Episode 73: Shawshank, Julia Roberts and Deciding For Yourself
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 73: Shawshank, Julia Roberts, and Deciding For Yourself. Institutionalization happens to all of us throughout our life. At its core, it’s a belief system that we develop about ourselves and about the way work gets done, primarily through the existence of loud and dominant external voices. It can show up in what we think is important to do and how to do it. We accept and abide by it so unconsciously that when things shift we struggle to adapt to the change.
Episode 72: What’s The Best That Can Happen
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 72: What's The best That Can Happen? In fact, why is it so hard to dream big as an adult? Think about it – if you were asked about the worst possible thing that could happen as the result of a choice, how long would it take you to end up living in a van down by the river? Now what if your choices were wildly successful? What if your dreams come true? Can you picture it?
Episode 71: To Reveal or Not To Reveal
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 71: To Reveal Or Not To Reveal. How much of your identity should you share with your co-workers? Does bringing your personal life to work help build trust, or does trust need to exist before you share your personal life at work?
Episode 70: I Can’t Talk To My Boss
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 70: I Can't Talk To My Boss. We discuss the ways differences in expectations, needs, and hierarchy play in communication breakdowns and how to adapt to and overcome each. We also talk about how to work through the dissonance that we experience when the present reality of our relationship with our boss is different than our historical experiences.
Episode 69: This Is Not What I Signed Up For
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 69: This Is Not What I Signed Up For. Which brings us to the word of the episode – resistance. Despite what we tell ourselves, humans don’t like change – and we have any number of habits that we’ll kick in to resist it as long as possible. In this episode we dive into our relationship with resistance, and how to overcome it as we adjust to our new reality.
Episode 68: Kicking Our Own Ass
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 68: Kicking Our Own As*. There is an old adage: “We are our own worst critic.” While it is often profoundly true, there are also too many instances where we go from being our own critic to being our own bully. So many of us are guilty of kicking our own ass, and it’s a cycle that we need to stop.
Episode 67: The Real Return to the Office Debate
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 67: The Real Return To The Office Debate. As we’ve had deep discussions around this topic, we’ve noticed an extremely diverse set of wants around the post-pandemic work environment. Some people want life to look exactly like it did in 2019. Some want it to look exactly like it did in February of 2021. But everybody wants something.
Episode 66: The Search for Confidence
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 66: The Search For Confidence. Eric and Nayla dive in to talk through what confidence is and isn’t, how it helps us, and how to build more of it. Confidence is not a point at which we arrive, a thing we ultimately achieve. Rather, it is a muscle we have to exercise regularly, a set of practices we have to engage in to develop courage and belief in ourselves in increments.
Episode 65: The Worst Advice Nayla Ever Gave
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 65: The Worst Advice Nayla Ever Gave. If we’re doing the work, we are growing as humans as we grow as leaders. Looking back at the times we regret, those moments that make us feel some shame and awkwardness about the things we did and said, can sometimes help us track our growth. Nayla gets that gift this week, as she digs into the bad advice she once gave a valued colleague who came asking for support for a promotion: Don’t Worry About It.
Episode 64: Ending It Well
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 64: Ending It Well. We talk through the rich emotions that accompany change and how we can use time as a resource to help us understand we’re learning about ourselves as we transition. We offer some practical tools to help us manage transitions including appreciation of the people who helped shape this experience, celebration and ceremony, and the personal documentation of how we’ve gotten better as a result of this change.
Episode 63: The Fallacy of Negotiating with Yourself
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 63: The Fallacy Of Negotiating With Yourself. We’re all quite skilled at the art of negotiating with ourselves, talking ourselves in and out of habits and actions that would move us toward our goals. This week we talk about how to get more skilled at noticing how we hold ourselves back, make excuses for ourselves, or hide when we negotiate with ourselves.
Episode 62: Figuring Out Fear
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 62: Figuring Out Fear. Throughout this episode we talk about how fear is information, and it typically comes from a good place – a place of self-protection. Fear is an invitation to be curious about what our minds and bodies are telling us. We draw a distinction between a fear and a threat, and why it’s crucial to answer the question, “what form is the threat taking?
Episode 61: Getting the Credit You Deserve
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 61: Getting The Credit You Deserve. In this episode, we dig into the differences between humility, confidence, and arrogance and highlight that it’s possible to both be humble and earn recognition. We also tear apart the origin stories behind the myths that lead us to believe we don’t deserve credit above our steady paycheck.
Episode 60: When You Experience Rejection
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 60: When You Experience Rejection. During our conversation, we talked about how the work of the inside job is to make sense of rejection and figure out what we can learn from it. We experience rejection because we choose to do the big work in life. Taking brave action is always worth celebrating.
Episode 59: Having a Quarterly Meeting with Yourself
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 59: Having A Quarterly Meeting With Yourself. During this episode we talk about the value of a personal quarterly meeting – one that is taken seriously and conducted deliberately. We talk about what to ask yourself, how often to do it, and how to make sense of the analysis and results.
Episode 58: It's Ok to Talk About Money
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 58: It's Ok To Talk About Money. This week on the Inside Job Podcast we talk about money! By any name, cold hard cash is one of our favorite topics as humans, yet it often seems so taboo to admit it. Maybe the better question is: given how important money is, how do we talk about it in meaningful ways that align with our values?
Episode 57: You Don’t Have to Settle
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 57: You Don't Have to Settle. This week we’re talking about the sensation of being trapped or stuck, and settling for a situation that doesn’t work for us. This is also an opportunity in our lives to see things, to understand the tensions between what we want and where we are, and to create a shift that results in momentum.
Episode 56: When You are the Bearer of Bad News
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 56: When You Are The Bearer Of Bad News. If we want to lead, we must say the hard things. Whether it’s delivering tough feedback, acknowledging mistakes and missteps, or resigning from a job, we’ll have to share information that has the potential to hurt something or someone.
Episode 55: Why You Resist Networking
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 55: Why You Resist Networking. We believe – deeply – that networking is about learning, about relationship building and above all, about CONNECTING. And connecting isn’t just good for your career, it’s rewarding for your life.
Episode 54: A Blueprint for Experiments
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 54: A Blueprint for Experiments. 'Running experiments’ are part of our process to make change happen in our work and other domains of our lives, but what does that mean? We talk about incremental, measurable steps, the value of neutrally looking at the information gathered in our experiments, and knowing when we’ve collected enough information.