The BossBuilder Podcast

There is a big difference between pressure and stress.  One is normal and helpful, and one is a negative reaction.  Our guest on this episode is Aimee Bernstein.  She is the author of Stress Less Achieve More:  Simple Ways to Turn Pressure into a Positive Force in Your Life.  Aimee's company Open Mind Adventures works with organizations helping them develop better strategies to leverage pressure and reduce stress. This is a great episode with lots of important take-aways so be sure to take notes!

As The Boss, you're used to operating at full speed, both at work and at home.  Do this long enough and you're sure to burn out.  But what happens when burnout hits?  Our guest today, Alexa Beavers of The Axela Group suggests having a mindset of gratitude is the remedy.  Alexa gives us strategies and suggestions for coping with the factors that lead to burnout and even introduces us to a great tools known as a Karma Card.  Stay tuned until the very end to find out where you can get help!

As The Boss, you know how stressful each day can be.  The pressure of the job compounded with a bad commute, negative news, etc.  If you don't take some steps to combat it, it can kill you.  Literally!  Fortunately, our guest today, health and wellness coach Linda Coveney has some great tips and techniques to let you take care of yourself and heal from the damage.  Linda has a ton of operational and managerial experience so she knows what you deal with, but she knows how to conquer it too.  Listen until the very end as she has a great offer for you!

Making the transition to parenthood is hard enough, but throw on top of that having to make the move back to the workforce upon completion of maternity leave.  As The Boss, you may be experiencing this now or you're the one that has to help your employees make this transition.  Fortunately, our guest today, Lori Mihalich-Levin, Founder of Mindful Return and author of Back to Work After Baby:  How to Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leavehas some great tips for you.  She'll share her own personal journey and give us tips that we can both use and pass along for those in this exciting season of life!

As The Boss, you're looking for every edge you can have in motivating, communicating with, and developing your team.  There are many great tools out there to help and in this episode, my good friend Jeremy Evans shares one that he uses in his organization.  Great ideas in this one so be sure to take notes!

As The Boss, you don't have enough time to get your regular job done much less take care of YOU.  Our guest today, author, speaker, and consultant Pete Leibman makes the case that if you have the mindset of an athlete, you'll achieve balance and productivity.  He has great tips here so take notes and be sure to get a copy of his book, Work Stronger:  Habits for More Energy, Less Stress, and Higher Performance at Work.

Conflict is one of those things you'll constantly deal with as The Boss.  You can certainly use your positional authority to do it, but what if there was a better way?  Our guest, Kate Vendemio has some great tips on managing conflict and making it more productive.  She'll even help you figure out how to handle conflicts YOU might have with your direct reports.  Be sure to take good notes because there is a lot of practical advice in this interview!

Time is the one currency we just never have enough of! As The Boss, you know this better than anyone.  Our guest today, Amanda Haddaway of HR Answer Box will share some of her tips and techniques to better make use of the time we have, and to create additional pockets of time.

As The Boss, you'll probably have a team to lead.  That's a struggle!  Our guest today, Arnold Sanow is an expert at team building and has given presentations and done training with companies of all sizes around the USA and abroad.  Arnold gives us some practical, easy-to-implement strategies for building stronger teams and basically being a better human!  Be sure to listen until the end as Arnold has some great free resources for you.