Healthy Hustle: Finding Balance and Fulfillment | Tutti Taygerly

IN THIS EPISODE…

High-achieving entrepreneurs and leaders often struggle to develop a healthy work-life balance and become so immersed in elevating their performance that they feel burned out or unfulfilled. How can you balance your personal and professional endeavors to achieve your career goals?

In today’s episode of Matters of Creative, Bobbie Bailey hosts Tutti Taygerly to talk about how high-performers can achieve career balance and fulfillment. Tutti shares her approaches to creating leadership spaces, how to redefine personal achievement, and her mental health and wellness tips for leaders.

High-performance leadership coach Tutti Taygerly says rather than striving to elevate your performance, you should build relationships that propel you to the next level in your career. However, you can’t achieve your goals unless you’ve identified your core values and an innate purpose in your work. This enables you to focus your energy on relevant and productive tasks that move you closer to your goal. Additionally, embracing and learning from failure throughout the process establishes resilience and prevents burnout from over-achieving.

Tune in now to hear more productive leadership insights for high-achievers.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Tutti Taygerly is an executive leadership coach advising high-performing entrepreneurs, CEOs, and leaders to amplify their professional impact and define their unique leadership styles. As a design leader, she has 22 years of experience building products and design cultures in the world’s largest organizations. Tutti has led teams at startups, design agencies, and large tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Sony, and Samsung. Currently, she serves as a Leadership and Product Mentor at First Round Capital and 500 Startups and as a Product Advisor at Positive Intelligence, Inc.

Learn more about Tutti:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuttitaygerly/

https://www.tuttitaygerly.com/

Here’s a Glimpse of what you’ll learn:

• [2:15] Tutti Taygerly’s turning point to coach founders and CEOs
• [5:58] How Tutti coaches high-achievers to combine ambition and well-being
• [12:03] Tutti shares her tools and strategies for identifying your “why”
• [17:47] Practical approaches to creating leadership spaces
• [21:16] Prioritizing and redefining achievement
• [27:37] How to embrace failure
• [30:38] The future of leadership: career autonomy
• [34:35] Mental health and wellness tips for high-achievers

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Tutti Taygerly: Website | LinkedIn
• “Make Space to Lead: Break Patterns to Find Flow and Focus on What Matters” by Tutti Taygerly
• “The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World” by Dorie Clark

Quotable Moments:

• “Ambition can be a false dream. Dive into the core of why it matters to uncover true balance and fulfillment.”
• “I serve more as a mirror to help them better get to know themselves.”
• “If you want to get to your dream, lots of little iterations and experiments will get you there.”
• “It doesn’t matter if that one little thing succeeds or fails; you’re simply getting more information.”
• “I call it healthy hustle: the balance between working hard and doing things, being in flow while keeping your energy high.”

Action Steps:

1. Embrace a healthy hustle mindset: Balance ambition with well-being by maintaining high energy and meaningful work relationships. This approach prevents burnout and enhances productivity.
2. Clarify your core values: Identify and define your personal leadership values to guide your decisions and actions. This enhances self-awareness and aligns your goals with your true motivations.
3. Conduct energy audits regularly: Evaluate tasks and interactions to identify what energizes or drains you. By maximizing energy-boosting activities, you can maintain focus and enthusiasm in your work.
4. Shift from performance to relationship currency: Cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders to support personal and professional growth. This shift can open doors to new opportunities and resources, addressing the challenge of feeling isolated or unsupported.
5. Adopt a founder mindset: Approach your role with the autonomy and innovation of a founder. This encourages proactive problem-solving and creative thinking, leading to greater impact and satisfaction in your leadership journey.

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