Inside Job

Today we're diving into disappointment and how to develop a better relationship with how you experience this inevitable emotion at work. Join the discussion about disappointment on LinkedIn ( Eric | Nayla ). Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson. To learn more about the ideas and resources discussed in this episode, us and our work, and to join our mailing list, visit the sh...

Where's the line between confidence, ego, and humility? We all know the leader - celebrity or closer to home - about whom we'd say "their ego just got too big". This week we explore how we might check in to see if we might be guilty of believing in an outsized sense of our own importance. We talk about it this week on the podcast. Join the discussion on LinkedIn (| Eric | Nayla ). Inside Job is br...

Today we're exploring some common leadership cliches that are everywhere in the world of work and how these shorthand sayings may be limiting us in the long run. Join the discussion on LinkedIn ( Eric | Nayla ). Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson. To learn more about the ideas and resources discussed in this episode, us and our work, and to join our mailing list, visit th...

Do you hold yourself to extremely high standards? While we may not identify as "perfectionists" per se, it's likely that many of us give ourselves very little margin for imperfection in our work or personal lives. In this episode, we're diving into the practical steps we can take to decide when we've done enough and get real about why doing "B" work might just be the right thing for certain situat...

I n today's podcast, we're exploring whether there is always a cost to doing nothing and how we can get clear on what's really at play when we evaluate our options. What happens if you choose to do nothing? Tell us your thoughts on LinkedIn ( Eric | Nayla ). Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson. To learn more about the ideas and resources discussed in this episode, us, and...

Today, we're exploring an alternative to "words of the year" and New Year's resolutions: Questions. And we'll share the practices you can use to create and get the most out of your question of the year. Join the discussion and share Your question of the year with us on LinkedIn ( Eric | Nayla ). Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson. To learn more about the ideas and resourc...

Today we're taking a different approach to year-end reflection. Join us as we dive into The Proust Questionnaire for a bit of fun and introspection. Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson. To learn more about the ideas and resources discussed in this episode, us and our work, and to join our mailing list, visit the show notes at insidejobthepodcast.com . You can also continue...

Our discussion on the podcast this week centers around the work experiences that leave us asking ourselves, "How am I supposed to trust them now?" Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson. To learn more about the ideas and resources discussed in this episode, us and our work, and to join our mailing list, visit the show notes at insidejobthepodcast.com . You can also continue t...

Today we're sharing part 2 of our conversation with Amy Giddon, as she explores how to navigate curveballs and challenges when life 'gets in the way' of work. Listen in and join the discussion on LinkedIn ( Eric | Nayla ). Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson. To learn more about the ideas and resources discussed in this episode, us and our work, and to join our mailing lis...

This week we're sharing the first of a two-episode conversation with our friend Amy Giddon, the founder of the app Daily Haloha. In this portion of the conversation, Amy shares how she made a series of thoughtful, value-driven career leaps from corporate life, to academia, to the founder of a tech start-up that aligns with her beliefs that everyone matters and everyone belongs. Listen in and join...

Today on the podcast, we discuss our top 3 things that you can do to have an end-of-year review that means something - whether someone else is or isn't involved. Ready to jump-start your review of what you're proud of, what you wish you'd done differently, and where you're headed in the future? Listen in and join the discussion about best practices for reflecting on what you've learned from this y...

In today's conversation, we explore a listener question about how much stress is enough stress, how we distinguish between 'regular' stress and toxic stress, and how much we're responsible for our own experience of stress. When we recognize that stress is not inherently problematic, we can take time to reflect on the nature of the stress we're feeling and decide how we want to navigate it both int...

Have you heard about quiet quitting?   Almost everyone has, so we're jumping into the conversation this week to explore what this term really means, what it's not, whether it's inevitable, and what other options we have. Quiet quitting isn't just a phenomenon of fed-up, overworked professionals with scope-creep and unreasonable workloads, suffering under unfair working conditions, and burnout fina...

This week on the podcast we explore what it means to get our shit together, why that experience is different for each one of us, and how reframing the concept can make a world of difference. If we can pause and discern what ' s really happening, we may be able to address what ' s hurting or " feeling off". Listen in this week as we explore and reflect on what it means to "have your shit together"...

While it can feel like additional self-inflicted punishment during hard times, guilt can be clarifying, a reminder of our values, or where we've been inconsistent. What might guilt be protecting us from? We offer insights to help decipher the difference between guilt and discomfort and choose the next right step that's best for us and those we work with. We open today's show by sharing what's exci...

This week we're continuing our conversation about building a better relationship with work. This episode takes a closer look at the journey of accountability to self; the tough love of knowing what you need and insisting upon getting it. Listen to this exploration of the roles of self-worth, accountability, and self-honoring in our relationship with our work.   Inside Job is brought to you by Nayl...

Today on the podcast we explore how to build a better relationship with work and how our inside work can give us the perspective, accountability, and permission to make that relationship even better. We kick things off by discussing the various types of "metric tons" we can use as yardsticks for measuring our experience of work before moving into the core of our conversation: Our relationship with...

Are you missing the opportunities a great question can bring? A good question not only unlocks potential in your team, fuels innovation, and builds relationships, but asking better questions can actually get us out of an unproductive loop. What happens when we feel we're checking all the "good question" boxes but aren't getting where we want to go? At the heart of our discussion is the purpose of...

After so many years of hearing it ' s okay not to be okay, we ' re talking about how it can be okay to be okay. This idea can be challenging because it flies in the face of what we often hear about self-improvement or career growth as constant pursuits. We also share insight from Matthew McConaughey's Oscar acceptance speech for Dallas Buyers Club and how the dark side of constantly chasing a bett...

Today we explore the experience of feeling jaded at work. We open with a discussion of school supplies including Eric's Tottenham Hotspur pencil case and Nayla's current, jaded feeling toward selecting the just-right writing utensils. We move on to the main topic with a discussion of how feeling jaded illuminates things for us even as it gets in our way.  We also explore ways we can change the pat...

Today we're exploring the trade-offs we make at work and over the course of our careers, how we think about potential gains and losses, and the inside job to shift the stories we tell ourselves about our decisions. We open today's show talking about the daily life trade-off between eating at the kitchen table and eating over the sink — the classic etiquette vs. efficiency debate. (This includes th...

Today we ' re answering listener questions about the urge to justify our career paths and what it really takes to become better presenters. When it comes to the urge we might feel to explain certain parts of our career journey, we might feel that anything on our resume that doesn't directly connect to the next thing on that list needs to be defended. But the inside job here lies in recognizing tha...

Are your thoughts holding you back at work or in your personal life? Today we're exploring why this might just be the case and how to reclaim your power in ways that truly serve you. We open our show with a discussion of Eric's "Spock-like" off-air comments and Nayla's enthusiasm for what The Bear on Hulu can teach us about work and family. But the core of our conversation today centers around how...

On today's show, we open by mentioning the accountability and rage-parenting Venn diagram that we return to later in the episode. Then we explore the differences between responsibility and accountability and why micromanagement is not necessary. While accountability is the neutral reporting of what did or did not happen, the stories we tell ourselves may layer on feelings like disappointment or pa...

Today we're answering listener questions, including what to do when life interferes with our work and what to do when your organization doesn't offer 360 Feedback – which is not an exercise where you spin in a circle in front of you colleagues. We work through strategies for coping with both in a way that results in a better understanding of where the pressures we might feel are coming from.   Ins...