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In this episode, I explore the value of growth with Jen Ryder. Jen shares how growth evolved for her from accumulating knowledge to accumulating understanding, and how her father's lifelong learning shaped this value. We discuss seeking discomfort intentionally, from uncomfortable hikes to reading opposing viewpoints, and her morning learning ritual. Jen also shares how she creates space for business leaders to grow through peer advisory groups and why she's passionate about supporting regional Australian communities.
LinksJen Ryder | LinkedIn
Jen Ryder - Vistage Chair - Leadership Coach and Mentor
About Jen
Jen Ryder is a Vistage Chair, Fractional General Manager, and facilitator who works with business owners and leaders to create clarity, challenge thinking, and unlock growth. With a background in business operations, leadership, and professional services, Jen brings a practical and deeply human approach to leadership conversations.Known for asking thoughtful questions that cut through noise and complexity, Jen creates spaces where leaders can think more clearly, make better decisions, and reconnect with what matters most. Her work centres on the belief that leadership can be both challenging and deeply relational — and that some of the best breakthroughs come through honest conversations, shared wisdom, and values-led reflection.
Based in regional Queensland, Jen works with leaders across industries through peer advisory groups, strategic facilitation, and operational advisory work.
Keywords
growth, values, personal development, leadership, introspection, entrepreneurship, community, learning, comfort zone, self-improvement business strategy, personal growth, marketing, peer advisory, learning, boundaries, skills development, entrepreneurship, community support, professional development
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore how to put your values into action under pressure using mantras. I talk about where I first learned about mantras through sport psychology and self-talk, then walk through the live process of building one. I cover the guiding principles and share ideas for how to build your own one.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore the value of humility with Adam Axon. Adam shares how humility means not always being the hero and accepting you're not the main character in the story of humanity. We discuss how an area manager asking "what does it look like when you're not here?" was a pivotal moment in shaping Adam's perspective on leadership. We also explored Adam's journey from burnout, through to personal expectations management and how he tames his 'Advice Monster' when it rears its head.
Links
www.giveadamn.com.au
https://px-dojo.group/
About Adam
I help fast-growing companies scale with clarity, agility, and heart, using product thinking combined with human-centred design to honour what matters most: your people, and the people your work enriches.
Keywords
humility, personal growth, values, burnout, impact, business, leadership, self-awareness
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore how both your peak moments and your low points can reveal your values. I share some prompts to help you reflect on your own peaks and pits, and how my own pit moment from a few years ago illuminated my achievement value. I also introduce Chris Voss's concept of "violating your values" and share how my disproportionate reactions in micro-moments give insights into what your values are.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore the value of Best Self with Megan Trotter. Megan shares how both challenging and positive life experiences have helped develop her understanding of what this value means to her. We go in-depth into her daily intention-setting practice, which helps them show up in a more values-aligned way. Megan also talks about the concept of sequencing over prioritising as a way to reframe things so it doesn't feel like you're abandoning things, but still making progress.
Links
www.pollinate-xd.com
linkedin.com/in/megan-trotter/
https://px-dojo.group/
About MeganMeg is the founder of PollinateXD and works with growing businesses that want to increase performance without losing the culture and human-ness that made them successful in the first place. PollinateXD helps founders make their leadership team a competitive advantage by treating team performance not as a HR problem, but as a design problem. Meg combines the best practices from User Experience and Organisational psychology to empower leaders to take accountability for designing high-performing teams.
In her UX days, Meg began questioning whether designing the experience of work with the same care as a customer experience could drive organisational success. She completed an MSc in Organisational Psychology and spent seven years in London, cross-pollinating the People space with UX practices across startups and complex organisations, including the BBC. Meg is now also the Co-Founder of PX Dojo, a cohort-based program for people leaders to learn how to create thriving, high-performing cultures through People Experience Design.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore how to bridge the gap between knowing your values and actually living them through intentional rituals. I talk about two types of rituals: intention-setting (a morning/weekly practice or my quarterly values check-in) and values-led rituals (daily or weekly actions that embody the value itself). I explore how to identfy and overcome barriers to rituals, like decision fatigue and friction, so you you can design rituals that actually stick. I also talk about my own personal rituals - the alphabet drop-off game with the kids, Tricky Time and my elaborate movie watchlist system.
