ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design

Can You Get to Success Town on the Complain Train?

In this episode, I answer a question from the Architecting community about negativity. As a leader, you have to deal with situations that can be downright adverse at times.  Here's why talking about it isn't a bad thing.
Your brain is hardwired for negative bias as a survival instinct, so we naturally see what’s wrong before what’s right. That can be leveraged for good as it can paint a more complete picture. It can also be demoralizing and seen as a way to shut something down.
See a challenge instead of a problem. How can you be resourceful about meeting the challenge? What opportunities is it giving you to learn or hone your skill set? What holes in your work is it allowing you to fix?
Build on what you are learning instead of shutting it down by saying yes and instead of no but...
Stop fighting.  Fighting relies on polarizing the situation, making the other party wrong. Instead, assume positive intent. This let’s you build on feedback instead of proving you are right.
Conflict is a growth. It lets us consider a more diverse point of view as well as to see how we can improve. We can’t do that if we are relentlessly positive and ignore anything we don’t agree with.
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Finding Joy and Purpose in Your Work: Interview with Jill Bergman

Success is something you navigate for yourself. My guest Jill Bergman shares insights from her successful career and gives electric advice on leadership, networking, mentorship and more.
Burnout helps no one.  When you need to take a break or shift to part time, don't slog through. You can negotiate work schedules to work for you.
Make a career dashboard to understand your own rhythms and patterns. Fill in the gaps using this self knowledge.
Your career has two major phases. The early part is a doing phase where you acquire technical skills. The later part is the leading phase is about holding vision and sharing your expertise.
Getting licensed is about valuing yourself as a professional. It pays compound interest throughout your career. The tests are actually designed to be taken by someone 3-5 years out of school.
Show up authentically to build trust with clients, colleagues and co-workers. Use humor to be accessible and relatable, storytelling to connect with and engage your audience, and reflective listening to create psychological safety.
The best way to advance in your career is to teach others to do what you are doing.
Be generous with your time. Build a professional network and give back through mentoring, committee work and thought leadership.
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Are You Stuck in an Iterative Loop?

Does your creative process feel like a glacier? If you wan to gain confidence in your decisions (and the process that informed them), implement a better decision making structure. Listen in for all the pro tips to save you time and money.
The creative process goes through multiple divergent and convergent steps, each time becoming more granular.  If you find yourself staying macro when you should be zooming in, build more structure around the information gathering divergent phases and develop better criteria for making decisions as you more to the convergent phases.
Commit to the bit. Know the constraints, understand how and why they apply, and clearly define the opportunities.
Gather data on both the voice of the customer and the process to understand how to best meet needs. Make these your decision making criteria.
Use the data informed decision process to communicate to your team as well so that they don't go down rabbit holes exploring ideas that aren't high impact.
Use priorities from your decision structure to help in value engineering. Now you can easily see where to invest vs. what to keep more basic.
Listen to the Space Doctor Sessions on my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/rZYQpt6MBS8
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Jumpstart Your Creativity

Wanna go lights out on your next creative pursuit? It won't come from slogging away, over-analyzing everything or getting lost in the busywork. If maintaining has become your way of life, you need a big time reset.  Listen in to hear how to rewire your brain and body to be a creative powerhouse.
Take those waking moments before your brain kicks into overdrive to feel the love for what and who yo have in life. Then keep the oxytocin flowing with an affirmation. Add a meditation and journaling session to complete your morning ritual and start your day resilient.
Once you start work, take a break when you get stuck to reset and do something inspiring instead of powering through. Introduce play into your approach to work and don't forget to ask, "so what?" to keep things in perspective. Collaborate with others to introduce a fresh perspective.
Prevent overwhelm and exhaustion by having good boundaries and making self care your first resort, not what you do after you've fallen apart.
Celebrate the big and small wins
Look for ways you can learn something new or push the boundaries with something that's gotten too familiar.
Listen to the Space Doctor Sessions on my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/rZYQpt6MBS8
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Workplace Jealousy: Defeating the Green Eyed Monster

