Breaking Work

#488: Jacob Morgan is the international best-selling author of 5 books, keynote speaker, and professionally trained futurist. His passion and mission is to create great leaders, engaged employees, and future-ready organizations. Jacob is also the host of " Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan ," one of the world's most popular leadership podcasts. His work has been endorsed by the CEOs of: Unilever,...

#487: Career change, fear and money. Those concepts are tightly interlinked. Much of my work is trying to break the traditional conceptions of this trinity, so we can step boldly forth on our path. I've wanted to get the financial perspective nailed down for some time, but haven't found a financial expert that could really smash the way we think about money in times of change. Until now. Richard A...

#486: How do you get yourself to do hard things that you don't have to do? We all want to make big changes, but we often falter with the execution piece. Whether that's changing careers, losing weight or or completing our first triathlon. I think this is the central problem everyone who's ever attempted to start a side hustle faces. You want to do something new, but you don't HAVE to. My friend Ka...

#485: You well know that feeling of being trapped. I need to do something else, but I can't because . . .  Well, I'm going to let you in on a secret. That dread and anxiety goes away the minute you are confident in another option. You don't even have to leave your job or get a new boss. All you need to believe is that you can say "adios" whenever you want. So, here's 5 ways to increase your option...

#484: I talk a lot about risk and uncertainty, but one of the most counterintuitive lessons I learned from my time in finance, entrepreneurship, and design is that there is an upside to uncertainty. Sometimes chance encounters we never would have expected break our path and launch us in a better direction. These are our happy accidents. Dennis Geelen is an accidental solopreneur. After being laid...

#483: Learn about how a laugh may have broken Mark Twain's suicide attempt and how this applies to you. 

#481: Today I'm going to show you the three step, cycle of change you can use to make a habit out of changing yourself to hit your goals and transform your growth.

#482: Imagine hearing growing up and hearing metal shell casings hit the street. Imagine being abandoned by your father, and then later your step father. Then imagine creating over $50M in sales for a niche finance company, only to create your own business so you could travel around the world and work from anywhere. This is Jermane Cheathem's story. He could have been a victim like so many others...

#480: Sometimes all it takes for a break moment is a conversation with an old friend. Gabe Marusca, was born in Romainia, and started on a typical life. Low paying job, dreaming about doing something else. Then a friend shared his entrepreneurial knowledge and changed broke Gabe path and changed his life forever. Now Gabe is known as The Nomad Solopreneur, was a freelancer for nearly 6 years. In 2...

#479: We all dream of making a big change. We wonder how others do it. At the heart of making any change is the battle in our minds between belief and fear. Having some fear is healthy, but too much paralyzes us. Having too much belief can lead us to make big mistakes. We need to be in balance, and the key to balance is seeing risk clearly and putting it in its place. We can't escape risk, but we...

#478: Bret Barrie was a Hall-of-Fame and President's Club-winning sales rep and has been a top-producing sales leader in multiple industries. He is also the author of The Selling Edge: How to Reach the Top In Any Sales Industry , and his newest book Promoted: The Proven Path to Career Advancement . We talk about how Brett became the leading knife salesman in the country, how sales is a very under-...

#477: We tend to think of luck as completely random and out of our control. However, every action you take has uncertainty in it, so there is an element of "luck" in everything we do. Here's what we will cover in this episode:  Luck is a spectrum and can be influenced Some luck is out of our influence But some luck is within our influence Activities to get lucky

#476: So I made a new friend. We're kindred spirits. My new friend is called the fairy godmother of career breaks and sabbaticals. Katrina McGhee is a Career Break and Sabbatical Expert, creator of the Break Blueprint and the author of the upcoming book, Taking a Career Break for Dummies. As a certified master coach with an MBA, Katrina helps mid-career professionals create happier, more fulfillin...

#475: What is it like to turn a debilitating weakness into your life's work? Ty Hoesgen grew up on a farm in Canada where the closest town was only 800 people. He was terrified to talk to other people, but once he got his first job, he realized that communication was a huge weakness that needed to be overcome. So he made communication his life's work. Today, Ty is a top communication coach, #1 bes...

#475:  I've gotten a lot of questions recently about people needing to switch roles or career tracks. Lots of uncertainty out there that people are grappling with. But being nimble and adaptable are key skills to living a life of resilience, and ultimately carving your own unique path to success. Building experience in a new field is daunting. The BREAK framework makes it incredibly simple. So her...

#474: What does it feel like to bet on yourself? In this episode, we will discuss:  How it really feels to bet on yourself The psychology of why it feels scarier My big announcement on the future How you can participate in our vision

#473: In this episode, learn how to ensure positive momentum tomorrow.  We need to create momentum when we tackle any change That's our "Belief Flywheel" so we can have confidence to take the next step Momentum starts the night before Follow this simple 5 minute evening routine to guarantee momentum tomorrow Don't forget to pick up a Father's Day gift!

#472 - What happens when you start to notice the invisible scripts that tell you the keys to "success" are be good in school, get a good job, work hard and chase status and accomplishment? Most people continue to push for those things on the default path. But when you start to notice and question these scripts, you can create a wildly different and more fulfilling path for yourself. But you have t...

#471 - The rub with taking a "pathless path" is that we have to figure out our way, which means trying things. When we try things we split our attention and can get trapped in the overwhelm of flailing without seeming to make progress. All the gurus tell us to "focus" and buckle down. But we can only do that when we have high confidence that the path we are on is the right one. So we have to const...

#470 - I have a secret . . . I've been stuck more times than I care to count or remember. I've had weeks and months go by with no progress, and worse, not knowing what I should even do. It's a terrible feeling of helplessness. So, I've been dedicating a lot of my time thinking about momentum, how we start to change and how we build belief to deal with uncertainty in life, but particularly at work....

#469: If you've ever wondered how a teacher stuck in a classroom making $40k per year can transform into a world-roaming remote nomad making over $100k inside 12 months, well you're in the right place.  Taylin Simmonds was a music producer and college educator who broke his career and now helps founders and leaders of high-growth companies grow their personal brands. And he does it while traveling...

#468: Disruption and change are all around us, and happening faster and faster. I consider the ability to deal well with change to be the single most important skill for young people to learn. To dive into this topic, I'm talking today with MJ Reiners. MJ is an organizational change management consultant. She launched her company Summerland Education in 2011 to enable organizations to leverage int...

How we view failure is intricately linked with how we view uncertainty. Our normal view of failure tells us that it is something to avoid. Everybody in that control room should be angry, crying frustrated, mad or whatever, but that wasn't the case, right? Whatever you think about Elon Musk, in this particular example, is great a lesson in how he relates to failure, and how he's pushed that view in...

#466: What happens when you've reached "the top", but you find it isn't everything you thought it would be? How does being in the C-suite change the way you think about success, achievement, and happiness? My guest this week is Clint Murphy. Clint rose to the top and became CFO of a large real estate development company based in Vancouver Canada. But I found Clint not in real estate circles or fin...

#465:  This episode at a glance:  The only thing holding us back from having the life we want is the errors in how we view our own reality These errors are called Cognitive Distortions in psychology Understanding them and mitigating them is key to making better decisions, being happier and having better relationships Listen to the end to find a helpful tool I've used to get over my own distortions