City Manager Unfiltered

By: Joe Turner
  • Summary

  • City Manager Unfiltered is a podcast by a city manager for city managers. I am your host, Joe Turner, and I’m on a mission to build a community for ambitious city managers. I want to provide you with the career tools and resources to help make you a better executive so you can rack up victories, polish your resume, dominate interviews, land your dream job, and win your contract negotiations. If you are a city manager looking to level up, check out my podcast, City Manager Unfiltered. Hit that subscribe button today so you don’t miss an episode.
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Episodes
  • How to Calculate Your Mental Health Score | Ep. 81
    Nov 20 2024

    In last week's interview about radical mental health transparency, Todd Hopwood broadly discussed the 10 questions he asks himself each day.

    In this follow up episode, we breakdown those 10 questions, how you should assess them, and how to calculate your score so that you can better track your mental health and mood.

    Here are the 10 questions:

    1. How motivated am I today?
    2. What are my perceived energy levels?
    3. Are simple tasks easy or difficult?
    4. How well have I slept lately?
    5. How's my physical health today?
    6. How purposeful do I feel?
    7. How connected am I to family and friends?
    8. How has my diet been lately?
    9. How are my stress levels?
    10. How easy or difficult is decision making for me today?

    What does your daily score mean:

    1. 10/10 - All time, lifetime peak form
    2. 9/10 - Exceptional Form
    3. 8/10 - Very Good Form
    4. 7/10 - Decent Form
    5. 6/10 - Average Form
    6. 5/10 - Low Mood
    7. 4/10 - Very Low Mood
    8. 3/10 - Extremely Low Mood
    9. 2/10 - I am struggling and need help
    10. 1/10 - CRISIS, please reach out to me

    These questions are based off of the research and work over at FormScore.

    SHOW NOTES:

    Todd Hopwood's LinkedIn Page

    EPISODE SPONSOR:

    This episode is sponsored by KUDO. Make your council meetings accessible with translated audio and live captions into 45+ languages.

    EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Only listeners of the City Manager Unfiltered podcast can sign up for a FREE, no risk, no obligation one-month trial offer. Use this link: https://kudo.ai/cmu/

    SUBMIT JOB POSTING:

    Do you have an executive or senior level vacancy in your organization? Use this form/link to submit your job listing in my weekly newsletter for just $100:

    https://forms.gle/ceMzWqeLwiRFRAGj9

    SUPPORT THE PODCAST:

    Subscribe to my FREE weekly report of city and county manager resignations, terminations, and retirements (RTRs) at this link:

    https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/city-manager-rtrs-job-board-7164683251112992768/

    If you would like to support the podcast by making a donation, please use the "Buy Me A Coffee" link.

    Please rate and review the podcast on Apple or your preferred platform if you enjoy the show. It helps tremendously. But more importantly, refer your friends and peers to podcast through personal conversations and posts on your social media platforms.

    Joe Turner's LinkedIn Page

    City Manager Unfiltered YouTube Page - Subscribe Today!

    Note: Page may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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    57 mins
  • Radical Mental Health Transparency with Todd Hopwood | Ep. 80
    Nov 13 2024

    Todd Hopwood shocked me when he explained his radical approach to mental health transparency. We discuss a system he has implemented which is designed to help him when he is struggling and needs help the most.

    Frankly, it is not an approach that I would personally be comfortable practicing in my workplace. However, there is no question that his courage, leadership, and modeling of this behavior promotes greater awareness of mental health issues in the workplace and it most definitely gives employees greater assurance that their mental health concerns are valid and will be supported within the organization.

    Todd is my first international guest on the show. He works for the Australian city of Wollongong as the senior manager for their Customer and Business Integrity department.

    SHOW NOTES:

    Todd Hopwood's LinkedIn Page

    EPISODE SPONSOR:

    This episode is sponsored by KUDO. Make your council meetings accessible with translated audio and live captions into 45+ languages.

    EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Only listeners of the City Manager Unfiltered podcast can sign up for a FREE, no risk, no obligation one-month trial offer. Use this link: https://kudo.ai/cmu/

    SUBMIT JOB POSTING:

    Do you have an executive or senior level vacancy in your organization? Use this form/link to submit your job listing in my weekly newsletter for just $100:

    https://forms.gle/ceMzWqeLwiRFRAGj9

    SUPPORT THE PODCAST:

    Subscribe to my FREE weekly report of city and county manager resignations, terminations, and retirements (RTRs) at this link:

    https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/city-manager-rtrs-job-board-7164683251112992768/

    If you would like to support the podcast by making a donation, please use the "Buy Me A Coffee" link.

    Please rate and review the podcast on Apple or your preferred platform if you enjoy the show. It helps tremendously. But more importantly, refer your friends and peers to podcast through personal conversations and posts on your social media platforms.

    Joe Turner's LinkedIn Page

    City Manager Unfiltered YouTube Page - Subscribe Today!

    Note: Page may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Work-Life Balance is Bullshit with Seth Winterhalter | Ep. 79
    Nov 6 2024

    Seth Winterhalter has some thoughts on work-life balance, leaders needing chaos to thrive, and the let down that achievers can feel once they accomplish major goals.

    An executive coach and owner of HaltingWinter Municipal Solutions, Seth seeks to help city and county managers escape burnout, set boundaries, and experience breakthroughs in work-life balance.

    He recently rebranded his podcast to focus on local government executives and content. He has started rolling out interviews with city managers, too. I encourage you all to check it out and will link to it in the show notes.

    Also in this episode, I went "off script" and put myself on the couch a little bit. It was an unplanned detour and I thought about cutting my personal elements out of the podcast -- but I think the resulting discussion may prove beneficial to some of you so I left it in.

    SHOW NOTES:

    Seth Winterhalter's LinkedIn profile and website for HaltingWinter Municipal Solutions

    Link to The HaltingWinter Podcast

    EPISODE SPONSOR:

    This episode is sponsored by KUDO. Make your council meetings accessible with translated audio and live captions into 45+ languages.

    EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Only listeners of the City Manager Unfiltered podcast can sign up for a FREE, no risk, no obligation one-month trial offer. Use this link: https://kudo.ai/cmu/

    SUBMIT JOB POSTING:

    Do you have an executive or senior level vacancy in your organization? Use this form/link to submit your job listing in my weekly newsletter for just $100:

    https://forms.gle/ceMzWqeLwiRFRAGj9

    SUPPORT THE PODCAST:

    Subscribe to my FREE weekly report of city and county manager resignations, terminations, and retirements (RTRs) at this link:

    https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/city-manager-rtrs-job-board-7164683251112992768/

    If you would like to support the podcast by making a donation, please use the "Buy Me A Coffee" link.

    Please rate and review the podcast on Apple or your preferred platform if you enjoy the show. It helps tremendously. But more importantly, refer your friends and peers to podcast through personal conversations and posts on your social media platforms.

    Joe Turner's LinkedIn Page

    City Manager Unfiltered YouTube Page - Subscribe Today!

    Note: Page may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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    1 hr and 18 mins

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A Great Start to a Great Topic

So glad that Joe has taken the time to start this podcast... I have been following Joe Turner on LinkedIn for about 8 months now, and I constantly find myself saying... finally, someone gets me! This is exactly what this career field needs, someone to reach into the depths of despair that many of our colleagues are in and help them all see that they are not alone! Good luck, Joe! You keep producing them, I will continue to listen!

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