Career Episodes

Episodes that discuss communication strategies for career advancement, networking, and building a professional brand.
July 16, 2024

151. Get Hired: How the Right Communication Can Advance Your Career

Find the words that work — to get work.

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Feb. 27, 2024

131. Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacles to Your Advantage

Why resistance isn’t always a bad thing.

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Feb. 8, 2024

128. Four Powerful Principles, Pt 2: Your Questions Answered

Matt takes live questions from his worldwide audience.

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Jan. 30, 2024

126. Making Meetings Meaningful, BONUS: When Face-to-Face Meetings Ma…

Introducing the If/Then Podcast: Zoom In…or Out? When Face-to-Face Meetings Matter

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Jan. 23, 2024

125. Making Meetings Meaningful, Pt. 2: Key Ingredients for Effective…

How to run meetings that don’t suck: part two of our mini-series for running successful meetings.

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Jan. 16, 2024

124. Making Meetings Meaningful, Pt. 1: How to Structure and Organize…

Meetings that don't suck: the secrets to running a successful meeting.

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Dec. 5, 2023

118. Maximizing your Personal Brand: Communicating Who You Are to Hel…

What comes to people’s minds when they think about you, and can you control it? Dorie Clark says you can — with the power of your personal brand.

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Aug. 2, 2022

64. Best of: Techniques for Managing Your Reputation

In this podcast episode, we revisit one of the most popular interviews from season one about how to effectively manage your reputation at work.

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Sept. 30, 2021

41. Speak like a Founder: How Successful Entrepreneurs Communicate to…

In this podcast episode, we discuss tactics that startups use to build a product quickly and effectively.

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Aug. 19, 2021

38. The New Normal: How Hybrid Work Actually Works

“One of the things I think is really exciting about all this, and perhaps a little bit frightening, is nobody actually knows how to do it. It is not something that we’ve ever done before. And I’ve studied a lot …

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June 3, 2021

34. How We Gain — Or Give Away — Authority While Speaking

In this podcast episode, we discuss the body language and word choices that can help you “power up” or “power down” in your communication.

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Aug. 13, 2020

17. Think Fast: You Asked, We Answered

In this episode, we address audience questions that range from how to handle interrupters to how to craft an authentic, clear email.

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June 22, 2020

13. Make ’Em Laugh: How to Use Humor as a Secret Weapon in Your Commu…

In this podcast episode, we dissect how to use humor to build bonds in business and in life.

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Jan. 30, 2020

2. Communicating Our Multiple Selves: How to Effectively Manage Your …

Learn how to shape the way others see you through smart verbal and nonverbal communication in this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart.

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