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The Anxious Achiever — 357 episodes

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What Is Post Traumatic Growth? with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

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Depression Can Be So Funny, With John Moe

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How To Lead 106,000 People Without Losing Yourself with Dr. John D'Angelo

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Understand Your Family Ghosts At Work with Deborah Ancona

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Rebranding the Brain With Neurodiversity Expert Dave Thompson

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Penn and Kim Holderness on Neurodivergence And The Creative Journey

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Learn How To Handle Uncertainty With Simone Stolzoff

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How to Handle Anxiety About Difficult Conversations with Amy Gallo

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How To Make Space For Your Soul In Midlife with Olivia F. Scott

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The Four Factors Every Neurodistinct Leader Needs To Understand

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NBA Great Kevin Love on Trying to Achieve His Way Out of Depression

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HeartMath: The Science of HRV with Dr. Deborah Rozman

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Toxic Bosses, Perfectionism, And Healing At Work with Susan Schmitt Winchester

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The Hard Work of "Daughtering" With Dr. Allison Alford

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Anxiety and Trust In The New Media Economy With CEO Dan Granger

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How to Build a Culture Where It's Safe to Not Be Okay: Jed Foundation CEO John MacPhee

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"My Anxiety" With Legendary Art Critic Jerry Saltz

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"On The Internet, Everyone Looks Rich" with Jenny Blake

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"Death, Sex, and Money": Talking Smart About Hard Things With Anna Sale

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Exploring Liminal Spaces with HBS's DJ DiDonna

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Unpacking Money Trauma with Shannah Game

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Leading When Nothing Feels Certain With Scott D. Anthony, Lisa Kay Solomon, and Chris Shipley

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Can Passion For Your Work Drive Burnout? With Jon Jachimowicz

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Haley Moss: "My Autism Is Not the Center of the Universe"

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Deepa Purushothaman On "Acting In" Stress, Anxiety, and Overwork

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Surfing Through the AI Apocalypse with Jacob Ward

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A Unicorn Tech Exec's Complicated Legacy of Childhood Trauma with Andy Johns

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"It's Just So Enjoyable." Jodi Kantor On The Power Of Craft In A Digitized World

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This U.S. Congressman Gives His Anxiety A Job To Do with Adam Smith

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Exploring Gender At Work And "Work Life Conflict" With Dr. David Smith

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The Freedom Of Not Knowing with HBS's Martin Sinozich

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Is Therapy The Best We've Got? Megan Cornish Wants More

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How To Take Psychedelics for Your Mental Health with Dr. Will Van Derveer

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Perfectionism Is Not The Healthy Pursuit Of Excellence: Dr. Thomas Greenspon

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The Power of Divergent Thinking With David Flink

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"We Have Emotional Relationships With Our Technology," Nilay Patel On AI

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Time, Agency, Attention, Motivation: The Neurodivergent Leader's Power Recipe with Amy Wilson

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Cultivating Resilience With Dan Ariely

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Ego Death Is The Only Way Through with Meredith Arthur

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The Upside of Imposter Syndrome with Basima Tewfik

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Letting Go Of The Need To Know: Charlene Li on Leadership And AI

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How Can You Improve Your Team's Mental Health? It's Not Rocket Science! with Rita McGrath, Poornima Luthra & Andrew Barnes

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Managing the Emotional Drain of Work and Leadership with Dina Denham Smith

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Do You Speak Mental Health? Exploring Mental Health Literacy with Kent Coules & Donna Volpitta

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The CEO Who Doesn't Want You To Leave Your Problems At Home with Dan Simons

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The Twisted Comfort of Overthinking with Meredith Arthur

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The Gifts And Struggles of a Bipolar General with Gregg Martin

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Break The Anxiety Habit with Dr. Jud Brewer and Charles Duhigg

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AuDHD: The Diagnosis of Contradictions with Dr. Jessica Schonhut Stasik

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Please Sleep: It Makes You More Charismatic with Dr. Christopher Barnes

