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How to Discover Your Strengths and Thrive

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022
by Claire

Leaning into your strengths is perhaps the most powerful thing you can do as an individual to progress your career AND enjoy it more.

And if it’s that important we figured we should have a conversation about this! So we did! 🙂

In this week’s episode, Claire and Greta have a lot of fun talking about everything you need to know to own your strengths, thrive and feel more fulfilled.

We cover:

Why leaning into your strengths has so many payoffs
How you discover what your key strengths really are
How to think about applying them in to your day to day work and life, and
Hear real life stories of people who’ve made changes and are now thriving all due to insights about their strengths.

Wherever you’re at in your career, we can all benefit from pausing and asking ourselves “how much am I using my strengths this week?”

Join us now 🙂

Interview

Sarah Wilson – Crusader for People & Planet

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021
by Claire

We are so excited about this episode featuring an inspiring and no-topic-off-limits conversation with the globally renowned Sarah Wilson.

Sarah has achieved massively in multiple arenas; she’s a former journalist and TV presenter, she’s an author and activist and successful entrepreneur. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers I Quit Sugar and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, which best-selling author Mark Manson described as the best book on living with anxiety that he’d ever read.

Along with her latest book, ‘This One Wild and Precious Life’, Sarah has been ranked as one of the top 200 influential authors in the world and her online wellness ‘I Quit Sugar’ program was taken by 1.5 million people around the world.

These days, Sarah’s a campaigner for the causes that matter and, in particular, the climate crisis. Her determination to motivate us all to do what we can, is matched only by her research, her passion and her own crusading life.

In this open and vulnerable episode you’ll learn:

How Sarah’s childhood explains so much about the leader she is today
How she has completely reframed and values her anxiety
What happened when she was at her lowest ever point
How important hiking is to Sarah, and
Why 3.5% is such a magnificent and hopeful number.

Now, on a serious note, during our conversation as Sarah goes deep and vulnerable, we want to alert you that she describes a time she had dark and suicidal thoughts. If you think this might trigger you or someone listening with you please take the appropriate care.

We think you’ll just love this episode with the crusading and inspiring Sarah Wilson…

Useful Links

Sarah’s website

Link to Sarah’s book tour in Australia

All of Sarah’s Books

Sarah’s Favourite Hikes

Sarah on Instagram

Photo credits: Rob Palmer & Marija Ivkovic

Interview

Dr Jacinta Jiménez – Fixing Burnout

March 16, 2021
by Claire

We’re excited to bring you this week’s important conversation with psychologist, burnout expert, author and leadership coach, Dr Jacinta Jiménez.

We’ve actually known Jacinta for some years and followed her great work on leadership, coaching and high performance with keen interest. We were really excited when she told us about her new book, The Burnout Fix.

Jacinta had broken new ground with this book deconstructing and presenting burnout in an actionable way we’d never seen before, and all of it is science backed.

Jacinta studied and obtained her doctorate in Psychology from Stanford University where she focused on peak performance, motivation and behaviour change.

What makes her so interesting to speak to and learn from is that she has also more recently spent several years in the tech startup world helping to build a coaching-at-scale business called BetterUp, in San Francisco.

In this episode and in her new book, Jacinta deconstructs burnout and you’ll hear how:

Her own 2 burnout experiences changed and shaped her career
The telltale signs of burnout may not be what you think they are
How the focus of her work has been influenced by being one of the few Latina women in her field; and
You’ll learn about a model you can use to help prevent burnout happening to you.

So without further ado enjoy this episode with the passionate and learned Dr Jacinta Jiménez …

Useful Links

Jacinta’s new book: The Burnout Fix

Amazon Kindle link

Amazon Hardcover link

Jacinta’s website

Jacinta on LinkedIn

Interview

Ellen Broad – Her Surprising Path to Big Data…

November 3, 2020November 13, 2020
by Claire

Brought to you by Microsoft’s The New Next

This week’s episode features a woman who never dreamt she’d end up working in a high tech environment. In fact, Ellen Broad imagined she would be a lawyer or librarian when she was younger.

However this tech exec and academic is now a Senior Fellow at the 3A Institute at the Australian National University. The Institute is a multi-disciplinary department created to help humans prepare for, and navigate, a world that will be forever altered by AI-powered ‘cyber-physical systems’.

A little bit more about Ellen, she trained as a lawyer (more about that in our conversation) and she’s worked in data-related roles in the Hague and in the UK, including being an expert adviser to the UK Secretary of State on Data, and head of Policy for the UK’s Open Data Institute.

Not only that, but Ellen has also written an award winning book on AI and its impact on humans called ‘Made By Humans’.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How Ellen navigated moving countries, and finding work, without having any network in her new home-base
How she’s found her voice to speak up against gender bias
What it’s like working in a truly diverse team – hint it’s not always easy
Why she’s using social media a lot less these days, and
Where she thinks technology will go in the next five years.

Enjoy this episode with the unassuming and very smart Ellen Broad.

Links

3A Institute website

Ellen Broad’s website

Ellen’s Book – Made by Humans

Griffith Review Article – Computer Says No

Resources Recommended by Ellen

Coded Bias Documentary

Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

PAIR Program with Google

The Coding Train – Daniel Shiffman

Interview

Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas – Humour as a…

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020
by Claire

We think you’re going to love this week’s episode featuring two super impressive women who, amongst other things, teach at Stanford University’s famed Graduate School of Business (GSB).

