361. Breaking Free w/Mel Reyes: From Toxic Workplaces to Authentic Leadership

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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ON THIS EPISODE: ➤ How to identify and overcome different forms of workplace toxicity, from the “loud screamer” to the “quiet killer”. ➤ Why vulnerability and emotional honesty are professional strengths, not weaknesses. ➤ Methods for “seeing” the true potential in people and helping them reframe their value. ➤ The career-limiting danger of “code-switching” and how to maintain your authentic voice. ➤ How to reclaim your time, set boundaries, and invest in yourself to advance your career. Breaking Free: From Toxic Workplaces to Authentic Leadership Examine the foundations of resilient and authentic leadership with Mel Reyes. Learn how he...

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0:00.0	So now one question for you. I've got to ask you.
0:11.1	I've got to ask you.
0:13.4	When people come to you, when you get to a certain age, people come to you and they start
0:18.7	come to you for certain things.
0:20.3	And there's like a theme usually that people come to you what is the one thing that you do really really
0:25.5	well that makes people come to you and ask for advice on this thing oh shit okay um i said you were ready
0:36.0	to go you said you are i yeah go. You said you were.
0:40.3	Yeah, but then you dropped that one on me.
0:41.9	It was like a new thing.
0:43.6	It just came to me today, this question.
0:46.7	And because there's people that come to me all the time, and they keep asking me the same thing.
0:47.0	I'm like, why am I not charging for this?
0:49.5	Why am I letting people take up time in my real estate?
0:52.5	And it's usually because they're close friends.
1:00.4	There are people that trust me and they know that I have a certain skill set. And they come and they ask me on said topic. And I want to know what that topic is that these people come and ask you
1:05.6	about. You know, it's a great, great, great, great question. and what i'll say as as you were talking
1:14.0	thank you for buying me some time there to think i've got editors is yeah and what what i will say
1:23.0	is um i put it out there.
1:29.2	I put out content and my expressions, my feelings, my emotions, my
1:34.8	technical.
1:35.4	I put it all out there.
1:37.1	And, and I've gotten some from folks.
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