Episode 174: Ditch Work Stress for Wellness with Lori Saitz: How to Use Meditation for Decision-Making and Career Advancement
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Release Date: 10/03/2024
Episode 186: 5 Strategies to Design Your Leadership Growth Pathway (Part 1 of Leadership Mastery for Managers Series)
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Welcome back to the While the show paused over the holidays, Finka Jerkovic is back in action with an exciting new series that will help you pave a successful, meaningful pathway for your leadership and career in 2025: Leadership Mastery for Leaders. In this four-part series, she gives you high-level, tangible insights from her recent workplace report, In episode 186, she double-clicks on how to design your leadership growth pathway to achieve your workplace/career goals. According to the Finka Inc. report, one of the biggest aspirations people have is to grow, move up, and get...
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Episode 185: End of Year Review: Your Guide to Reflecting and Setting Intentions for 2025
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
A whole calendar year is 365 days, about 52 weeks, and 12 months. From a high level, it looks like a whole lot of time, yet at the end of every year I find myself saying, “Where did the time go?” It’s already the end of 2024. Year ends can impact everyone differently. While some feel the pressures of things they didn’t get to throughout the year, some celebrate reaching milestones. No matter if you’re anxious, excited, celebratory, or self-blaming, in this episode, I guide you through how to reflect on your 2024 year and set manageable, tangible goals for 2025. I share...
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Episode 184: Build Your Brand and Credibility with Public Relations: Get the Inside Scoop from PR Pro Abbie Sheridan
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Public relations can be a powerful tool to help you elevate your brand, thought leadership, and credibility. In fact, it has a key similarity to personal branding. They both involve engaging and tailoring your message so that it best resonates with the audience/public. With personal branding, this is often done through avenues of conferences and social media posts, while PR includes press releases and articles. PR can be a guiding lens to look through for developing your personal brand, helping you know exactly what to say and what not to say. Who better to light the way than PR veteran...
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Episode 183: How to Present Your Authentic, Confident Voice with Julie Johnson
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Whether you’re pitching an idea to leadership, leading a meeting, or delivering a keynote at a conference, they’re all forms of presenting. Within each method, you’re presenting your ideas, guiding other’s ideas, and aiming to inspire action within people. All of it can be stressful. Whether you speak to 5 people,15, 50, or 500, your palms may clam up and suddenly you’ve lost your train of thought, derailing from your perfectly crafted script. But here’s the thing — you don’t need a script to efficiently communicate. What you do need is your authentic, confident voice, which...
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Episode 182: Job Transition Plan with Jeff Brown: 3 Strategies to Apply When Interviewing for a New Job
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Many people face the challenge of a job transition, whether it be from a reorganization or their own choice. When it comes your time to move into a new industry, role, or company, how can you ensure you approach the process the right way and acquire a job that’s aligned with your Brilliant Difference? Jeff Brown has the answers. Jeff has been through several job transitions and Edge Moves in his career. Born and raised in Toronto, his love for the city drives his work. His experience in human resources and operations was honed on Bay Street, leading transformational real estate...
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Episode 181: How Managers Can Create Safe, Productive Performance Review Conversations (Backed by Personality Patterns) with Steven Kessler
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
‘Tis the season for performance reviews. I can picture it from my corporate days, gathering questions and scheduling meetings to have performance discussions with my employees. But with that comes nerves, excitement, worry, doubt. So how can managers prime the environment to ensure a safe and productive conversation happens for both parties? Psychotherapist of 40 years and author, Steven Kessler, will teach you how by applying the five personality patterns. Kessler is the author of two books: and . In his first novel, Kessler explains the five personality patterns: Leaving, Merging,...
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Episode 180: Finding a Balance of Feminine and Masculine Energy at Work
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Regardless of gender, everyone brings a mixture of . Some people lean on one more than the other. Masculine energy is described as “doing” and acting based on logic, knowledge, results, and reason. On the flip side, feminine energy is defined as “being,” acting based on intuition and emotions. Words that often describe masculine energy include confrontation, aggression, and control, whereas words related to feminine energy include oversensitive and co-dependant. So, you can see how these energies aren’t actually tied to a gender—a woman can be aggressive and a man can sensitive....
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Episode 179: The Simpatico Communication Method: How to Communicate and Lead with an Aware, Loving Heart with Arnie Buss
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
With different personalities, professional and personal backgrounds, and communication preferences, you’re bound to experience conflicting conversations at work. So, how can you handle situations where you don’t see eye-to-eye with someone, in a way that supports your career growth and relationship progression? Through the Simpatico Communication Method. Who better to talk about the Simpatico Communication Method than Arnie Buss, its co-founder. Arnie is also a Research Associate Professor, a relationship coach, and the co-author of He is passionate about communication and how...
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Episode 178: 4 Strategies to Advance in Your Career Using Your Brilliant Difference Brand
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
For four years, you work through four levels of high school. With each new grade, you get more specific about who you are and what you want to do with the rest of your life. You graduate and choose a profession, dedicating another 2-4+ years to learning and growing. Then you graduate again, but this time into the workforce, without a roadmap to help you know how to make it all work and traverse to the destinations you desire. They don’t teach you how to advance in your career in school but feeling inspired after coming back from a client event, I’m sharing with you four strategies...
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Episode 177: Top 5 Current Career Barriers and How to Overcome Them
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
The workplace is constantly evolving. In 2020, remote work was the norm. Shortly after, hybrid settings took over, and now full-time in-office may be the status quo once more. Artificial intelligence is starting to take over certain jobs in specific industries. People are no longer just tired—they’re burnt out. These are just some of the challenges standing in your way of advancing in your career. But don’t worry. In this episode, you’ll learn exactly what the top 5 current career barriers are and how to overcome them to reach success. When you’re done listening, you’ll...
info_outlineWe live in a world where we’re constantly off to the races. Off to the next project. Off to the next meeting. Off to the next social media post. Off to the next promotion. But when was the last time you slowed down and took a beat? You probably can’t recall, right? You’re not alone, but continuing this way can make it harder to overcome workplace and personal stress, preventing you from excelling in your career.
In this week’s Your Brilliant Difference Podcast episode, you’ll learn the tools to turn things around from stressful to blissful from the Founder of Zen Rabbit, Lori Saitz.
As the founder of the Zen Leadership Program for results-focused professionals, she is a leading authority on improving productivity and engagement through workplace well-being. With a comprehensive background in wellness and communication strategies, Lori helps executives create focused, resilient, and collaborative teams that can move projects forward with less stress and drama. You can listen to Lori on her own podcast too, Fine is a 4-Letter Word, where she engages guests in conversations about how they've grown from a time in their lives when things were decidedly NOT fine.
We’re constantly a work in progress (our career journeys and personal brands), which means we need to navigate through all the situations, good or bad. Tune into this podcast episode to help you swap workplace stress for wellness, so you can rise in your career.
Here’s What We’ll Be Talking About Today:
00:00 — An Introduction to Workplace Well-being
02:59 — The Power of Authentic Communication
09:09 — The Evolution of Zen Rabbit
15:05 — The Interplay of Well-being and Communication
17:57 — Our Individual Responsibility in Well-being
20:53 — Meditation: A Tool for Focus and Clarity
27:01 — The Importance of Taking Breaks
29:52 — How to Live a Sabbatical Life and Find Balance
Mentioned Resources:
- Staying Calm in Chaos (digital audio program)
Connect With Lori Saitz
- Lori Saitz on LinkedIn
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