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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, moreHow to help our children avoid the burnout and overworking programming from the startHow to use technological tools as tools, instead of as further indications that we aren't doing things right

Tara McMullin is the author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. The book examines the social and economic systems that influence what we strive for. It guides the reader through turning an achievement-oriented life into a practice-oriented life, reshaping how they set goals, make plans, and execute daily work in the process.Links and ResourcesMore on Tara McMullinLead to Soar SummitLead to Soar is a global online network for businesswomen, a podcast, and we host live-streaming and in person events to help women have a career that soars! The podcast is hosted by Mel Butcher (melbutcher.com) and Michelle Redfern (michelleredfern.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our one-year anniversary episode, Jennifer talks to Tara McMullin about our relationship to work, how we make & find meaning, and and begin to feel emotionally sustainable in all aspects of our lives all the through the lens of curiosity, context, and care. They talk about work-life integration, understanding our capacity, how to allocate resources and how small adjustments can make a huge shift. They also talk about how identities are not defined by the doing, present questions like, “who am I without the doing” and “do I have what I need to do this well,” and begin to offer alternate ways of approaching a more satisfied life.    About Tara: Tara McMullin is a writer, podcaster, and producer. For over 14 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 Muse, and Quartz.   Tara's IG: @Tara_McMullin Tara's Website: www.explorewhatworks.com Want to coach with Jennifer? Schedule a session here! https://appt.link/jenniferapple Monologue Sourcing Promo Link! https://empoweredartistcollective.com/podcastpromo Learn more: https://www.empoweredartistcollective.com/podcast EAC IG: @EmpoweredArtistCollective  EAC TikTok: @EmpowerArtistCollective EAC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/empoweredartistcollective/ Sign up for our newsletter! https://mailchi.mp/8e72e8dcb662/stay-in-touch Check Out Our Merch! https://www.empoweredartistcollective.threadless.com/ Any thoughts you'd like to share? Email us at EmpoweredArtistCollective@gmail.com

Join Tara McMullin and Dr. Amanda Crowell as we discuss:How our culture creates a need for more, more, moreHow to help our children avoid the burnout and overworking programming from the startHow to use technological tools as tools, instead of as further indications that we aren't doing things rightHave 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-SettingClick 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/bookhttp://explorewhatworks.com/weeklyhttp://twitter.com/taragentilehttp://instagram.com/tara_mcmullinAbout 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.Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to the Unleashing Your Great Work Podcast!If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast edits, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app.Leave us a tip to Support The Podcast!Leave us an Apple Podcasts reviewRatings and...

Well, it's the first week of January. And whether you're back to work or eking out a few more hours of unstructured liminal time, the arrival of New Year energy is imminent. You know what I mean by New Year energy—it's that annual infusion of urgency, striving, and discipline that comes crashing down on our post-holiday mellowness. And if we're not paying attention, that New Year energy will sweep us out to sea. What if this year, we embraced patience?  In this piece, I share how baking has helped me feel good about going slow and why that's crucial to the way I work. Footnotes: You Belong by Sebene Selassie “The Human-Built World Is Not Built For Humans” by L. M. Sacasas Music available on Track Club by Marmoset  Essay versions of podcast episodes are released every Thursday on the website. Sign up for What Works Weekly to have them delivered to your inbox: explorewhatworks.com/weekly Start the new year with a radically different approach to goal-setting. Grab my new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting: explorewhatworks.com/bookOr join me for a brand-new live workshop on January 10, 17, and 24 called Work In Practice: workinpractice.life Today's episode is an edited and updated version of a piece that was originally published in December 2021. ★ Support this podcast ★

