Stress and anxiety can be a constant challenge to deal with and often can feel like emotions you're fighting against. Tune in for some practical ways to better understand and reframe these emotions.
The desire to be happy is what most people want, but often misunderstand how to achieve it - it can be mistaken as a destination or sometimes assuming because you don't feel happy, you're unhappy - tune in to hear about how you can better understand happiness and how to take control of yours.
Listening is a skill that will take you far in life; whether that's relationships, friendships or your career. A lot of us believe we listen, but often it can be listening to respond rather than understanding. Or find ourselves jumping in too much.
Tune in for this episode on some tactical ways you can improve your listening to build a great understanding and connection with others.
Never wake up by accident is what I heard from a podcast guest years ago and it really stuck with me. We have those mornings where we feel slow and it can often carry through to our day. I'm not talking about joining the 5am Club here, but there are some things to include at the start of your day to set yourself up right. Tune in to hear them!
We all have those conversations we put off having as we feel like they're going to be difficult. Whether it's work related or ones with friends or a partner - prolonging them creates anxiety and often leads to it coming out in an unconstructive way.
Tune in for some tips on how to approach these conversations and reduce the feeling of them being difficult.
Life can feel like the most unexpected rollercoaster - moments of extreme highs and then other moments of lows that feel like you'll be stuck there forever. It can be frustrating and create anxious thoughts if we don't manage these effectively.
In this episode we discuss how you shift your mindset to look at those highs and lows to avoid that frustration and create a healthy way to look at life.
You may look at your schedule for a day and either think you've got it all figured out, only for the plan to be ruined by unexpected issues. Or you are working reactively with no real plan in place. Either way there are tools to avoid either of these happening and in this episode we talk about how you can create a foolproof plan to achieve a productive and rewarding day.
We can work so hard to achieving our goals in life, invest endless amounts of time and then when we achieve them, that feeling can disappear very quickly. It can leave us wondering where it went and instantly go chasing the next high.
In this episode, we discuss how to savor those moments more, how to avoid placing all of your joy in a destination and the future.
Feedback can be something a lot of people dread receiving along with giving it to people. Feedback that isn't delivered effectively, will often cause a standoff, a defensive reaction and the feedback being ignored in the long run.
Tune in to hear some tactical ways to become more effective at delivering feedback using AEIOU and how it will change the way people respond to your feedback, whether that's a manager, team member, friend or partner.
We can often be our worst enemy and biggest critic in our life and career. If it goes unchecked it can create unhealthy perfectionism, imposter syndrome and other challenges. In this episode you'll hear some tactical ways to become kinder to yourself, your own biggest fan, without compromising your work ethic and goals.
It's easy to slip into the mindset of thinking the worst in situations - a mix of the world we live in and our brain's default setting of thinking of the worst to protect us, can become overwhelming. In this episode you'll hear some tips in how you can challenge those thoughts and become more optimistic in life.
Bad days, we've all had them, well what seems like them and they often can cause a domino effect or us to dwell on them for our evenings and weekends. Tune in for this episode to hear how to respond to bad days or weeks and most importantly, how to reframe them to reduce the impact they have on you.
With so many mirrors of comparison these days, it's easy to think you're falling behind in life, in comparison with others. Whether that's career, relationships or personal milestones. In this episode I'll talk about how you avoid these thoughts and focus on self-comparison.
Perfectionism can cause a constant feeling of disappointment and not doing "enough" in life and your career. Tune in to hear how to reframe your perfectionism and to create a healthier way on how you create benchmarks and standards you work towards.
Switching off has become even more difficult and can create added stress and overthinking, when you find it difficult to do so. Tune in for some practical ways to switch off and how to switch on to things that recharge you.
Motivation is something we can expect to have on tap and often wonder where it is; leaving us to wait for it before getting started. Tune in to hear how you can take control and create your own motivation rather than always waiting for it.
We experience disappointment and knockbacks on a daily basis, from the smallest to the biggest versions. Tune in for this episode to hear how you can reframe these moments to feel more comfortable in how you respond and reflect on them.
Competition in sales can be exciting and create extra motivation, drive and ambition to keep growing. However if it's framed in an unhealthy way it can often lead to tinted comparisons, anxiety and constantly feeling like you're not good enough.
To touch on how to avoid and tackle this, I'm joined on this episode by Mattia Schaper, Co-Founder & Sales Development Coach @ SDRs of Germany.
One of the biggest threats to your success in sales, and even in life, is your mindset. If you can't deal with the knockbacks and avoding constant comparison with others, then you'll struggle.
To talk about this topic, I'm delighted to be joined in this episode by Benjamin Dennehy, The UKs Most Hated Sales Trainer who has built a strong and effective reputation in the sales space from being upfront and staying true to his personality.
Along with the topics above, I'll be asking Benjamin what else gets missed when thinking about mindset in sales, along with some of his defining moments that led him to where he is today.
Pressure is something we feel in and outside of work and when not handled effectively can cause constant stress, impacts to performance and our wellbeing.
To discuss this topic, I'm joined by Tom Lavery, Founder of Jiminny. Tom has over 15 years experience in leading Sales teams in high-growth SaaS businesses. Before founding Jiminny in 2016, he was the SVP at Reward Gateway, where he went through two PE backed rounds of investments and grew the Revenue team from zero to over 100 people.
He'll be sharing what pressure means to him, how he's changed his perspective on it and the tools he uses to manage it effectively.
