Episode 82: When It’s Unfair
Leadership, Communication, Performance Nayla Bahri Leadership, Communication, Performance Nayla Bahri

Episode 82: When It’s Unfair

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 82: When It's Unfair. What is fair, what is unfair, and who gets to decide have been prevalent topics in our coaching and our lives recently. What do we do when we feel like we aren’t getting what we deserve despite believing we have done everything we were supposed to do? We tackle all of this, and more, on the latest episode of the Inside Job Podcast.

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Episode 80: Quick Wins Quick Bucks and the Need for Speed

Episode 80: Quick Wins Quick Bucks and the Need for Speed

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 80: Quick Wins Quick Bucks And The Need For Speed. Whether it be a need for belonging, more money, a clearer identity, more engaging work, or something else so many of us are looking for the short and quick path to “better”.

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Episode 77: Why You Really Aren’t Getting Started

Episode 77: Why You Really Aren’t Getting Started

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 77: Why You Really Aren't Getting Started. If you notice you can’t get started on something, we invite you to explore that as a symptom of something else going on beneath the surface…we dive in deeper in this week’s episode. Is it possible that your goal is not really your goal, or it’s an idea that compels on the surface but you don’t have a deep longing to see this thing through?

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Episode 68: Kicking Our Own Ass
Performance, Career Narrative Nayla Bahri Performance, Career Narrative Nayla Bahri

Episode 68: Kicking Our Own Ass

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 68: Kicking Our Own As*. There is an old adage: “We are our own worst critic.” While it is often profoundly true, there are also too many instances where we go from being our own critic to being our own bully. So many of us are guilty of kicking our own ass, and it’s a cycle that we need to stop.

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Episode 66: The Search for Confidence

Episode 66: The Search for Confidence

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 66: The Search For Confidence. Eric and Nayla dive in to talk through what confidence is and isn’t, how it helps us, and how to build more of it. Confidence is not a point at which we arrive, a thing we ultimately achieve. Rather, it is a muscle we have to exercise regularly, a set of practices we have to engage in to develop courage and belief in ourselves in increments.

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Episode 63: The Fallacy of Negotiating with Yourself

Episode 63: The Fallacy of Negotiating with Yourself

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 63: The Fallacy Of Negotiating With Yourself. We’re all quite skilled at the art of negotiating with ourselves, talking ourselves in and out of habits and actions that would move us toward our goals. This week we talk about how to get more skilled at noticing how we hold ourselves back, make excuses for ourselves, or hide when we negotiate with ourselves. 

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Episode 59: Having a Quarterly Meeting with Yourself

Episode 59: Having a Quarterly Meeting with Yourself

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 59: Having A Quarterly Meeting With Yourself. During this episode we talk about the value of a personal quarterly meeting – one that is taken seriously and conducted deliberately. We talk about what to ask yourself, how often to do it, and how to make sense of the analysis and results.

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Episode 56: When You are the Bearer of Bad News

Episode 56: When You are the Bearer of Bad News

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 56: When You Are The Bearer Of Bad News. If we want to lead, we must say the hard things. Whether it’s delivering tough feedback, acknowledging mistakes and missteps, or resigning from a job, we’ll have to share information that has the potential to hurt something or someone.

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Episode 54: A Blueprint for Experiments

Episode 54: A Blueprint for Experiments

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 54: A Blueprint for Experiments. 'Running experiments’ are part of our process to make change happen in our work and other domains of our lives, but what does that mean? We talk about incremental, measurable steps, the value of neutrally looking at the information gathered in our experiments, and knowing when we’ve collected enough information.

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Episode 53: Riffing On Working With Our Mind…and Our Hands
Creativity, Performance, Career Narrative Nayla Bahri Creativity, Performance, Career Narrative Nayla Bahri

Episode 53: Riffing On Working With Our Mind…and Our Hands

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 53: Riffing On Working With Our Mind...and Our Hands. We discuss how important and meaningful it is that we can be creative and expressive in our lives, and why we should both value and develop the ability to leverage our hands and our bodies to add value to our work.

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Episode 47: Help! I'm Working 14 Hour Days

Episode 47: Help! I'm Working 14 Hour Days

Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 47: Help! I'm Working 4 Hour Days. Any chance you’re feeling overwhelmed by the amount of work you’re trying to get done in a day?  Routinely finding yourself working 14-hour days with no end in sight? Skipping meals, delaying sleep because there’s simply too much to do? We hear you.  Nayla and Eric start by saying: pause.

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