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Speech Bubbles with Charlotte Otter

Speech Bubbles with Charlotte Otter

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 Be seen and heard as the leader you are. A podcast that has conversations about reputation, diversity, and leadership with leaders from diverse backgrounds and diverse identities so that we can normalise their success, accept new models of leadership, take back power, and start to change the leadership status quo once and for all.Solid Gold Podcasts and Audiobooks Economics
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  • Wisdom of the Collective with Aparna Bhasin

    Wisdom of the Collective with Aparna Bhasin
    Jul 16 2025
    How immersing herself in community helps this leader create lasting impact.

    In this episode, leader and founder Aparna Bhasin talks to host Charlotte Otter about how she's shifting her consulting work towards participatory research that embeds itself in community.

    Aparna Bhasin is a founder, facilitator, and coach. Her business, Aparna Bhasin Consulting, recently hit its ten-year milestone and gave her the opportunity to rethink.

    Having been thrust into leadership early in her career, leading a team of over 120 in multiple states in India, Aparna compares leading large teams to leading as a founder.

    She finds that collaborating with groups is far more effective than working to prop up one individual leader.

    She says that participatory research, while still more common as a concept in the global north, is grounded in how communities have always functioned in the global south.

    And she talks about how, when living in the US as a student, she was confronted by the very intentional conversations around diversity and felt that identity was being forced on her.

    Aparna says we have a great opportunity to learn from indigenous communities and tap into wisdom that has already existed for centuries.

    This is a conversation with a deeply thoughtful leader who's shifting her own business model towards genuine community impact and participatory methods.

    This podcast is a companion piece to Charlotte Otter's book We Need New Leaders, published on 3 June by Practical Inspiration Publishing. Find it online or in all good bookshops. Follow Aparna on LinkedIn · Aparna's website · · Join the We Need New Leaders membership site · Follow Charlotte on LinkedIn · Subscribe to Speech Bubbles the newsletter · Link to buy We Need New Leaders
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    39 mins
  • Removing the Fear of AI with Allegra Patrizi

    Removing the Fear of AI with Allegra Patrizi
    Jul 9 2025
    A CEO founds and codes a startup to help execs get comfortable with AI.

    In this episode, Allegra Patrizi (former CEO Virgin Money, Aegon Netherlands, and now founder of Claridora AI) talks to host Charlotte Otter about helping executives get over their fear of AI, teaching herself to code, and making a difference in other people's lives.

    In her long career, Allegra has held a wide variety of senior positions, including group risk director, chief solutions officer, chief technology officer, as well as several non-executive board roles.

    She was the youngest person ever to make partner at McKinsey at the age of 29. Allegra has written cookbooks, competed in international horse riding, inventing competitions for Belgium, and has a pilot's license. She's currently writing a book on her management philosophy - Care, Dare, Share, Lead and Thrive with Heart, Mind, AI.

    In this episode, she talks about listening to fear (including overcoming the fear of coding), making a difference for others by building a legacy, her care, dare, share philosophy, and vulnerability in leadership.

    This is a fascinating conversation with a bold leader whose energy is driving her to make a difference for other executives in understanding and losing their fear around AI.

    This podcast is a companion piece to Charlotte Otter's book We Need New Leaders, published on 3 June by Practical Inspiration Publishing. Find it online or in all good bookshops. Follow Allegra on LinkedIn · Allegra's website · Pre-order Care, Dare, Share · · Join the We Need New Leaders membership site · Follow Charlotte on LinkedIn · Subscribe to Speech Bubbles the newsletter · Link to buy We Need New Leaders
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    45 mins
  • Speaking Out Against the Motherhood Penalty with Sabine Rath

    Speaking Out Against the Motherhood Penalty with Sabine Rath
    Jul 2 2025
    Fix the system, and not the women.

    In this episode, Sabine Rath (change manager, Agile leadership coach, keynote speaker, lecturer, and thought leader) talks to host Charlotte Otter about how Germany's maternity leave system creates the lifetime earning gap, how men taking paternity leave needs to become the norm (even CEOs, imagine!), and how we need to de-gender care.

    Sabine brings a specific lens on the German political and structural systems, but the topics are relevant for working women and men everywhere.

    Charlotte and Sabine are former neighbours in Heidelberg, Germany, and also two of the 8,6% of women with three or more children and in full-time work.

    The system isn't working - for women or for families - and it leaves women with a lifetime earning gap that is impossible to recoup.

    This is a trenchant, interesting conversation with a leader who is passionate about her topic, born out of personal experience, but with firm, critical eye on how the system needs to change.

    This podcast is a companion piece to Charlotte Otter's book We Need New Leaders, published on 3 June by Practical Inspiration Publishing. Find it online or in all good bookshops. Follow Sabine Rath on LinkedIn · · Join the We Need New Leaders membership site · Follow Charlotte on LinkedIn · Subscribe to Speech Bubbles the newsletter · Link to buy We Need New Leaders
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    42 mins

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