Lucy Gernon (00:01.154)
Hello there and happy, happy Christmas. Welcome back to a very special, but super short episode of the 360 Leadership Podcast. I hope Christmas morning is going amazingly well. If you’re listening to this right now, please, I would love to hear from you. Just pop over to me on Instagram. Just go to instagram.com forward slash Lucy Gernon. Just find me on Instagram. And I’d love for you to like connect with me, wish me a happy Christmas so I can wish you a happy Christmas and we can all celebrate together.
What an incredible year it’s been in 2024. I hope you’re logged off and I hope the kids have opened all their presents or this episode actually comes out at 7am. So lots of you will only be getting up or maybe not up. But whatever you’re doing, I hope that you’re having a wonderful, wonderful morning. Love Christmas time so much. And equally, if Christmas is tough for you, I feel you. I am sending you so much love.
And yeah, definitely reach out to me on Instagram. All right. I’m sending you love, sending you lots of festive cheer. And if it’s difficult, it’s going to be over soon. All right. So, yeah, I wanted to talk to you, first of all, just to genuinely I’m going to be giving you one question that you’re going to want to use over Christmas today. If you’re at dinner tomorrow, if you’re meeting up with family or friends over the festive season, because it’s a super powerful question that my coach taught me, one of my coaches.
that I use all of the time and it’s it’s really, really good. But before I do that, I just want to extend a heartfelt thank you for all of your support in twenty twenty four. Like sometimes I pinch myself that I like this time in twenty twenty one, December twenty twenty one. I had just quit the corporate world and I was just about to go full time in my business.
And I was absolutely terrified. I had no idea if it was going to work. I like this podcast. I launched it in January 2022. So like for three years in consistent weekly episodes, like there’s a lot of work that goes into this, as I’m sure you can imagine. And just to see the listenership growing and to have you showing up here every week and even today, you’re here listening to me. cannot tell you how rewarding it is when I get to connect with you and hear.
Lucy Gernon (02:21.826)
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into your professional development and you like me, just go and sign up to the newsletter. But on to today’s episode, I want to share this question with you that my coach taught me. So my coach, one of my coaches is called Nick Pidgin and she’s a positive psychologist. She is a award winning businesswoman. She’s an entrepreneur. She is a multimillionaire. She has worked with Richard Branson. She, you know, she’s a lot of highfalutin friends and she goes to lots of dinner parties.
And she told me that when she was on Necker Island, which is where Richard Branson, his private island, she’s been there several times with him. She said there’s a question she always asks at his dinner parties and also at any dinner party she’s at, which really opens up really good conversations because most people never ask this, right? What do we say when we see people? We say, hey, how are you? How’s life? And what do most people do?
Well, in Ireland they do anyway. If you’re not Irish, maybe you’re different. It’s like, yeah, it’s OK. Work is really tough. We tend to go to the negative, right? We tend to go to the negative. Whereas this question. So if you’re multitasking, if you’re stuff in that turkey, just listen up for one second. This is the question. Just ask what’s happening in your life that feels exciting right now or what’s happening in your life in
Lucy Gernon (04:38.55)
that feels exciting in 2025 because it’s Christmas time. It’s a good time. The most important part of the question is you’re asking what’s what’s exciting? Like what’s happening for you that’s exciting right now? You are going to open up amazing conversations because there’s so much good stuff that’s happening in all of your friends and family’s lives. Like I remember I asked my sister this one day and she was like, I just bought this this kit to grow my own moss wall.
You know, those really cool things. she never would have told me that had I not asked her, because she’s quite kind of quiet. Like you have to ask her the right questions to get the information. And that was really, really cool. Or I asked one of my other friends, was like, well, what’s really exciting right now for you? And she’s like, we’ve just bought another property and we’re about to start a renovation. And it just starts these conversations about what’s exciting for the person you’re speaking to.
which will have a huge energy shift. So let’s say you’re at the dinner table sometime over Christmas and you feel like there’s a bit of negativity even scraping in or there might be a bit of a family dynamic that’s about to go down. Just ask the question, like anything exciting planned for 2025 or what’s feeling really exciting for you? And for the person who goes, nothing, just go, come on, there has to be something. What’s like, what’s feeling exciting? Are you watching a new show or blah, blah, blah? You know, you can drag it out with them.
It’s just a really, really good question to ask. And I hope that you help helps you because it helps me at everything I go to. So I told you this episode would be quick. We are like six minutes in and that’s all you’re getting today. It’s Christmas Day. I am obviously not recording this on Christmas Day, but I know you want to get back to your Turkey and your family and your celebrations. So that’s it. That is all I’ve got for you today. Wishing you a wonderful, wonderful Christmas. Wishing you a very, very, very happy New Year.
and be sure to come back here on New Year’s Day because I am recording a super special episode on goal setting for 2025 that you are not going to miss. I’m literally going to walk you through how to set your goals. It’s going to be really, really valuable. And I might just be announcing something really exciting that I’m working on as well that I know you are going to love. So be sure that you’re back here again next week. Same time, same place. Bye for now. Happy, happy Christmas.