If 2020 was the year people asked, “Can we really work from home?” and 2021 was the year people asked, “How might we return to the office?”, then 2022 was the year people started asking, “Why do we put up with this crap?”If like me, you've been working from home for many years, maybe this shift in discourse felt irrelevant. You've got your own gig; you make your own rules; you create your own working conditions. But I believe this larger shift transcends the divisions created by our tax codes—contractor, employee, sole proprietor, member of an LLC, and even employer. Whether we have obligations to an employer or rely on some of the world's largest corporations for “free access” to the software products they create to harvest our personal data, we are workers.The way we think about work and workers is changing because work changed and is still changing.In this quick bonus episode, I lay out a vision for work in 2023 and beyond that defies the structures and assumptions that keep us focused on productivity and efficiency, despite our best efforts to prioritize creativity, collaboration, and care.Look for the written version of this episode at explorewhatworks.comReady to transform the way you work? I have two recommendations:The first is my new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. It's a fundamental rethinking of why we choose our goals, why we're always striving for more, and how we might create work and life structures that don't revolve around achievement or the relentless pursuit of growth.You can grab your copy—or gift one to a friend—at explorewhatworks.com/book.And the second is a brand-new workshop that I'm teaching January 10, 17, and 24th called Work In Practice. This 3-part workshop builds on the themes of the book and applies them to our daily work. On January 10, we'll tackle job crafting so we can do better work with less stress. On January 17, we'll embrace our limits so we can make reasonable and sustainable plans for the year ahead. And on January 24, we'll creates systems of care for ourselves and others to increase our access to resources, as well as increase what we have available to give and share.To find out more, go to workinpractice.life. ★ Support this podcast ★

In this interview you'll learn about how to make decisions that fit your personality and values. Tara McMullin is the author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting and entrepreneur. One of my favorite parts of this interview is learning how she encourages herself to build good habits. Highlights from the interview: What would Tara's nine-year-old self think of her today.How to stay true to yourself.Getting comfortable making her own decisions.Developing the ability to understand what is important.How to be aware of what matters to you.The importance of pattern recognition.Understanding pattern: What is going on? Why did it come up? How can I relate it this stimulus differently?How to stop judging others when they trigger anger within us.Our tools have a big effect on our happiness.How to make a list that your future self will thank you for.Having context is key before you start your tasks.How to use energy management to get the most out of your work.The technology we use can hold our productivity back.Navigating her weaknesses to help you stay on track with her important work.Acknowledging our limitations is important to functioning well.How she can get back to doing deeper work when she is going through a difficult time.How she practices the commitment to belongings.How she encourages good behavior so she can install new habits in her life.Seeing your decisions as a symphony instead of random choices.How she noticed that she was playing small in the game of life.Most impactful book in her career. You can learn more about Tara over at his website Explore What Works. You can also connect with her on Linkedin.  And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I'll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

This is one of my all-time favorite episodes!!  Do. Not. Miss. It!The New Year is almost upon us…and so is the “new year, new you” marketing. We're taking a fresh look at this concept, as well as goal setting with today's guest, Tara McMullin. Tara has recently published an incredible new book entitled: “What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting.”We discuss topics such as the: Challenge that occurs when you base your identity on your accomplishmentsDichotomy of personal types when it comes to goal settingQuestion of “What does growth without striving look like?”Difference between “achievement orientation” vs. “practice orientation.”Approach you can take going into the new year that will work for YOUMental Health Stigmas that stop us from appreciating people's uniqueness------------------------------------------------------Interested in hiring Michelle as a coach, educator, or speaker? Click HERE. ------------------------------------------------------Looking for a great gift for your clients, colleagues, or team members? How about Tara's new book, What Works? It's a great way to spread the message that we don't have to do things the way they've always been done. And you can provide a little relief when it comes to all that "New Year, New You" garbage.Grab your copy here!Learn more about our incredible guest, Tara McMullin, by visiting her website. You can also connect with Tara through her LinkedIn,Instagram, or Twitter. 

