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DesuckifyWork®

TJ Bennett - Executive Coach, Chief Desuckifier

We spend about half our waking lives working. Let’s make that time a bit better, shall we? And let’s chat with desuckifiers who are out there making it happen, every day. tjbennett.substack.com

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Ep86 | Exploring theater lessons for better...

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2025/06/10

If you’ve ever been to the theater, you’ve witnessed a masterclass in communication. Each character demonstrating their ability to get what they need (or not) from each other. Creating harmony or sparking conflict. Influencing, irritating, arousing, amusing. All done for the benefit of us, the audience. Complete strangers making us care about the outcome of a make believe situation we knew nothing about just minutes before.It’s magical, really.And it’s the perspective today’s guest on the

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70:04

Ep 85 | Learning About Learning and Development With...

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2025/06/03

I worked 26 years at ad agencies and never knew there was a thing called Learning & Development (L&D).Like an actual team dedicated to the growth of the people who work there.Huh.It had been my understanding that learning was a thing that happened by having your work pissed on repeatedly, forcing you to come back with so many new ideas that one might actually squeak through unscathed and you’d be invited back for the next gauntlet.You “developed” a thick skin but not much else. Leadership skills,

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49:30

Ep84 | Going against the agency grain with Veronique...

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2025/05/27

Ad agencies are good at 3 things:👏 Building brands👏 Driving sales👏 Making employees so miserable they would prefer to be literally anywhere else, almost as soon as they are hired. (Hence the industry-wide 33% turnover rate)The James Agency in Scottsdale is quite good at the first two. But has failed miserably at the third. Many of their folks have stuck around for over ten years. The CCO has been there since the beginning, 20 years, with agency founder and today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork®

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74:28

Ep 83 | Solving the belonging crisis with Don Berger

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2025/05/20

Quick, are you a meerkat? A chimp? A snow leopard? A wolf?No, I’m not high. I’m talking about the 4 belonging personas developed by Dan Berger, today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast.This may be the most important work anyone is doing right now. We are in the midst of a belonging crisis, fueled by social media, egged on by COVID and reinforced by our own lack of clarity on how to make things better.Enter Dan.Dan’s whole life has been centered around belonging. It hasn’t always been easy. But

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67:21

Episode 82: Building Your Leadership Legacy With...

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2025/05/13

From overseas battlegrounds to overseeing booze regulations to fighting human trafficking and cleaning up county government, Bentley Nettles has been a busy man.Oh, and he wrote a book, because of course he did.The book captures a leadership philosophy honed over the course of his impressive career. As a Brigadier General (JAG) in the Army, Executive Director of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) and Brazos County Commissioner.The philosophy? Pretty straightforward. Embrace different

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78:41

Episode 81: Taking a career leap with Carlos Musquez

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2025/05/06

Work sucks? Maybe it’s not you. Maybe it’s the model you’re working in.Carlos Musquez came to this realization after 30+ years in the ad business. And he’d love it if you didn’t have to wait so long.He invites you to ask a very simple question. When was the last time you were really proud of your work? And if the answer is, “it’s been a minute,” ask yourself why?It might be time for something new. For Carlos, that new thing is Old School—a creative collective that lives the values learned throughout

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43:52

Episode 80: Redefining productivity with Sarah Ohanesian

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2025/04/29

No one lies on their deathbed and says, “I wish I was more productive.”But maybe they should. Because productivity is making progress towards our priorities. Towards the things that actually matter. That’s the definition shared by Sarah Ohanesian, today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast.At work, that might mean doing something we’re passionate about, or finding meaning where none seems to exist. Outside of work, with our families, our friends or off on our own, it simply means spending more time

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86:03

Episode 79: Changing how we work forever with Maria...

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2025/04/22

I thought I had a bold mission, to desuckify work.Then, Maria DeLorenzis Reyes shows up and hits me with a Devil Went Down to Georgia throw down: “Sit down in that chair right there and let me show you how it’s done.”Her mission: to change the world of work forever.Okay, okay. I’m listening. How do we do that, exactly?Maria has some thoughts:🐱 Be vulnerable. This is a huge superpower for leaders, who think they need to know everything. No. They need to know how to navigate a world where they know

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81:03

Episode 78: Learning about leadership from Howard...

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2025/04/15

Baba Booey.The childish taunt of a crude shock jock or the cultural glue that helped build one of the world’s most successful media empires?Yes.The Leadership Lessons of Howard Stern is a provocative book from Michael Kublin, today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast.Michael is an entrepreneur, author and founder of PeopleTek—a leadership coaching and development company.He’s also one of the most positive, uplifting and thoughtful people I’ve met. His “unauthorized guidebook” on The King of All

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60:02

Episode 77: Discovering the power of ordinary...

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2025/04/08

Life gives us enough hard crap to deal with. Why would we add more to it, on purpose?Because that’s how we grow.Today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast, Luis Velazquez, should know. Luis was diagnosed with a brain tumor over 20 years ago. He was crushed. Angry. And at one point, suicidal. Everything he had every right to be.Today, he is an incredibly successful executive coach, working with leaders from companies like Google, Salesforce and more. His speciality? Coaching those deemed

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Episode 76: Rediscovering the 7 Habits of Highly...

