Ep 5: Tapping into your creative brain with Neuroleadership expert Rachel Bamber

Are you in need of tips to stop creative procrastination, or fear of being judged ‘not good enough?’ Lean in to this episode where Coach, Rachel Bamber share brain-friendly techniques to overcome these challenges and the neuroscience behind them.

Guest Bio

Rachel Bamber is an expert in using powerful, brain-friendly strategies to deliver peak performance. She helps people to work with their brain to get what they want - faster and with zero stress.

Among the pioneering adventurers who have hired her include people in the public eye, elite sport, corporate leaders and super-ambitious business owners. Rachel’s clients become skilled at working and leading with their brain, rather than against it!

Rachel is renowned for her bold and intuitive coaching, creating a motivating and powerful transformative experience which is also sustainable and fun!

Challenges her clients have overcome include lost confidence, leadership development of a new team, increasing visibility across international organisations, at a career crossroads and unsure of direction to take, improving effectiveness, work-life balance, enhancing creativity, improving communication and relationships, increasing wellbeing and stress management, and eliminating procrastination and lack of motivation.

In addition, Rachel’s trained and assessed thousands of corporate professionals in brain-based coaching skills located on six continents. Antarctica tbc...

A nominee for the GLE Rising Star Award in business, Rachel is the first person in the world to be awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in the Neuroscience of Leadership. Rachel also supervises new and established coaches to support and enhance their professional practice, increase their confidence and skills. Plus, she enjoys mentoring coaches towards their ICF accreditation.

A keen writer, Rachel’s Brighter Thinking Tips have been published online since 2008 and she’s currently editing her first book. Regularly challenging herself, Rachel became a digital nomad in 2023.

● [01:08] – The Edge – up to date creative news and views

● [04:21] – Rachel explains her training in the Neuroscience of Leadership differentiates her coaching methodology

● [07:03] – How creativity shows up in the brain and differs between people

● [13:43] – Nikki and Rachel discuss creativity and AI

● [23:10] – The neuroscience behind creativity and wellbeing, travel and more

● [27:00] – Brain-friendly Tips from Rachel on Procrastination, fear of mistakes, inner critic

● [36:06] – Who is your Doubting Doris? Graphic designer Col Dixon’s story.

Four Creative Nuggets

“We exercise muscles, we tone them up. So with our brain, the same, the more creative endeavors we do, the more likely then that's going to help us.”

Writing down with pen and paper has been shown to be more effective than actually typing on a keyboard. The motor part of the brain has been shown to be really essential in learning

Wherever we put ourselves in new situations, see new things, hear new things, have new experiences, our brain is going to do is have new insights, make new connections.