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Ease with Sam Wigan

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by Sam Wigan

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The Self-Realized Leader - helping to increase your impact as a leader, with more ease. Sam Wigan, Leadership Coach for £1bn+ businesses, talks to leaders about creating impact in their own lives and the lives of others, helping you to implement their practices into your own daily lives and realize your leadership potential. Sam is the founder of 'Self-Realized Leadership,' a framework for leadership development designed to integrate within the bold strategic agendas of your business, tailored to each tier of leadership. Based in principles of Psychology and Neuroscience, Self-Realized Leadership is a practical methodology that enables high achievers to access their full potential, bring others with them and enjoy the journey as they do it. Learn more at samwigancoaching.com and find out how Sam can work with you, your teams and your organisation.

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February 3, 2026

The Inner Work of Leadership: Culture, Consciousness & Impact - Darryl Cooke

<p>In this episode of The Self-Realized Leader Podcast, Sam Wigan is joined by Darryl Cooke, founder of gunnercooke llp, to explore what leadership looks like when integrity, compassion and self-knowledge take a front seat.</p><p>Darryl shares the inner experiences that shaped his leadership journey, from his earliest desire to help and serve others, a natural ability to see what works, and a profound joy in working with teams and seeing others succeed. Combined with a deliberately learned ability to communicate well and a natural capacity to bring people with him, Darryl has consistently excelled in leadership throughout his career and now chairs Gunnercooke Plc - a global rocket ship of a law firm that he founded to disrupt the corrosive 'profits-per-partner' model that was at the time the norm. Through the firm's foundation - an initiative that was baked into the model from the outset - he's also scaling good works and positive impact in society in meaningful and important ways.</p><p>Together, Sam and Darryl explore what it means to lead from self-awareness, why a growth mindset is non-negotiable for modern leaders, and how leading with compassion - or 'compassionomics' - is a powerful model for success. This conversation goes beyond business success into the deeper work of leadership: purpose, mindset, culture, and becoming the kind of leader people genuinely want to follow.</p><p><strong>About Darryl Cooke:</strong></p><p>Darryl Cooke is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of gunnercooke llp, a full-service commercial and corporate law firm established in 2010 to challenge the traditional delivery of professional services. Since its launch, gunnercooke has grown rapidly into a global business with almost 300 partners across seven offices, alongside a specialist and expanding management consultancy arm.</p><p>Under Darryl’s leadership, the firm has received over 40 industry awards, recognising its innovative model, culture, and impact.</p><p>A central part of Darryl’s vision is to “create a better world than we found.” He is a strong believer that business has both the tools and the responsibility to help solve many of society’s biggest challenges. This belief led him to establish the gunnercooke foundation, which connects ambitious charities and not-for-profit organisations with business leaders through a hub system to support sustainable growth. The foundation is currently working with around 80 such organisations across a wide range of social and community projects.</p><p>Be sure to check out Darryl's podcast, '<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-inspiring-leadership-podcast/id1533427470">The Inspiring Leadership</a>' podcast, and '<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UMOHFsahNZ81b41sgWu4g">The Legally Speaking podcast</a>' with Darryl as a guest (as mentioned in the episode) .</p><p><strong>Mark Twain Quote:</strong></p><p>In this episode, Sam incorrectly attributes a quote to Churchill that Darryl then correctly attributes to Mark Twain. The full quote is: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years". Whilst this quote has always been attributed to Twain, in the first instance by Fred N. Ringe in 1915 for a story in an edition of The Square Deal, where Ringe uses 17 and 25 as the age range, interestingly there is no definitive evidence that Twain actually ever said it. But it's the kind of thing he might have said, and it's always been associated with him.</p>

Episode thumbnail for From Exile to Excellence: Salma de Graaff on Leadership, Identity & Freedom.

November 4, 2025

From Exile to Excellence: Salma de Graaff on Leadership, Identity & Freedom.

<p>In this moving conversation, Sam Wigan sits down with Salma de Graaff to explore her extraordinary journey, from her father’s stories of escape across continents after the partition of India and Pakistan, to her own experience growing up mixed-race in 1970s Birmingham.</p><p>Salma reflects on the challenges of belonging, cultural identity, and navigating expectations as a young woman in a Muslim household. She speaks candidly about resilience, love, and independence, sharing how those early experiences shaped her leadership philosophy and her later success as a global HR and organisational development leader.</p>

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September 30, 2025

From Poverty to Privilege: Breaking Through Against the Odds

<p>How Susie Warran-Smith CBE DL broke the mould and won in the game of business - and life.</p><p>From an impoverished background and a career marked by workplace bias, abuse and inequality, Susie elevated herself to become a successful entrepreneur at 55. She’s since been invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by King Charles, served as an advisor to Government, taken Non-Executive Director roles at leading UK institutions, and become a champion for business across the UK.</p><p>In this candid conversation, Susie reflects on her remarkable career in design, marketing, and leadership - alongside her award-winning entrepreneurial journey. She also shares the deeply personal experiences that shaped her powerful book Swimming on My Own - a raw account of inequality, resilience and survival.</p><p>We talk about the power of humour, values-driven leadership, and why real success isn’t about ego or volume but about showing up, keeping going, and making change with respect and humanity.</p>

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What is Ease with Sam Wigan?

The Self-Realized Leader - helping to increase your impact as a leader, with more ease. Sam Wigan, Leadership Coach for £1bn+ businesses, talks to leaders about creating impact in their own lives and the lives of others, helping you to implement their practices into your own daily lives and realize your leadership potential.

Sam is the founder of 'Self-Realized Leadership,' a framework for leadership development designed to integrate within the bold strategic agendas of your business, tailored to each tier of leadership. Based in principles of Psychology and Neuroscience, Self-Realized Leadership is a practical methodology that enables high achievers to access their full potential, bring others with them and enjoy the journey as they do it. Learn more at samwigancoaching.com and find out how Sam can work with you, your teams and your organisation.

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This podcast updates daily.

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This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.

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