Walks With a Young Professional Hosted By Brandon Klein: Recent Episodes
Brandon Klein
Welcome to the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast!
This show is for young professionals, who want to know how to thrive in their careers without needing 15, 20, or 25 years of experience!
Learn from Brandon Klein, a proven leader in the tech world, who has driven success in companies ranging from startups to large organizations.
Inside each episode, you’ll take a walk with Brandon as he pulls back the curtain and shares the biggest lessons and strategies he’s learned to drive success in his career.
No fancy mic, no super long episodes, just a quick walk with Brandon every day.
On episode 215 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the secret behind the superpower of reducing the level of energy consumed by day-to-day decisions.
On episode 214 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the power of putting yourself in the shoes of company leadership to quality check each decision you make.
On episode 213 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares his perspective on the considerations that any person looking for the right job should make before accepting a job offer
On episode 212 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the importance of respecting your colleagues personal time by holding off work communications until the next working hours.
On episode 211 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a table-stakes strategy for maximizing the quality of communication in a group setting when you’re asked a question.
On episode 210 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares how recognizing existing forms of positivity within an organization, can lead to more positivity.
On episode 209 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon sheds light on the power of listening to other’s ideas instead of trying to come up with all of them yourself.
On episode 208 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon dives into the negative impacts of operating with an ego in your career.
On episode 207 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick checkpoint which is valuable to introduce in your workflow for ensuring that expectations for output are effectively set before beginning to execute.
On episode 206 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a low-effort tactic that every professional who uses email and instant messenger, has to quickly build rapport with others in their career.
On episode 205 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the ultimate gesture of providing people with time back in their day.
On episode 204 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon brings clarity to some of the common, yet counterproductive ways which we put our work ethic on display, along with a more effective alternative.
On episode 203 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon pulls back the curtain on one of the most frequently broken cardinal rules when it comes to communicating with colleagues on an instant messenger platform.
On episode 202 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a proven strategy for getting large amounts of people within an organization to adopt the resources which you provide them to help accomplish their goals.
On episode 201 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the critical element of every email, which is sent with the expectation of a specific action being taken by others.
On episode 200 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick strategy for how to more effectively approach data to maximize its impact.
On episode 199 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares how you can multiply the impact of every success strategy that you learn in your career.
On episode 198 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon explains how communities which are aligned with your role can be an incredible source for inspiration and guidance towards best-practices.
On episode 197 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks about how the idea of needing tools within your tool belt which don’t currently exist, can hold you back from taking action and adding value now.
On episode 196 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the moment every professional has experienced with jumping to a conclusion and how to mentally check yourself with an alternative path.
On episode 195 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon goes all in on sharing the secret which will enable any motivated professional to unlock the full potential of feedback that constantly awaits them within their organizations.
On episode 194 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the important step of accounting for who is best equipped to carry specific elements of a task/initiative before committing or executing.
On episode 193 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the importance of being present across the organization and one of the easiest ways to do this tomorrow.
On episode 192 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the difference between lagging and leading indicators and what each mean to your success
On episode 191 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a very tactical strategy for making sure that the people you work with never feel as if you’re not a reliable resource to reach out to for help.
On episode 190 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through how sharing the vision that you have for your area of the organization can transform your career.
On episode 189 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the commonly overlooked differences between when and how we approach learning how to do something new.
On episode 188 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon gives you an inside look at the conversation he was lucky enough to overhear which is relevant to every professional succeeding.
On episode 187 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the two paths to becoming a trustworthy person within an organization and the differences between the fast route and the slow route.
On episode 186 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a foundational principle for preserving your time, energy, and quality of work that he learned when taking a software development course.
On episode 185 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon pulls back the curtain on the one statement he has used time and time again in his career to maximize the relationships that he has with his leaders.
On episode 184 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon debunks the misconception that you need the best “weapons” in your arsenal in order for you to accomplish your goals and drive success for an initiative.
On episode 183 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a proven perspective that enables you to align whatever plan you thought was best fit for an initiative, with a different plan which was decided upon by a larger group.
