In this episode on the Unhustle podcast, I talk with Bryan Smith, the Co-Founder of Leon. We discuss burnout especially as it relates to start-up founders and employees. We get into specific strategies to prevent and treat stress and burnout so you can achieve peak performance, a similar approach to achieving top performance among athletes.

Why burnout is an important topic? 75% of Americans are burnout. It’s costing the workforce an estimated $1 trillion in lost productivity each year.

Bryan is the founder of myleon.co, the world’s first-ever, AI-powered employee performance platform.

To connect with Bryan:

Website: myleon.co

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Listen in as Julian and I discuss the good and the bad from lockdown. 

Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Dean at the London Business School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the Academy of Social Scientists (FAcSS) and the Academy of International Business.

Julian is a recognised expert on innovation, entrepreneurship and renewal in large corporations. He has written fourteen books, including Fast/Forward, Becoming a Better Boss, Reinventing Management, and Giant Steps in Management, and over ninety articles in such journals as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal and Academy of Management Journal.

He is regularly quoted in international media outlets, including CNN, BBC, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, Bloomberg Business Week and The Times, and he speaks regularly at business conferences in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. In 2015, he was ranked 43rd on the Thinkers 50 list of the most influential management thinkers in the world.

Links: 

http://julianbirkinshaw.com/

Did you know recent polling has shown only 5% of women occupy the highest positions with the top 500 companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange? Even though women make up nearly half the workforce in the United States and hold over half of the country’s middle management positions, female CEO’s are still extremely rare. As an African-American woman who has served as VP for a Fortune 500 company, Deborah Smith Pegues has witnessed firsthand the importance of diversity in a business’s upper level leadership and wants to empower more women to embrace their potential as leaders and confidently break into a male-dominated world.

In her upcoming book, Lead Like a Woman, Deborah teaches women how to hone their natural gifts as well as sharpen other important leadership traits, such as developing a strong intuition, sharp interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate concisely. She also counsels women against habits that hold them back such as downplaying their abilities and competence, pursuing perfection to the detriment of their own success, and viewing female colleagues as rivals rather than teammates.

Deborah and I had fun. Listen in. 

Links: 

https://www.confrontingissues.com/

Bryan Kramer is a renowned business strategist, global keynote speaker, executive trainer and coach, two-time bestselling author and Forbes contributor. As former President and Co-Owner of PureMatter, a Silicon Valley global marketing agency since 2001, he sparked the Human-to-Human H2H movement that set out to humanize business through simpler communication, empathy, and celebrating our imperfections. His TED Talk on the subject in 2014 featured a TED “first – allowing mobile devices during the event to share the experience to illustrate his belief.

Noted as the “Zen master to Digital Marketers” by Forbes, named a “Top 3 Thought Leadership Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss” in Forbes and in “The Top 100 Most Influential People on Twitter” by Business Insider, Bryan teaches speakers, executives and audiences how to up-level their storytelling and how to be more compelling and clear. With more than 350,000 social fans and followers, Bryan believes that being human is our competitive advantage because of our ability to leverage our emotional intelligence alongside technology to scale, in order to share stories in a human way – not corporate speak.

But in this conversation, we talk practical ways to improve your focus while you work from home. 

LINKS: 

https://bryankramer.com/

Hailey niched down so she can scale her business with ease and flow. 

Hailey works with health coaches and helps them with mindset, marketing and growing their business. And here are some of the ways she's realized that less is more. 

https://www.haileyrowe.com/

Women in Data is an empowering community of doers all striving to be trailblazers in the field of data science. We learn and grow together feeding off of each other's expertise in our given fields. When women band together and support one another, not only can we uplevel the workforce, but we increase the potential for data to change the world.

Listen to the conversation with Sadie Lawrence, founder of Women in Data. 

https://www.womenindata.org/

In this Unhustle episode, I talk with Alex Pang on the philosophy of integrating rest and play into your work to achieve higher performance. 

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang studies people, technologies, and the worlds they make. His latest book SHORTER explains how companies all over the world, in a variety of industries, are shortening their working hours while improving productivity and profitability.

LINKS

Strategy+Rest: www.strategy.rest

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/askpang

Twitter and Instagram: @askpang

Stephan Aarstol decided to put his entire team from TowerPaddleboards on a five-hour workday yet paying his team the same. Crazy right? But the results are showing that it was an incredible success. 

Do you live to work or work to live? 

Do you live your brand values? 

Listen to this podcast and find out the positives and negatives from this experiment and see if it will help you gain a competitive edge right now. 

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I invited Andrew to speak about the 4 day work week experiment he conducted in New Zealand. He put his company Perpetual Guardian on a 4 day work week while continued to pay his employees the same.

This experiment turned out to be a huge success - stress went down, productivity went up.

Andrew formed the 4-day week nonprofit global campaign and he wrote a book, The 4 Day Week about the experiment.

Now, is a good time to reassess how we work and live.

Andrew is getting phone calls from 83 countries, asking him about the 4-day work week in support of the effort. Unfortunately, this worthwhile effort may end up costing Andrew his own 4 day week.

The way we work today isn’t fit for the 21st century. And thanks to Andrew and others this conversation has gone mainstream.

We like being busy at work. But there’s a difference between busyness and productivity. The average worker is productive about 3 hours a day. Why do we need to spend 8 hours in the office? Because we measure productivity by time.

Listen to this conversation about how we can change our work culture.

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Garrett followed his passion to teach. But that passion ended shortly after he experienced burnout. Garrett was dealing with addictions. He was tired. Exhausted. Overweight.

He had enough.

One day, he decided to make a change.

Garrett founded Dudefluencer.com, a men’s magazine that champions introspection and vulnerability in men.

If you are feeling overwhelmed and burnt out, maybe it’s time to reconsider your life too.

Listen to this conversation about lifestyle and business design. You may find inspiration.

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