Episode 172: Navigating the Drama Triangle
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 172: Navigating The Drama Triangle. This week, we focus on what drama really is, what our role is in perpetuating it, and how to resolve it. Do you find yourself in the middle of drama without knowing how you got there? Is workplace drama impacting your productivity or your team’s ability to perform their duties?
Episode 163: Stop Being Ticked About the Weekend
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 163: Stop Being Ticked About The Weekend. Were you as productive as you wanted to be this past weekend? Were you too productive and unable to get the rest you might have needed? Either way, it’s likely your weekend didn’t meet your expectations, and you’re left feeling frustrated or exhausted come Monday morning. This week on the podcast, we explore if being disappointed in our weekend is inevitable or if there’s a way we can redefine what our weekends mean to us.
Episode 162: The Art of Money with Bari Tessler
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 162: The Art of Money with Bari Tessler. What’s the first thought or feeling that comes to mind when you think about money or your current financial situation? If it’s something related to confusion, shame, fear, anxiety, uncertainty, or anything other than feeling like you have a good handle on things, you don’t want to miss this incredibly informative and practical conversation with our special guest this week. This week on the podcast, Financial Therapist, Bari Tessler, helps us figure out how to unshame our money stories
Episode 161: Where Does The Time Go
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 161: Where Does The Time Go? A lot of us have good ideas and tools for how we can use our time more productively, and yet we often find ourselves wringing our hands in despair and questioning ourselves and where our time has gone. There’s such a sense of guilt and shame that comes from not being as productive with our time as we think we should be. The problem is that guilt and shame do nothing to help accomplish the things we set out to accomplish. So, instead, we’re focusing today on how to evaluate what’s stopping you from being as productive with your time as you want to be, the strategies that will help you regain your time, and how to get started on the right foot at a new job or on a new project.
Episode 160: Getting Off To A Good Start
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 160: Getting Off To A Good Start. Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 160: Getting Off To A Good Start. This week on the podcast, we discuss three principles to adopt when starting a new job or project that will help you make a good first impression, the questions you should ask when starting a new job or project, the importance of finding the sweet spot between asking questions of others and taking responsibility for doing your research when starting something new, and Nayla and Eric’s main piece of actionable advice for getting things started right.
Episode 159: I Think It Would Be Good If
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 159: I think It Would Be Good If. This week we ask, Do you have to hurt in order to grow? We discuss how to get outside our comfort zones in a way that serves us rather than damaging us.
Pushing yourself to try new things, gain new skills, and grow in various other ways isn’t a bad thing. However, it can quickly start doing more harm than good. So, how do you know where the line is? How do you know when discomfort equals growth and when it crosses into the territory of “trauma with a lowercase T”?
Episode 158: The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 158: The Waiting Is The Hardest Part. This week on the podcast we discuss waiting and why it often presents us with a great deal of inside work to do. Is this worth waiting for? Whether it’s a finish line that keeps moving, the timing of a promotion that remains unclear quarter after quarter, or a promise that never seems to be fulfilled, waiting is sometimes a very trying part of our work lives. We can use certain mindful and reflective practices to help ourselves get more comfortable with the uncertainty so that we can show up and work while we wait. And we can ask ourselves if we have options regarding waiting. Do we need only wait here? Are there other paths to the outcome we desire?
Episode 157: Attachment, Authority And Confidence: A Conversation With Bethany Saltman
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 157: Attachment, Authority, and Confidence: A Conversation with Bethany Saltman. Today we welcome Bethany Saltman to The Inside Job to explore what attachment theory can teach us about confidence and our authority in our own careers.
Episode 154: Living With Regret
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 154: Living With Regret. Today we’re exploring regret, how it shows up in our lives, and the inside work we can do to process it and learn from it. As we process our regret what we may discover is that responsibility is distributed in a more nuanced way than we might expect, that there are small and big moments that lead us to where we are and that regret is a steps towards accepting the complexity of most decisions.
Episode 148: Work Is Taking Over My Life
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 148: Work Is Taking Over My Life. Today, we’re exploring the inside work it takes to build a life beyond our office and the challenges, experiences, and benefits we can expect when we do. It takes conscious effort to set clear boundaries between work and personal lives. It takes time and energy to build relationships and have experiences outside the office. Let’s discuss it!
Episode 147: Dealing With Disappointment
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 147: Dealing With Disappointment. Wherever disappointment has shown up in your life, chances are you were taking a risk or making a change when it did. Today we’re exploring disappointment. So, today we’re diving into disappointment and how to develop a better relationship with how you experience this inevitable emotion at work.
Episode 89 (re-release): Perfectionism By Any Other Name
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 89 (re-release) Perfectionism By Any Other Name. Do you hold yourself to extremely high standards? While we may not identify as “perfectionists” per se, many of us likely give ourselves very little margin for imperfection in our work or personal lives.
Episode 144: The Cost of Doing Nothing
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 144: The Cost Of Doing Nothing. Whether it’s a desire to respond to feedback or the need for a career change, we can often find ourselves feeling that we risk losing something if we don’t take action. And this feeling is only amplified by our productivity-driven world. In today’s podcast, we’re exploring whether there is always a cost to doing nothing and how we can get clear on what’s really at play when we evaluate our options.
Episode 143: A New Question to Start the Year
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 143: A New Question To Start The Year. Today, we’re exploring an alternative to “words of the year” and New Year’s resolutions: Questions. And we’ll share the practices you can use to create and get the most out of your question of the year.
Episode 136: Quiet Quitting Isn't What You Think
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 136: Quiet Quitting Isn’t What You Think. Today we’re exploring the language of quiet quitting, what it means and doesn’t mean, and how we can create more sustainable results for all of us.
Episode 135: You Don't Have to Get Your Shit Together
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 135: You Don’t Have To Get Your Shit Together. This week on the podcast we explore what it means to get our shit together, why that experience is different for each one of us, and how reframing the concept can make a world of difference.
Episode 134: Leading Yourself Through Guilt
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 134: Leading Yourself Through Guilt. This week we’re continuing our conversation about building a better relationship with work. We explore the roles of self-worth, accountability, and self-honoring in this relationship. The inside job is to explore what guilt is trying to protect us from. In these moments we need to decipher the difference between guilt and discomfort and choose the next right step that’s best for us and those we work with.
Episode 123: Help I'm Not Sure I'm Succeeding
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 123: Help I’m Not Sure I’m Succeeding. Today we’re exploring success and how to navigate the thoughts and feedback that tell us we’re missing the mark at work.
Episode 122: Jealousy and Envy - What Brandi Carlile Taught Us
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 122: Jealousy and Envy. Today we’re talking about jealousy, envy, and comparison and using Brandi Carlile’s relationship with Joni Mitchell to explore how we can share our appreciation for the work of others without those feelings.
Episode 113: You Are Someone’s Difficult Person
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 113: You Are Someone's Difficult Person. Today we’re exploring what it really means to say someone is difficult and how we can do the inside work to engage with the people in our lives to whom we’ve given this label.