How To Take Feedback Without Taking It Personally
The Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Release Date: 09/01/2025
The Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. Most people don’t have “bad careers.” They have the wrong environment. If you’ve ever wondered why you can crush it in one role and completely flounder in another, this episode will blow your mind. I’ll show you how to identify your ideal work environment using a simple...
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. Looking for a new job can be brutal. Even just thinking about interviews can make your stomach flip. But what if interviewing didn’t have to feel like a performance? What if it were just two humans trying to see if they’d actually enjoy working together? In this episode, I share the...
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. You’ve saved every productivity post on LinkedIn. You’ve bookmarked all the “morning routine” hacks. You’ve bought the course. Watched the webinar. Took the notes. And then… nothing changes. If that’s you, SAME!!. In this episode, I’ll show you exactly why your good...
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. You’re on a call with a big exec. You’re trying to sound confident. And then it hits that little voice that says, “They can see through me.” Your heart starts pounding. You talk too fast. You start filling the silence. It feels horrible. Here’s the secret: everyone feels...
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. We spend our whole lives trying to outthink emotions. We outwork them. Outrun them. Numb them with busyness and “productivity.” But the truth is, it’s not your calendar, your system, or your discipline that’s holding you back. It’s the one thing you refuse to feel. Fear....
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. Do you feel like you have to force yourself through every day, grind, hustle, and motivate yourself with fear? You’re not alone. High achievers are experts at self-pressure. But at a certain point in your career, that approach stops working. You’ve built the skills. You’ve...
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. You don’t need another productivity app or “grind harder” hack. What do you really need? A regulated nervous system. When your body is stuck in fight-or-flight, everything feels harder. You’re stressed, anxious, scattered, and you can’t access your best thinking. But when...
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. I’m weirdly passionate about adult friendships, mostly because no one teaches us how to do them. As kids, friendships just happen. You sit next to someone in class, or play on the same team, and boom! BEST FRIENDS. But as adults? It feels awkward. You want deeper friendships, but...
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. Most of us think that being hard on ourselves is what drives results. Hustle. Grind. Fear. The inner critic. We’ve trained ourselves to believe that’s what works. But here’s the truth: it works until it burns you out. If you actually want higher performance, faster recovery,...
info_outlineThe Achievers Podcast: Get out of your own way and find success
Welcome to the The Achievers Podcast. I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success. We’ve all been told, “Success is on the other side of consistency.” Books like The Compound Effect make it sound like the only way forward is to stick to a habit perfectly, forever. But what if that’s not true for you? What if consistency is nearly impossible, and beating...
info_outlineWelcome to the The Achievers Podcast.
I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they work and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success.
Do you secretly dread hearing the words “I have some feedback for you”?
Same.
I know feedback is supposed to make us better but for so many of us, especially high achievers with ADHD or imposter feelings, feedback feels like a gut punch. Instead of fueling growth, it can send us into shame spirals, rejection sensitivity, or black-and-white thinking that leaves us doubting ourselves.
In this episode, I share my own journey with feedback, the books, the frameworks, and the mindset shifts that finally freed me from feeling crushed every time someone pointed out an area to improve. You’ll learn how to tell the difference between appreciation, coaching, and evaluation feedback… plus how to spot the triggers that make feedback feel unbearable and what to do with them.
Feedback doesn’t have to be your enemy. In fact, it can become one of the most powerful accelerators of your career and confidence, once you learn how to metabolize it.
🎯 In this episode:
↠ Why feedback feels threatening (especially with ADHD & rejection sensitivity)
↠ The 3 types of feedback: appreciation, coaching, evaluation
↠ Reinforcing vs redirecting feedback (the hiking path analogy)
↠ The 3 triggers that block feedback (truth, relationship, identity)
↠ How to know if it’s you or an environment mismatch
↠ Why 90% of feedback can be trash, and how to mine the gold
↠ How to reframe feedback as a tool, not a verdict
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