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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:

814: How to Take Control of Your Mood and Feel More Powerful at Work with Steven Gaffney Nov 03, 2022

Show notes

Steven Gaffney shares the simple shifts that help you feel more powerful at work.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) How to easily redirect negativity into productivity

2) Three reframes that make problems more manageable

3) Two quick hacks to snap you out of a funk

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— ABOUT STEVEN —

Steven Gaffney is a leading expert on creating Consistently High Achieving Organizations (CHAO)™ including high achieving teams, honest communication, and change leadership. Steven has worked in more than 25 different industry and market segments for over 25 years. He uses cross-discipline solutions and best practices from other industry sectors to bring fresh, innovative and consistently successful approaches to his clients. He works directly with top leaders from Fortune 500 companies, associations, as well as the U.S. government and military; and is also an author, speaker, and trusted advisor.

• Book: Unconditional Power: A System for Thriving in Any Situation, No Matter How Frustrating, Complex, or Unpredictable

• Website: JustBeHonest.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath

•Book: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series) by Richard Carlson

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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813: How to Make Time for the Things that Matter with Laura Vanderkam Oct 31, 2022

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Laura Vanderkam reveals the secret to carving out time for what’s truly important.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The right way to do leisure time

2) The perfect day to do your planning

3) How to make your schedule more flexible

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— ABOUT LAURA —

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including The New Corner Office, Juliet's School of Possibilities, Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. She is the host of the podcast Before Breakfast and the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds.

• Book: Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters

• Website: LauraVanderkam.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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812: Bill George on How Emerging Leaders Can Succeed Today Oct 27, 2022

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Former Medtronic CEO and current professor, Bill George shares foundational principles for excelling as a leader in today’s world of work.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What a “true north” is and why it’s so critical

2) The top three distractions leaders must overcome

3) Powerful questions to clarify your purpose

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— ABOUT BILL —

Bill George is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and chief operating officer, was chief executive officer from 1991-2001, and board chair from 1996-2002. He is currently a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004.

Bill is the author of: Discover Your True North and The Discover Your True North Field book, Authentic Leadership, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis True North, Finding Your True North, and True North Groups. He served on the boards of Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Target, and Mayo Clinic.

He received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar, and honorary PhDs from Georgia Tech, Mayo Medical School, University of St. Thomas, Augsburg College and Bryant University.

• Book: True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

• Book: True North: Leading Authentically in Today's Workplace, Emerging Leader Edition

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Researcher: Richard Davidson

• Book: Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge

• Past episode: 371: The Keys That Make a Great Team with Don Yaeger

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811: How to Lead Positive Change and Grow Your Influence with Alex Budak Oct 24, 2022

Show notes

Alex Budak shows you how to initiate change at any level.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why you don’t need titles to be a leader

2) The five influence superpowers

3) How to build your leadership skills–one moment at a time

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— ABOUT ALEX —

Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur, faculty member at Berkeley Haas, and the author of Becoming a Changemaker. At UC Berkeley, he created and teaches the transformative course, “Becoming a Changemaker,” and is a Faculty Director for Berkeley Executive Education programs.

As a social entrepreneur, Alex co‐founded StartSomeGood, and held leadership positions at Reach for Change and Change.org. He has spoken around the world from Cambodia to Ukraine to the Arctic Circle, and received degrees from UCLA and Georgetown.

• Book: Becoming a Changemaker: An Actionable, Inclusive Guide to Leading Positive Change at Any Level

• Changemaker Index: ChangemakerBook.com/index

• LinkedIn: Alex Budak

• Website: AlexBudak.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives by Christoher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek

• Book: The Long View: Some Thoughts About One of Life's Most Important Lessons by Matthew Kelly

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810: How to Get Stuff Done inside Bureaucracies with Marina Nitze Oct 20, 2022

Show notes

Marina Nitze reveals what makes bureaucracies tick and how you can work your way through them.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why bureaucracies can actually be great

2) Six favorite bureaucracy hacks

3) What not to do when trying to challenge a bureaucracy

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— ABOUT MARINA —

Marina Nitze, co-author of the new book Hack Your Bureaucracy, is a partner at Layer Aleph, a crisis response firm specializing in restoring complex software systems to service. Marina is also a fellow at New America's New Practice Lab, where she improves America's foster care system through the Resource Family Working Group and Child Welfare Playbook. Marina was the CTO of the VA after serving as a Senior Advisor on technology in the Obama White House. She lives in Seattle.

• Book: Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team

• Twitter: @MarinaNitze

• Website: HackYourBureaucracy.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

• Book:Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Book: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

• Book:The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Beby Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer

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809: How to Make Wise Decisions using Quantitative Intuition with Paul Magnone Oct 17, 2022

Show notes

Paul Magnone reveals how to make smarter decisions by tapping into both data and intuition.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why you shouldn’t disregard intuition

2) Why we make terrible decisions—and how to stop

3) Powerful questions that surface brilliant insights

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— ABOUT PAUL —

Paul Magnone is Head of Global Strategic Alliances at Google where he is developing a growing ecosystem of partners that will unlock the next generation of business value via the cloud and related technologies. Previously at Deloitte and IBM, he is a systems thinker and business builder focused on understanding where technology is headed and answering what it means for a business. He is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University.

