Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete Lekitis.

Hello and thanks for joining us here with episode 84 with Jolene Blackbarn.

Jolene is a mentoring enthusiast and has actually refused some promotions

along the way to keep that going and serves as quote just a lawyer but she's just a lawyer who's picked up some great tips along the way which he generously shares with us.

So you're going to learn one what you think you know about your job, but

actually don't. Two, how not to add a task to your to-do list and three, a drag-and-drop

tip for collecting praise.

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcripts, the links to things mentioned,

you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep, 84.

And while you're over there, I recommend you check out some of the cool stuff.

We've got a 10 days to winning at work email course that shares my best kind of tips and

best practices for slashing through waste and accelerating your achievement of stuff on the job as well as the

gold nugget email list that summarizes the key takeaways from.

Jolene and the 83 guests that came before her and the money to come after her.

So there's good stuff, go take a gander.

And here's a quick story about Jolene.

Jolene has been an in-house attorney with a major insurance company for almost 10 years.

She serves as a mentor to many new attorneys and helps

prospective law students determine whether law school is right for them and she

also coaches a youth soccer team. Here's Jolene.

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