Expanding Possibility within Ourselves and Industry at a time of Collapse

About Expanding Possibility within Ourselves and Industry at a time of Collapse

I want to offer you a space I didn’t know was missing—until I found it. A space to tell the truth. To exhale. To admit that even with all the outward success—salary, stock, leadership title—something still feels off. You likely work within chemicals, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, or the global supply chain, however this message may resonate with you regardless of the sector. You lead teams. You’ve driven transformation—digital, operational, commercial. And yet, the human side is undernourished, voluntarily left aside, including yours. You wonder: - Why does high performance often feel so lonely? - Why can’t our executive team be honest about what doesn't work, as much as what does? - Why do orgs invest so much in technology and not in human development? - Why does culture remain unhealthy even after all the investments? - Why is there no room for honest challenge at the top? - Why do M&A deals outpace real growth? - Why does sustainability feel more like spin than strategy? - Why is it so hard to invest in your own development? You’re not broken. You’re waking up. That curiosity you’re feeling—it’s not a problem. It’s a signal. That your ambition is shifting. That impact now means more than output. That leading with integrity is starting to matter more than holding a position. That being soft isn’t a weakness. Not knowing is a strength. I’ve been there. On the outside, everything looked great. But inside, I was depleted. It wasn’t until I hit a wall that I realized what I needed wasn’t more achievement, but more truth, more growth, more connection. That’s why I created this space. A space to think, feel, unlearn, and grow. Together. If you’re ready to step beyond the performance mask, and into something more honest—more human—email me at garry.turner@radicality.co.uk. Let’s talk. We need all of you. Not just the title. Not just the output. You. – Garry Turner Chemicals Industry | Founder of Radicality inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com (https://inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Garry Turner

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jul 2023

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Oct 2026

   Going from ‘Substuck’ to Substack - Let’s explore?

   Hi all, A bit, okay a lot!, of a random download, but with genuine intent. Check out my podcast (https://inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com/podcast) if you want to get a sense of how I hold space and facilitate dialogue. I’d love to meet and explore with YOU - are you game? Have a safe and impactful week ahead. Garry Get full access to In The Business of Healthy Masculinity at inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com/subscribe (https://inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

2. 

