My Career Lab Podcast
Career Labs Podcast with Femi Akinyemi helps ambitious professionals grow, lead, and thrive in a changing world.
Each week, Career Coach, Change Leader, and Leadership Consultant Femi Akinyemi breaks down the mindset shifts, leadership principles, and practical strategies you need to build confidence, navigate change, and unlock meaningful career growth.
From imposter syndrome and executive presence to reinvention, influence, and future-ready skills, every episode gives you tools you can use immediately — no fluff, no jargon, just real insights for real progress.
Whether you're rebuilding momentum, aiming for your next promotion, or simply trying to become a more impactful leader, this is your weekly lab for turning ambition into action.
🎯 Topics: career development, leadership, mindset, influence, confidence, change management, AI & the future of work, communication, reinvention.
My Career Lab Podcast
How To Transition Into Leadership With Lorlett Hudson
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Today we have Lorlett Hudson and she's an expert in helping senior professionals excel at delivering exceptional results. Her approach helps you learn what you don't know. And that's what she'll be helping us do, she'll be helping us figure out what we don't know.
I'm sure you'll enjoy this session because I learned a whole lot from it. She's also an inventor of the critically acclaimed multi award-winning things mama used to say, a 52 card box set of Jamaican Caribbean proverbs to facilitate change management, diversity and inclusion and develop high-performing teams.
I hope you enjoy this session and you leave here changed because I certainly did. Enjoy.
In this podcast episode:
05:00 - Why is Lorlett’s company named - One Hand Can’t Clap?
07:10 - Why do people from minority backgrounds struggle to make that transition to leadership?
11:40 - How does Lorlett help people see beyond their nose to become greater than what they aspire to be?
17:50 - What are the common blocks encountered when transitioning to leadership?
20:50 - What if you want to get better but are stuck and can’t see a way out?
24:50 - Lorlett’s book - Things Mama Used To Say
30:30 - Who’s having conversations about you?
37:20 - Ownership is everything
41:00 - Imposter syndrome
46:00 - Determining your value
49:00 - Advice for you to see what you are truly worth
Get Lorlett’s book at: https://www.onehandcantclap.co.uk/
This episode is sponsored by MyCareerLabs
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