All Episodes
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Announcing: the Change Academy
After a nearly two year hiatus, I am back with an exciting announcement! I have a new podcast called Change Academy and in this short episode of Workplace Hero, I expl...
How To Self Promote, without being human spam w/ Justin Jackson
I'm going to come right out and say it. The reason I chose the topic of Self Promotion for this episode is that I have something to sell you. The product is called We...
Work Expands (or contracts) to the Time Allowed
Parkinson's Law is a book by C. Northcote Parkinson. And this book is best known for its opening line: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion...
Goal Setting and the End of Season 1
Top athletes, kick-ass business people and high achievers in nearly every field all set goals because setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivatio...
Are You Addicted to Workohol?
Society tells us that working harder and working more hours is good, but if you have listened to this podcast for a while you know that it is actually damaging you, ha...
Work Zones w/ Vanessa and Adam Lambert
Today’s topic is a fun one. Mostly because for the first time in quite a while we have a guest hero! Guest heroes, actually. Vanessa and Adam Lambert from Bee The Well...
What Happens at Work Stays at Work
Close your eyes for a second and dig deep into your psyche. I want you to be truly honest with yourself. Can you do that for me? Ok. Do you truly believe that one day ...
The Frustration of Chronic Lateness
For a good percentage of us work-a-day-grumblers, three little words habitually accompany our entrance to work, a meeting, a luncheon or even getting home from work: “...
Re: Fwd: Write Good Email
Experts agree that your email behaviour has the potential to sabotage your reputation both personally and professionally. Inc.com wrote a story with some of the indust...
Working on Vacation: The Worcation
The fact that I am talking into this mic while I am out of office, brings up something that deserves a proper episode one day but today I am going to cover it as quick...
Keep Calm and Quit Your Job
It’s odd. In school, we spend a lot of time and give tons of attention to putting together a resume, building a CV, and generally how we should go about getting a job ...
A Pain in the Neck - Literally!
Neck pain can be caused by well really any activity that strains your neck. You might feel pain at the base of your skull and down into your shoulders, or you might fe...
Why We Get Sleepy in the Afternoon
If you tend to suffer a sleepiness attack in the mid-afternoon, well it’s not all that odd. Many people experience a noticeable dip in their alertness, attention, crea...
When and How to Ask for Feedback
Some of the recent questions and comments I received reminded me of a few jobs that I have had in the past where I honestly had no idea how I was doing. Or how anyone ...
How to Prepare For and Return From a Vacation
I received an email the other day from listener Erin Moline who said “Topic idea: how to handle the backlog of email/missed conf calls/missed trainings and how to catc...
How to Ask For and Get a Raise
To earn a bigger paycheck, you’ll need to do more than just a top-rate job. An effective strategy for obtaining a raise also requires documenting your accomplishments,...
Dealing with Illness at Work
If you have been listening to this podcast for a while, you may have noticed that my voice sounds a little different than usual. That is because… I am sick. Yep. I hav...
How and When to Say No
I don’t know who actually said it first but I first heard it from Derek Sivers (the guy who started CD Baby and then later sold it for like a bazzilion dollars). He wr...
Telecommuting - The Art of Working At Home
I have been working from home on and off (mostly on) since 2010 and I have made some mistakes along the way that I like to think I have learned from. I have also made ...
Ergonomics w/ Elle Russ
Human-factors engineering, also called ergonomics or human engineering is the science dealing with the application of information on physical and psychological charact...
Talking, Acting & Thinking Positively w/ Dr. Alessandra Wall
When negative events or mistakes happen, positive self-talk simply seeks to bring the positive out of the negative to help you do better, go further, or keep moving fo...
Out of Office - Work Life Balance
I am spending the week at my mom’s house, visiting her, my sister, my niece and nephew and giving myself some downtime before I present at Western Canada’s first ever ...
Shift Work
According to NSF's 2005 Sleep in America poll, 14% of North Americans take part in what is called shift work. Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use...
Workout, Exercise or Movement Snack? w/ Ben Greenfield
I found a great list of “5 Horrible Exercise Excuses” over at wellnessmama.com and and a few more over at BreakingMuscle.com that I think sum up the top excuses that I...
Unwanted Distractions
Let’s face it, everything demands our attention these days. It’s not just our family, friends and co-workers but also our phones, our email and our social media that a...
Low Energy w/ Hailey Rowe
Let me set the stage for you - It’s Monday morning. Once again, in a wondrous turn of events, you wake up feeling great! You had an amazing weekend of deep sleep, good...
The Perils of the Commute - feat. Abi Carver
Today's Heroic idea came from Workplace Hero, Erin Moline, who sent me an email saying "I'm in my car a lot and with traffic so heinous that I often have to focus a lo...
Air and Light w/ Dr. Tamsin Lewis
I was listening to a Scientific American podcast a while ago and was excited to hear that a new study (released Aug 2016) had been done on how effective plants can be ...
To Do Lists
Between your job, your exercise program, your friends, your hobbies, and pretty much everything else you want to get done, achieving your goals and nailing your deadli...
To Sit or Not To Sit w/ Katy Bowman
Before we really dive in, here’s a teaser - some stats for you to be horrified at: Only 18% of adults get the total amount of physical activity recommended for good he...
