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.

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

With your host, Pete McChitis.

Hello, and thanks so much for joining us here

for episode 295 with Melissa Dahl.

Melissa is talking all about awkwardness and how to deal with it and the beauty that could

be within it.

So you'll learn one, when self-consciousness can be helpful,

two, a quick exercise to instantly make you feel less self-conscious,

and three, how to effectively navigate an awkward conversation.

So if you'd like to check out the show notes

or the transcript or the links to items

that we've referenced, it's over awesome at your job

dot com slash f-295. And while there, we'll also link

to the cool videos we've been putting out in preparation for the launch of the do I stay or go course all about making our next career decision.

So if you're on the email list you already saw those but if you're not first I would say come on down and joined and secondly I'd say those are also linked right there in the awesome at your job

dot com slash at 295 now here is Melissa's

Melissa's story Melissa Dahl is a senior editor at New York

magazines The Cut where she leads the health and psychology coverage.

In 2014 she helped launch science of us New York Magazine's popular social science website.

Her writing interests include personality, emotions, and mental health.

Outside of New York magazine, Melissa's byline has appeared in L, Parents, and the New York Times.

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