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Office Therapy
by Brad Shuck
Pull up a chair. Pour a bourbon or grab a coffee—whatever helps you slow down. This is Office Therapy with Dr. Brad Shuck, professor, researcher, and believer that work should be a place where people feel seen. Each week, Brad unpacks leadership, trust, burnout, and belonging with honest insight and research-backed reflection to help you build a healthier, more human workplace. Work doesn’t have to be toxic—it just has to start with a conversation.
Episodes
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Why human skills matter more — not less — in an age of AI.
Sitting in a crowded airport, surrounded by people connected to every device imaginable, one thought wouldn't go away: we've never been more connected to information, and never more disconnected from each other. This episode of Office Therapy sits with that tension. As AI makes answers easy and...
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When Your Boss Is Less Engaged Than You Are
Everyone's talking about the Gallup 2026 headline — global engagement at 20%. Almost no one is talking about the finding that matters more: manager engagement has fallen 9 points in three years, wiping out nearly half a decade of gains. Female managers dropped 7. Managers under 35 dropped 5. And...
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I'm not burned out. I'm designed-out.
"I'm not burned out. I'm designed-out." That's what a top operator told her CPO at 10:47 PM on a Tuesday. And Dr. Brad Shuck can't stop thinking about it. In this episode of Office Therapy, Brad unpacks why the burnout conversation is missing the point in 2026. Drawing on new Berkeley research...
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The Leadership Power of Pause
In today’s fast-moving workplaces, urgency has quietly become the default setting. Calendars fill up, meetings stack back-to-back, and leaders move from decision to decision without a moment to breathe. But what if the constant rush is actually making our organizations less effective? In this...
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Staying Human in an Age of More
In this episode of Office Therapy, Dr. Brad Shuck explores the hidden cost of efficiency in the age of AI. What happens when the tools designed to save us time don’t actually give time back—but instead intensify the pace of work? Through a deeply human reflection on burnout, task expansion, and…
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The Activity Paradox: Why Hard Work Isn’t Always Healthy
Luis works hard—18,000 steps by lunch, steel-toed boots, freight runs on a spotless warehouse floor. But his doctor tells him to “exercise more.” That contradiction? It’s not just frustrating. It’s the activity paradox. In this episode of Office Therapy, Dr. Brad Shuck unpacks why physically...
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2026 Predictions to help you hit the ground running
Pull up a chair—this episode is a calm, evidence-shaped walk into 2026. We start by naming the weight so many are carrying at work right now, then map five trends leaders can use today—not science fiction, not hype, just practical moves you can put into motion. In this conversation, I share why:...
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Creating Ownership Cultures: The Small Behaviors That Change Everything
Ownership Is Contagious (Not the Job-Description Kind) We toss around “empowerment,” but ownership is different—it’s the lived, felt belief that “this work matters, and I shape it.” In this episode, I share Maria’s story: a bottleneck, a simple question, and six words that changed everything—“Why...
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Micro-Restoration: Small Rituals, Big Renewal
Winter in Kentucky, a crackling fire, and a simple invitation: slow down. In this episode of Office Therapy, Dr. Brad Shuck explores the quiet power of renewal—micro-restoration. Not sabbaticals or grand gestures, but small, human, repeatable acts leaders can use to reset in the flow of work....
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Self-Forgiveness Is a Leadership Skill (The Repair Loop)
This week, we talk about forgiveness—especially the hard, practical work of forgiving ourselves after a miss. I share a story about “Jennifer,” a senior leader who owned a decision publicly but kept replaying it privately, and how that quiet self-blame began to drain confidence, slow decisions…
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The Cost of Carrying It All: Why Leaders Are Tired (and What to Do About It)
In this deeply resonant episode of Office Therapy, Dr. Brad Shuck unpacks a growing, unspoken truth: many leaders aren’t burnt out from lack of care—but from carrying too much, too often, alone. Drawing from lived experience and decades of research on engagement and leadership, Brad explores the...
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The Moment People Feel Like Owners
What happens when leaders stop treating pay as a cost and start treating it as an invitation to ownership? Inspired by recent headlines about Walmart’s shift toward equity-based compensation, Brad explores why the real story isn’t the number—it’s the philosophy. Through research, reflection, and…
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When Culture Feels Off
When the culture’s pulse fades, meetings look fine on paper but feel lifeless in the room. In this episode, Dr. Brad Shuck names the quiet signs of a flatlined workplace—polite agreement, safe ideas, and no real spark—and explains why this isn’t a strategy problem, it’s a connection problem....
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Leading With Hope
Welcome to Office Therapy with Dr. Brad Shuck — a space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most at work and in life. In this episode, Brad explores what it really means to lead with hope in a time when so many are feeling the weight of uncertainty and exhaustion. Drawing on…
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Welcome To Office Therapy
Pull up a chair. Pour a bourbon or grab a coffee — whatever helps you slow down. In this first episode of Office Therapy, Dr. Brad Shuck invites you to pause the chaos and take a look at what’s really going on behind the office door — leadership, engagement, trust, burnout, belonging, and the…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Pull up a chair. Pour a bourbon or grab a coffee—whatever helps you slow down. This is Office Therapy with Dr. Brad Shuck, professor, researcher, and believer that work should be a place where people feel seen. Each week, Brad unpacks leadership, trust, burnout, and belonging with honest insight and research-backed reflection to help you build a healthier, more human workplace. Work doesn’t have to be toxic—it just has to start with a conversation.
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Office Therapy currently has 15 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Pull up a chair. Pour a bourbon or grab a coffee—whatever helps you slow down. This is Office Therapy with Dr. Brad Shuck, professor, researcher, and believer that work should be a place where people feel seen. Each week, Brad unpacks leadership, trust, burnout, and belonging with honest insight...
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Office Therapy is created and hosted by Brad Shuck.
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