New Role Now What?
The New Role Now What podcast, hosted by Erin Foley PhD, helps professionals navigate the challenges of starting a new job. It addresses the anxiety and overwhelm that come with adjusting to a new work culture, performance expectations, and fears. Erin shares insights and strategies from her coaching experience to help listeners transition with confidence and success. Listeners can submit questions or topics to the show via email.
Episodes
Confidence Boost: Why is this so hard for me? Understanding your workplace insecurities.
In this quick boost episode, Erin dives into a question so many of us ask when we’re feeling overwhelmed in a new role: Why is this so hard for me? She unpacks the real reason behind the struggle — and why it doesn’t mean you’re broken, weak, or not cut out for the role. Erin offers a simple, powerful way to reframe your experience, helping you move through doubt and insecurity without adding unne
Confidence Boost: How to ease high performance pressure.
In this week’s Confidence Boost episode, Erin breaks down the hidden pressure many high performers feel to be exceptional in order to feel safe and successful at work. She explores why this mindset shows up so strongly in new roles and the ways it can quietly undermine confidence and sustainability. Erin offers two practical mindset resets to help you ease the pressure, redefine success, and appro
18 | How to break the cycle of self-judgment and increase your confidence
In this episode, Erin explores the double negative mindset—how feelings of anxiety or uncertainty often spiral into deeper self-doubt through self-criticism and shame. She shares insights from her work with clients who unknowingly judge their emotions, eroding their self-confidence and trust. Tune in and unpack how to disrupt this cycle with strategies and mindset tips to break free from self-judg
Bonus Episode: My Interview on how to stop overwhelm for good
This week's episode is an in-depth look at overwhelm in the workplace. Tune in to hear Erin interviewed by coach Natalie Fisher on her podcast, How to Land a Six-Figure Job and Thrive.Learn the critical difference between genuine work challenges and mindset-driven feelings of inadequacy, and discover how mental noise and anxiety can warp your perception of competency. This episode provides pr
17 | How to navigate difficult workplace relationships (including your boss)
In today's episode, Erin explores workplace dynamics through the lens of Brooke Castillo's concept of 'the manual,' a framework for understanding and managing challenging relationships. Erin provides tangible examples of common interactions that often leave us feeling frustrated. She offers clear strategies for how to depersonalize and move on. Tune in to learn how to enh
16 | What to do when you make a mistake at work
In today's episode, Erin delves into the nuanced process of managing work mistakes with resilience and self-assurance. She addresses the complex emotions that you might be navigating after you make a mistake. This episode offers helpful insights on how to gain self-awareness, take responsibility, and overcome the fear of failure and mistakes in a professional settings. Free Coaching Guid
15 | How to dial down your fear of making a mistake at work
Mistakes are a crucial part of career growth, a necessary stepping stone to mastering your new role. Yet so many of us are terrified of making a mistake at work. This fear can be the culprit behind overthinking, procrastination, and even most common, burnout. In today's episode, Erin helps you to reframe your perspective and expectation around mistakes. She offers clear strategies to help
14 | Q & A: How to deal with competition and comparison in the workplace
In another Q and A episode, Erin dives into some common workplace struggles submitted by listeners. What do you do if you are feeling competitive with a co-worker and it's making you feel anxious? How do you deal with the feeling that your teammates are more skilled than you? How do you get over feeling insecure because your colleagues are much younger than you? Erin offers insights on how
13 | Q & A: Reclaiming confidence, feeling valued, and knowing when to leave
In this week's episode, Erin addresses three important questions submitted by listeners: What do you do if you don't feel valued? How do you know when it's time to leave your job? And, how do you recover if you feel like you've lost your edge? Erin takes a deep dive into each question, offering insightful perspectives and practical strategies to help listeners navigate thes
12 | How to speak up effectively at work
In this thought-provoking episode of New Role Now What, join host Erin as she dives into the complex dynamics of speaking up in the workplace. In a world where effective communication is crucial, knowing how to use your voice can significantly impact your professional growth. In today’s episode, Erin walks you through when speaking up can be valuable and when silence might be the wiser choice. D
