About Nick Jonsson

Nick Jonsson is a global thought leader on executive loneliness, a TEDx speaker, certified coach, and bestselling author of Executive Loneliness. Born in Sweden, educated in Australia, and based in Southeast Asia for over two decades, Nick built a high-performing corporate career before experiencing burnout that became a turning point in his life.

That personal collapse and recovery became the foundation of his work today. Nick now supports CEOs, managing directors, and senior executives to strengthen their mental wellbeing, build resilience, and lead with more humanity, connection, and psychological safety. He is also a top 1% IRONMAN athlete and an advocate for breaking the stigma around mental health, addiction, and loneliness in high-performing environments.

About this Episode

In this powerful and deeply human episode of the Matrix Green Pill Podcast, host Hilmarie Hutchison speaks with Nick Jonsson about a subject many leaders experience but few openly discuss: loneliness at the top. Drawing from his own journey through burnout, addiction, and recovery, Nick shares how traditional leadership culture often teaches executives to push through challenges alone, creating isolation even in the most successful careers.

Nick reflects on his rise through the corporate world and how directive leadership models discouraged vulnerability, honest conversations, and asking for help. He explains how this silent pressure can lead to burnout, disconnection, and unhealthy coping mechanisms, and why so many senior leaders suffer in silence without seeking support from their organisations or peers.

The conversation explores the role of vulnerability as a true leadership strength, not as oversharing, but as the courage to admit mistakes, ask for help, and create psychological safety within teams. Nick also shares insights from his coaching and counselling work, including his 12-week transformation framework, which helps leaders bring the same structure, accountability, and clarity they use in business into their personal lives.

At its core, this episode is a reminder that sustainable success is built on connection, community, and self-awareness. Nick’s story offers hope and a practical perspective for anyone navigating pressure, isolation, or mental health challenges, showing that asking for help is not a weakness, but a turning point toward stronger, more human leadership.

Quotes

2:36 - Leaders were powerful, strong, very directive, giving a clear direction and powering on and moving forward and pushing through.

4:47 - I didn't dare to be vulnerable and open and highlight where my insecurities were.

6:25 - A vulnerable leader is someone who dares to say ‘I made a mistake’. A vulnerable leader is someone who dares to talk to their colleagues and ask for help and say that ‘I don't know this’.

9:01 - When we make a mistake, we need to stand up and take ownership for it rather than hiding it.

10:25 – We need to remember that as a leader, it's about you know being there to listen and don't put down your foot too firmly because then you will never hear what's on their mind.

14:07 - It's about just putting this accountability system in, and then there's a chance to celebrate the wins as well.

16:26 - The opposite of loneliness is connection, and connection comes from community, and we have to remember that we are social animals, we need community, we need connection, especially in this sort of isolated technological world when we work from home perhaps some days and we interact a lot in virtual m

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About Farah Ragheb

Farah Ragheb is a strategist and mindset partner working with founders, executives, and investors across 22 global markets. With a career spanning the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America, Farah brings a rare blend of commercial leadership experience and deep inner-game mastery to modern leadership development.

After growing up in Canada and completing her MBA in Barcelona, Farah led major retail expansions across the Middle East with global brands such as Topshop and Topman. Her exposure to high-growth environments, combined with her own experience of burnout, revealed a consistent truth: strategy alone does not create sustainable success. Mindset does.

This insight led her to create The Simplified Model, a framework designed to help leaders build clarity, emotional resilience, and grounded confidence in an increasingly fast-paced and high-pressure world. Today, Farah works closely with C-suite leaders and high performers to help them navigate complexity, avoid burnout, and lead with purpose, humanity, and long-term impact.

About this Episode

In this powerful and grounding episode of The Matrix Green Pill Podcast, host Hilmarie Hutchison speaks with Farah Ragheb about why mindset is becoming the true competitive edge for today’s leaders. Drawing on two decades of global leadership experience, Farah explains why so many leaders are over-strategised yet under-equipped internally — and how this imbalance fuels stress, burnout, and disengagement at the top.

