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LEVERAGE™: Do the Right Thing

LEVERAGE™: Do the Right Thing

By: Stephen Martin James Turner
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Leverage isn’t revenge; it’s preparation: knowing your rights, owning your responsibilities, and being ready for the moment someone tries to weaponise your silence.Stephen Martin James Turner Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
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  • Leverage Episode 4: Do the right thing
    Dec 26 2025

    Do the right thing.

    Do the correct thing.

    Do something.

    Do anything.

    Just don’t do nothing.


    Change is inevitable; accept it or get left behind.


    ;)

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    5 mins
  • Episode 3: thank you for letting me focus on my recovery xoxo
    Dec 26 2025

    On Christmas Day, Stephen records a short, slightly chaotic, oddly tender episode about a deceptively simple tool he learned from Mable: the Bertari Box — a four-point loop that explains how attitudes and behaviours bounce between you and everyone around you.


    Picture a black void. At 12 o’clock: your attitudes (what you think and feel). At 3: your behaviours (what you do). At 6: other people’s attitudes. At 9: other people’s behaviours. And then the arrows: around and around, influencing each other until a bad mood becomes a culture — or a small act of care becomes a reset.


    This is a practical episode about control without control-freakery: if you can only truly control your attitudes and your behaviours, then you can still change the room. A box of chocolates. A sincere public thank-you. A quiet, deliberate “do the right thing” — not because it’s cute, but because it’s contagious.


    It’s also a weird little moment of gratitude, aimed straight at Mitchells & Butlers Retail Ltd: not for what happened… but for what the outcome has finally allowed — recovery, breathing space, and the return of agency.


    Short. Human. Messy. And quietly defiant: you don’t need a perfect life to start a better loop.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 2: Christmas, Circles and Calling 111
    Dec 25 2025

    Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness even if you feel completely alone.


    In Episode 2 of LEVERAGE™: Do the Right Thing, Stephen Martin James Turner records on Christmas Eve with a “weird” voice — and he doesn’t hide why. This is not an AI voice. This is his actual voice… fresh out of an NHS dental filling, stuck on soft food at the worst possible time of year.


    And then the camera pulls back.


    Alone at Christmas, silence can start to feel like evidence. Not proof of anything — just loud. Your brain offers bargains. Your chest gets heavy. The world feels like it’s watching.


    So Stephen reaches for the tool MABLE helped him remember: the circles.

    • ​Concern: what hurts, what matters, what’s bigger than you.
    • ​Influence: what you can nudge, shape, improve.
    • ​Control: the small, boring, life-saving next right thing.


    This episode is cinematic, raw, funny, furious — and brutally practical: a torch, a map, and the exact help-lines Stephen used when Christmas loneliness started tipping into danger.


    ✅ Need urgent help (not a 999 emergency): call NHS 111

    🚨 Immediate danger or risk to life: call 999

    📱 If speaking is hard: text SHOUT to 85258

    ☎️ Someone to talk to, 24/7: Samaritans 116 123


    By the end, Stephen makes a promise you can borrow:

    Pick three controllables. Do them slowly. And if it gets unsafe — call for help. Because pride is not a plan.

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    16 mins
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