The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

Dr Gary Crotaz PhD

My name’s Dr Gary Crotaz, I’m an international speaker, an executive coach, and I coined the term The Unlock Moment. An Unlock Moment is that flash of remarkable clarity when you suddenly know the right path ahead. Unlock Moments define us. They teach us about ourselves. And we remember them decades later. In exploring Unlock Moments on this podcast and in my speaking and coaching work, I’ve discovered how we can see ourselves through a new lens, how we can make new and powerful connections, and how we can get right to the heart of our deepest underlying sense of purpose. In these intimate and curious conversations I explore how people find fulfilment, happiness and balance. From ordinary people with extraordinary stories, to some of the most successful people on the planet, you’ll hear them reflect on those pivotal life and career moments, when they suddenly knew something they didn’t know before. And as you listen, maybe you’ll be inspired to explore your own Unlock Moment. I’m so happy you’re here. Sit back and open your mind. Welcome to The Unlock Moment!

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96 Paru Radia: "I'm Making Me Scared?" - From Fear To Fearless, A Remarkable Journey Of Taking Control

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

08/22/23 • 63 min

My regular listeners will know that I have many world-class leaders and coaches coming on the podcast. And I also invite people who I like to call ‘ordinary people with extraordinary stories’. I love the power of vulnerable storytelling to help people to unlock their thinking, feel connected and less alone and lonely in their own journey.

For today’s guest, Paru Radia, there is much more to her story than what you see of her today as a highly successful executive strategist, but it is that story that has shaped her into the powerful thought partner to senior executives and entrepreneurs that she is today.

Paru styles herself the ‘C-Suite Whisperer’ – a sought-after executive strategist who helps her clients take control of their businesses, careers and lives, whilst staying true to who they are. Born into an Indian entrepreneurial family here in England, Paru faced constant challenges that moulded her into a fearless conflict resolver. Over the years working for blue chip organisations and high performance leaders, she has gained invaluable insights into how to read the room and read between the lines to communicate with and motivate diverse personalities to achieve exceptional results.

But today we’re also going to hear much more of Paru’s origin story, the challenges she faced along the way and how she overcame them to become the person she is today. And of course the Unlock Moments of remarkable clarity that helped her to figure out the path ahead. I can’t wait to learn more.

Paru Radia: https://www.paruradia.com/

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97 Uwe Dockhorn: Letting Go And Letting In, How Choosing Not To Jump Changed His Life

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

08/27/23 • 35 min

When your Unlock Moment of remarkable clarity starts with you letting go of the bridge and then talking about what happened next ... well that's just the beginning of this powerful story of self-discovery and renewal that mental health advocate and executive coach Uwe Dockhorn went on. He's a brilliant storyteller and you can't help but get drawn in to his world.

Based in Germany but working globally, Uwe calls himself the Lifestyle Liberator and founded a programme called The AIM Experience for busy executives and their VIPs, their Very Important Partners, at home. He's also the host of the podcast, "Lift-Off With Energizing Results."

Uwe is on a mission to unlock the latent potential within high achiever families, elevating the standards of leadership success and triggering a ripple of positive impact that echoes through generations. He strongly believes that to become a better leader, you must first become a better partner at home.

Uwe Dockhorn: https://www.uwedockhorn.com/

Uwe Dockhorn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uwedockhorn/

131 Febronia Ruocco: How Cultural Insights Led To Curious Exploration For The Insights Specialist

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

02/28/24 • 23 min

A coach, a mentor and an expert in strategic insight, Febronia Ruocco’s career has taken her around the world. A career history that includes such world-leading brands as McDonalds, Heineken, GSK and Twinings Tea, she’s an expert in knowing what’s going on in the market and how to find out if you don’t know.

So in our quest to navigate uncertainty in our own lives and careers, I can’t wait to hear how she’s translating that curious mindset into a new strand in executive coaching.

Febronia Ruocco on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/febroniaruocco/

117 Loree Draude: What A Pioneering Female Combat Pilot Learned About Opening Up New Horizons For Herself And For Others

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

11/20/23 • 54 min

It's always a privilege to interview a true pioneer on the podcast, and today I'm delighted to welcome Loree Draude, who became one of the first women to fly combat jets in the US Navy. Now she's a seasoned leader and entrepreneur who advises and coaches executives and founders on how to improve their leadership. She is the author of the recently published bestselling book, Soar Into Joy: A Combat Pilot's Wisdom on Falling in Love with Your Life, and a sought-after speaker for her entertaining and inspirational talks about how to soar professionally and personally.

