The Focus Bee Show

There is often too much importance attached to strategy and too little attached to our own mind and how we use it. This is why I created this episode, to cover the ways that we can use our minds in order to be more successful and happier. In this episode, I go through:The key areas of our mind that impact our successWhat we can do to change the way we thinkGround-breaking principles that allow us to have a different take on thoughts & emotionsVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance. CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCAST LINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOG

Terry McDougall, executive coach and bestselling author, explains how we can learn leadership, and how we can have more impact all while working less hours! Some of what we cover:The fundamental pillars of leadershipWhy we are afraid to slow down? Key leverage points to optimise our workAddiction to external direction & validationAnd so much more! ABOUT Terry McDougall Terry Boyle McDougall is an Executive & Career Coach and CEO of Terry B. McDougall Coaching. She helps high-achieving professionals remove obstacles that keep them stuck so they can enjoy more success and satisfaction in their lives and careers. Before becoming a coach, Terry was a long-time corporate marketing executive where she led teams, developed strategies and advised senior leaders to drive business results. She is the author of Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms. She is also the host of the Marketing Mambo podcast.CONNECT with Terry McDougall WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramBookPodcastVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCASTLINKEDINBLOGTWITTERINSTAGRAMFACEBOOK

There are nine key saboteurs that are a fundamental aspect of our psychology and the way we function. These saboteurs are over-stretched strengths that can limit our daily performance in our work and life. In this episode, I cover:The Nine Saboteurs from Positive IntelligenceHow to recognise each saboteur What actions you can put in place to work on all these aspectsMENTIONED & extra resources for this episodeSaboteurs from Positive Intelligence4 Tendencies by Gretchen RubinHow personality affects our performanceVIDEO of this episode:YouTube Video: coming soonABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership, Enneagram & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINBLOGTWITTERINSTAGRAMFACEBOOK

Chet, a performance coach that has been trained by Jairek Robbins, and I have a conversation on the correlation between personal & professional performance! Some of what we cover:Key habits and practices that are valid for both areasBoundaries and bringing work homeThe power of listeningAnd so much more! ABOUT Chet Hirani Chet Hirani - Who has lived corporate life for 15 years in Software Tech, climbing up the ladder and working with executives, giving him insight into people’s minds, and making a better analysis of the struggles. He now enables the solutions to develop people and businesses in Leadership, Growth, and Performance. Getting over Perfectionism is precisely what he has done and now simply just gets on with it. Title & Link to your FREE gift – Free Tools & Techniques to Increase Your Performance Personally and ProfessionallyCONNECT with Chet HiraniLinkedInInstagram FacebookTwitterWebsiteVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCASTLINKEDINBLOGTWITTERINSTAGRAMFACEBOOK

When it comes to self-discipline, we often imaging that it means forcing ourselves to do what we don’t want to do, in order to achieve greater results for ourselves in the future. What if there was another approach to self-discipline that didn’t require as much force and pressure? In this episode, I cover:The Yin approach to self-disciplineThe three essential pillars to change our approachHow we can transit from self-rejection to self-acceptanceMENTIONED & extra resources for this episode:Mindful self-discipline VIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership, Enneagram & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINBLOGTWITTERINSTAGRAMFACEBOOK

Mark is a LinkedIn Influencer, mental health advocate, and has been featured in Forbes, Tedx, and spoken at Fortune 500 companies. Great pleasure to have Mark on the show – we covered so much in terms of mental health, energy boosts, training our mind – so many golden nuggets! Amongst others, we cover:Mark’s transformation – his own journey dealing with social anxietyThe four pillars of energy that are keyOne top energy practice that can immediately shift our stateThe number one myth about mental healthHow to work on our self-acceptanceAnd so much more! ABOUT Mark Metry Mark Metry is a Forbes featured keynote TEDx speaker, host of a global top 100 podcast, bestselling author and documentary series cast member.Once upon a time, Mark couldn't make direct eye contact with anyone and barely had friends, due to various issues like mental health, social anxiety, being a first-generation immigrant, experiencing poverty, and more.Now, Mark dedicates his life to being of service to others by making an impact in the industries of mental health, careers and personal branding, speaking, documentary filmmaking, and more...  Mark has been featured in over 250+ podcasts and media like Forbes, Mindvalley, Influencive, Inc Magazine, Huff Post, Fearless Motivation, Spartan and many others.Mark’s former podcast, Humans 2.0 (now Social Anxiety Society). In total, my thoughts, views, podcasts, and videos have been viewed over 50+ Million times. Mark’s podcast hit #96 of the top podcasts in the world with Tim Ferriss, NPR, Lewis Howes & Gary Vaynerchuk.Mark is an international (virtual) speaker at conferences, schools, and Fortune 500’s delivering meaningful & transformative current edge applicable knowledge through speaking engagements, panels, host, MC, workshops, and more.Mark is a strategist consulting funded start-ups, founders, entrepreneurs, creators and organizations to sustainably start, grow & brand build their way through the competition in the age of vanity metrics with marketing experience for over 13 years and accumulation of over 100M+ overall impressions.Over the past several years Mark has dedicated time to teaching professionals, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to learn how to manage social anxiety and rewire your mind, an affordable program here: markmetry.com/program CONNECT with Mark MetryLinkedInVIDEO of this episode:YouTube Video ABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCAST LINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOG

