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Why Listen:

For those of you who smoke cigars, and you know the phrase knuckle burner - this is a knuckle burner of an episode. I went in trying to keep this to 30 minutes, but we used 58 minutes for this conversation. It's because Trier has so many great points about so many different topics. You'll learn about her career. She's the co-founder and CEO of a company called Just Work. She has a tremendous amount of experience at Goldman Sachs, Twitter, other great organizations around people management, and she has so much great advice about taking care of your people, which is something our audience knows well. But doing that outside of the military blind spots, you may have to talk about empathy in very tactical ways and share stories that I found compelling. She talked about language-specific language to use to create openers within the civilian workforce of getting to know your team and making it an inclusive environment. We talk about entrepreneurship. Despite starting two different organizations, Trier talks about how she doesn't consider herself an entrepreneur, how she's much more interested in scaling something than building it. We talk about how you may not be unique in the military, but you are a unicorn when you get out of the military - the concept of followership again.

About Trier:

Trier Bryant is the co-Founder and CEO of Just Work, which works with leaders and teams of all sizes across a range of industries creating more effective organizations where respect and collaboration combine to produce just workplaces yielding exceptional results. She started out at the Air Force Academy, served in the Air Force for 7 years, and has held roles at Goldman Sachs, Twitter, SigFig, Astra, and more.

Selected Resources: 

• Trier's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trierbryant/ 

• Trier’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/trier?lang=en 

• Just Work: https://www.justworktogether.com/ 

• Chief - organization for senior leaders (women) that provides networking and resources: https://chief.com/ 

• Student resources - even if you're not going to go to school after your service, go to a University Recruiting website as they provide resources about career fields, and provide free resources on their website that will be helpful.

• Books

  • Radical Candor by Scott Kim: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Kim-Scott/dp/B01KTIEFEE 

  • Just Work by Scott Kim: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Work-Done-Fast-Fair-ebook/dp/B08BYBJQBF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E6GE7YT56XGM&dchild=1&keywords=just+work&qid=1627491304&s=digital-text&sprefix=just+work%2Cdigital-text%2C288&sr=1-1 

Time Stamps:

• Trier’s background [1:05]

• Take good care of your people [4:20]

• Trier’s advice to managers: get to know your team [6:02]

• Language is important in choosing your words [9:09]

• Trier’s career at the Air Force vs where she’s at today [15:45]

• Be willing to set up boundaries [22:53]

• What led Trier to leave very successful companies to become an entrepreneur [27:47]

• Get comfortable being uncomfortable [34:49]

• Up your game [38:09]

• Show yourself grace [44:06]