Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter

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Change doesn’t only happen on big stages or inside shiny transformation programmes. It happens in real lives, real communities and often far from the spotlight. Nina Dar: The Change Troubleshooter is a podcast that gives space to those stories. Hosted by Nina Dar, transformation leader, executive coach and founder of Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions, the podcast features conversations with people who’ve driven change from the grassroots up, challenged the status quo, or quietly shaped the world in ways you may never have heard of, but should. Some episodes are planned. Some are wonderfully accidental. All are real. In 2026, the podcast leans into the themes of Nina’s book, Your Move: The Human Reset 100 Coaching Moments for Conscious Transformation in the Age of AI, exploring what it really means to stay human, awake and courageous in a world accelerating faster than our systems, and sometimes our thinking. No hype. No hero worship. Just honest stories, human insight and the belief that real change starts closer to the ground than we’re usually told.

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May 31, 2026Episode 438 min

Why Letting Go Changes Everything

Welcome to Season 8 of The Change Troubleshooter.This is Episode 4: Why Letting Go Changes EverythingToday Nina is joined by Alan Wilson, Director of People and Operations at OnSecurity, a company that helps organisations stay secure in an increasingly complex digital world.Alan recently read Your Move: The Human Reset and, out of 100 steps, two stood out for him: Step 97 – The Art of Letting Go and Step 99 – Gratitude.Now, that might sound surprising coming from someone whose world revolves around risk, systems, data and cybersecurity. But perhaps that's exactly the point.In this conversation, they explore why two of the most human chapters in the book resonated so strongly, what happens when we hold on to things that no longer serve us, and why gratitude is a powerful leadership and life skill, not just a wellbeing buzzword.It's a thoughtful conversation about personal growth, perspective, and of course AI and how it is impacting what we do right now and its potential future impact.

April 8, 2026Episode 350 min

Personal Rewirement

In this episode, Personal Rewirement, Nina is joined by Elpie Banister, who brings a thoughtful and refreshingly human perspective to change, creativity and personal growth, exploring the small shifts that create meaningful transformation - in how we think, how we work, and how we live.Together, they explore four powerful coaching moments from Your Move: The Human Reset that speak directly to the pace and pressure of modern life. Elpie’s chosen steps are Step 4: Create Conscious Space, Step 25: Let Distractions Spark Ideas, Step 95: Regenerate, Don’t Just Recover, and Step 97: The Art of Letting Go.This conversation moves beyond productivity and performance, into something deeper - how we create space to think clearly, how unexpected distractions can become sources of creativity, why regeneration matters more than simply pushing through, and how letting go can open the door to new possibilities.It’s a thoughtful, honest and quietly energising conversation about rewiring the way we approach change - not by doing more, but by becoming more conscious about how we live and work.

February 18, 2026Episode 228 min

The Nature of Change

Welcome back to The Change Troubleshooter Podcast.In Season 8 we’re inviting brilliant guests to pick their favourite steps from my new book Your Move: The Human Reset — and explore why they matter in the real world.Today’s guest brings a completely different lens to change.In this episode - The Nature of ChangeLydia Stevens is a Nature and Biodiversity Coach, helping people reconnect with the natural systems we’re all part of — and reminding us that change didn’t start with digital transformation… it started with nature.Lydia chose three powerful steps from Your Move: The Human Reset that perfectly bridge the worlds of nature, business and personal change:• Step 80 — Systems Thinking• Step 97 — Letting Go• Step 99 — GratitudeIn this episode, we explore what the natural world can teach us about transformation.Because nature understands systems.Nature understands cycles.And nature definitely understands when it’s time to let go.

