Bringing swagger into your workshops with Leslie Ehm (Episode 160)

02/14/21 • 41 min

First Time Facilitator

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Things that are easier said than done: “Just be yourself!” Why is this so hard?

Here are a couple of reasons:

It’s sometimes hard to see the label when we’re inside the bottle and this creates so
We’re scared to share who we really are with the world, in case we get rejected...

My guest this week, Leslie Ehm helps people discover their uniqueness and release it into the world.

As a Former TV host and advertising Creative Director turned training guru, Leslie Ehm has spent decades travelling the globe with her award-winning company Combustion, working with executives and teams from top organizations like Google, Disney, Pepsico, TD Bank, Uber, HBO, Lenovo, and more.

Fuelled by her unrelenting passion for developing human potential, Leslie is now a Swagger Coach, author of Swagger – Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want, and a keynote speaker.

She’s turned technologists into creative forces, bankers into storytellers, and has brought a serious dose of badass-ness to boardrooms everywhere.

Tune in to Episode 160 of the First Time Facilitator podcast to hear how you can up your confidence and swagger!

P.s. Oh and that other easier-said-than-done-phrase, “Fake it ‘til you make it?” Leslie thinks that’s baloney!

In this episode, you will learn how to:

See people’s truth to help them to manifest who they really are
The difference between self-belief and confidence
Fundamental drivers of swagger
How to discover your own swagger

Resources

Swagger: Unleash everything you are and become everything you want
Visit Leslie Ehm’s website
Connect with Leslie on LinkedIn
Tweet Leslie to let her know you watched this epis

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(Otherwise, enjoy the back catalogue of First Time Facilitator episodes).

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Send Leanne a message

Things that are easier said than done: “Just be yourself!” Why is this so hard?

Here are a couple of reasons:

It’s sometimes hard to see the label when we’re inside the bottle and this creates so
We’re scared to share who we really are with the world, in case we get rejected...

My guest this week, Leslie Ehm helps people discover their uniqueness and release it into the world.

She’s turned technologists into creative forces, bankers into storytellers, and has brought a serious dose of badass-ness to boardrooms everywhere.

Tune in to Episode 160 of the First Time Facilitator podcast to hear how you can up your confidence and swagger!

P.s. Oh and that other easier-said-than-done-phrase, “Fake it ‘til you make it?” Leslie thinks that’s baloney!

In this episode, you will learn how to:

See people’s truth to help them to manifest who they really are
The difference between self-belief and confidence
Fundamental drivers of swagger
How to discover your own swagger

Resources

Swagger: Unleash everything you are and become everything you want
Visit Leslie Ehm’s website
Connect with Leslie on LinkedIn
Tweet Leslie to let her know you watched this epis

Every day in 2025, Leanne is podcasting on her new show, Leanne on Demand.
Tune in over here!
(Otherwise, enjoy the back catalogue of First Time Facilitator episodes).

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How to win friends and influence your online colleagues with Leanne Hughes (Episode 159)

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Do you rely on your colleagues to provides input and decisions to move a project forward? Do you find that you're constantly chasing people to get things done, and finding it hard to build relationships because you can't catch up with people in person?

Then, this episode is for you.

When we used to do things face to face, and I had to chase a colleague for information, I'd head out for a coffee.

It was semi-strategic. I’d sit at the coffee shop outside of my company’s office. It was a fantastic way of saying hi to people when they were in a good mood (with caffeine, outside, day hadn’t really started), you could easily sneak in a quick question about your project, get an answer, and feel like you’d already won the day.

In a virtual world though, it’s hard to orchestrate these conversations... Or, is it?

In this episode, I share the tactics I’ve used to build relationships and influence people I’ve never met before.

You’ll find this helpful if you’re:

Having to get people’s time/attention and you’re struggling because they don’t respond to your emails / you don’t have direct authority (you’re influencing / in a dotted line relationship)
Partnering with an organisation to achieve goals, and you need to work with leaders/subject matter experts, but they’re too busy to give you the input you need to move forward.
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Connecting, empowering and leading groups in the outdoors with Phil Brown (Episode 161)

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When did I realise I loved talking about group dynamics? When I was 16, at a netball camp, we did a team-building high ropes course together.

Btw - I hate high ropes, but I loved the debriefing part afterwards!

The reason I share this, is because this week’s guest Phil Brown works for an adventure company called High 5 Adventure, and he joined the High 5 team as a lead trainer in 2015.

Phil will get you thinking about a lot of things:

What happens when we graduate from being a first time facilitator, where’s the career progression?

How do we define what we do to people who are outside our industry?

And he also shares a really great way of explaining work related to teams, and breaking these into three categories: Team bonding, team building and team development. Clever!

Originally from England, Phil first came to the US in 2008 working as an Outdoor Educator and Challenge Course Coordinator at the New York YMCA Camp. It was here that his love for the Adventure Education field was ignited, discovering the joy and rewards playing and teaching inside and out alongside such a varied range of people, all who benefit from the experience.

His work in the realms of summer camp, outdoor education, and physical education give him an invaluable perspective for working with of High 5’s varied clientele.

Phil believes that each experience with every group member is a learning opportunity for him, no matter who he’s working with. He also has a podcast called Vertical Playpen, sharing tips on adventure and experiential learning.

Connect with Phil Brown!

Email Phil at [email protected]
Visit High 5’s website
Listen to Phil’s podcast - Vertical Play Pen

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