improve it! Podcast – Professional Development Through Play, Improv & Experiential Learning

Erin Diehl | Business Improv Edutainer, Failfluencer, Keynote Speaker
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improve it! Podcast – Professional Development Through Play, Improv & Experiential Learning

*TOP 1% GLOBAL PODCAST* Hi friend, it’s Erin Diehl. I’m meeting you here to help you see yourself so that you can truly see those around you. Empathy = unlocked. Join me every Wednesday as I speak with personal and professional development gurus about the things that make this life pesky and beautiful. And with an improv-infused twist–thanks to my 13+ years of improv experience–this show will give you tangible techniques for transforming yourself through play to, above all, remember that no one is you and THAT is your superpower. Oversharing and knee-slappers guaranteed. Welcome to the improve it! podcast. Learn how to transform your team using improv: www.learntoimproveit.com Connect with us: info@learntoimproveit.com

  1. 264: Want an Easy Five Minute Gratitude Practice You Can Implement Today? We’ve Got Your Back!

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    264: Want an Easy Five Minute Gratitude Practice You Can Implement Today? We’ve Got Your Back!

    What if five minutes could change everything about how you lead, connect, and thrive? In today's episode, I reveal the powerful daily gratitude practice that shifted my mindset from scarcity to abundance—fueling not only my own growth, but transforming my team dynamics and leadership resilience. If you’re ready for a simple, impactful habit to elevate your life and work, this post is for you! Here’s a quick look at how gratitude can revolutionize your life and leadership, just as it did for me. 1. Gratitude Enhances Mental and Emotional Well-Being Gratitude has profound effects on mental health, reducing anxiety and depression while boosting overall mood. In this episode, I begin by sharing how this practice helped me refocus from a scarcity mindset—where stress and fear of “not enough” clouded my vision—to one of abundance and peace. Listing just a few daily “wins” and things I’m grateful for gives my mind a positive focal point and sets the tone for my day. Practicing gratitude helps you focus on what you have, rather than what you lack, cultivating a mindset that energizes and uplifts both you and your team. And if you’re looking for more info on forming an abundance mindset, I think you’ll love this ep: Episode 202: Self Worth = Net Worth: How to Live in Abundance 2. Fostering Team Relationships through Gratitude Integrating gratitude in a team setting doesn’t just enhance your day, but strengthens your team dynamics. I found that a simple habit of sharing appreciation with my team, both in private conversations and during meetings, lifted our collective spirit. This genuine acknowledgment brought cohesion and positivity to our interactions, boosting communication and morale. With everyone aligned and motivated, our work flowed better, and the energy shifted toward collaborative success, building a work environment that supports growth and achievement. 3. Building Resilience as a Leader With gratitude as a grounding practice, I noticed an increased resilience to daily challenges. For instance, when obstacles like travel delays or sudden issues arose, my gratitude practice allowed me to pause, reframe, and face these situations with a calmer, more adaptive mindset. Instead of letting stressful moments dictate my mood, I embraced each challenge as a lesson, focusing on what was still within my control. This approach not only supported my emotional regulation but also set a positive example for my team, showing them how to navigate challenges effectively. 4. Long-Term Leadership Impact Sticking to my gratitude practice has had a long-lasting impact on my leadership style, making me a more empathetic, balanced, and approachable leader. The effects extended beyond my professional life, enhancing my relationships as a parent, spouse, and friend. Embedding gratitude into your routine has a ripple effect—it supports personal growth and allows you to lead from a place of compassion and joy, ultimately making a positive impact on your entire team and community. 5. Start Your Own 5-Minute Gratitude Practice The episode outlines a straightforward gratitude practice: reflecting on past wins, listing things you’re grateful for now, and setting intentions for the day. This five-minute habit can be done verbally, digitally, or in a journal and serves as a daily reset, focusing your energy on the positives. By committing to this practice, you’ll find shifts in mindset and improved emotional regulation that benefit your leadership style, relationships, and personal growth. To dive deeper, listen to the full episode, and discover how gratitude can transform your leadership and inspire those around you. And if you remember nothing else from this gratitude practice, remember this: what you focus on grows. Start each day by honoring the good, and watch how it attracts more positivity, resilience, and connection into your life and leadership.   No, You Hang Up First (Let’s Keep Connect

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    263: How Do You Balance the Holiday Season While Prioritizing Self Care?

