In this podcast episode, you will learn the three biggest misconceptions about forgiveness. “People hurt each other. It happens to everyone. Intentionally. Unintentionally. Regretfully or not. It’s part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive." ~ Adi Alsaid In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨How forgiveness can help you to build resilience ✨How and when you can start the forgiveness process ✨How to let go of resentment, forgive others and yoursel...
Dec 02, 2020•13 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Interview with Linda Bloom, Psychotherapist and Relationship Counselor. Linda and her husband Charlie have been counseling and hosting workshops for couples for over 30 years and wrote 4 books together in this time. "101 Things I wish I knew before I got married" sold over 100.000 copies over the past couple of years. I am so excited to share this podcast interview with you today and I hope you will walk away from it as inspired as I was when we recorded it. In this podcast interview you will le...
Nov 25, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 49
If you have been wondering why you are not successful in your life, then this podcast episode is for you. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨ What's holding you back from being successful ✨ Why most of the things that hold us back are illusions ✨ How you can create a growth mindset for success Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance Tools To Thrive at Work and in Your Personal Life 🏔 🔸 LINKS 🔸 INVEST IN YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Get monthly coaching and j...
Nov 18, 2020•14 min•Season 2Ep. 48
In this podcast episode, I want to provide a few tools on how to increase your self-awareness. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨ What self-awareness and stress management have in common ✨ Tools to grow your self-awareness ✨ How to check yourself in each key situation Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance Tools To Thrive at Work and in Your Personal Life 🏔 🔸 LINKS 🔸 INVEST IN YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Get monthly coaching and join a group of Peak Perfo...
Nov 11, 2020•11 min•Season 2Ep. 47
In this podcast episode, I will share the three books with you that helped me start my self-development journey. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨ Which books I keep reading to stay inspired and motivated on my personal development journey ✨ How to stay in the present moment and sustain your performance ✨ How ""Always try your best"" translates if you are a peak performer Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ---- Book Recommendations: - The Power of Now, Eckart Tolle (https://amzn.to/3...
Nov 04, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 46
In this podcast episode you will learn why it is so hard to navigate change. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨ What happens in the brain when navigating change ✨ Why it is important to activate your parasympathetic nervous system regularly ✨ How to create the right mindset to succeed Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance Tools To Thrive at Work and in Your Personal Life 🏔 🔸 LINKS 🔸 INVEST IN YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Get monthly coaching and join a gr...
Oct 28, 2020•15 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Should you stop procrastinating to improve your productivity? When we stop doing something for a minute, in today's world, we already feel like we are procrastinating. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨How to stop and reframe procrastination ✨The one step you need to be mindful of when you want to change ✨How to get the ball rolling to improve your productivity Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance Tools To Thrive at Work and in Your Personal Life 🏔 🔸 L...
Oct 21, 2020•14 min•Season 2Ep. 44
I have been going through a really hard time the past couple of weeks and I wanted to share a very vulnerable session with you in the hope that if you are currently struggling to maintain focus because of events in your life, it will help you to know that you are not alone. This recording is an excerpt from the Academy of Peak Performers, my weekly group coaching call that I started this year and have come to appreciate and love so much. If you are interested to join us weekly for coaching input...
Oct 14, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 43
In this podcast episode, you will learn how to manage emotional setbacks. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨How to manage emotional setbacks in four easy steps ✨How to master your emotions ✨How to take care of yourself and find balance Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance Tools To Thrive at Work and in Your Personal Life 🏔 🔸 LINKS 🔸 INVEST IN YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Get monthly coaching and join a group of Peak Performers to level up in life: https:...
Oct 07, 2020•12 min•Season 2Ep. 42
In this podcast episode, I want to inspire you to use the last 100 days of 2020 . In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨How to stay motivated even if 2020 was tough ✨Why you should invest in yourself, especially this year ✨How to identify an area in your life and set personal goals Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance Tools To Thrive at Work and in Your Personal Life 🏔 🔸 LINKS 🔸 INVEST IN YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Get monthly coaching and join a group of ...
