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Season 1, Episode 1: “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” with Bea Boccalandro

Hello CauseGirl and welcome to our first episode with author and researcher Bea Boccalandro. Without knowing what was missing exactly, Bea quit her corporate job in her 20s and went on a mission to “not do lame work.” As a self-proclaimed nerd, she set her sights on finding the answer to why she quit and the difference between petty, complaining co-workers looking for other jobs and those who were happy and productive and staying put. In this episode we talk about the difference between passion and purpose and learn how her aptly-coined phrase, job purposing, can boost our work engagement, performance and wellbeing while alleviating hunger, poverty, environmental degradation and other societal issues.

Here to tell us how to turn ANY boring desk job into something worth getting out of bed for, this is her story. Enjoy!
In this episode…

• Papi’s Venezuelan work stories over T-bone steaks and gin & tonics
• The day Bea decided to let it all go
• Who performs best: people with passion or purpose?
• The $5 or 5 min exercise that will boost happiness and reduce stress for weeks
• The case for social purpose as the new exercise
• The best Vegas story you’ve never heard

More about Bea

Her first book, Do Good at Work, How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing has been named a top 30 book recommendation by three-time New York Times bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant. She has been recently published in Harvard Business Review for her article, “Why Your Values Belong at Work.”

As Founder and President of VeraWorks, Bea works with fortune 100 companies and small businesses to ignite purpose in the workplace. She is also author of the Job Purposing blog, teaches corporate community involvement at Georgetown University and is a frequent keynote speaker. When she’s not job purposing, she’s either surfing or snowboarding depending on the season in CA or UT.

Bea now adds “Official CauseGirl” to her impressive list of credentials.

Connect with Bea

Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Website | Blog

Unique offer in this episode

Get the first three chapters of Bea’s book for free by going to www.dogoodatwork.com. Sign up for the mailing list and Bea will send you the first three chapters for free.

CauseGirl call to action in this episoe

• Schedule ½ hour a week in your calendar for social job purposing. You don’t even need to know what you’re going to do ahead of time. Focus 25 minutes on looking for something that will contribute to the welfare of someone else and then spend 5 minutes doing the activity.
• If you have trouble coming up with something, answer these 2 questions:
  • The last person I interacted with, how are they doing? (e.g. What can you do to encourage them, give them support, etc.?
  • Whatever task I was doing before this, is there is a way to make it more sustainable, charitable, more inclusive? (e.g. What could you have done to make the last meeting more inclusive?)

People Links & Resources in this episode

• Do Good At Work, How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing, Bea Boccalandro
• Harvard Business Review Article, Why Your Values Belong at Work
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• What is Job Crafting and Why Does It Matter? by Justin M. Berg, Jane E. Dutton and Amy Wrzesniewski
• Morten Hansen, Professor at UC Berkeley
• Alan Rozanski, MD Cardiology and his study on purpose and its role in cardiovascular health

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