Episode 47: Help! I'm Working 14 Hour Days
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 47: Help! I'm Working 4 Hour Days. Any chance you’re feeling overwhelmed by the amount of work you’re trying to get done in a day? Routinely finding yourself working 14-hour days with no end in sight? Skipping meals, delaying sleep because there’s simply too much to do? We hear you. Nayla and Eric start by saying: pause.
Episode 46: The Reputation Makeover
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 46: The Reputation Makeover. This week, we talk about what happens when we learn that the professional reputation we have isn’t aligned with what we want it to be. We might learn this from a review, feedback from a manager, or a passing comment from a colleague. We think this is an opportunity to take a look at what’s really going on.
Episode 45: Riffing on Professional Reputation, Brand, and Identity
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 45: Rigging on Professional Reputation, Brand, and Identity. This week, Eric and Nayla enter the arena to tackle a topic that comes up nearly every week – our clients’ concerns about their professional reputation.
Episode 44: Revisiting the MO in FOMO
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 44: Revisiting the MO in FOMO. In a previous episode on the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO), we talked more about the “Fear Of” than the “Missing Out”. Yet sometimes we do miss out – when we make choices we have to deal with trade-offs and sacrifices. Saying “yes” to one thing does lead to “no” for other things. So how do we deal with the aftermath -- the feelings of remorse and regret that accompany lost opportunities?
Episode 43: There Are No Guarantees At Work
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 43: There Are No Guarantees At Work. In this episode, we break that web down and talk about what it means to imply a “promise” or “guarantee”, and how employees should think through the ways to interpret and respond. We also highlight the critical differences between promises and possibilities/options, and discuss how specificity can be a bridge to resentment when it comes to these conversations.
Episode 42: Handling Professional FOMO
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 42: Handling Professional FOMO. In this episode, we tackle a topic suggested by one of our listeners – how to handle professional FOMO (the Fear Of Missing Out). FOMO arises when we look around at our colleagues, friends, and even our families and see that they have things that we want. They may be getting promoted faster, paid more, recognized more publicly, or taking on assignments we desire.
Episode 41: Thoughts on Starting A New Year
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 41: Thoughts on Starting A New Year. In this episode, we offer our thoughts on three principles we use to guide our clients forward in their thinking and planning.
Episode 40: Why It's Important to Celebrate Your Wins
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 40: Why It's Important to Celebrate Your Wins. As the year comes to a close, we’re taking a deliberate moment to declare victory and celebrate the wins of 2020. Yes, the year has been difficult, “unprecedented” and full of hardship, and yet, we know that each of us can find at least one thing to celebrate, no matter how small.
Episode 39: When The Inner Critic Shows Up
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 39: When The Inner Critic Shows Up. How do we start to notice the inner critic and what do we do? We must also develop the sophistication and discernment to know how sneaky the inner critic can be. Sometimes the inner critic is loud and black and white, sometimes the voice is delicate in its deception – we offer examples of both.
Episode 38: What to Do When Things Don't Go As Planned
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 38: What to Do When Things Don't Go As Planned. If we’re human, we’re going to have the experience of things not going as we’d planned. We did the preparation, we put in the effort, practiced, and still… disappointment. We offer the opportunity to turn our disappointments into learning experiences that shouldn’t be missed.
Episode 37: What to Do When You Don't Know What You Want
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 37: What to Do When You Don't Know What You Want. We believe that your life is the primary source of information about what you want; chances are you are already devoting time to the things you want in your spare time and with your discretionary attention. We offer some tips about excavating your own life to find clues pointing you toward your true wants.
Episode 36: Want a Better 2021? Start Now and Start Small
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 36 | Want a Better 2021? Start Now and Start Small: The hype around the fresh start of a new year can have the side effect of letting us wait to take action until the calendar turns over – we think there’s a better way. If you’re looking for a better outcome in any domain, don’t wait for an outside marker of a new start (new year, birthday, new semester). We suggest you start with small steps, now.
Episode 35: How We Manage Our Time (Or Don't)
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 35 | How We Manage Our Time (Or Don't): In this episode, we take on time management and the sacredness of daily routines. We talk about routines, the struggles we have with rigidity, and the implied need for perfectionism. We compare and contrast daily vs. weekly routines, and share thoughts on breaking days into segments instead of minutes. We also revisit the importance of knowing your values and your non-negotiables and using them to define what a successful day (or week) looks like.
Episode 34: Trust Yourself to Feel At Work
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 34 | Trust Yourself to Feel At Work: At the Inside Job Podcast we believe that emotions are important signals and that we can be trusted to learn to use them well. Emotions can lead individuals, and their organizations, to be more human and more effective. The work that needs to be done is to learn how to notice one’s emotions, regulate the natural reaction/response mechanism, and make a wise choice about how to use emotions most productively.
Episode 33: Trust Yourself to Make Sense of Feedback
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 33: Trust Yourself to Make Sense of Feedback. In this episode, we’re exploring how we get better at trusting ourselves to make sense of feedback that comes our way. We offer suggestions about looking for patterns and trends in feedback, using the idea of ‘resonance’ to explore whether feedback aligns with our self-knowledge or other things we’ve heard.
Episode 32: Trust Yourself More Than the Experts
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 32: Trust Yourself More Than the Experts. In this week's episode, the point we arrive at is that we are the experts in our own lives. It’s important to dig deep internally and do what’s right for you. Pick one place to start. Choose what works for you. And most importantly, listen to the internal voices telling you what you need more than the external voices telling you what you should need.
Episode 31: How We're Really Feeling Right Now
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 31: How We're Really Feeling Right Now. We explore some ideas to move ourselves forward. We talk about taking one step or action at a time, and how important it is to celebrate even small victories. Finally, we talk about how important human connection is these days – perhaps more than ever. The work may be personal, as Parker Palmer says, but it doesn’t have to be private.
Episode 30: When Workplace Relationships Go South
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 30: When Workplace Relationships Go South. The workplace is full of decisions, tradeoffs, pressures, and high stakes, and many of these are associated with strong emotions, and sometimes, conflict.
Episode 29: The Pros and Cons of Friendship at Work
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 29: The Pros and Cons of Friendships at Work. We can agree that having friends at work helps us stay engaged, productive and satisfied with what we do all day. Friendships at work build culture, lead to great collaboration and innovation, and fun!
Episode 28: Why You Need A Personal Board of Directors
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 28: Why You Need A Personal Board of Directors. In this episode we talk about the concept of a Personal Board of Directors (or a personal committee) – the group of influential teachers, managers, friends, and colleagues (even heroes) who offer us a new way of exploring, managing, and shaping the decisions we make as leaders and humans.