Dare to be Different with Craig White

In this episode Craig sits down with Blaire Palmer a former BBC journalist and producer who now has two decades of experience coaching and shaping senior leaders. She is an inspirational speaker, author and expert authority on leadership.
This conversation explores leadership, organisational change, and why many leaders struggle when faced with uncertainty and complexity. The discussion examines how leadership models are evolving and why honest conversations inside organisations are often avoided.
SHOW NOTES:
Why many organisations struggle to adapt to change
How leaders often avoid difficult conversations inside teams
The leadership patterns that keep organisations stuck
Why uncertainty challenges traditional leadership models
How modern leadership requires more openness and adaptability

Check Blaire out:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairepalmer/
https://www.thatpeoplething.com/
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/

This conversation explores parts work, men’s groups, and why many men remain stuck in survival patterns from childhood. The discussion focuses on the shift from reactive boyish behaviour to grounded masculine presence.
SHOW NOTES:
Why “men need men so we can be in it together” 
How many men are still operating as “scared little boys” 
What happens when the inner protector runs a man’s life
Why breathing and embodiment interrupt survival mode
How the shift from “am I” to “I am” changes everything
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/

This episode features a discussion with Lynsey Chan, a breathwork expert. 
Craig and Lynsey discuss what breathwork is and the power of breathwork in transformation, especially for men.
Together their discussion focuses on how unprocessed experiences can be stored in the body and why integration and behaviour change matter after emotional release.
SHOW NOTES:
Lynsey's experience and background
How overwhelming experiences can become “stored in the body”
Why the body moves into fight, flight, or freeze states
How breathwork could “revolutionize the world of men”
The importance of men learning to trust themselves and the breath
Why integration after nervous system reset is where the real work happens
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/

This episode follows a leadership coach who has successfully rebuilt her identity after a deeply personal crisis, she reflects on her experiences with men in both family life and the corporate world, exploring how emotional suppression and an inability to hold women’s emotions shaped her childhood, her parents’ marriage, and her relationship with her father. 
This conversation connects personal grief, leadership, and emotional intelligence, revealing how these patterns need to be disrupted in order for real leaders to emerge in the workplaces and inter-personal relationships of today.
SHOW NOTES
–  Introduction and her work as a leadership coach
– Losing her baby and the health crisis that changed everything
– Rebuilding identity after grief and physical recovery
– Men, emotional suppression, and the inability to hold women’s pain
– How her parents’ marriage broke down
– Her strained and painful relationship with her father
– Parallels between family dynamics and the corporate world
– What leadership looks like when emotional safety is missing
– Redefining strength, vulnerability, and purpose
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/

This episode explores the journey of a former rugby player turned business owner and father of five. Through moments of reflection, he opens up about the pressures of performance, emotional growth, and what truly matters when juggling success and family life.
SHOW NOTES
How rugby and construction shaped his early identity
The role fatherhood plays in his decision-making
Why people pleasing became a hidden pattern
How family teamwork became a central value
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/