    If you don’t take the time for yourself, the time will take itself and go elsewhere. Sound familiar, especially during the holidays? Yup, you’re not the only one. In today’s episode, Erin shares her 4-step strategy for finding balance between giving to yourself and giving to others during the holiday season. Erin also shares: What a “Bliss List” is and why you need to make one Why you should start making connections between the times you get sick to what’s going on in your personal and professional lives How to give yourself rewards (and actually schedule them) that contribute to your health holistically If you’re looking for a new way to schedule self care—this is the episode for you. If you liked this episode, you can keep the party going with: Episode 256: How Can Leaders Embrace Career Curves? Insights from 'No Straight Path' Host Ashley Menzies Babatunde  Show Links: Did today’s episode resonate with you? Leave us a review sharing your favorite self care strategy and we’ll send you a free signed copy of I See You! A Leader’s Guide to Energizing Your Team through Radical Empathy. Have another question about self care that we can answer, or a question about something else? Leave us a Speakpipe audio clip and we’ll answer it in an upcoming episode. Purchase I See You! A Leader’s Guide to Energizing Your Team through Radical Empathy here and the Resource Guidebook that was built in conjunction with it here. Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it!: Erin’s website Erin’s Instagram Erin’s LinkedIn improve it!’s website improve it!’s Instagram

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  3. 262: Job Hunting Got You Drained AF? Steal These Top Strategies for Avoiding Burnout with Daisy Auger-Dominguez

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    262: Job Hunting Got You Drained AF? Steal These Top Strategies for Avoiding Burnout with Daisy Auger-Dominguez

    Does your job search feel like it’s its own full-time job that’s not leading anywhere and also not paying you? You’re not alone. In response to this Q, Daisy Auger-Domínguez--a cross-sector global leader, speaker, author, and advisor on future readying workplaces, fostering inclusion, and addressing burnout at work—joins Erin today to discuss 4 strategies to avoid burnout while you’re in the heat of the job search. Daisy also shares: How to make your networking smarter, more focused, and consistent towards what you’re trying to accomplish in your career How to recognize burnout when it does occur as you’re job searching and what to do about it Why remembering what excites you about the job search is crucial to preventing burnout and actually getting the job you want If you’re looking for a fresh perspective on the job search—this is the episode for you. If you liked this episode, you can keep the party going with: Episode 256: How Can Leaders Embrace Career Curves? Insights from 'No Straight Path' Host Ashley Menzies Babatunde Show Links: Did today’s episode resonate with you? Leave us a review sharing your favorite strategy that Daisy shared and we’ll send you a free signed copy of I See You! A Leader’s Guide to Energizing Your Team through Radical Empathy. Have another question about job searching or burnout that we can answer, or a question about something else? Leave us a Speakpipe audio clip and we’ll answer it in an upcoming episode. Connect with Daisy Auger-Domínguez: Daisy’s website Daisy’s books Daisy’s LinkedIn Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it!: Erin’s website Erin’s Instagram Erin’s LinkedIn improve it!’s website improve it!’s Instagram

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  4. 261: Empowering Inclusion While Battling Isolation At Work? Here's How to Cope

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    261: Empowering Inclusion While Battling Isolation At Work? Here's How to Cope

    When you're building inclusion for those around you at work, but you yourself are not feeling included, what do you do about that? This question from a listener really begs us to consider what’s within the locus of our control vs. what's not when it comes to inclusion at work. In response to this Q, Erin gives you 5 ways to go from excluded by others to including yourself and 5 ways to cope if leadership is excluding you, not necessarily your team/coworkers. Erin also shares: How to take situations that hurt your feelings and transform them into opportunities for empathy Why changing your environment could be the secret to feeling more included How to change your status in low stakes situations to lead to higher levels of brainstorming, connection, and consideration by your leadership team If you’re looking for a fresh perspective on inclusion—this is the episode for you. If you liked this episode, you can keep the party going with: Episode 249: Demystifying Diversity with Daralyse Lyons: How Can Embracing Biracial Identity Lead to a More Inclusive Workplace Culture? Show Links: Did today’s episode resonate with you? Leave us a review sharing your favorite coping mechanism that Erin shared and we’ll send you a free signed copy of I See You! A Leader’s Guide to Energizing Your Team through Radical Empathy. Have another question about inclusion that we can answer, or a question about something else? Leave us a Speakpipe audio clip and we’ll answer it in an upcoming episode. Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it!: Erin’s website Erin’s Instagram Erin’s LinkedIn improve it!’s website improve it!’s Instagram

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  5. 260: What are the Benefits of Encouraging Men to Practice Mindfulness at Work?

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    260: What are the Benefits of Encouraging Men to Practice Mindfulness at Work?

    Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider are hosts of the Men Talking Mindfulness Podcast—a project geared towards breaking barriers, fostering resilience, promoting peace, and developing a new masculine. Jon is a retired Navy SEAL and leadership consultant, and Will is a wellness consultant and teacher. In today’s episode, Jon and Will join Erin to discuss all things mindfulness in response to a listener question—particularly about how men can practice mindfulness inside and outside of work. Jon and Will share one important strategy that you can implement today to help create psychological safety for men at work. Jon and Will also share: Mindfulness practices you can start incorporating today An acronym for F.L.O.W. that you need to know A simple breathwork technique you can use anywhere, anytime If you’re looking for a fresh perspective on mindfulness—this is the episode for you. If you liked this episode, you can keep the party going with: Episode 254: Busy Brain? Dr. Romie Shares Her Top Mindfulness Techniques for Stress Management Show Links: Did today’s episode resonate with you? Leave us a review sharing something about this episode that you’re going to utilize and we’ll send you a free signed copy of I See You! A Leader’s Guide to Energizing Your Team through Radical Empathy. Have a question about mindfulness and how it plays out at work that we can answer? Leave us a Speakpipe audio clip and we’ll answer it in an upcoming episode. Connect with Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider: Jon’s LinkedIn Will’s LinkedIn Men Talking Mindfulness podcast Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it!: Erin’s website Erin’s Instagram Erin’s LinkedIn improve it!’s website improve it!’s Instagram

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  6. 259: What Should You Do When You Start to Outperform Your Boss?

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    259: What Should You Do When You Start to Outperform Your Boss?

    In today’s episode, Erin answers a question from a listener about what to do when you start to outperform your boss. It’s juicy, it’s complicated, and...it’s manageable. Erin gives you a six-step strategy for how to handle a situation like this, especially if you’re overperforming and underappreciated. Erin also shares: The differences between Upset U and Upward U How to be the leader you want to be led by How to offer solutions when you receive criticism If you’re looking for an answer to a tricky situation for now, for the future, or to share with a friend who’s going through this—this is the episode for you. Special sprinkles on top of this episode: How loglines can work in businesses and not just movies If you liked this episode, you can keep the party going with: Episode 257: What Are the Secrets to Transforming Siloed Teams into Collaborative Powerhouses? Show Links: Did today’s episode resonate with you? Leave us a review sharing something about this episode that you’re going to utilize and we’ll send you a free signed copy of I See You! A Leader’s Guide to Energizing Your Team through Radical Empathy. Have a question about leadership dynamics this month that we can answer? (ie, “What should I do if I don’t feel like I can be honest with my boss?”) Leave us a Speakpipe audio clip and we’ll answer it in an upcoming episode. Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it!: Erin’s website Erin’s Instagram Erin’s LinkedIn improve it!’s website improve it!’s Instagram

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  8. 258: Is the Way You Think About Money Holding You Back? Dr. Darnyelle Reveals THE Million Dollar Mindset Secrets

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    258: Is the Way You Think About Money Holding You Back? Dr. Darnyelle Reveals THE Million Dollar Mindset Secrets

    Dr. Darnyelle Jervey Harmon is a business consultant, keynote speaker, and corporate trainer whose “it” in life is to demystify money so that people can walk into their wealth in abundance. In today’s episode, Dr. Darnyelle shares her Million Dollar Mindset ways of thinking to get you unstuck, paid for your true value, and detached from what’s not meant for you in the long-run. Dr. Darnyelle also shares: Her journey to trust herself again Why the way you see money is a reflection of the way you see yourself One easy way to get money to “move” when it is not flowing to you If you’re looking for a fresh perspective on your financial world—this is the episode for you. Special sprinkles on top of this episode: Why purple is Dr. Darnyelle’s safe haven The power of setting alarms on your phone throughout the day that say, “What would abundance do?” If you liked this episode, you can keep the party going with: Episode 202: Self Worth = Net Worth: How to Live in Abundance Show Links:  Did today’s episode resonate with you? Leave us a review sharing something Dr. Darnyelle said that’s sticking with you and we’ll send you a free signed copy of I See You! A Leader’s Guide to Energizing Your Team through Radical Empathy. Have a question about trust this month that we can answer? (ie, “How can I actually trust in what’s meant for me in order to be more successful in my career?”) Leave us a Speakpipe audio clip and we’ll answer it in an upcoming episode. Connect with Dr. Darnyelle: Dr. Darnyelle’s personal website Dr. Darnyelle’s company website Dr. Darnyelle’s LinkedIn Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it!: Erin’s website Erin’s Instagram Erin’s LinkedIn improve it!’s website improve it!’s Instagram

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*TOP 1% GLOBAL PODCAST* Hi friend, it’s Erin Diehl. I’m meeting you here to help you see yourself so that you can truly see those around you. Empathy = unlocked. Join me every Wednesday as I speak with personal and professional development gurus about the things that make this life pesky and beautiful. And with an improv-infused twist–thanks to my 13+ years of improv experience–this show will give you tangible techniques for transforming yourself through play to, above all, remember that no one is you and THAT is your superpower. Oversharing and knee-slappers guaranteed. Welcome to the improve it! podcast. Learn how to transform your team using improv: www.learntoimproveit.com Connect with us: info@learntoimproveit.com

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