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Moving Towards "Neuroconvergence" with Google's Ennis Olson

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The Freelancer's Guide To Less Anxiety with Chris Brogan & Ada Calhoun

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A Mad Scientist's Guide to Happiness: Arthur Brooks on Anxiety and Meaning

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Manage Anxiety When It's Your Daily Companion with Alice Boyes

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“College Is Your Best Four Years” And Other Lies We Need to Stop Telling with Dr. Alexis Redding

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Hiding In The Bathroom: Social Anxiety And You with Dr. Ellen Hendriksen & Arvind Rajan

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Greg Lukianoff: Why Free Speech Makes Us Mentally Stronger

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Your Attachment Style At Work with Jack Hinman

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Jedi Mindsets for the Anxious Achiever with Shirzad Chamine

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Do Conflict Better With Amy Gallo

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The Gift of Introverted Leadership with Jennifer Kahnweiler

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How To Negotiate When Negotiating Makes You Nervous with Chris Voss & Moshe Cohen

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Inside the Role of Chief Wellbeing Officer with Jen Fisher

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Why Do We Micromanage People? With Prof. Julia Milner

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The Best Leadership Advice You'll Ever Get with Margaret Andrews

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Should You Be Yourself At Work? With Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

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David Lancefield Has A Better Way To Talk About Mental Health At Work

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Eating Disorders, Body Image, Anxiety with Melissa Gerson

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Jane Chen On Collapse, Extreme Self-Help, and Healing Yourself

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ADHD Ahas from a Combat Pilot, a $250 Million Founder, and a Professor

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Fitting In Is the Enemy of Excellence (with Anne Morriss & Frances Frei)

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Breathwork For A Better Workday with Zsombor Szabo

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Train Your Brain To Focus with Dr. Michael Gervais

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Maladaptive Perfectionism Explained with Jordana Confino

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Get What You Need At Work (Without Making It "About You") with Stew Friedman

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Is It Toxic? Your Questions Answered with Benish Shah

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Is Taylor Swift An Anxious Achiever? With Kevin Evers

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Millennials, Gen Z, and the Loss of The American Dream with Annie Lowrey

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Netflix Former Chief Talent Officer On Why We Can't Seem To Fix Burnout with Jessica Neal

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Uncertainty Can Be Awesome With Maggie Jackson

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Patrick Lencioni: Stop Feeling Guilt About What's Hard For You

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The Secret To Becoming A Mindful Leader with Dr. Ravi Kudesia

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You Can Unshame Yourself with David Bedrick

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Exploring AI Anxiety With A Leader In Charge Of AI Transformation with Lee Gonzales

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America’s Nervous System Is Dysregulated with Kate Woodsome

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How To Heal After A Layoff with Yowei Shaw

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AI, ADHD, And Humanness with Dr. Tracy Dennis Tiwary

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Brad Feld on OCD, Depression, and the Courage to Be Honest

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The “Losing-My-Sh**” Playlist And Other Tools For High Strivers With Dr. Diana Hill

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Leading For Human Agency With SAP's V.R. Ferose

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What Neurodistinct Professionals Really Think About Their Careers with Dr. Diane Biray Gregorio

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Self Compassion For Overachievers with Attorney Mark Goldstein & Dr. Kristin Neff

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Muriel M Wilkins: Get Unblocked, Lead With More Ease

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Gabrielle Union on PTSD, Social Anxiety, and Navigating Fame

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He Built Coach Into a $5 Billion Company, But Feared Failure Every Day | Lew Frankfort

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Why "the Worst Advice Ever" Taught Entrepreneur Robert Glazer To Play To His Strengths

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ADHD, Anxiety, and the Challenge of Doing What You Know You Need to Do with J Russell Ramsay

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Morra x Fixable: How to feel less awkward, stay strong during a job search, and build your team's confidence

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Beekman 1802's Josh Kilmer-Purcell: Anxiety Is My Superpower

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Great Leaders Have Anxiety– And They Know How To Manage It