Sep 30, 2020•10 min•Season 2Ep. 41
In this podcast episode, I will help you navigate through the difficult question: how do I tell my manager that I am burned out? In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨The signs of burnout ✨What is burnout and does it only relate to work ✨All important steps you need to consider when telling your manager that you are burned out Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia Link to Health Questionnaire: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Home/GetFileByID/218 ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance...
Sep 23, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Are you feeling stressed about your upcoming performance review? Do you wonder how to survive the next few weeks and what you can do to set yourself up for success? In this podcast episode, you will learn: ✨ How to improve your self-assessment and reduce stress ✨ How to best evaluate others ✨ How to set yourself up for success in future reviews Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance Tools To Thrive at Work and in Your Personal Life 🏔 If you want to explore more ...
Sep 16, 2020•15 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Interview with Diana Eisiminger. A Highly Sensitive Person, or HSP, is someone who experiences acute physical, mental, or emotional responses to stimuli. I had the pleasure to interview Diana Eisiminger for this podcast interview special to help you understand what an HSP is, what distinguishes them from the introvert / extrovert trait and how, if you consider yourself a HSP, you can reach peak performance. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨What an HSP is ✨If all HSPs are also introverts ...
Sep 09, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 38
If you are wondering: "I am so busy can I take time off" - then this podcast episode is for you! In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨Which questions you should consider to make this decision ✨How to deal with feelings of guilt towards your work and co-workers ✨How to decrease your anxiety upon your return Enjoy listening. With gratitude, Julia ------ 🏔 Build Peak Performance Tools To Thrive at Work and in Your Personal Life 🏔 🔸 LINKS 🔸 INVEST IN YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Get monthly coa...
Sep 02, 2020•14 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Interview with Martha Schoonmaker, Physical Therapist in Tahoe City, California. For those of you that follow me on social media, you know I have been struggling with lower back pain for three years - until I found Marty who literally "fixed" me. In this podcast interview, I had the pleasure to interview my very first podcast guest from my home town in Lake Tahoe and share Marty's wisdom with all of you. In this podcast interview you will learn: ✨ What is the connection between mental and physic...
Aug 26, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 36
How to improve your productivity while working from home When you started working from home, you thoughtHow to improve your productivity while working from home When you started working from home, you thought your productivity is going to sky-rocket, but the opposite is true. Your 9-5 has turned into a 24/7, you feel overwhelmed, tired, unproductive. It doesn't have to be this way! In this podcast you will learn: ✨ 5 strategies on how to improve your productivity while working from home ✨ 3 tool...
Aug 19, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Interview with Emma Mainoo. Emma is the head of the mental health practice at Utopia, a culture change business that creates more purposeful, inclusive and entrepreneurial cultures for clients. Utopia's top-to-bottom, boardroom-to-factory floor approach has worked with household names including Coca-Cola European Partners, Google, Schneider Electric, Spotify, and Universal Music. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨How personal mental health stories empower others (and how you can empower o...
Aug 12, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Have you ever wondered how to master your emotional intelligence? What is emotional intelligence in the workplace and how to develop it? Emotional Intelligence accounts for 58% of performance in any type of job. In today's video we are speaking about how you can master your emotional intelligence. In this video you will learn: ✨ What is emotional intelligence? ✨ How to develop and master emotional intelligence? ✨ What is emotional intelligence in the workplace? ✨ How to improve your emotional in...
Aug 03, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Interview with Ish Verduzco. Ish is Diversity Specialist at Snap, DJ's in his free time and most recently published his first book on "How Successful People Get Ish Done - A 7-Step Framework To Achieve Your Goals". It's not "just another self-help book", but a book that specifically targets the overlooked and underrepresented audience. Ish says: "I read 45 self development books in 2019. 3 of them were written by people of color. None of them happened to be Latino." In this inspiring podcast int...
Jul 27, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 32
You have worked incredibly hard in your life to get where you are today. Usually we associate success with excellent grades, degrees from prestigious colleges, work experiences from Fortune 100 companies. And now that you got there, how do you sustain your performance? The reality is that we have learned unhealthy habits to push ourselves to these achievements and now that we land our first job, it doesn't stop there: regular performance evaluations, quarterly targets, and continued competition ...
