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The Wake Up Eager Podcast

The Wake Up Eager Podcast

By: Suzie Price The Wake Up Eager Podcast
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The Wake Up Eager Podcast helps you create a high-commitment, low-drama, Wake Up Eager workforce — and a life you cannot wait to wake up to. Host Suzie Price shares practical conversations and insights on leadership, hiring, communication, assessments, relationships, personal growth, well-being, and creating more meaning in work and life.Priceless Professional 2026 Economics Management Management & Leadership Personal Development Personal Success
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  • What Give You Energy and What Quietly Drains It, the 7 Day Energy Audit

    What Give You Energy and What Quietly Drains It, the 7 Day Energy Audit
    Oct 13 2026
    Learn how to notice what genuinely gives you energy, recognize the quiet drains you may have stopped seeing, and use a simple 7-Day Energy Audit to make more intentional choices about where your energy goes. TOP 3 TAKEAWAYS 1. Your Energy Leaves Clues 2. Go Underneath the Activity to Discover What Really Energizes You 3. Not All Tired Is the Same—and Not Every Drain Means "Stop" KEY QUOTES "Our energy leaves clues for us." "Sometimes our feelings are giving us an answer before we've actually figured out how to explain it." "The clock doesn't necessarily tell us the energy cost of the things we're doing." "Being tired is not automatically the same thing as being drained." "Do you use yourself very well?" "Energy leaves clues." "Assessments give us a place to look. They're not here to tell you who you are. You bring meaning to the assessment." "Something doesn't have to be bad for it to stop being right for you." "The thing that energizes you can eventually drain you if you don't pay attention to how you're using it." "Energy isn't an excuse to avoid discomfort. It's information." "What kind of tired am I? Am I stretched but fulfilled, or am I repeatedly depleted?" "The goal isn't simply to have more energy. It's to use your energy on what matters." PRACTICAL APPLICATION TRY THE 7 DAY ENERGY AUDIT At the end of each day, start with two simple questions: What gave me energy today? What quietly drained me? That's the heart of the exercise. You can also notice what is happening in four areas: Body What happened to my physical energy? Mind Was I clear and engaged—or scattered and overloaded? Emotions Did I feel interested, fulfilled, frustrated, resistant, bored, or flat? Spirit / Purpose / Meaning Did what I was doing feel connected to something that matters to me? At the end of seven days, look back. Don't judge the individual moments. Look for patterns. Ask yourself: • What keeps showing up? • What consistently brings me alive? • What repeatedly leaves me flat? • What do I keep wanting to do more of? • What am I very good at but no longer want to spend as much time doing? • Is there a gap between what I say matters to me and where my time and energy are actually going? You do not need to act on every observation. You're gathering information. As Suzie says: "Don't try to fix your whole life on Tuesday. Just notice." Download the free companion worksheet: pricelessprofessional.com/energyaudit A WHOLE-PERSON VIEW OF ENERGY Suzie shares an energy-management exercise she previously used in a leadership program with executive chefs from Relais & Châteaux. These leaders work in high-pressure luxury hospitality environments where timing, staffing, food quality, presentation, customer expectations, and team leadership often converge at once. Rather than treating energy as simply physical, the exercise looked at four areas: Body Mind Emotions Spirit / Purpose / Meaning One of the most important questions from that work is: Is there a gap between what I say matters to me and where my time and energy are actually going? When that gap becomes large—and stays large—we often begin to feel it. TRIMETRIX, MOTIVATORS & ACUMEN TriMetrix offers another way to become more curious about where energy comes from and where it may be going. Motivators — What Puts Gas in Your Tank? Motivators help us understand: • what interests us • what naturally pulls us forward • what feels worth the effort • what kinds of problems we naturally want to solve • what activities and environments tend to engage us One way to think about it is: Interest = Energy The assessment may tell you that a particular motivator is a strong driver. But the deeper learning happens when you begin noticing that motivator in your own life. When do you become absorbed? What do you keep coming back to? What do you naturally want to learn, create, accomplish, lead, organize, or contribute? The assessment provides the clue. Your life provides the evidence. Acumen — Looking Under the Hood Acumen offers another perspective. It looks at both: Worldview — how we are seeing what is happening around us and Self-View — how we are seeing ourselves Areas such as Practical Thinking, Role Awareness, and Self-Direction can sometimes provide useful places to explore questions about clarity, demands, purpose, roles, and the path ahead. A lower score does not automatically mean you are doing the wrong work. It gives you another place to look. The question remains: What's going on here? Where is my energy going? KNOW YOURSELF Suzie also shares one of the ideas that has stayed with her from the work of Robert S. Hartman: Know yourself. Choose yourself. Grow yourself. Give yourself to something greater than yourself. The order matters. First, notice. Know yourself. Pay attention. Then choose intentionally. And keep growing. One of the best ways to begin is simply to notice: What brings me energy? and What...
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  • When a Good Opportunity Isn't the Right Opportunity

    When a Good Opportunity Isn't the Right Opportunity
    Oct 7 2026

    Sometimes the hardest opportunities to turn down are the good ones; Suzie Price shares a four question Opportunity Filter to help you decide what truly deserves your time, energy, and attention right now.

