Inside Job

Tom Cruise once said, "I feel the need – the need for speed." He could very well have been summarizing how many of us are feeling nearly 40 years later. (Yes, it has been that long. #old)

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". Unresolved pain gets our attention, and that pain is what causes many of us to be impulsive at work and at home and to buy into the promises from companies like LuLaRoe.

Oh yes, Nayla gets into a rant in this episode about LuLaRoe. You are not going to want to miss it.

What LuLaRoe – and other multi-level marketing companies – know is that humans are wired to accept the promise of quick fixes when they are experiencing pain. In this episode we talk about the importance of slowing down our decision making and exploring other options to generate momentum in our lives.

We discuss what quick wins are and are not, and how to create them the right way. We also talk the importance of finding ways to create a substantial and lasting change for the better, and why we should be curious about what we're already doing well when looking for ways to create more value in our lives.

And we talk about how Tom Cruise runs, and why Will Ferrell is always in his underwear.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

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When we know that more than 11 million people have voluntarily left their work between April – July 2021 in the Great Resignation, we pay attention.

So many of our clients, friends and even family members are asking: should I be a part of this Great Resignation?

While it can be tempting to fantasize about being a part of this movement, this episode is about slowing down to take this question seriously.

If you're even entertaining being part of the Great Resignation, what is going on? What hurts? What isn't working anymore?

We talk about quitting or exiting as a purposeful choice and what the alternatives could be to walking away from the whole thing. We explore the distinctions between impulses, dreams and plans, the idea of renegotiation, and some questions you can ask yourself as you figure out where you land in one of the great employment stories of our time.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

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Does it feel like everyone has a side-hustle going on?

As part of the great resignation, in the age of Etsy and online businesses, side-hustling has become mainstream.

And, we're fans of the idea.

We dive into the idea of personal projects, consulting practices, teaching, making, and the other activities people engage with outside of their day jobs.

Perhaps you're looking for more income, hoping to manage job vulnerability, testing and trying things out, learning skills with an experience you've been craving…. A side-hustle can be a great tool to round out a professional portfolio.

Side-hustling isn't without its risk and watch outs, so we cover that, too.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

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You want to get something done and you can't get going.

Maybe it's something new at work, a new personal habit, a home improvement project and you're standing at the start line for a long, long time. Before you know it, you're in a cycle of self-doubt and self-punishment about why you aren't moving at all.

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 deep longing to see this thing through?
• Could fear of falling down or getting it wrong be stopping you from starting?
• Could you be missing knowledge of how do this new thing? Or even, could doing something new mean you have to adopt a new way of understanding and presenting yourself to the world?
• Or, are you out of energy at this time in your life and something has to come off your plate before you can start something new?

Most of all, we encourage you to look within with compassion and self-honesty to learn why you aren't starting yet, and then, what – if anything – to do about it.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

To learn more about us and our work and to join our mailing list, visit www.insidejobthepodcast.com or email us at [email protected].

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Feeling blue at work?

Malaise?

Dragging a bit?

Feeling the funk?

Yeah, we know those feelings, and at some point, everyone has. It might start with a restlessness or feelings that can best be described as "blah", and while we might think we're doing a good job faking it, it starts to show in our actions and in our work.

How do we know the difference between feeling funky because we're bored or need a break, or feeling the funk because it's really time to make a significant change?

Let's talk about it.

We talk about the clues we experience when we're at the point of funk, how genuine self-care can help, the risks of impulsive and drastic action, and how time can be our ally in the search the right path.

We also offer useful questions for self-exploration and generating healthy options for handling the funk, that don't involve burning it all down (h/t to Parliament and Talking Heads in this one!)

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

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Sometimes we feel like we don't deserve to be in the room, on the team, or in the job.

That experience can be referred to as "imposter syndrome" but we don't like that phrase. Feeling like an imposter is more of a phenomenon – and one we believe you have the strength and ability to overcome.

We feel like an imposter when we don't have the ability to see our wholeness and our potential, even when there is evidence to the contrary.

