Workday Playdate

“Skydiving was a crash course in entrepreneurship. You can plan and prepare and then you just have to jump.” On the improve it! Podcast’s third birthday, Erin dives (pun intended) into how planning for her first skydive and planning for her career as an entrepreneur have more similarities than you might think. If you’re thinking about starting a podcast, writing a book, or just taking the leap – this is the episode for you. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Listen to some of the past episodes of the Failed It! Podcast/improve it! Podcast that Erin mentioned in today’s show. Check out some of the guests that we've had and the recent Self-Healing Series. Most importantly, give yourself the gift of investing in you.   Show Links:

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• Book a Laugh Break
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🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

When you picture your future self – who are they? What do they value? What are they leaving behind? What are they taking with them? In this final episode with Gaby Natale, you’ll see how past Gaby, current Gaby, and future Gaby connect and create a full picture that will help you reflect on your past, current, and future versions of yourself. Erin and Gaby discuss how to surrender and trust the universe to lead you to the right space. And if you’ve noticed folks around you telling you about a superpower that you have that you’re working up the courage to put out into the world – this is the episode for you. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Picture your future self. What does future you do compared to current you? How can you start putting energy towards that future version of you right now?   Connect with Gaby Natale:

• Gaby’s Instagram
• Gaby’s LinkedIn
• Gaby’s Youtube
• Gaby’s website
• Gaby’s bestselling book, The Virtuous Circle: Restore Your Confidence, Bounce Back, and Emerge Stronger

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

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• Book a Laugh Break
• Book a Workshop
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

Inner voice > outer noise This is the message 3-time EMMY award winning journalist, bestselling author, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur Gaby Natale shares on today’s episode. The screen you're reading this on, the clothing you wear, the experiences that have shaped your life - these were all ideas in someone’s head before they became real. They trusted these ideas enough to make them real, will you trust yours? In part two of Erin's conversation with Gaby, you’ll hear the mindset shifts that ultimately led to Gaby’s success, going with what comes naturally in an age of over-the-top wellness, and how to be an instrument for what the people around you need at that point in their journey. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Get still this week and listen to what your inner voice is saying. Maybe it's telling you to go back to those things that brought you joy as a child. Maybe it's telling you to listen, refresh, change jobs. Maybe it's telling you to enhance where you're currently at and the role that you have. Get still this week and listen to your inner voice. Stop listening to the outside noise.   Connect with Gaby Natale:

• Gaby’s Instagram
• Gaby’s LinkedIn
• Gaby’s Youtube
• Gaby’s website
• Gaby’s bestselling book, The Virtuous Circle: Restore Your Confidence, Bounce Back, and Emerge Stronger

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• Instagram
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• improve it! TikTok
• Improve it! Instagram
• Improve it! Facebook
• improve it! website
• Book a Laugh Break
• Book a Workshop
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

In this episode, Erin is joined by Gaby Natale, 3-time EMMY award winning journalist, bestselling author, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur. Gaby is on a mission to awaken the pioneer spirit in each of us, no matter your gender, race, religion, or upbringing. Throughout the conversation, Gaby shares about the beginning of her career and its ties to her five-year-old self. She emphasizes how finding moments of clarity throughout her life helped bring her to where she is today. This episode is a must-listen for anyone lost in a world of accelerated change and looking to find clarity through discomfort. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Think back to your younger self. Is there something in your younger life that pops up as a core memory and brings you joy? For Gabby, it was standing on stage at her kindergarten graduation, really not wanting to leave that stage. That moment for you might be working on a project with your hands. It might be helping in the garden with your grandmother. It might be playing Double Dare as the television host in your living room. Think back to younger you. We'll bring this forward in the next two episodes as we continue with our theme of evolution.   Connect with Gaby Natale:

• Gaby’s Instagram
• Gaby’s LinkedIn
• Gaby’s Youtube
• Gaby’s website
• Gaby’s bestselling book, The Virtuous Circle: Restore Your Confidence, Bounce Back, and Emerge Stronger

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• improve it! TikTok
• Improve it! Instagram
• Improve it! Facebook
• improve it! website
• Book a Laugh Break
• Book a Workshop
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes that it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” -Maya Angelou Think back to the past week, month, or year to a big win you achieved. Maybe it was the proposal you wrote that secured a huge client. Maybe it was hitting a PR in the gym (because we see you working on your fitness). Maybe it was noticing something you taught your child in action, without you needing to say anything. Whatever your win was, did you celebrate just the win or did you celebrate everything you did to achieve the win? For most of us, it’s the former. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but don’t admit the changes it’s gone through to achieve that beauty. In this episode, Erin gives you a simple activity to set goals, achieve them, and celebrate everything you put into achieve them throughout your entire process. Not to mention, this episode will change how you think about goal-setting entirely. Press play for the twist! ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Click the link below and take the quiz to receive your free Wellness Workbook. Go to page 19 to complete the exercise Erin discusses in today’s episode.   Show Links:

