Revive Your Work: Recent Episodes
Rich Schlentz
For too long, too many people have been feeling disengaged and burned out on their job. In the Revive Your Work Podcast, Rich Schlentz discusses topics that transcend the blurred lines between our personal and professional lives. Relevant, inspiring, and actionable professional development is the only kind that actually sticks.
Work cannot be our soulful identity because it’s finite and we as soulful beings are infinite.
Demanding our teams perform at a higher level while providing fewer tools, reduced resources, and less support doesn’t work.
We are not created to exist in silos. They’re costly from an individual and collective standpoint, it’s time to invest resources towards preventing them.
There’s no way to make up for regular meaningful interaction. And because of the pace of work, we have to be intentional about meaning conversation.
Start putting internal culture first. That’s the best thing you can do for your customers.
A lot of companies talk about work life balance and not many companies model that at a leadership level making their message incongruent.
Macro abandonment , whether at home or the workplace, leads to disengagement and causes people to be disheartened.
Recognize and leverage vulnerability in others as a way to strengthen and build loyalty at work, particularly with customer interactions.
You can prevent burnout. It will require that you discover meaningful work, foster strong relationships, and respect a reasonable pace.
If your drive and desire to achieve is tied to someone who doesn’t believe you can accomplish something, you’ve put your success in someone else’s hands.
When you find it necessary to speak, dare to choose your words carefully and use them for the power of good.
Channel your inner child, rekindle your curious nature, summon the bravery you already possess and say yes to your adventure.
We have a false sense of humility that we don’t have anything to offer and we’re not of any value.
Look at your calendar. Who and what do you see? Who and what don’t you see? If something is missing, it says something about it’s value or lack thereof.
The DIP is the abyss that you must cross on your journey from your current state to your future ideal self.
The same soil that cultivates challenges and pain also produces meaning, joy and fulfilment.
There’s such a sense in holding on that we don’t take the risk and let go to free ourselves.
Our stand alone rules and policies will never result in the loyalty and innovation we hope for.
Effective marketing and sales require courage, passion, and skill. Without it, all you have is a dream and that benefits no one.
You have a dream that must come through you. You’ll need: Naivety. Urgency. Conviction.
Our entrepreneurial spirit cares more about love. The life transforming, deep and difficult type of love.
In many cases, money is the easy way out. But this isn’t about easy. This is about making an impact.
Blind-spotters provide us the perspective we need when our behaviors or habits get us stuck.
Life gets good when the things we care about most inspire us to go further, move slower, and work harder.
The work of anything important is difficult, the work of anything meaningful takes a long time.
Let's resist the counterfeit safety of anonymity and have the courage to know others and be known by others.
We're trying to bend reality and leave part of ourselves behind. This ends with us distant and isolated.
The illusion of time management keeps us distracted from the opportunity of self-mastery.
The lens through which you perceive the world has a bend toward either positive or negative.
Your most powerful communication tool, which is authenticity, is lost when you try to be someone else.
Change is often short-lived because it’s a battle of our human will. With transformation, there’s no going back.