1092: Transforming Stress into Your Superpower with Dr. Rebecca Heiss
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Rebecca Heiss shares powerful perspectives for reframing stress.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why stress fuels meaning and purpose
2) The formula that helps harness stress
3) The 6-minute practice that reframes stress
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— ABOUT REBECCA —
Dr. Rebecca Heiss is a stress expert dedicated to transforming our fears into fuel we can use through her T-minus 3 Technique. Her research has been designated “transformative” by the National Science Foundation. When she’s not on stage, she is happiest when hiking or surfing with her two spoiled rotten dogs Guinness and Murphy.
• Book: Springboard: Transform Stress to Work for You
• Instagram: @drrebeccaheiss
• Website: RebeccaHeiss.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal
• Book: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Book: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
• Study: Amy Cuddy’s Harvard study
• Article: Tony Robbins on power poses
• Study: Milkshake study
• Tool: Whoop band
• Tool: Oura ring
• Tool: Lief
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| 0:00.0 | The number one correlate to a meaningful, purposeful life is stress. |
| 0:13.9 | Nothing is broken in you. |
| 0:15.9 | You're not doing it wrong. |
| 0:17.2 | You're not meditating wrong or getting massages wrong. |
| 0:19.9 | Like stress is part of life and it should be. So stop stressing yourself out about stress and use it wrong. You're not meditating wrong or getting massages wrong. Like stress is part of life and it |
| 0:21.2 | should be. So stop stressing yourself out about stress and use it differently. |
| 0:36.6 | That's Dr. Rebecca Heiss. |
| 0:38.2 | She's a stress expert dedicated to transforming our fears into fuel we can use through her T-minus-3 technique. |
| 0:45.4 | Her research has been designated transformative by the National Science Foundation. |
| 0:49.6 | Her new book, Springboard, transforms stress to work for you, reveals how stress unlocks greater performance, |
| 0:55.5 | meaning, and purpose. So you'll learn one, why stress fuels meaning and purpose, two, the formula |
| 1:01.0 | that helps harness stress, and three, the six-minute practice that reframe stress. And if you want |
| 1:06.1 | a quick summary write-up of these actual takeaways, I'll come in you sign up for the free |
| 1:10.0 | gold nugget email newsletter found at |
| 1:11.8 | awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm Pete McHadis. |
| 1:14.3 | This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. |
| 1:15.8 | And now, here's Rebecca. |
| 1:21.3 | Rebecca, welcome. |
| 1:22.6 | Well, thanks so much for having me on, Pete. |
| 1:24.1 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:25.1 | Well, I'm excited to be chatting. |
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