On episode 182 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down how the plan you originally created to put you in the best position for success, can be the tool which also enables you to emerge from the often clouded state of mind you fall into when executing the plan
On episode 181 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the one thing that he wishes someone told him on DAY ONE of his career that can ensure you’re on the quickest path to success.
On episode 180 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a major indicator that you’re passionate about what you do in your career... which is a MAJOR WIN!
On episode 179 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon debunks the notion that you have to be busy checking boxes, to be working.
On episode 178 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the importance of regularly evaluating your own performance to ensure that you are always bringing your “A-Game” and creating the space to course correct where needed.
On episode 177 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon provides insight into an actionable perspective surrounding the moment to realize you feel unfulfilled in your career and might even be considering a career change.
On episode 176 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon provides a breakdown of what needs to be done in order for you to take something which you see someone else doing, which you like, and make it your own.
On episode 175 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares an optimal way to making decisions within an organization.
On episode 174 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon creates a clear distinction between making a near-sighted decision and following your gut instinct about the long-term decision that your gut is pulling at you to make.
On episode 173 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shared a straight path forward for when you find yourself frustrated executing a plan that just doesn’t seem to be producing results.
On episode 172 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down a common misconception that professionals have about “giving up” as a result of the narrative that society has engrained in our heads over the years around “never giving up”.
On episode 171 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a plug-and-play strategy for ensuring that people who you communicate with feels as supported as possible to take action in the face of not-so positive circumstances.
On episode 170 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the importance of maintaining the relationships, which you once placed a high value on in your career, long after you leave the organization that they were started at.
On episode 169 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a recent story which highlights the importance of validating that what you have built to deliver value, actually delivers it.
On episode 168 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick rule of thumb for communicating in a way that doesn’t cause others to become confused or frustrated with you.
On episode 167 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon completely opens up the best career advice he has ever publicly shared for young professionals who want to experience rapid growth in their careers.
On episode 166 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares his look on the unspoken reality that presents itself within an opportunity the provokes the thought of failure.
On episode 165 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares and completely dismissed a saying that you frequently hear in your career that does nothing but steer you away from success.
On episode 164 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon provides some quick and tactical advice on how to retain audience attention when giving presentations by limiting the amount of information you include on the slides.l
Episode On episode 163 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon draws a quick comparison between software companies and the opportunity on the table for growing in your career each and every single day.
Episode On episode 162 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick reminder to all of the young professionals who find themselves staying up late working and the quickest way to ensure that they preserve their performance.
Episode On episode 161 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a story about the realization he had about the mistaken identity we place on our mindset as a light switch and how this realization can help you to more effectively step into every day more mindful and performant.
Episode On episode 160 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon brings the attention of thriving as a young professional back to the basics of mindset through sharing a recent story from a trip back from the grocery store.
Episode On episode 159 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks about the importance of unapologetically protecting the path that will enable you to maximize your chance for success in the midst of competing priorities and unproductive environments.
Episode On episode 158 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares with you one of the leading causes to diminished productivity in a day where you react to a “quick” task which needs to get completed ASAP, which you weren’t accounting for.
Episode On episode 157 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon sheds light on a new way of looking at whether or not you are on track to accomplish your goals.
On episode 156 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon clears up the air on all the myths out there related to quickly building meaningful relationships with any colleague in your organization.
On episode 155 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon reveals one of the biggest glass ceilings that people face in their careers which goes almost entirely unspoken, along with how to break through that glass ceiling regardless of what career stage you’re currently in.
On episode 154 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down a completely invisible trap that results in us sharing way more information than what’s necessary as a result of a behavior that we’ve been conditioned into since childhood.
On episode 153 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon provides you with a clear cut to making your colleagues feel like you fully support them during moments when they’re stressing to accomplish a goal, instead of adding more stress to their already full plate.
On episode 152 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down how to most effectively handle the uncomfortable conversations that you’ll likely find yourself in at moments within your career.
On episode 151 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon draws the clear line between a mentor and a cheerleader and why you need to be careful about who you have on your team.
On episode 150 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the one thing that will instantly result in you losing the respect from others in your career as a young professional and two easy ways to avoid this in any scenario.
