Leading Up With Udemy

About Leading Up With Udemy

Shift happens. This podcast can help. Layoffs can leave you scrambling for what’s next. Company priorities can switch at the speed of light. Promotions can feel out of reach. Or perhaps you’re starting a new venture. For better or worse, our work lives are constantly changing. How do we forge our career path through this ever changing landscape? Leading Up: The Work Shift is the compass that will guide you back to your career values, goals, and vision. If you’re feeling lost, you're not alone. Host Elizabeth Weingarten talks to executives, entrepreneurs, and Udemy instructors who have survived layoffs and career uncertainty. We ask how to rebound after getting fired, what blocks talented individuals from getting promotions, and how to build a career that makes you proud. Elizabeth is a journalist, applied behavioral scientist, and author of the book “How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty.” Elizabeth is the Director of Thought Leadership for Udemy, and your guide through whatever shifts are happening in your world of work. We all deserve to thrive in our careers, even when we’re not sure what’s next. Whether you're stuck in a job that's crushing your soul, facing an unexpected layoff, or ready to make a bold move but don't know where to start, your next chapter starts now. Follow Leading Up: The Work Shift on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube. New episodes drop Tuesdays. Find out more about Leading Up: The Work Shift at business.udemy.com/leading-up-podcast Production by Pod People

Publisher

Udemy | Pod People

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Nov 2022

Latest episode

21 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

46 of 97 episodes have a transcript.

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   21 Apr 2026

   The Best of Leading Up: The Work Shift

   Host David Meltzer interviews industry experts Krista Chism, Pat Flynn, and James Whitmore about navigating the future of work with curiosity and leadership.

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   24 Mar 2026

   Simone Stolzoff: Own Professional Uncertainty, So It Doesn't Own You

   Professional uncertainty can be as damaging to our health as actually losing a job. So why do we keep white-knuckling for certainty—and what happens when we finally let go? This week, Elizabeth sits down with Simone Stolzoff, author of The Good Enough Job and the forthcoming How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World That Demands Answers, to explore why our instinct to seek certainty may be the very thing holding us back. Simone shares what years of researching ambiguity taught him about reframing uncertainty—not as a threat to manage, but as an opportunity to collaborate with. Plus: why the human skills employers want most are exactly the ones AI can't replicate. Follow Leading Up: The Work Shift on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. New episodes drop Tuesdays. If you’re trying to skill up, head to Udemy.com Find out more about Leading Up: The Work Shift at business.udemy.com/leading-up-podcast Production by Pod People

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   10 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Meg Josephson: The Psychology of People Pleasing and What It Costs You

   Therapist and author Meg Josephson discusses the psychology of people pleasing and its detrimental impact on leadership with host Elizabeth Weingarten.

Inside a recent episode

Meg Josephson: The Psychology of People Pleasing and What It Costs You

Published 10 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You're not alone in having maybe not heard about it. It's quite new even as a term. The psychologist Pete Walker coined the term, the fawn response in 2013. And even then I think quite casually in his book about CPTSD. And the fawn response like the other threat responses, fight, flight freeze, it's a survival survival response. So we're slipping into it when we are our bodies, our brains are detecting some sort of threat. And it's whether that threat is real or perceived. So it could be, you know, a person who's right in front of you and you want to please them for safety or it could be, oh, my, my boss is acting kind of cold and standoffish. […]

Who has been a guest on Leading Up With Udemy

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• Meg Josephson
• Deborah Grayson Riegel
• Lorraine Lee
• Ahyiana Angel
• James Whitemore

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

65 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

28 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 6 / 100

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1

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

27

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