18-minute #DramaFree Talk | Bloody Magic with Svetlana Shapovaliants
A global interview podcast that features conversations with remarkable people—athletes, leaders, entrepreneurs, creators, and experts—who have learned to understand and manage frustration and drama in real life, not just in theory. Each episode runs about 18 minutes and explores a different arena, from sport and relationships to parenting, work, and creativity. Guests share their real stories and practical tools for handling challenges while maintaining a #DramaFree and clean-language approach. The show aims to help listeners recognize their own drama, manage it, and find more joy in life.
Episodes
#DramaFree Padel: Fear, Frustration and Partnership with World No. 34 Ksenia Sharifova
In this episode, Ksenia Sharifova, one of the world's top padel players, explores how athletes deal with fear, frustration and conflict on the court.Ksenia explains why fear before an important moment is normal and how it can become fuel instead of a block. She shares why finding the right partner is the hardest part of padel, how to understand what your partner needs during a match, and why c
#DramaFree Facilitation with Agnes Asodi
In this episode, we speak with Agnes Asodi — an organisational development consultant, systems thinker and facilitator based in Novi Sad, Serbia.We explore what facilitation looks like in practice, discuss real sessions and Agnes’s experience working with a professional community of facilitators.Why can’t facilitators always facilitate themselves? Why do even experienced professionals sometimes ne
#DramaFree Leadership: Curiosity as a Leadership Tool with Søren Holm
This episode focuses on one of the key events taking place in Stockholm on 16 September: Nyfikenhet som ledarverktyg — Curiosity as a Leadership Tool, an exclusive workshop for leaders with Dr Caitlin Walker. Søren Holm explains why curiosity is not simply a personal quality, but a practical leadership tool. It can help leaders handle conflicts, understand what motivates people, communicate with g
#DramaFree Leadership with Dr Caitlin Walker
In this episode, Dr Caitlin Walker explores how Clean Language helps leaders navigate difficult situations, communicate more clearly and manage teams more effectively.Through practical examples—including stories from her own international team promoting Clean Language around the world—Caitlin demonstrates how this approach works in real life and what leaders can gain from using it.The conversation
#DramaFree Coaching: Dignity, Curiosity & Clean Language
If you are a coach, this episode is an invitation to look more closely at how much of yourself you bring into your client’s process.Caitlin Walker talks about Clean Coaching and one of its central principles: helping people access their own resources without imposing ideas that may not be ecological for their system.How do you know when you are gathering information — and when you are already givi
#Drama Free: From Contempt to Curiosity with Lena Sobel on the Swedish Book Launch
This episode is all about what is happening in Stockholm on 16–17 September — and why experiencing Clean Language in practice is so different from simply reading about it.Lena Sobel talks about the power of these tools and why actually trying them, feeling how they work and seeing what happens in a real conversation can completely change your understanding of Clean Language.We also talk about From
#DramaFree Elite Sport & the Power of Clean Questions — Dr. Caitlin Walker
In this episode, Dr Caitlin Walker joins Svetlana Shapovaliants to talk about how Clean Language works in elite sport and high-performance environments.Caitlin shares practical cases from her work with Olympians, Paralympians, champions and other extraordinary people who achieve at the highest level. She shows how clean questions can support focus, performance, confidence and better decision-makin
#DramaFree Curiosity with Dr Caitlin Walker
Our special guest — and a true celebrity of the #DramaFree podcast — is Dr Caitlin Walker.In this episode, we talk about Caitlin’s book From Contempt to Curiosity, recently translated into Swedish, and her upcoming visit to Stockholm on 16–18 September.Caitlin shares her thoughts on Scandinavia: why Clean Language, metaphor and curiosity seem to resonate so naturally here, what she has noticed abo
#DramaFree Parenting
In this episode, we talk about the frustration and challenges parents face — and why sometimes the root of a problem can become clear in just 15 minutes, while other situations may take only one to three focused sessions.We explore why clarity, respectful feedback, an outside perspective, and skilled facilitation can make such a difference.Through real cases, we look at how Clean Language helped p
@DramaFree Padle episode 2
Welcome to 18 Minutes #DramaFree. Bloody Magic with Svetlana Shapovaliants.This episode is part of Svetlana Shapovaliants’ larger exploration of play — what happens to us when we begin something new, meet resistance, and discover that the biggest challenge is not always the game itself.In this episode, we talk about Clean Language, #DramaFree tools, and therapeutic approaches that can help when yo
#DramaFree Padle episode 1
Welcome to 18 Minutes #DramaFree. Bloody Magic with Svetlana Shapovaliants.This episode is part of a larger exploration by Svetlana Shapovaliants into the nature of play — how we feel when we play, where enjoyment comes from, and why frustration can suddenly appear in the middle of something that is supposed to be fun.In this episode, Svetlana talks about frustration on the padel court, about what
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