Loree draws on her years of experience in the tech industry and the US Navy. She deployed twice to the Persian Gulf, accumulating over 300 carrier landings and 1,600 flight hours. After completing her naval service, Loree led product, marketing and operations teams at startups and tech companies, including Google and Meta. Loree holds an MBA from Wharton and a BA in Mathematics from the University of San Diego.

But her path wasn’t all glory and success. Loree has been laid off, forced to shut down her startup due to lack of funding, been divorced, fired, and quit her job.

She wrote a one-woman show called I Feel the Need about the first West Coast aircraft carrier deployment with women in combat squadrons. The show debuted Off-Broadway in New York and also played at the Edinburgh Festival here in the UK.

I’m looking forward to hearing her take on challenging established mindsets on an aircraft carrier, the soaring highs and crashing lows of life’s rollercoaster, and of course I’m curious to learn about the Unlock Moments of remarkable clarity that shaped her journey.

Loree Draude: https://loreedraude.com/

37 Justin Zorn & Leigh Marz: Finding the Silence

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

08/24/22 • 46 min

When I talk to people who have experienced an Unlock Moment, a remarkable flash of clarity when they’ve figured out the path ahead, they often describe a moment of silence. It might be real silence, the absence of sound, or it might be that the world has slowed down for a moment – a shocking piece of news, a change in circumstances, that has caused them to stop and reflect.

What’s the deepest silence you’ve ever known? Today, amidst the mass proliferation of mental stimulation, this may be a difficult question to answer. Yet it’s a question that could contain a key to solving some of the most serious personal and even global challenges that we face. In their new book "Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise", Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz invite us to rethink our definition of silence—not just as the absence of noise, but as a presence that can bring us energy, clarity, and deeper connection.

I’m keen to discover more about how you can find this silence in your everyday life, and through that silence discover the path to your own Unlock Moment. Let’s pause ..... listen ..... and dive in to this fascinating topic.

Discover more about Justin and Leigh at: https://astreastrategies.com/

And buy the book at: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/golden-justin-zornleigh-marz?variant=39669210906658 and https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442122/golden-the-power-of-silence-in-a-world-of-noise-by-marz-justin-talbot-zorn-and-leigh/9781529146080

33 Ben Prouty: Know When It's Your Time To Lead

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

07/11/22 • 50 min

In this episode I interview serial start-up entrepreneur and CEO Ben Prouty, whose experience at high-growth startups including Streetcar (car sharing), Lovespace (storage by the box), Shepper (asset inspection) and now Poncho (family support platform for working parents) taught him the stage of a company's lifecycle that energises him and brings out his best as a leader. Ben brings a refreshing honesty to counter the assumption that entrepreneurs all want to be the next Zuckerberg or Musk - in fact he is at his best in the scrappy, early stages of start-up growth. This is a rare opportunity to hear from someone who's been there and worn the t-shirt time after time, on each occasion creating strong, scaled businesses that disrupt their sectors using a fresh strategic approach and the power of technology.

Ben Prouty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-prouty/

Poncho: https://poncho.care/

Shepper: https://shepper.com/

Lovespace: https://lovespace.co.uk/

The story of Streetcar: https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/21/zipcar-streetcar/

30 Anthony and Kel Matsena: Creativity Fuels The Journey From Darkness To Light

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

06/16/22 • 79 min

In this episode I interview emerging stars of the dance and performance world Anthony and Kel Matsena. This episode of The Unlock Moment is very special, very moving, very powerful. Listening back. I was amazed at Anthony and Kel's richness of thought, their perspective, their wisdom at such a young age, still only in their 20s. The Matsena brothers have been through a huge amount in their lives. Being uprooted from their home in Zimbabwe, terrible family tragedy, and their experience of oppression has shaped their creative identity as breakthrough choreographers and performers. But so has the warm community that welcomed and embraced them in South Wales, the creative industry that has given them a huge platform, and the audiences who are wowed by their work. I've known the brothers a while and knew some of their story before we talked, but I have rarely had a conversation that has left me so affected. If you're like me, you'll be struck by how the tough times could so easily have pushed them to a really dark place, and instead have inspired them to speak through love, joy and empowerment in their creative voice. With most of these podcasts, we edit them down to give you just the best bits of the conversation. Here it's so compelling, we just couldn't take anything out. Sit back and listen in to this incredible interview with the extraordinary Anthony and Kel Matsena.