Links
Struthless - The drawing advice that changed my life
My Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/trickystar_v/
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore the value of kindness with Deepak, a founder and portfolio career professional who wears many hats. Deepak redefines kindness as different from softness and shares how it permeates all aspects of his life, from family and raising kids to the three lanes of his work.
Links
www.linkedin.com/in/deepaksinghhrwww.missionandrhythm.comwww.justsingout.comhttps://peoplestack.com.auAbout
Deepak is all about his mission: "Great experiences for OUR business and community, through great experiences for OUR people." He builds cultures that drive results & fix them when they cost you. Challenging how work actually works.
Keywords
kindness, leadership, workplace culture, emotional intelligence, decision-making, personal growth, repair
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore how to do multiple things without being scattered by using your values as a lens. I share my own journey from offering too many services, to narrowing down, to now expanding again intentionally. I introduce the ecosystem concept - how different offerings can serve different customer types and delivery mechanisms while sharing a common values thread. I also share some questions for evaluating how you can go about adding new products/services.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore the value of courage with Ruhee, founder of Allied Collective. Ruhee shares the many faces of courage, going beyond just bravery. We discuss how courage has always been there, as a youngest sibling and household rebel, to launching her business and facing the question "who am I outside a paycheck?". We also explore how the yoga philosophy helps Ruhee channel her courage to live in a more values-aligned way.
Links:
Website: alliedcollective.com.au
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruheem/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliedcollective
About Ruhee
Ruhee Meghani is the founder of Allied Collective and one of Australia's most distinctive voices at the intersection of inclusive leadership, organisational wellbeing, and facilitation. With 14 years of practice spanning Yoga philosophy, leadership development, and inclusion design, Ruhee brings a rare combination of somatic intelligence and commercial clarity to the organisations she works with. Described by those who know her work as a "firecracker with purpose," Ruhee has partnered with over 55 organisations including Nike and Arup, to drive measurable outcomes in retention, leadership capability, and workplace wellbeing. Ruhee advocates for multicultural communities and is also a university lecturer - all while championing for equitable wellbeing and inclusive design.
Ruhee is based in Melbourne and works with teams and leaders across Australia and internationally.
Keywords
courage, personal growth, challenge norms, vulnerability, yoga, yoga philosophy, being wrong, repair, inclusion
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore why living a values-led life requires trade-offs and how understanding what you're willing to give up makes values more useful in daily life. I share the positive trade-off principle that makes trade-off exploration more useful, and I also discuss what happens when your own values conflict.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I chat with Nic Hinwood about the value of Community. We unpack the link between community and accountability and how it plays out with regional town dynamics. We also explore the concept of the 'greater good', and how approaching things with a genuinely helpful, supportive and bigger picture mindset helps us be more community-focused. We also talked about how Nic manages the trade-offs with community and other things that are important to Nic.
Links
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-hinwood-66b38029/
www.keo.com.au
About Nic
Nic is a self-confessed, “street-smart strategist.” Gaining his skills from the school of hard knox, through a combination of learning the hard way, research and experience. He combines his love of design and business with a desire to understand perception and the impacts the way we see the world is reflected in our decision making. He challenges the status-quo and your perception to help you uncover and unlock what makes your business, brand, product, offer, uniquely yours.
Through a mix of humour and education, Nic guides you on a journey where you learn about the deeper value of brand and the power it has in the mind of your customers, it’s impact on sales, staff, and the broader business you run.
Keywords
Community, Accountability, Personal Growth, Collaboration, Values, Relationships, Entrepreneurship.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I share a simple exercise for describing what each of your values actually means. By going beyond the word, we can get a much richer and detailed picture of our values, and express them in a way that makes them unique to us. I'll share the exercise along with a few prompters to help you go a little bit deeper.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore the value of sustainability with Shelley Flett. Shelley shares how her understanding of sustainability has evolved from avoiding feast-and-famine burnout to creating energy for abundance, creativity and freedom. We talk about the importance of embedding sustainability into her business so that she can be fully present for the moments that matter with her kids. Shelley also challenges the belief that success requires sacrifice, and shares practical approaches to energy management and morning routines.
Links
https://www.shelleyflett.com/
About Shelley
Shelley Flett is a leadership trainer & executive coach (PCC) who helps senior leaders move from reactive management to more intentional, effective leadership. Through coaching and programs, she helps leaders uncover blind spots, think more strategically, and lead themselves and their teams with greater clarity and impact.
