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The Escalation Podcast

The Escalation Podcast

Veröffentlicht: 2026-04-02
© The Escalation Podcast, 2025
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Veröffentlicht: 2026-04-02
© The Escalation Podcast, 2025
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Relational Capacity: The Missing Link to Thriving (with Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes)

Relational Capacity: The Missing Link to Thriving (with Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes)

Your body knows before your brain does. The meeting hasn't started, but something in the room already tells you it's not safe to speak. In this episode, I sit down with Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes - relationship psychotherapist, advisor, TEDx speaker, an
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Your body knows before your brain does. The meeting hasn't started, but something in the room already tells you it's not safe to speak.
In this episode, I sit down with Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes - relationship psychotherapist, advisor, TEDx speaker, and author of the forthcoming "Beyond Words: How to Lead People from Survival to Success" (May 2026) - to explore why workplace mental health can't be fixed with individual coping tools alone.
Kerry-Lyn's work centers on a powerful idea: the brain is a relational organ, and psychological safety isn't something leaders declare - it's something people experience in the space between them.
This conversation moves away from frameworks and into something more familiar, but rarely named.
Together with Kerry-Lyn, we explore:
• Why your nervous system reacts before logic has time to catch up
• How people adapt their behaviour in real time depending on the room they’re in
• Why “high performance” often sits on top of unspoken tension and misalignment
• The difference between what organisations say about culture and what people actually experience
• Why many workplace challenges labelled as “individual issues” are, in reality, relational dynamics playing out
• What happens to communication, trust, and decision-making when relational safety breaks down
• And why the most important leadership skill isn’t technical, but something far less visible
This is not a conversation about fixing people.
It’s about seeing the system - and our place within it - more clearly.
We're living through something most of us can feel but few are naming. What Kerry-Lyn calls "relational poverty". Not only in workplaces, but in all the spaces in between us.
We're more connected than ever, surrounded by an endless flow of information, yet somehow the human gets forgotten. The relationships we often glorify - because they fill a certain void - feel weaker than ever. The quality of our connection is measured in likes, views and follows. And its not because we're not capable. It's because we've been focusing on the wrong kind of connection.
The future exists - between us.
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Erscheinungs­datum: 2.4.2026, 17:27:30

Beschreibung

The Escalation Podcast blends thoughtful solo reflections with candid conversations with high-performing leaders across banking, finance, law, and the wider corporate world.
Each episode explores the psychology, culture, and unspoken dynamics of ambitious careers — from decision-making under pressure to identity, leadership, and the personal cost of success. Through lived experiences and honest dialogue, the podcast looks beyond titles and achievements to examine what it really means to build a career in an industry that shapes not only what we do, but who we become.
This is where the professional and the personal meet — the human side of banking and finance.

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