Best of 2024: Tessa West | How to Find Your Most Fulfilling Job Yet

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Join Tessa West as she unpacks the complex relationship between personal identity and professional life in this enlightening episode. Tessa discusses how deeply intertwined our careers are with our self-perception and the psychological impacts of staying in a job that no longer fulfills us. She offers practical advice on navigating career transitions, understanding the roles of identity in workplace dynamics, and how to effectively manage career dissatisfaction. This episode is essential for anyone contemplating a change or struggling with their career path.

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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.
0:24.7	What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose. Again, that's
0:28.9	unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.
0:34.5	You know, the secret to a successful ad is not necessarily a crisp, clear and glossy voice that interrupts your podcast.
0:43.1	You can advertise your business on TikTok starting with nothing but your phone.
0:47.2	TikTok means business.
0:52.8	Your first boss, and I would add to that, your first team, the people who are next to you at work are going to be absolutely key to your success. I mean, I think Microsoft did this huge study where they show that creativity at work isn't necessarily being driven by what you're doing in your actual team. It's being driven by the people who are around you that you can bounce ideas off of. One of the main reasons why people fail to get ahead is because they don't
1:16.1	know how much status and respect their boss has because they don't know anything about the hierarchy
1:21.6	beyond one level up from them. And you can have a boss who loves you, who would promote you as much as they
1:27.9	can. But the minute they walk into that meeting with the other bosses, no one listens to them
1:32.5	or they haven't been here long enough to have any power.
1:40.1	I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the unmistakable creative podcast, where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.
2:01.8	Tessa, welcome to The Unmistakable Creative.
2:03.8	Thanks for taking the time to join us.
2:05.5	Thanks for having me.
2:06.9	Yeah, it is my pleasure to have a year.
2:08.7	You have a new book out called Job Therapy.
2:11.1	And when I read that you were a social scientist who would actually study this and an
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