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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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 1107
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
465: The Cure for Impostor Syndrome: How to Feel Less Like a Fraud and Appreciate Your Successes with Dr. Valerie Young
Valerie Young sheds light on the impostor syndrome and shows the healthy way out.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Just how prevalent impostor syndrome is.
2) The 5 impostor syndrome archetypes.
3) How to…
00:42:33 |
Wed 17 Jul 2019
464: How to Prevent Management Messes with FranklinCovey’s Scott Jeffrey Miller
Scott Jeffrey Miller shares powerful stories and principles for becoming the most effective leader you can be.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Why making time for one-on-ones is truly worth it.
2) Three f…
00:48:59 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
463: Insights on Persuasion from the Land of Copywriting with Brian Kurtz
Brian Kurtz shares his insider perspectives on persuasion and overdelivering from his legendary career at Boardroom and beyond. You'll Learn: Why knowing your audience is the biggest key to persua…
00:40:11 |
Fri 12 Jul 2019
462: Increasing Your Self-Awareness to Improve Your Leadership with Pamela McLean
Pamela McLean reveals how your inner landscape helps and hinders your leadership capabilities. You'll Learn: The most common obstacle to developing your leadership potential How to address self-li…
00:51:01 |
Wed 10 Jul 2019
461: Tactics for Boosting Productivity and Banishing Distraction with Erik Fisher (Host of the Beyond the To Do List podcast)
Erik Fisher shares tips and tricks to optimize your productivity without driving yourself crazy.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Tricks to reduce your smartphone dependency.
2) The small habits that create…
00:44:22 |
Mon 08 Jul 2019
460: The Fastest Way to Solve Complex Challenges with David Komlos
David Komlos teaches ways to dramatically shorten the process of solving your organization’s most complex challenges. You'll Learn: The 3 types of challenges and how to approach them The 10-step p…
00:40:41 |
Fri 05 Jul 2019
459: How to Make Work More Sustainable Through Reinvention with Diana Wu David
Diana Wu David shares how to future-proof your work-life with approaches for reinvention and re-framing.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Approaches for taking agency over your own career.
2) How to recogni…
00:39:28 |
Wed 03 Jul 2019
458: How to End Bad Behavior and Renew Your Team Amidst Change with Steve Ritter
Steve Ritter shares the fundamentals that makes teams healthy through their inevitable changes.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Where teams get stuck most often.
2) How to grow and deepen over time as a t…
00:46:46 |
Mon 01 Jul 2019
457: How to Persuade through Compelling Stories with DonorSee’s Gret Glyer
Gret Glyer discusses how you can increase your persuasion power by telling compelling stories.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Why stories succeed where statistics fail.
2) What makes a story compelling.
…
00:42:27 |
Fri 28 Jun 2019
456: Finding Enrichment Through Side Hustles with Nick Loper
Nick Loper discusses the many benefits to having a side hustle—and how to start yours.
You'll Learn:How side hustles can empower you as a professionalHow to turn your ideas into low-risk side hus…
00:36:55 |
Tue 25 Jun 2019
455: Maintaining Grace Under Pressure for Effective Speaking with Lisa Wentz
Lisa Wentz pinpoints the fundamental elements that can make anyone a great speaker. You'll Learn: The ideal mindset for communicating with anyone and in any setting The best way to breathe for voc…
00:41:48 |
Mon 24 Jun 2019
454: Embracing Conflict as a Gift with Judy Ringer
Judy Ringer explains how the techniques and principles of aikido can turn workplace conflicts into valuable experiences.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How to master yourself during conflicts.
2) Three ef…
00:40:51 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
453: Why Generalists Succeed and How to Learn Like One with David Epstein
David Epstein explains why and how generalists tend to achieve more. You'll Learn: How focusing on short-term improvement can undermine long-term development Pro-tips for breaking through your lea…
00:43:23 |
Wed 19 Jun 2019
452: Adopting the Habits of Elite Performers with Nick Hays
Former Navy SEAL Nick Hays shares practical advice on how to elevate your performance and push yourself to unlock your maximum potential.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How to conquer large goals by celebr…
00:46:45 |
Mon 17 Jun 2019
451: Deploying your Mental Energy Brilliantly with Dr. Art Markman (Co-Host of The Two Guys on your Head Podcast)
Professor Art Markman shares insights from cognitive science research for us to be smarter every day at work.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The secret to making a great first impression.
2) The pros and…
00:51:18 |
Fri 14 Jun 2019
450: Spy Secrets of Influence from Former CIA Officer Jason Hanson
Jason Hanson shares his intelligence operation secrets to “recruiting” people and convincing them to say yes.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The CIA’s SADR cycle and how it applies to the workplace
2) W…
00:41:13 |
Wed 12 Jun 2019
449: Leaning Out with Marissa Orr
Marissa Orr shares fresh, actionable wisdom on the workplace gender gap and reframes how alleged weaknesses can actually be strengths.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The problem with the ‘lean in’ mentali…
00:43:34 |
Mon 10 Jun 2019
448: Rejecting Nine Common Lies About Work and Embracing Human Individuality with Ashley Goodall
Ashley Goodall debunks deeply-embedded misconceptions about work and how fostering human individuality provides valuable possible solutions. You'll Learn: How deeply-rooted misconceptions about wo…
00:48:07 |
Fri 07 Jun 2019
447: What Innovators Do Differently with Hal Gregersen
Hal Gregersen reveals the key skills of disruptive innovators–and how you can get them too.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The core five skills required for innovation.
2) The questions disruptive innov…
00:42:30 |
Wed 05 Jun 2019
446: Making Fear Your Friend with Judi Holler
Judi Holler makes the case for exercising your bravery muscle and making fear your friend—one challenge at a time.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The small things we do each day that slow our long-term pr…
00:39:51 |
Mon 03 Jun 2019
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