Erin McGoff

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The Jefferson Fisher Podcast · Erin McGoff: How to be Instantly More Confident at Work · 13 May 2025 podcast

I'm a little scared right now thinking of Chris.

Yeah.

And I think tone with that is really important because it could be a little, should I read into that? You know, but you want to ask genuinely. Yeah.

Two things. 100% of people who come to me, 99% come for two things. The first thing is interpersonal relationship dynamics. So they know what they feel and they know what they want to say. They just don't know how to say it.

Hence why both of our accounts have been so popular is because people don't want to cause conflict and they don't want to say the wrong thing and they just wanna be understood. And oftentimes, Like you said, our childhood, the way we grew up, the way we saw communication styles, the way we learned how to communicate, it leads to an inability to be able to communicate properly as an adult.

So learning the proper words can help us communicate better. So that's one thing is they just want to learn, how do I tell my boss I'm quitting? I get a lot of people who are just really anxious. How do I tell my coworker that they're micromanaging me? How do I tell my boss that they're MIA and that's negatively affecting my work? Or how do I say that I'm burnt out? All of these things.

And then the second thing that I see most common is validation. People know what they want to do. They think they know what they want to say, and they just need a little kick in the butt. I just need to scoot them on. And I do a lot of that. I say, you know what? You sound like you know what you're doing. You sound like you know what you want to do. And I think you should just go do it.

So those are pretty much the two things.

Yeah, how to quit your job. You know, something that's so interesting with quitting your job is that it's both extremely professional and kind of personal. We spend most of our waking hours at work. You know, I always say unless you're a trust fund baby or a sugar baby or I guess a regular baby, you're going to spend most of your waking hours at work.

um and so work is very personal despite you know us trying to separate them it is your life life is linear um so i always remind people that when you're quitting a job it's a transactional relationship the they hired you to do a job you did a job and they paid you and now you're moving on to a new job and that's that's it um now if you liked your boss a lot or if you liked your boss just a normal amount they were a normal boss

don't be afraid to tell them that. Like, be appreciative, have some gratitude. But, you know, if maybe you didn't like your boss, you didn't like the work environment, I would still encourage you to leave the job with grace and professionalism. It can feel good in the moment to, you know, stick it to the man and tell him how you feel and get all angry and flustered.

But honestly, it's a waste of your energy. And a year from now, you're going to feel really regretful that you did that because the world is actually much smaller than people realize. And you come across people. You think that your boss just stayed at that job and you can curse them out and leave. But... You know, unbeknownst to you, they're your new client at your new company.

So like you just have no idea. You want to have good karma. You want to leave things in good standing. And that's to your benefit. A lot of the times when I tell people and I encourage them to leave with grace and professionalism, they're like, well, you know, they deserve blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, this isn't about them. This is actually just about you and your mental health.

I highly encourage you if you are leaving an environment which stirs up a lot of anger in you or feelings. go get it out. Like write that glass to review, you know, do that exit interview, go to a kickboxing class, get out your feelings. But that conversation when you're leaving should be done with grace. It should be quick. You should arrange it on the calendar.

You know, Friday afternoon is usually when most people do it. And remember, it's not personal. It's just professional. Your boss, you are not the first person to quit. You're not the last person that they'll have quit on them. But again, if you had a good working relationship with your boss, tell them, you know, I really appreciate working with you.

The only thing I'll accept, you know, is an open door if I ever come crawling back to you. And I hope that we cross paths again in the future. You know, you never know.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Absolutely. Yeah, we think that it's just a door that we're shutting, but really it's not. Your career is fluid. You never know where you're going to go. A lot of times people go back to their old job a few years later. So yeah, just keep that door open. And like you said, bring them on as an ally so that they can encourage you to move on to the next part of your journey.

Yeah, of course.

Oh, I love this question, especially since a lot of my advice is for people being managed. And I'd love to give more advice for managers. But typically when I post those videos, you know, there's less managers than people being managed. So anyway, the comments always get interesting.

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