By Your Life

BY YOUR LIFE is a podcast that will inspire, empower, support, challenge, and encourage you to connect the last words you heard at Mass on Sunday with Monday through Friday in a secular, business world. It is our desire to help you live your Catholic faith in the marketplace and to discover that it is good for business. We believe that most best practices in business can be linked to Holy Scripture and our Catholic traditions. BY YOUR LIFE hopes to offer you practical ways to go forth and glorify God by your life.

214 Letting Go of the Old, Making Way for the New 05/01/2022

214 Letting Go of the Old, Making Way for the New If you want to grow personally, if you want your company to grow, you must let go of the old to make way for the new. This is hard when it means confronting our egos and our strongly held beliefs. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22969469

213 Earning Trust 04/24/2022

213 Earning Trust All companies should aspire to be trusted. All people should aspire to be trusted, because great teams are built on trust. But, in order to be trusted, you must be trustworthy. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22532912

210 Great Leader, Great Coach (Repeat) 04/04/2022

210 Great Leader, Great Coach (Repeat) Coaching is often considered a punishment or a penalty for having done something wrong. Coaching is reserved for troubled employees instead of a common practice that benefits everyone. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22506470

212 Rising from Failure (Repeat) 03/20/2022

212 Rising from Failure (Repeat) It is easy to be discouraged when we fail and unless we seek the lesson, we’ll never discover the opportunity that is hiding in the darkness. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22506911

211 What’s Right Isn’t Always Right (Repeat) 03/20/2022

211 What’s Right Isn’t Always Right (Repeat) Having a right to do something and doing the right thing, are not the same. Ethical behavior is knowing the difference and acting accordingly. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22506695

209 Combatting Envy 03/19/2022

209 Combatting Envy We’re all guilty of making bad decisions. How do you deal with good fortune—your own and that of others—is what separates the winners from the losers, and the envious from the grateful. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22501244

208 Merciful or Enabling? 03/19/2022

208 Merciful or Enabling? A leader’s #1 job is to develop the people he/she leads. But how do you know when you’ve crossed the line from helping them improve to enabling them to continue failing? /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22501124

207 Transform Your Listening 03/13/2022

207 Transform Your Listening Listening is the most important element of effective communication. It is a skill that can be developed, but most of us don’t invest in practicing to improve. Learn to listen and you’ll transform your life. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22433453

206 Easy Tough Decisions 03/06/2022

206 Easy Tough Decisions In business, and in life, we face thousands of forks in the road. When your guiding principles are clear, honoring your core values is the easiest tough decision you’ll ever make. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22357958

205 A Light for the Blind 02/27/2022

205 A Light for the Blind Beware of pointing out others’ wrong behavior as a justification for your own. You’re pointing to the splinter in the other person’s eye when you’ve got a wooden beam in your own. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22272035

204 Changing Your Perspective 02/20/2022

204 Changing Your Perspective People define “integrity” as doing the right thing even when no one is looking. But, we can be complacent when defining the “right thing.” Challenge yourself to exceed the minimum form of “doing the right thing” to what is difficult. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22195880

203 Path to Blessings or Road to Woe? 02/13/2022

203 Path to Blessings or Road to Woe? It is easy to become distracted by what others think is important. When you put first things first and follow the right priorities, you’ll be blessed. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22117355

202 Honoring the Honorable 02/06/2022

202 Honoring the Honorable Companies that fail because their leaders fail make the headlines. Ethical leaders who run profitable companies are not newsworthy, but they exist. Their profits aren’t their measure of success, rather the means to achieve their mission. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/22041524

201 Leading with Love 01/30/2022

201 Leading with Love We rarely associate love with leadership, yet all the qualities of great leaders—great communicator, visionary, knowledgeable, generous—are of no benefit if not exercised with love. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21953228

200 Different Parts, Shared Values 01/24/2022

200 Different Parts, Shared Values We all know that embracing diversity is good for business. Different talents, skills and perspectives are important for our organizations to thrive. But when not embraced, diversity can cause division. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21869036

199 An Ounce of Prevention 01/16/2022

199 An Ounce of Prevention We never seem to have enough time to do the right thing right, but we always find the time to deal with the problems caused by failing to do so. Being proactive takes time, but it is an investment with definite returns. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21791810

198 Lean Your Ladder Against the Right Wall 01/09/2022

198 Lean Your Ladder Against the Right Wall When we work hard, we can get so bogged down in the mire of our day-to-day lives that we fail to step back and look at what is really important. We can get stuck in the details and miss the big picture. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21719003

197 Unlimited Power of Humility 01/03/2022

197 Unlimited Power of Humility There is an important difference between power and authority. Authority comes with a position and is limited in scope. Power is the ability to influence people and can be unlimited. To develop your power, develop humility. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21655181

196 Seek Life Harmony, Not Balance 12/27/2021

196 Seek Life Harmony, Not Balance Although work/life balance is talked about a lot, it isn’t really what we seek. Instead, what we really want is more harmony in all areas of our lives. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21609959

195 Which Came First the Blessings or the Belief? 12/20/2021

195 Which Came First the Blessings or the Belief? Is your future a function of what you do now, or is what you do now a function of how you view your future? It is a little of both, so how do we affect change if we are dissatisfied? /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21538406

1984 What is Right to Do 12/13/2021

1984 What is Right to Do People are attracted to leaders who challenge them, follow leaders who see in them the better person they can become, and are loyal to leaders who are ethical and worthy of following. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21460628

193 Don’t Let Difficult People Steal Your Joy 12/06/2021

193 Don’t Let Difficult People Steal Your Joy Dealing with difficult people is so frustrating that our instinct is to give them some of their own medicine. It may give some satisfaction, but in the long run, it often makes things worse. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21386126

192 Beware of Complacency 11/29/2021

192 Beware of Complacency Curiosity may have killed the cat, but complacency killed the company. Beware that you and your company do not become complacent and let the competition catch you by surprise like a thief in the night. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21305108

191 Not A Truth, The Truth 11/22/2021

191 Not A Truth, The Truth Great leaders know that no one has all the information, can see a situation from all perspectives, nor has all the answers. Acknowledging this is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of strength. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21238118

190 Keeping Your Vision in Sight 11/13/2021

190 Keeping Your Vision in Sight Where there is no vision, there is no hope. But when you have a clear vision, and keep it before you, it provides motivation to keep moving forward, a guide for making decisions, and direction for when we get off course, in business and in life. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21130994

189 Reason to Trust 11/08/2021

189 Reason to Trust What leaders say and do is important to their people if their people believe they are important to the leader. There is no simpler way to say “you’re important” than by remembering a person’s name. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21080627

188 Honoring the Golden Rule 10/31/2021

188 Honoring the Golden Rule Honoring the Golden Rule in the marketplace and generating profits are not mutually exclusive propositions. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/21001733

187 Rebuking Blindness 10/24/2021

187 Rebuking Blindness One of the most difficult things to do is to correct others in a positive way. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/20922101

186 From Suffering to Success 10/17/2021

186 From Suffering to Success In our capitalistic society, it is great to witness companies that have found the way to true and lasting success by benefiting their people and the greater good of society. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/20845766

185 Tough Love 10/10/2021

185 Tough Love By Your Life seeks to transform performance reviews from well-intended, often dreaded, and rarely effective meetings into a more positive and productive experience for all involved. /episode/index/show/jobseekradio/id/20769623

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