In this solo episode, Dr. Amanda Crowell pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to move from lone wolf to collaborative creator. Born of her own struggles—and the behind-the-scenes story of writing Chapter 7 of the second edition of Great Work—this episode explores the three biggest mindset shifts Amanda had to make in order to collaborate without losing herself.

You’ll hear how she learned to:

• Stop chasing “ease” and start thinking strategically
• Navigate drama with clarity and connection
• Ask for help early (instead of right before the finish line)

Plus, Amanda shares the story of the Great Work book’s near-total rewrite, why perfectionism delays good collaboration, and how to spot the moment when real magic starts to unfold.

Buy Great Work or the Great Work Journal:

amandacrowell.com/book-shop

Snag the Lone Wolf's reflection guide:

https://www.amandacrowell.com/blog/the-lone-wolfs-guide-to-collaboration-a-practical-guide-for-people-whod-really-rather-do-it-all-themselves

Listen to the OG pisode about collaboration:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/great-work-is-done-in-community-encore-uygw070/id1586648710?i=1000612293955

In this electrifying episode of Unleashing Your Great Work, we’re joined by Shantel Love—award-winning VP of Customer Success, keynote speaker, and author of Promote Your Damn Self. From near homelessness to managing over a billion dollars in her career, Shantel shares her powerful story of reinvention, resilience, and rising to the top. Learn how personal branding is more than a buzzword—it’s a path to economic justice and generational wealth. Shantel’s insights will leave you inspired to own your value and advocate for your greatness.

Key Topics Covered:

• Shantel’s journey from stuck at $40K to executive leadership
• Why personal branding is a tool for economic justice
• Strategies to overcome imposter syndrome (Meet Big Bertha!)
• How to use your voice, even when it shakes
• Tactical personal branding strategies for career and business

From being near homeless to managing over a billion-dollars in her career—plot twist: this isn't a Netflix series, it's Shantel Love's actual life story. As an award winning, Global VP of Customer Success and the first Black Woman VP in her division's history, she's living proof that shattering glass ceilings makes for excellent cardio.

Author of the game-changing career and personal branding book, Promote Your D@mn Self, Shantel transforms boardrooms and ballrooms with her electrifying keynotes. While others perfect their elevator pitch, she's busy teaching professionals how to own the entire building. Her secret sauce? Turning professional roadblocks into launching pads with a signature blend of sharp insights, authentic leadership, and refreshingly real talk.

When she's not managing global teams or dropping wisdom on stage, Shantel serves on the board of Elevate Diversity and Girlz Who Sell and champions diversity as an executive sponsor of a Black Employee Resource Group. Her mission? Creating corporate ladders with wheelchair ramps, elevators, and escalators—because everyone deserves access to the top.

Through strategic mentorship and speaking engagements, Shantel equips professionals with more than inspiration—she hands them the tools to rewrite their career stories and build an empire on their own terms.

Website: ShantelLove.com

Book: Promote Your D@mn Self: The 3 Personal Branding Mistakes to Avoid That Nearly Destroyed My Career

Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/shantellove

Have you ever set a goal and then completely forgotten about it? Or worse—remembered it later and felt frustrated that you never followed through? That’s Goalnesia, and today we’re tackling it head-on.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

✅ Why Goalnesia happens (and why it’s not just procrastination)

✅ Six powerful questions to uncover hidden mindset blocks

✅ How to break free from perfectionism and overwhelm

✅ The Three Goal Strategy for focusing on what truly matters

✅ How to use the Great Work Journal to stay on track

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Host: Dr. Amanda Crowell

Guest: Susan Eckstein, Executive & Leadership Coach, Creator of Unarmored Leadership

What if the very things that once protected you are now holding you back? In this episode of Unleashing Your Great Work, we welcome Susan Eckstein, an executive and leadership coach specializing in Unarmored Leadership. Susan helps leaders dismantle the invisible barriers—thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors—that prevent them from stepping into their full potential.

We dive deep into:

✅ What armor is and how it limits leadership and personal growth

✅ The four Unarmored Leadership Archetypes: The Knight, The Fencer, The Wrestler, and The Martial Artist

✅ How shedding outdated beliefs leads to more effective leadership, stronger teams, and a more fulfilling life

✅ Susan’s own journey of transformation from corporate PR to triathlete to leadership coach

✅ Practical steps you can take today to let go of self-doubt and lead with confidence

If you’ve ever felt stuck, like you’re playing by outdated rules, this episode is your invitation to embrace your authentic leadership style!

🎙️ Subscribe & Review – If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Your support helps us bring you more great conversations!

Susan Eckstein is an executive and leadership coach and group coaching facilitator. The foundation of her work is Unarmored Leadership™, a coaching model she created to help leaders dismantle their armor so they can lead without limitations. Susan is passionate about serving ambitious leaders who are armoring up and experiencing crises of confidence. Her coaching focuses on improving communication and executive presence, navigating ambiguity, and overcoming imposter syndrome.

Susan is a certified Group Coaching HQ Master Coach, Facilitator of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® x Coaching, and Clear Beliefs Coach.

With more than a decade of public relations experience, Susan has worked with senior-level executives in the medical, pharmaceutical, and financial industries. She is also a three-time Ironman competitor and former USA Triathlon certified coach who has coached hundreds of people to compete in their dream athletic events.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/susaneckstein/

Website: www.unarmoredleadership.com

Unarmored Leadership Quiz: https://056drajwooi.typeform.com/to/ymm9glfe

Take the time to reflect on 2025 in a manner guaranteed to make you feel grounded today and hopeful in 2025.

Here are some links you might need:

• Grab the workbook!
• Join me for my free, live, online events, the Great Work Series! 
• Try the Great Work Journals!

I don't know about you, but I've been fighting to keep myself focused on my Great Work in the past couple of weeks. Things seem to be moving at the speed of light out in the world, and I'm struggling to keep up.

To bring myself back into myself, I used my 3B protocol to get myself back on track.

The 3B protocol is a way to prioritize your jumbled, conflicting thoughts and worries.

It involves identifying the Bright Spots, Broken Windows, and Black Holes in your thinking and then moving forward with clarity.

💡 Bright Spots are the areas where things are working. Your job is to lean into them and create even more success.

💔 Broken Windows require immediate attention. Avoiding them will inevitably cause more problems, so addressing them is our highest priority.

⚫ Black Holes, however, reveal where you pour your attention without discernible effect. Black Holes include endlessly relitigating decisions you’ve already made, analyzing past regrets, obsessing over future scenarios, and falling into the doom scroll of world events.

Listen in for concrete strategies and heartfelt advice.

Read my book and try the Great Work Journal for yourself!

Info here: amandacrowell.com/great-work

Want to discuss working together?

Schedule a call: amandacrowell.com/coach-me

Nikki James Zellner is a content strategist who empowers all to use their personal experiences + authentic voices to express themselves, build their legacy brands, and change the world. A dual business owner with a background deeply rooted in community, marketing, and storytelling, she’s launched 15 lifestyle magazines, helped build the success of hundreds brands, and worked in front of and behind the scenes to share written and visual stories in a way that captivated audiences. She was awarded the 2022 Trailblazer of the Year award in the National Veteran and Military Spouse Entrepreneur Awards, and in her spare time, she fought the law for safer schools in Virginia…and won.

Resources Mentioned: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikkijameszellner

https://www.nikkijameszellner.com

https://carbonmonoxideinschools.org

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Obstacles DO NOT scare Sarah Wells.

As a Silver Medalist in the Olympics, and runner-up in Season 7 of Canada’s “Amazing Race”, Sarah has become an expert of overcoming hurdles both literally and figuratively.

The founder of the Believe Initiative, Sarah has used her story to help more than 125,000 people nationwide to understand the importance of believing in yourself and the power that comes with it. 

Resources Mentioned: 

Social Media: @SarahWells400mh

www.sarahwells.ca

www.believeinitiative.com

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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What better guest to kick it off the 3rd season of the podcast than with Jimmy Diresta, host of the hit Netflix series, “Making Fun”, and YouTube sensation.

Jimmy is an artist, TV personality, video producer, and educator that describes his life-long passion as being a “maker”.

Inspired by the works of Warhol, Picasso, Steven Tyler and Mariah Carey (to name a few), Jimmy always knew that a maker is what he was born to be. In this Season 3 premier episode, Jimmy takes us on his journey of where he began, where he plans to go, and how the unforeseen and unknown are the perfect places to find your inspiration..

Listen in to this week’s episode to learn more on how Jimmy earned his well deserved title, “The Godfather of Makers.”

Resources Mentioned:

Jimmy Diresta's YouTube Channel

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Have you ever felt like you needed more? More money, more prestige, more status, and more accomplishment? In this week’s podcast episode Tara McMullin, the author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting, helps us peek behind the curtain. Listen in as she unpacks the programming creating this lack of satisfaction and gives us important clues about how to de-program ourselves. Tara will help us focus on being in process with ourselves instead of seeking ever more, ever more.

