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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

796: How to Make Progress on Your Most Audacious Goals, Every Day with Grace Lordan

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Decisions, Collaboration, Wins, Mockaitis, Mental Health, Education, Speaking, Success, Interview, Fun, Career, Business, Development, Health & Fitness, Winning, Careers, Training, Thinking, Sharpening, Skills, Writing, Selfhelp, Self-improvement, Meaning, Money

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Grace Lordan offers actionable solutions and tips to help bring you closer to your goals, one step at a time. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How to free yourself from the fear of making mistakes 

2) How to break free from impostor syndrome 

3) How to stop stress from hijacking your day 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep796 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT GRACE — 

Dr Grace Lordan is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative and an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.   

Grace is an economist and her research is focused on quantifying the benefits of inclusion within and across firms, as well as designing interventions that level the playing field for under-represented talent within firms.  Grace served as an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity board, is currently a member of the UK government’s BEIS social mobility taskforce and is currently on the Women in Finance Charter’s advisory board. 

Her academic writings have been published in top international journals and she has written for the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review. Grace is a regular speaker and advisor to blue chip finance and technology firms. Think Big, Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want is her first book. 

• Book: Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want 

• Website: www.GraceLordan.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series) by Ryan Holiday 


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.1

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.1

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdas.

0:16.2

Hello and welcome to episode 796 with Grace Lorton.

0:23.3

Grace has excellent perspective on how to make regular progress on your biggest goals

0:28.0

every day.

0:29.0

You'll learn one, how to free yourself from the fear of making mistakes, two, how to

0:32.9

break free from imposter syndrome, and three, how to stop stress from hijacking your day.

0:38.0

So if you want to check out the show now to or the transcript or the links to items that

0:40.8

we've mentioned here, please pay a visit over at awesometyourjob.com slash EP796.

0:46.2

And if you're at awesometyourjob.com, I recommend you check out some of our goodies, such

0:49.9

as the Goldnugget email list, which gives you a summary rundown of the actionable wisdom

0:54.4

that Grace shares, as well as unlocking the vault of all 796 of these summary write-ups.

1:00.1

Those are the Goldnuggets over at awesometyourjob.com.

1:03.2

So now here's Grace's story.

1:04.5

Dr. Grace Lorton is the founding director of the Inclusion Initiative and an Associate

1:08.7

Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

1:12.3

Grace is an economist and a research is focused on quantifying the benefits of inclusion within

1:16.8

and across firms, as well as designing interventions that level the playing field for underrepresented

1:21.2

talent within firms.

1:22.5

Grace served as an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity

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