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The Conditions That Work
by The Workplace WellBeing Co.
Every year, organizations spend tens of billions of dollars on workplace wellness. And still, the data on burnout, disengagement, turnover, and psychological injury keeps getting worse. That gap has a cause. Most wellbeing programs are carewashing — perks and programs layered on top of conditions that stay the same. The structure of work remains untouched. The humans are treated as adjustable. We understand this everywhere else in the natural world. Trees, bees, fish, and household pets all require specific conditions in order to thrive. When those conditions fail, living organisms suffer and decline. Humans are no different. The Conditions That Work is about how the structure of work either supports or destabilizes human functioning. In the age of AI, an organization’s clearest competitive edge is human capacity: judgment, trust, creativity, attention, adaptation, and meaningful collaboration. This show builds the
Episodes
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Why The Language We Use Matters
The words we use to talk about well-being at work determine what we can actually see — and fix. This episode explores why the Ten Areas of Human Need(s) framework uses the language it does, and what that language makes possible. Human needs are interconnected and sequential: you can't sustainably...
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The [Human] Being at Work
In this episode we map the five needs of the being — the invisible dimension of a human at work that governs how we think, connect, recover, decide, and sustain meaning over time. Using the same five verbs as the body (Nourish, Rest, Exercise, Maintain, Eliminate), Rachel shows how each one…
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The Body at Work
The body doesn't care about intentions. It responds to conditions. This episode walks through each of the five physical needs — Nourish, Rest, Exercise, Maintain, Eliminate — and traces exactly how the ordinary design of work affects them. Not the catastrophic injury or the acute crisis, but the...
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What Humans Actually Need
Every species we care for, we design conditions for — except the one doing all the designing. This episode introduces the Ten Areas of Human Need(s) framework: the observable, shared needs that govern human functioning across two dimensions — Body and Being — organized by five parallel rhythms:...
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The Wrong Question
Most workplace wellness spending doesn't produce wellness. The reason is not a mystery—anymore. This episode introduces the core diagnostic of the series: the difference between pathogenic and salutogenic thinking. Pathogenic approaches ask where suffering comes from and how to reduce it — a…
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The Origin Story
The framework Rachel built didn't start in a boardroom or a research lab — it started in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the 1980s. This episode traces the origin of The Workplace WellBeing Co. through Rachel's own story: a childhood shaped by economic hardship, her father's street corner ministry…
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Why This Podcast Exists
Most organizations are asking how to help employees cope — but that's the wrong question. This trailer establishes what The Conditions That Work is actually about: not resilience, mindset, or wellness programs, but the structural conditions that either support human functioning or quietly…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every year, organizations spend tens of billions of dollars on workplace wellness. And still, the data on burnout, disengagement, turnover, and psychological injury keeps getting worse.
That gap has a cause.
Most wellbeing programs are carewashing — perks and programs layered on top of conditions that stay the same. The structure of work remains untouched. The humans are treated as adjustable.
We understand this everywhere else in the natural world. Trees, bees, fish, and household pets all require specific conditions in order to thrive. When those conditions fail, living organisms suffer and decline.
Humans are no different.
The Conditions That Work is about how the structure of work either supports or destabilizes human functioning.
In the age of AI, an organization’s clearest competitive edge is human capacity: judgment, trust, creativity, attention, adaptation, and meaningful collaboration.
This show builds the
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The Workplace WellBeing Co.
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Every year, organizations spend tens of billions of dollars on workplace wellness. And still, the data on burnout, disengagement, turnover, and psychological injury keeps getting worse. That gap has a cause. Most wellbeing programs are carewashing — perks and programs layered on top of conditions...
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