    TOP 3 TAKEAWAYS

    • 1. Being able to do something doesn't mean it belongs in your life. Capacity and calling are not the same thing. An opportunity can be good, flattering, profitable, or interesting and still not fit what matters most to you right now.
    • 2. Every yes has a trade-off. Instead of asking only, "Can I fit this in?" ask, "What gets less of me if I say yes?" Time, attention, energy, relationships, health, strategic work, or simply breathing room always pay part of the price.
    • 3. The goal isn't to say no more often. It's to choose well. The Opportunity Filter can lead to yes, no, not now, yes-but-differently, or "let me take another look." The goal is a conscious decision that fits the life you're actually living now.

    KEY GUEST QUOTES

    • "I can do this and I should do this are not the same thing."
    • "Capacity is not the same thing as calling."
    • "Being good at something doesn't mean you should build your life around it."
    • "Energy is information."
    • "Your history is data."
    • "What gets less of me if I say yes?"
    • "A good opportunity and the right opportunity are not always the same thing."
    • "What you don't do determines what you can do." — Tim Ferriss

    PRACTICAL APPLICATION

    Think of one real opportunity, request, project, role, commitment, or possibility in your life right now and ask:

    • 1. ALIGNMENT: Does this fit what matters most to me right now?
    • 2. ENERGY: What happens to my energy when I picture actually doing it?
    • 3. TRADE-OFF: What gets less of me if I say yes?
    • 4. SEASON: Does this fit the life I'm actually living now?

    Then ask one final question: What do I already know?

    Sometimes we keep collecting information because we don't like the answer we already have. Other times—as Charles's story demonstrates—we genuinely do need more information.

    ABOUT THE GUESTS

    Charles Schrauth - Charles shares a very different lesson. After disappointing experiences with programs serving adults with disabilities, his family initially said no to a new opportunity for their son—but trusted people encouraged them to look again. More information changed the decision, reminding us that discernment also requires flexibility.

    Patricia "Pat" Burnett - Pat shares what happened when she found herself in what seemed like the perfect job—work she enjoyed, strong compensation, respect, and learning opportunities—yet realized something else mattered more. Her experience illustrates the Alignment question beautifully: sometimes nothing is wrong with an opportunity; something else is simply more right.

    Tracy Winkler - Tracy shares how her love of learning can make a new course or program immediately appealing. Her insight—"history as data"—shows how looking honestly at our own patterns can help us distinguish the excitement of an opportunity from whether we will actually use it.

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    31 mins
  • When It's Hell No, Don't Go: Trusting Your Inner Guidance

    When It's Hell No, Don't Go: Trusting Your Inner Guidance
    Sep 22 2026

    How do you know when discomfort is the healthy stretch of growth—and when your own internal guidance is telling you that something simply isn't right for you?

    TOP 3 TAKEAWAYS

    • 1. Pay attention to your first response—before your brain starts negotiating with it.

    Suzie's wedding story is an exaggerated but memorable example: she knew immediately that singing a solo made absolutely no sense for her, yet she talked herself into saying yes because she was flattered, wanted to please her friend, and overrode what she already knew.

    • 2. You don't have to make something—or someone—wrong for it to be wrong for you.

    The business-association story makes this point beautifully. The person who invited Suzie was gracious, the people were nice, and the setting was lovely. She was still bored and drained. An opportunity can be perfectly good and still not belong in your life.

    • 3. Learn the difference between the stretch of growth and the drain of misalignment.

    Not every uncomfortable feeling is a stop sign. Meaningful growth can feel scary and expansive at the same time. Misalignment tends to feel heavy—and often comes with the realization, "I already know this isn't right for me, but I'm talking myself into it."

    KEY QUOTES / IDEAS

    • "We don't have to make another person or an opportunity wrong to recognize it simply isn't right for us."
    • "I'm nervous because I'm stepping into a bigger version of myself" versus "I already know this isn't right for me, but I'm talking myself into it."
    • "The stretch of growth versus the heavy drain of misalignment."
    • "What was my initial response before my brain started manufacturing polite excuses?"
    • "Ten seconds of silence could save months of unnecessary dread."
    • "When it's hell no, don't go."

    PRACTICAL APPLICATION

    The next time you're considering an invitation, commitment, project, meeting, favor, or opportunity, give yourself 10 quiet seconds before answering.

    Then ask:

    • 1. What was my initial response before my brain started manufacturing polite excuses?
    • 2. Is this the stretch of growth—or the drain of misalignment?
    • 3. Am I saying yes because this genuinely fits my goals, or because I want to please someone, avoid disappointing them, or prove that I'm nice?

    The goal isn't to avoid discomfort. It's to get better at distinguishing the discomfort that helps you grow from the discomfort that comes from overriding what you already know.

    Those three questions come directly from the closing section of the episode.

    ABOUT THIS MINI EPISODE

    Wake Up Eager Mini Episodes offer short, practical ideas for bringing more energy, awareness, and intention to work and life. This episode was created from Suzie Price's personal experiences and Wake Up Eager notes using an AI-hosted discussion format.

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    8 mins
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