We all connect with the power of vulnerability in ourselves and in others. And vulnerability continues to be misunderstood and misappropriated in marketing businesses and services, political campaigns, legislative agendas, and leadership, to name a few. These days, discerning between true vulnerability and what today's guest calls #vulnerability can become a real challenge.When vulnerability is used with an agenda to acquire more community, brand awareness, or social capital, this agenda moves us away from the heart of this courageous state. Vulnerability is complicated because it RARELY feels good. But what leads us to vulnerability often is good, because it means we are following our integrity even when there's a lot to lose. Many of us struggle with vulnerability because we struggle with knowing ourselves. All too often, we know more about who we think we should be, than who we really are.This becomes extra challenging when the expectation to “just be vulnerable” as a tool to lead and to sell continues to increase. But if we do not have our own clarity of values, clarity of our identity, then vulnerability turns into a commodity to use.#vulnerability is so attractive–even seductive–because it draws us in with stories and experiences that evoke emotion. And it usually draws the likes, follows, shares that so many covet. And today's guest digs deep with me #hashtag vulnerability today.Tara McMullin is a writer, podcaster, and producer who's been making business make sense for small business owners for over 12 years. She's the host of What Works, a podcast about entrepreneurship for humans that's been downloaded over 4 million times. She's also the co-founder of Yellow House Media. Her new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting, was released in November 2022. Listen to the full episode to hear:How economic uncertainty plays into the way we leverage vulnerability for social capitalHow social media algorithms take advantage of vulnerability and heightened emotions to keep us scrollingHow privilege, marginalization and risk intersect with vulnerability onlineThe difference between self-disclosure and true vulnerabilityHow both performative confidence and performative vulnerability can lead to self-alienationWhy we need to account for emotional labor and capacity when we're considering our resourcesLearn more about Tara McMullin:What WorksYellow House MediaWhat Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal SettingInstagram: @tara_mcmullinLearn more about Rebecca:rebeccaching.comWork With RebeccaSign up for the weekly Unburdened Leader EmailResources:Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind GillThe Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, Arlie Russell HochschildExhalation, Ted ChiangHow to Read Now: Essays, Elaine CastilloDave Matthews BandThe Serpent QueenVikingsThe Princess Bride

Today I'm joined by Tara McMullin, a writer, podcaster, and producer, to discuss her new book, “What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting.” Tara has also studied small business owners for over 13 years. She's been an inspiration to me, and her wisdom has helped tremendously on my own journey of self-employment, getting me to rethink and figure out what works for me.Her book is for anyone looking for a new approach to goal-setting, one that you might find better aligned to who you are and more satisfying, while still producing results. In this conversation, we discuss what brought Tara to rethink her approach to goal setting, the importance of examining one's life and making conscious choices, the power of reframing towards practice and commitments, and why she's found the new approach much more satisfying while helping her create substantive results.Tara - I absolutely loved being in conversation with you! And I loved the book and appreciate the perspectives and practices you are offering people to help them live a life and do work that is more in sync with who they are, what they want, and how they want to live in the world. So good!Resources MentionedAbout Tara and What Works: http://explorewhatworks.com/about/About the Book: http://explorewhatworks.com/book/The Website: https://explorewhatworks.com/The Podcast: https://www.whatworkspodcast.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tara_mcmullin/Twitter: https://twitter.com/taragentileLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taragentile/The Passion Paradigm by Lindsay DePalma: https://explorewhatworks.com/the-passion-paradigm/Thanks for Listening!If you liked this episode, please rate, review, and share the episode. Thank you so much!Get show notes for this episode at https://sustainableambition.com/podcast I'd love to hear what's on your mind! Take the Sustainable Ambition Listener Survey: http://bit.ly/sapodcast-survey Submit a question or comment for future episodes at podcast@SustainableAmbition.com Get my curated bi-weekly Sustainable Ambition Forum newsletter. Sign up https://sustainableambition.com/subscribe

Do we really all have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé? That's our tongue-in-cheek title, pulled from Tara McMullin's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting, for a recent Spotify Live conversation. In this replay, Charlie Gilkey, Tara McMullin, and I explore the nuances of calculating time, money, and energy capacity so that we don't tip into boredom or burnout. We share strategies for saying no, and discuss the costs of saying yes when we shouldn't. One caveat: pardon our less-than-perfect audio quality! Because we're calling in via mobile, this one is a little rougher around the edges than typical episodes. If you haven't already, be sure to check out my previous conversations with Tara and Charlie in episodes 091: Quarterly Planning and 141: Process, Permission Slips, and Business Pivots. Your Cohosts: Tara McMullin, host of the What Works podcast and author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting Charlie Gilkey, host of the Productive Flourishing podcast and author of Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done Jenny Blake, host of the Free Time podcast and author of Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business and **Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One.

