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Rachel Cooke is your guide to leadership and communication, helping you craft a workplace environment you can feel good about. She’ll share tips to help you balance your work and personal life, effectively invest your time, and be mindful about where you’re devoting your energy. Let Rachel help you navigate your path to success—however you define it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Signup to Generate a PitchRachel Cooke is your guide to leadership and communication, helping you craft a workplace environment you can feel good about. She’ll share tips to help you balance your work and personal life, effectively invest your time, and be mindful about where you’re devoting your energy. Let Rachel help you navigate your path to success, however you define it.
Modern Mentor is hosted by QuickAndDirtyTips.com. The show has published 939 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Is it your people or your process? The Ready CEO Rodney Evans on fixing how work gets done." (27 October 2026, 38 minutes), "Five icebreakers that actually work for team meetings" (20 October 2026, 14 minutes), and "How to get your team working together again" (13 October 2026, 14 minutes).
Modern Mentor publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 15 minutes across 939 episodes.
Booking probability for Modern Mentor is 52%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Modern Mentor requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Modern Mentor's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Modern Mentor are Business & Professional Training. Modern Mentor has a business audience.
QuickAndDirtyTips.com hosts Modern Mentor, a business podcast with 939 episodes published.
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Episode #919
919. When your team keeps missing its goals, is it a people problem or a process problem? Most leaders assume it’s the people. After 20 years inside organizations, Rodney Evans rarely buys it. The CEO of The Ready joins...
918. You need to open a meeting, and the usual icebreaker makes everyone cringe. Chosen with intention, a warmup does real work by warming up the exact muscles a team needs for the job in front of it. Rachel Cooke...
Episode #917
917. Lots of teams have quietly stopped being teams. They're capable people sprinting in their own directions, connected by a reporting line and little else. Rachel Cooke explains why that fragmentation is lonely for...
916. Getting better at AI isn't a technology problem. It's a work design problem. Drawing on a corporate "digital transformation" that never quite landed, Rachel Cooke explains why skill without structure has nothing to...
915. Your team missed the deadline, and the reasons are starting to sound like excuses. The instinct is to push harder: tighter check-ins, a firmer performance conversation, more pressure applied in the same direction...
914. How do you get ready for your year-end review? And should you be starting now? Most of us reduce our professional story to the obvious stuff – titles, job descriptions, the big projects – and lose the truest...
913. When something's broken at work, we reach for the big fix — the reorg, the new tool, the strategy overhaul. But ask people to describe their perfect coffee and they'll say rich, dark, bold. Put a cup in front of...
912. Your boss used to have answers. Now they've got questions. It feels destabilizing - but Rachel makes the case that this is the opening of a lifetime. When certainty disappears, the old rules about who has the...
911. You can spend an entire day on video calls and still not have one real conversation. The connection that used to come free with the office doesn't come free anymore. After a trip to California wine country, Rachel...
910. What do you do when there's no template for the career you want, no obvious next step, and no one waiting to hand you the opportunity? Comedian, actor, and writer Billy Eichner built his entire career by refusing...
909. Your strategy is sound. Your people are talented. Everyone's working harder than ever. So why aren't the results showing up? Rachel makes the case that when work breaks down, we inspect the people when we should be...
Episode #616
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697. We get a lot of mixed messaging when it comes to managing the tension between speed and efficiency. We need to be sure—to have the data, to have done the research and the analysis before deciding or implementing...
Episode #582
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909. Blake Mycoskie built TOMS into a $600 million brand and gave away more than 100 million pairs of shoes — then fell into a seven-year battle with clinical depression after selling the company. He talks with Rachel...
Episode #594
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907. When should your team reflect on what went wrong, and when should you just move on? Rachel Cooke uses Ted Lasso's "be a goldfish" mantra to unpack the balance between looking back and looking ahead, then shares...
Episode #654
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906. Leaders are frustrated that teams aren't delivering. Teams are exhausted and hitting walls. And the instinct is to pull harder. But the real work is finding the knots leadership has inadvertently tied, and undoing...
581. Running all-out all the time is the sure path to burnout. Productivity happens when you know how to use your energy wisely. Summer Saturdays: Best of QDT Encore Episode : This episode originally aired January 2020...
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actor, producer, writer
Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist, mindfulness expert, author, Stanford University School of Medicine
two-time New York Times bestselling author, McKeown Inc.
VP of People Operations, itwritesitself.ai
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