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You’ve built the business. You’ve got the title. And yet there are things you’ve never said out loud about the cost, the loneliness, the version of yourself you had to leave behind to get here.
Naked at the Top is the podcast where successful business owners and leaders get real and have a lot of fun doing it.
Each episode, host Aleyx Ward gets guests to strip back the polished version and share what leadership actually looks like behind closed doors.
Expect honest stories, unfiltered reactions from the people who know them best, and a finale where — layer by layer — we find out just how naked they’re willing to get.
Come for the stories. Stay for what comes off next.
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You built the business so you'd have more time. So where did it go? In this episode of Naked at the Top, the founder of an outsourced bookkeeping and CFO firm, 19 years in with a team of 30, explains why he never wanted to be the person who runs it. Damian Scodella of SquarePenny has lived by one rule in every job since his early twenties: make yourself redundant. He has handed the running of the business over twice, most recently to a leader promoted from within. He also wears a jacket cover...
Being the person everyone leans on is lovely until the day you need to lean back. In this episode of Naked at the Top, a marketing consultant who has built a community of 18,000 marketers across Australia and New Zealand talks about the LinkedIn post she almost did not send: the one where she told everyone she was broke. Chanel, founder of The Marketing Club and of a new co-working space in Brisbane, walks through what it costs to be the person who builds the room, and what happened when she ...
That voice asking when will everyone figure out you don't belong? It doesn't retire when you make CEO. In this episode of Naked at the Top, the CEO of Insync, an experience measurement consultancy, opens up about leaving school at 16, hiding outside networking events for 20 years, and the interview where someone assumed a degree he didn't have. Jeremy Summers has spent a career walking into rooms he was convinced he'd be found out in: this is what he learned on the way through. You'll learn: ...
If you stopped achieving tomorrow, would you still know who you are? In this episode of Naked at the Top, an executive coach who spent his corporate career climbing to CIO of a large investment bank strips back what happens when the title comes off. He shares the question he asks clients but had been avoiding himself, the moment he realised the treadmill was rewarding him with more treadmill, and the six months after leaving when he kept working full-time hours out of pure identity habit. You...
It takes years to build a high trust team and one hallway conversation to break it. In this episode of Naked at the Top, a leadership coach and L&D Manager at a University in New Zealand shares the moment he believed hearsay from someone senior over his own team member, and what it cost them both. We also go back to a 2am arrival at Christchurch Airport, where two and a half hours in an immigration room taught him what it feels like to be "just a number in a system, not an actual human" a...
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