Episode 01: What you think about me is none of my business

Introducing The Heston Russell Podcast – No topic is off limits as Heston embraces authentic and vulnerable conversations the way they should be. Away from the media and public persuasion.

In this episode, Heston speaks with Sam and shares more on WHY the podcast has been rebranded. They also discuss and dive into topics including:

• Values and the importance of values in your life professionally and personally
• Leadership
• Unlocking your own values
• Relationships & Communication
• Putting people on a pedestal
• Politics
• The beginning of The Australian Values Party
• The Identity Crisis 
• Looking forward to the next 6 months

Show Notes

0:12 Why The Heston Russell Podcast? 

• It’s time to expand these conversations a lot wider.
• Wider scope of conversation
• Dropping identities and being a little more vulnerable
• Dropping the Veteran identity and Veteran identity 

02:34 Values & their importance personally and professionally

02:52 Guiding principles you take into any situation

“If you aren’t solid in who you are and what you stand for and what you believe in, you’re never going to have a solid footing to achieve your purpose – that comes from my own lived experience” 

06:00 The meaning behind words and how to make your values mean something.

“If we can’t hold our selves accountable or if we can’t provide our selves with a vision for our own lives, then we’re not really getting anywhere near the starting block that we need to achieve high performance – let alone anything else above that”.

06:50 Quantifying values 

8:55 Leadership

10:13 Going off the RAILS

13:15 Values and being Valued 

13:28 The Love Languages – How do you feel valued?

15:39 Unlocking and discovering your own values 

17:30 The importance of communicating your values when entering into new relationships be it work/romantic/friendship.

“One of the key & critical components of leadership is communication, and that’s not just talking, leadership is also listening & learning” 

19:50 Reserve engineering your worst and best (self reflection) to get to your values

(Quantify the bookends so you have a way to measure it).

21:55 Putting people on a pedestal

Wouldn’t it be so terrible if you realised you’re the person holding yourself back 

24:10 Appreciate if you sit back and expect others to do something, it might not get done.

25:03 Mastering self awareness and then learning and understanding situational awareness, those around you.

27:33 “Politics is our life “ 

I refuse to let people tell me “That’s just the way it is” especially if it’s not working

 29:17 Lack of accountability, which comes from lack of leadership.

Leadership is support and reinforcing the team – it’s not standing forward and taking the medals for everyone else,  it’s making sure everyone else has a medal before you have yours and it’s stepping forward when someone says “wtf, who is responsible for this” 

30:50 Accountability & Leadership top down and the ground up

32:49 Politics is a dirty word. 

34:40 Toxic competitiveness 

38:11 Special Forces Selection Course

39:50 Teamwork

41:40 Allowing yourself to be inspired by those achieving greatness, opposed to slipping into compassion.

43.30 If we we are going to cancel something, how about we cancel the tall poppy syndrome 

44:00 Social Media & Media Impact 

47:00 Sense of Self

“What you think about me, is none of my business” 

51:05 Seeing different opinions as conflict and not willing to have hard conversations

52:00 Saying g’day, smiling at others and looking in their eyes – community connection

53:50 Why AVP 

“Identity comes from values, being aligned and understanding your values and then applying those to everything you do for the right purpose is the bedrock of personal professional and collaborative success” 

55:58 The Identity Crisis

56:40 Mission Nesting

57:15 The Higher Purpose Piece

58:37 Culture is based on values, leaders align people with purpose and the fibres that join between that is culture 

1:00:17 Values Statement of Australia

1:02:00 When the plan fails, it needs critical review.

1:04:20 If there is one thing we can do right in this party

1:05:00 Real Life Advisors

1:07:15 Election, People and Political Policies 

1:08:40 It’s very hard to sit on the sidelines and watch

1:09:55 The legacy of the next 6 months 

1:14:00 Our Nation depends on it.

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