914: Turning Awkwardness Into Your Greatest Asset with Henna Pryor
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Henna Pryor reframes awkwardness and shows how we can turn it into a superpower.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How not embracing awkwardness is hurting our performance.
2) How to work out your awkwardness muscles.
3) How to release the discomfort that follows awkward moments.
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— ABOUT HENNA —
Henna Pryor, PCC is 2x TEDx and Global Keynote Speaker, Workplace Performance Expert, Author, and Executive Coach. Her talks blend 2 decades of work with corporate leaders and teams, with a modern, science-based approach to taking more strategic risks and being braver in the work that we do.
• Book: Good Awkward: How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become The Bravest You
• Instagram: hennypryor
• LinkedIn: Henna Pryor
• Website: GoodAwkward.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Americanah: A novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Book: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | 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 McHydus. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 914 with Hina Pryor. |
| 0:23.0 | Hina has a really fun perspective on awkwardness and how we can reframe it and use it to our advantage |
| 0:29.0 | and propel ongoing growth. |
| 0:31.0 | So much good stuff if you find yourself avoiding situations because you think they might be awkward |
| 0:36.0 | or shuddering after awkward conversational exchanges and wishing that unpleasantness would go away. |
| 0:43.0 | This is the conversation for you. |
| 0:45.0 | So you'll learn one, how not embracing awkwardness is hurting our performance. |
| 0:49.0 | Two, how to work out your awkwardness, muscles, and three, how to release the discomfort that follows awkward moments. |
| 0:56.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, |
| 1:00.0 | please visit us at awesome at your job.com slash ep914. |
| 1:04.0 | And if you add awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out some of our extra resources like the Goldnugget email list |
| 1:10.0 | which gives you a summary right up to the actionable wisdom that each guest shares. |
| 1:14.0 | That releases right when the episode goes live that same day and as well as unlocking the whole archive, the vault of 914 of these summaries. |
| 1:23.0 | That's the Goldnugget's at awesome at your job. |
| 1:25.0 | Now here's a bit about Hennah. |
| 1:27.0 | Hennah prior PCC is a two-time TEDx global keynote speaker, workplace performance expert, author and executive coach. |
| 1:33.0 | Her talks blend two decades of work with corporate leaders and teams with a modern science based approach taking more strategic risks |
| 1:40.0 | and being braver in the work that we do. |
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