On episode 149 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon provides a behind the scenes look at a one piece of paper exercise that will provide you with a cold-hard look at whether or not you’re on the right track towards accomplishing your goals.
On episode 148 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a proven way to get an audience to refocus on what you just said and see your message at a whole different level of importance.
On episode 147 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the often difficult undertaking of truly going offline as a young professional in their career.
On episode 146 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the thought that often times goes un-actioned on the holidays that can lead to being less successful in your career.
On episode 145 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the early responsibilities in his career which have been the enabling factor behind him maximizing the quality of deliverables within his career.
On episode 144 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares an inside look into one of the most dangerous false-positives of growth in a young professional’s career.
On episode 143 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon gives you a sneak peak into why people might not think you respect their time.
On episode 142 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick strategy for making an unbelievable impact on the relationships which you have in your career.
On episode 141 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through how you can maximize the experience of someone sharing information with you.
On episode 140 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon gives you the step-by-step reasoning why lazy people will always have an unfair advantage against people who work their asses.
On episode 139 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick travel story which highlights the need to effectively and proactively communicate changes that impact others which are associated with something you’re responsible for.
On episode 138 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon explains why practice doesn’t always make perfect and what it means for your career as a young professional.
On episode 137 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon reveals and advises against falling victim to the urge of sharing all of the complexities that enabled something to be simple, to someone who never wanted to understand the complexity.
On episode 136 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the two different paths that you can go down when building professional relationships, and most importantly, which one you want to avoid.
On episode 135 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the difference between “throwing a task over the fence” and taking the necessary steps to develop excitement, investment, and high quality production.
On episode 134 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down one major reason why so many people end up being miserable in the pursuit of accomplishing their big and ambitious goals.
On episode 133 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon pulls back the curtain on where the creation process really start with projects, which is counterintuitive to what most people think.
On episode 132 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the data-informed decision making process that takes place entirely inside of your head and why sharing it in a tangible form will drive success in your career.
On episode 131 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon uncovers the the one thing which can quickly, and singlehandedly, ruin your career.
On episode 130 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the most effective response to a chaotic moment where things aren’t going the way they should be
On episode 129 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the common complaint within organizations that you can save yourself from making.
On episode 128 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the high-impact communication strategy that you need to implement when communicating with different levels If seniority within an organization.
On episode 127 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the inability to scale your impact when you don’t create the right enablement assets to explain processes, systems, and deliverables that you roll out.
On episode 126 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the benefits of being able to take a vision, or better known as a whirlwind of information, from multiple sources and turn it into an actionable plan and output... and most importantly, how!
On episode 125 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the critical process that every young professional needs to do before kicking off a project or initiative to ensure its success.
On episode 124 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a profound and high-impact perspective that he was recently exposed to from another young professional.
On episode 123 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a trend that he came across after hours and hours of research that every young professional needs to address immediately.
On episode 122 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a tool which he stumbled across which has enabled him to consistently listen more than he talks within his career and as a result, drive success.
On episode 121 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares an underground communication framework that if applied, will act like rocket fuel to the success you’re already experiencing.
On episode 120 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through why betting on yourself is one of the most important things to do in your career as a young professional.
On episode 119 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the importance of unapologetically recharging and how to avoid feeling guilty when you do.
On episode 118 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through how you can take yourself out of a management position and put yourself into a leader position.
On episode 117 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the cause and effect of looking at life through a negative vs. positive one.
On episode 116 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon speaks to the invisible trap that we often fall into which leads to spending more time talking about doing something than it would take to actually do it!
On episode 115 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the difference between giving everything 100% of your attention and giving everything 100% of your effort.
On episode 114 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the unprecedented importance of crushing your fear of rejection and the impact it will have on your professional life (and personal).
On episode 113 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through a proven method for getting someone on your team to not only be motivated, but determined to accomplish a goal.
On episode 112 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the quickest way to get out of thinking about the fact that you don’t know something and into filling that knowledge gap.
On episode 111 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the clouded head space you can often find yourself in when continuously unveiling high impact opportunities through the conversations you have, and how that influx can trap you from actually making a high impact.
