Fresh Start February: Three Podcasts to Give You a Boost
Has the excitement of the new year lost its luster? Resolutions becoming a drag? There is never a wrong time for a fresh start. Podcasts always get me through long winter runs, cleaning binges and those mornings when I just can’t get my day started. Here are a few to inspire you. Happy Fresh Start February.
How I Built This: Wondering if your great idea will ever get off the ground? Check out this podcast series on great that made it. In this NPR podcast, Guy Raz narrates the journeys of entrepreneurs like Yvon Chouinard (founder or Patagonia), Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal (founders of Warby Parker), Zumba creators Beto Perez and Alberto Perlman, Drybar’s Alli Webb and more. Each episode is a manageable 25-40 minutes in length. How I built this often leaves my inspired, sometimes laughing, sometimes grimacing, and always with a thoughtful story to share.
The Meaning of Work, and episode of TED Radio Hour, examines our values and motivations when it comes to work, through three TED Talks. Featured is Margaret Heffernan’s TED Talk, Is The Professional Pecking Order Doing More Harm Than Good? Heffernan talks about how our cultural obsession with individual success negatively impacts our ability to collaborate in the workplace team success in the workplace (think gifted & talented to ivy league to high-potential to executive and the notion that our own success depends on the failure (or lack of success) of others).
Kim Scott (former Google exec) and Russ Laraway (career manager in the U.S. Marines, Google and Twitter), and co-founders of Radical Candor, remind us that, for leaders in the workplace, Telling People What To Do Doesn’t Work. In this 25 minute podcast episode, Kim and Russ share stories about delivering feedback, addressing change inclusively and moving forward collaboratively, without being a dictator. One tip from this podcast- let a team member announce a decision and explain how the decision was made.
Happy listening. Let me know what you think.