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
14. Job anxiety survival guide for aid workers: stand out and stay sane
In this episode of Rewired for Good, we tackle the number one concern brought in every coaching session this week: the uncertainty of the humanitarian and development job market.
We cover:
- key tactics and reframes to approach job searching and applications in a strategic way
- prompts to elevate your self-concept as a humanitarian and clarify your unique added value so you can show up confidently and so your so your CV, cover letters and interviews are as strong as can be.
- techniques to make the application process less painful, easier and more pleasant
- and the 5 key aspects of your wellness that you need to feed to hold the distance throughout these challenging times.
No matter what your situation is, this episode will help you regain confidence, refine your applications and get through this with as little stress as possible.
Grab your notebook, take a deep breath, and let's get to work.
13. Humanitarian pre-traumatic stress: roadmap to become good at feeling bad
Humanitarians and aid workers in general are no strangers to uncertainty and fear. But with funding suspensions, general confusion and political shifts, many aid workers are experiencing an overwhelming sense of fear, anxiety, and pre-traumatic stress.
In this episode, we explore how to:
- identify pre-traumatic stress,
- become pros at feeling bad so we can
- think clearly through the crises our sector is facing,
- and redirect our energy to best support our needs and those of the people we serve.
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.