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
12. Navigating the scary turbulence of the humanitarian sector
The humanitarian and development sector is going through a watershed moment with funding gaps, stop-work orders, job cuts, policy changes, technological disruptions with artificial intelligence and other technocratic takeovers, misinformation and disinformation.
We are literally under attack.
This episode is a pep talk and offers concrete directions on how to navigate all this uncertainty, survive the turbulence while staying true to humanitarian values and show up in a way that serves you and the sector as a whole.
11. The good antifragile imposter: insights on our deepest fears
This episode dives into four key insights drawn from the unique challenges and triumphs of humanitarian work. From balancing personal well-being with professional impact, harnessing your inner superpowers to thrive in chaos, navigating workplace conflict with grace, and battling imposter syndrome—this episode offers actionable thoughts and reframes for aid workers striving to excel in their careers and not lose themselves in the process.
Join us as we explore strategies to reclaim your rest, apply your crisis-handling skills to everyday life, and redefine self-doubt as a stepping stone. Perfect for those ready to realign their values and take 2025 by storm.
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.