A Time for Remote Work Culture with Sarah Riegelhuth

Okay, wow, it’s our first ever episode of Conscious Culture and what a time to be doing it!

For our inaugural ep, we thought our founder and CEO Sarah Riegelhuth should sit down and record a quick solocast to welcome you to the show, and to remote work, conscious leadership and conscious company cultures.

Sarah has been working on the podcast since mid-2019, but it’s been on the back burner until recently when we thought, you know what? The world needs this right now.

So here we are, in the midst of the coronavirus spreading the globe, forcing almost everyone into emergency remote working. It’s an extremely interesting time for us at Grow My Team, so let’s dive in!

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"Whether you're an employer, an entrepreneur, a founder, or a CEO, or whether you're an employee, now you're getting to experience what it's like to work in a team remotely. To experience the fact that culture still exists in a remote context, relationships still exist, closeness exists, friendships develop, friendships evolve. All of it still exists in a remote context."

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Remote work has long moved beyond simply being a trend or a lifestyle. It’s a natural evolution in the way we work and collaborate. A complete and vital redesign with profound positive impact for businesses, teams and society as a whole.

With it comes a work culture revolution that requires putting culture, freedom, trust and conscious behaviour at the core of every business that wants to thrive.

I’m Sarah Riegelhuth, your host, and I’m a serial entrepreneur, investor and expert in growing happy remote teams. Since 2014 I’ve been running all of my businesses remotely and that has deeply changed who I am as a leader. I’ve gone from micro-managing an unhappy team, suffering high turnover and working long hours, to moving to the US, traveling roughly six months of the year, loving the shit out of my team and being constantly amazed as to what we’re achieving.

Join me as we dive deep into conversations about remote work magic, conscious culture, and the future of work with some of the most inspiring founders and leaders in the remote work space.

Insights, tips, success and failure, innovation.. we share it all.

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“The way that we look at work is going to massively change.”

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As we're moving through unprecedented times and companies are pushed into embracing an emergency remote work model, there's a great need to understand how remote culture works and what being a conscious leader really means.

In this episode, our host Sarah Riegelhuth gets into lockdown and how that has effected business, pitching in to help our entrepreneurial communities, and how exciting it is to watch the world realise the freedom of working remotely.

Sarah also talks about her personal experience leading her companies fully remotely, shares basic guidance on how to communicate and connect in a remote context and offers her insights into what conscious culture looks like.

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“We’ve never had an office, we’ve always been fully remote, and we have a culture! Wow, surprise!”

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On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth also discusses:

• Being intentional
• Having clear values and a mission for your organisation
• Remote work structures
• Attending and hosting online events
• How we want to live and the life we want to offer to our teams
• Working side by side with our team
• How she looks at things as a leader
• Operating from a conscious place

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"There is so much we are on the precipice of. There is so much of being and living that we get to choose that, due to always doing things the same way, we haven’t really stepped into fully yet."

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Thanks for listening to this episode of Conscious Culture: The Evolution of Work, our podcast for conscious leaders, brought to you by Grow My Team.

We invite you to join us on this journey and step into this new world that is rapidly upon us with an open mind. You may be surprised what you discover in yourself, in your team, in your culture and in your company.

Follow us as we further explore real stories of remote companies and the thriving cultures they’re creating. To stay updated with all of our episodes, subscribe to the podcast in your favourite podcasting app.

For more information about remote work, check out more of Grow My Team here.

Or email Sarah directly to have a chat about remote work, how it’s done and how it can benefit your company: [email protected].