January 22, 2026Episode 11 hr 10 min

Nick's Picks

Season 8 of The Change Troubleshooter Podcast is here, and this time, we’re doing things a little differently.In this series, each guest chooses the steps from Nina's book Your Move: The Human Reset that resonated most with them, and we explore why those moments mattered, what they’ve applied in the real world, and what they’ve learned along the way.My first guest is Nick Owens, founder of Delta PLM, an independent consultancy specialising in Product Lifecycle Management and complex change delivery.Nick originally picked 22 steps from the book.Then refined them to 11.And somehow, we ended up discussing 12.What emerged was something powerful: a practical, no-nonsense path through the book that Nick believes every change professional should understand, especially those navigating transformation, delivery pressure, and real-world complexity.Together, Nick and I walk through his chosen route, challenge assumptions, share lived experience, and troubleshoot what actually makes change stick.If you work in transformation, delivery, systems change, or leadership, this episode sets the tone for the entire season.

October 21, 2025Episode 533 min

The Internet Buddha - How an Internet Star Found Inner Peace

Welcome to episode 5 of season 7 of the Change Troubleshooter.This episode is called The Internet Buddha - How an internet star found inner peace.Matthijs Warner is a father, brother & son.He is a practising buddhist. He is an artist, and his work has been shown in several galleries throughout the Netherlands, and Paris, as well as him being an arist in residence in Tavira, Portugal where he now lives. He is a published author. And he was a internet pioneer, creating and moneytising a website for artists in the 1990's - 2000's when many of us were still trying to be patient with super slow dial up connectivity. He was diagnosed with MS in his prime. In this conversation Nina explores the evolution of human change as Matthijs tells us his remarkable story.If you'd like to contact Matthijs to talk about his art, Buddhism or spirituality in general, you can drop him an email:matthijs.warner@gmail.comThis is a link to 4 of Matthijs's online books where you will find his beautiful artwork.

June 6, 2025Episode 49 min

Grid Hollow, a Fable of Glitches, Guts and Good Old Grit

Welcome to season 7 of the Change Trouleshooter podcast. This is episode 4, Grid Hollow, A Fable of Glitches, Guts and Good Old Grit.Are you prepared for what would happen if the internet went down, everywhere? Would you know what to do or where to begin the process of adapting to a new life where there was no online to get all the answers to the billions of questions asked every day. Is anyone prepared for that terrifying moment, should it ever happen? Probably very few of us would have a clue as to where to start!In this epsiode, Nina reads us a fable she's written about this exact topic. Are you sitting comfortably? Then she'll begin...

May 18, 2025Episode 319 min

Balance in a Bonkers World

Welcome to episode 3 of this new season of The Change Troubleshooter!This episode is called Balance in a Bonkers World, Once again Nina is interviewed by her producer. In this episode Nina is asked how she and her business cope in an increasingly bonkers world.

April 20, 2025Episode 210 min

Cheeky Philosophy

Welcome to Cheeky Philosophy, episode 2 of season 7 of The Change Troubleshooter.In this episode, Nina once more becomes the interviewee and talks about the philosophy behind her company, Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions and why she believes that having role models in her life was so important to her.

March 23, 2025Episode 117 min

Small Beginnings

Hello and welcome to season 7, a brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter podcast. This season is called 20 years of Monkey Business and celebrates Nina's 20 years of heading up Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions. In this 1st episode the tables are turned as Nina becomes the interviewee as her podcast producer asks her about her journey over the last 20 years as she conceived and shaped her company Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions into what it is today.

September 21, 2024Episode 435 min

A Yard full of Unity

Julia Davis has been described as mad as a box of frogs (in a good way) by The Curious Creative Club. She definitely embraces everything that life can throw at you with a curiosity and lust for life that is infectious, but it's her sense of community and desire to share that is overwhelmingly apparent when you meet her.Julia started The Unity Yard when she started selling plants from the yard (attached to the large warehouse space that was once a fabric mill in Holmfirth) during covid when she could no longer work in the opticians.The warehouse space became available for rent, and without hesitation, she took it on.You would naturally assume that it's a Community Interest Company (CIC) when you enter the gorgeous huge doors but it's not, because the reality of making a CIC work is more difficult than it should be.In this episode Nina and Julia talk about Julia's journey to The Unity Yard, what the space means to people today and how Julia has achieved what she set out to achieve but how, keeping that going, can be the hardest part of the journey.