ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design
If you believe design can change the world, you’ve found your humans here on ARCHITECTING! This show is about the architect as a person and helps you bypass the status quo traps in our profession and teaches you how to make an impact with real life strategies. Angela Mazzi helps overwhelmed and burned out architects reclaim their passion for great design. Together, we‘ll explore Thought Leadership, how to achieve your next career level, Time/Energy Management tips to stay balanced, Promoting Wellbeing in work and life and Conscious Design and Social Change
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Lovin' Life: Dr. Tori Ellis on Creating Your Own Career Lane
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
How much do you love your life? If the answer isn't a hell yes, then you need to hear this talk with Dr. Tori Ellis. Learn how to be your own advocate and create your own unique path to success based on converging your interests.
Being present is the only way to be attuned to how you're feeling and what you want. Time taken for self care pays huge dividends.
Let having fun be your guide to whether you should prioritize or seek to offload and activity.
Don't follow someone else's career template- create your own lane by finding a way to bring all the things you most love together (no matter how unrelated they seem at first). This frees up your energy as well.
How you do anything is how you do everything. Keep forward momentum and focus on developing each interest. As you learn, you accelerate learning in other areas. This stuff is exponential!
CONTACT DR. TORI:
Website: https://thesoundofbusiness.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/always_drtorii/https://www.instagram.com/ohiovalleynoma/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tori-ellis-psyd-1a170a166/
Stay Inspired,
Angela
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Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Presence has power- so does absence. This chat with the founders and officers of the Ohio Valley NOMA Chapter offers insights into what it's like to navigate a challenging career without a whole lot of role models that look like you. Hear the story of their career paths as well as what's so important to them about creating this chapter.
Belonging and feeling safe to show up as your authentic self are critical career resources many black architects don't have. It takes effort to consciously create them, but it takes more effort (that could be better spent on creative work) to cope without them.
Don't wait for resources to come to you- seek out or form your own network whether through a formal organization like NOMA or an informal one.
Talking about taking action is meaningless unless you actually take action.
Building a pipeline for minority kids to a career in architecture is important. But it doesn't end with getting them in an architecture program. Outreach to students from the profession is critical to keeping them engaged.
Mentorship is crucial. Be willing to ask for it and give it.
Look at the presence of minorities in a firm, including whether those individuals are in leadership roles.
Don't let yourself get pigeonholed into a production role. Ask for opportunities to grow and lead.
CONTACT OHIO VALLEY NOMA:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohiovalleynoma/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ohio-valley-noma/ab
Email: ohiovalleynoma@gmail.com
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Angela
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Decompartmentalize Your Life
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
You wouldn't recommend that a client duplicate costly services and processes when they could centralize and streamline. Soooooo...why are you putting all of your interests and roles in life into compartments? Let's reclaim your energy (and find some synergy) already.
Compartmentalizing happens when you misplace priorities, abandon your dreams and are afraid of being vulnerable.
Curating how you show up in different life situations is exhausting. It takes more effort than you think to only let a fraction of your whole self be present. Plus, there might have been value in the stuff you edited out.
Harness the value of convergence by bringing all of your interests into everything you do- even if they don't seem to be related.
Get started by choosing the five things that interest you the most and asking "what if" they could show up in every part of your life.
Stay Inspired,
Angela
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Monday Jan 22, 2024
Surfin' the Algo: How to Act on Life's Possibilities
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
This episode is for all of you so focused on getting to a destination that you didn't notice that at some point you stopped really wanting to go there. Much like an algorithm, new choices arise based on where you currently are. When you explore them, you're not diverging from the path to success, you're blazing a new one.
Calling all control freaks- time to let go and start trusting that things will work (or that if they don't, they weren't meant to). Allow opportunities in, live spontaneously, and watch what magic happens when you let go.
The possibilities popping up in your life algorithm are clues to what you really want to be doing. Start following them.
Look at where you are thriving, not just completing tasks. What bores you has become irrelevant.
Take small steps that challenge you every day.
Revisit your goals on the regular to make sure achieving them still matters to you.
Stay Inspired,
Angela
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Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Workism is a Joy Killer
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Working really hard and being super invested in reaching your goals is NOT the path to your dream career. That's just some bad Kool Aid you've been drinking. This ethos, also known as Workism, is a fast track to burnout. If you really want to feel fulfilled, try these tips to add more joy to your life and watch your career (finally) take off with your quality of life intact.
Eliminate tasks that don;t have a high ROI for your time investment. Remember that self care is also a high ROI investment.
Care less. Leave your ego and its hyper-vigilance for anything that might threaten you behind. Assume positive intent and get more positive responses back.
Reframe situations to see lessons learned or clarity gained instead of focusing on what you might lose.
Stop defending your perspective and let everyone be right. Arguing wastes energy that could be spent on creative pursuits.
Ask yourself what the most fun thing you could do- and give yourself permission to do it. This resources you and helps you maintain healthy boundaries.
