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How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Nick Adkins
52 episodes
1 week ago
Send us a text In this final episode of How to Strive’s mini-series on Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills, Nick explores the essential and often overlooked skill of leaving well. Drawing on Neil’s insights from the stage, business, and psychology, we unpack why endings matter, how the final moments of an interaction, meeting, or relationship shape how it’s remembered. From the Peak-End Rule explored by Daniel Kahneman to practical advice on closing conversations, meeti...
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Send us a text In this final episode of How to Strive’s mini-series on Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills, Nick explores the essential and often overlooked skill of leaving well. Drawing on Neil’s insights from the stage, business, and psychology, we unpack why endings matter, how the final moments of an interaction, meeting, or relationship shape how it’s remembered. From the Peak-End Rule explored by Daniel Kahneman to practical advice on closing conversations, meeti...
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Episodes (20/52)
How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Leave Well - Neil Mullarkey
Send us a text In this final episode of How to Strive’s mini-series on Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills, Nick explores the essential and often overlooked skill of leaving well. Drawing on Neil’s insights from the stage, business, and psychology, we unpack why endings matter, how the final moments of an interaction, meeting, or relationship shape how it’s remembered. From the Peak-End Rule explored by Daniel Kahneman to practical advice on closing conversations, meeti...
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1 week ago
12 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Neil Mullarkey
Send us a text In this special episode of How to Strive, Nick is joined by the brilliant Neil Mullarkey; actor, author, comedian and co-founder of The Comedy Store Players, Europe’s longest-running improv troupe. Neil shares insights from his book Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills, exploring how the principles of improv, Learn, Look, Listen, Let, Link, Lighten and Leave Well can transform the way we communicate, collaborate, and lead. From the importance of listening with intent...
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2 weeks ago
59 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Lighten - Neil Mullarkey
Send us a text In this episode of How to Strive, Nick explores Step Six of Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills 'Lighten'. Humour, as Neil reminds us, is about connection. It’s a leadership tool that builds trust, creativity and resilience. A leader who can laugh at themselves invites others to do the same, creating a culture where people feel safe to grow, fail and try again. Drawing on research, stories and Neil’s decades of experience in improv and leadership dev...
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2 weeks ago
11 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Link - Neil Mullarkey
Send us a text In this episode of How to Strive, Nick explores the next step in Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills 'Link' Link is the step that connects all the others where learning, looking, listening, and letting come together to create genuine connection. Neil reminds us that “The seven Ls are not distinct, discrete ploys, they are overlapping aspects of getting on better with people.” Through the improv principle of “Yes, and”, we explore how intentive listening, ...
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2 weeks ago
11 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Listen - Neil Mullarkey
Send us a text In this episode of How to Strive, Nick explores the third step in Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills, Listen. Neil reminds us that hearing is automatic, but listening is a skill, one that requires attention, presence, and empathy. We look at the difference between hearing and truly listening, how to tune into both content and emotion, and why giving someone your full attention is one of the greatest gifts you can offer. Hearing + Attention = Listen...
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2 weeks ago
9 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Let - Neil Mullarkey
Send us a text In this episode of How to Strive, Nick explores one of his favourite chapters from Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills, Let. We dive into the quiet power of pausing, creating space in conversations, and the skill of bringing out the best in others. Neil’s insights remind us that real connection often happens between the words, when we slow down, let people speak, and let them feel valued. We also explore why letting people be right builds trust, how “posi...
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2 weeks ago
10 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Look - Neil Mullarkey
Send us a text In this episode of How to Strive, Nick explores the second step in Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills Look. We dive into the power of presence and the art of seeing what isn’t said, the body language, energy, and nonverbal cues that shape every interaction. By learning to truly look at others (and ourselves), we can build deeper trust, stronger connections, and communicate with more impact. This episode blends Neil’s insights with real-world reflection p...