Amnah Ajmal is one of the top 100 women in the world in FinTech. Her passion, dedication and perseverance shine through as we discuss top leadership principles.  In this episode, we cover:International leadership: working in multiple countriesEssential principles that differentiate leadersBuilding trust! And so much more! ABOUT Amnah Ajmal Amnah Ajmal is the Executive Vice President, Market Development, MEA for Mastercard. In this role, she is responsible for acceptance, acquiring, merchants, digital partnerships, strategy and M&A for the region. Prior to this role, she led the North America product organization, based out of the US, responsible for the development and management of consumer and small business payment solutions, including credit, debit, prepaid, small business and acceptance solutions, with a focus on creating sustainable competitive differentiation for Mastercard and its customers.Amnah joined Mastercard in 2015 as Head of Products for Middle East & Africa where she focused on driving innovation across consumer and commercial payments based on technology, partnerships and delivering digitally integrated consumer experiences.  Prior to joining Mastercard she was heading the consumer bank franchise for Standard Chartered Malaysia responsible for end-end P&L. She was also responsible for retail banking strategy for Indonesia, Malaysia & Taiwan in a global role based out of Singapore. Prior to Standard Chartered, Amnah worked at Citigroup in UAE, Egypt, UK and Poland. She held a number of positions at Citigroup including Asset Business Head for Poland responsible for a full range of consumer asset products, innovation and distribution including credit cards, co-brands, personal loans and mortgages. She was honoured to be listed as the top 100 women in Fintech, across the globe, for 2019 by Lattice80 and recognized as the top 25 women leaders in financial technology by the Financial Technology Report US for 2019 & 2020. She was recently recognized as the top 100 woman in fintech, across the globe, for 2021 by IBM & Fintech magazine. She also holds the honour of being in America’s top 10 women in Fintech by the Fintech Magazine for 2020.CONNECT with Amnah AjmalLinkedInVIDEO of this episode:YouTube Video ABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCAST LINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOG

The Enneagram is a total game-changer when it comes to understanding ourselves and others. I am very passionate about this topic and know what a huge impact it can have on our own lives, how we manage our emotions, and how we communicate with other people.In this episode, I go through:The nine key enneagram personalitiesThe three subtypes and wings for each numberThe fundamental principles of the enneagramMENTIONED & extra resources for this episodeTake the enneagram test hereA lot of great information on the enneagram hereVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCAST LINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOG

Mac Attram, the founder & CEO of MindSpace Coaching, shared his magic on business success in spite of challenging times, obstacles and trials.  In this episode, we cover:How to cope with uncertaintyThe key role of mindset in salesThe correlation between business growth and inner growthTop habits to be at the top of your gameAnd so much more! ABOUT Mac AttramMac Attram is the Founder & CEO of MindSpace Coaching, a leading business growth expert, widely regarded as one of the most sought Business Coaches and Trainers for Entrepreneurs. He is famous for helping business owners rapidly increase their sales revenues between 20% – 200% in just a few months, as well as implement better processes and build winning business teams so that they can have more time off to enjoy their lives. Mac had many years of challenges and failures in business before discovering what really works! His tenacity and over 30 years of Martial Arts practice helped him stay focused and disciplined; a trait he takes into all areas of his life including business. He is an entrepreneur who has developed and sold several profitable companies. He is also a multi-award winning business coach and author and has been featured as an “expert advisor” in TV, newspapers and magazines. He was previously awarded the ‘Executive Coach of the Year’ in the UK. The principles he learned in business and now teaches to others have helped him earn millions for himself and for his clients. Mac has also trained and coached over 100,000 business owners & individuals from all over the world in more than 30 countries and has shared the stage with some of the world’s premier thought-leaders, entrepreneurs & speakers, including Robert Kiyosaki, T.Harv Eker, Blair Singer, Les Brown, Keith Cunningham, James Caan, Eric Thomas, Lady Michelle Mone and Duncan Bannatyne. CONNECT with Mac AttramWebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagram LinkedInVIDEO of this episode:YouTube Video ABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCAST LINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOG

Tiffany Dawson, career coach for women in STEM, and multi award-winning podcast host, shares her journey with us from engineer to coach and overcoming impostor syndrome & transforming self-confidence.  In this episode, we cover:Clear definition and understanding of confidenceA key tool to improve your own confidenceThe similarity & difference between confidence & impostor syndromeQuestioning own beliefs to rewire our brainsOne trick to change our own perception of this inner judgeABOUT Tiffany DawsonTiffany is an ex-mechanical engineer turned career coach for women in STEM. She teaches step-by-step frameworks to become confident, strategy-savvy and influential leaders with ease and grace.  Having worked at global engineering consultancies across Australia and the UK, she witnessed and experienced the many challenges women still face in male-dominated industries.  After overcoming her own battles with impostor syndrome and poor work-life balance, she was compelled to teach other women to do the same. You can often find Tiffany speaking at events about gender equality in STEM and sharing career advice on her multi-award-winning podcast, “How to be a STEMinist”.CONNECT with Tiffany DawsonLinkedInInstagramTwitterFacebook GroupWebsitePodcastVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PodcastLinkedInBlog