Everyday Better with Leah Smart
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Everyday Better is your guide to creating positive change at work, at home, in your relationships, and beyond.
Each week, Leah Smart, LinkedIn's Senior Editor and a certified coach specializing in self-improvement, shares inspiring conversations with trusted voices and curates research-backed strategies to help you navigate transitions, challenges, and uncertainties with clarity and intention. Because work and the rest of your life don’t exist in silos, and what happens in one always finds its way into the other.
Discover fresh perspectives, get unstuck, and take small steps every day, toward the life you want. New episodes every Tuesday.
Each week, Leah Smart, LinkedIn's Senior Editor and a certified coach specializing in self-improvement, shares inspiring conversations with trusted voices and curates research-backed strategies to help you navigate transitions, challenges, and uncertainties with clarity and intention. Because work and the rest of your life don’t exist in silos, and what happens in one always finds its way into the other.
Discover fresh perspectives, get unstuck, and take small steps every day, toward the life you want. New episodes every Tuesday.
Episodes
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Aug 23, 2022 • 37min
The Simple Act of Breathing
This week In the Arena: Journalist James Nestor, author of the bestselling book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. Leah and James dig into how breathing better can help us in all areas of our health and wellbeing, and how following curiosity can lead us to more interesting places than problem-solving alone.Follow James on LinkedInFollow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
Aug 16, 2022 • 26min
Let's Talk About Money
Be honest: when you saw the topic of this episode, did you cringe a little? It makes sense — money is often a taboo topic. But this week, Leah invites her own accountant, Karen Bahn, into the arena to get to the bottom of why our relationships with the green stuff can be so fraught, and how we can re-write our money stories.Follow Karen on LinkedInFollow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
Aug 9, 2022 • 35min
Finding Friendship in the Age of Loneliness with Adam Smiley Poswolsky
The last two and a half years saw all of us navigating connections and alone time in different ways. Adam Smiley Poswolsky, author of Friendship in the Age of Loneliness, joins Leah to talk about how to make friends and the difference between “alone” and “lonely.”Follow Smiley on LinkedInFollow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
Aug 2, 2022 • 33min
The Wheel of Life: a Tool for Getting What You Want
In the chaos of everyday life, we sometimes forget to stop and take stock of how we’re doing in all facets of our life. Listen in to a real coaching session, as Leah uses the Wheel of Life to help producer Michele O’Brien get clarity on how and where to make a change. Follow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedInCheck out the Wheel of Life HERE
Jul 26, 2022 • 36min
Your Body Is Trying to Tell You Something
We live in a head-based world, where we prioritize the information our brains get – sometimes at the expense of listening to our bodies. So how can we start getting more into all the goodness our bodies have to give us? Join Leah as she talks to Alexander Technique and Somatic Experiencing practitioner Ariel Carson. They dig in to the mind-body connection and work through some simple exercises you can do at home.Check out Ariel’s work at Wave Somatics Follow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
Jul 19, 2022 • 39min
Possibility through Uncertainty
This week, Leah sits down with Nathan and Susannah Furr, co-authors of The Upside of Uncertainty. They discuss what uncertainty is really about, uncover the possibilities that come from embracing it, and how we can better equip ourselves to be resilient in the face of the unknown using their four-armed framework.Follow Nathan on Linkedin and check out Nathan and Susannah’s work at www.uncertaintypossibility.com Follow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
Jul 12, 2022 • 43min
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman [Best of In the Arena]
This week, we’re re-airing a favorite episode from the archives: Leah’s LinkedIn Speaker Series interview with Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder and author of Masters of Scale and The Startup of You. They dig into the “why” of starting something that matters and how to know when an idea is a good one.Follow Reid on LinkedInFollow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
Jul 5, 2022 • 42min
When Heartbreak Is a Gift
This week, Leah sits down with Amy Chan, author of Breakup Bootcamp: The Science of Rewiring Your Heart and creator of the first weekend retreat for working through heartbreak. They dig into why we get our hearts broken, and the science behind cultivating a healthier relationship with our circumstances, ourselves and other people.Follow Amy on LinkedInFollow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
Jun 28, 2022 • 45min
How to Belong in a World of "Fitting in" with Jonathan Fields
This week in the arena: author, speaker, and founder of Good Life Project, Jonathan Fields. Jonathan and Leah have a wide-ranging conversation about the differences between beliefs and values, the versions of ourselves we present to the world, and their own experiences sharing stories. Follow Jonathan on LinkedIn, and check out his show Sparked on the LinkedIn Podcast NetworkFollow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
Jun 21, 2022 • 14min
Just Like Me: A Guided Meditation
Let Leah guide you through a meditation practice meant to help you tap into radical empathy.Follow Leah and In The Arena on LinkedIn
