Rewired for Good
The Podcast
LIFE COACHING TOOLS FOR AID WORKERS
The Rewired for Good podcast is the go-to resource for aid workers looking for concrete ways to stay sane amid chaos and never-ending challenges, to upgrade their productivity and creativity, and to stop sacrificing their own personal lives to help others.
In this podcast, Yasmina Guerda, aid worker and certified life coach, helps you better understand how your mind and your emotions can work for you instead of against you, and offers immediately applicable tools to uplevel your work, your relationships, your mental health and your life altogether.
No matter where you are. No matter what you're dealing with.
Newest episodes
8. End-of-year overload: 7 principles to tame your to-do beast
There are six weeks left in 2024 and there's no need to carry any of your to-do list weight into the new year. No matter how unpredictable your humanitarian job or your working environment may be, this episode presents 2 key mindsets and 7 principles so that you can take control of your workload, notice a massive change in your levels of overwhelm and avoid burnout, as you tackle your priorities with confidence.
If you’re ready to stop feeling like your to-do list is the boss of you, tune in now and let’s turn things around before the year ends! :)
7. A simple practice to radically improve mood, relationships and focus: 3HTs!
Ever have one of those days where everything seems to go wrong, and finding a silver lining feels impossible? You’re not alone. In this episode of Rewired for Good, we’re diving into a transformative simple practice that can help you shift your perspective, elevate your mood, and strengthen your connections with others. A powerful exercise to release your frustrations, create social connections and rewire your brain for the better, long-term.
In this episode you learn:
- how this practice came to be and was slowly adopted by many humanitarian colleagues and friends
- how to make it happen for you and your entourage
- why it works and the 3 rules to make sure it unleashes all the benefits
- the 4 strategic byproducts of doing this regularly, even daily.
Whether you're a humanitarian in high-hardship environments or just facing your average load of tough circumstances and looking to build stronger connections with the people around you, tune in.
6. When there's nothing to do but wait: turn pauses into power-ups
Today’s episode tackles a universal yet often overlooked skill: transforming those inevitable waiting periods that we face in the humanitarian sector into moments of power. Whether it’s waiting on a grant application, a response to a job offer, or even a delayed flight, these pauses can feel like lost time, frustrating and powerless. But what if these “in-between” .moments hold the potential for the best insight and growth?
Learn to turn passive moments into active self-research: it can change everything.
5. When things don't go the way you want: the real reason you feel like crap
In the humanitarian sector, so much feels out of our hands, leaving us drained and defeated. But that’s not the full picture.
This week, we break down why setbacks hit so hard—and, more importantly, how to bounce back, so you can decide on your next best move with clarity.
Two important reminders:
The content shared on this podcast is my own, and in no way endorsed by any international organisation or any humanitarian or development entity. It is provided for information and inspiration purposes only and it is not a substitute for medical advice. Please make sure to seek the support of a health-care professional if you think you need that kind of help.
The work offered in this podcast is an invitation to imagine possibilities for yourself and your life as an essential step to living more deliberately. We are not oblivious to the fact that this invitation implies a key privilege, the freedom to make choices. That freedom is far from equally accessible to all aid workers. Money, mobility, safety, time, passports are all very real walls. And for many aid workers who work in their own countries for their own people, the line between being an aid worker and being a crisis survivor is very thin or may not exist at all. You may be listening to this with your own life hanging in the balance. We realize no amount of inner work can make those circumstances disappear. Coaching isn't about pretending you have choices that you do not have but an invitation to explore fully and powerfully whatever possibilities are available to you, however small or distant they might feel right now, beyond the circumstances you're living through without losing sight of the very real forces shaping your life against your will. Personal agency will never be the same as having complete privilege and freedom, and the collective struggle for the freedom of all people remains a critical priority, if not the critical priority of our generation.