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Leading for Inclusive Excellence with Dr. Keivan Stassun

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Conflict Is Necessary At Work... Really with Amy Gallo

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"For 20 years I just pretended like there was nothing wrong with me." How this CFO Stopped Hiding His Anxiety and Depression with Adam Nemer

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Why You Should Stop Labeling Emotions Good or Bad with Dr. Susan David

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The Gifts of Neurodivergent Leadership with Dr. Michael Freeman

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Why Anxiety Can Be Your Superpower with Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein

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How Childhood Adverse Experiences (ACES) Impact Your Working Life with Dr. Melissa Merrick

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Turning Anxiety Into Your Growth Edge with Whitney Johnson

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Understanding Bipolar Disorder With The Scientists Driving Innovation

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“Energy Is All There Is”: Understand Your Energy Body, Feel Better

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How Growing Up in Foster Care Shaped Chéla Gage’s Leadership

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Using AI for ADHD With Lindsay Scola

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Crossover Special: Everyday Better with Leah Smart

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Who’s In Your Mental Health Squad?

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Unpacking Your Money Trauma

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Defining Your Values with Suzy Welch

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The Roots of Perfectionism and How We Can Change

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The Power of Spaciousness and the Gift of Being Seen

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Flexing Your Emotional Intelligence Muscles

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Finding Your “Why” and Rooting Leadership in Healing

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Masculinity, Disability, and Reframing Leadership

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OCD and the Art of Noticing Everything

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Hypervigilance: When Everything Feels Like a Threat

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The Practice of Mindfulness and Meditation, From Industry Leader Sharon Salzberg

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The Real Cost of Masking at Work: Neurodiversity Expert Ludmila Praslova

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The Unseen Links Between Mental Health, IBS and Your Gut

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What We Still Don’t Understand about Adult ADHD

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Shows We Love: We Too Are One

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What’s the Root of Your Perfectionism?

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Managing Leadership Anxiety

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Mental Well-Being Can Supercharge Your Organization’s Success - Here’s How

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What Can Radical Transparency Do For Leadership?

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The Toll of Shame on Mind and Body

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Bringing Vulnerability to Work: A Non Profit Leader and a Police Officer

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Revisiting Accent Bias in a World Pushing Against DEI Initiatives

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Is Your Leadership Style Inspiring or Infuriating?

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When The Company You Build Almost Fails

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How to convince others you’re still relevant — Hint: start with yourself (from Fixable)

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The Couple Making the Most of ADHD for Their Creative Business

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How to Ride the Wave of Anxiety and Overthinking

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When Your Body Dials 911

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Resilience Isn’t Enough: We Need To Be Anti-Fragile

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What if Impostor Syndrome Isn’t All Bad?

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Connecting Mind, Body, and Work Performance in a Stressful Season

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Say Goodbye to Negative Self-Talk and Hello to Your Superpowers

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Tim Shriver on Emotional Intelligence, Family Healing, and Difficult Conversations

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Finding Healing After Layoffs

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Introducing: Let's Talk Offline

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How Envy Impacts Work and Leadership

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Is Work Fundamentally Broken?

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Hacks for Managing Yourself and Others: Understanding Attachment Styles

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What Companies Should Do For Workers in an AI Age

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Disruptive Change and Shifting Mindsets Around GenAI

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Does Discomfort Reflect What We Value Most?

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Morra Joins The Next Big Idea To Talk Anxiety As a Trait of Great Leaders

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AI, Work and Mental Health: Nilay Patel on Tech and the Future

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Is Passion Driving Burnout?

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Hope as an Essential Ingredient of Life and Work

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You Can’t Change the World If You’re Unhappy At Work

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Adapting Your Career to Your Neurodivergent Needs

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When Your Job Revolves Around The Tumultuous U.S. Election

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A Former Olympic Rower on Grit, Heartache and Success

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ADHD Expert (and Diagnosee) Dr. Ned Hallowell on Unwrapping Our Gifts and Changing Labels

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Dan Ariely on Resilience as the Antidote to Stress

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Is People Pleasing Hurting Your Career?

