Cate Luzio, Founder & CEO, Luminary

This Changes Things

Are you driving your own life and career — or getting dragged along?

That’s the question at the heart of This Changes Things, a podcast about leadership, relationships, and what it actually takes to show up, at work, at home, and everywhere in between. Each week, host Shoshanna Hecht — an executive and leadership coach, drawing on two decades as a therapist and coach — sits down with a founder, a leader, a thinker she wants to learn from, and gets past the version they’ve told a hundred times to what matters most to them: the real decisions behind how they got here, and where they’re headed now. Whatever they bring — a business they built, a book they wrote, a life they rebuilt — they get into it together, and into what it can offer the rest of us.

Again and again, one thing surfaces: you don’t have to hit a breaking point to change course and start leading & living like you mean it, it begins the moment you decide it does. It’s the same conversation Shoshanna has with her clients every day: honest, specific, and on your side. You’ll come away a little clearer on what matters to you, and a lot less alone in figuring out what to do about it.

Whether you lead a company, a team, a partnership, or your own life, there’s something here for you. New episodes weekly — the next chapter of the podcast formerly known as Your New Life Blend.

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If you’re the one who drives, the one who makes it happen, and who’s maybe a little uncomfortable letting anyone else take the wheel, then you probably also know the quiet cost of it. That ever-present what-else-what-else, and the bar you keep raising on yourself.

Cate Luzio has channeled that drive further than almost anyone. Two decades running multibillion-dollar businesses at HSBC and J.P. Morgan, and then the bold step: she walked away, bet on herself, and built Luminary — a professional education and networking platform — from nothing. Luminary is now, at eight years old, a global community of more than 15,000 members across 30 countries — and, three acquisitions in, still growing. But what makes Cate Cate is that she’s never done: she’s still building, still asking what’s next, still driving.

On this episode of This Changes Things, Shoshanna (a proud Luminary member herself) gets past the founding story Cate has told many times to what’s driving her now: why impact, and not headcount or headlines, is the metric that matters most; what it took to let her team and her community show up for her when she couldn’t just push through; and the decisions that get easier once you’re clear on your values.

You’ll come away thinking differently about what it means to stay in the driver’s seat, and when the strongest move is to let someone else drive.

Websites:

https://www.cateluzio.com/
https://www.weareluminary.com/home

Social Handles:

Cate Luzio
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cluzio/
https://www.instagram.com/cateluzio/

Shoshanna Hecht
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shoshannahecht/
https://www.instagram.com/shoshannahecht/

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Producer:
Rob Heath https://www.robheathstudios.com/

Podcast Artwork Designer:
Nicci Theron https://thecreative.co.nz/

Hear From Our Listeners

Shoshanna asks the very best questions. While I'm off thinking of one thing, as a result of the interview discussion, she cuts through everything to get to the central, underlying theme.”

mbr2014 / Apple Podcasts

The host is charming and insightful, the guests are fascinating and inspiring. What a great gift to have the chance to be guided by Shoshanna Hecht and her brilliant guests."

GioiaDC / Apple Podcasts