How do you build a more intentional relationship with work in a way that honors your values, neurology, strengths, and interests?  If you're wanting to incorporate more purpose and meaning into the way you approach work, this episode of the Lead with Love podcast is for you.   In this conversation, I get cozy with Tara McMullin and we talk about redefining how we approach goal-setting, achievement, and productivity.   Tara is a writer, podcaster, producer, and co-founder of YellowHouse.Media, a boutique podcast production company. 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 shares her findings on her podcast What Works. Tara has been featured in Fast Company, The Startup, The Muse, and The Huffington Post.    She's also the author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting.   Are you ready to join the Anti-Hustle movement? Preorder my new book She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life at shebuilds.com.   What you'll hear (and don't want to miss!): :: The way that self-assessment helped Tara find her new strengths that she is carrying forward on her journey  :: What it looks like to face resistance when pivoting  :: Tara's tips on scheduling, time management and setting parameters for energy management  ::  Why we need to change the way we approach goal setting  :: What the process of shifting from achievement-based satisfaction to self-satisfaction looks like  You can find the full show notes from this episode over at jadahsellner.com/192

This week I was excited to welcome Tara McMullen to the show to hear her insights, research, and reflections on her new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting. Tara is a writer, podcaster, and producer who for over 13 years has studied small business owners - how they live, how they work, what influences them, and what they hope for the future. In this conversation Tara shares with us how to transform the way you set and achieve your goals to create a gentler and more fulfilling way to work toward what you truly want. In the book, you'll explore what's driving your pursuit of “more” (more money, more things, more prestige, etc.), set commitments to help orient your growth, and organize your actions as part of a holistic learning process. In addition to writing and speaking Tara is the host of What Works, a podcast about navigating the 21st-century economy with your humanity intact. Tara is also the 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. What Works Podcast:: https://www.whatworkspodcast.com Website: https://explorewhatworks.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hustle. Grind. Boss up. Do more. Love them or hate them, these words are embedded into the ways we think about work and entrepreneurship. But as we've seen with the enormous growth of the r/anti-work subreddit and the panic about quiet quitting, more people than ever are thinking about different ways to go about building their lives, careers, and businesses.As we close out the Self-Help, LLC series, I wanted to address where our productivity hang-ups come from, who our productivity really benefits, and how we might go about doing things differently. This episode is in 2 parts. The first half or so is an introduction to how employers (including self-employers) profit from unpaid work and why the productivity-wage gap has become so immense. The second half of the episode is my conversation with Jadah Sellner, about the vision for business she lays out in her new book, She Builds.Footnotes: Find out more about Jadah Sellner and her new book, She Builds. “TikTok ‘5-to-9' Trend Shows Quiet Quitting Hasn't Killed Hustle Culture” on Bloomberg Dolly Parton rewrites her working woman's anthem for SquareSpace THE ULTIMATE MORNING ROUTINE (parody) Revolution at Point Zero, essays by Silvia Federici Data on the productivity-wage gap (Economic Policy Institute) Self-Help, INC by Micki McGee Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Essay versions of each episode of the podcast come out on Thursdays at explorewhatworks.com and in my newsletter. Sign up free: explorewhatworks.com/weeklyRadically rethink how you set goals: pre-order Tara's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. Find it anywhere books are sold or at explorewhatworks.com/book. ★ Support this podcast ★

