How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
Get more fun, wins, meaning, and money from your job! With 25,000,000 downloads and mentions in The New York Times, Forbes, and Linkedin Learning. This show helps grow your skills and impact at any job that requires thinking and collaborating. Each week, Pete interviews thought-leaders and results-getters to discover specific, actionable insights that boost work performance. Their stories and advice sharpen the universal skills to flourish at work. Boost your time/energy management, leadership, confidence, career opportunities, and fulfillment—while still getting home earlier.Try starting with episode 0: START HERE and listener favorite episodes we put at the beginning numbered: A, B, C, D, E, and F. (Subscribe and/or sort Old to New to find these starter episodes.) Welcome!
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Nov 24, 2025 • 34min
1113: How to Make Memorable and Lasting First Impressions with Rebecca Okamoto
Rebecca Okamoto, a communication consultant and founder of Evoke Strategy Group, transforms introductions from mundane to memorable. She highlights the power of succinct 20-word self-introductions, illustrating their effectiveness in today's distraction-filled environment. Listeners learn to avoid credential-heavy introductions, focus on their audience, and infuse familiar language. Rebecca emphasizes practice in delivery and adapting introductions for various contexts, all while ensuring it's about the audience, not just themselves. Her insights can dramatically enhance first impressions and open new opportunities.
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Nov 20, 2025 • 48min
1112: How to Beat Digital Exhaustion and Reclaim Your Energy with Paul Leonardi
Paul Leonardi, Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at UC Santa Barbara, dives into the pressing issue of digital exhaustion. He outlines how mindless scrolling and multitasking can wear us down despite technological advancements meant to help. Paul reveals two hidden forces contributing to our fatigue and shares how reducing attention-switching can reclaim our energy. He emphasizes the importance of choosing the right tools for different tasks and offers strategies for intentional device use to combat burnout.
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Nov 17, 2025 • 53min
1111: How to Get Better Results from AI to Amplify Your Productivity with Gianluca Mauro
Gianluca Mauro, Founder and CEO of AI Academy and author of Zero to AI, shares insights on maximizing productivity with AI. He emphasizes the importance of mindset over tools and warns against the pitfalls of AI 'workslop,' which can undermine credibility. Gianluca introduces the CIDI framework for effective AI prompting and discusses AI's strengths in tasks like copywriting and analysis. He encourages using AI to enhance curiosity and critical thinking, rather than as a shortcut for laziness, and offers practical examples for automation to boost efficiency.
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Nov 13, 2025 • 49min
1110: How to Multiply Your Opportunities through Smarter LinkedIn Posts with Jason Feifer
In this engaging discussion, Jason Feifer, the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, shares how to leverage LinkedIn for career growth. He emphasizes the importance of consistent content to create connections, even when not job hunting. Jason reframes personal branding as being simple and helpful rather than self-promotional. He reveals insights on LinkedIn’s algorithm, offers a three-hook post structure, and advises on avoiding common mistakes. Plus, he encourages listeners to pursue unique opportunities that others overlook.
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Nov 10, 2025 • 33min
1109: How to Find Great Mentors and Build Your Legacy with Dr. Deborah Heiser
Dr. Deborah Heiser, an applied developmental psychologist and CEO of The Mentor Project, dispenses wisdom on mentorship's multifaceted nature. She highlights the core human need mentorship fulfills and offers advice on finding mentors in unexpected places. The conversation delves into the concept of lateral mentoring and the importance of small, specific requests to initiate mentorship. Deborah also discusses the generativity stage in midlife, emphasizing how and why individuals seek to give back, ultimately guiding listeners to build their own mentorship legacy.
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Nov 6, 2025 • 38min
1108: How to Think, Act, and Achieve Like an “A-Player” with Rob Monson
Rob Monson, the founder of Tenfold Advisors and a business growth coach, shares insights on how professionals can become A-players. He discusses the urgent need for leaders to remove C players to protect and retain top talent. Rob highlights universal traits of A-players, including effective time-blocking techniques that can reclaim valuable productivity. He also emphasizes systems thinking to address recurring issues in business operations and shares practical tips like delegating tasks to boost leadership capacity.
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Nov 3, 2025 • 40min
1107: How to Confront Your Inner Saboteurs with Shirzad Chamine
Shirzad Chamine, author of the bestselling book Positive Intelligence and a leadership coach, shares insights on overcoming inner saboteurs. He explains the fascinating Jedi vs. Darth Vader metaphor, revealing how our strengths can become our greatest weaknesses. Learn quick techniques to quiet negative thoughts in just 10 seconds and the importance of presence in leadership. Shirzad emphasizes how practicing mental fitness can rewire your brain, offering practical exercises to enhance awareness and emotional resilience.
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Oct 30, 2025 • 47min
1106: How to Rewrite the Hidden Beliefs that Hold You Back with Muriel Wilkins
Muriel Wilkins, founder and CEO of Paravis Partners and executive coach to C-suite leaders, dives into the hidden beliefs that hinder personal and professional growth. She identifies seven key limiting beliefs, such as the need to be involved in everything and the struggle to delegate. Muriel emphasizes the power of reframing thoughts, sharing a study demonstrating how mindset impacts health outcomes. Her three-step framework to uncover and reframe beliefs empowers listeners to take control of their experiences and improve their leadership presence.
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Oct 27, 2025 • 38min
1105: The Five Critical Roles of Every Winning Team with Mark Murphy
Mark Murphy, a leadership researcher and founder of Leadership IQ, dives into the dynamics of effective teams. He reveals why a balance of different roles trumps a squad of identical 'team players.' Discussion touches on the detrimental effects of enforced agreeableness that stifle innovative ideas. Murphy introduces five critical team roles and explains how leveraging these roles can enhance performance. He also shares insights on improving team brainstorming by encouraging individual pre-thought and how adaptable leadership can maintain team decisiveness.
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Oct 23, 2025 • 31min
1104: Exploring the Timeless Principles of Influence through a Christian Lens with Brian Ahearn
Brian Ahearn, Chief Influence Officer at Influence PEOPLE and author, dives into the intersection of influence and faith. He discusses timeless principles that apply in both secular and religious contexts, emphasizing the power of reciprocity and forgiveness. Ahearn shares tips on building instant rapport and fostering genuine relationships that go beyond transactions. He highlights the importance of unity and the ethical use of influence, urging listeners to act with integrity derived from personal values.
