EP 30

WITH Tessa White

How Great Leaders Inspire Action

In today’s episode I am joined by Tessa White, AKA The Job Doctor! Tessa White is a truth-telling, reformed Fortune 50 executive. In 2020, The Job Doctor business was born, a practice dedicated to helping individuals navigate the workplace and companies to unlock the potential of their people. Tessa's vantage point on careers is uniquely targeted to help people from all walks of life. She has hired and fired thousands of people and watched countless careers rise and fall. She has grown companies and shrunk them, restructured, layed off, and redesigned companies from the ground up. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Utah State University, the Utah Valley University’s Women’s Success Center and the Utah Tech Innovations Council, which mentors the best and brightest upcoming businesses.

How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Key Points

Every leader should engage in conversations with their team members, acknowledging their experiences and providing support.
Life challenges impact work: Recognizing that personal struggles affect employees’ professional lives is crucial for leaders to provide support and help them succeed.
Humanity in leadership: Shifting from top-down leadership to a more humane approach acknowledges that individuals go through difficult times and need empathy, especially during collective challenging periods.
Conflict is inevitable: From negotiating job offers to daily work interactions, conflicts are a part of professional life. Developing communication strategies that build trust instead of breaking it is essential.
Going through transitions and transformations in work provides valuable experience and expertise.
Embracing hustle can lead to valuable contributions and personal growth.
Tessa’s book addresses the root cause of burnout: the feeling of a lack of control in life.

Best Quotes

In this episode you’ll learn:

21:46 – 21:55 “If the employee constantly says they’re just looking out for profit, they don’t care about me, it’s hard to serve you because you’re not listening or giving the same level of empathy.”

24:09 – N/A “Those kinds of conversations can be had; it just requires doing it carefully in the right way.”

41:09 – 41:15 “If you love someone, you don’t think they’re stupid. You think that they just think differently from you.”

47:56 – 48:04 “You can be a very valuable employee and create space for yourself to have balance, but don’t rely on your company to do it for you.”

48:38 – 48:44 “Giving is the most selfish thing we can do. It feels so good when you give.”

59:11 – 59:18 “I take you through what you need to know about each chapter to become a person that has a voice in your career.”

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Stay on Top of Your Game:

The Game of LIFE

So, you’re trying to do it all. Sometimes, you’re soaring on success.
And sometimes, it all flat out sucks.

Managing work, relationships, finances, friends, day-to-day LIFE.
The “oh shit, I forgot…” moments are frequent and the shower epiphanies are getting old.

As High-Performers, we want to have it all, and feel good about it.
Like we are handling it well, achieving A+s on all accounts.

This podcast is going to take you into the minds of some of the world’s
Top Performers in Business, Relationships, Health, and Mindset,
and give you hands-on methods to move from feeling you’re merely managing your High Performance Life, to f***ing MASTERING it.

Yes, these conversations will be about Wealth, Productivity, and Influence.
But we’re also going to talk about Family, Energy, Impact, and Faith on the High Performance Life Podcast.

I believe deeply that it’s ALL important in understanding how stay on top of the Game of LIFE and consistently perform at the level you know you’re capable of. So join us on this imperfect journey. We’re just getting started.

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ABOUT

SCOTT DANNER

Scott Danner is a champion of high performers — and those who strive to be the best version of themselves.

A CEO, entrepreneur, coach, consultant, and LIFE Optimization specialist, he is the author of the Amazon best-selling book Freedom Street. He hosts the podcast The High Performance LIFE for high performers in any profession.

As founder & CEO of Freedom Street Partners, Scott knows firsthand what it takes for entrepreneurs to serve their clients and make an impact in their communities while also ensuring their own freedom and happiness.

Although a high income is often the by-product of success, Scott encourages high performers to focus first on L.I.F.E. (an acronym representing love, impact, faith and energy), and understand that, from there, the money will follow. He believes we all can make a greater impact when these four critical components of our lives are focused on and in symmetry.

Scott is the cofounder of the Chesapeake Virginia Wine Festival, which has donated more than $2.5 million to local charities. He and his wife, Adrienne, a kindergarten teacher, have two teenaged sons.

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Testimonials

Scott is the definition of "High Performance" in life and business!!

Scott’s show digs deep into what it takes to have high performance life with amazing guests sharing all the tools needed.

Learning together has been so powerful.

The HPL Podcast is a wide ranging conversation about things that I didn’t expect but when we take apart this notion of LIFE, as love, impact, faith and energy, it’s well worth your time!

I just finished my interview with Scott and let me tell you,

this guy lives and breathes high performance. So if you think that you’ve got another level in your life, and this is the year that you’re going to do it, check out the High Performance Life.

I was so happy to be a guest on the High Performance Life podcast with my man Scott,

because it’s so important to learn how to love those around you to make sure that you’re maximizing your unique talents to give impact to the world and to have faith while you’re doing it and make sure you show up with energy. L.I.F.E, you got to have that all of that.

I gotta tell you, you have got to check out this podcast.

Scott is interviewing some amazing individuals and sharing information that’s going to absolutely positively improve all aspects of our life, our family, our mindset, our kids, and our legacy.

We got into deep conversation

not so much war stories which I’ve told in the past many times but more relatable topics, methodologies, tools, philosophies, ideas, and about living concepts that are relatable to literally anybody and everybody regardless of their walk of life.

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How Great Leaders Inspire Action