Do we really all have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé? Join us for a Spotify Live conversation on Thursday, October 20 at 1pm ET as we explore time, money, and energy capacity. Register here to join us » Your hosts: Tara McMullin, host of the What Works podcast and author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting Charlie Gilkey, host of the Productive Flourishing podcast and author of Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done, and Jenny Blake, host of the Free Time podcast and author of Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business. Download the Spotify Live app at spotify.com/live for iOS or Android — and sign up for notifications on our profiles to be reminded to join when it's time. We look forward to seeing you there! — ❤️ Tara, Charlie, and Jenny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I wanted to include an episode on bodies in the Self-Help, LLC series because so much of our modern discourse around productivity, empowerment, entrepreneurship, and personal growth includes messages about our bodies. These messages might not be explicit, but the messages are there—and our brains pick them up loud and clear.Similarly, we might not realize that we're sharing messages that insert themselves into how others perceive their own bodies—but many of us are. It's impossible to talk about self-discipline, accountability, or efficiency without those concepts leaving their marks on our flesh.This episode covers a tiny sliver of all the ways that the medium of self-help acts on our bodies. But my hope is that it will encourage you to think critically about the messages you receive about your body and the messages you share that might impact others' bodies.You'll hear from independent beauty culture journalist Jessica DeFino, body confidence influencer Tiffany Ima, and Flaunt Your Fire founder India Jackson.This episode contains frank talk about bodies, weight, beauty, dieting, and related topics. I know that these subjects can trigger harmful thoughts and behaviors for me if I'm not careful. So please, take care while listening to this episode.Footnotes: Subscribe to Jessica DeFino's newsletter about beauty culture and the beauty industry. Follow Tiffany Ima on Instagram. Listen to the Flaunt Your Fire podcast and learn more about India Jackson. Erica Courdae on reconsidering your normal, as well as “Normal is a Life with Michelle Kuei” on the Pause on the Play podcast. “Body acceptance stops at the skin. Why?” by Jessica DeFino “The Skin as an Antidote to Consumerism” by Jessica DeFino “How White Supremacy and Capitalism Influence Beauty Culture” by Jessica DeFino in TeenVogue What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon “Postscript on Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze Self-Help, INC by Micki McGee “Rachel Hollis Part 1: Hashtag Relatable” on Maintenance Phase “The Trouble with Calories” on Maintenance Phase “Bodybuilding vs Powerlifting vs Weightlifting” on Shape Confidence Culture by Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman 3 Books for Remembering “You Have a Body”: On disability, on chronic illness, and on our bodies in society Radically rethink how you set goals: pre-order Tara's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. Find it anywhere books are sold or at explorewhatworks.com/book. ★ Support this podcast ★

We form an impression of our voices early in life. While it might shift some as we age, those impressions tend to stick with us. For many of us, what we learn about our voices is how their don't quite measure up to the ideal: too high, too low, too soft, too loud, too this, too that. This is especially true for women, queer people, transgender people, non-native English speakers, Black people, people of color, indigenous people, and really anyone whose voice doesn't fit into the white, male baritone mold.So what do we do? We try to sound more like everyone else. And that can not only mess with our ability to use our physical voices, but it messes with our ability to use our metaphorical voices and confuses our sense of self.Samara Bay, a Hollywood dialect coach who's worked on blockbusters like Wonder Woman and Guardians of the Galaxy, is on a mission to help everyone find “permission to speak.” In this episode, we dig into how the self-help imperative to “own your voice” might be more complicated than it sounds.Footnotes: Find out more about Samara Bay Pre-order Samara's book Permission to Speak “I still have a voice” by Alice Wong Samara Bay on Anna Sorokin and Elizabeth Holmes's voices Women and Power by Mary Beard More about African American Vernacular English on Pause on the Play College students talk about their relationships to their Southern accents on Dolly Parton's America “The Magic of Voice Transitioning with Nicole Gress” on Camp Wild Heart with Mackenzie Dunham “Me minus me” on This American Life (Sandy Allen's vocal transition) “If you don't have anything nice to say” on This American Life (complaints about female voices) More on the mid-atlantic accent Radically rethink how you set goals: pre-order Tara's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. Find it anywhere books are sold or at explorewhatworks.com/book. ★ Support this podcast ★