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More Than Breadwinners: The Mental Health of Working Fathers

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Tools and Tricks for Neurodivergent Leaders

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Burnout, Balance, and Why Work From Home Isn’t Working

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Craig Robinson on Following Your Passion, Forgetting What Others Think, and Bringing out the Best in People

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Coming Soon: Season 10

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Thinkers50: The Limits and Responsibilities of Leaders

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Thinkers50: Can We Banish Burnout?

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Thinkers50: Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy, Start Being Your Best Friend

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Thinkers50: Improving Work, Improving Mental Health (For Everyone)

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When Anxiety Sneaks Up on You, Try Something Different

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Are You And Your Employer In An Abusive Relationship?

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Mental Health Literacy Can Change Lives - and Careers

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Think Your Family Background Doesn’t Affect You At Work? Think Again

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Are You Harnessing Your Anxiety for Good?

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Trauma-Informed Leadership: Is it Right For You?

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Accent Bias: How It Impacts You and Your Work

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Are You Good at Embracing Uncertainty?

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Dan Harris: 10 Percent Happier, 10 Years Later

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Toxic Bosses, Mean Girls, and Trusting Yourself

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The Toll of Selling Your Business: Two Entrepreneurs Share Their Stories

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Is Your Anxiety a Habit You Need to Break?

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Former Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing at Google on Why Teams and Culture Matter

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What You Still Don’t Understand About Imposter Syndrome

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“I Have Always Cared a Lot What Other People Think of Me”

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Micromanaging, Mental Health, and Breaking Free

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LinkedIn Live: From Digital Transformations to Personal Transformations

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“You See Flashes of Really Deep Emotion in the Heat of These Competitions”

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Pressure, Perfectionism, and Passion: What Medical Professionals Face

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The Loneliness Epidemic and Work (with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy)

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We All Experience Class At Work (And Why We Should Talk About It)

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Want To Run A Good Company? You Can’t Ignore Menopause Anymore

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How Your Family History - and Tensions - Affect You At Work

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Building Your Career When You Have Borderline Personality Disorder

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Farnoosh Torabi on Fear, Money, and Career Success

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LinkedIn Live: How to Speak Up

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Leadership, Burnout, and Breakdowns (and Why Coaching Can Help)

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Mood and Food: What You Need to Know About Gut and Mental Health

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The Israel-Hamas War and Managing Grief

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20 Minutes a Week Devoted to Culture Building Can Improve Mental Health for Grocery and Retail Workers

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Mindfulness to Be A Better Colleague - and Stop Being Passive-Aggressive

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“He’s a Jerk Who Got Rich and Now He Hates Everybody”

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"I Have Everything to Gain and Nothing to Lose, and I Have a Responsibility to Use My Voice"

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“When I Was Diagnosed with PTSD I Was Treated Like Damaged Goods” (Part II)

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“I Wanted to Cover War Without Having Any Clue What War Was Like” (Part I)

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“I Didn’t Know What the Word Burnout Meant”: One Teacher’s Mental Health Journey

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Behind the Scenes of Meditation and Mental Health with the CEO of Headspace

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LinkedIn Live: Weight-Loss Drugs, Food Noise, and Mental Health

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This Leadership Expert’s Experience Managing Autism Can Help Everyone Enjoy Work More

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LinkedIn Live: Am I Too Old for This Role?

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Best of Anxious Achiever: Pressure, Achievement, and Self-Compassion

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“I Could Work 16 Hours a Day and Not Have It Affect Me… I Thought”

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Real Leaders Get Emotional: Cloudfm CEO Jeff Dewing

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LinkedIn Live: Is Mental Health at Work a “Gen Z Thing”?

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How MLMs Hurt Women’s Mental Health

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The “Goal Conqueror” Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder During the Pandemic

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LinkedIn Live: How to Handle Envy, FOMO, and Jealousy

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Best of Anxious Achiever: Can Workplaces Help Us Heal?

