1072: Reclaiming Your Creatvitity–No Matter Your Role with Tania Katan

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tania Katan reveals tricks for turning daily drudgery into opportunities for innovation.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why creativity can be an antidote to burnout

2) How to find inspiration in the everyday

3) Creative hacks to make meetings more human and engaging

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— ABOUT TANIA —

Tania Katan is a global transformational speaker, award-winning author, and co-creator of the viral social impact campaign #ItWasNeverADress; a movement that has inspired over 100 million people to see, hear, and celebrate creativity and diversity. Her visionary way of formulating ideas led to her award-winning book, Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life (Penguin Random House), as well as the award-winning memoir, My One Night Stand With Cancer (Alyson Books).

Katan is highly sought after to teach people and companies how to generate unlimited creative breakthroughs in less overtly creative industries, work cultures, and lives. Some of the organizations and major conferences impacted by her talks and workshops include: CiscoLive!, Expedia, Amazon, Talks at Google, Etsy, TED Talks, American Express, and more.

• Book: Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life

• Website: TaniaKatan.com

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0:00.0	When we have constraints, we actually are more generative.
0:13.0	We come up with more creative ideas.
0:16.0	There are no don'ts.
0:18.0	It's dues.
0:19.0	Creativity is the new job security. Pass it on. And if we don't
0:23.2	cultivate our creative thinking, if we don't get back to our birthright of being creative
0:28.2	individuals who can solve any problem, accept any challenge, and even turn ourselves into a character
0:34.3	that has high pressure stakes in order to answer emails, we're going to be
0:37.7	out of a job.
0:38.6	And I don't want us to be like that.
0:50.3	That's Tanya Katan.
0:51.8	She's a global transformational speaker, award-winning author, and co-creator of the viral social impact campaign hashtag It Was Never Address, a movement that's inspired over 100 million people.
1:01.8	Tanya specializes in teaching people and companies how to generate unlimited creative breakthroughs in less overtly creative industries, work cultures, and lives.
1:09.9	Her visionary way of
1:11.0	formulating ideas led to her award-winning book, Creative Transpassing, How to Put the Spark
1:15.7	and Joy back into your work and life. So you'll learn one, why creativity can be an antidote
1:20.4	to burn out. Two, how to find inspiration in the everyday. And three, creative hacks to make
1:25.9	meetings more human and engaging. And if you want a quick
1:28.9	summary write-up of some of these actual takeaways, I'd recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget
1:32.1	email newsletter. You'd find that over at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete Bikaitis. This is How to
1:37.2	Be Awesome at Your Job. And now, here's Tanya. Tanya, welcome.
1:45.6	Pete, thank you.
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