Join Tara McMullin and Dr. Amanda Crowell as we discuss:

• How our culture creates a need for more, more, more
• How to help our children avoid the burnout and overworking programming from the start
• How to use technological tools as tools, instead of as further indications that we aren’t doing things right

In the United States, we have always lived with the history and realities of racism.

Whether we have lived with it as an active part of our life or have had the privilege to ignore it and deny it, it has shaped our understanding of our country and each other. 

Since racism has always been a loaded, hot-button, triggering topic to discuss, many leaders have flatly avoided talking about it. Since the summer of 2020, however, organizations are realizing that this issue is not going away.

Workers want organizations that are inclusive and equitable. As such, the avoidance strategy that has allowed leaders to manage this issue in the past is emerging as the biggest problem of all.

Fortunately for all of us, Gena Cox has taken the time to think deeply about how to open the door to these important conversations.

Listen in for compassionate, insightful, and practical advice to help all of us navigate conversations about creating inclusion in the workplace.

Join us as we discuss:

• How the root cause of the failure of most DEI initiatives is avoidance driven by a lack of skills on the part of even the most well-meaning leaders
• How respect is the opposite of grandstanding and is the foundation of our only viable path forward to create inclusive workplaces
• How to have respectful relationships with your employees even when difficult conversations and decisions are needed

The Unleashing Your Great Work podcast is sponsored by the Great Work Journal! The Great Work Journal is here to answer the question “But HOW?” How can we figure out what our Great Work is? How can we get started, stay with it, and finish our Great Work so it can go out in the world and have an impact?

Resources Mentioned: 

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda’s book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside– without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda’s TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED’s Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Nathalie Lussier is a force to be reckoned with. She’s a female founder of a tech company, a writer, and a permaculture farmer. Obviously, Nathalie knows how to make things happen. 

Nathalie Lussier is the founder of AccessAlly, a company that aims to simplify the process of content creation, community building, and coaching for individuals with big ideas. We discuss her journey of building a successful tech and how Nathalie's passion has always focused on using technology to impact people's health and well-being.

The Unleashing Your Great Work podcast is sponsored by the Great Work Journal! The Great Work Journal is here to answer the question “But HOW?” How can we figure out what our Great Work is? How can we get started, stay with it, and finish our Great Work so it can go out in the world and have an impact?

Resources Mentioned: 

https://accessally.com/free-demo/

https://30DayListBuildingChallenge.com/

https://nathalielussier.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalielussier/

Business channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4gwAjm2sVBhhv9CPhopzZA

Farm channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtH__FG39_3M7eBE11okm3g

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda’s book, Great Work.

About The Guest:

Nathalie Lussier is an award-winning entrepreneur who has been making websites since she was 12 years old. She graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street, but she turned down this job to start her own business right out of college. As the founder of AccessAlly, the powerful digital course and membership solution for industry leaders, she believes that access to education can help defy stereotypes and make the world a better place while providing a sustainable livelihood for enterprising teachers. Nathalie has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, and Mashable.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside– without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda’s TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED’s Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Dr. Gena Cox returns to explore the power of respect in transforming workplaces and society. In this candid and timely conversation, Gena shares her Respect Ethos Framework, explains how respect fuels innovation, and reflects on how societal shifts have redefined her “great work.” Whether you're a leader, collaborator, or change-seeker, this episode will inspire and challenge you to think deeper about how we go about being human.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What it truly means to be seen, heard, and valued
• Respect vs. DEI: What's missing in traditional models
• How fear shuts down innovation and collaboration
• Why leaders must go beyond performance to focus on human experience
• Respect as a form of activism and resistance

For over 20 years, Dr. Gena Cox, an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and thought leader, has guided business leaders in building psychologically healthy cultures. Gena’s R-E-S-P-E-C-T Ethos™ framework helps leaders grow profitable businesses, enhance their leadership impact, and break down barriers to employee collaboration and innovation. Gena is named to the prestigious Thinkers50 Global Top 50 Coaches list and has earned many awards as the author of Leading Inclusion. She writes about the intersection of psychology and leadership for top-tier media, including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes. Gena earned her PhD in I/O Psychology from the University of South Florida.

Opt-In: 25 Ways Anyone Can Help Build A Culture of Respect - https://www.genacox.com/25ways

My POV & research page: https://genacox.com/respect/

Latest Forbes article about respect: https://www.forbes.com/sites/genacox/2025/05/06/7-ways-to-win-respect-as-a-power-advantage-when-stakes-are-high/

Connect with Gena: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/

We are excited to bring you another encore presentation of a popular episode of Season 2. We hope you enjoy!

As human beings, we are constantly focused on the doing, doing, doing, and Jeanette advises us that if we could just take a “power-pause” and listen more, we can gain a better understanding of what we need to accomplish our Great Work.

Jeanette believes if we can listen more to ourselves, we can begin to understand what we need right now and truly begin to feel to engage in what Jeanette calls “mental listening”. We, as humans, are amazing, we are here to solve problems, and the things we worry about are the things we care about the most.

If we can pause for a moment, and shift the “care for” to “care about”, we can understand that solving problems is not just about needing time off or time to get away, it’s about learning to “un-worry”. It is only then that we discover “self-care isn’t really about self…it’s about care.”

The Unleashing Your Great Work podcast is sponsored by the Great Work Journal! The Great Work Journal is here to answer the question “But HOW?” How can we figure out what our Great Work is? How can we get started, stay with it, and finish our Great Work so it can go out in the world and have an impact?

Resources Mentioned: 

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda’s book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside– without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda’s TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED’s Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Ratings and reviews mean everything to us. They help our podcast rank higher, which means more people will be inspired to unleash their Great Work! Your time to leave a review is greatly appreciated!

We are excited to bring you another encore presentation of a popular episode of Season 2. We hope you enjoy!

In this week’s episode we are diving into the two kinds of people in the world: lone wolves and pack wolves. Pack wolves who are great at creating things in community, and lone wolves who are great at generating outcomes from their own internal motivations and drive. As a natural born lone wolf myself, I am making the case that we really need both sets of skills if we are going to do Great Work.

Join me as we discuss:

• Why it feels easier (to me) to be a lone wolf
• How developing the skills of the pack wolf can elevate and improve the lone wolf’s Great Work
• The pitfalls of being a disciple and the joys of being an apprentice
• How our pack wolf skills can help us understand our audience and enjoy our friends and family

The Unleashing Your Great Work podcast is sponsored by the Great Work Journal! The Great Work Journal is here to answer the question “But HOW?” How can we figure out what our Great Work is? How can we get started, stay with it, and finish our Great Work so it can go out in the world and have an impact?

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

Follow the podcast

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Leave us a review

Ratings and reviews mean everything to us. They help our podcast rank higher, which means more people will be inspired to unleash their Great Work! Your time to leave a review is greatly appreciated!

We are excited to bring you another encore presentation of a popular episode of Season 2. We hope you enjoy!

Do you remember a time when a project took you so long to complete because everything needed to be “just right”?

Maybe you’re a music composer, and you can’t quite finish that new song because something in the lyrics just refuses to make sense.

Or, maybe you’re like me, and you were writing a book that created internal turmoil because that book could only house thirteen brilliant ideas individually picked from a lifetime of knowledge.

The explanation?

Perfectionism.

The problem with perfectionism? It’s impossible.

It’s waiting for every single piece of the puzzle to be spotless.

When we find ourselves confronting spouts of perfectionism, it makes accomplishing our Great Work ten times harder and ten times longer to achieve.

If we can find a way to let go of being the best and pleasing every single person on the face of this earth, we can achieve something greater than perfection: Commitment to Excellence.

I celebrate my willingness to be unique and my strength to fail fast.

Because if we can’t let go of getting it right on the first try, there’s no possible way to achieve our Great Work in enough time to be able to celebrate it.

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Leave us a review

Ratings and reviews mean everything to us. They help our podcast rank higher, which means more people will be inspired to unleash their Great Work! Your time to leave a review is greatly appreciated!

We are excited to bring you another encore presentation of a popular episode of Season 2. We hope you enjoy!

Gratitude is a powerful practice that impacts your life, and the lives of those for whom you are grateful. And, did you know that there are THREE kinds of gratitude? It’s true!

•    There is gratitude for what’s to come, called anticipation.

•    Gratitude for what’s happening right now, called savoring.

•    And gratitude for what has happened already, called reminiscing.

On this week’s episode we dig into all three kinds of gratitude, and how best to benefit from a gratitude practice.

Join me as I discuss:

•    Why the key to all three forms of gratitude is to go deep into them

•    How gratitude re-wires your brain to deliver major health and wellness benefits

•    Why Gratitude shouldn’t be a vague, muted practice. It works best when it’s detailed, robust, and vibrant!

Gratitude is a powerful way to bring more joy into your life without having to wait for anyone else to come around, and before anything changes out there.

 And that’s exactly the kind of fuel that powers Great Work.

