Surprise! It’s Erica’s turn to be interviewed by multigenerational workplace expert, Lindsey Pollak about Erica's new book, Rituals Roadmap, OUT NOW
01/26/21 • 32 min
On this episode of Left to Our Own Devices, the tables have been turned! In honor of the launch of Erica’s new book, Rituals Roadmap, Erica sits down on the other side of the interview hot seat with author and multigenerational workplace expert, Lindsey Pollak. On this episode, Erica and Lindsey discuss Erica’s career journey, the moment Erica decided to write the second book (at an Italian restaurant over a glass of red wine), as well as how we can tell what a ritual is, how rituals have anchored leaders and companies in these turbulent times, and a little about Erica’s own rituals.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!: Erica’s second book, Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines into Workplace Magic is available NOW! Grab your copy wherever books are sold.
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Quotes:
“[A ritual is] something in your life, that if it didn’t happen—that day or that week or that month—something would just feel really off. There would be a void if it didn’t happen. The second piece of the definition is, a ritual is something that goes beyond its practical purpose.”
“How do you transition from work to home when all you have to do is roll over from one room to the next room...we’re rethinking so much about these rituals and missing them.”
“Rituals can help bring some structure to how we’re going to continue to connect.”
“Rituals don’t have to cost anything. Rituals are accessible to anyone. Doesn’t make it easy necessarily, but it takes intention and discipline to think about how you might incorporate rituals into your life personally, into your team. Focusing on rituals externally, in terms of client and business development. I think that’s the beauty of it—that they’re accessible to all of us.”
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On this episode of Left to Our Own Devices, the tables have been turned! In honor of the launch of Erica’s new book, Rituals Roadmap, Erica sits down on the other side of the interview hot seat with author and multigenerational workplace expert, Lindsey Pollak. On this episode, Erica and Lindsey discuss Erica’s career journey, the moment Erica decided to write the second book (at an Italian restaurant over a glass of red wine), as well as how we can tell what a ritual is, how rituals have anchored leaders and companies in these turbulent times, and a little about Erica’s own rituals.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!: Erica’s second book, Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines into Workplace Magic is available NOW! Grab your copy wherever books are sold.
Please Subscribe, Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts
You can also listen to the show on:
Quotes:
“[A ritual is] something in your life, that if it didn’t happen—that day or that week or that month—something would just feel really off. There would be a void if it didn’t happen. The second piece of the definition is, a ritual is something that goes beyond its practical purpose.”
“How do you transition from work to home when all you have to do is roll over from one room to the next room...we’re rethinking so much about these rituals and missing them.”
“Rituals can help bring some structure to how we’re going to continue to connect.”
“Rituals don’t have to cost anything. Rituals are accessible to anyone. Doesn’t make it easy necessarily, but it takes intention and discipline to think about how you might incorporate rituals into your life personally, into your team. Focusing on rituals externally, in terms of client and business development. I think that’s the beauty of it—that they’re accessible to all of us.”
Order Erica’s NEW book, Rituals Roadmap
Order Erica’s book, Bring Your Human to Work
Text ‘human’ to 66866 to sign up for Erica’s newsletter where she shares how to honor relationships well and how to bring your human to work and life.
Connect with Lindsey:
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Previous Episode
Because People are Your Business with Andy Biga, Chief People Officer of GoHealth Urgent Care
Something as simple as asking, “How was your day?” can make a huge impact. That’s what the people at GoHealth Urgent Care learned when they began a simple but powerful ritual: an End Of Day report from each of their healthcare clinics summarizing the day. This brief email summary has kept everyone at GoHealth connected and energized, especially during the relentless slog of the pandemic. On this week’s episode Erica sits down with Andy Biga, GoHealth’s Chief People Officer, to chat about the EOD as well as how they’ve been staying resilient in an overwhelming time for healthcare providers. Hint: it involves great people and great relationships to keep the whole thing running smoothly.
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Quotes
“Relationships are the foundational piece of how you learn and grow.”
“People are your business, right? From an HR perspective I don’t know what’s more important than that.”
“If the customers feel like they had a positive interaction with a provider, on a relationship-based experience, they’re more likely to follow that provider’s directions.”
Preorder Erica’s forthcoming book, Rituals Roadmap
Erica’s book, Bring Your Human to Work
Text ‘human’ to 66866 to sign up for Erica’s newsletter where she shares how to honor relationships well and how to bring your human to work and life.
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Next Episode
BONUS EPISODE: The Value of a Woman’s Hour: How COVID has shaped women’s lives and rituals with Eve Rodsky
On the season finale of Season Two: The Rituals Edition, Erica has an incredible guest—keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and equality evangelist, Eve Rodsky. Shaped by a difficult upbringing with a single mother in New York City, Eve learned important lessons early on around resilience, responsibility, and care. In this episode, you’ll hear about her first ritual—going to a march related to social justice every year on her birthday with her mother, as well as her current ritual—a nightly communication check-in with her husband. Eve has dedicated her life to equality, including by helping partners divide domestic responsibilities more equitably and by helping organizations get to a place of equality and psychological safety. Eve and Erica also discuss this inflection point in history: where either Covid will push mothers out of the workforce, or as a society we’ll rise up to make a new, more equitable future of work where women aren’t penalized for having dependents. Don’t miss this important conversation.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!: Erica’s second book, Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines into Workplace Magic is available NOW! Grab your copy wherever books are sold.
Please Subscribe, Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts
You can also listen to the show on:
Quotes:
“What [the research] shows is that, when you communicate more consistently, there is psychological safety and connection there. It is a ritual. And rituals allow you to do things that maybe if it’s a one-off wouldn’t. It allows you to bring up hard conversations and to say, ‘You know what this isn’t working, but I know I can come back to this tomorrow night.’ And that’s what that communication ritual does for Seth and me. We say, ‘You know what, we’re going to table this. Let’s come back when emotion is low and cognition is high.’”
“To really build a new society after this horrific reckoning...To me the silver lining is, an hour holding our child’s hand at the pediatrician’s office is just as valuable as an hour in the boardroom. I think we can build that through ritual. I think we can build that through communication. I think we can build that through psychological safety and empathy. But it’s going to take not just women doing it. It’s going to take men. It’s going to take our workplaces.”
“The leaders we talk to and how much they recognize that being a whole human being is actually better for their company and better for society.”
“Nothing is going to replace [our previous rituals]. And I think we should grieve for the lost rituals. we should grieve for the fact that we are right now losing those connection times with friends. Or we’re losing the ritual of that daily walk with your grandma, or whatever it was, that we can’t do now.”
Order Erica’s NEW book, Rituals Roadmap
Order Erica’s book, Bring Your Human to Work
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