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Imagine responding to challenges with quiet strength and living with a clearer sense of direction. It's an Inside Job, hosted by Jason Birkevold Liem, guides you there. This podcast is for anyone who believes cultivating inner resources is the most powerful way to shape their outer reality. We explore practical approaches for fostering resilience, nurturing well-being, and embedding intentionality into your daily rhythm.
On Mondays, we feature longer conversations with insightful individuals, uncovering practical wisdom on how your inner world serves as a compass for your outer experiences, shaping everything from your career to your relationships and personal fulfilment.
On BiteSize Fridays, get concise, actionable guidance for managing stress, making thoughtful choices, and nurturing your growth. If you're ready to consciously build a more aligned and fulfilling life, tune in.
After all, actual growth is an inside job!
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Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. "Thinking feels heavier, not because the task is complex, but because the space required to think has become crowded." Struggling to finish simple tasks? Learn about the "Clarity Tax"—the hidden cognitive cost of overthinking and decision fatigue—and discover a three-step micro-reset to reclaim your mental focus and emotional steadiness. Why do straightforward tasks like writing a short email sometimes feel impossibly heavy, e...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Are you leading with clarity and structure—or are you unintentionally relying too much on inspiration or too much on systems? Discover how balancing meaning and mechanism—the “poet and the plumber”—can improve your leadership, strengthen your routines, and increase follow-through. This episode breaks down practical tools, including the pre-mortem, to help you align purpose with process at work and in your personal projects. Ke...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Protecting your time isn’t selfish — it’s self-respect in action.” Do you ever say yes when every part of you wants to say no — and walk away wondering why you agreed in the first place? Learn how to say no without guilt or apology. In this solo episode, Jason Lim explores the psychology of boundaries, how over-agreeing drains our energy, and how clear, values-based decisions protect focus, time, and peace of mind. Key Takeaw...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Resilient people don’t let past investment dictate future choices. They measure value by direction, not duration.” What would you walk away from today if you weren’t busy trying to justify the time, money, and effort you’ve already spent? In this solo episode of Seeing Sideways, I unpack the Sunk Cost fallacy and how it quietly sabotages decisions in your work, relationships, and goals. You’ll learn practical ways to let go o...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “What veterans need more than anything is a new mission. We’re built to serve others, to protect. Give us purpose again and incredible things happen.” - Lee James Hanna In this episode, I sit down with Army veteran and Western Regional Veterans Program Manager, Lee James Hanna, to unpack the hidden struggles of transitioning from military to civilian life—addiction, PTSD, moral injury—and the practical tools of purpose, commun...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. "One honest detail added can shift the entire meaning and make your story more real and not just more comfortable." Is the story you tell about your past actually the truth, or is it just the most comfortable version? Understand the Narrative Fallacy, the cognitive bias that makes your brain rewrite the past into a neat, consistent story. Learn how to spot this mental shortcut to embrace life's complexity and build authentic r...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Combat mode can lead you through war; it cannot lead you through life.” — Clay Rojas U.S. Marine veteran and counsellor Clay Rojas joins me to unpack the hard transition from combat to civilian life—covering post-traumatic stress (drop the “D”), dialling down “combat mode” at home, and how families and communities can become real rally points for veterans. Practical steps, plain language, and resources from The Forge Initiati...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. What changes when you stop assuming people “get it” and start checking what they actually heard? In this chapter of Seeing Sideways, I break down egocentric bias—why we think others see what we see—and show simple ways to improve clarity, perspective-taking, and leadership communication. Walk away with practical prompts and routines that cut misunderstandings and build trust. Key Takeaway Insights & Tools Egocentric ...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Burnout doesn’t book a slot in your calendar. It just shows up and takes what it’s owed.” Are you living on resilience credit—spending today’s energy while expecting tomorrow’s self to pay the bill? In this solo episode of It’s an Inside Job, I explore the idea of resilience debt—how constantly borrowing against our well-being leads to burnout, illness, and disconnection. I share practical strategies and tools to help y...