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

Follow the podcast

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Leave us a review

Ratings and reviews mean everything to us. They help our podcast rank higher, which means more people will be inspired to unleash their Great Work! Your time to leave a review is greatly appreciated!

We are excited to bring you another encore presentation of a popular episode of Season 2. We hope you enjoy!

Nothing I say gets more push back than what we are talking about on this episode. And yet, I believe it with all my heart. Great Work- the work that matters the most to us, the work that shares our unique point of view, in community with amazing people, that keeps you on your evolving edge and creates our legacy… that kind of work is not the result of hustle. 

It is, instead, the result of resilience. 

Join me as we discuss:

• Why we feel like we need to squeeze every drop out of every minute and every day
• How taking better care of yourself accelerates your Great Work
• Why hustle is an empty promise and a dangerous oversimplification

The Unleashing Your Great Work podcast is sponsored by the Great Work Journal! The Great Work Journal is here to answer the question “But HOW?” How can we figure out what our Great Work is? How can we get started, stay with it, and finish our Great Work so it can go out in the world and have an impact?

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

Follow the podcast

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Leave us a review

Ratings and reviews mean everything to us. They help our podcast rank higher, which means more people will be inspired to unleash their Great Work! Your time to leave a review is greatly appreciated!

We are excited to bring you this encore presentation of one of our most popular episodes. We hope you enjoy!

When you have a moment of success, do you feel like you need to hide? NO MORE. This is the encouragement you need to let success come to you.

Join me as we discuss:

• Why we worry that our success will upset others
• How our friends can perpetuate our worries
• How our success inspires others

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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We are excited to bring you another encore presentation of a popular episode of Season 2. We hope you enjoy!

Have you noticed that some people really dislike setting resolutions, whether they are New Year or Q2? I used to find this very perplexing, but I think I’ve figured it out. When we look at our resolutions as opportunities to create deeper meaning and purpose in our lives, our resistance can melt away. 

Join us as we discuss: 

• Why people struggle with resolutions
• How to set resolutions that are grounded in the absolute fact that we are good enough exactly as we are
• Three questions to help you discover what would help you create deeper meaning and purpose.

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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When the hustle and grind gets you down, you need RESILIENCE! When you feel burned out, that can feel like a monumental task… but I’ve got your back. Over the next 5 weeks you will receive two short episodes every week, each one with a resilience tip from someone who is striving—just like you-- every day to do Great Work. In this kickoff episode, Amanda gives you her favorite framework for deciding what the best strategy for feeling better would be, based on how exhausted you feel. This framework will provide relief and support to help you get your bounce back anytime you feel run down or burned out.

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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In the past two seasons I have done 40 episodes with experts. Some were writers, musicians, coaches, therapists, and lots of them were authors. Here’s what I learned about Great Work from these interviews.

Join us as we discuss:

·    How Great Work often comes out of our most painful and powerful experiences

·    How Great Work emerges from moments of courage

·    How our fully authentic selves are required to do Great Work

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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This week I’m sharing the 40th interview on the Unleashing Your Great Work Podcast! One of my favorite parts of doing these interviews is how much I’ve learned about Great Work by hearing how other people are living theirs.

Because Andrew and I share a love for the Muppets and a quirky, childlike sense of humor, his characterization of his Great Work really struck a chord with me! Andrew Davis is on a QUEST; he’s battling demons in the swamp, running away from a massive ball next to Indiana Jones, riding the Monsters Inc conveyor belt, and discovering new truths.  

Join us as we discuss:

·   How living your life like a quest keeps you from comparing and despairing

·   Why being stubborn is a superpower well worth cultivating

·   What to do when you get your dream job, and it’s disappointing

·   Why Jim Henson is a hard act to follow, but a great creative inspiration 

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

Andrew’s website: akadrewdavis.com

The Loyalty Loop Blog - https://www.akadrewdavis.com/blog/

That's How It All Began - https://thats-how-it-all-began.simplecast.com/

About The Guest:

Andrew Davis is a bestselling author and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker. Before building and selling a thriving digital marketing agency, Andrew produced for NBC’s Today Show, worked for The Muppets in New York and wrote for Charles Kuralt. He's appeared in the New York Times, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and on NBC and the BBC. Davis has crafted documentary films and award-winning content for tiny start-ups and Fortune 500 brands. Recognized as one of the most influential marketers in the world, Andrew is a mainstay on global marketing influencer lists. Wherever he goes, Andrew Davis puts his infectious enthusiasm and magnetic speaking style to good use teaching business leaders how to grow their businesses, transform their cities, and leave their legacy.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Guest: Julie Ellis, award-winning entrepreneur, author of Big Gorgeous Goals, and podcast host of Figure 8

Summary:

Julie Ellis returns to Unleashing Your Great Work for a lively and insightful conversation about building businesses, setting Big Gorgeous Goals, the necessity of collaboration, and how trusting others is essential to growing your great work. Julie shares her journey from co-founding Mabel's Labels to launching her own coaching and authoring career, emphasizing why solopreneurs must overcome lone-wolf tendencies to truly thrive. Amanda and Julie explore how leaders evolve, the tough lessons of delegation, and how peer support can be a game-changer.

Topics Discussed:

• Julie’s transition from corporate life to entrepreneurship
• Why women entrepreneurs struggle with setting and achieving big goals
• The power of systems, processes, and people in business growth
• How trusting your team leads to greater expansion
• Building and relying on a network of peers and mentors
• Frameworks for decision-making and leadership development
• Julie's Big Gorgeous Goals workbook and its practical approach

Julie Ellis is an author, keynote speaker and leadership coach to corporate leaders and scaling Entrepreneurs. Julie provides her unique experience and expertise to her coaching clients, gained through 25 years of working first in the corporate world, and then as a leading Canadian entrepreneur. She is a co-founder of award-winning Mabel’s Labels, one of Canada’s greatest small business success stories.

Julie’s book, Big Gorgeous Goals is written for women entrepreneurs who want to step out of the small box they find themselves in and set world domination in their sights. In discussion with over a dozen women entrepreneurs, Julie explores their stories of why and how they have achieved great things in their lives and careers, and pairs that knowledge with her own stories of how she built, grew, and sold her business to a giant in her industry.

Website: www.biggorgeousgoals.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-ellis/

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/thejulieellis

www.instagram.com/biggorgeousgoals

Charlie Gilbert is a writer, composer, educator, and theater maker specializing in musical theater. Given my lifelong fascination with musical theater, this made him an obvious choice as a guest for this podcast! And while this episode is chock full of little musical theater tidbits, it’s also a beautiful look at what a lifelong dedication to Great Work looks like. Charlie started doing musical theater as a young man, in college, with his friends. 

1979 he wrote Assassins, a musical whose idea was compelling enough to attract the attention of Stephen Sondheim; the musical that Sondheim eventually wrote based on Charlie's idea went on to win the Tony.

After teaching and freelancing as a musical theater professional for a number of years, he had the opportunity to start an undergraduate musical program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His experiences as an educator and artist led to the development of a signature pedagogy for musical theater performers that he calls the SAVI System. And, for the last ten years, he’s been a composer in residence at the Enchantment Theater company. Listening to Charlie talk about the fire he still has in his belly for even more success in musical theater was inspiring, to say the least. 

Join us as we discuss:

·   How to sustain your interest and passion for something highly competitive and full of disappointments

·   What it was like to be peers with Stephen Sondheim, Jonathan Larson, and other broadway legends

·   How to juggle multiple interests and areas of expertise in a field usually populated with narrowly focused artists

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

www.chasgilbert.com

https://enchantmenttheatre.org/north-american-tours/harold/

www.savisingingactor.com

www.linktr.ee/chasgilbert

About The Guest:

Charlie is a writer, composer, educator and theater maker who specializes in musical theater. He has been creating original work for the musical stage for nearly fifty years, and is perhaps best known for Assassins, his 1979 musical which was the source of the idea for the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman.

His other works for the musical stage include Gemini the Musical, an adaptation of Albert Innaurato’s hit comedy Gemini for which Charlie wrote music and lyrics. For the past ten years, Charlie has been composer-in-residence for Enchantment Theatre Company and has created original music and lyrics for works that have toured the US, including Harold and the Purple Crayon, which will be seen in theaters this spring.

He started the undergraduate musical theater program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1991 and served as a faculty member and administrator there for over thirty years. His experiences as an educator and artist led to the development of a signature pedagogy for musical theater performers he calls the SAVI System; his book The SAVI Singing Actor was published in 2019, along with an innovative teaching tool called SAVI Cards, and...

Have you ever heard an idea that you thought you understood, but the more you heard, the more profound it became? Paula White’s idea about “Side B” leadership is one such idea! When you first hear it, it sounds like a standard truism that it “takes all kinds” or is essential to “leverage your strengths,” which are two powerful ideas, but they are hardly new. But as she unpacks the idea further—helping us to see that every typical leadership skill has an untapped genius at its side that will unlock your leadership capacity further than you thought possible and that these leadership skills are like the members of a band who work better together than apart-- I realized her ideas go way beyond a simple analogy.

