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

Surfing Through the AI Apocalypse with Jacob Ward

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

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

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

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

The Freedom Of Not Knowing with HBS's Martin Sinozich

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

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

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

The Power of Divergent Thinking With David Flink

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

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

Cultivating Resilience With Dan Ariely

Ego Death Is The Only Way Through with Meredith Arthur

The Upside of Imposter Syndrome with Basima Tewfik

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

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

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

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

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

The Twisted Comfort of Overthinking with Meredith Arthur

The Gifts And Struggles of a Bipolar General with Gregg Martin

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

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

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

Moving Towards "Neuroconvergence" with Google's Ennis Olson

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

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

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

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

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

Greg Lukianoff: Why Free Speech Makes Us Mentally Stronger

Your Attachment Style At Work with Jack Hinman

Jedi Mindsets for the Anxious Achiever with Shirzad Chamine

Do Conflict Better With Amy Gallo

The Gift of Introverted Leadership with Jennifer Kahnweiler

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

Inside the Role of Chief Wellbeing Officer with Jen Fisher

Why Do We Micromanage People? With Prof. Julia Milner

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

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

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

Eating Disorders, Body Image, Anxiety with Melissa Gerson

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

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

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

Breathwork For A Better Workday with Zsombor Szabo

Train Your Brain To Focus with Dr. Michael Gervais

Maladaptive Perfectionism Explained with Jordana Confino

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

Is It Toxic? Your Questions Answered with Benish Shah

Is Taylor Swift An Anxious Achiever? With Kevin Evers

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

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

Uncertainty Can Be Awesome With Maggie Jackson

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

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

You Can Unshame Yourself with David Bedrick

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

America’s Nervous System Is Dysregulated with Kate Woodsome

How To Heal After A Layoff with Yowei Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

Muriel M Wilkins: Get Unblocked, Lead With More Ease

Gabrielle Union on PTSD, Social Anxiety, and Navigating Fame

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leading for Inclusive Excellence with Dr. Keivan Stassun

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

"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

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

The Gifts of Neurodivergent Leadership with Dr. Michael Freeman

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

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

Turning Anxiety Into Your Growth Edge with Whitney Johnson

Understanding Bipolar Disorder With The Scientists Driving Innovation

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

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

Using AI for ADHD With Lindsay Scola

Crossover Special: Everyday Better with Leah Smart

Who’s In Your Mental Health Squad?

Unpacking Your Money Trauma

Defining Your Values with Suzy Welch

The Roots of Perfectionism and How We Can Change

The Power of Spaciousness and the Gift of Being Seen

Flexing Your Emotional Intelligence Muscles

Finding Your “Why” and Rooting Leadership in Healing

Masculinity, Disability, and Reframing Leadership

OCD and the Art of Noticing Everything

Hypervigilance: When Everything Feels Like a Threat

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

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

The Unseen Links Between Mental Health, IBS and Your Gut

What We Still Don’t Understand about Adult ADHD

Shows We Love: We Too Are One

What’s the Root of Your Perfectionism?

Managing Leadership Anxiety

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

What Can Radical Transparency Do For Leadership?

The Toll of Shame on Mind and Body

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

Revisiting Accent Bias in a World Pushing Against DEI Initiatives

Is Your Leadership Style Inspiring or Infuriating?

When The Company You Build Almost Fails

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

The Couple Making the Most of ADHD for Their Creative Business

How to Ride the Wave of Anxiety and Overthinking

When Your Body Dials 911

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

What if Impostor Syndrome Isn’t All Bad?

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

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

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

Finding Healing After Layoffs

Introducing: Let's Talk Offline

How Envy Impacts Work and Leadership

Is Work Fundamentally Broken?

Hacks for Managing Yourself and Others: Understanding Attachment Styles

What Companies Should Do For Workers in an AI Age

Disruptive Change and Shifting Mindsets Around GenAI

Does Discomfort Reflect What We Value Most?

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

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

Is Passion Driving Burnout?

Hope as an Essential Ingredient of Life and Work

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

Adapting Your Career to Your Neurodivergent Needs

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

A Former Olympic Rower on Grit, Heartache and Success

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

Dan Ariely on Resilience as the Antidote to Stress

Is People Pleasing Hurting Your Career?

More Than Breadwinners: The Mental Health of Working Fathers

Tools and Tricks for Neurodivergent Leaders

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

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

Coming Soon: Season 10

Thinkers50: The Limits and Responsibilities of Leaders

Thinkers50: Can We Banish Burnout?

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

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

When Anxiety Sneaks Up on You, Try Something Different

Are You And Your Employer In An Abusive Relationship?

Mental Health Literacy Can Change Lives - and Careers

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

Are You Harnessing Your Anxiety for Good?

Trauma-Informed Leadership: Is it Right For You?

Accent Bias: How It Impacts You and Your Work

Are You Good at Embracing Uncertainty?

Dan Harris: 10 Percent Happier, 10 Years Later

Toxic Bosses, Mean Girls, and Trusting Yourself

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

Is Your Anxiety a Habit You Need to Break?

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

What You Still Don’t Understand About Imposter Syndrome

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

Micromanaging, Mental Health, and Breaking Free

LinkedIn Live: From Digital Transformations to Personal Transformations

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

Pressure, Perfectionism, and Passion: What Medical Professionals Face

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

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

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

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

Building Your Career When You Have Borderline Personality Disorder

Farnoosh Torabi on Fear, Money, and Career Success

LinkedIn Live: How to Speak Up

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

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

The Israel-Hamas War and Managing Grief

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LinkedIn Live: Am I Too Old for This Role?

