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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

126: Making Stress Work for You with Dr. Melanie Greenberg

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Psychologist and executive coach Dr. Melanie Greenberg shows how to make the most of the stress work brings to the table.


You’ll Learn:

  1. The key differentiators that make stress enriching vs. debilitating
  2. How meditation practices provide helpful distance between you and your thoughts
  3. The STOP and RAIN methods for bringing mindfulness into situations


About Melanie

Dr. Melanie Greenberg is a practicing psychologist and executive coach in Marin county, CA and an expert on managing stress, health, and relationships using proven techniques from neuroscience, mindfulness, positive psychology, health psychology, and cognitive-behavioral therapies. With more than 20 years of experience as a professor, author, researcher, clinician, and coach, Melanie has delivered talks and workshops to national and international audiences, businesses, nonprofits, and professional organizations like The American Psychological Association. She writes the Mindful Self-Express blog for Psychology Today which has more than 8 million page views. A popular media expert, she has been featured on CNN, Forbes, BBC radio, ABC News, Yahoo and Lifehacker, as well as in Self, Redbook, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Fitness Magazine, Women’s Day, Cosmopolitan and the Huffington Post. She has also been featured on radio shows and numerous podcasts. With almost 50,000 followers, Melanie was named one of the 30 Most Prominent Psychologists to follow on Twitter.


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0:00.0

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.

0:10.0

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

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.1

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 126 with Dr.

0:26.0

Bellinee Greenberg.

0:27.4

Melanie has some great wisdom when it comes to dealing with stress.

0:31.8

She is a true expert in the field and she's going to

0:34.6

share one the key differentiators that make stress enriching versus

0:38.8

debilitating. Two, how meditation practices provide helpful distance between you and your thoughts

0:43.8

and three the stop and rain methods yes those are acronyms for bringing

0:49.7

mindfulness into situations so if you'd like to check out the show notes or the

0:53.8

transcript or the links to items mentioned you can find that over at awesome at

0:57.3

your job.com slash epp 126 and while you're there I recommend to check out

1:02.3

some of the cool stuff from our 10 days to

1:04.6

winning at work email course to slash waste out of your work week to the Golden Nugget email

1:09.6

summaries which offer the insights of the guests in an email you can read in under two minutes each

1:15.5

morning that there is a new guest coming out.

1:18.1

Here's a story about Melanie.

1:19.5

Dr. Melanie Greenberg is a practicing psychologist and executive coach in Marin County, California

1:24.4

and an expert in managing stress, health and relationships using proven techniques

1:28.4

from neuroscience, mindfulness, positive psychology, health psychology, and cognitive behavioral therapies.

1:35.6

With more than 20 years of experience as a professor, author, researcher, clinician, and coach,

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