Join us as we discuss:

-     How the metaphor of “getting the band together” translates into successful corporate teams

-    Why corporate teams need a diversity of “musicians” to work effectively

-    How to leverage our “hidden hits” and find our most effective leadership style

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

www.paulaswhite.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-s-white/

https://www.instagram.com/sidebconsulting/

About The Guest:

As the author of Side B: Remix Your Leadership Style, Paula has an unwavering passion for music that she applies in order to bring new perspectives and open new possibilities for emerging leaders. She has an innovative approach to drive results, increase productivity and profitability by unleashing a leader's natural skills and behaviors to bring their whole self into their role and leave a legacy impactful to the people they serve.

A globally recognized sales leader, Paula has leveraged her talents to scale Inside Sales Teams into multi-million stand-alone sales channels. She has helped organizations achieve 8% - 10% yearly compounded growth, demonstrating success in a wide variety of industries including travel and tourism, investments, veterinary, and healthcare distribution. Passion for education and leadership is a driving force behind Paula’s success. She has a true desire to see the success of others and transforms their ambitions into her own! She focuses on fostering the talent of the next generation.

Outside of work, Paula is an avid concertgoer and has found joy as both a lyricist and a co-producer on several songs.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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In December 2019, Amy Bermudez was feeling unsatisfied with her job. She worked in an industry she didn’t love, for people who stressed her out, doing work that was… fine. She wanted more, but she wasn’t sure what that “more” was. In a chance encounter with a relative, Amy learned about voiceover. 

She signed up for a course, enjoyed what she learned and began to wonder: is voiceover right for me? Then, in March 2020, the world shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic, and in response, Amy’s company shut its doors completely.

Newly unemployed in a world that had changed overnight, Amy’s mind wandered to voiceover. 

Could this be her chance to try something new? Amy decided to give it a real shot. Over the course of the past few years, Amy has launched her fledgling voiceover business from scratch, and it has changed her life. As Amy said, “allowing myself to do the thing I wanted to do has been amazing. I feel more alive.”

Join us as we discuss:

·   How the chaos of the pandemic created an opportunity for reinvention

·   How believing in herself has resolved a lifelong worry that she wasn’t “good enough” to do what she loved

·   How voiceover artistry has given Amy the creative outlet she has yearned for

·   How interesting and rewarding she finds her new work, and how excited she is for the future.

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

www.amybermudez.com

https://www.instagram.com/amybermudez_voiceactor/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-bermudez-b707607/

About The Guest:

Amy is a professionally trained voice actor who brings a wealth of talent, expansive range and a soothing, trustworthy, graceful voice. Originally from Ohio, she has lived in Philadelphia and New York. Her background includes marketing, development, and project management for world-class brands within the textile design community. 

After a career reboot, she began to focus on voice acting. Amy offers an elevated experience in professional voice over production. Anything but cookie-cutter, Amy’s creative, insightful work style is infused with personal charm. Her versatile sound has been described as smooth, trustworthy, soothing and youthful; her range is well-informed by life’s adventures.

Working from her professional home studio in suburban NYC, she is meticulously detailed and efficient, giving your project the personalized attention required for success. Amy meets you where you are, effectively collaborating with you to create a final product that sounds exactly the way you envision. The artistic expression at the heart of creating professional voiceover brings Amy Bermudez such joy. 

A professionally-trained voice actor who brings a wealth of talent, expansive range, and a soothing, trustworthy voice, Amy is also a campy, zany performer who loves to sing karaoke until the wee hours, lulls her children to sleep with sentimental lullabies, and can often be found regaling tales with a whole cast of character voices. Amy loves that her voice adds dimension and fills a need by creating an authentic connection. 

She enjoys taking a script or a story and bringing it to life in a way that teaches, inspires, entertains, influences, or informs. Drawing upon her training – as well as a great deal of professional...

Have you ever met anyone who seems effortlessly innovative or full of great ideas? If you have, you may have met a border-dweller. A border dweller is a term from sociology that refers to people who live close to a border between countries and experience a culture that reflects a both countries. In psychology, we borrow that term to refer to people who see connections between seemingly unconnected fields. Ron Tite is a classic border dweller. Whether he’s bringing entrepreneurial ideas into comedy or finding the common thread between content and advertising, Ron has his eye on innovation. 

Join us as we discuss:

·    How to build trust in a crowded and noisy world

·    How Ron has built a public speaking career by going from being a comedian who knows business into a funny business guy.

·    How Ron sees the difference between pure art and Great Work 

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rontite/

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Guest:

An entrepreneur, speaker, and best-selling author, Ron Tite has always blurred the lines between art and commerce. He has been an award-winning advertising writer and Creative Director for some of the world’s most respected brands including Air France, DoorDash, Evian, Johnson & Johnson, Intel, Microsoft, Volvo, and many others.

He is founder and chief creative officer of Church+State, host and executive producer of the hit podcast, “The Coup”, and executive producer of the documentary film, "Fresh Water". He has written for television. Wrote and performed a hit play. Created a branded art gallery. Published an award winning comedy book. And for 5 years, was Executive Producer & Host of the award-winning comedy show, "Monkey Toast".

In demand as a speaker all over the world, Ron speaks to leading organizations about creativity, disruption, branding, and leadership.

Ron’s first book, "Everyone’s An Artist - Or At Least They Should Be" (Co-written by Scott Kavanagh and Christopher Novais), was published by HarperCollins in 2016. His most recent book, "Think • Do • Say: How to Seize Attention and Build Trust in a Busy Busy World", hit store shelves in October of 2019.

Ron sits on the advisory boards for the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival and the Institute for Health & Human Potential.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Julie Ellis, a co-founder of Mabel's labels and the author of Big Gorgeous Goals, has a unique perspective on success. When she and her co-founders sold Mabel’s Labels to Avery, she felt both proud of the accomplishment and sad about losing what they had enjoyed building. This is a very common but rarely discussed part of Great Work. 

So much of what we talk about focuses on getting started and overcoming hurdles, staying at it, and building toward success.

But what happens when we get it? 

What happens when we do the impossible, summit the mountain, and achieve the dream?

What do we do with the reality that even though we are grateful for the success we’ve achieved, we are also confronted with the loss?

This is Julie’s story. Julie’s process of recovering her excitement for the work that was ahead of her helped her to develop her philosophy on Big Gorgeous Goals, which in turn became her book. 

Join us as we discuss:

·   How to set big, gorgeous goals to pursue in your one wild and precious life

·   How to believe in a goal that you feel like you have no business wanting or pursuing

·   How to discover joy and excitement for the work that is ahead of you

·  How to assemble systems, structures, and people to support your big, gorgeous goals

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Great Work Community! Amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

https://biggorgeousgoals.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-ellis/

www.instagram.com/thejulieellis

www.instagram.com/biggorgeousgoals

Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-and-leverage-tickets-488954705687

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Guest:

Julie Ellis is an author, keynote speaker and leadership coach to corporate leaders and scaling Entrepreneurs. Julie provides her unique experience and expertise to her coaching clients, gained through 25 years of working first in the corporate world, and then as a leading Canadian entrepreneur. She is a co-founder of award-winning Mabel’s Labels, one of Canada’s greatest small business success stories.

Julie’s book, Big Gorgeous Goals is written for women entrepreneurs who want to step out of the small box they find themselves in and set world domination in their sights. In discussion with over a dozen women entrepreneurs, Julie explores their stories of why and how they have achieved great things in their lives and careers, and pairs that knowledge with her own stories of how she built, grew, and sold her business to a giant in her industry.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al...

If you are anything like me, you have a LOT of Great ideas! They flow in while you walk the dog, take your shower, and drive to the grocery store. How do we know which of these ideas are worth pursuing and which of these ideas will be a distraction from what really matters? Tune in as I share my process for choosing the best ideas and moving them forward without feeling overwhelmed.

Join me as I discuss:

·   Why you must kill your idea before you allow it to live

·   How to choose from among all your great ideas

·   Why you can’t finish anything you start (it’s not what you think)

·   How to avoid feeling like you work, and work, and work, but get nowhere

Resources Mentioned:

Check out the Great Work Community: amandacrowell.com/great-work-community

Get the Great Idea Map here: https://amandacrowell.com/episode-56-download/

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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This interview with Mary Tess Rooney is the reminder that we all need that our joy and happiness matter at least as much as what other people expect of us. Mary Tess is the author of Heart Value, a book that helps us ensure we are making career and life decisions from the intersection of the value we offer the world that also lights us up.  

What Mary Tess describes as Heart Value is very close to what I call Great Work, which is why it was such an easy decision to invite her to the podcast. And I’m very glad I did! Mary Tess is no pie-in-the-sky Pollyanna. She urges us to acknowledge that it can be challenging to speak up and share our heart value with the world, and she encourages us to be strategic and honest about what’s possible right now and what might need some time to unfold. In both cases, she emphasizes that we are not rushing towards something better, but instead, we are building a habit of honoring our heart value. 

