Leadership growth with commercial backbone.
Brave Bold Brilliant is a warm business leadership show built around practical growth conversations. It moves between guest interviews and direct coaching on mentorship, confidence, strategy, team standards, profitability, and staying relevant as markets change.
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Brave Bold Brilliant sits in the space where leadership development, business reflection, and practical business strategy meet. Its tone is generous but purposeful. The show cares about achievement, but it keeps returning to the inner work behind credible leadership. Episodes ask why founders stay stuck, why comfort can become dangerous, and why mentorship often matters more than another round of passive content. The advice is plainspoken. Leaders are pushed toward clarity, standards, decision-making, commercial intelligence, and execution. Guest-led episodes widen the lens through lived career stories. Melissa Snover discusses an early entrepreneurial path and health tech ambition. Piers Linney reflects on a career that looks tidy from the outside but carries a more complicated inside track. Jean-Jacques Morin brings a hospitality perspective shaped by data, brand transformation, international growth, and curiosity. Other conversations focus on confidence for female leaders, handling setbacks, practicing gratitude, and using failure as information rather than identity. Solo coaching episodes sharpen the message. They warn against stability that quietly becomes stagnation, especially as AI, automation, and digital change reshape what relevance means. The show does not treat leadership as a set of buzzwords. It frames it as a daily operating standard, linking personal discipline to team performance and business results. There is a strong preference for action over inspiration alone. The best fit is an ambitious founder, entrepreneur, business leader, or rising leader who wants challenge without cynicism. Brave Bold Brilliant is practical, reflective, and steady in its belief that better leadership is built through proximity, reinvention, and doing the right things consistently.
Made for: Ambitious founders, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and developing leaders who want practical business growth advice with a personal leadership lens. It also suits listeners interested in confidence, mentorship, reinvention, and scaling without losing direction.
What sets it apart: The show links three layers that are often treated separately: leading yourself, leading teams, and leading the business. Its conversations turn career stories into usable leadership lessons rather than staying at biography or motivation.
Brave Bold Brilliant is where business leaders, entrepreneurs and their teams come to be inspired, challenged and equipped with the tools for growth and success. Here on Brave Bold Brilliant podcast, Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences in business and life, gaining first-hand insight into how they unleashed their potential to become Brave Bold Brilliant. From the boardroom tables of big international businesses to the exciting world of entrepreneurs it's all about stepping up to the next level while staying true to yourself.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jeanette Linfoot connects executive experience, personal change and practical leadership decisions without losing sight of how businesses actually grow.
Brave Bold Brilliant treats leadership as a practical discipline, with Jeanette Linfoot moving between guest interviews and direct coaching-style episodes.
An overflowing CEO inbox gets one sharp question from Jeannette Linfoot: why does every decision reach you?
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded conversation about scaling with structure, clarity, and leadership.
The episode settles into a focused leadership-and-growth conversation, with Mike Harris and Jeanette Linfoot moving neatly from podcast milestones to the practical work of building businesses that can scale.
Practical strategy talk that keeps leadership, team, and profitability in the same frame.
Mike Harris keeps the focus on how leadership, team performance, and business strategy fit together when growth depends on more than a plan on paper.
A measured hospitality leadership episode about data, diversification, and judgment beyond the spreadsheet.
Jean-Jacques Morin's path from Deloitte and engineering into semiconductors, power, travel, and hospitality gives the episode a clean editorial spine: how curiosity turns into executive range.
A clear, practical case for shifting operational decisions to the team so leaders can stay focused on strategy.
From Chaos to Clarity treats decision overload as a leadership issue, not a lack of ideas. Jeanette Linfoot lays out a practical blueprint for leaders juggling a full inbox, a team that needs direction, cash flow pressure, and opportunities arriving faster than they can be…
A thoughtful conversation on how imagining a better future can help sustain change.
Addiction enters the business conversation through a practical shift in framing: what changes when someone stops focusing only on what has to be given up and starts picturing what life could become?
A grounded conversation about burnout, achievement, and purpose after the summit.
Rick Moylan's conversation at the 2025 Reset Summit at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester treats reset as something more practical than a pause button.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Jeannette Linfoot discusses the mentorship gap that causes founders to plateau for a decade or more.
This episode features an interview with Panos Almyrantis, Chief Growth and Commercial Officer for Ella Resorts, discussing leadership, scaling up, and the company's aggressive expansion plans in the luxury hotel industry.
Performance coach Rick Moylan discusses his journey from aspiring footballer to working with elite athletes like Ricky Hatton.
Jeanette Linfoot presents the BELIEF framework (Brave, Energy, Love, Influencers, Execution, Failure) at Rick Moylan's Reset Summit 2026 at the Lowry.
Mike Harris welcomes Jeanette Linfoot warmly.
Growth needs more than a roadmap.
This episode discusses the mentorship gap that causes talented founders to plateau in their businesses for up to 10 years, exploring patterns of stagnation and how to overcome them.
This episode features an interview with entrepreneur Piers Linney discussing his unconventional career path from law and finance to business and television.
This episode features an interview with Melissa Snover, CEO of Remedy Group, discussing her entrepreneurial journey starting at age 23 and exploring the future of personalized wellness technology.
Jean-Jacques Morin traces a career shaped by curiosity.
This episode features an interview with Ronan Dunne, discussing his approach to leadership as a 'Chief Cheerleader and Chief Storyteller' and his experiences as a CEO at major companies like O2 and Verizon.
Jeanette Linfoot of Brave Bold Brilliant presents a decision-making blueprint for CEOs, arguing that persistent confusion often reflects unclear strategy rather than a chaotic world.
Brave Bold Brilliant talks with Amber Hollingsworth about addiction, family intervention, and the myth of hitting rock bottom.
This episode features an interview with Panos Almyrantis, Chief Growth and Commercial Officer for Ella Resorts, discussing leadership, scaling up, and the company's aggressive expansion plans in the luxury hotel industry.
This episode features an interview with Emma Woods, exploring her career journey from marketing roles to board leadership, focusing on growth mindset, resilience, innovation, and diversity and inclusion.
This episode features entrepreneur Ashley Kirkwood discussing how to use money as a tool for business growth and overcome imposter syndrome through confident communication.