   5 Apr 2026

   The Power of Healthy Masculinity with Maciej Pawlik

   Hi there, Phew, we made it! The first, and maybe last, sprint of the In The Business of Healthy Masculinity (https://www.radicality.co.uk/ibhm) podcast. Episode #25. If you have listened in at all, please do reply and let me know what you have found interesting, what you disagree with, or anything else. Let me introduce you to the brilliant mind of Maciej Pawlik (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maciejpawlik2000/): Maciej Pawlik (https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/102104-maciej-pawlik) is a Disaster Scientist studying for a PhD in nature-based disaster resilience at UCL's Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction and Institute of Education. His research aims to better understand learning processes surrounding nature-based solutions in flood-prone communities to build learning interventions that can help foster disaster resilience across the UK, Japan and beyond. He also serves as a Climate Ambassador for London, helping schools develop Climate Action Plans and is a Steering Committee Member of the UK Alliance for Disaster Research, supporting early-career researcher development. Let’s dive in, and please do share any insights or reflections that emerge for you: Men and women as allies against harmful systems/behaviour “There’s such a great degree of separation between how we identify as men and women’s identity and women’s suffrage. We should be allies, we should be supporters, we should be doing everything we can to create a more equitable world.” - Maciej Pawlik There is little I can add to Maciej’s assertion here. What I will add, however, is that for some reason it is very hard to get business leaders to take the topic of men’s violence seriously. I have tried on multiple occasions to get some organisations to engage around this topic, by suggesting that they become White Ribbon accredited, however this is not deemed as important enough (despite what is going on with the Epstein files!). Indeed the very reason this In The Business of Healthy Masculinity platform was developed was due to the same insight being shared in Dr Jackson Katz book, Every Man: Why Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, and How You Can Make a Difference. (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458863/every-man-by-katz-dr-jackson/9780241672662) To what extent do you, or would you be willing to call men in for bad or harmful behaviour? Can you remember an example or missed opportunity in recent times? We have to challenge bad behaviour (unhealthy masculinity) “Nothing is going to change if we don't challenge bad behaviour and not only call it out, but actually do something about it.” - Maciej Pawlik Maciej’s comment here hits me straight in the heart! There was an occasion several years ago when I overheard two leaders within a work organisation discussing the fact they needed to get someone to step into a more senior role within customer service and they thought that Susan (real name protected) would do a good job, but that there was no point asking her as she will likely have kids within the next one-two years. Susan was not pregnant at the point of this discussion, so it was clear that bias was at play, but I did not have the courage, nor personal accountability, to speak up at that time. To this day, I hold the frustration that I did not speak up. Whilst this was not harmful from a physical point of view, it is a harmful pattern of behaviour, that is unchallenged, just repeats. Do you have any stories or examples where you have stayed comfortable rather than speak up? We’d appreciate you sharing in the comments to help build this muscle. The power of healthy masculinity “I don’t think it’s right that power should be about subjugation. I think the true meaning of power should be about standing in the way of bullets when others are vulnerable and lifting people out of vulnerability and being able to empower others who are less fortunate than us.” - Maciej Pawlik Maciej’s perspective is incredibly powerful to me, and this version of (healthy I may add) power is one that I have rarely experienced within a business setting. Certain people I have worked with do model this approach, but at a systems/organisational level, much less so. This makes sense to some extent as business as we understand it today is mainly about maximising profits, often at literally all costs. Could you imagine a world where business is part of a connected, more social business system that allows a fair return to be made (of course we will have a different of version of what this could be), leveraging building business and entrepreneurial zeal, but capping the ability for huge disparities in worker to executive ratios, reducing harm by design in supply chains, and building in a fairer, more just payment level to suppliers? I can imagine this, it’s a stretch, but current world events just reinforce the need for more decentralising of power, in and outside of business spaces. I am curious, how have you experienced ‘power,’ in good, bad, or other ways, and what does power mean to you personally? Role modelling healthier masculinity “I'm polish and the lessons that I was that I was told by many was don't show weakness, don't show emotions, and I don't think that's right” - Maciej Pawlik What I find most clarifying is how patriarchy has been embedded in men regardless of geography and regardless of language over the past generations. All of Maciej’s experiences I have experienced as a Brit. Be the man, dont show feelings, dont show weakness, be strong etc We are seeing this unhealthy masculinity, when not balanced with healthy feminine energy, being propagated in the manosphere and other degrading movements founded, I feel, on men’s lack of personal safety/safe spaces, and lower self worth. What are you doing to break these narratives and patterns in your life, and of those closest to you? Self-organisation and mutual aid as challengers to harmful systems “A big challenge to the system is if you can create more networks of knowledge sharing, mutual aid, and break down barriers to resources, to provisions. Because the way that the system works is that if you are dis-empowered, If you lack resources, if you don't know about pathways towards sources of information, then you'll continue to be dis-empowered and you'll be stuck.” - Maciej Pawlik Hannah Litt (she/her) (https://substack.com/profile/311168321-hannah-litt-sheher) has been talking about mutual exchange and mutual aid for as long as I have known her (the past few years!). Access to resources, information, even food, can be gate-kept by power holders and multinational corporations under the current culture that operates. However, what could be possible if we re-imagined a healthy distribution of resources, information, and food? I learned about the old silk road as part of the Possible Futures Collective Intro to Decolonial Sustainability course, and how trade was effective and much more humane/equitable pre-colonisation, and pre the British-led East-India Company (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SHhiEISRrE). What impacts you from Maciej’s comment above and what may ignite curiosity within you as a result? Until ……… whatever unfolds We hope that you join us in this exploration, and please do feed back and share with your networks if you are getting value. Finally, if any of the above questions have ignited curiosity within you, I am here (https://www.canva.com/design/DAGy-NfJ4LQ/05dEeMABmP3nH-iL8IKwqw/view?utm_content=DAGy-NfJ4LQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h0540311846)if you are looking for a 1-1 Thinking Partner (https://www.canva.com/design/DAGy-NfJ4LQ/05dEeMABmP3nH-iL8IKwqw/view?utm_content=DAGy-NfJ4LQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h0540311846) that can be in your corner by voice note, virtually, and in-person, I have found 5 x 60 minutes calls + unlimited voice note communication to work the best. If you are ready to embrace the journey towards a healthier relationship with yourself and those around you, and the goodness that brings, at home and at work, drop me a line at garry.turner@radicality.co.uk. This was the last episode of the current series of the In The Business of Healthy Masculinity podcast (https://www.radicality.co.uk/ibhm). I’d be grateful if you would leave a review, if you have got value from the conversations, on Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/in-the-business-of-healthy-masculinity/id1699744444) and/or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/1IJyMV9fioYKMRV2WFIHbA?si=6690902ef9d04904). I will keep in touch periodically as we go forward and as you are still here, what most serve you for us to talk about and/or explore on this platform? With love Garry Turner garry.turner@radicality.co.uk Radicality.co.uk (http://radicality.co.uk/) +44 7928 979358 Get full access to In The Business of Healthy Masculinity at inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com/subscribe (https://inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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   30 Mar 2026