Shades of Blue - Exclusive Preview: https://youtu.be/JU6dg6buiRk

Matsena Productions: https://www.matsenaproductions.com/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/anthony_matsena

https://www.instagram.com/kelmatsena

https://www.instagram.com/matsenaproductions

15 Dr Gauri Seth: Brain-Based Connection

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

04/25/22 • 42 min

In this episode, I interview Dr Gauri Seth, psychiatrist, coach and mother of three, whose background in psychiatry, family therapy and academia formed the basis of her powerful work in helping parents build stronger family connections with their children. Her Unlock Moment was a realisation that she had to adjust her priorities in favour of her children in their most formative years, which led her to put her medical career on pause and establish herself as an entrepreneur with a successful coaching practice based around her Brain-Based Connection model for parent-child connection.

Website: https://www.brainbasedconnection.co.uk/

Instagram: @drgauri_connectioncoach

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-gauri-seth-168638142/

DISCLAIMER: Any information or advice Dr Gauri Seth gives is purely based on her own experience. Comments made are as a coach - this is not medical or psychiatry advice. There is no guarantee as there are many variables that will impact outcomes. Everything stated should be taken as opinion.

6 Dr Mark Goulston: Catching People When They Fall

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

03/26/22 • 52 min

In this episode, I interview best-selling author, coach, and psychiatrist Dr. Mark Goulston about his unique methodologies Surgical Empathy, and the Michaelangelo Mindset. He brings these powerful approaches to life through the stories and experiences that have led him to where he is today. A master storyteller and a master listener, Mark is someone you could listen to for hours - this is truly a powerful episode that you will remember for a long time. Dive deep inside his mind when he describes his formative experiences at medical school and how he intentionally translated that experience into the design of the work he has built his career on. * CONTENT WARNING: Dr. Mark Goulston is a psychiatrist and expert in suicide prevention, and this episode discusses suicidal feelings *

Follow Dr. Mark Goulston on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markgoulston/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markgoulston/

Website: https://markgoulston.com

Check out Defeating Self Defeat on Himalaya.

79 Claire Pedrick MCC - Discovering The Human Behind The Masterful Coach

The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life

06/11/23 • 61 min

A remarkable conversation with a masterful coach that gets to the heart of coaching and what makes it most magical when most simple - this is one of my favourite episodes with one of my favourite people.

Today it is my great privilege to welcome master coach Claire Pedrick to the podcast. We’ve known each other for about a year as I’ve been part of one of her coaching supervision groups and she has been quite pivotal in helping me to think differently about coaching and to evolve my own practice. Today I’m looking forward to delving into what makes her tick and what brings her joy.

In preparation for this conversation I asked Claire to describe herself, and in her answer you get something of her essence.

“I could say that I am a human who facilitates other people’s thinking. A business owner. A mother. A friend. A volunteer. A master coach with over 13,000 hours of coaching experience. The author of Simplifying Coaching and the host of the Coaching Inn podcast. All of these are true and each will impact how we start a conversation. With some definitions you might assign me power which I do not deserve.”

She also says “Every so often I go for a very long walk – in 2022 it was 600km on the Camino in Spain.

Well that’s what Claire says about Claire. What I’m going to say about Claire is that she epitomises wisdom through simplicity, and is also humble and deeply generous with her time and insight. And she was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Contribution to Coaching Award from Henley Business School.

Her upcoming book, co-authored with another master coach, Lucia Baldelli, is called “The Human Behind the Coach – How Great Coaches Transform Themselves First.”

There is much about Claire I don’t know and I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to this conversation, learning more about her journey, the lessons learned along the way and of course her Unlock Moments of remarkable clarity.

Claire Pedrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairepedrick/

3D Coaching: https://www.3dcoaching.com/

The Coaching Inn: https://thecoachinginn.podbean.com/

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The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life currently has 174 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Purpose, Personal Growth, Leadership Coaching, Career Coaching, Career, Leadership, Interview Podcast, Entrepreneur, Interview, Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, Startup, Personal Development, Longform, Self Help, Podcasts, Tim Ferriss, Inspiration, Ceo, Business, Coaching, Brene Brown, Interviews, Careers and Confidence.

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The episode title '48 The Unlock Moment Box of Keys #1: You Can't Think To A Deadline' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life?

The average episode length on The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life is 38 minutes.

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Episodes of The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life are typically released every 3 days, 13 hours.

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The first episode of The Unlock Moment: find your purpose for leadership and life was released on Mar 7, 2022.

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