Work and Life with Stew Friedman
by Work and Life with Stew Friedman
Welcome to the Work and Life Podcast with Stew Friedman -- bestselling author, celebrated professor at The Wharton School, and founder of Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. Stew is widely recognized as the world's foremost authority on cultivating leadership from the point of view of the whole person. On this podcast, Stew talks with a variety of experts -- leading researchers, progressive executives, policy advocates, inspiring educators, and more -- about how to cultivate harmony between work and the rest of your life; that is, your family, your community, and your private self (mind, body, and spirit). Conversations in all Work and Life Podcast episodes are taken from broadcasts of Stew's Work and Life Radio Show, which airs weekly on SiriusXM 132, Business Radio Powered by Wharton. Tune in on Mondays at noon Eastern
Episodes
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Ep 230. Dana Suskind: Parent Nation
Dr. Suskind is a Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and is Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. She has dedicated her research and clinical life to optimizing foundational brain development and preventing early cognitive...
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Ep 229. Diana Kapp: Girls Who Green the World
Diana Kapp is the author of Girls Who Run the World and now Girls Who Green the World; Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out To Save Our Planet. Her work as a journalist has taken her inside San Quentin prison and to deepest Afghanistan. She’s covered teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto, apps and bots to...
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Ep 228. Amy Beacom: The Parental Leave Playbook
Dr. Amy Beacom is the founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership, the first consultancy in the US to focus exclusively on parental leave, and the author of The Parental Leave Playbook: Ten Touchpoints to Transition Smoothly, Strengthen Your Family, and Continue Growing Your…
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Ep 227. Christine Porath: Mastering Community
Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She’s the author of the bestseller Mastering Civility and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior. Her most recent book is Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from...
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Ep 226. Gianna Driver: From Women's Shelter to Chief Human Resources Officer
Gianna Driver is Chief Human Resources Officer at Exabeam who was a student in Stew’s Total Leadership class 20 years ago. After spending five years running a global fair trade organization, she went on to build a highly successful career in human resources and recently started a new job at a...
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Ep 225. Lynda Gratton: Redesigning Work
Lynda Gratton is recognized as a global thought leader on the future of work and a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies.’ Lynda is the founder of the advisory practice HSM and since 2008 has led the Future…
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Ep 224. Kevin Hancock: A CEO Discovers His True Voice
Kevin Hancock is the CEO of Hancock Lumber Company, one of the oldest and best-known family businesses in America, and author of The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. Hancock Lumber is an eight-time consecutive recipient of the ‘Best Places to Work in Maine’...
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Ep 223. Larry Hirschhorn: A Father's Grief
Larry Hirschhorn is a Principal and one of the founders of the Center for Applied Research, also known as CFAR (which had its origins at the Wharton School). CFAR is a management consulting firm with offices in Philadelphia and Boston. Larry was also a founder of the International Society for the...
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Ep 222. Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think
Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University. Her new book is You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate our Power of Persuasion and Why it Matters. Vanessa holds a PhD in psychology from Columbia University and an AB from...
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Ep 221. Alec Ross: The Fight For Our Future
Alec Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. A former senior advisor in the Obama Administration, his book is called The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People — and the Fight for Our Future. Alec is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Bologna...
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Ep 220. Rob Cross: Breaking Free From Collaboration Overload
Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead and Restore Your Well-Being. He has studied the underlying network dynamics of effective organizations and the collaborative practices...
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Ep 219. Scott Behson: The Whole-Person Workplace
Scott Behson is a professor of management and Silberman Global Faculty Fellow at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he is an award winning researcher and teacher. He is published in academic journals as well as in the popular press. He is the author of The Working Dad’s Survival Guide and most...
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Ep 218. Carmen Fernandez: Chief People Officer, Marsh McLennan
Carmen Fernandez is Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Marsh McLennan, one of the world’s leading professional services firms in the areas of risk, strategy and people. She is committed to creating a culture that is inclusive and vibrant with inspiring leadership. In this episode,...
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Ep 217. Daisy Dowling: The Workparent Toolkit
Daisy Dowling is Founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm, and in 2021 she published the book Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. As an advisor to working parents, Daisy draws on her own…
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Ep 216. Jen Fisher: How to Work Better Together
Jen Fisher is Deloitte’s chief well-being officer in the United States and the co-author of Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom Lines. As Deloitte’s chief well-being officer in the United States, Jen helps Deloitte’s people to...
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Ep 215. Ulcca Joshi Hansen: The Future of Smart
Ulcca Joshi Hansen, a researcher and education advocate, is the author of The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive. Ulcca believes each young person deserves the chance to discover their unique potential, and to explore what that means for how...
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Ep 214. Gorick Ng: The Unspoken Rules for Early Career Success
Gorick Ng is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and is now a career adviser at Harvard College, specializing in coaching first-generation, low-income students. He’s also a researcher with the Managing the Future of Work project at Harvard. His new book, The Unspoken Rules:...