   Cultivating a Polymathic Mind with Trina Casey

   Hi there, We are into the penultimate episode of In The Business of Healthy Masculinity (https://www.radicality.co.uk/ibhm) in it;s current format, I do hope you have been getting some value over the past 20+ weeks? Let me introduce you to the wonderful Trina Casey: Trina Casey is an international educator, Mind, Body, and Spirit Alignment Coach, and author who has spent over two decades guiding people toward wholeness and conscious living. Having lived and taught globally, to connect with nodes of consciousness allows Trina truly innerstand her clients and co-creators on a frequency level leading to Temet Nosce, Know Thyself. Trina is the creator of This Real Life Books, a groundbreaking series of trauma-informed children’s stories, and host of the EQaboveIQ podcast, where she unpacks emotional intelligence as a key to purpose-driven life. Through her mentorship, she empowers clients to deprogram societal conditioning, reconnect with their intrinsic worth, and step into authentic alignment. Her latest book, Reclaiming Humanity: A Blueprint for Collective Healing and Resistance, calls readers to challenge oppressive systems and awaken to their true power. You can reach Trina on the following platforms: Website - https://thisreallifebooks.com/ (https://thisreallifebooks.com/) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thisreallifebooks (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thisreallifebooks/) Let’s dive into this juicy conversation! Observe, don't absorb “I can observe without absorbing. It's okay to be an observer, but the goal of the parasitic class is to get you to absorb, absorb ideals, absorb fallacies, and just divide yourself.” - Trina Casey How does Trina’s insight land with you? For me personally, it has taken years of inner work to unlearn my savourism pattern, to understand my right to comfort pattern that I have been conditioned with, that the world is not binary etc As I have unlearned that conditioning, my capacity to observe and not just absorb has expanded. It is very hard, personally and within a work context, to hold so much complexity in our minds and souls, without release valves. Remember Paul Jameson’s valve and widget metaphors from episode #14 of this platform (https://inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com/p/empathy-as-a-gateway-to-healthier). In what ways are you able to observe without being absorbed in your own life today? What benefits could you and those around you gain if you could observe more often? Let us know in the comments. Benefit just me and/or we? “I would say tap into your inner knowing, your inner understanding, and your inner power and say, okay, does me behaving this way benefit the whole or does it benefit me? Because usually it's usually a deep insecurity that if i give up some “power” to a woman then i'm not a man, but to me. you lose nothing and you gain everything once you connect with the divine feminine.” - Trina Casey This message from Trina is GOLD! Let me bring this to life for you from my own lived experience. Over the past decade I have worked at the same company and doing the same job, yet outside of that day job, I have grown, shed, cried, evolved, met a wonderfully diverse global community of human beings, and guest what? 90% + of that journey has been with women. Not because I designed it that way, it is just a symptom of the fact that we men too rarely have the safe spaces to even think, let alone feel, and that can often reinforce the unhealthy behaviours that we have explored so much on this platform. Inside of myself, my capacity to learn, unlearn, and observe and not just absorb has expanded so many times over, yet on the outside, the world looks pretty similar. Same job, same amazing wife, same family etc If you are not ‘going inside’ of yourself; reviewing your values, your job role, who you spend your time with, who energises you, who drains you, you are likely a passenger in your own life, and not in the driving seat. Be honest with yourself. Are you the driver or the passenger of your own life right now? If you are the passenger, please reach out to Trina or myself as we need to get you into the driving seat. The etymology of 'business' “The whole point of hustling and bustling in busyness is to be anxious. To be taken away from self. That's the point. So if I had all the time and resources I needed, I would probably be a little bit more introspective. How's my body feel? What's this? What's that? Curiosity would be king.” - Trina Casey This blew my brain! I always love how Trina focuses on the etymology or origin of words, but I never knew the origins of the word ‘business’ and it makes a lot of sense. How did learning the etymology of the word business land with you? What did it spark, what did it maybe even trigger? Even if your job role or work feels meaningful, if we look on an interconnected, systemic level, does it reinforce this etymology. Why? Because business as we do it today is predicated on harm. Global supply chains that enclose resource and labour for relative worker