On episode 110 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon reveals the two words, that if you don’t use enough, will lead you to a career that’s less successful than you’d hope for.
On episode 109 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the bias of not poking holes in your own plans and ideas because you created them and the subsequent downfall.
On episode 108 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how critical it is to understand your colleagues success metrics when trying to develop excitement and momentum around an opportunity you bring to the surface, which you’d like them to be a part of.
On episode 107 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discussed the powerful process of taking time at various points in your career to reflect on your growth as a young professional to-date.
On episode 106 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon highlights the often overlooked value of creating a detailed plan of action within organizations.
On episode 105 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the unbelievable impact that building relationships with people that you cross paths with in public, can have on your career.
On episode 104 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why not choosing to pursue something you’re passionate as in your career could have catastrophic impacts on the quality of your life and growth in your career.
On episode 103 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the tough topic of how to become crystal clear on why taking the high growth opportunities in your career that are filled with the risk, that your gut is telling you to take action on, are alway the right bet.
On episode 102 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the major pitfall of implementing others’ success strategies, into your own career, without any tweaks to make them your own.
On episode 101 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the one thing that you need to be saying when making a recommendation within a group, to create an environment where the right decision is made and other considerations such as emotional attachment, seniority, and department are ignored.
On this 100th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why the small, un-scalable, things you might have to do to get a project or initiative kicked off that would typically drain your excitement, actually represent a massive opportunity that should fire you up!
On this 99th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the three core types of self-talk and the critical reasons why each of them will either make or break your career.
On this 98th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why deriving your primary source of satisfaction from the experience of being challenged, can take your career as a young professional to new levels.
On this 97th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the trap of “romanticizing” your big ideas and how to significantly increase the likelihood of them becoming a reality.
On this 96th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why setting up environmental cues of your goal gives you the fuel that you need to keeping driving forward.
On this 95th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the sometimes tough decision making process of de-prioritizing something which you’ve invested a lot of time working on.
On this 94th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the power behind learning from the brilliant minds that surround you within your organization.
On this 93rd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick and simple way to strengthen the relationships with your colleagues, which are so critical to driving success.
On this 92nd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the significant value in being seeing as someone who wants to brainstorm and how it leads to high impact opportunities automatically being revealed.
On this 91st episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through how to effectively handle the scenario where a decision is made that you don’t agree with, which is magnified when you presented the unchosen path forward.
On this 90th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon exposes the trap of confusing the number of hours you work with the amount of success you’re driving.
On this 89th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon provides the answer to reclaiming the time that keeps slipping away from you, which you desperately need to get the tasks done on your plate.
On this 88th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through how the level of impact that your output has, is directly connected to how much value the recipient perceives, and most importantly, how you can maximize your chance that they perceive that output as being highly valuable.
On this 87th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why looking for the “silver bullet” in single pieces or sources of information discourages you from gaining as much knowledge as possible.
On this 86th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares an interesting, and highly effective, way to look at the continued challenges that you face within your career.
On this 85th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the interconnectedness of gratefulness in your personal life and success in your professional life.
On this 84th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the power of consistently putting yourself in a state of reflection and how it can drive success in the decisions that you make and the impact you have on people.
On this 83rd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how genuinely putting yourself in the state of mind where you only have one option, to crush it, is the key to unlocking a new level of potential in your career.
On this 82nd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why finding the optimal environment to work in will unlock peak performance, even if the process to finding it can be a long journey.
On this 81st episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through how important of a role the passing of time can play in alleviating the feeling of nervousness or stress in your career.
On this 80th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the tendency which high performers have of dwelling getting the results they desired, how it reduces the likelihood of hitting a home run on the next opportunity, and how to avoid falling into this trap.
On this 79th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the importance of carefully choosing where your name is placed in comparison to others’ that you teamed up on a project, initiative, or task with.
On this 78th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why writing things down over time which you find interesting can add significant value to your professional life.
On this 77th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how important it is to be aware of how swamped your teammates are when working together on a project and the power of taking the initiative to lighten their load.