Join us as we discuss:

·    Why the people we work with need to see us in ways that matter to us instead of ways that matter to them.

·    How to let our heart value guide our practical actions and tactical choices, and how that is the surest way to create a life we love.

·    Why we need to impact our careers by sharing what lights us up and asking for the opportunity to do more of that

·    How to cherish your EPIC adventure, even when things do not go as planned

Resources Mentioned:

Website: https://marytessrooney.com

IG and LinkedIn: @marytessrooney

FB page: @marytessrooneybuzz

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Guest:

Mary Tess Rooney founded True Stride and wrote Heart Value to empower individuals to drop into their heart to share value that energetically and emotionally lights them up. As a Heart Value expert, author, podcast host and speaker, Mary Tess creates strategies and tools to help people, like you, voice your value, activate appreciation and prioritize fun. In Heart Value, Mary Tess guides readers to recognize that every experience is an accrual of value, and it’s important to honor your feelings, choices and actions to increase fulfillment and joy.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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In the United States, we have always lived with the history and realities of racism.

Whether we have lived with it as an active part of our life or have had the privilege to ignore it and deny it, it has shaped our understanding of our country and each other. 

Since racism has always been a loaded, hot-button, triggering topic to discuss, many leaders have flatly avoided talking about it. Since the summer of 2020, however, organizations are realizing that this issue is not going away.

Workers want organizations that are inclusive and equitable. As such, the avoidance strategy that has allowed leaders to manage this issue in the past is emerging as the biggest problem of all.

Fortunately for all of us, Gena Cox has taken the time to think deeply about how to open the door to these important conversations.

Listen in for compassionate, insightful, and practical advice to help all of us navigate conversations about creating inclusion in the workplace.

Join us as we discuss:

• How the root cause of the failure of most DEI initiatives is avoidance driven by a lack of skills on the part of even the most well-meaning leaders
• How respect is the opposite of grandstanding and is the foundation of our only viable path forward to create inclusive workplaces
• How to have respectful relationships with your employees even when difficult conversations and decisions are needed

Resources Mentioned:

Get Gena’s Book: https://genacox.com/book/

Grab Gena’s script: genacox.com/script

https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/

Click here to get your copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Guest:

Dr. Gena Cox, CEO of Feels Human, LLC, is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of Leading Inclusion, an award-winning guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes. A noted voice on human-centered leadership, Gena shows executives how to stop using 2019 behavior to address 2022 workplace challenges.

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Join Tara McMullin and Dr. Amanda Crowell as we discuss:

• How our culture creates a need for more, more, more
• How to help our children avoid the burnout and overworking programming from the start
• How to use technological tools as tools, instead of as further indications that we aren’t doing things right

Have you ever felt like you needed more? More money, more prestige, more status, and more accomplishment? In this week’s podcast episode Tara McMullin, the author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting, helps us peek behind the curtain. Listen in as she unpacks the programming creating this lack of satisfaction and gives us important clues about how to de-program ourselves. Tara will help us focus on being in process with ourselves instead of seeking ever more, ever more.

Resources Mentioned:

Get Tara’s book: What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

About The Guest:

Tara McMullin is a writer, podcaster, and producer. For over 13 years, she’s studied small business owners—how they live, how they work, what influences them, and what they hope for the future. She’s the author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. The book challenges the lessons we’ve learned about goals and productivity through culture and proposes a radical shift: structuring our lives around practice rather than achievement. She’s the host of What Works, a podcast about navigating the 21st-century economy with your humanity intact. Tara is also co-founder of YellowHouse.Media, a boutique podcast production company. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, The Startup, The Muse, and The Huffington Post.

http://explorewhatworks.com/book

http://explorewhatworks.com/weekly

http://twitter.com/taragentile

http://instagram.com/tara_mcmullin

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author and coach changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work-- launch a successful business, make a scientific discovery, raise a tight-knit family, or manage a global remote team-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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Join Amanda to explore:

• Why people struggle with new year resolutions
• How to set resolutions that are grounded in the absolute fact that we are good enough exactly as we are
• Three questions to help you discover what would help you create deeper meaning and purpose.

Have you noticed that some people really dislike New Year’s resolutions? I used to find this very perplexing, but I think I’ve figured it out. When we look at our resolutions as opportunities to create deeper meaning and purpose in our lives, our resistance can melt away.

 Resources Mentioned:

Grab the guide to answer these questions for yourself!

https://amandacrowell.com/ep52/

Click here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.

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Melissa’s Membership page: Mindlove.com/premium

Anita’s Hyperactive Imagination Podcast: https://www.hyperactiveimagination.com

About The Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author and coach changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work-- launch a successful business, make a scientific discovery, raise a tight-knit family, or manage a global remote team-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.

Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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In this transformative conversation, Dr. Catherine Franssen joins the podcast to discuss the science behind stress, connection, and collaboration. Drawing on her background in neurobiology and decades of research, Catherine shares why building a "wolf pack" is not only beneficial but essential for mental resilience and peak performance. From oxytocin and mirror neurons to the myth of the lone genius, this episode is a must-listen for anyone striving to do meaningful, impactful work without burning out.

• Why stress and burnout are signals, not flaws
• The myth of the “lone wolf” and the neuroscience of human connection
• The role of oxytocin and mirror neurons in collaboration
• How loneliness registers as physical pain in the brain
• Small steps for lone wolves to ease into collaboration
• How to foster trust and avoid common collaboration pitfalls
• Using biology to build better teams

• Dr. Franssen's website: franssenstrategies.com
• Connect with Dr. Franssen on LinkedIn

Dr. Catherine Franssen is passionate about teaching high achievers how to use practical strategies, backed by science, to improve productivity, performance, and well-being. She received her Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of Chicago and has thrived at multiple universities over the past two decades. Her collaborative research over the past two decades has appeared in prestigious academic journals as well as popular media outlets. Her areas of expertise include stress management, mental health, and neurodiversity.

Join Melissa and Amanda as they discuss:

• How Melissa built the top podcast of 2022, MindLove from scratch
• How our own growth can fuel our business growth
• How authenticity is critical to resilience

Resources

https://mindlove.com/premium

https://instagram.com/mindlovemelissa

Come to our event on January 17th:

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SUMMARY:

On this episode of Unleashing YOUR Great Work, we are diving deep with Melissa Monte. Melissa is a mentor, speaker, and podcast host of “Mind Love”, where she helps people give their minds a little love (which we ALL need). 

Melissa believes that her Great Work comes from the evolution of someone she was mentally ignoring and subduing for years: herself. She guides us through and shows an immensely beautiful amount of vulnerability to her 10-year downward spiral where she had to find the strength to push back against the walls that were closing in on her mental well-being.

Half of her life, Melissa built 100% of her life around everyone else and the core being of who she really was. However, through the struggles, Melissa came to realize that the more vulnerable she is what she needs, the more she can move forward. She works with her personal goals, fights brain negativities, and scratches her own itches first in order to help the world around her.

We may not realize that we are all struggling with such similar things, and yet we still believe our struggles are so unique and no one will understand. However, the basis of what we as human beings go through is so immensely similar than we may realize. Melissa expands her Great Work to the minds of others, helping people not only to expand their minds with care and self-love, but also with guidance to see outside the bubble that they themselves or society has created for them.

About the Guest:

Melissa Monte is a mindset mentor, speaker, and podcast host. After a 10 year downward spiral, she became obsessed with understanding the power of the mind and used what she learned to rebuild her life.

Now, through her popular podcast Mind Love, she helps tens of thousands of people each month give their minds a little love to think, feel and live well.

Mind Love has won multiple awards and is a top mental health podcast in over 70 countries and has been featured in Forbes, Harper’s Bazaar and NYC Journal.

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book:

Join Amanda to explore:

• Why we need to build a practice to support our resilience
• How to create an active resilience practice as a sanity goal for 2023
• Top tips from our resilience series

Resources:

Join me!

Do you want 2023 to be the year you finally get to your Great Work? Join me on January 17th for Unleashing YOUR Great Work 2023, an online jumpstart to doing the work that matters the most to you without sacrificing everything else.

Here’s the link to register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unleashing-your-great-work-2023-make-2023-the-year-of-your-great-work-tickets-474101469257

SUMMARY:

Over the past five weeks, I have been submerged and immersed in a plethora of ways to rebuild my resilience in my Great Work. However, there was one consistent method that seemed to be the most present in every single one of my guest’s interviews, and that was to very simply, TAKE A BREAK! When we are able to take time off from our busy lives, whether it be the holiday season, a vacation, or even a long weekend, we are able to experience time with family and friends that is “unusual” than normal. When I say “unusual”, I’m referring to the simple things in life (hobbies, passions, guilty pleasures) that we don’t get to enjoy on an average daily basis. I have a love for art. I love to draw, paint, see how watercolors flow against a plain white canvas, or clashing oil paints one on top of the other. It’s an escape for me. An escape from the very verbal, chatty life I live day-to-day. When I get the opportunity to experience this passion it feels “unusual.” Make sense? It’s very easy for us to spend time thinking into the past reflecting on what never got done, or gazing into the future preparing for what needs to be completed in a week’s time. I’m here to tell you to stop. Make a list of some hobbies/personal tasks you’d like to accomplish during your time off this holiday season. Once your list is complete, go into that list, pick something, and just do it. Play that new video game that’s been sitting on your Playstation gathering dust. Finish that book that’s been settled on your bedside table the past few months. Explore nature and go on a walk to take in the fresh air. Let 2023 be the year you discover your own resilience and discover your courage to finally divulge your Great Work to the world. Happy Holidays! I’ll see you next year.

