#160: Career | Remote Work Loneliness, Embracing Change, and Giving & Receiving Feedback with Kara Hardin

Dave is joined by Kara Hardin, a Registered Psychotherapist and Lead Executive Officer at The Practice Lab. Kara specializes in the complicated ways that mental health drives performance and how it shows up at work. Drawing from her extensive experience, Kara provides actionable advice for B2B marketers to enhance their professional lives.Kara and Dave cover:How adapting to your team’s preferences can lead to better collaboration, higher productivity, and a more harmonious work environmentHow to view change as a natural and positive part of business strategy, rather than something to fearPractical advice on how to maintain meaningful connection and effective communication in remote work environmentsTimestamps(00:00) - - Intro (05:21) - - Learning to Embrace Change (08:08) - - Connection at Work (11:31) - - The Loneliness of Remote Work (14:52) - - Balancing Remote Work and Relationships (19:29) - - Aligning Work with Values (21:25) - - Creating Your Own Career Path (25:05) - - How Self-Awareness Helps Make Better Decisions (26:42) - - Discovering Your Personal Work Preferences (35:40) - - Recognizing Self-worth in Between Jobs (37:23) - - Self-Awareness in Communication (40:23) - - The Work of Work: Understanding Yourself and Others (45:17) - - Kara’s Framework for Self-Reflection and Interaction (47:08) - - Creating Emotional Guardrails (50:06) - - Combatting the Urgency Impulse at Work (54:45) - - Improve Work by Slowing Down Join 50,0000 people who get Dave's Newsletter here: https://www.exitfive.com/newsletterLearn more about Exit Five's private marketing community: https://www.exitfive.com/***Brought to you by:Webflow - A website platform built for the agentic web, helping modern marketing teams build fully custom sites—no developer needed—that perform in AI search. Learn more at webflow.com/for/exitfive.Markup AI - A content quality platform that scans your content against brand voice, preferred terms, messaging standards, and AI-search readiness before it goes live, right inside Google Docs. Learn more at markup.ai.Optimizely - A no-code AI platform where autonomous agents execute marketing work across webpages, email, SEO, and campaigns. Learn how to deploy agents on your marketing team at Agents in the Mix. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive. Walker Sands - An integrated B2B marketing and growth services agency that helps marketing leaders turn strategy into measurable business impact through their Outcome-based Marketing model. Learn more at walkersands.com/exitfive.Knak - A no-code, campaign creation platform that lets you go from idea to on-brand email and landing pages in minutes, using AI where it actually matters. Learn more at knak.com/exitfive, or check out the MCP server by clicking this link.***Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.They give you unlimited podcast editing and strategy for your B2B podcast.Get unlimited podcast editing and on-demand strategy for one low monthly cost. Just upload your episode, and they take care of the rest.Visit hatch.fm to learn more