The Reframing Room
The Reframing Room is hosted by leadership coach and former CEO Vicky Russ, it aims to support professionals navigating redundancy, retirement, and major career transitions.
Designed for leaders and individuals facing change, the podcast features real-life stories of reinvention and maintaining a positive mindset. Offering practical insight, reflection, and encouragement to people at a loss following redundancy and retirement. Each episode explores how challenging experiences can be reframed into opportunities for growth, purpose, and renewed direction.
Episodes
May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026
51 min
Retired educator and coach Matt Haar, from Idaho, USA, reflects on 35 years in classrooms and locker rooms, sharing stories about culture, leadership, accountability, and the real work of shaping young people. He discusses choosing culture over talent, coaching parents as well as players, and why letting people fail is essential to learning.
The conversation offers practical takeaways for leaders, teachers, and managers: prioritize respect and consistency, create environments that encourage growth, and value relationships—summed up as growth, accountability, culture, and relationships.
May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026
39 min
My guest Nicole Lancashire shares how two redundancies after a 20-year career as an executive assistant pushed her to build an online personal-development business and move from Australia to the UK. She explains how skills developed from supporting leaders—operations, project management and emotional intelligence—helped her become an entrepreneur, and how a daily routine of journaling, gratitude and study fuels her self-belief. Nicole also talks about home-schooling her children, developing audio stories for kids, setting boundaries, and practical advice for anyone facing redundancy: visualise two-year outcomes, commit to consistent action, and take the leap.