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When High-Powered Careers Come to Define Us

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I Get This Question a Lot: Should I Try To Make My Corporate Job Work?

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The Relationship between Ambition, OCD, and Culture

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Do Entrepreneurs Need Specialized Mental Healthcare?

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LinkedIn Live: I Get This Question A Lot

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Marketing Expert Dorie Clark on Being Yourself and Being Valued For It

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A Recent Morehouse College Grad On How He - and Gen X - Handle Mental Health

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Rep. Becca Balint Has Struggled with Anxiety and Depression. Now She’s Fighting for Mental Health Support and Policies.

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Is American Motherhood (and Work) Sustainable?

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The Ritalin and Adderall Shortage and How It Impacts Work

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Hospitality Entrepreneur Chip Conley on Mental Health, Wisdom, and Generation Gaps

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Do You Have Codependency Issues at Work?

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What Psychedelic Research Might Mean for Leadership and Work

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What A Divorce Taught This Leader About Facing His Fears

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Disrupting Yourself and Your Career

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“I Had All My Money with SVB”: An Entrepreneur on Bank Failure and the Anxious Echo Chamber of Social Media

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How This NBCUniversal Exec Publicly Dealt with Mental Illness (And Teamed Up With A Psychologist to Better His Workplace)

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Are Women Punished For Being Emotional At Work?

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Recognizing and Working with Anxiety at the Negotiating Table

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Breaking the Stigma of Mental Health for Men in Business

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Your Anxiety Needs a Product Manager

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This Father and Son Transformed Their Relationship and Careers After Mental Health Challenges

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Here’s How to Plan for Difficult Conversations

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What Athletes Teach Us About Mental Health

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Facing Loss Amid the Tyranny of Positivity

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What Mental Health Leave Taught One Google Executive

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Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein is an Anxious Achiever

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CVS Health’s Cara McNulty on Fighting Mental Health Stigma

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How to Channel Anxiety Into Positive Work Outcomes, According to Research

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Managing With Intention Can Help Us Fight Toxic Work Environments, Burnout, and Anxiety

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The Anxiety of Money, University, and Raising Mentally Healthy Kids

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Finding the Right Work Fit When You’re Neurodivergent

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Digging Deeper on Perfectionism

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Using Achievement - and Exercise - to Cope

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Dealing with Grief While Dealing with Work

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Why Giving Up Control at Work Can Improve Your Emotional Health

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Surgeon General Announces Framework on Mental Health and Work

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Scary Mommy’s Founder on When Life Throws Curveballs

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Why Difference is a Superpower with Christopher Lochhead

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Burnout and Mental Health: Perspectives from Human Resources

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Gretchen Rubin on Expectations, Pillars of Habits, and Understanding Why You React the Way You Do

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A CEO on Strengthening Leadership and Facing Childhood Trauma

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Your Questions, Answered: How to Get What You Need at Work

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Questioning and Understanding Our Need to Achieve

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The Hidden Mental Anguish of a Successful Tech Investor

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Lori Gottlieb on Writing as Therapy, the Mind-Body Connection, and What to Do When You Need Help

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Changing Your Relationship With Email and Phones

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Lessons in Mental Health and Leadership from History

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Why We Need to Understand Our Emotions Around Money

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (And Work)

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Why Managing Is the Hardest Job She’s Ever Had

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Bonobos Cofounder on the Highs of Success and Lows of Mental Struggle

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Managing Anxiety When the World Feels like a Scary Place

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Imposter Syndrome, Work, and Mental Health

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Miss America on the Suffering We Can’t Always See

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Racial Trauma and Work: “I Hear From Broken-Hearted Women Several Times a Day”

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Understanding “Good” Anxiety

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Does Negotiation Give You Anxiety? Here’s How To Approach It.

