, 2025

🌴235. How to Take a Room’s Emotional Temperature feat. Nikki Bush (Weekend Rewind)

Guest: Nikki Bush — human potential & parenting expert, bestselling author of Future-Proof Yourself, Certified Speaking Professional, and the first woman inducted into the Professional Speakers Association of South Africa Hall of Fame. Why this episode? If you run virtual workshops and want fast, practical ways to read the room,…

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Aug. 21, 2025

🌴234. Work Fame in the Wild

I shared fresh stories from last night’s IABC Queensland event where I road-tested my Work Fame concept—no slides, just prompts, energy, and a few spicy truths about standing out. In this episode • The serendipity start: rocking up to u&u Recruitment on Queen Street and reuniting with Erica Brush—we played…

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Aug. 20, 2025

🌴233. Housekeeping, But Make It Funny: Notes from QASEL

I’ve just left Day 1 of the Queensland Association of Special Education Leaders conference (QASEL) at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. I’m speaking on Day 3 (“The Dark Arts of Engagement”), so I snuck in early to get a feel for the room—and wow, the energy is brilliant. My…

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Aug. 19, 2025

🌴232. I Was Wrong About This App

I recorded this one from the couch—with the heater blasting and my iPad out—while rejigging workshop sequences. Today I confess something small-but-useful I was wrong about: Strava. For years I resisted it (I thought you needed special gear), then a hike with Kirsty flipped the switch. Now I’m loving the…

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Aug. 18, 2025

🌴231. Index Cards > Google Docs

Today I broke my own rules from The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint… then remembered why they exist. I tried to type a workshop outline straight into a doc at the café (hello, friction and tab-opening). So I shut the laptop, ordered a long black, and went old-school: one idea per index…

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Aug. 17, 2025

🌴230. Dangerously Distinctive: How to Amplify Authority with Jason Knight (Friend of Leanne)

Today I’m handing the mic to my friend (and brand wizard) Jason Knight. If you’ve ever looked at my site and thought, “Whoa—this is… different,” you’ll love this one. Jason and I share a long backstory—from L&D days to Red Carpet Campout—and in this episode he unpacks a super simple,…

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Aug. 17, 2025

Get off the Hesitation Station

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Aug. 16, 2025

🌴229. Activating your strengths to facilitate results in workshops (and in business) feat. Charlo...

Today, I’m chatting to someone who also shares my love for the Clifton Strengths tool. It’s all well and good to find a tool you love, that echoes back what you think + feel about yourself but more importantly? It’s what you do with it that matters! Today’s guest, Charlotte…

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Aug. 15, 2025

🌴228. How to ignore feedback feat. Alan Weiss (Weekend Rewind)

Today I poured a long black (Alan poured a martini) and we got spicy about feedback: smile sheets, unsolicited opinions, and why being liked is overrated compared to being respected. Alan shares why he was often hired to discomfort audiences, how to stay buyer-centred (not audience-centred), and when to refund,…

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Aug. 14, 2025

🌴227. The word that tanks rooms in 3 seconds (+ my 2026 event gamble)

• This week my book The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint has been popping like Jenny Blake’s “serendipity popcorn” — in places and moments I didn’t planIn this episode • The word that flattens a room (and what to do instead) • Why assets beat hustle: books, podcasts, recorded talks = omnipresence…

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