On this 76th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through one of the things which he had an extremely hard time coming to terms with consistently doing in his career, which was making putting high priority initiatives at risk.
On this 75th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the most effective way to internalize the realization of knowing that you don’t know something, along with two ineffective ways.
On this 74th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why being intentional with how you spend your time during a specific reoccurring scenario, is critical to eliminating that feeling of time slipping away from you.
On this 73rd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the concept of “leverage points” in your career and why it’s so important to extract them from wherever they currently reside, and publish them where they can explain to someone else how valuable you are.
On this 72nd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the power of bringing positive energy to every interaction that you have in your career.
On this 71st episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses a major “no no” when working with teams on a shared task, which without understanding major implications on your career,
On this 70th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the negative impacts of blurring your personal spaces with your career and why changing this behavior will unlock a new potential in your career
On this 69th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the power of taking yourself out of the speakers seat whenever possible and having someone similar to your audience present the value of something, for you.
On this 68th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why having pursuing a side project or learning new skills makes you even more of a rockstar in your organization and how you can easily find a side project or skill if you don’t already have one in mind!
On this 67th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses one of the most commonly overlooked perspectives, that if you adopt, can help you more effectively track down the source of any issue.
On this 66th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the VERY slippery slope of speaking on a topic which you’re not an expert on.
On this 65th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how going through a very specific planning process consistently in your career, can enable you and your team to make a major impact on your organization, while at the same time minimizing the chances of failure.
On this 64th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the mental funk we often find ourselves in after not having as productive of a day as we would have hoped and most importantly, how to avoid it going forward.
On this 63rd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how thriving in your professional life is the key to thriving in your professional life, and more importantly how to get there.
On this 62nd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon walks through the two different paths you can take when sharing something that you worked on with others in your organization, and why one path is a recipe for disaster.
On this 61st episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the importance of telling your audience how they are supposed to feel about a star or insight which you share with them.
On this 60th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why listening with an intention to respond is preventing you from developing a response which is actually effective.
On this 59th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how checking-in with your audience minimizes the amount of confusion that carries through an entire meeting.
On this 58th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the concept of “PHDing the $&@! out of something” and why you should avoid it at all costs.
On this 57th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why anticipating the questions which you will be asked when presenting a topic or recommendation is essential for success.
On this 56th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the slippery slope of gathering and then incorporating the feedback you receive.
On this 55th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the consequences of not effectively aligning on expectations at the end of every communication that’s related to a task or ongoing project.
On this 54th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the power of combining execution with vision, along with why they fight against each other.
On this 53rd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how pretending like your career depended on you getting something done in half the time, enables you to get something done in half the time.
On this 52nd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the critical elements of building a resume that results in interviews with companies that you dream of working with.
On this 51st episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the quick and easy thing you should be doing every Sunday to unlock a new level of productivity for your entire week.
On this 50th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why only being in competition with yourself is hands down the most effective way to remain motivated each day.
On this 49th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why it’s critical to gracefully admit that you’re wrong as quickly as possible and why that’s sometimes hard to do.
On this 48th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the major impact that switching context before starting new tasks, can have on your productivity.
On this 47th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the most effective way for continuing to make progress on the longer-term initiatives in your career which are tempting to de-prioritize in the heat of immediate competing priorities.
On this 46th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon pulls back the curtain on the real reason why people are sending such brief responses to your emails or messages at work, along with why you should probably start doing the same.
On this 45th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why the feeling of confusion is often misinterpreted and the negative impact it can have on your career.
On this 44th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why reinventing the wheel when tackling an initiative, leads to less impact, longer time-to-impact, all while making you look like less of a leader.
On this 43rd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses daunting process of having to tell someone “no” within your organization and how you can gracefully shift this into excitement and adding value.
On this 42nd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how you can drive higher quality conversations within your career by clearly demonstrating to people that you’re engaged. This is something which is more important than ever as many jobs have moved to be remote.
On this 41st episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the differences between networking with a motive and building relationships.... and most importantly, the difference in results.
On this 40th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how strategically reducing the amount of words you use, can help you become a much more effective communicator within your career.
