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**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!

Latest Episodes:

990: How to Advocate for Yourself and Get Noticed at Work with Jessica Chen Aug 26, 2024

Show notes

Jessica Chen discusses how to get noticed even if you’re not the loudest voice in the room.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The top misconception about career advancement

2) How to ensure your message always lands

3) The five elements that make your voice resonate

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— ABOUT JESSICA —

Jessica Chen is an Emmy-Award winner, top virtual keynote speaker, and CEO of Soulcast Media, a global business communication training agency. Her client list includes Google, LinkedIn, the CDC, Medtronic, Mattel, HP, DraftKings, and many more. Prior to starting Soulcast Media, Jessica was a broadcast television journalist. She is also an internationally recognized top LinkedIn Learning Instructor where her communication courses have been watched by over 2 million learners and featured in Forbes, Fortune, and Entrepreneur. She lives in Los Angeles.

• Book: Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons

• Instagram: @jessicachenpage

• LinkedIn: Jessica Chen

• Website: SoulCastMedia.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You by Tessa West

• Past episode: 311: Communication Secrets from FBI Kidnapping Negotiator Chris Voss

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

• Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

• LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/BeAwesome

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989: Training Your Brain for Maximum Efficiency with Dr. Mithu Storoni Aug 22, 2024

Show notes

Dr. Mithu Storoni goes behind the science of how focus works to use your brain to its maximum capacity.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to identify and get into the best mental gear for your work

2) What to do when work gets either boring or overwhelming

3) The trick to resetting your brain

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— ABOUT MITHU —

Dr. Mithu Storoni is a University of Cambridge-trained physician, neuroscience researcher and ophthalmic surgeon. She advises multinational corporations on mental performance and stress management. She is the author of the forthcoming book Hyperefficient: Optimize Your Brain to Transform the Way You Work, out on September 17, 2024.

• Book: Hyperefficient: Optimize Your Brain to Transform the Way You Work

• LinkedIn: Mithu Storoni

• Twitter/X: @MithuStoroni

• Website: https://www.mithustoroni.com/

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan

— THANK YOU, SPONSORS! —

• Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

• LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/BeAwesome

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988: How to Elevate Your Status and Command Respect at Work with Alison Fragale Aug 19, 2024

Show notes

Alison Fragale reveals the keys to improving others’ perceptions of you.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The critical missing piece for your advancement

2) Why your response to “How are you?” matters more than you think

3) The quickest way to get others to promote you

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— ABOUT ALISON —

Alison Fragale is the author of LIKEABLE BADASS: How Women Get the Success They Deserve and the Mary Farley Ames Lee Distinguished Scholar of Organizational Behavior at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School. As a research psychologist, award-winning professor, international keynote speaker, and author, she is on a mission to help others — especially women — use behavioral science to work and live better.

Her scholarship has been published in the most prestigious academic journals in her field and featured in prominent media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Boston Globe, and Inc. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children, who are all named after professional athletes.

• Book: Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve

• Newsletter: The Upper Hand

• Website: AlisonFragale.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings” by Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand

• Book: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

• Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

• LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/BeAwesome

• Hello Bello. Get 30% off your first customizable bundle with HelloBello.com/awesome

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987: How to Ace Your Next Job Interview with Sam Owens Aug 15, 2024

Show notes

Sam Owens breaks down his detailed process for confidently nailing job interviews–in 10 hours flat.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The biggest mistake people make in job interviews

2) How to craft your “power” answers for every question

3) The top do’s and don’ts of salary negotiation

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— ABOUT SAM —

SamOwens is the author of I HATE JOB INTERVIEWS and founder of Sam’s Career Talk where he provides career coaching services and helps people land their dream jobs and thrive in them. He is also a chief marketing officer who has worked for three multi-billion dollar companies in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. He is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Freezing Point, the makers of Frazil slushies. He and his wife, Gina, have four children and live in Erie, Colorado.