• Book: Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information with Christopher J. Frank and Oded Netzer

• LinkedIn: Paul Magnone

• Website: DODTheBook.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck

• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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808: How to Become a Great Listener with Oscar Trimboli Oct 13, 2022

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Oscar Trimboli explores the science behind listening–and how you can become great at it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The difference between a good listener and a great one

2) How to get into the great listening mindset

3) The one question that will cut your meetings in half

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— ABOUT OSCAR —

Oscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace.

He is the author of How to Listen - Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication - the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace, Deep Listening - Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions. We adapted our previous episode with Oscar into the LinkedIn Learning course called How to Resolve Conflict and Boost Productivity through Deep Listening.

Oscar is a marketing and technology industry veteran working for Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Polycom, and Vodafone. He consults with organizations including American Express, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Google, HSBC, IAG, Montblanc, PwC, Salesforce, Sanofi, SAP, and Siemens.

Oscar loves afternoon walks with his wife, Jennie, and their dog Kilimanjaro. On the weekends, you will find him playing Lego with one or all his four grandchildren.

• Book:How to Listen: Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication

• Quiz: ListeningQuiz.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebookby Neil Ferguson

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807: How to Develop Confidence, Credibility, and Advocates with Heather Hansen Oct 10, 2022

Show notes

Heather Hansen shares powerful advice on how to build the confidence to believe in yourself and get others to believe in you.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The simple mindset shift that builds your confidence

2) Why you’re already more qualified than you think

3) The master key to winning over more advocates

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— ABOUT HEATHER —

Heather Hansen helps leaders, sales teams and high powered individuals master persuasion and build credibility with diverse stakeholders. She gives leaders the tools to make the case for their ideas, their products, and their leadership. With these tools, they change other's perspectives and help them to believe. Heather has worked with companies like Google, LVMH, SavATree, the American Medical Association and Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, and has lectured at Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also appeared on The Today Show, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, Fox Business and CBS.

Heather is the author of the bestselling book The Elegant Warrior-How to Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself, which Publishers Weekly calls "a template to achieving personal and career goals", and the host of The Elegant Warrior podcast, an Apple Top 100 Career podcast. Her most recent book is Advocate To Win-10 Tools to Ask for What You Want and Get It.

• Book: Advocate to Win: 10 Tools to Ask for What You Want and Get It

• Book: The Elegant Warrior: How To Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself

• Website: HeatherHansenPresents.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• App: Insight Timer

• App: Marco Polo

• Study: “Listeners Glean Emotions Better from Voice-Only Communications” (Full text)

• Article: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified”

• Book: Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise by Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz

• Previous Episode: 783: How to Restore Energy and Clarity by Tuning in to Silence with Leigh Marz and Justin Zorn

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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806: How to Get Unstuck and Achieve Your Goals with Dominique Henderson Oct 06, 2022

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Dominique Henderson outlines some stumbling blocks hindering success and how to overcome them.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The framework for managing any problem

2) How to make big changes easier and achievable

3) Key words you need to erase from your vocabulary

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— ABOUT DOMINIQUE —

Dominique Henderson, CFP® | Dominique is a husband, father and thought leader in the financial services industry. His personal mission statement is: R.E.A.L. financial advice has the ability to change family trees, and everyone deserves an opportunity to change their family tree. As a Certified Financial Planner™, coach, speaker, podcaster and author, Dominique works to help people to get “unstuck” in their finances and careers so that they can be the best version of themselves. When not serving his clients you can find him enjoying a glass of wine, traveling with his wife, or spending time with friends.

• Book: Assess, Address, and Adjust: A Practical Guide to Becoming Unstuck and Achieving Your Goals

• Website: DomHendersonSr.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book:Becoming Your Own Banker: Unlock the Infinite Banking Conceptby R. Nelson Nash

• Book: Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potentialby Tiago Forte

• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Book:Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity by Garrett B. Gunderson

• Book: The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Levelby Gay Hendricks

• Book:The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews

• Book: Think and Grow Richby Napoleon Hill

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805: How to Boost Your Confidence and Advocate for Yourself with Kelli Thompson Oct 03, 2022

Show notes

Kelli Thompson shares strategies for overcoming impostor syndrome and asking for what you need.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) When self-doubt can be helpful

2) The exercises to boost your confidence

3) What not do when advocating for yourself

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— ABOUT KELLI —

Kelli Thompson is a women’s leadership coach and speaker who helps women advance to the rooms where decisions are made. She has coached and trained hundreds of women to trust themselves, lead with more confidence, and create a career they love. She is the founder of the Clarity & Confidence Women's Leadership Program, and a Stevie Award winner for Women in Business—Coach of the Year. She is the author of Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck, releasing fall of 2022.

• Book:Closing the Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential, and Your Paycheck

• Website: KelliRaeThompson.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown

• Past episode: 674: Nailing Your Interview, Resume, and Negotiation FAST with Steve Dalton

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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