Peak Performance and Peak Satisfaction in Your Business Career

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 

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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 colleagues thinking its the safest str...

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-making
• A step-by-step protoco...

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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 performance.  No one else will suggest th...

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-helpful emotion. 

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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 make us avoid the idea of sale...

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What You'll Learn From Th...

It's comp season for many industries. Annual compensation decisions are communicated to individuals, including salary raises, incentive compensation, and equity awards. In this episode, I show you how to cut through the emotion to focus on the facts, and decide your next move. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How to receive compensation outcomes in the most constructive way for you
• How to arm yourself to powerf...

You may feel the pull towards New Year's Resolutions, but also the statistics of how they are quickly discarded may be giving you pause. In this episode, I show you how to capitalize on that innermost desire to create a better year, while avoiding the pitfalls that so often trip us up.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How to failure-proof your goals and ensure they are authentically yours
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I had a good friend recently post about how year-end can feel like a vortex where business comes to a screeching halt and everyone is unplugged. If that were even true for the last week of December, it certainly won't be true come January 5th. Year-end activities will continue well into the first quarter. Don't be a passive participant in this season of the calendar year. Even if you are still shaking off the flu picked u...

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Answers to questions about time commitment, the invest...

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You are in the right place in today's episode for the inside look at how we create more excellence, ease, earnings, and enjoyment in your work and life together. In this episode of this special podcast series, we turn outward to how you lead others. First, we broaden from your subject matter expertise to supplement your business acumen by mastering leadership skills. Then we turn to scaling your impact through people leadershi...

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This is the first in a special podcast series offering an inside look to exactly how my coaching works and the scope of the work that I do with my clients.  I hope you love this in depth look at my coaching also as a gauge for what you may want to be working on in your own career, whether that is side-by-side with me or not.  This is how I deliver more excellence in your performance, with more ease, earning better rewards and recog...

We think it's our industry, company, corporate culture, business outlook, boss, or title that most impacts our success and satisfaction in our work. We tend to believe the grass is greener in a different job situation. In my research and as a practitioner, I find that ultimately these are all neutral circumstances. It is what we make them mean about us and our future prospects that is the most accurate predictor of our career ...