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2 weeks ago
8 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Learn - Neil Mullarkey
Send us a text In this episode of How to Strive, Nick dives into the first step of Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills Learn. We explore how real learning happens through doing, reflecting, and applying, and why a growth mindset is essential to becoming the person you want to be. Featuring powerful insights from Neil’s book, this episode will help you pause, reflect, and take your next step forward with purpose. Start Striving at www.strive25.co.uk/
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2 weeks ago
9 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Sunday Strive 19th October 2025
Send us a text In this episode of How to Strive, Nick guides you through a powerful weekly reflection practice designed to help you pause, reflect, and realign before stepping into a new week. Together, we: Celebrate last week’s wins and moments of pride. Acknowledge adversity and the lessons it brings without judgment. Revisit intentions using the Striver Table framework, focusing on the areas that matter most. Set clear, meaningful intentions for the week ahead, identifying that cruc...
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3 weeks ago
5 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Sunday Strive 12th October 2025
Send us a text In this episode, Nick explores how journaling can become a powerful daily tool to help you strive. Nick breaks it down into three key benefits: Clarity – Understanding yourself more deeply and spotting patterns that shape your growth.Direction – Turning reflection into clear intentions that keep you focused and accountable. The tiny steps that take you a thousand miles. Resilience – Building emotional strength, vocabulary, processing challenges, and celebrating wins....
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4 weeks ago
11 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Tuesday 7th October 2025
Send us a text Start Striving at www.strive25.co.uk/
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1 month ago
3 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Monday 6th October 2025
Send us a text You space to set great intentions for you day to help you stay accountable for your striving. Start Striving at www.strive25.co.uk/
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1 month ago
5 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Sunday Strive 5th October 2025
Send us a text A guided insight in to how Nick structures his Sunday Strive with reflections and intentions. Start Striving at www.strive25.co.uk/
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1 month ago
5 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Dr Sally Needham
Send us a text In this powerful episode, Nick is joined by Dr. Sally Needham, a leader in human development and performance. Sally shares incredible insights from her experiences shaping performance by truly understanding the individuals you work with. Drawing on neuroscience and developmental practice, she explores how awareness, connection, and compassion can elevate both personal growth and the way we support others. Throughout her career, including her time with the English FA, working ac...
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1 month ago
47 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Sunday Strive - September Reflections October Intentions
Send us a text Nick guides you through your September reflection to inform your October intentions. He also shares two excellent clips from the episodes with Cody Royle and Dr Phil Hopley, relevant to performing in elite sport, dealing with external pressure and adversity. Very timely with the conclusion of the Womens Rugby World Cup and the Mens Ryder Cup. Keep Striving. Start Striving at www.strive25.co.uk/
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1 month ago
15 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Monday - Intentions
Send us a text A daily habits to help you Strive. Start Striving at www.strive25.co.uk/
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1 month ago
2 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Sunday Strive - 21st September 2025
Send us a text Nick helps you with a guided reflection and intention episode that will help you Strive this week. Start Striving at www.strive25.co.uk/
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1 month ago
7 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Damien Broad
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1 month ago
50 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Sunday Strive - Seek to Understand
Send us a text In this week’s episode of How to Strive, we take time to pause, reflect, and refocus. Together, we look back on the intentions you set last week, celebrating what worked, unpacking what didn’t, and discovering how those reflections can shape more purposeful intentions for the days ahead. Alongside this guided reflection and intention-setting practice, we explore the powerful skill of seeking to understand others. Drawing on insights from past conversations including a cli...
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1 month ago
11 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Phil Hopley - Cognacity
Send us a text In this episode Nick is joined by Dr Philip Hopley MRCPsych who is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Co-Founder of Cognacity Ltd Phil is a Medical Doctor and Consultant Psychiatrist. After 19 years working with the NHS, he founded Cognacity. Phil’s training in forensic, general and sport psychiatry combined with a career playing Premiership rugby, enabled him to develop his passion for the mental health of elite performance in sport and business. In recent years Phil has work...
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2 months ago
47 minutes

How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Send us a text In this final episode of How to Strive’s mini-series on Neil Mullarkey’s Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills, Nick explores the essential and often overlooked skill of leaving well. Drawing on Neil’s insights from the stage, business, and psychology, we unpack why endings matter, how the final moments of an interaction, meeting, or relationship shape how it’s remembered. From the Peak-End Rule explored by Daniel Kahneman to practical advice on closing conversations, meeti...