Still we know that feeling can paralyze and hurt us, and we want to explore why and what to do.

On this episode we talk through how to do the work to uncover the imposter's voice, its origins and its deception, and how to overcome the self-sabotaging behaviors it can lead us to enact.

We talk about how to choose action over procrastination, practice instead of over-prepare, and show up instead of miss out.

And we talk about the dark side of humility – which doesn't get enough attention, but which absolutely makes us hard to work with.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

To learn more about us and our work and to join our mailing list, visit www.insidejobthepodcast.com or email us at [email protected].

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Is subtlety an art, or a potential waste of time?

Have you walked out of a conversation that mattered with a boss or colleague with a wildly different understanding of what just happened than they did?

In our work as coaches, we see too often how rhetorical questions, hints, clues and signals contribute to confusion, misalignment and poor results.

This episode is a cry for clarity.

As managers, as employees, as colleagues, partners and humans, how can we learn to be clear about what we want, expect and need?

How can we learn to manage the complex and sometimes difficult feelings that lead us to dance around the facts, when the facts are really what would help solve the problem at hand?

We talk about:

• what we're avoiding when we dance around a topic
• how to begin with the end in mind, and
• doing the work to have the hard conversations that eliminate confusion and set our teams up for success.

Interested in this topic? Want to create clarity, not confusion, in your organization?

We explore these topics and much more in the Inside Hive, an offering with coaching, courses and community – open for registration now.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

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This episode of the Inside Job Podcast might be the most action packed yet. In under half an hour, we cover: the Foo Fighters live in concert, a subplot of The Shawshank Redemption, how Julia Roberts likes her eggs, what made Nayla ask for help, how sausage is made, disco music . . .

Oh, and the mind-trap of being institutionalized.

It all works, trust us.

Institutionalization happens to all of us over the course of our life. At its core, it's a belief system that we develop about ourselves and about the way work gets done, primarily through the existence of loud and dominant external voices.

It can show up in what we think is important to do and how to do it. It can show up in how important we view ourselves at our companies and why we're reluctant to leave. It shows up in our habits, our preferences, our choices, and our systems. We accept and abide by it so unconsciously that when things shift we struggle mightily to adapt to the change.

Yes, even when we go grocery shopping.

Give this episode a listen to uncover how you may be institutionalized, and how to become more consciously aware about your decisions, your work preferences, and even your eggs.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

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What's the best that can happen? Why does that question paralyze people?

In fact, why is it so hard to dream big as an adult? Think about it – if you were asked about the worst possible thing that could happen as the result of a choice, how long would it take you to end up living in a van down by the river? Now what if your choices were wildly successful? What if your dreams came true? Can you picture it?

The fact is that most of us can't; or more accurately, most of us won't. It seems we're not wired to give as much credit to the best case scenario as we are to the worst case scenario. So what do we do about it.

In this episode we talk about how we help our clients and colleagues unleash their inner dreamer. We talk how important it is to picture the best case scenario if we want to be creative, innovative, excited, and resourceful. In doing so, we also provide some important coaching questions to consider and a fun exercise to complete.

And we talk about why we love to combine sweet and salty foods together for an optimal flavor experience.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

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How much of your identity should you share with your co-workers? Does bringing your personal life to work help build trust, or does trust need to exist before you share your personal life at work?

What do you do if you don't want to discuss your personal life at work?

As Nayla has said many times, we spend over 90,000 hours of lives at work – so inherently we build a social community within our work. This is true whether we like it or not. As communal creatures we benefit from the connection, but also must recognize the risks associated with various forms of relationships at work.

How do we balance it all? In this episode we tackle these questions, and more. We revisit boundaries and values and highlight how these tools help us determine what works for us and how they help us navigate these sometimes-uncomfortable situations. We also offer some practical advice for making your work culture work for you.

Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.

To learn more about us and our work and to join our mailing list, visit www.insidejobthepodcast.com or email us at [email protected].

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