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book:

Join Kate and Amanda as they discuss:

• How to create a connection to nature
• How a connection with nature can create a feeling of groundedness that will serv you year-round
• How indigenous people greet a new year

Resources:

https://songtogaia.com

Do you want 2023 to be the year you finally get to your Great Work? Join me on January 17th for Unleashing YOUR Great Work 2023, an online jumpstart to doing the work that matters the most to you without sacrificing everything else.

Here’s the link to register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unleashing-your-great-work-2023-make-2023-the-year-of-your-great-work-tickets-474101469257

SUMMARY:

Listen, my passion for Great Work (and the encouragement of Great Work) is limitless beyond compare. Although, I will admit, taking a moment for oneself and stepping away from one’s Great Work is sometimes necessary. That could mean taking an hour to read a few chapters in a book, unwinding with a good television program, or even spending time with Mother Nature herself. Kate Culver, founder of “Song to Gaia” and lifelong lover of Gaia (Greek Goddess of the Planet/Mother Earth), fully believes that HER great work is deeply rooted in her intimate connection with nature. In this world, right now, there is so much chaos and unsureness, and Katie’s perspective is that tomorrow will never be the same as today. We must prepare ourselves for each new day to throw something new at us. How can we best prepare for these moments? Katie suggests three different methods to find a true embodiment with the wild nature surrounding us: find a “sit-spot” (a place in nature to reflect, reconnect, and renew your openness), Embodiment Meditation (getting out of our minds and back home into our center, for a sense of fullness), and Path of Renewal (a deep reflection of our lives and how we have gotten to where we are today). With these special practices, we can allow Gaia to take full control and return us to our paths of resilience in our Great Work.

About the Guest:

Kate Culver, founder of Song to Gaia, is a life-long lover of Gaia and is devoted to her care and feeding. After many years as an activist fighting injustices, saying "No!", she learned the power of "Yes". First through Permaculture-The Art of Beneficial Relationships, then through personal, deep transformational work.

She healed herself from a chronic health issue that had left her unable to use her hands, through a combination of nature connection and deep self exploration. Kate has developed her own unique system for Finding Your Path Home to Self.

Kate inspires hope and possibilities in her audiences and deep emotional and psychological shifts in her clients, where they uncover their super-strengths, divine gifts and life purpose.

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out 

Join Lyle Benjamin and Amanda as they discuss:

• How to tap into your deepest, biggest "why" to build resilience
• How Lyle overcomes hardship and creates meaning
• Why 2023 is the year of one people, one planet

Resources:

Come to Amanda's event on January 17th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/474101469257

PlannedActs.Org,

LyleBenjamin.com,

TheWorkingDead.Us

SUMMARY

On this holiday episode of Unleashing YOUR Great Work, we are joined by Lyle Benjamin, an entrepreneur who is the founder of three (that’s right - THREE) non-profit organizations: 16 Things Kids Can Do, Planned Acts of Kindness, and One Planet, One People. Leaving his life as a lawyer behind, Lyle found he always had a debt to repay for the kindness he had been shown since a young age, even if that meant repaying his debts by helping the community and our very own planet. Lyle discovered his Great Work was in the world around him, and he believes that this decade alone is going to determine the quality of life for the people and the planet from here on out. But, much like all Great Work, our bodies, minds, and souls can take a harsh beating when pouring our full-forced energy into the world, and we find a lack of resilience and stamina once our energies have been depleted. What does Lyle recommend? BE KIND TO YOURSELF! Lyle trusts the saying “we can’t sweat the small stuff, “ and even though we may have many overwhelming things coming at us this holiday season, it’s important to think about perspective. Remember, it’s not about how much money you have, how many toys you get, or even how many eggnogs you drink…It’s about the quality of your relationships with other people and your sense of community that help you rebuild your Great Work resilience.

About the Guest:

My name is Lyle Benjamin and I am the founder of three Non-Profit Organizations, 16 Things Kids Can Do, Planned Acts of Kindness & One Planet One People. 

I didn’t start out wanting to change the world, I just wanted to repay a debt. 

When I was a child, I had a difficult family life at home. I started working when I was 11 years old just to get out of the house. I met people who took an interest in me, and I appreciated their acts of kindness so much that I went to law school with the goal of helping others. 

And boy was I naïve. After working with the NY Attorney General’s Office, I decided the profession wasn’t compatible with my goals. I left that behind and did many successful entrepreneurial businesses, but I felt I wasn’t doing enough to repay my debt.

So, I gave it all up and created the NPO Planned Acts of Kindness where I gamified Karma. But the world is in crisis and this decade is going to determine the quality of life for billions of people. 

I do speaking events and workshops about the collaborative steps individuals and institutions can take on a local, national, or global scale to push back on the tipping points issues as well as social, economic and health inequalities to provide quality of life for kids, people, and the planet. 

Like it or not we’re all in this together and I share more about the 40+ programs and initiatives people and institutions can use — based upon their own interests and causes — to “Be the Hero” in my book: “ONE: The Fight for Survival of the Human Race.” 

Programs include The Collaboration Think Tank Network; The Work/Life Balance Collaborative Course; Money Matters Mastery; HR Custom Benefits...

Join Tessa Lynn Alburn and Amanda as they discuss:

• How to savor the present to create resilience
• How to build a connection with yourself through intention
• How groundedness improves relationships

Resources:

http://www.tessafreegift.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessaalburn

http://tessalynnealburn.com/

Come to our event on January 17th:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/474101469257

Summary:

It will come as no surprise to any of you when I say that “resilience” is something that is built over time. In business, and in life, we can get caught in moments of “ugh” and “err” which causes us to lose the high frequency of energy we need to achieve resilience. In these moments, we need only summon the healing power and wisdom of Tess Alburn, a business and life coach who describes her Great Work as “midwifing” where she helps talented woman entrepreneurs get into their greatest ripple effect. Tess understands that it can take a lot of time, energy, and effort to find your life’s greatest calling, but it shouldn’t come at the price of sacrificing your internal joy. As we enter the holidays, Tess reminds us to focus on the gift of joy and hone in on creating it intentionally in the tenuous times. Because without the ups and downs, our energy is free and available for us to connect with our Great Work not only physically, but also emotionally and spiritually until our resilience has been built upon a foundation of pure joy.

About the Guest:

Tessa is a business and life coach for women. Utilizing nearing two decades of experience as a trainer and facilitator of live and virtual events, Tessa helps women entrepreneurs get over the six-figure mark in their business, by creating a plan that works for them and rewriting the mindset issues that have kept them playing small.

Her passion for life, culture and SCUBA adventures have taken her both abroad and to 38 US States. She’s fun, intuitive and compassionate!

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Amanda-J-Crowell/dp/1737374196

Podcast: amandacrowell.com/podcast

IG:

Join Mary Scott and Amanda as they discuss:

• How to use accountability to create resilience
• Why connecting with existing groups and resources is critical for startups
• How to rebuild resilience when it's faded

Resources:

Welcome - BusinessRiff

Come to our event on January 17th:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/474101469257

SUMMARY:

Creating your own company from the ground up is not easy by any means.

Start-up businesses always have their ins and outs, their do’s and don’t’s, and maybe even their “yes, and’s” and “no, but’s”.

On this resilience episode of Unleashing YOUR Great Work, we get to meet and speak with advisor, author, and founder of BusinessRiff, Mary Scott. Mary has always considered herself a “connector” and has found Great Work in connecting people of many skills and resources to help their start-up businesses flourish. However, starting a business can have it’s drawbacks, and it’s important to remember your own value and self-care when the going gets tough.

A big fan of getting “off-planet” (a term coined to describe the escape from work life into rejuvenating self-care), Mary gives us the reassurance that if we know what works for us, and more importantly what DOESN’T work for us, we can achieve a conquering mindset of changing the world in what whatever Great Work we have to give.

About the Guest:

Mary Scott, award-winning filmmaker, founder of BusinessRiff and author of the St. Louis Startup ResourceGuide, wants StartUps to be wildly successful. 

As an advisor to hundreds of established businesses and startups, she works with inventors, tech & product founders, and solopreneurs to get them organized, and pitch perfect to present to investors and get checks instead of chuckles.

This is going to be Fun!

