You haven’t even walked into the meeting yet — but seeing your boss’s name on the calendar is already enough to make your stomach drop.

About this episode

You haven’t even walked into the meeting yet — but seeing your boss’s name on the calendar is already enough to make your stomach drop.

Sound familiar?

In this episode, Liz Jolley talks about the person at work who gets under your skin, takes up way too much space in your brain, and seems to have the power to derail your entire day.

Drawing from her own experience with a frustrating boss, Liz explores an uncomfortable but freeing idea: sometimes the suffering isn’t only coming from what the other person is doing. It’s also coming from all the ways we believe they should be different.

What happens when you stop waiting for them to change?

You can begin creating space between their behavior and your response.

Liz walks through how to notice when your body is becoming reactive, uncover the thoughts underneath that reaction, and ask a better question: Who do I want to be in this moment?

You’ll hear how this shift can help you move from defensive and triggered to grounded, curious, and much harder to shake — even when the other person doesn’t change at all.

If someone at work is occupying far more of your emotional energy than you want to give them, this conversation will help you begin taking that power back.

More at LizJolley.com.