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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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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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  • 1193: How to Build a Team That Can Thrive Without You with Bill Flynn
    Oct 29 2026

    Bill Flynn shares his strategies for building a team that can lead, decide, and thrive without you.


    — YOU’LL LEARN —

    1) Why you shouldn’t play the hero

    2) How to build a self-sufficient team

    3) How to delegate authority, not just tasks


    Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1193 for the full transcript!


    — ABOUT BILL —

    Bill Flynn has collaborated with Alan Mulally and Amy Edmondson, pitched Steve Jobs, accomplished much, failed often, and learned many useful lessons from thirty years of studying the science of success. He is best described as a pragmatic Simon Sinek; an optimist and an operator.

    Bill embodies his core purpose - simplified servanthood - by spending each working moment to help create a compassionately productive society by enabling enlightened leaders to focus on the few things that truly matter to their teams and key stakeholders. For having a great business is one way of making a better world.

    • Book: The Hero Trap: The Leader's Shift from Doing to Designing

    • Book: www.CatalystGrowthAdvisors.com


    — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

    • Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

    • Book: The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch

    • Book: The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt

    • Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

    • Book: Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet


    — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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    44 mins
  • 1192: How to Tackle Difficult Conversations to Build Stronger Relationships with Kerry Siggins
    Oct 26 2026

    Kerry Siggins shares her practical framework for navigating conflict, managing emotions, and finding common ground.


    — YOU’LL LEARN —

    1) Why avoiding conversations often does more harm than good

    2) The SHARES model for effective feedback

    3) The hidden assumption harming your conversation


    Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1192 for the full transcript!


    — ABOUT KERRY —

    Kerry Siggins is a sought-after international speaker and the author of The Ownership Mindset: A Handbook for Transforming Your Life and Leadership. Her work focuses on leadership, communication, accountability, employee ownership, and building high trust cultures.

    Siggins also brings her work directly into organizations through The Talk With Trust Leadership Experience, an immersive and interactive leadership experience designed to help teams practice courageous conversations and build stronger communication habits in real time.

    Whether speaking to executive teams, companies, conferences, or leadership groups, Siggins combines operational credibility, emotional intelligence, and practical leadership insight to help organizations create cultures where people feel empowered to communicate openly, take ownership, and grow together.

    • Book: Talk with Trust: How to Own Feedback, Spark Growth, and Build Stronger Teams

    • Book: The Ownership Mindset: A Handbook for Transforming Your Life and Leadership

    • Podcast: Kerry Siggins Podcast

    • Company: StoneAge Inc.

    • Website: KerrySiggins.com


    — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

    • Book: Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt


    — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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    37 mins
  • 1191: How to Regulate Your Emotions Masterfully with Dr. Marc Brackett
    Oct 22 2026

    Dr. Marc Brackett shares research-backed strategies to build your skill of self-regulation.


    — YOU’LL LEARN —

    1) The critical first step to masterful emotional regulation

    2) The biggest misconception we have about our emotions

    3) How an alter ego can help with self-regulation


    Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1191 for the full transcript!


    — ABOUT MARC —

    Marc Brackett, PhD, is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. He is the author of the bestselling book Permission to Feel and more than two hundred scholarly articles, with his research featured in The New York Times, Good Morning America, Today, and the Huberman Lab podcast. A sought-after keynote speaker, he has headlined over seven hundred conferences and advises Fortune 500 companies on integrating emotional intelligence into workplace culture.

    Together with Pinterest cofounder Ben Silbermann, Marc launched the award-winning How We Feel app, a powerful tool helping millions of people improve their well-being. He hosts Dealing with Feeling, a YouTube web series and podcast that brings groundbreaking insights on emotion regulation to a global audience. He lives in Connecticut and New York City.

    • Book: Permission to Feel

    • Book: Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want

    • App: How We Feel

    • Instagram: marc.brackett

    • LinkedIn: Marc Brackett

    • Substack: Emotion Revolution

    • Website: MarcBrackett.com


    — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

    • Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

    • Past episode: 327: Unclog Your Brain through Unfocusing with Dr. Srini Pillay

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    37 mins
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