Andy Brown's Exploring Emotional Overdraft with Jamie Hancox

"I'm an accidental business leader. I was looking for a way for it not to be about me for a long time"

Andy's book, 'The Emotional Overdraft' is available now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Overdraft-balancing-business-wellbeing/dp/1788605136  

Jamie Hancox is the founder of a business called Buying Time. It's a high pressure business, it's sales oriented business, and that's Jamie's background. And yet, despite that, Jamie's incredibly emotionally connected. 

He's a smart and funny guy and has really sought to understand where his emotional overdraft comes from and how he's going to work with it and be kind to himself. So I think you heard a lot from this one.

Emotional overdraft is such a simple concept, but when you spend time talking with someone about it, you discover that everyone has their own complexities and their own flavours and their own interpretation, and those kind of interpretations are infinite and so revealing. It was very generous of Jamie to share so openly, but a few things that jumped out at me:

• Recognising that you are emotionally overdrawn whilst also recognising you're good at handling it
• The importance of building a leadership team and giving them autonomy
• Hiring people with something to prove and valuing attitude over other factors
• Allowing employees to ask for more responsibilities instead of overwhelming them
• The significance of unplugging and taking time to recharge
• Jamie's emotional overdraft being related to his concern for his team's pressure to succeed
• The dependence of Jamie's business on the quality of his people
• Enjoying the journey as a vital aspect of success
• Being happy for employees who move on to better opportunities and celebrating their growth and achievements.