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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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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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Episode 67 1/2: Micropodding about hard conversations...

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2025/01/28

A hearty, desuckified welcome back to Judy Cirullo, who previously shared her wisdom on episode 13 of the DesuckifyWork® podcast.She’s here today to talk about something that many of us spend a lot of energy trying to avoid—difficult conversations. Judy is an expert on this topic—as the founder of Grow Strong Teams she helps business owners and execs create cultures rooted in trust and accountability.If you’re resisting having a tough conversation with someone at work, this is a must listen. Judy

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62:46

Episode 67: Betting big on creativity with Ashley...

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2025/01/21

Creatives should be given way more opportunity to make a meaningful impact. On client business and on the world.This is the magic wand wish from Ashley Rutstein, today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast (originally aired live on 12/11). Ashley is a freelance creative director, copywriter and the creator of @stuffaboutadvertising, with over 117K followers on TikTok(!) and nearly 25K on Instagram.And she believes creatives can do so much more than make TV spots. We can influence operational

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91:01

Episode 66: Leading with curiosity and moral courage...

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2025/01/07

Age is just a number. Yeah, I know, I call BS on that too when I’m sitting at home nursing my aching back as I wonder if I’ll ever touch my toes again.But Willie Pietersen has other ideas. At 88 years old, this former lawyer and CEO is a professor at Columbia’s graduate school of business, recently published his second book and consults with some the world’s biggest and best-known organizations. And I had the good fortune to speak with him as today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast. The secret

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72:13

Episode 65: Bringing new thinking to how we work with...

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2024/12/17

What if we did something new every day?Could be something small like putting your socks on in the opposite order, or something huge like going skydiving in a chicken suit.This is what Asmara Kazmi has been doing for the past three years. Well, not the chicken suit part (I think), but she has been trying something new every day for over 1,000 days. And it’s given her a whole new perspective on life. And on how we should be running our businesses.Instead of thinking of companies as simply places to

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33:49

Episode 64 1/2: MicroPodding about Soft Leadership...

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2024/12/12

I’ve been trying to embrace the idea of experiments lately. Treating decisions as test and learn opportunities instead of my usual m.o. of assuming I’ll be stuck with the consequences of every decision for eternity.I recommend this approach to a lot of my clients. Figured I might as well take my own medicine.So, here’s my latest experiment. A new podcast format I’m calling “MicroPods.” Each one 30-minutes(ish) or less, going deep on one topic.In this episode, I’m speaking with Professor M.S. Rao, a

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Episode 64: Being more like bees with Siobhan McHale

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2024/12/10

To bee or not to bee. That is the question.Siobhan McHale—author, influencer and change leader—has the answer.To be the best humanity can be, we should be more like bees.How can that be?The hive mind is key. Embracing this bee-like way of being can help us solve the biggest challenges we face as humans.We’ll be a lot better off if we can learn to follow the LENS model of bee behavior:🐱 Look beyond current circumstances🐱 Experiment with changes on a small scale🐱 Nudge the system towards change🐱

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Episode 63: Calming ad agency chaos with Alane Boyd

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2024/12/03

The squeeze is real.We all feel it. Faster, faster, faster. More, more, more. React, respond. React, respond. React, respond.The machinification of humanity is in full force. And we feel powerless to resist.What if we stopped resisting and started delegating? Feeding our most hated work to the machines, creating process for the stuff that saps our soul, leaving more room for what makes us truly human?This is Alane Boyd’s superpower. As co-founder of Workday Ninja, she helps teams automate drudgery,

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90:51

Episode 62: Reimagining adulthood through play with...

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2024/11/22

NOTE: We shared this post earlier in the week without the podcast audio link. Apologies for the mistake. Here is the updated post with the embedded episode. Her name is Renee, which rhymes with play, which is something she believes we should do every day. She’s this week’s DesuckifyWork® podcast guest. She knows when we play, we’re at our best. We’re creative and alive, energetic and wiseWe communicate better, less lows and more highsOur mental health improvesWe get into more groovesWe find more

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107:52

Episode 61: Inviting our humanity to the workplace...

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2024/11/12

Is Rex Sikes the most interesting man in the world? He’s in the running, in my book. He’s a true renaissance man—an actor, author, educator, master hypnotherapist and a seemingly endless source of insight about the human condition. And lucky for us, he is this week’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast. We talked about how we can embrace our humanness more fully in the workplace to create the kind of culture where people thrive and make a difference. Some key takeaways:🐱 Play and experimentation

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Episode 60: Taking the suck out of agency communication

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2024/11/05

Some of the world's best communications companies have some of the worst internal communication you'll ever witness.I spent over 25 years at ad agencies and have experienced this not so delicious irony firstand, many times. We make assumptions, seeing our peers as avatars for what we need done instead of as beautifully flawed human beings working towards a shared goal. We sit in silos and judge through our tainted lenses. Account sucks. Creatives are babies. Production is out to kill our dreams. And

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70:10

Episode 59: Unleashing and embodying brand joy with...