On this 39th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why you only have 100% overall to give and why it’s critical to be selective with where you place it.
On this 38th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the importance of being coachable in your career and the unconscious perspective which might be holding you back.
On this 37th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how you can easily avoid the common problem of paralysis from over analysis during the planning stages of any project in your career.
On this 36th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the two words which have continuously unlocked success in his career. Anyone can use these two words to drive success regardless of their job type or organization.
On this 35th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the power of pausing and the space it creates within in a conversation for others to provide their input.
On this 34th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks about a proven method for more effectively communicating the topics which typically result in long email threads, along with preserving the quality of relationships within your organization.
On this 33rd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the contradiction between young high performing professionals valuing every free second within their professional life, but not their personal.
On this 32nd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through a mistake which he made today which can be easily prevented with the right combination of disconnecting and honesty with yourself.
On this 31st episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how you can learn from others, without putting yourself in the vulnerable position of not being able to come up with your own unique perspective.
On this 30th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how to completely shift your perspective on following up with colleagues, so you can maximize the success you have in your career.
On this 29th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the different types of days you have in your career and why you should move on from each of them as quickly as possible.
On this 28th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how you can regain control of your attention, reignite the quality of your personal life, and bring a whole new lever fresh ideas and success to your career.
On this 27th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the three things people with resources think, when you’re pitching them on becoming strategically involved in your business.
On this 26th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon walks through a simple, three part strategy, for maximizing the engagement and collaboration that you have within your organization when presenting major topics.
On this 25th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a realization that he recently had, which was a complete blind spot from previous points in his career and can be applied within any size organization.
On this 24th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why it’s important to slow down at the right moments in your work streams and how slowing down never has to mean negatively impacting the overall speed at which you succeed at.
On this 23rd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the power of identifying repetitive tasks and redistributing the time and effort to higher impact initiatives.
On this 22nd episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why the goals of your organization should replace any attention your placing on colleagues that you feel like you’re competing with.
On this 21st episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why you should be laser focused on listening unless you have something valuable to add to a discussion.
On this 20th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares one easy to implement strategy for gaining more knowledge in your market/industry and bringing a unique perspective to every conversation and decision.
On this 19th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how the words that you use unconsciously can make or break how willing others are to collaborate with you.
On this 18th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how reducing the lift for your colleagues can make a tremendous impact on how much they appreciate you.
On this 17th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how you can help your colleagues, leaders, and executives understand the value of the vision you have for driving more success in your organization.
On this 16th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why doing things like using big words and not oversimplifying technical topics, is working against you in your career.
On this 15th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the power of identifying the level of happiness and satisfaction you’re getting from your current role, and taking action accordingly.
On this 14th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why simply reporting problems in your organization could put your career in a questionable position.
On this 13th episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how you can reignite the levels of productivity in your career, even if you’re already a multitasking Jedi.
On this twelfth episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses a new way of looking at the relationship with your manager to drive success in your career.
On this eleventh episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why promising the world and under-delivering can be so detrimental to your career.
On this tenth episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks about the power of celebrating colleagues within your organization.
On this ninth episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the power of using data to inform/support decisions or recommendations within your organization.
On this eighth episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why people might be running circles around you in your career even if you’re working longer hours than them.
On this seventh episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how to fundamentally shift your level of effectiveness with responding to difficult situations in your career.
On this sixth episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks about how specific sources of information can help unlock a new level of output within your career.
On this fifth episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how one simple strategy that involves talking to others within your organization, can transform the impact you have within your organization.
On this fourth episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses why having a focus on how much you’re getting paid early on in your career could be distracting you from your biggest career growth opportunities.
On this third episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses a rule of thumb for effectively framing strategic conversations to drive the desired result.
On this second episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses a completely new way to look at the interviewing process which can help you rewrite the level of success that you have when approaching new opportunities in your career.
On this first episode of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses how the concept of "dabbling" drives you towards discovering the career which you might have never guessed you would be passionate about and why being passionate about your career is one of your most unfair advantages.