Welcome to The Illumify® Game Changer Podcast

The power to ignite meaningful change

When you look at your world, do you see, or sense, that what is now could be different, better, in some way? And that changing it would matter not just to you but to others as well? So much that you could be willing to lead the way to realizing that change?

This podcast is your opportunity to experience what has proven to be a real game-changer for leaders.

It reveals to you how to “illumify” through a card game comprised of 57 big questions that transcend leadership emergence into leadership effectiveness.

The Illumify Game Changer Podcast is hosted by Marianne Gobeil, Founder and CEO of Illumify Inc. She is an internationally award-winning expert on expressing high impact leadership with over 25 years of experience working with C-suite executives and other leaders around the world.

Season 1

Accompany one person, Jonathan Hill, as he answers one of The Illumify Game Changer questions every episode. Marianne and her team facilitate the unique conversations that guides him with care through his leadership transformation.

This is your front row seat to Jonathan’s journey from, in his own words, “not a leader” to a leader with a big vision, ultimately willing and able to ignite his meaningful change.

As you listen, you can apply these Illumify Game Changer questions to igniting your own meaningful change.

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This unique card game distills The Illumify Method into a collection of questions that have the power to transform you, your leadership, and your leadership initiatives.

Podcast Episodes

One of the leader’s biggest challenges is to be able to express their vision of change in a way that other people “get it” enough to begin to see its significance for them. If not, they simply won’t act, and the leader’s vision of change won’t be realized. Jonathan already knows how important language is. In answering this next Amplify question, he sees that the words he would use could actually turn others off, and discovers how to prevent that. We’re joined in this conversation by Britanny, another member of my team.

01:18 Amplify Question 35: What don’t they get about this?

06:40 Language, like “Truth” and “Sacred Dignity,” may distract them because it’s overly moralistic and may sound like preaching.

09:45 From the broad sphere of your vision, what don’t they get about it?

12:10 It’s not about being pious. We are at our best when we together pursue the truth.

16:40 Journalists are not saints.

19:40 The gatekeepers determine the news that could unify us.

21:35 “Getting it” has a different level of complexity and precision than before.

26:30 A story of Watergate’s impact on journalism.

30:40 You have to give them permission to fail.

33:20 The danger of sounding intractable because of your language and tone of voice.

36:00 The importance of the word “we” as a call to come together.

38:37 Summarizing what they don’t get so far.

41:40 Truth doesn’t wrap itself around the vision. It’s good, clean, fresh air.

47:20 If truth is revitalizing, can it help spark your vision?

52:20 Final Answer

59:43 Finding the common thread through Inspiration.

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42. Will others get the leader’s vision of change?

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42. Will others get the leader’s vision of change?

One of the leader’s biggest challenges is to be able to express their vision of change in a way that [...]

March 10, 2026

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Minisode 1:41 – “When you speak, you must be able to address and resolve their concerns in real time.” – The Leader Speaks To Their Concerns

Even the most positive change provokes concerns. As this minisode of The Illumify Game Changer reveals, when leaders share their [...]

March 6, 2026

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41. The leader speaks to their concerns

There are no half-measures when it comes to expressing your leadership. Knowing what concerns others may have about your vision [...]

March 3, 2026

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Minisode 1:40 – “They’ll tune out.” – How leaders can ensure they’re heard.

As a leader, every time you speak, you have an opportunity to advance your leadership initiative. But first they have [...]

February 27, 2026

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40. Why they could tune out the leader.

If leaders can’t engage others, they won’t be able to ignite their meaningful change. But don’t be fooled that when [...]

February 24, 2026

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Minisode 1:39 – “If they can’t see it, they will not act.”– The Leader Sees What They Cannot

One of the primary reasons that meaningful change fails to ignite is because those on whom it depends to be [...]

February 20, 2026

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What people are saying about The Illumify Game Changer Podcast

The Illumify Game Changer is the most intense, demanding, and rewarding method of self-development that I have ever undertaken. Emerging from 80 hours of conversation, exploration, introspection, and debate, I felt a deep sense of renewal and confidence. I could see my vision and why I believed in it.  

The intellectual rigor and emotional honesty of Illumify – 57 carefully phrased questions that ask us to dig deep and then deeper again, so that we reveal to ourselves how we truly see the world and how we want to change it – are rooted in the years of research and thinking that Marianne Gobeil put into the method. We are in safe hands.  

Whether you are a senior corporate executive, management consultant, political advisor, NGO activist, entrepreneur, or someone taking a pause between jobs, the Illumify Game Changer will help you to find your vision, express it, define it, and then take the first steps that will bring it to life.  

Jonathan Hill, Founder, The Common Good, and Speechwriter to the President European Commission 2015-16

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