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Amanda O'Rourke

Amanda O'Rourke

Award-winning UK leadership and "inner calm" coach for high achievers; founder of Amanda O'Rourke Coaching, the Manifest Like Magic Retreat, and co-founder of Quantum Impact Design.

Aug 13, 2026

20:16
balance of like internal and external input?
20:20
All of that, Chris, all of what you've just said was at play.
20:23
I think it was a combination of me not getting the results I wanted from the people that were working for me and realising that was absolutely connected to who I was being.
20:35
And I think I knew intuitively I was going to become ill if I didn't change what I was doing, how I was behaving.
20:46
And so it was a slow process, but I deliberately started to look at myself differently.
20:52
And I deliberately started to look at the people around me differently.
20:56
And this is one of the beautiful things about the work we do, right, is that I went on a convention and we did some insights work.
24:21
How did the anxiety transform or transpire at home? How did it show up at home? And were there things at home that were adding to the anxiety, or was this all just work-related?
4:59
How does compassion save us?
5:02
It's a great question.
5:03
And I think to answer it, I really need to sort of give you the context of my story.
5:09
And when I said to you, compassion saved me, I felt at that point in my life that I needed to change.
5:17
I knew that I had that kind of not an epiphany moment, but a moment where I knew that something needed to change.
5:25
And I realised very quickly that that had to be me and the way I was behaving.
5:30
Nobody was coming to save me.

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16:07
So how does that start to come into your psyche, and how do you start to begin to understand why is that so important, and what has that led you to think about and consider in your own life and your professional journey?

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