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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms On Mental Health In And Out of Office

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Learning Compassion for Your High-Achieving Self

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A Mini Meditation When You Need It

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A Career in Mindfulness, Mindfulness for Your Career

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Why Ambition Can Make You a “Terror” - And How to Fix It

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On Being CEO - and Living with Bipolar Disorder

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Psychological Safety in Theory and In Practice

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Why the Workplace is Actually a Good Place to Heal

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Anxiety Is a Habit

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Huma Abedin on Private Pain and Public Struggle

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Neurodiversity at Work

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What You Want Matters

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How Family Dynamics Play Out at Work

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Even Public Figures Have Social Anxiety

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Understanding Our Roots to Find the Path Forward

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Why Conflict Is Necessary and How to Manage It (with Amy Gallo)

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Handling the “Mental Fire”

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the Anxiety of Unfulfilled Dreams

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Bonus: Talking about Self-Awareness and Anxiety (with Hello Monday’s Jessi Hempel)

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The Great Re-Norming

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ADHD, Neurodiversity, and Bias

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Anna Sale on Money, Shame, and Tough Work Conversations

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Mental Health and Media

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Creating Boundaries in Our Everyday Work (with Roxane Gay)

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How Kayak Co-Founder Paul English Manages and Thrives Through His Bipolar Disorder

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Why Therapy Can Make You Better at Your Job

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Social Anxiety and Work

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Back to Work: Post-Covid Social Anxiety

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Shopify President Harley Finkelstein on Anxiety and Entrepreneurship

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The Power and Peril of Working on a Video Screen

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Back to Work: Calm Body, Calm Mind

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Bonus: Finding a New Balance with Esther Perel

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Bonus: How to Stop Remote Work Burnout

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Succeeding with ADHD

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Understanding Envy Part 2: Facing Professional Envy

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Understanding Envy Part 1: How Envy Impacts Anxiety and Leadership

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Lessons in Uncertainty, Anxiety, and Resilience

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Anxiety, Depression, and Working Moms in a Pandemic

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Why Start-Up Culture Still Hides Mental Health Struggles

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Kevin Love on Trying to Achieve His Way Out of Depression

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Stress of Creativity

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Finding the Funny – and Embracing the Pain – of Depression

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Success, Stress, and Money: Lessons from a Financial Therapist

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Why Learning to Label Your Feelings Makes You a Better Leader

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Notes to My Future Manager Self

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Art Critic Jerry Saltz’s Reckoning with Trauma and Anxiety

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How a Rising Political Star’s PTSD Fueled His Addiction to Work

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How the Cult of Sleep-Deprivation Affects Work and Mental Health

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How to Stop the Cycle of Overachieving

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Facing Reality, Modeling Positivity

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Millennials, Gen Z, and Generational Anxiety

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Discomfort, Anxiety, and Grief: Confronting Racism with Colleagues

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When Leaders Model Openness About Their Mental Health

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Managing Mental Health When Working for a Mission

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Substance Abuse, Success, and Self-Realization

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Goop’s Chief Content Officer on Balancing Self-Care at Work

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How Vulnerability Can Be a Leadership Superpower

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Leading Through Grief in Life and Work

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Wading Through the Imperfect Mess of Parenthood

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Freelancing, Self-Employment, and Mental Health

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Gabrielle Union on Toxic Workplaces, PTSD, and Social Anxiety

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Managing the Stress and Uncertainty of Coronavirus

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Strategies for Managing Day-to-Day Anxiety

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Designing the Mentally Healthy Workplace

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Mental Health in the Office: Difficult Conversations

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Building Mental Resilience While Building a Business

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Tackling Leadership Struggles, Burnout, and Performance Anxiety

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What No One Tells You: The Emotional Strain of Startup Life

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Battling Depression from the C-Suite

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Managing Career Transitions Part 2: Taking A Break

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Managing Career Transitions Part 1: Facing Childhood Demons

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How We Cope: Food and Eating Disorders at Work

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How the Mental Affects the Physical

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The Anxiety of Being the “Only”

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Social Anxiety and Success

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Your Mental Health and Your Work

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Introducing The Anxious Achiever