Yes, today you get two for the price of one! 😉

Despite their serious surrounds, these two are determined to bring levity and humour to the world having discovered just how powerful humour can be in dark times and at work.

Jennifer Aaker is General Atlantic Professor at Stanford’s GSB, where she has been one of the favourite professors there for around 20 years. She’s a Behavioural Psychologist and author, and her research focus areas include: purpose and meaning and how they shape the choices we make; and most recently she’s been working with our other guest today, Naomi Bagdonas on the power of using humour in a business context.

Naomi Bagdonas was a stand up comic by night and a management consultant by day, never mixing the two, until one day she realised that she was living an almost double life and decided it was time to be herself wherever she was. These days Naomi is a lecturer at Stanford, an Executive Coach, an author and she even teaches improv comedy to inmates at San Francisco’s County Jail.

Jennifer and Naomi began teaching the importance of humour to MBA students and then realised that what they’d discovered was what the world really needed right now . . . hence their new book out this week, ‘Humour, Seriously’.

In this laughter-filled episode, you’ll hear:

Why Naomi and Jennifer believe humour is a secret superpower at work and in life,
How we all fall off a humour cliff at the age of 23 and what we can do about it,
Practical tips to increase creativity and innovation in your team, and
How you can potentially gain an additional 8 years on your life!

Enjoy this episode with these two witty, wickedly smart women …

Useful Links:

Humour, Seriously book website – find out where to buy your copy

Test to see what humour type you are

Jennifer Aaker on LinkedIn

Naomi Bagdonas on LinkedIn

Interview

Dr Emma Camp – On a Quest to Save…

March 12, 2019
by admin

This week’s inspiring guest is Dr Emma Camp, a British marine bio-geochemist who searches out and then studies corals that can naturally survive in extreme conditions such as mangroves. This might sound simple but it leads to Emma listing crocodiles as one of the greatest risks of a day in the office!

She’s passionate about saving the world’s coral reefs and has made it her mission that we all should be too. (Emma, we’re convinced!)

Emma is a National Geographic Explorer and a current United Nations Young leader. Despite her relative youth, her pioneering research work and passion for saving corals has seen her receive numerous honours and highly-prized research fellowships.

In this episode you’ll hear:

How Emma used her determination and ingenuity to go from struggling to break into academia to starting her own company to get the research experience she needed
How her Dad’s mantra helps her reach her goals
What it felt like the first time she found herself at the UN General Assembly
And, the real story about the state of the world’s coral reefs and what you can do to make a difference,

Enjoy this episode with the passionate and determined Dr Emma Camp.

Links to Emma:

Emma’s website

Twitter

Instagram

UN Young Leaders Website

Things you can do to help save our oceans:

Take small actions – don’t use plastic, drink from a reusable cup, walk more
Get involved in beach clean ups
Eat sustainable fish. Find out how:
Lobby your politicians – get vocal – make them accountable!

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How To Episode

How to Switch Off

December 18, 2018
by admin

We’re excited to bring you the latest in our ‘How To’ series. This is our last episode before the Holidays and 2019!

Thanks to those of you who sent your requests for what ‘How To’ topic to cover next. We thought this topic of ‘switching off’ was just perfect for this time of year, so thank you Felicity and Sophia!

Here at Don’t Stop Us Now! we’re passionate about how important it is for our health and our performance at work to take a break and genuinely switch off.

This episode shares research that might surprise you. Plus we are issuing you with a challenge… hint: it’s to do with something that has a battery and a switch off option!

Seriously though, Christmas and New Year is the perfect time to practise switching off given how many of us typically rush around like crazy finishing off work projects, doing Xmas shopping and generally feeling a bit manic as the end of the year approaches!

In this episode you’ll hear:

How Americans use their phones 14 billion times a day and how often you’re likely to look at yours!
How taking holiday leave has been shown to improve your performance ratings at work
3 tips to help you switch off over the break and improve your chances of heading back to work feeling refreshed and rejuvenated
Plus tips you can try when you’re back at work to make 2019 a great year!

We’ll be back with our next episode on January 18th.

Wishing you love and joy for the Holidays and a Merry Christmas if you celebrate it.

Here’s to an unstoppable and fulfilling 2019!

Claire and Greta Xx

Resources and research mentioned in the episode:

Research by Deloitte on the number of times we look at our phones daily

How to Find your Brain’s Off Switch article

Link to School of Life ‘Digital Sabbath’ video

Bronnie Ware’s Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

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Interview

Nathalie Nahai – Web Psychology and How to Juggle…

December 4, 2018December 5, 2018
by admin

This week’s guest is the one and only Nathalie Nahai, The Web Psychologist.

She’s an author and in-demand globetrotting speaker on how to apply behavioural science to all things digital to make them more effective and ethical.

Nathalie’s been a musician and recording artist, she has a psychology degree and used to be a web designer. Right now, she’s studying art in Barcelona as well as doing her day job!

In this episode you’ll hear:

How Nathalie juggles life and the unique way she prioritises what to say “Yes” to
You’ll learn how she went about reinventing her career
She shares fascinating research on how the colour of clothing we wear can affect how intelligently we’ll come across
The killer one liner Nathalie uses when she feels she’s been harassed

A quick note that there’s occasional colourful language in this episode so if you’re sensitive to this or have little ears around you may wish to monitor accordingly.

Enjoy this episode!