Keywords
sustainability, abundance mindset, entrepreneurship, personal development, work-life balance, values-driven leadership, meaningful work
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore how to use your values to help decide which projects are a yay, and which ones are a nay. I discuss why some projects energise us while others drain us completely, and the hidden opportunity cost of working on values misaligned projects. I walk through my personal framework for evaluating project fit against my five values, along with the specific indicators I look for in my initial client conversations.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore how your values can become your competitive advantage as a business owner or portfolio career professional. I discuss why values-based differentiation is harder to copy than expertise or features, and walk through how I translated my personal values into business values. I also share how portfolio career professionals can use their values to differentiate on "what's it like to work with me?" and how values can make your content more memorable and distinctive in crowded social media spaces.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore the value of calm with Sasha Gilberg, founder of Sash Agency. Sasha shares how his value of calm was born from experiencing a severe low point in his early twenties, and how he used the question "what don't I want?" to design both his life and business. We discuss how he brings calm to one of the most stressful experiences in life - buying and selling property - through honest pricing, extreme organisation, and systems that prevent stress. Sasha also shares examples of how he draws inspiration for building a values-led business from sources outside his industry sector.
Links
https://sash.agency/
https://www.instagram.com/sash.melbourne/
The link between exercise and stress - https://youtu.be/vSSkDos2hzo?si=u9k57Qjn4I_hwDZb
Screen management app - Screen Zen - https://screenzen.co/
About Sasha
Sasha Gilberg is the founder of Sásh, a Melbourne-based real estate agency established in 2022, specialising in prestige property and guided by a design-led, considered approach.
Keywords
calm, values-based leadership, real estate, branding, personal development, stress management, business systems, authenticity, client trust, mental clarityThe Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore the value of authenticity with Suz Chadwick. Suz explains the difference between being unfiltered and being unprofessional, how authenticity shows up when she's in flow, and why filtering your personality actually prevents you from connecting with your ideal clients. We also discuss how values shift and change prominence through different life seasons, and how Suz helps entrepreneurs build personal brands rooted in who they really are.
Links
https://suzchadwick.com/
Unfiltered Live Event: https://suzchadwick.com/unfiltered
https://www.instagram.com/suzchadwick/
About Suz
If you're ready to stand out in your industry and build a brand that sells for you, then Suz Chadwick is the BOLD Personal Brand, business & Speaker Coach you need. Suz transforms entrepreneurs from unknown and overwhelmed to courageous and confident online powerhouses.
With 20+ years in sales, marketing, and branding, she's the founder of Personal Brand Agency, Bold Vibes Consulting, author of Play Big, Brand Bold, and host of the Brand Builders Lab podcast. Suz specialises in helping ambitious women build magnetic brands that attract dream clients and create profitable businesses.
Her superpower? Getting you out of your own way so you can own your awesome and become the go-to person in your industry.Keywords
authenticity, values, personal growth, communication, vulnerability, self-expression, professional development, personal branding, self-discovery, intentional living
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore how your values shape your purpose. I challenge the idea that we need to find a singular purpose, and instead propose that we're all multi-purposed individuals. By combining our values, strengths and experiences, we can discover multiple purposes across our relationships, communities and work. I also share a few examples of how my values of fun and growth take shape in many different ways.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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In this episode, I explore the value of fun with Steph Clarke. Steph shares what fun really means to her as a personal value, how she uses "fun potential" as a filter when making decisions, and why fun often serves as an umbrella for deeper values like connection, curiosity and belonging. We also get into how Steph navigates periods of life that are genuinely unfun, and her current project exploring the art and science of friendship.
About Steph
Steph helps organisations see around corners. She brings a unique blend of skills covering futures thinking, strategic foresight, human centred design, learning design, innovation, and facilitation to help leaders and teams challenge the status quo. Her favourite thing about this work is sparking the bigger, more provocative conversations about what might happen next, and what we can do about it.
Best places to find me are...
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steph-clarke/
Substack: https://howtofriend.substack.com/Keywords
fun, values, personal growth, friendship, humour, decision making, work-life balance, creativity, self-awareness, intentional living
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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This week, I explore why reflection is essential for staying aligned with our values. Without regular reflection, it's easy to drift towards other people's priorities or what society expects of us. I share practical ways to build a reflection practice into your day, from simple daily scoring to values-specific check-ins, and how small course corrections can keep you on track.
The Values Lab is brought to you by Viren Thakrar, Founder of Values Map - valuesmap.com
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