How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Updated: 27 Mar 2025 • 1061 episodes
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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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Sabina Nawaz shows you how to cope with the pressures that come with leadership.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) The perils of getting promoted  2) Why asking for feedback isn’t enough  3) The power of shutting up  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1044 for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT SABINA —  Sabina

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Betsy Wills shares the science behind aptitudes and how to use them for a thriving career.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) Where most career assessments fall short  2) Why a low aptitude score shouldn’t discourage you  3) The root of boredom, frustration, and burnout  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1043 for clickable

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Olga Khazan discusses the surprising findings on how personality change can be possible and beneficial.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) The problem with “authenticity”  2) The surprisingly simple secret to changing your personality  3) The simple interventions that make us less neurotic  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/e

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Alex Neist shares principles of storytelling and branding that help Hostage Tape –and you.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) Why brands like Hostage Tape and Liquid Death resonate  2) The defining element of an inspiring story  3) The downside to making your story amazing  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1041 for clickab

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Former Navy SEAL Alden Mills shares his battle-tested strategies for building mental toughness.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) How to push past fear  2) How to master the mindset loop  3) How to direct your emotions  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1040 for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT ALDEN —  Alde

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Randall Dean shares practical tips for taming an overwhelming inbox.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) The best time-saving investment you can make  2) How to keep unread emails from flooding your inbox  3) The inbox shortcuts that’ll save you hours  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1039 for clickable versions of the link

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