1085: How to Find More Fun at Work Every Day with Bree Groff

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Bree Groff shares the simple but effective strategies for finding more fun at work.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The mind shift that helps us find more fun at work

2) The 5-minute team practice that drastically improves engagement

3) How to find joy during even the roughest work days

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— ABOUT BREE —

Bree Groff is a workplace culture expert and author of Today Was Fun: A Book About Work (Seriously). She has spent her career guiding executives at companies including Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein, and Hilton through periods of complex change. She is a Senior Advisor to the global consultancy SYPartners, previously served as the CEO of NOBL Collective, and holds an MS in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University. Bree lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

• Book: Today Was Fun: A Book About Work (Seriously)

• Substack: What Work Should Be

• User Manual: User Manual Template | Today Was Fun

• Website: BreeGroff.com

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0:00.0	How to Be Awesome at your job is sponsored by LinkedIn Jobs.
0:04.0	When you clock out, LinkedIn clocks in.
0:07.4	Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com slash be awesome.
0:11.5	That's LinkedIn.com slash B-E-A-W-E-S-O-M-E. What I most hope is that people feel the confidence in the value of their days.
0:33.5	And when you feel like you deserve to have a good day,
0:38.3	you're in a position then to try and make that true, to amuse yourself.
0:42.3	Because I think so many people will show up to work thinking this day is not even mine.
0:46.3	I've sold it to some employer. I'm not expecting to have fun.
0:49.3	I'm here to provide the shareholder value and get my paycheck.
0:53.3	I get that that sometimes feels like a more honest assessment of work,
0:58.7	and yet I feel like in that situation, we've given up too fast.
1:03.0	We've settled. That's Brie Groff.
1:16.4	She's a workplace culture expert who's helped teams and executives from companies such as Microsoft, Google, and more.
1:21.8	She's also the author of Today Was Fun, a book about work, seriously, which encourages professionals to see their time at work as
1:29.5	valuable in and of itself. So you'll learn one, the mind shift that helps us find more fun at work.
1:34.9	Two, the five-minute team practice that drastically improves engagement. And three, how to find joy
1:40.8	during even the roughest work days. And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actionable takeaways that we share here, I recommend you sign up for the free Golden Nugget Email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now, here's Bree. Bree, welcome.
2:02.1	Thanks for having me, Pete.
2:04.2	Well, I'm excited to talk about your book.
2:06.7	Today was fun, a book about work.
2:18.9	Can you share with us any particularly surprising or extra counterintuitive discoveries you've made about work and fun while putting this all together? I mean, the first,
2:24.4	maybe most obvious is when I say work and fun, people are like, a happy hour. Like a lot of times it does not compute. Wait, work cannot actually be fun. You must be talking about off-sites,
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