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Take New Ground
A podcast produced by Solid Gold · Business, Careers · 4 episodes · 2025-08-15 to 2026-03-30
Enabling leaders to recalibrate and re-author the next chapter.
Laura-Jean Evens, a certified executive & team coach, who enables leaders to recalibrate & author the next chapter, considers how we can make the biggest impact in the time we have?
Her conversations explore legacy and elevate strategies to create capacity for effective leadership. Finding inspiration & insight from high performing professionals who achieve business results but live with purpose.
Episodes
Conscious habit formation will empower your leadership and bring balance.
In this episode, Laura-Jean Evens, a neuroscience coach and leadership development consultant, sits down with endurance coach and business leader Charl Kaschula to explore the powerful intersection between endurance sport, neuroscience, and conscious leadership.
Charl shares compelling stories — from guiding a blind runner through the New York Marathon to navigating extreme endurance races — and unpacks how these experiences translate into high-performance thinking in business.
10 Key takeaways:
- Performance is Not…
Leap into your future.
Laura-Jean Evens, founder of Take New Ground continues to explore conscious leadership and what it truly means to live and lead with intention.
In this episode, she speaks to Alvin Lloyd-Peter, founder of The Wisdom of Nature. After 25 years in complex corporate environments, Alvin discovered that some of the most profound transformations don’t happen in strategy sessions or boardrooms — they happen when we slow down, step outside, and let nature do the teaching.
In our conversation, we explore how immersive experiences in nature help leaders reconnect with clarity,…
The significance of a strategic pause.
In this episode, Laura-Jean Evens (an executive coach who enables leaders to recalibrate and re-author the next chapter) talks to Petro du Pisani - an award-winning podcaster (On-Change) and executive coach, focused on holistic life. She is writing a book on Conscious Breaks where she shares stories of transformation and reinvention.
In this powerful episode, I sit down with Petro du Pisani, a former high-flying mining executive who stepped off the corporate treadmill to design a life more aligned with her purpose and values.
Petro shares how she…
If you're a high flyer, you may be in a C-suite position and you're thinking, "is there an end to this road?" Or "what's next? What got me here might not get me to where I want to be." You might be in the hum of activity, overwhelmed by busy schedules, climbing corporate ladders, or raising families. You might be caring for ageing parents and find yourself sandwiched between two generations. You might be wanting to reinvent yourself and show up in the world in a more meaningful, purposeful way.
Well, that's why we're here, and hopefully this unlocks something for you. We want to explore…
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