1131: How to Stop Playing Small at Work with Kelli Thompson

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kelli Thompson shows you how to break free from intimidation, hierarchy, and self-doubt.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why over-admiring your coworkers could be undermining your progress

2) The key to sustainable confidence

3) How to identify and trust your “genius zone”

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— ABOUT KELLI —

Kelli Thompson is an award-winning leadership and executive coach, keynote speaker, and the critically-acclaimed author of Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck. In Kelli’s two-decade career leading teams, she received industry awards for her ability to build programs that cultivated the pipeline of future leaders.

Kelli has coached and trained thousands of leaders to lead with more clarity and confidence through her no BS, yet highly compassionate approach. Her corporate clients rave about the insightful, engaging and practical application of her training and speaking programs.

• Book: Closing the Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential, and Your Paycheck

• LinkedIn: Kelli Rae Thompson

• Program: Clarity and Confidence Collective

• TEDxTalk: "How idolizing coworkers can hold you back" | | Kelli Thompson | TEDxOmaha

• Website: KelliRaeThompson.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Stop overestimating others' intelligence and underestimating your own.
0:16.2	There are leaders who appear very confident.
0:19.9	Sometimes we put them on the pedestal, but what can happen is, is those leaders can turn
0:23.9	into brilliant jerks who never get good feedback.
0:27.4	People are too scared to share ideas or feedback or insights with them, so those leaders are
0:32.3	going along thinking everything's working when it's not.
0:40.6	That's Kelly Thompson.
0:41.9	She's an award-winning leadership and executive coach, keynote speaker, and author
0:44.9	who spent over two decades helping leaders lead with more clarity and confidence through
0:49.3	her no BS, but highly compassionate approach.
0:52.5	In her book, Closing the Confidence Gap, Boost Your Pot your potential, and your paycheck. She shares what it takes to overcome burnout and how to unleash your full potential at work. So you'll learn one, why over-admiring your coworkers could be undermining your progress. Two, the key to sustainable confidence. And three, how to identify and trust your genius zone.
1:12.4	And if you want a quick sum of your write up with the actual takeaways Kelly shares here,
1:15.9	I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com.
1:21.2	I'm Pete McItis.
1:22.2	This is How to Be Awesome at your job.
1:23.6	And now here's Kelly.
1:30.5	Kelly, welcome.
1:32.1	Good to see you again.
1:33.6	You too, you too.
1:35.0	Well, you've been up to a lot of fun,
1:36.8	including a TEDx talk that has a very impressive like ratio.
1:42.0	I'm such a dork.
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