happy healthy hustle

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!What is your superpower?I ask almost every guest that question.Some light up.Most go quiet.Almost nobody has the answer ready.I'm a behavioral economist, so I pay attention to patterns like this. We know how to talk about what we do. Our titles. Our output. Our hours. A superpower is none of that. It is the one thing you do that nobody around you does quite the same way.Because here's the truth: your superpower usually hides inside the thing you underestimate. The trait you apologize for. The gift that comes so easily you assume it cannot possibly count.In this episode:→ Why almost nobody can name their superpower→ Where your superpower hides→ Why nobody's superpower outranks anyone else's→ Why chasing someone else's strength feels like walking uphill→ Your petite practice® for this week: ask three people who know you well one question"And then she admitted she spent years believing it was actually her weakness."Petite Practice®: Small, Steady Steps to a Life of Momentum and Real Change is out now. If you are still admiring everyone else's strengths, the book is your next small step: https://doctorchristiane.com/books/One question before you go. What is the strength you keep apologizing for? Tell one person this week, and follow the show so the next episode finds you.Cheers to the strength you already have.Warmly, ChristianeBook Dr. Christiane as your leadership keynote speaker → doctorchristiane.com/speaking

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Episode 100.This show started as audio recordings on my cell phone. Today Happy Healthy Hustle sits in the top 1% of podcasts worldwide. So for this one, I refused to tiptoe.Want to say congratulations on episode 100? Leave me a voicemail (up to 60 seconds): https://rss.com/podcasts/happyhealthyhustle/voicemail/ ... I would love to hear your voice, and you might hear yourself on a future episode.Picture a brilliant writer. She spends two years on a book. She pours everything she knows into it.Then she hits publish and says almost nothing. One quiet post on a Tuesday.The room stays empty. And she quietly decides the book was not that good after all.But it was good. She just never told anyone.Because here's the truth: "build it and they will come" makes a great baseball movie. It makes pretty terrible publishing advice.As a behavioral economist, I can tell you why. Psychologists call it the mere exposure effect. People trust and choose what they have already seen. Every time you stay quiet, your work stays unfamiliar. And unfamiliar almost never wins.So when my own book came out, I planned a full ball drop. Countdown, confetti, the whole spectacle.In this episode:→ Why the most thoughtful people tend to have the quietest launches→ The mere exposure effect, and why the book someone picks up is often the one they have already seen four times→ The difference between promoting yourself and pointing at your work→ The Ball Drop: three moves that turn a launch into an event (tell them early, give them a date, invite them in)→ Your Petite Practice® this week: one thing you are quietly proud of, said out loud to one person"Quiet feels humble, but it behaves like the politest kind of selfish."Petite Practice®: Small, Steady Steps to a Life of Momentum and Real Change is out now. If you have work you have been quietly proud of, the book is your next small step: https://doctorchristiane.com/books/One question before you go. What is the thing you made and then kind of hid? Tell one person about it today. Then follow the show so the next episode finds you.Here's to 100 episodes, and to letting it be loud.Warmly, Dr. ChristianeWatch the full episode: https://youtu.be/OUuI-mwIjFABook Dr. Christiane as your leadership keynote speaker → doctorchristiane.com/speaking

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!You had a great idea.You were refining it. One more tweak before you said it out loud.And then the conversation moved on.If that has happened to you, you are not alone. Many of the most capable people in a room struggle with exactly this.Somewhere along the way we bought a myth that confidence has to be loud. That leadership means talking first and talking most.The leaders people trust most are rarely the loudest ones. They have something quieter.I call it quiet ambition.In this episode:→ What quiet ambition means: ambition without performance→ Why your pause is clarity forming, and how to stop apologizing for it→ The question that changes how people hear you: "will this help the room think better?"→ Two one-sentence re-entry lines for when the moment has passed→ Your petite practice® for this week: one meeting, one sentence, one idea"A point made late and clearly always lands better than a point made early and half-formed."Petite Practice®: Small, Steady Steps to a Life of Momentum and Real Change is out now. If you have an idea you keep refining and never say, the book is your next small step: https://doctorchristiane.com/books/One question before you go. What is the sentence you are still holding from your last meeting? Leave it in a comment, and follow the show so the next one finds you.Cheers to your quiet voice.Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/cpi4pOXhllg?si=1JyVt4JuykjIDlL8Book Dr. Christiane as your leadership keynote speaker → doctorchristiane.com/speaking

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!She did the whole assignment.She did it early.And she still got a zero.My student Sammy finished her work and held onto it, waiting until it felt completely right. Then the deadline passed while it sat there.Because here's the truth. Smart, capable people still procrastinate. Sometimes the work gets done and the handing-in is what waits.So I pulled out three jars of water.One explains why you procrastinate.One explains why you panic before every deadline.One is the jar you actually want to live in.Listen to find out which is which.In this episode:→ Why finishing early can still end in a missed deadline→ The big jar and the tiny jar, and what each one feels like from the inside→ The Goldilocks rule: not too far, not too close→ Parkinson's Law, in plain language→ What Sammy will do differently with the next assignmentQuote to Note:"Smart, capable people still procrastinate until the last minute."Petite Practice®: Small, Steady Steps to a Life of Momentum and Real Change is out now. If you have something finished and still sitting on your desk, the book is your next small step: https://doctorchristiane.com/books/One question before you go.Which deadline are you shrinking this week?Leave it in a comment, and follow the show so the next one finds you.Cheers to turning it in.Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/pLeNd7ISmBQBook Dr. Christiane as your leadership keynote speaker → doctorchristiane.com/speaking

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!You posted it. Good reach, good numbers.And a week later, nobody remembers it was yours.Because here's the truth. Being seen and being felt are two completely different outcomes. Only one of them builds trust.So when an influencer popped up on Sammy's feed and she said what most of us think ("they just do everything for show"), we put the phone away. We made tea. And I pulled out a pineapple mug.This is a four-minute conversation with my Cal Poly student Sammy about a mug, a restaurant in Lahaina that no longer exists, and why the things we never post are often the things that hold us.In this episode:→ The two requirements I gave a coffee mug, and why "big" was only one of them→ A pineapple cup a five-year-old talked her parents into, and what it became after the Lahaina fire→ Why your brain works like a jukebox when you look at certain objects→ The Inside Out memory ball, and why you may not need the photo→ The one question to ask instead of "how do I get more people to see me?"Quote to Note:"Visibility gets you in the room. Resonance is what makes people stay."Petite Practice®: Small, Steady Steps to a Life of Momentum and Real Change is out now. If this one made you look up from the scroll, the book is your next small step: https://doctorchristiane.com/books/One question before you go. Whose message has stayed with you? Leave it in a comment, and follow the show so the next one finds you.Cheers to more pineapples in Maui.Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/UdWxFqL6dksBook Dr. Christiane as your leadership keynote speaker → doctorchristiane.com/speaking