About EGN Leadership Conversations:
The untold secrets of the C-Suite
Unlock the limitless potential of leadership and life.
Join senior executives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders as they share how they break through personal and professional limits, embrace growth, and lead with authenticity.
Explore topics like holistic leadership, well-being, mindset, innovation, sustainability, future of work, and creating thriving cultures.
Hosted by Nick Jonsson — #1 Bestselling Author, Top 3 World ICF Coach, Singapore Top 100 Entrepreneur, and IRONMAN Top 2% World Athlete.
Episode 340: Yamila Libutti - From The Boardroom To The Ballroom
Yamila Libutti started working at fourteen. She was the eldest girl in a Cuban household in the US, paying rent and helping raise her younger sister — fourteen going on forty, as she puts it. There was no straight path into college and no traditional route up. She began in paper medical records, kept asking why the systems were so painful for elderly patients and for the staff serving them, and that curiosity carried her into IT before most people had a word for it.
Early in her leadership career, someone told her she would not get far because she was too kind. She told them that was exactly why she would.
What she did not account for was what was running underneath all of it.
"I became so good at taking risks and moving things forward in my professional life, that I didn't realize that in my personal life, there were aspects that were atrophying."
Her marriage of nearly thirty years ended. She describes it as a gut punch that took the wind out of her, and it was the first problem of her life she could not solve — because the fix was not hers alone to build.
What she did next she calls her version of Everest. She walked into a ballroom dance lesson: a woman who had spent years downplaying her femininity in male-dominated rooms, now being watched physically rather than for her mind. She got in the car afterwards and told herself she was never going back. A week later she returned and signed up for a competition two months away. Eight dance styles.
For anyone still delivering at work while quietly holding something together at home.
👇 Connect with Yamila Libutti:
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/yamilalibutti/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yamilalibutti/)
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Website https://www.nickjonsson.com (https://www.nickjonsson.com/)
30 Sept 2026
Episode 339: Seline Shenoy - Finding Your Way Back to Yourself
Seline Shenoy gave her life away in pieces, and each piece looked reasonable at the time. She had a career path mapped out in the United States, visa and sponsorship in place, and she let it go to move back to Dubai for the man she was seeing. She stopped mentioning the books she read. She stopped bringing up the research on human behaviour she found fascinating. At parties in his affluent circle, she left her brain at home.
Seven years in, when it ended, she looked in the mirror and did not recognise the person there.
What I did not expect is that she had known for a long time. Friends had warned her. She could see what the relationship was doing to her. What she lacked was not insight but someone to walk her out, which is eventually what a relationship coach did — after first trying to save it, then telling her plainly that it was not healthy and she needed to end it.
The real work came after. Two years without dating anyone, spent looking for her own part in what happened rather than cataloguing his.
"You have to do that inner excavation. You must."
That excavation became The Dream Catcher, the blog she started in 2014 while she was still raw from it, and later the podcast she has run since 2018.
For anyone who has quietly edited themselves down to fit somewhere they do not belong.
Connect with Seline Shenoy to collaborate:
LinkedIn https://ae.linkedin.com/in/seline-s-shenoy (https://ae.linkedin.com/in/seline-s-shenoy)
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@SelineShenoy (https://www.youtube.com/@SelineShenoy)
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Website https://www.nickjonsson.com/podcast (https://www.nickjonsson.com/podcast)
24 Sept 2026
Episode 338: Scott Lester Woods - Your Brain Isn't Broken, It's Lost
Scott Lester Woods was robbed on his 25th birthday. He was living in a Buddhist temple at the time, and someone walked into his room and took everything he owned. What he remembers is not the loss. It is that nobody there offered him sympathy. They felt sorry for the thief. Then they spent the next day asking him why his happiness was cheap enough that a stolen laptop could carry it off.
He had gone to the temple after a moment on Koh Phi Phi, sitting in the most beautiful place he had ever seen and realising he had brought the same miserable version of himself along with him. That misery started at nineteen, through roughly two years of depression, when he decided some people are simply born with a happy brain and he was not one of them.
What moved him was not a technique. It was a reframe:
"I'm not broke, I don't have a broken brain, I've got a hunter-gatherer nomadic brain, that's been now plonked in a society that it doesn't recognize."
Twelve years on, Scott is a clinical hypnotherapist and identity coach working with founders and high performers at the level of identity rather than willpower — the difference, as he puts it, between becoming a non-smoker and being someone who quit.
When I told him the executives listening are on calls sixteen hours a day, he did not reach for a routine. He said they are one belief and one skill away from changing it.
For anyone who has changed the job, the city, or the relationship, and found they brought the same person along.
Contact Scott to collaborate:
Website: https://scottlesterwoods.com ( https://scottlesterwoods.com)Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottlesterwoods/ (https://www.instagram.com/scottlesterwoods/)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlesterwoods/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlesterwoods/)
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The untold secrets of the C-Suite
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