11 | Your emotional curriculum at work
Who do you want to be at work? Who are you currently being? The gap between where you are and where you want to be is your work curriculum. What is often overlooked in this process, is how much of this work is emotional. On today's episode, Erin breaks down the importance of understanding your emotional curriculum and how to get your brain set up to achieve it. Free Coaching Guide:erinmfo
10 | How to feel like you belong in your workplace
It can be tough to perform in your job when you feel like you don’t belong. The desire to "fit in" is a natural part of being human. But how much do you need to belong in the workplace to enjoy your work and create success? And if you don't feel like you belong, how can you cultivate a sense of belonging for yourself? In today’s episode, Erin offers you her insights and strategie
9 | Training and learning in your new role
"There isn't enough training!" If this thought crosses your mind regularly in your new role, you are NOT alone. This frustration is often followed by a scary and overwhelming fear that you aren't learning fast enough. In this week's episode, Erin tackles these concerns by offering a fresh perspective on how to shift yourself into a productive mindset that will help you
8 | How to take in critical feedback without personalizing it (Part 2)
If you haven't already, listen to part 1 on feedback resilience. Now that you're thinking about your skills in a way that opens you up to feedback, it's time to help your brain work through the emotions that often kick in when we feel critiqued. In part 2 of feedback resilience, Erin shares her 4 step process for working through critical feedback in a way that empowers you to inc
7 | How to take in critical feedback without personalizing it (Part 1)
Taking in critical feedback can feel like getting hit by a freight train. It often makes us feel defensive, angry, fearful or even ashamed. But what if you could turn your fear of feedback on its head? In today's episode, Erin helps you to understand why you feel so much fear and resistance around getting feedback, and how to quickly build your feedback resilience muscle. Free Coaching Gui
6 | Fear of judgment in the workplace
Do you find yourself constantly worrying what people at work are thinking about you? You are not alone in this worry. The workplace heightens our fears around other people's judgments. In an attempt to deal with this fear, you may find yourself overthinking, perfecting, avoiding, procrastinating, people pleasing, etc. In today's episode, Erin helps you to dial down your fear of judg
5 | Getting out of impostor mindset Part 2
If you identified with Erin's description of impostor mindset in last week's episode, this week's listen is a must. Today's episode gets into the nitty gritty on why you have this mindset, when it’s most problematic, and what to do about it. Free Coaching Guide:erinmfoley.com/freeguideFor information on working with Erin visit ErinMFoley.com
4 | Getting out of impostor mindset Part 1
Do you worry that you aren't as capable or skilled as other people perceive you to be? If your answer is yes, you may be stuck in an impostor mindset. In this week's episode, Erin breaks down what impostor mindset is, how it can negatively impact your work, and how to start shifting out of it. Free Coaching Guide:erinmfoley.com/freeguideFor information on working with Erin visit ErinMF
3 | How to know if you made a mistake in taking this new job
One of the most common fears after shifting into a new role is the fear that you made a mistake in taking this job. You may find yourself worrying that you don't fit in, or the work environment isn't right, or the overall job fit is just wrong. But before you jump to any conclusions, it's important to assess fit vs. fears. On this week’s episode, Erin shares her process for how t
2 | New job overwhelm- why you have it & how to ease it
Starting a new job often feels like an overwhelm overload. In this episode, Erin talks about what is commonly causing the overwhelm and how to decrease this state of mind right now. Free Consultation:erinmfoley.com/consultFree Coaching Guide:erinmfoley.com/freeguideFor information on working with Erin visit ErinMFoley.com
1 | Confidence & your new role
The number one request from my clients is to help them feel more confident. They want to feel good taking on new work challenges. They want to feel confident communicating with co-workers and supervisors. And they want to feel confident in their decision to take this new job. Yes, confidence is an incredible feeling, but the quest to get it can sometimes work against you instead of for you.
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