scraps whilst the majority gets syphoned off to big corporations and the global financial market. Additionally global engagement stats from Gallup stubbornly stuck at just 21% (https://www.gallup.com/workplace/697904/state-of-the-global-workplace-global-data.aspx) - that’s 79% of people going through the motions of ‘work,’ which surely reinforces Trina’s insight and research into the etymology of word ‘business’? Life doesn’t have to look bad on the outside - mine doesn’t - to be honest about this reality. So what word, what energy do we need to change to reimagine work and community to less anxious, less harm, and less disembodied ways? What are you thinking and what are your thoughts? The 'Ponzi scheme' of Western financial services “And look what can happen in seventy two hours. Fifteen percent of twenty years' worth of investment was wiped out because of one (maybe two!) human beings's desire to go to war.” - Garry Turner At the time of sharing this conversation with Trina, my pension funds are a further 2% lower as the US-Israel war on Iran continues ! If there was ever a time for people to realise and understand the interconnectedness of our systems and lives in 2026, this is it. The fact that literally a couple of human beings, aided and abetted by systems of preferential governance, can cause such havoc all around the world just makes this so clear to see. Indeed I saw an amazing video on LinkedIn that is SO valuable to watch in full. I share it here in case of value to you: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7441420839788396544/ (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7441420839788396544/) What this situation provoked within me is something that Hannah Litt (https://hannahlitt.com/) and I are discussing often, which is how do we get to a palace of valuing different things not just based on the US dollar. How do we set up systems for mutual exchange (food, skills etc) that are beyond reliance on a few peoples whims? I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas around how we can organise and exchange differently towards more equal and healthy futures? Do you have any examples or know of any that are working effectively today? The battle to maintain healthy energetic balance "Almost three years ago, I started seeing a divide, a purposeful push, especially with the red pill content. The battle between the masculine and the feminine, women are this, men are that. And though some of this could be Interpreted as true, I want to look at it from a different perspective in that energetically and spiritually, we have both frequencies of masculine and feminine energy in us.” - Trina Casey Whether we look at business, politics, or our local communities. Who benefits from us being divided? Not you, Trina, and me! The conscious balancing and dialling up/down of BOTH our masculine and feminine traits/energies has been one of the most consistent and important insights of these healthy masculinity conversations, and Trina spotlights this powerfully again. There is no reason whatsoever for men and women to be competing, not when coming from a place of equality and health. To what extent are you consciously balancing your machine and feminine energies today? Could you benefit from a safe space and guidance to do so more effectively for you and those around you? Until next time We hope that you join us in this exploration, and please do feed back and share with your networks if you are getting value. Finally, if any of the above questions have ignited curiosity within you, I am here (https://www.canva.com/design/DAGy-NfJ4LQ/05dEeMABmP3nH-iL8IKwqw/view?utm_content=DAGy-NfJ4LQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h0540311846)if you are looking for a 1-1 Thinking Partner (https://www.canva.com/design/DAGy-NfJ4LQ/05dEeMABmP3nH-iL8IKwqw/view?utm_content=DAGy-NfJ4LQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h0540311846) that can be in your corner by voice note, virtually, and in-person, I have found 5 x 60 minutes calls + unlimited voice note communication to work the best. If you are ready to embrace the journey towards a healthier relationship with yourself and those around you, and the goodness that brings, at home and at work, drop me a line at garry.turner@radicality.co.uk. Episode #25 of the podcast, the final in its current iteration, will be published next Mon 6th April 2026 with disaster scientist and brilliant mind Maciej Pawlik (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maciejpawlik2000/). Here is a clip to whet your appetite in advance: I am always interested in your reflections, challenges, and anything else that piques your curiosity with these updates. Wishing you a safe, connected week ahead. With love Garry Turner garry.turner@radicality.co.uk Radicality.co.uk (http://radicality.co.uk/) +44 7928 979358 Get full access to In The Business of Healthy Masculinity at inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com/subscribe (https://inbusinessofhealthymasculinity.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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