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

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

Real Leaders Get Emotional: Cloudfm CEO Jeff Dewing

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

How MLMs Hurt Women’s Mental Health

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

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

Best of Anxious Achiever: Can Workplaces Help Us Heal?

When High-Powered Careers Come to Define Us

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

The Relationship between Ambition, OCD, and Culture

Do Entrepreneurs Need Specialized Mental Healthcare?

LinkedIn Live: I Get This Question A Lot

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

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

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

Is American Motherhood (and Work) Sustainable?

The Ritalin and Adderall Shortage and How It Impacts Work

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

Do You Have Codependency Issues at Work?

What Psychedelic Research Might Mean for Leadership and Work

What A Divorce Taught This Leader About Facing His Fears

Disrupting Yourself and Your Career

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

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

Are Women Punished For Being Emotional At Work?

Recognizing and Working with Anxiety at the Negotiating Table

Breaking the Stigma of Mental Health for Men in Business

Your Anxiety Needs a Product Manager

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

Here’s How to Plan for Difficult Conversations

What Athletes Teach Us About Mental Health

Facing Loss Amid the Tyranny of Positivity

What Mental Health Leave Taught One Google Executive

Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein is an Anxious Achiever

CVS Health’s Cara McNulty on Fighting Mental Health Stigma

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

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

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

Finding the Right Work Fit When You’re Neurodivergent

Digging Deeper on Perfectionism

Using Achievement - and Exercise - to Cope

Dealing with Grief While Dealing with Work

Why Giving Up Control at Work Can Improve Your Emotional Health

Surgeon General Announces Framework on Mental Health and Work

Scary Mommy’s Founder on When Life Throws Curveballs

Why Difference is a Superpower with Christopher Lochhead

Burnout and Mental Health: Perspectives from Human Resources

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

A CEO on Strengthening Leadership and Facing Childhood Trauma

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

Questioning and Understanding Our Need to Achieve

The Hidden Mental Anguish of a Successful Tech Investor

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

Changing Your Relationship With Email and Phones

Lessons in Mental Health and Leadership from History

Why We Need to Understand Our Emotions Around Money

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (And Work)

Why Managing Is the Hardest Job She’s Ever Had

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

Managing Anxiety When the World Feels like a Scary Place

Imposter Syndrome, Work, and Mental Health

Miss America on the Suffering We Can’t Always See

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

Understanding “Good” Anxiety

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

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

Learning Compassion for Your High-Achieving Self

A Mini Meditation When You Need It

A Career in Mindfulness, Mindfulness for Your Career

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

On Being CEO - and Living with Bipolar Disorder

Psychological Safety in Theory and In Practice

Why the Workplace is Actually a Good Place to Heal

Anxiety Is a Habit

Huma Abedin on Private Pain and Public Struggle

Neurodiversity at Work

What You Want Matters

How Family Dynamics Play Out at Work

Even Public Figures Have Social Anxiety

Understanding Our Roots to Find the Path Forward

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

Handling the “Mental Fire”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the Anxiety of Unfulfilled Dreams

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

The Great Re-Norming

ADHD, Neurodiversity, and Bias

Anna Sale on Money, Shame, and Tough Work Conversations

Mental Health and Media

Creating Boundaries in Our Everyday Work (with Roxane Gay)

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

Why Therapy Can Make You Better at Your Job

Social Anxiety and Work

Back to Work: Post-Covid Social Anxiety

Shopify President Harley Finkelstein on Anxiety and Entrepreneurship

The Power and Peril of Working on a Video Screen

Back to Work: Calm Body, Calm Mind

Bonus: Finding a New Balance with Esther Perel

Bonus: How to Stop Remote Work Burnout

Succeeding with ADHD

Understanding Envy Part 2: Facing Professional Envy

Understanding Envy Part 1: How Envy Impacts Anxiety and Leadership

Lessons in Uncertainty, Anxiety, and Resilience

Anxiety, Depression, and Working Moms in a Pandemic

Why Start-Up Culture Still Hides Mental Health Struggles

Kevin Love on Trying to Achieve His Way Out of Depression

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Stress of Creativity

Finding the Funny – and Embracing the Pain – of Depression

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

Why Learning to Label Your Feelings Makes You a Better Leader

Notes to My Future Manager Self

Art Critic Jerry Saltz’s Reckoning with Trauma and Anxiety

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

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

How to Stop the Cycle of Overachieving

Facing Reality, Modeling Positivity

Millennials, Gen Z, and Generational Anxiety

Discomfort, Anxiety, and Grief: Confronting Racism with Colleagues

When Leaders Model Openness About Their Mental Health

Managing Mental Health When Working for a Mission

Substance Abuse, Success, and Self-Realization

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

How Vulnerability Can Be a Leadership Superpower

Leading Through Grief in Life and Work

Wading Through the Imperfect Mess of Parenthood

Freelancing, Self-Employment, and Mental Health

Gabrielle Union on Toxic Workplaces, PTSD, and Social Anxiety

Managing the Stress and Uncertainty of Coronavirus

Strategies for Managing Day-to-Day Anxiety

Designing the Mentally Healthy Workplace

Mental Health in the Office: Difficult Conversations

Building Mental Resilience While Building a Business

Tackling Leadership Struggles, Burnout, and Performance Anxiety

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

Battling Depression from the C-Suite

Managing Career Transitions Part 2: Taking A Break

Managing Career Transitions Part 1: Facing Childhood Demons

How We Cope: Food and Eating Disorders at Work

How the Mental Affects the Physical

The Anxiety of Being the “Only”

Social Anxiety and Success

Your Mental Health and Your Work

Introducing The Anxious Achiever