Peak Performance and Peak Satisfaction in Your Business Career
Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction is the podcast designed for business professionals who want to excel with ease, get rewarded handsomely AND enjoy their work.
Master Coach and Executive, Cheri Gregov is sharing her intellectual property as a 25 year business veteran trained and certified in neuroscience, a Wharton MBA of Strategy, Operations, & Entrepreneurship, and formerly a Chief Operating Officer at a Fortune 500 company.
Her signature approach to proactively managing our careers is a mix of career strategy, performance optimization, leadership development, and life coaching.
This C-suite executive is sharing secrets from inside the boardroom and delivering the direct career guidance and cutting edge thought leadership you won't hear anywhere else.
Tune in for the perspective, the strategies, and practical steps to unleash success in the office that spills over into health and relationships too.
Episodes
104 episodes
Facts vs. Drama: The Real Cause Of Your Work Stress
If work stress has your doctor raising concerns, or anger keeps showing up at moments you wish it wouldn't, there's real neuroscience behind both, and real tools to change them. In this episode, I break down the habit underneath our two most da...
First You Fear Losing, Then You Fear Winning.
Most people expect the fear that shows up early in a big goal, when the finish line still feels far away. Almost nobody expects the fear that shows up right at the end, when success is finally within reach. In this episode, I break down both, a...
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Why White-Knuckling Your Career Makes You Worse At It
Most of us were trained to work hard and try our best, but never trained on how much is enough. In this episode, I break down where that white-knuckled, gripping-too-tight approach to work actually comes from, and why athletes have a better mod...
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You Were Hired For The Work You’re Avoiding
Most leaders don’t skip the strategic work on purpose. They fill the day with things that feel productive instead, a clean inbox, a fast reply, a meeting they didn’t need to attend, and the real work quietly waits.In this episode, I brea...
You Don't Need An Accountability Partner
Most leaders ask for a coach because they think they need accountability. After one hundred one-on-one coaching clients and one hundred episodes of this podcast, I don't think that's actually true. In this episode, I break down what coaching re...
Leading Through the Forced Bell Curve
Performance reviews can be one of the hardest parts of leadership, especially when you're asked to rate your team in a forced bell curve.In this episode, I explore why these systems exist, where they often break down, and how great leade...
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Use Your Next Vacation to Redesign Your Role
Vacations are usually seen as time to rest and recharge. But they can also be one of the best opportunities you'll have to improve how you work, develop your team, and create space for higher-value responsibilities.In this episode, I sha...
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When Success No Longer Feels Like Success
This episode is a little different. Instead of teaching one leadership strategy or career tool, I'm sharing the story behind why I do this work.For years, I believed stress was simply the price of having a meaningful career. From the out...
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Waiting Is Not a Career Strategy
Many successful professionals spend years focused on delivering results while giving very little thought to where their career is actually headed. We work hard, keep our heads down, and trust that the next opportunity will appear. Waiting is no...
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Sustaining The Job Search
Searching for your next opportunity can feel like an emotional roller coaster. Whether you're navigating a layoff, seeking advancement, or pursuing a better fit, it's easy to become discouraged when the results you want don't arrive as quickly ...
Horror Story or Victory Story: You Choose
Every career and every life includes adversity. A layoff, missed promotion, difficult boss, failed project, health challenge, or unexpected setback can leave us replaying the same painful story over and over again. What we don’t often realize i...
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The Leadership Skill Nobody Taught You
Getting your head back in the game - the business skill you didn't know you needed. As a trained life coach, I have the uncanny ability of helping you navigate the stickiest and most daunting situations in work and life so that you come out on ...
Beware Well-Meaning Mentors
In our careers, there may be several well-meaning mentors giving input on your direction and next steps. While it's very popular to suggest that mentors and sponsors are crucial to your success, I am sharing the alternative view to take caution...
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AI Is Here, Keep Calm & Innovate On
Artificial Intelligence may have your team on edge. While we might make adopting AI a mandatory objective for employees formally or informally, there is a wave of resistance expressed or unsaid. Use these practical strategies to help your team ...
Eliminating The People Manager Tax
In some companies, managing people is a requirement to advance, while in others individual contributions are paramount. In either case, I have witnessed leaders starting to view people management as a tax. One they must do in order to advance, ...
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Take Back Your Calendar
Last week, I delivered a Masterclass on how to take back your calendar. This is a must-listen if you find yourself in back-to-back meetings, toggling topics throughout the day, and busy but without much to show for it. Learn my 3 takeaways in 3...
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Adopt A Healthy Perspective On Work
Whether you see work as a necessary evil or a source of identity and pride, it's worth recalibrating your perspective for better performance and satisfaction. As an overachiever you may be used to relying on validation from work. You may see wo...
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Feeling Behind Is Slowing You Down
There can be a pervasive "rush" to our society and it's reflected in how we view our progress on our career path. We have expectations that have us hurrying both day-to-day and through the years. If you have felt behind in your career and exper...
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Success Redefined
On the verge of a quarter-life, mid-life, end-of-career crisis? You are not alone. Turns out there are natural milestones in our career that have us searching for more. I have heard clients describe it as asking "Is this all there is?" and feel...
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Increasing Your Visibility Authentically
I have many clients tell me that they are bad at self-promotion because it's not aligned with their values, but they receive feedback that it's holding back their career advancement. While this can feel like a lose / lose situation, where you c...
Radical Candor In Goal Setting Conversations
It's the season for annual goal-setting and expectations reviews. By taking the lead in these conversations, you can make it a pivotal time in both leadership of your career and leadership of your team. Here is how to introduce radi...
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Risk & Success Intolerance
There are two things we don't tolerate well as business leaders - risk and, counterintuitively, success. When it comes to risk, we would rather enjoy the reward without having to experience the associated uncertainty. We might fantasize about l...
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Neuroscience In The Boardroom
What You'll Learn From This Episode:Three stages of meeting your basic human needs to then reach self-actualizationNeuroscience-backed techniques to access your highest level thinking and overcome the most common blindspots...
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