Farah breaks down the subtle warning signs of burnout that even high-performing leaders often miss, from memory lapses to constant fight-or-flight mode, and explains why the body “whispers before it shouts.” She challenges outdated leadership models that reward control, ego, and rigidity, and contrasts them with a more human, grounded approach rooted in clarity, self-awareness, and trust.

Quotes

2:45 – What I consistently noticed was that what differentiated a leader who was successful versus one who wasn’t really came down to mindset.

6:34 – We’re used to not thinking about it. It almost feels like burnout is something shameful versus something that is just telling you, “Hey, your body’s tired. Maybe just slow down or take a break.” It doesn’t really mean anything more than that, in essence.

8:17 – In essence, some of the greatest leaders are just very human.

13:02 – When you think about operating from an inner world and mindset that is clear and confident and knows itself versus one that is not so much that, the difference in how they show up is really something you can see and feel.

14:08 – When you have all that fear, it’s because you want to control everything. But when you let go and create a bit of surrender space, life gives you what it wants. Then you also move out of that space.

19:35 – It’s actually when you go slow that you develop real success.

25:54 – Ultimately, how you are on the inside is what reflects on the outside.

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About Jody Shield

Jody Shield is a visionary entrepreneur, business mentor, and global thought leader in energetic intelligence and conscious leadership. With a background in corporate advertising, where she worked with global brands such as Nike, Lululemon, and Sony Ericsson, Jody made a bold and unexpected leap in 2013 when she walked away from her high-flying career to follow an inner calling.

Originally from Liverpool and now based in Lisbon, with expansion underway in Dubai, Jody has since built multiple purpose-led brands, including Magnificent Money and Visionary Entrepreneurs, and has guided over 100,000 women across more than 80 countries. Her work blends strategy, psychology, energetics, and leadership, helping women build aligned, multi-million-pound and dollar businesses without burnout.

Known for pioneering conversations around the energetics of money, power, and success long before they became mainstream, Jody is a leader of leaders, supporting women to scale with clarity, confidence, and integrity.

About this Episode

In this expansive and energising episode of The Matrix Green Pill Podcast, host Hilmarie Hutchison sits down with Jody Shield to explore what it truly means to lead, scale, and succeed in alignment. Jody shares the pivotal moment that changed her life forever: an inner voice that told her to quit her corporate job, setting her on an entirely new path of entrepreneurship, healing, and conscious leadership.

Jody also speaks candidly about the patterns that hold women back from scaling with confidence, including fear of their own power, resistance to defining a clear vision, and inherited beliefs around money and success. She introduces a new paradigm of building businesses from feminine leadership and energetic alignment rather than force, hustle, or burnout, and explains why strategy alone is no longer enough.

Quotes

3:03 - I found myself with a really powerful indigenous culture. They actually taught me many of their principles and values. And that revealed some great knowledge in me consciously, which was the fact that the mind creates conditions in the body, creates illnesses, viruses, diseases in the body.

8:36 - We actually inherit information from our parents and their parents, and actually from our ancestral lineage. Many indigenous cultures already know this.

14:51 - It's actually very simple to deploy lots of these strategies and techniques and tactics.

18:38 - You will start to see more and more people around you in your network being more open, just naturally being more open. Sometimes we have to have a bit of a breakdown to have a breakthrough, depending on our journey.

21:02 - The biggest fear that I feel is present amongst women is a fear of how powerful we are, actually, how powerful we can be.

22:30 - We can observe women in power on our planet right now, and yet women are very much in power from a very masculine dominating energy.

23:56 - Building and scaling a business from a feminine energy is understanding that we are energy. We have power within us.

25:38 - We are seeing also, especially in my world or in my networks or in my industry, women transforming into very powerful women.

26:34 - Women are reluctant to define and solidify a vision for themselves.

29:37 - We actually certify mainly women at the moment to be money coaches, to learn the tools and the techniques and the methods to dive deeply into their transformation around money and also to apply what we're teaching them to their careers doesn't need to be that they become a money coach.

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