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2025/04/01

If you stacked every sold copy of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, it would reach over 757 miles high. That’s about 550 miles higher than the International Space Station. The air so thin, molecules almost never run into each other, flying solo until they fall back to earth or get lost in space for eternity.Perfect time for a good book, no?There’s a reason over 40 million copies have been sold since it launched in 1989. It’s good. Really good. It’s wisdom timeless, grounded and, yeah,

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57:20

Episode 75: Getting emotionally charged with Dina...

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2025/03/25

Ever try to hold a beach ball underwater?You can do it for a few seconds, but it takes a shocking amount of effort. And that sucker will pop back up (and maybe nail you in the face) soon enough.That’s what our emotions are like. Especially at work. Where we try to stuff ‘em down all day long like good, rational girls and boys.Except we’re not rational. We’re human. Highly emotional meat bags under constant assault from a world that’s gone mad.Pop, pop, pop.How can we lead in the midst of the

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Episode 74: Flipping the script on imposter syndrome...

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2025/03/18

If you grew up when I did, you had two big fears:🙀 Quicksand🙀 ImpostersBoth were everywhere, apparently. From Gilligan’s Island to Scooby Doo to random movies of the week where someone pretending to be someone else inevitably tied up the good guys and had them neck deep in a soupy death trap.Fast froward to today and quicksand is nowhere to be found. But imposters have simply relocated. From the small screens in our living rooms to the mirrors in our bathrooms.We are the imposters now. Convinced

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Episode 73: Changing the world through shared...

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2025/03/11

1+1+1+1+1=The solution to almost everything.This is the promise of collective intelligence. And it’s a promise that Lorraine Margherita articulates beautifully on this week’s episode of the DesuckifyWork® podcast.Collective intelligence:🐱 Combines individual talents, skills, stories, and ambitions into something greater than the sum of their parts🐱 Is activated by clarifying team purpose, roles and responsibilities🐱 Invites people to contribute beyond just their job description or credentials🐱

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Episode 72: Having weird conversations with Laura...

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2025/03/04

Wanna make work suck less? Start asking weird questions.Like, totally bizarre, off the wall stuff like:🙀 Do you understand what I’m asking you?🙀 What does productive mean to you?🙀 What does it mean to be on time?🙀 What does success mean to you?🙀 What assumptions are we making?Nuts, right? It’s so weird to ask these basic, foundational questions about how we communicate with each other. The shared language we rely on to get things done. The stuff we all skip over because we think we should just

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Episode 71: Sleeping your way to success with Zander...

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2025/02/25

You want to make work suck less? Get a good night’s sleep.Poor sleep affects:🙀 Productivity🙀 Relationships🙀 Attention to detail🙀 Decision-makingIt also leads to long term health issues like diabetes, dementia and cardiovascular disease.Thankfully, today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast is here to help.Zander Keig is a licensed clinical social worker who leads organizational well-being workshops for corporations. If you want to sleep better, he suggests:🐱 Reducing blue light exposure🐱

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Episode 70: Exploring psychological safety with...

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2025/02/18

What is psychological safety?We hear the term thrown around a lot these days but I’m not sure we’re clear on what it means.🙀 It’s not the absence of stress or conflict.🙀 It’s not emotional bubble wrap, protecting us from our feelings🙀 It’s not a lack of responsibility or accountabilityIt’s quite the opposite, actually, according to Dennis DiMaggio, today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast. Dennis is a learning and development expert with over 20 years of experience.His career has taken him

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What the bleep are you're gonna do with the next 10,...

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2025/02/14

What the bleep are you're gonna do with the next 10, 15, 20 years of your life?This is the question Loren Greiff posed to our audience during the latest episode of The DesuckifyWork® podcast.Her plan: to not waste one second of it.So, what's yours?#desuckifyworkpodcast #desuckifywork #findyourwhyfindyourway #executivecoaching Get full access to DesuckifyWork® at tjbennett.substack.com/subscribe

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Episode 69: Ending career victimization with Loren...

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2025/02/11

Would you rather be a victim or have a career your love?Being a victim is easy.😿 We play the job application lottery day after day, praying for the big jackpot… or even just a politely written “no thank you.”😿 We lament the lack of job security while doing little to make ourselves stand out😿 We get jealous of those who have better “luck” than us instead of getting curious about how they made things happen for themselvesTaking ownership of your career is harder, but way less painful. And Loren

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Episode 68: Bringing a human centric approach to work...

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2025/02/04

In a world obsessed with how AI will impact our workplaces, we’ve overlooked a bigger challenge. How we bring more humanity into them.It’s a problem we’ve struggled with since work became a four letter word. Work is supposed to suck. It’s supposed to be drudgery. It’s certainly not supposed to a place where you can experience love and human connection.That would be crazy. Right?🐱 People supporting each other🐱 People trying to understand each other🐱 People showing grace when someone struggles🐱

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