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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May 11, 2026 • 45min
1151: How to Harness the Surprising Power of Ignorance with Alan Gregerman
Alan Gregerman, innovation consultant and author who helps organizations unlock creativity. He explores how noticing ordinary sparks leads to breakthroughs. He explains enlightened ignorance, why curiosity and humility matter, and six practical habits to turn not knowing into inventive advantage. Short, lively, and focused on how to spot and connect ideas.
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May 7, 2026 • 39min
1150: How to Reclaim Your Schedule and Own Your Time with Laura Vanderkam
Laura Vanderkam, bestselling time-management author who studies how people find time, shares how to reclaim your schedule. She discusses a time-abundance mindset, tiny 15-minute shifts that reshape the workday, smart time-tracking to spot opportunities, and structuring intentional breaks and golden hours to make time feel richer.
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May 4, 2026 • 36min
221: Becoming a Great Conversationalist with Celeste Headlee
Celeste Headlee, public radio host and author known for her TED Talk on better conversations, walks through what makes talking actually work. She stresses listening and presence. She explains mental multitasking, practical listening drills, why brief points land better, and how phones and timing shape trust.
Apr 30, 2026 • 38min
1149: How to Stand Out, Multiply Your Opportunities, and Win People’s Confidence with Justin Humphries
Justin Humphries, a self-producing mortgage originator focused on VA, first-time buyer, and DSCR loans, shares how he multiplies inbound opportunities and grows referral relationships. He explains leveraging public production, the power of weak ties and affinity groups, and why responsiveness, deep product knowledge, and creative problem solving keep people returning.
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Apr 27, 2026 • 34min
1148: How to Build Cultures Where Everyone Knows They Matter with Barry-Wehmiller’s Bob Chapman
Bob Chapman, chairman of Barry-Wehmiller and author of Everybody Matters, champions Truly Human Leadership that treats employees with dignity. He discusses caring as a business strategy, empathetic listening as a core skill, and simple practices to boost team morale. Short, practical ideas for creating people-centered, resilient organizations.
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Apr 23, 2026 • 52min
1st Year - 069: Winning Arguments while Winning Allies with Jay Heinrichs
Jay Heinrichs, bestselling rhetorician and author who teaches classical rhetoric for modern persuasion. He explains using future tense to defuse anger. He describes the 12-second speech climax and how to craft memorable closings. He contrasts fights with arguments and shares tactics like reframing, mood shifts, and precise definitions to avoid common fallacies.
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Apr 20, 2026 • 34min
1147: How to Optimize Your Space to Thrive with Leidy Klotz
Leidy Klotz, a behavioral scientist and engineering professor who studies how design shapes well-being, explains why spaces matter. Short takes cover the three psychological needs spaces meet, small tweaks to reclaim control, using available spots before renovating, and how arriving early or arranging rooms can boost performance.
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Apr 16, 2026 • 46min
1146: How to Reclaim Your Focus and Unlock Your Genius with Memory Champion Nelson Dellis
Nelson Dellis, six-time USA Memory Champion and memory coach, shows how to upgrade thinking with practical memory tools. He describes extreme feats like memorizing 10,000 digits and explains number-to-image systems. He covers focused reading, Pomodoro-style distraction removal, active recall for deep learning, and why intuition and memory training rewire the brain.
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Apr 13, 2026 • 41min
1145: How to Flourish in Chaos and Build Adaptability with Anne Grady
Anne Grady, bestselling author and resilience expert who teaches leaders practical tools for adapting to change. She explores why uncertainty hijacks the brain. She explains building adaptability by practicing discomfort and protecting your time, energy, and attention. She shares simple routines and a one-small-action challenge to regain agency and grow through chaos.
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Apr 9, 2026 • 43min
1144: Getting More of What You Want through the Art of Persuasion with Joshua Bandoch
Joshua Bandoch, persuasion expert and author, shares how to persuade by removing barriers and putting others first. He explains a persuader’s mindset, the power of listening at three levels, and why feelings and stories outlast logic. He also outlines six moral tastes to tailor messages and practical storytelling tips for real-world impact.
