How to Be Awesome at Your Job

David Kadavy discusses expert strategies for following through on your creative ideas and projects.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The missing “fifth quadrant” of the Eisenhower important/urgent matrix
2) The trick to make big projects less intimidating
3) The Raphael versus Leonardo modes of creativity

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— ABOUT DAVID —
David Kadavy has been a full-time independent creator for nearly two decades. His books have sold well over 100,000 copies and been translated into a dozen languages. He was design advisor to Timeful, a productivity app whose features were integrated into Google Calendar. He lives in a cabin in the mountains outside of Medellín, Colombia.
• Book: Finish What Matters: Make Your Creativity Count
• Tool: Idea Triage
• Website: Kadavy.net

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Exercises: Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE)
• Book: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity by David W. Galenson
• Book: Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• Previous episode: 617: Enhancing Your Productivity by Managing Your Mental Energy with David Kadavy

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Kate Mason shares how to be both powerful AND well-liked.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The common phrases that undermine your influence
2) How to ask questions while boosting your credibility
3) How to overcome the fear of saying no

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— ABOUT KATE —
Kate Mason, PhD is a communications expert and world-champion debater who has spent her career working with founders and executives from tech startups to major global brands. She coaches executives on actionable skills to become the leaders they wish to be, and to amplify their voice, reach, and impact at work. Kate lives in Sydney, Australia.
• Book: Powerfully Likeable: A Woman's Guide to Effective Communication
• LinkedIn: Kate Mason
• Substack: The Powerfully Likeable Newsletter
• Website: KateMason.co

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: "Potential" and the Gender Promotions Gap
• Tool: Fyxer
• Tool: Sanebox
• Tool: Superhuman
• Book: In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

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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

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— 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

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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

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— 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

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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

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— 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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