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Ep 213. Richard Culatta: Raising Children to Thrive in an Online World
Richard Culatta is author of Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World. Richard serves as CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), a nonprofit serving education leaders in 127 countries. A teacher by training and innovator by inclination, Culatta…
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Ep 212. Jessica Bacal: Learning from Rejection
Jessica Bacal is director of Reflective and Integrative Practices and of the Narratives Project at Smith College. Her latest book is The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work. It’s is a sequel of sorts to Jessica’s first...
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Ep 211. Latha Poonamallee: Mindfulness and Leadership in a Changing World
Latha Poonamallee is an Associate Professor, Chair of Faculty of Management, and University Fellow at the New School in New York City. In her book, Expansive Leadership: Cultivating Mindfulness to Lead Self and Others in a Changing World, she explains that meditation and mindfulness are tools…
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Ep 210. Jason Thacker: A Banking Executive on Paternity Leave
Jason Thacker is a Senior Vice President of TD Bank Group and Head of Credit Cards and Unsecured Lending. Prior to his current role, Jason served in various executive positions at TD Bank. He started his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble as the company's youngest global expatriate,...
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Ep 209. Lauren Smith Brody: The Fifth Trimester
Lauren Smith Brody is the founder of The Fifth Trimester and author of the bestselling book The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby. Lauren’s book was a simultaneous best-seller in the Amazon categories of motherhood, women and business, and cultural...
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Ep 208. Jason Harris: The Soulful Art of Persuasian
Jason Harrisis is CEO of the creative agency Mekanism, which has been named to Ad Age's Agency A-list and twice to their Best Places to Work. He’s the author of a recent book called The Soulful Art of Persuasion. Jason works closely with brands using a blend of soul and science to create...
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Ep 207. Liya Shuster-Bier: Alula is Making Cancer Less Lonely
Liya Shuster-Bier is the founder and CEO of Alula, a radically honest platform for cancer patients, caregivers, and survivors. She is a cancer survivor herself. Prior to Alula, Liya built a career in community development and impact investing, partnering with mayors and governors across the…
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Ep 206. Erica Dhawan: Digital Body Language
Erica Dhawan is author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection No Matter the Distance. She is also the Founder and CEO of Cotential, a global organization that helps companies, leaders, and managers leverage 21st century collaboration skills and behaviors to improve…
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Ep 205. Katy Milkman: The Science of How to Change
Katy Milkman is an award-winning behavioral scientist and the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She hosts Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology and is the co-founder and co-director of The Behavior Change for Good...
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Ep 204. Jordan Shapiro: How to Be a Feminist Dad
Jordan Shapiro is the author of Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad. He is a senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. His previous book, The New Childhood: Raising Kids To Thrive...
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Ep 203. Joann Lublin: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life
Joann Lublin was management news editor for The Wall Street Journal until she retired in April 2018, and she is still a regular Journal contributor. She shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for stories about corporate scandals and was awarded the 2018 Lifetime Achievement from the Loeb Awards, the...
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Ep 202. Susan McPherson: The Lost Art of Connecting
Susan McPherson is the author of a new book -- The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships. In it she brings to bear 25+ years of experience in marketing, public relations, and communications. In this episode, Stew talks with Susan about the very...
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Ep 201. Tsedal Neeley: Remote Work Revolution
Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, an accomplished scholar and author, and award-winning teacher. Her new book, Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere, could not have arrived at a more auspicious moment. Her previous...
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Ep 200. Darby Saxbe: What Happens to Us When We Become Parents?
Darby Saxbe is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California’s David and Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Darby has two principle, interrelated lines of research: the impact of family environments and family transitions on parents and the impact of...
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Ep 199. Julie Kashen: Advocate for Change in Public Policy
Julie Kashen is the director for women’s economic justice and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a progressive independent think tank that fights for economic, racial, and gender equity in education, health care, and work. Julie has spent her career working for more just and equitable...
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Ep 198. Anne Driscoll and Chris Schultz: Partners at Work and in the Rest of Life
Anne Driscoll and Chris Schultz are co-founders of an organization called Launch Pad. Anne serves as CEO and Chris is the Chief Community Officer and they are a married couple. Launch Pad was started in New Orleans following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Anne was a long-time Silicon…
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Ep 197. Cal Newport: A World Without Email
Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, where he specializes in the theory of distributed systems. Cal is a New York Times bestselling author who writes for a broader audience about the intersection of technology and culture. He's the author of seven...
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Ep 196. Martin Davidson: The End of Diversity as We Know It
Martin Davidson is the Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and he currently serves as their senior associate dean and global chief diversity officer. He holds degrees from both Harvard and Stanford and was on the faculty...
