How to Be Awesome at Your Job

914: Turning Awkwardness Into Your Greatest Asset with Henna Pryor


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Henna Pryor reframes awkwardness and shows how we can turn it into a superpower. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How not embracing awkwardness is hurting our performance. 

2) How to work out your awkwardness muscles. 

3) How to release the discomfort that follows awkward moments. 


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— ABOUT HENNA — 


Henna Pryor, PCC is 2x TEDx and Global Keynote Speaker, Workplace Performance Expert, Author, and Executive Coach. Her talks blend 2 decades of work with corporate leaders and teams, with a modern, science-based approach to taking more strategic risks and being braver in the work that we do. 

• Book: Good Awkward: How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become The Bravest You 

• Instagram: hennypryor 

• LinkedIn: Henna Pryor 

• Website: GoodAwkward.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Americanah: A novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

• Book: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown 

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