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Everything you need to live your wildest dream
Our weekly insights, books, podcasts, and free guides. All organised by the themes that matter most to your journey.
Latest insights
Let me ask you something: do you remember the best manager you ever had? Of course you do! It’s like asking who was your favourite teacher. I would bet a good amount of money that one of their traits was their ability to make you feel heard and supported during your 1:1 meetings with them.
In 2018, I made a sensible decision and became an accountant. Three years later, sitting alone in an office booth after giving a wellbeing talk to my team, a thought landed: "This is it." But from that day I had no plan, just a direction. Here’s Pat’s perspective on purpose, told through his story on how he found his.
Life was supposed to get smoother by now. Instead it feels heavier: the side roads, the slower climb, the plan that didn't quite go to plan. That heaviness has a name - it isn't failure. It's friction. Here's why it's the thing you push off from, not the thing holding you back.
All of us in this self-improvement game will at some point hit a strange wall: the habits are dialed in, the routine is locked, energy is good and yet something still feels missing.
This is the story of what I found on the other side of that wall and why the fix wasn't another habit, but something much more powerful.
Predictable questions (how to get promoted) have predictable answers (work a bit harder, learn something new). The big life questions have unpredictable answers. Here’s how we can find the answers in a different way.
For years, I hid my acne scars, carrying this insecurity with me everywhere I went. We all carry our own scars - some visible, some not - and we also all have the choice of whether to let them hold us back.
If you’ve recently brought Clifton Strengths into your organisation, this one is for you. Clifton Strengths should never be a one off exercise - here we show you how to apply your team’s strengths to a specific challenge: Communication.
Most team’s think about stress the wrong way around. In this blog I will share how we reframe our understanding of stress, and what you can do as a leader to improve your team’s resilience to stress.
Most organisations treat resilience as something individuals should be educated on - free access to an app, an occasional wellbeing day, a one-off workshop - and then build on their own time. Here are three levers our HR and leadership clients use to build resilience across their teams.
Free guides
FREE · YOUR COACHING SESSION
The Wildest Dream Roadmap
Get clear on who you are and where you're going. Includes the roadmap + companion guide.
FREE · QUIZ
The Energy Assessment
40 questions across Body, Mind, and Soul so you can find out exactly what's draining you.
Book recommendations
Arthur Brooks on why meaning is disappearing in the modern world, and the practical, evidence-based path back to finding it.
It gives a very clear framework, along with exercises, which will help you get to a deeper understanding of what it is that makes you and your team unique. The book cover looks a bit old and it sounds a bit textbooky, but don’t let that put you off.
Coaches, leaders, managers. This one is for you. If you want to dramatically level up the impact of your 1:1 conversations, then read this book by Michael Bungay Stanier. It will give you 7 amazingly simple questions that will transform your leadership style.
When people ask me what books form my origin story (ok, no-one has ever asked me that), I will always give this one. It’s one of the books I read at business school that inspired me to pursue a career in change. First in consulting, then leading teams at Kraft Heinz, and now co-founding Wildest Dream.
New to management? Want to be the best manager you can be? Excited, scared, confident, stressed about being a manager? Yes, yes, yes. Then read this - it’s a perfect companion for beginning your people management career.
Erin Meyer does such an excellent job of breaking down where different countries sit across multiple dimensions of cultural difference (values) and most importantly, how you can bridge those differences.
Not many people write books about values - but some of our greatest inventors live by values. This book charts Steve Jobs incredible life where he stood by his values to create some of the world’s most beautiful products.
These authors dive into the concept of Ikigai: your reason for being. They bring it to life with an exceptional concept which combines your Vocation, Profession, Passion and Mission.
Your phone isn't the problem, it's addictive by design. This book shows you how to take back your time and live deliberately.
Podcast episodes
Mark Manson goes deep on what purpose actually is, why the existential vacuum hits, and why one true calling is a myth.
Arthur Brooks on the striver's dilemma, why constant achievement doesn't create lasting happiness and how to actually live a more meaningful life.
Steven Pressfield on why inner resistance is strongest around the work that matters most and how to show up like a pro instead of an amateur.
Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify, on entrepreneurship, self-doubt, and how to build teams that win.
Values aren't things you like, they're things you'll fight for. Mark Manson on why so much of our suffering comes from living out of alignment with our lives and the beauty of living a life true to them.
Stop chasing. Start arriving. Sahil Bloom on why the good old days are right now, and how to build a life that doesn't cost you the moments that matter most.
Two people, same challenge, completely different outcomes. Dr Alia Crum reveals the science behind why that happens, and exactly how to train your mindset to grow through whatever life throws at you.
Experiences create lasting memories. Stuff gives a fleeting buzz. Dr Laurie Santos, one of the world's leading happiness researchers, explains why and gives you the tools to actually do something about it.
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