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Amanda-J-Crowell/dp/1737374196

Podcast: amandacrowell.com/podcast

IG: https://www.instagram.com/aj_crowell

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-amanda-crowell-51188130/

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All of these resilience...

Laughter brings joy not only to ourselves but to others around us. It’s infectious!

And who better to counsel us on the importance of laughter than the three-time winner of Toronto’s Most Infectious Laughter Competition, Lynn Himmelman?

Lynn has been accelerating the healing and awakening of individuals through the powerful synergy of forgiveness and laughter for decades. A former opera singer, Lynn's health issues propelled her into her current Great Work: New Decision Therapy.

Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Candace Blakely, Lynn was able to discover the wisdom of her own body and change her mindset to allow her body to heal.

And it worked! Lynn leads us in a poignant discussion on how to ignite our expanded soul expression, and then reignite the most powerful and important connection we human beings can have: the connection with ourselves.

Join me!

Do you want 2023 to be the year you finally get to your Great Work? Join me on January 17th for Unleashing YOUR Great Work 2023, an online jumpstart to doing the work that matters the most to you without sacrificing everything else. 

Here’s the link to register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unleashing-your-great-work-2023-make-2023-the-year-of-your-great-work-tickets-474101469257

About the Guest:

Lynn Himmelman – Life-Transformation Mentor (B.Sc., B.Mus.), has been accelerating the healing & awakening of thousands of individuals & organizations through the powerful synergy of forgiving and laughing for nearly two and a half decades. She is a sought-after expert in resolving trauma, anxiety, and complicated relationship conflicts.

As a seasoned, inspired laughter she has been voted Toronto's Most Infectious Laughter in three Championships. Laughter became a mainstay in her life when it played a central role in her recovery from a serious brain trauma. That's when she realized, firsthand, through her own recovery experience, that Laughter Really IS The Best Medicine and, when combined with forgiveness, that it is a powerful pathway to deep and lasting transformation.

Lynn has appeared on various media channels including CBC National News, Global TV News, Rogers TV, Toronto Sun News, The W Network, That Channel, and most recently CTV’s show “The Social”.

For further information visit: http://www.forgiveandlaugh.com

http://www.forgiveandlaugh.com 

https://lynnhimmelman.eventbrite.com 

https://www.facebook.com/ForgiveAndLaugh/

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out 

On this holiday episode of Unleashing YOUR Great Work, we are charged with the task of defeating “shiny object syndrome” with the help and leadership of Consuela Muñoz. Certified strength coach, speaker, author, and founder of The CEO Way, Consuela believes that everyone should be more excited about the work they are doing, and that celebrating and engaging your strengths is how you own your confidence. Consuela reminds us that if we are finding ourselves “sick-to-our-stomach” in the work we are trying to accomplish, it’s alright say to ourselves “I have to do something else.” When we dive deeper into things, we realize and understand that we may be in the right place, we are just disengaged. And, more importantly, we have lost sight of our strengths. Some say “Life is short”, but Consuela’s perspective is that “Life is LONG.” Remember, if there’s something that others don’t understand about you, whether it be something that makes you feel weird or feel different, THAT is most likely your strength worth fighting for.

Join me!

Do you want 2023 to be the year you finally get to your Great Work? Join me on January 17th for Unleashing YOUR Great Work 2023, an online jumpstart to doing the work that matters the most to you without sacrificing everything else.

Here’s the link to register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unleashing-your-great-work-2023-make-2023-the-year-of-your-great-work-tickets-474101469257

About the Guest:

Consuela Muñoz is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach working with entrepreneurs to defeat shiny object syndrome. She is a speaker, trainer, author, and founder of The CEO Way and Impact Makers Playground.

Following a 20-year career at a privately held, multinational company employing 13,000 with $10 billion in sales, Muñoz decided to start her coaching business and founded Own Your Confidence. Consuela believes that everyone should be excited by the work they are doing and that celebrating and engaging your strengths is how you own your confidence.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/consuelamunoz/ 

https://www.facebook.com/consuela.munoz.79

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Amanda-J-Crowell/dp/1737374196

Podcast:

Avital Spivek, an online tech coach, educator, computer engineer, and martial artist who’s favorite Great Work is helping people who didn’t grow up with technology be successful at applying this new language in their business life. Consistently inspired by her grandmother’s ability as a magnificent craftsperson, Avital grew to craft anything her heart desired, which later brought her the gift of showing others how to do something very simply - IN COMES TECHNOLOGY! Avital shares her ability to bring older generations into the world of “Computer Land” and help people understand that the language of technology is just that…another language. Avital believes that if we can translate our tech, age, generational, and skill-based languages together, we can then remove any feelings of inadequacy and rebuild or personal, AND technological, resilience.

Join me!

Do you want 2023 to be the year you finally get to your Great Work? Join me on January 17th for Unleashing Your Great Work 2023, an online jumpstart to doing the work that matters the most to you without sacrificing everything else. 

Here’s the link to register!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unleashing-your-great-work-2023-make-2023-the-year-of-your-great-work-tickets-474101469257

About the Guest:

Avital Spivak is an online tech coach, educator, and computer engineer. For 15+ years, she has been breaking the myth that people who did not grow up with technology cannot get comfortable with it—at any age!

She is a martial artist, multilingual, and enjoys helping clients from everywhere around the world get unstuck with tech so they can make more money in their business…fast!

PDF Tips: https://keap.page/vtp777/stop-struggling-with-tech-3-tips.html

Email: avital@vitalweave.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avitalspivak/

Website: https://www.VitalWeave.com

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Amanda-J-Crowell/dp/1737374196

Podcast:

When the hustle and grind gets you down, you need RESILIENCE! When you feel burned out, that can feel like a monumental task… but I’ve got your back. Over the next 5 weeks you will receive two short episodes every week, each one with a resilience tip from someone who is striving—just like you-- every day to do Great Work. In this kickoff episode, Amanda gives you her favorite framework for deciding what the best strategy for feeling better would be, based on how exhausted you feel. This framework will provide relief and support to help you get your bounce back anytime you feel run down or burned out.

Join me!

Do you want 2023 to be the year you finally get to your Great Work? Join me on January 17th for Unleashing Your Great Work 2023, an online jumpstart to doing the work that matters the most to you without sacrificing everything else. 

Here’s the link to register!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unleashing-your-great-work-2023-make-2023-the-year-of-your-great-work-tickets-474101469257

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Amanda-J-Crowell/dp/1737374196

Podcast: amandacrowell.com/podcast

IG: https://www.instagram.com/aj_crowell

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-amanda-crowell-51188130/

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In this inspiring episode of Unleashing Your Great Work, Dr. Amanda Krowl is joined once again by the brilliant AJ Harper — author, ghostwriter, teacher, and mastermind behind “Write a Must-Read.” Together, they dive deep into what it means to do truly great work, the power of creative collaboration, and the emotional resilience needed to keep going when the writing gets hard.

AJ shares how her great work has evolved from ghostwriting bestselling books to empowering authors to finish (and flourish in) their own journeys. From writing sprints to trusting collaborators, to finding your voice in a noisy world, AJ brings wisdom, integrity, and serious inspiration.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why helping people stay in the game is at the heart of AJ’s current great work
• How to build trust in collaboration — and why it’s really about trusting yourself
• The difference between creative abundance vs. scarcity mindset
• What to look for in a collaborative partner (values, roles, vision)
• How community can be a game-changer for writers

Learn more about AJ Harper, her book and her offerings:

ajharper.com

writeamustread.com

AJ Harper's book: Write a Must-Read: Craft a Book That Changes Lives―Including Your Own 

AJ Harper is an editor and publishing strategist who helps authors write transformational books that enable them to build readership, grow their brand, and make a significant impact on the world. As ghostwriter and as developmental editor, she has worked with hundreds of authors, from newbies to New York Times bestselling authors with millions of books sold. AJ teaches her method in Top Three Book Workshop and the Must-Read Editing Workshop. She is the Head Writing Coach for Heroic Public Speaking, the premier speaker training program created by Michael and Amy Port. She is writing partner to business author, Mike Michalowicz. Together they’ve written nine books, including Profit First. AJ is the author of Write a Must-Read: Craft a Book That Changes Lives--Including Your Own.

As human beings, are constantly focused on the doing, doing, doing, and Jeanette advises us that if we could just take a “power-pause” and listen more, we can gain a better understanding of what we need to accomplish our Great Work.

Jeanette believes if we can listen more to ourselves, we can begin to understand what we need right now and truly begin to feel to engage in what Jeanette calls “mental listening”. We, as humans, are amazing, we are here to solve problems, and the things we worry about are the things we care about the most.

If we can pause for a moment, and shift the “care for” to “care about”, we can understand that solving problems is not just about needing time off or time to get away, it’s about learning to “un-worry”. It is only then that we discover "self-care isn’t really about self…it’s about care."

Join us as we discuss: 

02:25 Pause for a little bit and listen more!

04:27 How do we start self care in the workplace for us to do great work?

06:46 How can we respond with the right intent? 

