EP 75 The Secret to Restoring Sanity to the Workplace, with Cy Wakeman
Description
Research has shown that the average employee spends nearly 2.5 hours per day in drama – gossiping, tattling, withholding buy-in, resisting change, and stepping down from accountability.
Drama is emotional waste – any unproductive thought or behavior – and like any other waste in the workplace, Cy believes drama can be eliminated through great mental processes, and that’s why her work is focused on giving leaders tools to recapture that emotional waste and upcycle it into results.
In this episode, Cy and I chat about working mom guilt, workplace politics, judgment, competition, and how to let all of that drama go.
Show Notes
(02:32 ) The limits of people-pleasing: How Cy was surprised by her performance review
(09:43 ) Are women harassed by unfair grading systems?
(16:45 ) Are you willing to have people be wrong about you so that you can live the life you want to live?
(20:33 ) "Skilling up" your kids
(22:59 ) Cy shares a story of being healed through alternate states of consciousness
(28:30 ) Your childhood stories of trauma may not be as important as you believe them to be
(30:31 ) Mom competition is soul-crushing
(31:42 ) There are only two types of actions: acts of love, and cries FOR love
(33:06 ) Why we tend to outsource our self-love to external people
(38:26 ) How we can stop transferring our anxiety onto others
(42:00 ) Life can be a lot bigger than whatever pain you are in now: Cy's 3-word thought experiment
(44:01 ) Why our ego wants us to be a victim
Cy’s links:
Website: https://realitybasedleadership.com/
IG: @CyWakeman
YouTube: @CyWakeman
Books:
Life’s Messy, Live Happy
No Ego
Reality-Based Leadership
The Reality-Based Rule of the Workplace
United States
