{"podcast":{"title":"How to Be Awesome at Your Job","slug":"how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232","podcast_index_feed_id":956232,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/ba/16/98/a4/ba1698a4-45a9-4a5b-9947-89008be0e11f/635c0b30335454cc84814394c5dd04a1c5a7b91c61f1c43b3d877b6ec7e6c1e66fc90a0380b9ff1e4966e68aa73cc4d88eb76d6ae2f6b4733709e3cba6c33e3b.jpeg","author":"How to be Awesome at Your Job","episode_count":1193,"summary":"Get more fun, wins, meaning, and money from your job! With 25,000,000 downloads and mentions in The New York Times , Forbes , and Linkedin Learning. This show helps grow your skills and impact at any job that requires thinking and collaborating. Each week, Pete interviews thought-leaders and results-getters to discover specific, actionable insights that boost work performance. Their stories and advice sharpen the universal skills to flourish at work. Boost your time/energy management, leadership, confidence, career opportunities, and fulfillment—while still getting home earlier. Try starting with episode 0: START HERE and listener favorite episodes we put at the beginning numbered: A, B, C, D, E, and F. (Subscribe and/or sort Old to New to find these starter episodes.) 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She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting behavior hacks for audiences around the world. She is a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine and the Huffington Post. Her popular courses on Creative Live and Udemy have over 120,000 enrolled students. She’s been featured on NPR, CNN, Forbes and USA Today, but more importantly, she’s addicted to sour patch kids, airplane coffee and puppies. • Book:&nbsp; “Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People” • Facial Expression Guide: ScienceOfPeople.com/face • TED Talk: You are contagious | TEDxLondon • Website: Science of People • YouTube: Vanessa Van Edwards — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —&nbsp; • Book:&nbsp; “Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps” by Barbara and Allan Pease • Researcher: Dr. Ekman • Term: Expectancy effect • Test: The Big Five Personality Test • Show: “Lie To Me” — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —&nbsp; •&nbsp; Shopify . 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