08:00 What we care about is also what we worry about.

09:27 The FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

10:14 Solving the problem of burnout isn't just about taking more time off, it's about learning to unworry.

12:56 Shifting the “care for” to “care about”.

15:00 How do we help, how do we be of service? 

17:44 Good leaders listen with their heart, not just with their ears

18:58 Self care goes from “me care” to “we care”. 

22:54 How our relationship with our work, with the people in our workplace, and with the culture at work could affect our health and our relationship with ourselves.

26:06 We’re distracted by solving the wrong problem.

About the Guest:

Jeanette Bronée Rethinker, Culture Strategist, Global Keynote & 2 x TEDx Speaker, Author, CEO & Founder of Path for Life®, Inc.

Jeanette is rethinking self-care in the workplace as the foundation for peak performance, engagement, and a culture where people belong and work better together.

She shows us how to shift from a burnout mindset, operating in survival mode, to a Self-Care Mindset®, where we can harness our human advantage and create a Culture of Care® that’s built on Confidence, Agility, Resilience, and Equity.

An internationally recognized well-being expert, she shares the tools to reclaim agency and cultivate the human connection that helps us communicate and collaborate with curiosity and care so that we can navigate change and grow.

Integrating her 20-year background in business, mindfulness, and health, she gives us a C.A.R.E.-driven framework to cut through the noise of stress, get unstuck, and take charge of our well-being as the foundation for personal and professional growth.

https://www.jeanettebronee.com

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Amanda-J-Crowell/dp/1737374196

Podcast: amandacrowell.com/podcast

IG: https://www.instagram.com/aj_crowell

Linked In:...

I’ve been following Lauren Howard on LinkedIn for quite some time, and she is just as passionate and powerful as she is humble and kind.

As the founder of two businesses (yes, TWO), Lauren has cultivated her Great Work to help amplify the voices of others, advocating for digital healthcare and encouraging courage and strength in the workplace.

Cultivating her following on LinkedIn, Lauren began to share the stories of her own difficulties in the workplace. She was surprised how this prompted others to share their stories. Out of this came new communities and opportunities.

Listen in as Lauren reminds all of us, especially us women, that we don’t need a skirt, suit, or high heels to make an impact…a pair of “soft pants” will do just fine.

Join us as we discuss:

02:18 Virtual health - the digital health and telehealth consulting firm.

08:02 The majority of barriers that we have to healthcare are access issues.

08:26 How Telehealth bridges the gaps between somebody getting absolutely no care to somebody getting some care.

09:50 The huge care disparities, systemic racism and abuse in our healthcare system.

12:23 There is a misalignment between what actually is professional and what women are taught they have to be to be professional. 

15:30 Lauren’s new site that she’s launching, which is the home of L2.

21:25 Why Lauren’s face is nowhere to be found on her new site.

22:11 A lot of isolation comes from this idea of “it's just me.”

25:02 Lauren’s backstory of feeling “ it was just me because no one else was talking about.”

29:19 The surprise, the joy, the comfort, and the camaraderie Lauren experienced.

30:18 There is no shame in being a digital-first communicator. 

32:39 The biggest challenge in advocating for somebody that's not yourself.

About the Guest:

Lauren "L2" Howard, President and CEO of ElleTwo Consulting, specializes in clinical operations and healthcare technology.

Prior to moving into the healthcare technology space, L2 ran behavioral health and medication assisted treatment clinics. Through that experience, she learned not only about the power of treatment, but the limitations of the current system. She opened a first-of-its-kind behavioral health urgent care in order to cut treatment time down from months to hours. As part of that program, L2 oversaw one of the earlier implementations of an across the board telemedicine strategy to ensure that patients had more flexible access to providers and that care was not limited by artificial boundaries.

After 10 years of clinic management, L2 had the opportunity to join the technology world at an emerging telehealth startup. During her five years, she built the operations teams from contract execution throughout the life of the agreement. She oversaw implementations, growth, customer support, training, content development and novel support programs that prioritized white glove service for physicians.

In her career, L2 has

•   Built a first-of-its-kind behavioral health urgent care

•   Facilitated launch of a coast-to-coast virtual recovery program

•   Implemented telehealth solutions for hundreds of organizations throughout the country

•   Designed strategy and operations protocols for startups in the healthcare tech space

•   Created go-to-market and market fit strategies for startups and healthcare companies

At ElleTwo Consulting, L2 marries her experiences to provide infastructure design, market fit insights, implementation strategies, growth models and more to healthcare and allied healthcare companies. She works with groups around the globe to help direct strategy and advise on growing digital health technologies and programs in a post-pandemic world.

New ElleTwo:

On this week’s episode of Unleashing YOUR Great Work, we dive into the worlds of Mat Heagerty, a rad graphic novelist creating Great Work one Lumberjack Vampire at a time (A Lumberjackula, if you will). Growing up dyslexic and, what he considered himself back in the days, a “bad” student, Mat shares his mission in making funny, light-hearted stories about acceptance. From his middle school punk rock days to his serious writing journey beginning at age 22, Mat has always been in touch with a creative identity. And what comes along with pursuing a creative life, you may be asking? A whole lot of hearing the word “NO”. However, the word “NO” is what Mat describes as a “rebound word” that continues to propel him into new creativity. Listen in to this week’s episode and hear how Mat makes his work go wider and farther than he himself is able to go.

Join us as we discuss: 

02:37 Synopsis of Lumberjackula Book.

04:01 What is it about the story of Lumberjackula that is so special?

06:33 The mission of writing books about acceptance. 

09:28 Mat’s path from middle school creative to working writer.

12:20 How to conquer the fear of rejection and bounce back quickly after getting those Nos.

17:26 Mat’s other published books.

19:24 Collaboration can make your ideas so much better.

22:12 An overview of the upcoming book “Indoor Kid”.

About the Guest:

Mat Heagerty is a comic book writer and all around chipper dude living in Boise, ID. Mat’s dyslexic, and struggled a bunch in school, but now he writes rad graphic novels like 'Lumberjackula', ‘Martian Ghost Centaur' and ‘Unplugged and Unpopular'.

matheagerty.com

Twitter: @matheagerty

Instagram: @mat.heagerty

Lumberjackula: https://www.amazon.com/Lumberjackula-Mat-Heagerty/dp/153448258X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1667706190&sr=8-1

Unplugged and Unpopular: https://www.amazon.com/Unplugged-Unpopular-1-Mat-Heagerty/dp/1620106809/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1667706249&sr=8-1

Martian Ghost Centaur: https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Ghost-Centaur-Mat-Heagerty/dp/1620108496/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZMLA78LH7J22&keywords=martian+ghost+centaur&qid=1667706290&sprefix=martian+ghost+cen%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-1

NOTE: Mat does mention his new book coming out in 2023 called “Indoor Kid”.

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching,

Do you remember a time when a project took you so long to complete because everything needed to be “just right”? Maybe you’re a music composer, and you can’t quite finish that new song because something in the lyrics just refuses to make sense. Or, maybe you’re like me, and you were writing a book that created internal turmoil because that book could only house thirteen brilliant ideas individually picked from a lifetime of knowledge. The explanation? Perfectionism. The problem with perfectionism? It’s impossible. It’s waiting for every single piece of the puzzle to be spotless. When we find ourselves confronting spouts of perfectionism, it makes accomplishing our Great Work ten times harder and ten times longer to achieve. If we can find a way to let go of being the best and pleasing every single person on the face of this earth, we can achieve something greater than perfection: Commitment to Excellence. As I approach my great and beautiful forty-fifth year of life this week, I reflect on how much Great Work I have achieved and will continue to achieve. I celebrate my willingness to be unique and my strength to fail fast. Because if we can’t let go of getting it right on the first try, there’s no possible way to achieve our Great Work in enough time to be able to celebrate it.

Join us as we discuss: 

00:59 Perfectionism is the number one weakness in our lives.

02:10 The two problems of Perfectionism.

04:44 How perfectionism can play that role in creative work, scientific work, and in an email. 

05:24 Perfection is impossible but we’re making it as our standard.

07:19 The difference between Perfectionism and Commitment to Excellence.

09:55 Perfectionism is based on other people's perceptions and expectations.

11:05 Perfectionism is removing uniqueness from your work.

12:52 Great work is built on the four pillars of great work.

15:04 What is a defensive failure, and how perfectionism becomes a defensive failure.

16:45 The consequences of perfectionism.

About the Host:

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author of Great Work, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received more than a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable newfiepoo named Ruthie. She spends her days educating future teachers, coaching accidental entrepreneurs, and speaking about how to make progress on Great Work to colleges and corporate teams. To book Dr. Crowell to speak or inquire about coaching, check out amandacrowell.com or email amanda@amandacrowell.com.

Website: amandacrowell.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Amanda-J-Crowell/dp/1737374196

Podcast: PODCAST - Amanda Crowell

IG: https://www.instagram.com/aj_crowell

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-amanda-crowell-51188130/

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