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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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  • 1083: How Tiny Actions Inspire Others through Mattering with Zach Mercurio

    1083: How Tiny Actions Inspire Others through Mattering with Zach Mercurio
    Aug 11 2025
    Zach Mercurio reveals the hidden epidemic that’s plaguing the workplace—and what we can do about it.— YOU’LL LEARN — 1) The root of disengagement and quiet quitting2) How to help others feel valued in just 30 seconds3) The questions that help people feel seenSubscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1083 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT GINO — Zach Mercurio is a researcher, leadership development facilitator, and speaker specializing in purposeful leadership, mattering, and meaningful work. He advises leaders in organizations worldwide on practices for building cultures that promote well-being, motivation, and high performance. Mercurio holds a PhD in organizational learning, performance, and change and serves as one of Simon Sinek's Optimist Instructors, teaching a top-rated course on creating mattering at work. His previous book is The Invisible Leader.• Book: The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance• Study: “The Lived Experience of Meaningful Work in a Stigmatized Occupation: A Descriptive Phenomenological Inquiry”• LinkedIn: Zach Mercurio• Website: ZachMercurio.com— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Study: “Human Workplace Index: The Price of Invisibility” from Workhuman• Study: “Age, Perceptions of Mattering, and Allostatic Load” by John Taylor, Michael J. McFarland, and Dawn C. Carr• Study: “Undervaluing Gratitude: Expressers Misunderstand the Consequences of Showing Appreciation” by Amit Kumar and Nicholas Epley• Study: “It's not all about me: motivating hand hygiene among health care professionals by focusing on patients” by Adam Grant and David A. Hofmann• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl• Past episode: 500: Building Unshakeable Self-Esteem and Confidence with Victor Cheng• Past episode: 972: Amy Edmondson on How to Fail Well— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • Strawberry.me. Claim your $50 credit and build momentum in your career with Strawberry.me/Awesome• Plaud.ai. Use the code AWESOME and get a discount on your order• LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at linkedin.com/beawesome• Quince. Get free shipping and 365-day returns on your order with Quince.com/AwesomeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    47 mins
  • 1082: How Driven People Can Achieve Success and Inner Peace with Gino Wickman

    1082: How Driven People Can Achieve Success and Inner Peace with Gino Wickman
    Aug 7 2025

    Gino Wickman reveals how high achievers can find inner peace while still maintaining their drive.


    — YOU’LL LEARN —

    1) The foundational disciplines that lead to inner peace

    2) How to teach your ego to chill

    3) Why to shift to thinking in 10-year timeframes


    Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1082 for clickable versions of the links below.


    — ABOUT GINO —

    Gino Wickman is a renowned entrepreneur, speaker, coach, teacher, and author, best known for founding EOS Worldwide and creating the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®), a comprehensive framework that has impacted over 250,000 businesses worldwide. Gino is also the author of the award winning, best-selling book, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, along with seven other books.

    Gino is deeply committed to helping entrepreneurs achieve their vision. Through his books, coaching, and the EOS® framework, he has equipped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurial business leaders with the tools and insights needed to get everything they want from their business and life. The five pieces of content that Gino created helps entrepreneurs and leaders wherever they are on their journey—from start up to sale to inner peace.

    • Book: Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom

    • Free chapter: HOW LOOKING INWARD IS THE KEY TO UNLOCKING TRUE Freedom

    • Website: GinoWickman.com

    • Website: The10Disciplines.com


    — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

    • Study: “Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind” by Timothy D. Wilson et al.

    • Book: Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David Hawkins


    — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

    • Strawberry.me. Claim your $50 credit and build momentum in your career with Strawberry.me/Awesome

    • Plaud.ai. Use the code AWESOME and get a discount on your order

    • LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at linkedin.com/beawesome

    • Quince. Get free shipping and 365-day returns on your order with Quince.com/Awesome

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    32 mins
  • 1081: How to Deal with Credit Stealers at Work with Andrew Palmer

    1081: How to Deal with Credit Stealers at Work with Andrew Palmer
    Aug 4 2025

    Andrew Palmer discusses what to do when others take credit for your ideas.


    — YOU’LL LEARN —

    1) Why no one benefits from credit stealing—including the stealer

    2) The unintentional ways people steal credit

    3) Why crediting others makes you more credible


    Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1081 for clickable versions of the links below.


    — ABOUT ANDREW —

    Andrew Palmer writes the Bartleby column on the workplace, and is the host of “Boss Class”, The Economist’s limited-season podcast on management. He was formerly Britain editor, executive editor, business-affairs editor, head of the data team, Americas editor, finance editor and banking correspondent, having joined The Economist as management correspondent in February 2007.

    • Article: "The Behavior That Annoyed His Colleagues More Than Any Other"

    • Podcast: Boss Class

    • Website: The Economist


    — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

    • Study: “Hey, Boss, Please Share! An Exploitative Perspective on Supervisor Idea Credit Taking and Employees’ Reactions” by Dan Ni et al.

    • Study: “Dual-promotion: Bragging Better by Promoting Peers” by Eric VanEpps, Einav Hart, and Maurice E. Schweitzer

    • Study: “When expressing pride makes people seem less competent” by Rebecca Schaumberg

    • Study: “How damaging is shouting ‘Fire’ in a crowded theatre?” by Joshua S. Gans

    • Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot


    — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

    • Strawberry.me. Claim your $50 credit and build momentum in your career with Strawberry.me/Awesome

    • Plaud.ai. Use the code AWESOME and get a discount on your order

    • LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at linkedin.com/beawesome

    • Quince. Get free shipping and 365-day returns on your order with Quince.com/Awesome

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    30 mins
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