• Book: I Hate Job Interviews: Stop Stressing. Start Performing. Get the Job You Want

• LinkedIn: Sam Owens

• Website: SamsCareerTalk.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel

• Clip: Hitch (2005) - Dance Lessons

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

• Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

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986: The New Rules for Achieving in the Modern World with Asheesh Advani Aug 12, 2024

Show notes

Asheesh Advani discusses why the old rules of leadership no longer apply—and what to do differently today.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why our idea of achievement needs a rework

2) Why to befriend both older and younger people

3) An under-utilized tactic for dramatically accelerating your career learning

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— ABOUT ASHEESH —

Asheesh Advani is the CEO of JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide, one of the largest NGOs in the world dedicated to preparing youth for employment and entrepreneurship. During his leadership tenure, JA Worldwide has been selected annually as one of the top 10 social good organizations in the world and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Advani is also an accomplished entrepreneur, having led two venture-backed businesses from start-up to acquisition. He is an in-demand speaker and regular contributor at major conferences, having served as a panelist or moderator at the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the Young Presidents Organization, and Fortune 500 corporate gatherings.

• Book: Modern Achievement: A New Approach to Timeless Lessons for Aspiring Leaders

• Book site: ModernAchievement.com

• Website: JAWorldwide.org

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter

• Book: The Magic of Thinking Big by Schwartz David

• Article: “Let’s ‘Double-Click’ on the Latest Cringeworthy Corporate Buzzword” by Te-Ping Chen and Nicholas G. Miller

• Past episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

• Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

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985: Boosting Confidence and Slashing Anxiety through Great Boundaries with Abby Medcalf Aug 08, 2024

Show notes

Abby Medcalf discusses how to set firm boundaries and keep negativity from ruining your day.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What most people get wrong about boundaries

2) How to stop others from hijacking your mood

3) A trick for dealing with people who are nasty to you

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— ABOUT ABBY —

Abby Medcalf is a Relationship Maven, psychologist, author, podcast host and Tedx speaker who has helped thousands of people think differently so they can create connection, ease and joy in their relationships (especially the one with yourself)! With her unique background in both business and counseling, she brings a fresh, effective perspective to life’s struggles using humor, research and her direct, no-nonsense style.

With over 35 years of experience, Abby is a recognized authority and sought-after speaker at organizations such as Google, Apple, AT&T, Kaiser, PG&E, American Airlines and Chevron. She’s been a featured expert on CBS and ABC news, and has been a contributor to the New York Times, Women’s Health, Psychology Today, Well+Good and Bustle.

She’s the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book, “Be Happily Married, Even if Your Partner Won’t Do a Thing,” as well as the newly released Boundaries Made Easy, and the host of the top-rated “Relationships Made Easy” Podcast now in over 170 countries.

• Book: Boundaries Made Easy: Your Roadmap to Connection, Ease and Joy

• Website: AbbyMedcalf.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy Wilson

• Book: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded by Maxwell Maltz

• Previous episode: 159: Increasing Confidence by Increasing Self-Awareness with Dr. Tasha Eurich

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• Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

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984: Building Skills Better in an AI-Driven World with Matt Beane Aug 05, 2024

Show notes

Matt Beane reveals how the quest to optimize productivity is harming our learning and growth–and what you can do about it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The trillion-dollar problem with trying to optimize everything

2) How to modify ChatGPT to help you learn better

3) Three counterintuitive ways to learn better and faster

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— ABOUT MATT —

Matt Beane does field research on work involving robots and AI to uncover systematic positive exceptions that we can use across the broader world of work. His award-winning research has been published in top management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review, and he has spoken on the TED stage. He also took a two-year hiatus from his PhD at MIT’s Sloan School of Management to help found and fund Humatics, a full-stack IoT startup. In 2012 he was selected as a Human-Robot Interaction Pioneer, and in 2021 was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list.

Beane is an assistant professor in the Technology Management department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Digital Fellow with Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. When he’s not studying intelligent technologies and learning, he enjoys playing guitar; his morning coffee ritual with his wife, Kristen; and reading science fiction—a lot of science fiction. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

• Book: The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines

• Article: “Gen AI Is Coming for Remote Workers First”

• Substack: "Don't Let AI Dumb You Down"

• TED Talk: How do we learn to work with intelligent machines? | Matt Beane

• Website: MattBeane.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “GPTs are GPTs: An early look at the labor market impact potential of large language models” by Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin, and Daniel Rock

• Book: Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

• Book: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

• Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

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983: Making the Most of Your Limited Time Before Death with Jodi Wellman Jul 31, 2024

Show notes

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 “astonishingly alive”

3) How to break out of a rut

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— ABOUT JODI —

Jodi Wellman is a former corporate executive turned executive coach. She has a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is an instructor in the Master’s program and a trainer in the world-renowned Penn Resilience Program. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the ICF and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from CTI.

