The Workplace Podcast: Real Lessons. Honest Conversation.
The Workplace Podcast is your no-nonsense guide to navigating today’s workplace.
I’m Barbara—an HR leader, recruiter, and learning professional with over 15 years of experience helping people grow, communicate, and succeed at work. Each episode delivers real-world strategies, honest advice, and practical tools to help you build confidence, communicate effectively, and level up—whether you’re just starting your career, finding your footing, or ready to take the next step.
It’s everything no one teaches you—but everyone expects you to know.
The Workplace Podcast: Real Lessons. Honest Conversation.
Episode 10: The Feedback Mindset That Changes Everything
Feedback can feel heavy. Confusing. Personal.
Especially when you’re trying to do your best—and it still lands wrong.
In this episode, we bring everything together.
Over the past several conversations, we’ve explored feedback from managers, peers, trainers, and everyday interactions. Now it’s time to connect the dots and focus on one of the most important mindset shifts you can make if you want feedback to help you grow instead of derail you.
Because most of us were never taught how to interpret feedback—only how to react to it.
So, when feedback shows up unexpectedly, many people spiral, shut down, or take it as a reflection of who they are rather than what’s happening.
In this episode, we talk honestly about:
- Why feedback hits so hard (and why that’s human)
- The difference between feedback and identity
- How systems, context, and expectations shape most feedback
- Why feedback is meant to be processed—not absorbed
- How to quiet the inner voice that turns feedback into self-criticism
- The mindset shift that helps you pause, reflect, and respond
This isn’t about becoming numb to feedback or pretending it doesn’t sting.
It’s about learning how to hold feedback without letting it define you.
If feedback has ever made you question your confidence, your competence, or your place at work—this episode will help you reframe the moment and move forward with clarity and control.
Because feedback doesn’t decide your worth.
What you do with it shapes your growth.
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