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Emotional reasoning is the shortcut that convinces us our feelings are facts.” A clear, practical walkthrough of emotional reasoning—the bias that makes feelings feel like facts—and how to separate signal from story. Learn simple tools to build self-awareness, better decisions, and steadier leadership. When a strong feeling hits—anxiety, shame, anger—are you reading the room, or just reading your nervous system? Key Takeaway ...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Discomfort doesn’t mean you’re wrong. It means you’re growing.” (08:37) What if the very discomfort you’re trying to escape is actually pointing you toward your greatest growth? In this episode of Seeing Sideways, I explore Cognitive Dissonance—the mental tension we feel when our actions contradict our values or beliefs. Learn how this hidden bias shapes our choices, fuels rationalizations, and stalls growth, and discover pra...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Basketball was something that I did, not who I was.” — Abiola Wabara When your main identity suddenly ends—whether it’s on the court or in the corner office—how do you rediscover purpose and rebuild a sense of self that feels whole again? Former professional basketball player Abiola Wabara shares how she rebuilt her identity after retirement and injury. This episode explores life transitions, identity reinvention, and e...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Growth doesn’t come from protecting the ego. It comes from seeing clearly what you did well, what you missed, and where you could do better.” Do you protect your ego at the cost of your growth? In this episode of Seeing Sideways, I unpack the self-serving bias—our tendency to claim credit for success while shifting blame for failure. Discover how this hidden mental shortcut shields the ego but limits growth, and learn practic...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Mental health often gets worse before it gets better—because you’re having hard conversations and making changes.” - Isaiah Neil How can accepting your vulnerability—and creating a safe space for others to do the same—be the most powerful play you ever make, both in sports and in life? Discover how former collegiate athlete and mental health advocate Isaiah Neil navigated crippling performance anxiety, injuries, and depressio...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Confidence can signal progress, but unchecked, it can also become a ceiling.” Have you ever felt overly confident about a skill, only to later realize how little you actually knew? Discover the Dunning-Kruger Effect—why the less we know, the more confident we often feel—and learn practical tools to balance confidence with humility, curiosity, and growth. This episode from Seeing Sideways explores how to build resilience and c...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. What happens when the role that has defined your identity disappears overnight—and how do you rebuild when the structure, community, and purpose are gone? “Retirement for an athlete isn’t stepping down—it often feels like falling off a cliff.” - Emily Huston Former pro volleyball player and HomeTeam founder Emily Huston joins me to discuss athlete identity loss, retirement, and mental health. Discover how community, connection...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Clarity means letting insight be earned, not assumed.” Have you ever convinced yourself that “this always happens”—only to realise it might just be a coincidence? In this episode of Seeing Sideways, I explore how our brains connect the dots—even when there’s no real picture to see. We dig into pattern-seeking and apophenia, the bias that fuels superstition, flawed decisions, and false clarity—and I share tools to help yo...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “DEI isn’t a cure-all and it isn’t a poison. It’s a tool—and it depends how we use it.” Is DEI expanding opportunities—or unintentionally fueling resentment and division? In this solo episode of It’s an Inside Job, I unpack the promise and pitfalls of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). I explore where DEI policies strengthen resilience, where they backfire, and how leaders can rethink fairness, pipelines, and trust to cre...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Resilience isn’t built on perfect foresight. It’s built on honest hindsight.” In this episode of Seeing Sideways, I explore the Hindsight Bias—how the brain tricks us into thinking we “knew it all along.” I share tools to help you separate real insight from illusion, so you can reflect more clearly, lead more fairly, and build true resilience. Have you ever looked back at a decision and thought, “I should’ve seen it coming”—b...
Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. “Design thinking is conscious decision-making.” - Kat Mather In this episode, I discuss design thinking with Kat Mather from Design Linking, a design professional with over 25 years of experience. We explore how design thinking helps teams address root causes instead of surface-level issues, enhancing problem-solving. Kat shares her transition into facilitation and the importance of balancing divergent and convergent thinking....
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