She has coached and spoken with clients like American Express, Fidelity, pwc, Royal Bank of Canada, BMW, and more, and runs her own business, Four Thousand Mondays. She’s also known for her inspirational TEDx Talk on how death can bring you back to life. She lives between Palm Springs and Chicago with her husband and cat, Andy.

• Book: You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets

• Mondays Calculator: Calculate how many Monday mornings you have left

• Website: FourThousandMondays.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irvin Yalom

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982: How to Build Trust, Repair Relationships, and Make Collaborations Great with Dr. Deb Mashek Jul 29, 2024

Show notes

Deb Mashek reveals the critical factors that make workplace collaborations less painful and more productive.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The key ingredients of great collaboration

2) Why hiring good collaborators isn’t enough

3) The key questions to kickstart great collaborations

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— ABOUT DEB —

Dr. Deb Mashek, PhD is an experienced business advisor, professor, higher education administrator, and national nonprofit executive. She is the author of the book Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone).

Named one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, she has been featured in media outlets including MIT Sloan Management Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Inc., Forbes, Fortune, The Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Ed, Reason, Business Week, University Business Insider, and The Hill. She writes regularly for Reworked and Psychology Today.

Deb is the founder of Myco Consulting LLC, where she helps networked organizations (e.g., consortia, collaboratives, associations, federations, etc.) avoid the predictable pitfalls of complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives so that they can drive impact and achieve big visions. A member of the Association for Collaborative Leadership, Deb has been an invited speaker on collaboration and viewpoint diversity at leading organizations including the United Nations, Siemens, and the American Psychological Association.

• Book: Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone)

• Book Website: Collaborhate.com

• Website: DebMashek.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: "36 Questions to Fall In Love"

• Book: The Good Fight: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Trackby Liane Davey

• Research: "The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings" by Arthur Aaron, Edward Melinat, Elaine Aaron, Robert Vallone, Renee Bator

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981: Using AI to Enhance Your Reading, Notes, Memory, and Decisions with Kwame Christian Jul 25, 2024

Show notes

Fellow podcaster Kwame Christian giggles with Pete as he shares his insights and lessons learned on a novel notetaking approach.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to listen and understand audio at 3X speed

2) How notetaking improves your decision-making

3) How AI can make a fun soundtrack for your life

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— ABOUT KWAME —

Kwame Christian is a best-selling author, business lawyer and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI).

Following the viral success of his TedxDayton talk, Kwame released his best-seller Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life in 2018. He’s also a regular Contributor for Forbes and the host of the number one negotiation podcast in the world, Negotiate Anything – which currently has over 5 million downloads worldwide. Under Kwame’s leadership, ANI has coached and trained several Fortune 500 companies on applying the fundamentals of negotiation to corporate success.

Kwame was the recipient of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2020 and the Moritz College of Law Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award 2021. He is the only person in the history of The Ohio State University to win alumni awards in consecutive years from the law school and the masters of public affairs program. That said, Kwame’s proudest achievement is his family. He’s married to Dr. Whitney Christian, and they have two lovely sons, Kai and Dominic.

• Instagram: @kwamenegotiates

• LinkedIn: Kwame Christian

• Podcast: Negotiate Anything Premium

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Song: Rise and Shine Pete

• Book: The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed by Robin Dreeke, Cameron Stauth

• Book: Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fullyby Elaine Lin Hering

• Past episode: 976: How (and When) to Freely Speak Your Mind with Elaine Lin Hering

• App: Voice Dream Reader

• App: Suno AI

• Study: Gandhi and the Anchoring Effect, Strack & Mussweiler, 1997

• Study: "Why do we compare everything to the first piece of information we received?" Anchoring Bias explained