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.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 1106
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
1030: Building a Career that Lights You Up with Mary Olson-Menzel
Mary Olson-Menzel reveals her strategies for aligning your strengths with career opportunities that excite you.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to discover what truly lights you up
2) Effective Link…
00:33:56 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
1029: How to Tell Stories that Inspire and Influence with Anjali Sharma
Anjali Sharma reveals why some stories fail to influence or inspire—and shares her top tips for creating stories that do.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why “amazing” storytelling isn’t the end goal
2)…
00:40:13 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
1028: How to Bridge Disagreements and Create More Win-Win agreements with Robert Fersh
Robert Fersh shares tried and tested strategies for de-escalating conflict and bridging disagreements.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to find shared goals to move past differences
2) The best way t…
00:39:17 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
1027: The Mindsets that Inspire Teams with Paula Davis
Paula Davis shares best practices for keeping your team engaged and motivated.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why to shift focus from performance to people
2) How to keep your team connected and motiva…
00:35:20 |
Mon 27 Jan 2025
1026: How to Stop Saying Um and Become Super Articulate with Michael Hoeppner
Michael Hoeppner shares fast ways to improve your speaking with innovative physical exercises.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The key reframe that transforms your speaking
2) How to break the habit of …
00:50:21 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
1025: Boosting Your Learning and Presenting with the Science of Memory with Dr. Charan Ranganath
Dr. Charan Ranganath discusses the science behind our brain’s capacity to remember (and forget) and how it can help you make better decisions and impressions.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How emotions …
00:43:27 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
1024: Crafting your Own Ideal Time Management System with Anna Dearmon Kornick
Anna Dearmon Kornick shares essential tools and tricks for managing your time and energy well.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What most forget when planning out their day
2) How to keep little tasks fr…
00:46:39 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
1023: Finding More Purpose and Flow through Breathwork with Francesca Sipma
Francesca Sipma shares breathwork practices to help access more purpose and flow.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How breathwork leads to greater clarity
2) The science supporting breathwork
3) The mo…
00:36:01 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
1022: How–and Why–to Stop Overapologizing with Shira Miller
Shira Miller reveals the harmful effects of overapologizing—and shares powerful advice for owning your greatness.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How overapologizing hurts you personally and professionall…
00:35:29 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
1021: How to Push Past Fear and Build Audacity with Anne Marie Anderson
Anne Marie Anderson shares expert tips for overcoming fear to achieve your most audacious goals.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The four reasons people get stuck
2) Two ways to tame your inner critic
…
00:40:29 |
Mon 06 Jan 2025
1020: The Three Keys to Being Inspirational with Adam Galinsky
Adam Galinsky reveals the core skills anyone can master for more inspiring leadership.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The easiest way to uplift the people around you
2) The 15-minute exercise that make…
00:41:54 |
Thu 02 Jan 2025
2024 GREATS: 983: Making the Most of Your Limited Time Before Death with Jodi Wellman
Jodi Wellman shares how reflecting on our scarce remaining time of life helps us live free from regret.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why you need to befriend the Grim Reaper
2) How to feel “astonishi…
00:40:26 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
2024 GREATS: 950: Slowing Down to Boost Productivity and Ease Stress with Cal Newport
Cal Newport shows how to achieve more by doing less.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why we’re measuring productivity all wrong
2) The surprising math showing how doing less means achieving more
3) Th…
00:49:40 |
Thu 26 Dec 2024
2024 GREATS: 935: The Five Steps to Winning Every Week with Demir Bentley
Demir Bentley reveals the five simple steps to successfully plan and execute vastly more satisfying and productive weeks.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why nobody really plans their week—and how to fix …
00:40:32 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
2024 GREATS: 925: How to Stop People-Pleasing and Feeling Guilty with Dr. Aziz Gazipura
Dr. Aziz Gazipura explains the dangers of people-pleasing tendencies and shares actionable steps for overcoming it.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The massive costs of being a people-pleaser
2) How to n…
00:44:18 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
1019: Achieving More with One Bold Move per Day with Shanna Hocking
Shanna Hocking shares transformative mindsets to help you advance your career and achieve your goals.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How daily bold moves increase confidence
2) Powerful mantras to keep…
00:29:50 |
Mon 16 Dec 2024
1018: The Step-by-Step Guide to Building the Life You Want with Ximena Vengoechea
Ximena Vengoechea shares her viral three-phase life audit exercise for surfacing and achieving your most important goals.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to transform your life with just Post-Its and …
00:33:22 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
1017: How to Reclaim Your Creativity and Unlock Innovation with Duncan Wardle
Disney legend Duncan Wardle shares keys for tapping into your creative side.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What blocks our creativity
2) How to hone your ideas with a “naive expert”
3) The trick to …
00:36:32 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
1016: Untangling Identity from Your Work to Rediscover Yourself with Dr. Janna Koretz
Dr. Janna Koretz reveals the pitfalls of letting your job become your identity and what to do about it.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why career enmeshment harms mental health
2) The power of protected…
00:38:43 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
1015: The Science Behind Setting, and Achieving Your Biggest Goals with Caroline Miller
Caroline Miller shares the overlooked science that helps you pursue your most ambitious goals.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The top goal-setting myths to abandon immediately
2) The two types of goals…
00:42:05 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
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