FLAME with Brad Hook
How to Deal with Bullies (Including Your Internal Bully)
Marilise de Villiers Basson left a chartered-accountancy career to work on workplace bullying and trauma — including the bully most of us never confront: the one in our own head.
Marilise's insight is that external and internal bullying feed each other: the harsh inner voice makes us easier targets, and hostile workplaces train the inner voice to be harsher. Her ROAR framework gives structure to the difficult conversations most people avoid, and her newer initiative MOAR reframes workplace wellbeing around energy as currency.
The conversation also ranges into leadership — integrating masculine and feminine energies, finding meaning in work, and the self-compassion that makes 'dreaming big' more than a poster. Practical, warm and useful whether the bully you're facing has a desk near yours or lives in your head.
In this episode
- Taming the internal bully — the voice that softens you up
- The ROAR framework for hard conversations
- Energy as currency: the MOAR view of workplace wellbeing
- Masculine and feminine energies in leadership
- Self-compassion as the ground for ambition
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