CHECK OUT LEADERSHIP FOR INTROVERTS HERE: http://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/leadership4introverts/
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Angela
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Thursday Jan 11, 2024
How to Stop Outsourcing Your Power
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
We all got big energy! But if you outsource it to other people, their real (or imagined) reactions influence your choices and behavior. Sacrificing your agency and identity like this is exhausting. Listen in to learn how to reclaim clarity, purpose and fun and start shining your bright light.
Practice the self care ritual of tapping into your preferences. Knowing what you want gives you clues on how to spend your day.
Expect to be well received for being you and doing what you love. Assume people are happy with you unless someone tells you otherwise - it will transform your interactions.
Meet resistance with curiosity instead of defensiveness.
Every bright light has a gray cloud. Negative thoughts are a normal part of staying safe, but noticing them instead of accepting them as true lets you reclaim your power.
CHECK OUT LEADERSHIP FOR INTROVERTS HERE: http://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/leadership4introverts/
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Angela
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Make 2024 Your Year of Inspired Living
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Inspiration doesn't come from following some prescriptive career roadmap. If you're ready to energize your life and career this year, tune in for my guide to put joy seeking in the driver's seat and leave your burnout and overwhelm baggage by the side of the road.
Embrace exponential success as your new normal
Stop doing things out of obligation or for validation. Making your highest excitement your priority allows you to make the greatest contribution to your loved ones and the community.
Instead of focusing on setting goals and achieving outcomes, focus on how you want to feel instead. Choose a word for this year to represent that feeling. This will lead to the opportunities you really want.
View success as achieving joy.
Make your happiness non negotiable.
CHECK OUT LEADERSHIP FOR INTROVERTS HERE: http://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/leadership4introverts/
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Angela
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Monday Dec 18, 2023
Are you Being Made Wrong? Exploring Introvert Shaming
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Introvert shaming is a real phenomenon that blunts the leadership impact and contributions of nearly 50% of the population. Our extrovert-forward culture sets expectations for how we interact that undervalues introvert traits. listen in to learn how to reclaim your power as an introvert.
Introverts can experience bullying over social performance. This causes you to invalidate your own feelings and blame yourself if a meeting or networking event isn't a home run. If can also cause you to be unfavorably compared to extroverted counterparts.
The social tools we are given from early childhood on are rooted in an extroverted persona. Don't blame yourself if they aren't working or you don't feel comfortable using them.
Seek out a social magnet who can help you navigate social situations and break the ice for you.
Introversion occurs along a spectrum and is situational. When you put yourself in a situation where you are more comfortable, you will be more successful.
Find introvert role models.
CHECK OUT LEADERSHIP FOR INTROVERTS HERE: http://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/leadership4introverts/
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Monday Dec 11, 2023
HBIC: The Introvert’s Armor
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
The HBIC is in the room *snap* Being a boss is the way that introverts armor up so they can lead in their comfort zone. This expertise-forward strategy takes no excuses and harbors no fools. It's a persona that's highly entertaining in celebrities and provides sick dialogue in books and movies. IRL, it's another thing entirely.
Adopting a no excuses attitude means you aren't willing to consider alternative approaches and feel attacked by dissent. Cracking the whip makes people walk away not stay in line.
Going it alone sets you up to over commit and over perform. That lone wolf tactic is super exhausting and keeps you isolated from your team.
Leaning into your expertise feels good to introverts. But as you wax poetic from your ivory tower, you aren't making authentic connections. Dictating isn't co-creating.
Getting things done seems good - until you bulldoze over other people because you aren't giving the process room to breathe.
Use questions, not criticism when discussing things that challenge your truths and expectations.
CHECK OUT LEADERSHIP FOR INTROVERTS HERE: http://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/leadership4introverts/
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Angela
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Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Experience vs. Expertise: Why you need both
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Experience brings perspective, but in your eagerness to inject fresh thinking, you might just be making a whole lot more work for yourself. Stand on the shoulders of those giants who bring wisdom and have already climbed so many decision trees and know which branches lead to dead ends in what circumstances. This episode explores why it's important to stay curious and value both inductive and deductive processes.
Experience is what you've lived, your perspective and differentiator. You don't need expertise for your experience to have value. This is why we need lots of seats at the table.
Expertise is not just what you know - it;s the ability to selectively apply skills and tools to discern and adapt. Without it, you can reinvent way too many wheels or make costly mistakes by not understanding implications of decisions.
The beginner's mind learns from feedback while the liability of expertise is threatened by feedback. Merging both inductive and deductive thinking let's us stay curious, ask better questions and get better solutions faster.
Be vulnerable enough to ask questions and share the lessons you've learned. A lot gets lost when assumptions get made.
Provide psychological safety for those with less expertise to share experience and an environment of respect for those that have it.
CHECK OUT LEADERSHIP FOR INTROVERTS HERE: http://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/leadership4introverts/
Stay Inspired,
Angela
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