As monsters go, Jealousy is one of the scariest. Nothing makes you feel less safe than being the target of someone's envy. You don't know who you can trust or what (mis)perceptions your coworkers might have about you. Listen in to learn how to thrash Ol'Green Eyes.
Jealousy feeds on lack. Any situation where resources like a promotion, raise, leadership role, positive attention, etc. are scarce can spawn it.
Jealousy uses confirmation bias as a weapon. When someone is jealous, they become blind to a person's good qualities and hyper fixated on their shortcomings.
You can use Jealousy as a mirror. When you understand what activates it, you can gain a lot of clarity about the big picture and interpersonal dynamics.
Comparisons with others give Jealousy superpowers. Comparisons to your past selves gives you superpowers as you appreciate how far you've come. Remember to factor in personal priorities so you see your whole life, not just your work life.
Collaborations are a Jealousy repellent because they create "parallel" work opportunities help everyone play to their strength instead of wasting energy trying to one up each other.
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Conflict Resolution: Understanding your Conflict Handling Style

Conflict shouldn't produce a trauma response, but it so often does. If you find yourself fighting back like a vigilante hero, caving in while you silently stew, or running away from the issue (and people), you need to develop some better skills.  Listen in to learn more.
We all have different ways of responding to conflict based on how comfortable we are with encountering it. When it feels adversarial, a healthy response is hard to summon.
When we believe in something, it's difficult not to get emotionally attached and feel personally attacked when that cause isn't accepted by others.
Collaborative conflict handling helps to move past assumptions about the other party and move towards a better understanding of the issues underlying a position taken.
The goal is to arrive at a solution that allows the best that can happen, not the best in your opinion.
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How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome

You might not be a world class expert or the ultimate authority on an issue you care about. Maybe you can't teach the graduate level class on it. Guess what?  Most people need the intro level information. And you can share it. In a way that's far more relatable and useful than most experts. Listen in to this episode to overcome imposter syndrome and leverage who you are and what you know.
Imposter syndrome is most likely to inflict people who feel they don't belong. Yet your voice as a young professional, woman, minority reflects a much needed diverse and accessible point of view.
You know you have Imposter syndrome if you've dealt with any of the following: fear of failing, fear of success/being too visible, perfectionism, analysis paralysis, overperfoming, chasing qualifications.
Don't wait and hope for an opportunity. Make one for yourself by taking action instead of waiting for permission.
Celebrate the little wins- they build momentum and provide you with the receipts that prove you are not a fraud.
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Is Your Job Default or Deliberate? Find Work You Love Doing.

Stop being the pick me person. You know, the one who tries way to hard but still doesn't get the payoff. In this episode, you'll get the downlow on how to focus on what you want to be known for.
There are no accidents. Your fear of success is the only thing blocking you from opportunities.
Focusing on what you want to be known for is way different than ambition. It's your differentiator, your personal brand, how you are inspired to make a difference.
Once you understand your brand, you can easily determine whether to say yes to an opportunity (even if it feels terrifyingly risky) or whether it's not the best use of your valuable time, talent and energy.
When you communicate your brand, others start to bring you opportunities for things you actually want to do.
Be clear about what you want, but open to the fact that it can look different that the way you thought it would. You will evolve as a person and your life circumstances will change, but your why will keep you consistently moving toward a life and job you love.
Nothing is ever wasted. Every aligned action is helping to build the foundation of the success you want.
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Leverage Your Motivation Style

Have you been accepting the premise that success is only about meeting expectations, validation and obligations? If you want a career in different areas, listen to this episode to learn what's really behind success: motivation.
There are two types of motivation. Intrinsic motivation is all about the love of doing something while extrinsic is about earning a reward or avoiding a punishment.
Our culture is set up on an extrinsic system, trapping many people into a life where they are disconnected from their passions because they are too afraid of what they can lose if they don;t do what's expected.
We need both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to be successful on our own terms.
Learning your dominant motivation style and how to bring in your less dominant one when needed let's you live a balance life.
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You're Not Meant for Mediocrity

Did you think shining bright was just about drawing attention to yourself? Let's change that channel right now. You have a purpose and when you live it unapologetically, the light you shine in service to others also lights up the career paths of other creatives who want to make a difference.
Normalize success, knowing that anything you leave behind is in exchange or something so much greater.
Fear of failure put a ceiling on your potential, keeping your light dim.
When will the discomfort of being where you are today outweigh the comfort of the familiar?
See how you can, not why you shouldn't
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