Is It Bloody Working? Podcast
We're Alexia Leachman and JJ Stenhouse, co-founders of Ladder of Growth. Join us as we explore personal development, leadership, therapy, performance and transformation through one simple question: Is it bloody working? iibw.substack.com
Episodes
Most people who invest in their own development assume the desire to change is always the starting point. It isn’t.
This episode looks at a distinction that sits underneath almost all of it - the difference between genuinely wanting to change and wanting to want to change. They’re not the same thing, and the gap between them explains a lot of the cases where inner work goes nowhere.
JJ and Alexia get into why people stay stuck even w...
The word consciousness has been ruined by two camps. The spiritual community made it mystical. The academic world made it inaccessible. Most people now hear the word and switch off.
In this episode, JJ and Alexia reclaim it. Consciousness, properly understood, is the lens through which you experience everything. It shapes your outlook, your range of options, your capacity to hold load without breaking. It isn't your personality. It ...
Billions go into therapy, coaching, meditation and wellbeing every year, and almost nobody stops to ask the most basic question underneath it all. If it was working, what would that look like?
JJ and Alexia open up the question at the heart of the show. Coping isn’t the same as growing. Functioning isn’t the same as thriving. Feeling better could reflect the sun coming out. So what does real change look like, and how do you know whe...
The personal development industry is worth $4.5 trillion globally. Anxiety rates are rising. Mental health statistics are worsening. Suicide rates are going up. Something doesn’t add up.
In this first episode, JJ and Alexia go after the question the industry consistently avoids: why does a sector built entirely around change have no standard for measuring whether change is happening? The International Coaching Federation’s own resea...
The personal development industry is worth somewhere between $40 and $60 billion a year. The wellness industry is $4.5 trillion. And the most sophisticated measurement tool most practitioners use is asking someone how they feel on a scale of one to ten.
This is Episode 0 — the one where JJ Stenhouse and Alexia Leachman introduce themselves, introduce the show, and make the case for why the question Is it bloody working? has been lar...
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