Episode 170: Maybe It Isn't What It Is
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 170: Maybe It Isn’t What It Is? This week, we focus on how to identify and escape from a victim mentality. Does it seem like lately everything is going wrong even if you’re doing everything right? Whenever someone offers a possible solution to an issue you’re experiencing, do you immediately focus on why it won’t work? Listen, sometimes stuff does go wrong through no fault of our own. Sometimes suggestions of possible solutions aren’t actually viable. However, sometimes we get in our own way by unintentionally adopting a victim mentality.
Episode 169: Keeping A Healthy Emotional Boundary
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 169: Keeping A Healthy Emotional Boundary: In this episode, we’re discussing what your responsibility is when someone you work with is experiencing strong enough emotions that it’s interfering with their capacity to get work done. Is it your responsibility to help your employees and coworkers solve their problems? If you try to focus on your work instead of the emotions of those around you, does that make you a bad person?
Episode 150: Living With Tough Decisions + 150th Episode Celebration
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 150: Living With Tough Decisions + 150th Episode. What happens when the right decision for you stands to make other people unhappy? We’re talking about what it’s like to disappoint or aggravate others when we know we’re doing the right thing. Today we’re answering this question and celebrating our 150th episode!
Episode 149: Help People Help You
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 149: Help People Help You. Today’s conversation explores the inside job and outside action of becoming more help-able and how worthiness, guilt, shame, and vulnerability play a role in that work.
Episode 146: Is Ego Your Enemy?
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 146: Is Ego Your Enemy? Where’s the line between confidence, ego, and humility? We’ll talk about it this week on the Inside Job podcast. What does it mean to have a healthy ego? Why simply being present, observing, and listening can help us cultivate a healthier ego.
Episode 145: Leading Beyond Shorthand
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 145: Leading Beyond Shorthand. Today we’re exploring some of the most common leadership cliches and how they often work against us in the long run. And while some of these sayings may have kernels of truth to them they each deserve more scrutiny than we often give them. 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 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 141: Can We Rebuild Trust?
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 141: Can We Rebuild Trust? Whether it’s someone who says one thing but changes the story, makes a commitment they don’t uphold, or does something in violation of an existing agreement we had, it can be challenging to know what to do when someone violates our trust. Our discussion on the podcast this week centers around the work experiences that leave us asking ourselves, “How am I supposed to trust them now?”
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 131: That's An Even Better Question
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 131: That’s An Even Better Question. Today we’re exploring the benefits of asking great questions and sharing some pitfalls to avoid and best practices to use when crafting better questions at work and in life. A good question not only unlocks potential in your team, fuels innovation, and builds relationships, but asking better questions can actually get us out of an unproductive loop.
Episode 127: Ask A Coach: Defending My Past and Razzle Dazzle
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 127: Ask A Coach: Defending My Past and Razzle Dazzle. Today we’re answering listener questions about explaining your non-linear career path and what it really means to show up as a better presenter at work.
Episode 125: Accountability Doesn't Have to Be Difficult
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 125: Accountability Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult. Today we’re exploring what accountability is, what it’s not, and the process of building the muscle for holding others (and ourselves) accountable.
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 116: If You’re Thrown Under The Bus
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 116: If You're Thrown Under The BusToday we’re exploring what to do if we’ve been thrown under the bus and how to prevent ourselves from throwing someone else under the bus when taking on a new role.
Episode 114: When We Weaponize Self Awareness
Inside Job the Podcast with Nayla Bahri & Eric Johnson | Episode 114: When We Weaponize Self-Awareness. Today we’re exploring self-awareness including what it means when we say someone lacks this capacity, how to navigate receiving feedback that we lack it, and how to do the inside job to foster our self-awareness. Our topic is one that’s woven into most of the conversations about leadership, career development, and being a better human.
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.