663: How to Stop Negative Self-talk, Beat Impostor Syndrome, and Feel Confident with Melody Wilding
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Melody Wilding shares powerful strategies to stop overthinking and deal with your inner critic.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The two behaviors that greatly hinder sensitive professionals
2) Three tactics for silencing your inner critic
3) Powerful questions to counter negative thinking
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— ABOUT MELODY —
Melody Wilding, LMSW is an executive coach, human behavior expert, and author of Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. She has coached hundreds of private clients, from CEOs and Fortune 500 executives to leaders from the US Department of Education, the Federal Reserve, and the United Nations. She teaches graduate-level human behavior and psychology at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York. Her writing is regularly featured on Medium and in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Business Insider, and Quartz. Her advice has been featured in the New York Times, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, NBC News, US News and World Report, and more.
• Melody’s book: Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work
• Melody’s website: MelodyWilding.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 663 with Melody Wilding. |
| 0:23.4 | If you've got a smidge of negative self-talk and posture syndrome or lack of confidence |
| 0:27.6 | going on, Melody brings the goods. |
| 0:30.7 | So you'll learn one, the two behaviors that greatly hinder sensitive professionals. |
| 0:35.1 | Two, three tactics for silencing your inner critic and three powerful questions to counter |
| 0:40.0 | negative thinking. |
| 0:41.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam's |
| 0:43.8 | Be Reference, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep663. |
| 0:48.6 | And while you're chilling over at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out |
| 0:52.4 | the gold nugget email summaries, which summarize the wisdom that Melody shared or an email |
| 0:57.2 | you can read in just about three minutes, as well as providing access to the vault of |
| 1:01.2 | all of these summaries. |
| 1:02.5 | That's called the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:04.9 | Now here's Melody's story, Melody Wilding, LMSW is an executive coach, human behavior |
| 1:09.7 | expert, and author of Trust Yourself, stop overthinking and channel your emotions for |
| 1:14.1 | success at work. |
| 1:15.6 | She's coached hundreds of private clients from CEOs and Fortune 500 executives to leaders |
| 1:19.8 | from the U.S. Department of Education, the Federal Reserve, and the United Nations. |
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