The Soul at Work

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25 Sep 2026 · 28 min

Stop Meeting After the Meeting. Say It in the Room.

Every organisation struggles with meetings after the meetings — the corridor debriefs, the group chats, the honest conversation that only happens once the real one ends. Shiao-Yin Kuik names what that silence actually costs — not just you, but the people who never get a seat in the room at all — and offers a simple two-step practice to help you bring your voice back where it belongs. About The Soul at Work Podcast Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. If you're the p...

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   E4 · 26 Aug 2026 · 28 min

   Stop Personality Testing. Talk to People.

   Enneagram, StrengthsFinder, MBTI. Some workplaces love them, some people loathe them. Shiao-Yin draws the line between using personality tests to help teams name how they work differently and using them to pronounce verdicts on each other. Using the Enneagram to illustrate, she offers a three-step practice for turning any personality framework into a practical way to connect with your teams. About The Soul at Work Podcast Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. If you...

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   E3 · 23 Jul 2026 · 34 min

   Stop Managing Up. Lead from the Middle.

   Organisations are firing their middle managers and calling it efficiency. Middle managers are carrying out orders they don't believe in and calling it professionalism. Both are wrong — and this dismissive perspective of the work of Middle Management is costing everyone far more than they realise. In this episode, Shiao-Yin Kuik makes a case for what great leadership in the middle actually looks like, and shares a strategic framework for Middles wanting to change things in their organis...

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   E2 · 10 Jun 2026 · 23 min

   Stop Underselling Your Work. Tell Your Impact Story.

   Being humble about our good work is honourable — but staying too silent has a cost. When practitioners don't tell their best impact stories, unhelpful cultural orthodoxies persist: the myth of the self-sustaining nonprofit, the bias that business knows best, the prioritisation of for-profit values in non-profits In this episode, Shiao-Yin Kuik shows why we need more effective impact storytelling from the ground — and introduces the R.E.A.L. framework: four principles for telling impact stori...

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   E1 · 26 May 2026 · 19 min

   Stop Fixing Culture. Renew the Soul at Work.

   Good leaders want to do good work but often settle for managing surface issues, keeping the peace, and enabling the very dysfunction they want to change. In this episode, Shiao-Yin Kuik names what that avoidance actually costs, and offers one concrete practice, forming the throughline, to help you align your daily actions with the values that actually matter to you. About The Soul at Work Podcast Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. If you're the person in you...

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   22 May 2026 · 2 min

   Welcome to The Soul at Work

   There's a gap between what good leaders value and how they actually work every day. The Soul at Work is for every leader who sees that gap — and wants to do something about it. The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. One beautiful practical strategy to bring to work that week. Thirty minutes — good for a walk around the block. Episode 1 drops 28 May. Come take a walk with me. About The Soul at Work Podcast Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. If you're the person in your organ...

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