Peak Performance and Peak Satisfaction in Your Business Career

Vacations are usually seen as time to rest and recharge. But they can also be one of the best opportunities you'll have to improve how you work, develop your team, and create space for higher-value responsibilities. In this episode, I share practical ways to use vacations, parental leaves, medical leaves, sabbaticals, or even a long weekend, as a catalyst to rethink your role instead of simpl...

This episode is a little different. Instead of teaching one leadership strategy or career tool, I'm sharing the story behind why I do this work. For years, I believed stress was simply the price of having a meaningful career. From the outside, everything looked successful. But behind the scenes, work had quietly become the center of everything. A series of wake-up calls led me to rethink my p...

Many successful professionals spend years focused on delivering results while giving very little thought to where their career is actually headed. We work hard, keep our heads down, and trust that the next opportunity will appear. Waiting is not a career strategy. In this episode, I explore why waiting is one of the biggest career traps professionals fall into and how to shift from passively hopin...

Searching for your next opportunity can feel like an emotional roller coaster. Whether you're navigating a layoff, seeking advancement, or pursuing a better fit, it's easy to become discouraged when the results you want don't arrive as quickly as expected. The problem is that many professionals measure success by outcomes they cannot directly control. In this episode, I share a fram...

Every career and every life includes adversity. A layoff, missed promotion, difficult boss, failed project, health challenge, or unexpected setback can leave us replaying the same painful story over and over again. What we don’t often realize is that there is often more than one way to tell the story. In this episode, I introduce one of my favorite mindset tools: the Victory Story. You’ll learn wh...

Getting your head back in the game - the business skill you didn't know you needed. As a trained life coach, I have the uncanny ability of helping you navigate the stickiest and most daunting situations in work and life so that you come out on top, everytime. If you are wondering how that could be, in this episode, I let you in on the secret ingredient to my coaching that becomes your profess...

In our careers, there may be several well-meaning mentors giving input on your direction and next steps. While it's very popular to suggest that mentors and sponsors are crucial to your success, I am sharing the alternative view to take caution in these relationships. Career advice from a variety of sources can cause noise and confusion, keeping us from advancing towards the vision we actuall...

Artificial Intelligence may have your team on edge. While we might make adopting AI a mandatory objective for employees formally or informally, there is a wave of resistance expressed or unsaid. Use these practical strategies to help your team change for the better.  What You'll Learn From This Episode: The concerns that are at the core of resistance to Artificial Intelligence in the workplac...

In some companies, managing people is a requirement to advance, while in others individual contributions are paramount. In either case, I have witnessed leaders starting to view people management as a tax. One they must do in order to advance, or one they do thanklessly. It can be common to lose sight of the true purpose of leading a team - to scale your impact. Tune in for a different view on lea...

Last week, I delivered a Masterclass on how to take back your calendar. This is a must-listen if you find yourself in back-to-back meetings, toggling topics throughout the day, and busy but without much to show for it. Learn my 3 takeaways in 30 minutes. Even better, watch at the link below for a more immersive experience including visuals of slides and the Q&A session that followed. What You&...

Whether you see work as a necessary evil or a source of identity and pride, it's worth recalibrating your perspective for better performance and satisfaction. As an overachiever you may be used to relying on validation from work. You may see work as securing your livelihood, which you offset with a work hard / play hard philosophy. Use this episode as a reset to put work in its rightful place...

There can be a pervasive "rush" to our society and it's reflected in how we view our progress on our career path. We have expectations that have us hurrying both day-to-day and through the years. If you have felt behind in your career and experience pressure to make up for lost time, this episode is for you. We will uncover how these expectations are largely arbitrary, and often are...

On the verge of a quarter-life, mid-life, end-of-career crisis? You are not alone. Turns out there are natural milestones in our career that have us searching for more. I have heard clients describe it as asking "Is this all there is?" and feeling a pull towards something new. Media would have you think single demographics are opting out of the business world in droves. I offer an altern...

I have many clients tell me that they are bad at self-promotion because it's not aligned with their values, but they receive feedback that it's holding back their career advancement. While this can feel like a lose / lose situation, where you can either self-promote against your will or plateau in your career, I would offer there is a middleground available to you. In this episode, I sho...

It's the season for annual goal-setting and expectations reviews.  By taking the lead in these conversations, you can make it a pivotal time in both leadership of your career and leadership of your team.  Here is how to introduce radical candor and a clear mission to what can otherwise be an exercise to "check the box".  Learn how to do this in your own conversation with your leader...

There are two things we don't tolerate well as business leaders - risk and, counterintuitively, success. When it comes to risk, we would rather enjoy the reward without having to experience the associated uncertainty. We might fantasize about leading a life of leisure without having to put ourselves out there, while still collecting the same or better rewards. Interestingly, we also tend to r...

What You'll Learn From This Episode: Three stages of meeting your basic human needs to then reach self-actualization Neuroscience-backed techniques to access your highest level thinking and overcome the most common blindspots Ways to detect that you have fallen into survival mode in your work and how to thrive instead  Recommended Related Episodes: Episode 39 - Executive Presence Episode 40 -...

It's time for the antidote to the hustle and grind, hamster wheel approach that is glamorized and standardized within the business world. While we know logically that overworking is the fastest route to burnout and tapping out early, as well as self-destruction for our health and relationships, it continues to be the well-worn path. Without much thought we might mimic the behaviors of our col...

How do we make decisions when we feel uncertain? There is much pressure about making the right choice and avoiding regret later. So much so that we can be frozen in indecision most of the time. In this episode, I share a simple framework for making decisions quickly and loving your reasons for doing making them. What You'll Learn From This Episode: The mindset that enables confident decision-...

The Olympics are taking place at the time of this podcast episode recording. We are reminded of the outstanding athletes and coaches who work together for some jaw-dropping results. If there was one attribute that we could assume from them, it would be coachability. Taking constructive feedback or outcomes that weren't what we hoped on the chin and putting it to good use to learn from it. In...

You have likely been told and also cautioned others to "know your audience", but we aren't often given the tools to know and deeply engage our audience. There are countless personality tests used in businesses today, such that we can get lost in the 70 question surveys and interpretations. Without the mindset upgrade I am offering in this episode, you will be unable to reap any real...

As overachievers we tend to default to giving every last ounce of ourselves to our work, thinking it's the only way to be successful or to hang on to our careers. Here's the issue - we can't sustain this so we burnout or quit, and our business loses a great talent. Today, I invite you to take the long view on your career, and start putting in place healthy boundaries for peak perfor...

If you feel your work satisfaction and the quality of your work experience on a day-to-day basis depends on what lurks in your inbox, Slack messages, or next decision made from on high, this episode is for you. You can take back control over your state at work, rather than letting your colleagues or the typical corporate kerfuffles set the tone, be it one of corporate rage or any other less-than-h...

If you have ever said that you are terrible at self-promotion, or simply hoped that a mystical sponsor might tap you on the shoulder with your dream career offer, it's high time you learned how to sell yourself. Whether you are seeking promotion, a raise, or a new role, you must master the skill of selling yourself.  What You'll Learn From This Episode: The inaccurate assumptions that ma...

Imposter syndrome - that feeling of not measuring up to our colleagues and the worry that our inadequacy will be discovered and that will surely lead to dismissal. As we launch into a new calendar year, especially for those of us with bigger roles and titles, imposter syndrome can be rampant. In this episode, we investigate what's behind it and how to halt it so that we can work at our best. ...