How to Be Awesome at Your Job
Get more fun, wins, meaning, and money from your job! With 25,000,000 downloads and mentions in The New York Times, Forbes, and Linkedin Learning. This show helps grow your skills and impact at any job that requires thinking and collaborating.
Each week, Pete interviews thought-leaders and results-getters to discover specific, actionable insights that boost work performance. Their stories and advice sharpen the universal skills to flourish at work. Boost your time/energy management, leadership, confidence, career opportunities, and fulfillment—while still getting home earlier.
Try starting with episode 0: START HERE and listener favorite episodes we put at the beginning numbered: A, B, C, D, E, and F. (Subscribe and/or sort Old to New to find these starter episodes.) Welcome!
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- 2016 - 2025
663: How to Stop Negative Self-talk, Beat Impostor Syndrome, and Feel Confident with Melody Wilding
Melody Wilding shares powerful strategies to stop overthinking and deal with your inner critic.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The two behaviors that greatly hinder sensitive professionals
2) Three tac…
00:37:59 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
662: How to Build Resilient Teams to Beat Burnout with Paula Davis
Paula Davis discusses how teams can support each other to beat burnout and create a culture of resilience.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How an engaged workforce can still burnout
2) The tiny noticeab…
00:31:34 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
661: How to Connect Meaningfully with Susan McPherson
Susan McPherson shares her surefire method for building better connections.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The winning strategy to building connections
2) Better alternatives to small talk
3) How to …
00:30:06 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
660: Finding More Success through More Failures with Jim Harshaw, Jr. (Host of the Success Through Failure Podcast)
Jim Harshaw Jr. explains how to overcome the fear of failure and use it as fuel to achieve more success.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) A mantra to ease the burden of failure
2) The simplest way to imp…
00:31:57 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
659: How to Get More by Saying Less in Negotiations with Fotini Iconomopoulos
Fotini Iconomopoulos shares the unconventional negotiation approaches to help you get what you want out of work and life.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The four magic words of negotiation
2) The surpr…
00:41:23 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
658: How to Fix Burnout and Beat Exhaustion, Stress, and Overwhelm with Dr. Jacinta Jimenez
Dr. Jacinta Jimenez breaks down what causes burnout and what we can do to prevent and fix it.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What most get wrong about burnout
2) How to recover using the PULSE framewor…
00:38:04 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
657: How to Stop Drifting and Start Directing Your Career & Life with Andy Storch
Andy Storch discusses why professionals often feel lost in their careers—and how you can find your direction.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Three mental shifts that turn challenges into opportunities
…
00:41:56 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
656: The Five Things that Leaders Do with Jim Kouzes
Jim Kouzes discusses how everyday professionals can make an impact regardless of their title, role, or setting.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The definitive answer to the question, “Are leaders born or …
00:40:51 |
Mon 05 Apr 2021
655: Building Better Habits via Better Systems with Most Days’ Brent Franson
Brent Franson shares tactics and tools for building powerful habits based on his experiences of being surrounded by addiction.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How Brent leveraged technology to break his b…
00:42:02 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
654: How to Tap Into Your Genius Zone with 34 Strong’s Darren Virassammy
Darren Virassammy shares his expert tips on how to make the strengths work best for you and your team.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How strengths can both be an asset and a liability
2) The surprisin…
00:36:03 |
Mon 29 Mar 2021
653: Training Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance with Dr. Ellen Reed
Dr. Ellen Reed reveals how to build mental toughness by training your brain to be more solution-focused.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The biological reason why we underperform
2) Three simple questio…
00:45:50 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
652: The Nine Mindset Shifts for Your Best Preparation and Performance with Brian Levenson
Brian Levenson shares the key mental shifts that elite athletes use to prepare and perform at the highest levels--and work for professionals too!
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to get into the elite …
00:42:08 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
651: How to Defuse Verbal Conflict and Prevent Toxicity from Ruining Your Day with Sam Horn
Sam Horn explains how to deal with difficult people more effectively by shifting the language we use.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Words to lose and words to use in a conflict
2) The mindset shift th…
00:40:46 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
650: How to Work Your Way to Happiness with Chris Croft
The Happiness Tips author himself, Chris Croft, distills and shares his top ten tips for more happiness at work.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The myths about happiness at work
2) How to rewire your b…
00:45:06 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
649: How to Persuade through Better Listening and Adapting with Brian Ahearn
Brian Ahearn shares how to improve your influence by listening well and adapting to different personality types.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What every professional can learn from insurance agents
2…
00:45:27 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
648: How to Turn Stage Presence into Screen Presence with Diane DiResta
Diane DiResta shares expert tips to up your presence in remote meetings.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The simple change that dramatically improves your presence
2) Cost-efficient tips for improving y…
00:35:10 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
647: Cal Newport: How to Break Free from Your Email Inbox
Cal Newport reveals how the rise of email led to a productivity disaster and what we can do to change that.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How email changed the way we work for worse
2) Simple strategi…
00:44:34 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
646: Redefining the Rules to Make Work More Enjoyable with Vishen Lakhiani
Vishen Lakhiani shares foundational principles to make work more fulfilling.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How the most successful people find bliss in their work
2) How to keep stress from fazing you…
00:36:34 |
Mon 01 Mar 2021
645: How to Make a Bigger Impact by Connecting First with Dr. Melanie Katzman
Melanie Katzman shares strategies for establishing a great connection to facilitate great work.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The trick to a great first impression
2) The one question to gain better p…
00:30:07 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
644: How to Sharpen Your Skills for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet with Michelle Weise
Michelle Weise sheds light on the learning challenges professionals will face in the near future—and how we can prepare for them.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to surface your hidden skills
2) How…
00:43:06 |
Mon 22 Feb 2021
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