Jul 20, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Interview with Kaleana Quibell. Kaleana is the Wellbeing Director at Sequoia Consulting Group in San Francisco. She originally hails from Redmond, Washington and she is very passionate about corporate wellness and workplace psychology. Sequoia Consutling Group is a consulting service that has been finding new ways to help businesses care for their people. They help employers with 20 employees to 20,000 employees find the best way to empower people and improve productivity. In this podcast episod...
Jul 13, 2020•47 min•Season 2Ep. 30
The most downloaded podcast episode I recorded in 2019 was on How to Stop Overthinking and it got me thinking: there is a lot more I can share with you to help you understand how to manage and analyze your thoughts :-). So I took the courage to re-listen to the first episode (self-judgement alert!!) to dive even deeper into this topic. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨How thoughts and emotions are connected ✨What is Mental Flexibility and a Shift in Perspective ✨How to break your negativ...
Jul 06, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Interview with Benjamin King and Monica Cruz. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to interview my first two interview guests for the podcast: Benjamin King and Monica Cruz from TINYPulse. Benjamin works as an Account Executive and Monica is HR manager. TINYPulse makes unique software tools for businesses that treasure their most valued resource — their people. Over 1,000 companies use TINYpulse to engage and develop high-performing teams, including Michelin, Stitch Fix, HubSpot, Deloitte, Airbnb...
Jun 29, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Is your email inbox overflowing, your to-do list ever-growing even though you work evenings and weekends to catch-up on work? Do you feel overwhelmed from not having time to recharge your batteries? You are not alone! One of the biggest challenges I see my clients face is managing their day-to-day. Time management is something everyone talks about, but no one has really taught you on how to take control and make things work. Or you have been looking into following specific programs, but they jus...
Jun 21, 2020•14 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Interview with Dr. David Clawson. David is a physiatrist and practices physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Swedisch Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He is taking care of people with strokes, spinal and brain injuries and ALS. He also does musculoskeletal medicine specializing in neck and back pain, peripheral joint injuries and complex spine injuries. In this fascinating interview, we are diving deep into the impact of stress on the biochemical processes in your body. In this podca...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 26
I want to know your thoughts! How can I best help you on your journey to reach peak performance? What are you struggling most with? What topics would you like me to cover in future podcast episodes? Let me know your thoughts and opinions via email at julia@peakperformancemethod.com or leave me a review on iTunes. Make sure to share my podcast with family, friends, and colleagues who you think could benefit from listening. Thank you all so much! With gratitude, Julia ----- 🏔 Build Peak Performan...
Jun 08, 2020•5 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Interview with Jessica Shuraleff. Besides her job in tech, Jessi is a wife and a mother of two. But motherhood didn’t come so easy to her. In this beautifully open podcast interview, Jessi shares her very personal story with us, her struggles of trying to have kids, miscarriages and the power of control. In this podcast episode you will learn: How Jessi overcame her struggles and how you can overcome yours How stress and infertility are connected Why it is important to let go of control What Jes...
Jun 01, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 24
How does your morning routine look like? Does it set you up for continued focus and productivity throughout the day? No? You might need to rethink how you start into your day. I was challenged with the same questions a few weeks ago. Even though I have a powerful morning routine and I exercise regularly after my workday, I felt like I wasn't creating enough energy to sustain my focus throughout the day. You see, like most of you, I spend 7-9 hours in the office every day, mostly sitting. By the ...
May 25, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Interview with Michael Susi. Michael Susi is the director of the Global Wellness Program at LinkedIn and has seen and influenced the evolution of wellness programs in tech over the past eight years. I was really curious to interview him for you to understand the changes he has seen over time while well-being and mental health has become more and more important for employers and employees alike. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨How to create an employee experience ✨How to motivate employe...
May 18, 2020•47 min•Season 2Ep. 22
May is Mental Health Awareness month. In this podcast episode, I would like to talk with you about the stigma of mental health, why understanding what mental health means can help you deliver peak performance on a sustainable level and how you can get started investing in a healthier mindset. In this podcast episode you will learn: ✨What mental health actually means ✨Why there shouldn't be any stigma around mental health ✨Three tools on how to start investing in your mental health Enjoy watching...
May 11, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 21