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• Instagram
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• Improve it! Instagram
• Improve it! Facebook
• improve it! website
• Book a Laugh Break
• Book a Workshop
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

The way you spend your days is the way you spend your life. It sounds overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. When you think about the way you spend your day - are you a “yes” for the actions that take up a small amount of time? A large amount of time? Do you incorporate something into your routine that someone else wouldn’t understand but it makes sense for you? Do you incorporate something into your routine that doesn’t make sense for you but does for someone else? In this episode, Erin gives you a simple improv-based activity to determine what actions you’re saying “yes” to that serve you, and also the flipside: what you’re saying “yes” to that really isn’t for you. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Send Erin a message telling her what you’re a “yes” for on LinkedIn or Instagram linked below. When you put what you’re a “yes” for out in the world, you're holding yourself accountable. If you’d prefer to spread your yeses in another way, tell a friend or post about it. Create a social post and share it with your network. When you start to put these yeses into the world, you'll be amazed at what comes into your life and what you can creatively bring to fruition.   Show Links:

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

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• Improve it! Instagram
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• Book a Laugh Break
• Book a Workshop
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9 years old William Kinney, 9 years old Hallie Scruggs, 9 years old Katherine Koonce, 60 years old Cynthia Peak, 61 years old Mike Hill, 61 years old Today we say their names and honor all the names that came before them. Today we talk about the change that needs to happen in this country. Today we talk about how everything you do is contagious, how kindness and cruelty have equal ripple effects. Listen as Erin shares the message that she was called to give today. It starts with us. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Do one small act of kindness for someone you know or a stranger. Share this episode with someone who could benefit from its message.   Show Links:

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

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• Book a Laugh Break
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• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

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When you tell your team they have a professional development day next Friday, what would come to their minds? If it’s “sitting through another training,” you might want to reconsider your approach. Think about it like this: Everyone you work with is smart. Everyone knows strategies to be more productive, to stay focused, and to do the things a hypothetical Employee of the Month would do. As a result, your team doesn’t need to “sit through another training.” Your team needs something different. Something that’s a challenge, not a bore. Something that’ll make them laugh, allow them to be themselves, and not explicitly be about work. Erin and Adi conclude their three-part series with a conversation about why Adi decided to make improv comedy workshops a focal point of the professional development calendar for 480 professionals she leads. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Think about your biggest failure moment or when one of your worst fears came true. Think about how you got through it, because you're still here listening to this show. Allow this to serve as a reminder to you to keep getting comfortable with the uncomfortable. Let it infiltrate into your culture. It will make a difference in how you show up, not only for the people around you, but more importantly for the most important person in your life – you. Connect with Adi Clerman:

• Adi’s LinkedIn

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• Instagram
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• Improve it! Instagram
• Improve it! Facebook
• improve it! website
• Book a Laugh Break
• Book a Workshop
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

Humor styles are just like personality styles - everyone has something a little different. Instead of shutting out humor entirely in your professional life, how can you use it to show up more authentically? In this episode, Adi describes her newest hobby: stand-up comedy. As a corporate professional by day, Adi explains why she included stand-up into her jam-packed schedule, how it’s impacted her work life, and what it’s taught her over the past 10 months. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Jot down your own five reasons about why humor is important to you. Not just how humor can help you show up to be a better person at work, but why humor is key to success. Why is it key to your success? Keep these five reasons somewhere that you can view them. It could be on the note section of your phone or on a Post-It next to your computer. Try to use it as a sign to bring more laughter, levity, and positivity into your workday, to add a little bit more fun to that spreadsheet, or to add a little bit more smiling to that Zoom meeting. Connect with Adi Clerman:

• Adi’s LinkedIn

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• Instagram
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• improve it! TikTok
• Improve it! Instagram
• Improve it! Facebook
• improve it! website
• Book a Laugh Break
• Book a Workshop
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

Are you a leader or emerging leader wondering how to solve the professional development dilemma? On one hand, you can choose professional development that’s rigid, vigorous, but unenjoyable. Think lots of Powerpoint slides, note taking, and a quiz at the end. On the other hand, you can choose a professional development opportunity that your team will actually like. Think experiential learning, no right or wrong answers, and a slight bit of discomfort to propel you forward. In today’s episode Erin and Adi Clerman discuss what it means to choose professional development opportunities that help each team member feel included in a unique way. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Think of one outside-the-box thing you have done recently. What's one thing that you have done in your day-to-day that's outside the norm? Write that thing down. Then challenge yourself to do one thing that is outside of the box this week. Connect with Adi Clerman:

• Adi’s LinkedIn

• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Send us a voice message here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• improve it! TikTok
• Improve it! Instagram
• Improve it! Facebook
• improve it! website
• Book a Laugh Break
• Book a Workshop
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.