HeyJaredSustainable Ambition
How do you navigate the inevitable conflicts between work and life? Not just the daily schedules or mounting responsibilities, but the tensions between your ambition for your career and your ambition for life?How do you decide what to prioritize and what to let go of?
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185. Todd Brock on Building Sustainability in Our Careers and Organizations (opens the original)
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Discover your state of ambition. Take the quiz at: https://sustainableambition.com/quiz ****** What if Sustainable Ambition is about designing work and careers in a way that allows us to keep doing what matters? In this episode, I’m joined by my longtime friend and former colleague Todd Brock. Our conversation gets into how leaders can create the conditions for people to do meaningful, ambitious work, sustainably. Todd makes a compelling case that team sustainability is designed, never accidenta
184. Why Choosing Your Work Feels So Hard (opens the original)
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Discover your state of ambition. Take the quiz at: https://sustainableambition.com/quiz ****** We’re often given simple models for navigating work: follow your passion, find your purpose, do what you love. But the truth is, the world of work was never that simple to begin with. In this episode, I take a closer look at why navigating work can feel so hard, and importantly, why feeling that way doesn’t mean we’re doing it wrong. Drawing on recent conversations and my ongoing research about the his
183. Adam Russell on Building Better Humans in the Age of AI (opens the original)
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Discover your state of ambition. Take the quiz at: https://sustainableambition.com/quiz ****** In the midst of rapid technological change and uncertainty about the future, how can we foster a position of agency and optimism about what comes next? My guest today, anthropologist and AI leader, Adam Russell, offers a key mindset shift that embraces exploration and invites us to actively shape the systems we work within. Rather than focusing on fear or replacement, Adam offers a thoughtful and hopef
182. DJ DiDonna: How Sabbaticals Help Us Build Sustainable Lives (opens the original)
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Discover your state of ambition. Take the quiz at: https://sustainableambition.com/quiz ****** I'm a believer in sabbaticals. But as glorious as they can be, they're also a lot like life: they rarely go exactly as planned. I have found that having a plan going into one can make all the difference: thinking about how you want to use the time, how you'll make choices, and how you'll move with whatever unfolds along the way. Which is why I’m excited to be in conversation today with DJ DiDonna about
181. What If Curiosity Matters More Than Certainty? (opens the original)
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Discover your state of ambition. Take the quiz at: https://sustainableambition.com/quiz ****** Pauses can be powerful. There’s a Japanese concept called ma that translates literally as gap, space, or pause. In both art and life, it’s a strategic negative space that makes what comes next inevitable. During my break, I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of strategic pauses. And all the while, I’ve also needed to shift into execution mode and get certain things done. As I return to the podcast,
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