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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Apr 6, 2026 • 37min
1143: How to Build a Career that AI Can’t Replace with Aneesh Raman
Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn’s Chief Economic Opportunity Officer and author, helps listeners rethink work in the age of AI. He explores which tasks AI can handle, what new AI-enabled roles look like, and why doubling down on uniquely human curiosity and skills is the smartest career move. Short, practical ideas for experimenting with AI in your workflow are sprinkled throughout.
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Apr 2, 2026 • 37min
1142: How to Experience Less Stress and More Joy at Work with Amy Leneker
Amy Leneker, a leadership consultant and recovering workaholic who studies stress and joy at work, shares how stress shows up and what blocks joy. She outlines five types of work stress and the ABC of joy: awareness, breath, connection. Short, practical methods and a three-step unstressing approach are highlighted to help people notice and reduce workplace stress.
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Mar 30, 2026 • 40min
1141: How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts with Guy Winch
Guy Winch, a licensed psychologist and bestselling author known for viral TED Talks on emotional self-care, shares ways to stop rumination, handle situations beyond your control, and build weekly recovery into your schedule. Short, practical strategies for reclaiming attention, energy, and mental space are discussed in clear, actionable terms.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 37min
1140: Bringing More Laughter, Fun, and Connection to the Workplace with Chris Duffy
Chris Duffy, award-winning comedian and writer who studies humor and human connection. He explores using playfulness at work, why self-deprecating moments build trust, and simple habits that make you more magnetic. Short practices for noticing funny details, layering emotion into observations, and when laughter connects versus excludes are highlighted.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 41min
1139: How to Become the Manager that People Want to Work For with Ashley Herd
Ashley Herd, founder of Manager Method and former GC/Head of HR at McKinsey and Yum! Brands, shares practical leadership tools. She explores why many managers get no training. She highlights simple, often-overlooked behaviors that make people feel valued. She presents the Pause, Consider, Act framework and quick meeting and hiring practices that actually work.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 41min
1138: Breaking Free from the Invisible Norms that Limit Our Best Work with Nilofer Merchant
Nilofer Merchant, author and longtime technology leader known for collaborative strategy, challenges invisible workplace norms that hold us back. She explores how power, politics, and fear shape decisions. Short takes cover AI’s human edge, protecting originators, learning the unwritten rules, and practical steps to influence norms and create more choices at work.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 48min
1137: How to Build an Unbeatable Mind with Former Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine
Mark Divine, former Navy SEAL commander and creator of Unbeatable Mind, shares techniques for elite mental clarity and resilience. He tells a life-saving parachute story and explains balancing hard action with restorative practices. Hear practical tips on fixing attention, a quick box-breathing reset, concentration training, and aligning work with your mission.
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Mar 12, 2026 • 41min
1136: How to Reshape Your Beliefs to Unlock Hidden Capabilities with Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal, author and researcher on behavior and human potential, explores how beliefs shape what we can do. He digs into striking studies about persistence and placebos. He explains beliefs as tools, names common limiting beliefs, and offers practical techniques to test and reframe them. Short, vivid stories and research make the ideas stick.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 45min
1135: Patrick Lencioni on How to Identify Your Gifts for More Energizing Work Days
Pat Lencioni, founder of The Table Group and bestselling author on leadership and teamwork. He unpacks the Six Types of Working Genius and how to match tasks to your natural gifts. He talks humility, shame around weaknesses, practical job crafting, team mapping, and why aligning work to your strengths helps prevent burnout.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 37min
1134: Creating the Moments that Make Work Come Alive with Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle, bestselling author and researcher on how groups grow and thrive, shares ways to make work more alive and meaningful. He discusses why flourishing is social not solo. Short rituals, vulnerability loops, and quick visualizations spark clarity and connection. Practical moves include pre-flights, appreciative pauses, and tracking moments of aliveness.