There's an influencer for every thing these days. Camping equipment? Sure. Nutritional supplements? You bet. Miniatures? You know it. College admissions? But of course. In this episode, though, we're going to focus on one of the original influencer niches: MOMS.The rise of the influencer ushered in a new outlet for self-help. Now, not only are there motivational books and talks, there's a product endorsement to help you live your best life. Influencers give us, perhaps, the direct line between personal growth and consumer capitalism. I talk with the author of the forthcoming Momfluenced, Sara Petersen, about all of that and more.Footnotes: Subscribe to Sara Petersen's newsletter Pre-order Momfluenced “Life After Lifestyle” by Toby Shorin “The Rhetoric of the Image” by Roland Barthes The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Episode 393 with Kelly Diels Episode 395 with Steph Barron Hall “The Influencer Industry: Constructing and Commodifying Authenticity on Social Media” by Emily Dean Hund Radically rethink how you set goals: pre-order Tara's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. Find it anywhere books are sold or at explorewhatworks.com/book. ★ Support this podcast ★

If your Instagram feed or Explore page looks anything like mine, then you likely see a preponderance of posts about personality types, conditions, or other self-knowledge. We're hooked on learning about ourselves! And perhaps even more hooked on sharing what we've learned—which means that the Instagram algorithm (as well as TikTok's and Pinterest's algorithms) has learned to love this kind of content, too.In this episode, I explore discovering ourselves versus making ourselves, why self-knowledge is big business on Instagram, and how creating viral personality content can wreak havoc on the creator's psyche. To dig into this with me, I invited @ninetypesco creator, Steph Barron Hall, onto the show.Footnotes: Find Steph Barron Hall on Instagram (@ninetypesco) Learn more about working with Steph How to be Authentic by Skye Cleary Learn more about the Enneagram and find your type The Nine Types of Rest Self-Help, INC by Micki McGee “Double consciousness” “Looking glass self” Essay versions of each episode are posted at explorewhatworks.com every Thursday. Or, sign up FREE at explorewhatworks.com/weekly to get them delivered straight to your inbox.Radically rethink how you set goals: pre-order Tara's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. Find it anywhere books are sold or at explorewhatworks.com/book. ★ Support this podcast ★

Footnotes: Edelman Trust Barometer 2022 “Confidence in US Institutions Down; Average at New Low” Gallup “Fatigue, traditionalism, and engagement: the news habits and attitudes of the Gen Z and Millennial generations” American Press Institute “We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers” by Rachel Botsman (TED Talk) “The Change Rules of Trust in the Digital Age” by Rachel Botsman (HBR) “Gun Culture and Wellness Culture Come From the Same Place” by Alan Levinovitz (Huffington Post) Radically rethink how you set goals: pre-order Tara's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. Find it anywhere books are sold or at explorewhatworks.com/book. ★ Support this podcast ★

The economy seems like a monolithic entity we measure, manage, and adapt to. But really, economics (as a field) and the economy (as a system) is really just an agglomeration of human decisions. What's in? What's out? What's up? What's down? And most importantly: Why? In this episode, I talk with Stacey Vanek Smith, a co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money and this summer's guide for Planet Money Summer School. We talk about how someone with no economics background can get so obsessed, how the economy is a profoundly human system, and, of course, inflation.Footnotes: Planet Money Summer School “GDP & What Counts” (Summer School 2) “Why is the Fed so boring?” The Indicator from Planet Money More about Stacey Vanek Smith Episodes of What Works are published as articles every Thursday. Get them delivered straight to your inbox at explorewhatworks.com/weekly Leave a review, browse old episodes, or leave a voicemail at whatworkspodcast.com Pre-order What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting at explorewhatworks.com/book Radically rethink how you set goals: pre-order Tara's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. Find it anywhere books are sold or at explorewhatworks.com/book.★ Support this podcast ★