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Ep. 195.Erik Peper: Practical Tools for Coping with Tech Stress
Erik Peper, a professor in the Institute for Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University, is an internationally known expert on workplace health, stress management and holistic health. His book, co-authored with Richard Harvey and Nancy Faass, is Tech Stress: How Technology Is...
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Ep 194. Lindsey Cameron: The Gig Economy and the Pandemic
Lindsey Cameron is an Assistant Professor of Management at Wharton whose research focuses on how changes in the modern workplace -- as algorithms/machine learning, short-term employment contracts, and variable pay -- affect work and workers. She recently completed a four-year ethnography of the...
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Ep 193. Kristen Shockley: Impact of the Rapid Shift to Remote Work
Dr. Kristen Shockley is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia. She has been studying how companies adapted during the pandemic, or how they haven’t adjusted, to meet the needs of worker productivity and well-being. She’s also been looking at how couples forced to handle...
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Ep 192. Eve Rodsky: Creating an Egalitarian Partnership with Fair Play
Eve Rodsky is the author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live). She received her B.A. in economics and anthropology from the University of Michigan, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. After working at J.P. Morgan, she founded the...
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Ep 191. Amina Gautier: A Writer's Work and Life
Dr. Amina Gautier is an associate professor in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Miami. Professor Gautier is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. She’s taught at Penn as well as Marquette University, Saint Joseph’s University, Washington...
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Ep 190. Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar: A Chief People Officer in Pandemic Times
Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar is Chief People Officer for Minted.com. He oversees and manages Minted’s People team, which includes human resources and facilities. After several years running a research lab in Silicon Valley, he went on to lead HR in multiple industries and various scales, from...
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Ep 189. Jessica Calarco: COVID-19's Impact on Mother's and How To Mitigate It
Jessica Calarco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington. She earned her master’s and her PhD in sociology here at the University of Pennsylvania. Jessica’s research examines inequalities in education and family life, and she’s written about these inequalities for the...
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Ep 188. Carol Cone: Purpose Drives Performance
Carol Cone, Founder and CEO of Carol Cone ON PURPOSE, is internationally recognized for her work in social purpose and corporate social responsibility. Carol was a pioneer in the field of social purpose in the 1980s. Her work has built global movements, garnered hundreds of awards, and raised...
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Ep 187. Marilyn Gist: The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility
Dr. Marilyn Gist, author of The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations & Great Results, is an expert on leader development. Marilyn’s academic career includes time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the University of Washington, where she held the Boeing...
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Ep 186. Joan Williams: Healing the Rifts of Race, Gender, and Class
Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings Law. Joan has played a central role in reshaping the conversation about work, gender, and class over the past quarter...
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Ep 185. Tony Ewing: How to Not Talk about Politics at Work
Maurice “Tony” Ewing is the CEO of Conquer Risk, a Hong Kong-based risk management and compliance consultancy, and he’s also a motivational speaker and coach. As a former senior banking executive, public company board member and Princeton-certified behavioral scientist who was a PhD student of...
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Ep 184. Chaz Howard: A New Liberation Theology
Reverend Charles “Chaz” Howard is the first-ever Vice President for Social Equity and Community at the University of Pennsylvania—a role he assumed in June 2020. But he’s long been a part of the Philadelphia community as Penn’s University Chaplain. After graduating Penn's College of Arts and...
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Ep 183. Uma Naidoo, M.D.: This is Your Brain on Food
Dr. Uma Naidoo, Harvard based psychiatrist, chef, and author of This is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, PTSD, ADHD, OCD and More, is regarded internationally as a pioneer in the field of nutritional psychiatry, having founded the first US...
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Ep 182. Dana Sumpter: Working Parents in Pandemic Times
Dr. Dana Sumpter is an associate professor of organization theory and management at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business. Her research employs a cross-cultural lens in understanding social behavior at work, studying topics including energy, mindfulness, power, work/family...
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Ep 181. Quinetta Roberson: The Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Professor Quinetta Roberson has over 20 years of experience teaching courses and workshops globally on leadership, talent management and diversity, and her research and teaching are informed by her background in finance, having worked as a financial analyst and small business development...
About this show
Welcome to the Work and Life Podcast with Stew Friedman -- bestselling author, celebrated professor at The Wharton School, and founder of Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. Stew is widely recognized as the world's foremost authority on cultivating leadership from the point of view of the whole person. On this podcast, Stew talks with a variety of experts -- leading researchers, progressive executives, policy advocates, inspiring educators, and more -- about how to cultivate harmony between work and the rest of your life; that is, your family, your community, and your private self (mind, body, and spirit). Conversations in all Work and Life Podcast episodes are taken from broadcasts of Stew's Work and Life Radio Show, which airs weekly on SiriusXM 132, Business Radio Powered by Wharton. Tune in on Mondays at noon Eastern
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