Bea Boccalandro – How doing good at work can make you more money and reduce stress
Good Money with Derrick Kinney
Derrick Kinney
5.0 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Derrick Kinney interviews Bea Boccalandro, author and founder of global consulting firm VeraWorks, on how you can be an engaged and empowered employee that actively makes a difference for your customers and the community. Bea shares how doing good at work can make you happier, reduce stress, and increase your income.
What You Will Learn:
- The definition and benefits of “Job Purposing”
- Bea gives an example of a person who found a way to make an impact through keeping their eyes open to opportunity in the workplace
- How unused workplace resources can make a powerful impact
- Why corporate consciousness is so important
- The many positive effects that job purposing can have on the wellbeing of employees
- Understanding how to leverage your inner giver
- How inattentional blindness keeps us from seeing opportunities to do good
Inspirational Quotes:
- “When employees go home feeling that they made a difference...they're going to work harder” - Bea Boccalandro
- “If that same ad...helps some societal cause, the way that we react to that ad biologically...is similar to gazing into the eyes of someone we love” - Bea Boccalandro
- “It's also true that higher employee sense of purpose appears to directly affect retention” - Bea Boccalandro
- “We have all sorts of evidence that...when humans do prosocial behavior...they are happier...we’re less stressed” - Bea Boccalandro
- “It starts with one person at a time taking action, and then suddenly you have a whole tribe doing that… and then good things do get done” - Derrick Kinney
- “It appears that if we have a purpose in our jobs, social purpose, doing good for others or for a societal cause we are likely to be wealthier” - Bea Boccalandro
- “The bulk of the power for doing good is actually in the corporate workforce” - Bea Boccalandro
Recommended Resources:
- Do Good At Work by Bea Boccalandro https://www.amazon.com/Do-Good-AT-Work-Wellbeing/dp/1642797529/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=do+good+at+work&qid=1599143947&sr=8-1
- 5 Ways Your Resentment of Money is Ruining the World (free download at goodmoneyframework.com)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the good money, good hands, good work podcast where we believe money is not bad and good people should have more of it. |
| 0:15.0 | Good money in the hands of good people gets good work done. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm your host Derek Kenny. |
| 0:20.7 | What would be the ideal company to work for? |
| 0:23.0 | Well, one that has happy, engaged employees that love their jobs |
| 0:27.0 | and feel empowered to actively make a difference for their customers and the community? |
| 0:32.0 | Wouldn't you want to work somewhere where you're helping them? difference for their customers and the community. |
| 0:32.8 | Wouldn't you want to work somewhere? |
| 0:34.6 | Where you're helping make people's lives better? |
| 0:37.4 | What if I told you that where you work right now |
| 0:40.6 | could be that company? |
| 0:42.3 | My guest today, B Bocalandro, is the founder of Vera Works, a global |
| 0:47.3 | consulting firm that helps companies do societal good through their day-to-day business. |
| 0:53.0 | In our conversation, B- shares how doing good at work can make people happier, reduce stress, |
| 0:59.5 | and increase their income. |
| 1:01.0 | I love all those. |
| 1:02.0 | I think you'll enjoy my conversation with B. |
| 1:05.2 | B. B. Welcome to the show. Thank you, Derek. |
| 1:08.8 | B, your passion is igniting workplace purpose and you created the term job purposing. |
| 1:16.4 | Tell us where that concept came from and what does it mean? |
| 1:19.2 | Absolutely. |
| 1:20.4 | So for 20 years I've helped companies do good. |
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