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2024/10/29

We need more joy in the world. And despite what some may think, there is no joy fairy waiting in the wings to spread that beautiful feeling over all of us like pixie dust. Joy is an act of creation. And it’s on each of us to do the creating. A smile here, an atta boy there, a joke in the middle of a dreadful meeting there. It can also come from reliable WiFi, a well brewed cup of coffee or a roll of paper towels that actually tears along the damned dotted line like it’s supposed to.You know, the

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Episode 58: Finding the power in embracing change...

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2024/10/22

Bob Dylan. Taylor Swift. Sam Cooke. Klaus Meine. And now, Kristen Lisanti. What unites these four songwriters and this one executive coach, speaker and trainer? Change. From the personal to the political to the cultural and corporate, change is a constant theme in our our lives. And we don’t always like it. (He says, as he prays to the gods of gravity to delay the inevitable melding of face and torso for a few years longer.)But we love those songs about change for a reason. They are partners in our

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Episode 57: Unlocking human potential with Julie...

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2024/10/15

Two thirds of the global workforce is disengaged. That’s about 2.3 billion people feeling “meh” or much worse about their work. The cost of that disengagement is about $9 trillion, annually. Good thing we don’t have any significant problems to deal with that could benefit from some of that lost cash. If we did, we might pay more attention to those engagement numbers. Maybe even make a big deal out of them. Put them front and center in our political debates, perhaps. Ha, a fellow can dream, right?Or

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Episode 56: Discovering the power of masterful...

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2024/10/08

You can’t spit on LinkedIn without hitting at least ten coaches. But how many of them actually know what they’re doing?The best way to learn is to observe them in the wild. Noting their presence. Scrutinizing their questioning skills. Detecting their ability to unearth insights and share them generously, without attachment. Seeing how well they listen. That’s a big one. I had the opportunity to observe and witness a truly masterful coach on the latest episode of the DesuckifyWork® podcast. Dan Kent

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Episode 55: Discovering the power of Red Thread...

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2024/10/01

What’s the purpose of your ad agency?And don’t tell me it’s to make great work. That’s table stakes. Or in some cases, total BS.What’s your point of view. What are you trying to change? What impact do you want to have? I’ve worked at agencies for over 25 years and I’m not sure I was ever clear on what any agency was really all about.And we wonder why so many clients feel the same thing. Now, your purpose doesn’t have to be about “doing good” or saving the slippery tailed garden newt. But you need a

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Episode 54: Finding your purpose, saving yourself...

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2024/09/24

Your success is killing you. Sacrificing yourself for the chase. The money, the awards, the status. Making your parents proud. Making your friends envious. Making yourself sick. Because you are getting lost in the process. This is what happens when we achieve without a well defined purpose. And it’s at the source of so much pain we see every day. Burnout. Substance abuse. Failed relationships. A toxic legacy we’re modeling for generations to come.We know we don’t want this. But we can’t always see a

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Episode 53: Rising and thriving with Zoë Dalton

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2024/09/17

What if I told you that you could spell resilience with three letters. And an umlaut. Meet Zoë. Zoë Dalton is this week’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast. And her story will impress, inspire and invite you to look within and see what you’re really made of. With $30.28 to her name, newly unemployed, coming off an abusive marriage and with two young kids in tow, Zoe was literally starting over. She didn’t just build a new life. As she describes it, she built a “queendom,” embracing a mindset shift

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Let's get more creative with creative hiring

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2024/09/12

I spoke with Dan Nelken for this week’s DesuckifyWork® podcast and we touched on an unfortunate reality. Creatives rarely get to bring all of themselves into a role, unless the stars align perfectly. 🐱 Right Agency🐱 Right Client🐱 Right TimeI think we can do better. And it starts with hiring. We often hire the person with the best portfolio. You’ve done killer work somewhere else, of course it will work here as well. But that’s b******t. We need to dig deeper. To look at the whole person. 🐱 What

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Episode 52: Embracing structure in creativity with...

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2024/09/10

Work sucks when it’s harder than it has to be. It’s even worse when we’re the ones making it harder. As creatives, we resist structure. It’s confining. It’s corporate. It’s boring. It will also blow up your career in the best way possible.Just ask Dan Nelken, today’s guest on the DesuckifyWork® podcast. Dan is a best selling author, has over 40,000 LinkedIn followers and has created courses, talks and workshops that have impacted nearly every corner of our industry. If you told 5-years-ago Dan that

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