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HBR Management Tip of the Week

How to Manage Anxiety as a High Achiever was the HBR Management Tip of the week: Quick, practical management advice to help you do your job better…

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Mental Illness Is Not A Superpower

Mental illness is not in itself a redemption story or a superpower. How we manage mental illness can become one. But there are a lot of bumps in the road and cruelties to navigate.

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Reclaim Your Power Through Healing At Work

Damaged isn't doomed- that's a favorite saying of my guest today, CHRO Susan J. Schmitt Winchester. Susan believes one of the best places to unlearn and recover from the harmful effects of difficult experiences from our past is the workplace.

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Drug Free Techniques To Manage Panic

Quick: What do your dog, a great lover and a newborn baby have in common?

They can all help you produce oxytocin, a hormone that creates powerful wellbeing and can calm anxieties that keep you stuck, like fear of flying.

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Do I Need To Rethink What Ambition Means To Me?

Is your definition of ambition driving burnout and anxiety? Let's redefine what ambition means! Rainesford Stauffer joins me to explore how our narrow definition of ambition keeps us stuck.

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Talks at Google with Morra

Talks at Google is a global, internal talks series hosted by Google. The program invites authors, scientists, actors, artists, filmmakers, and musicians to discuss their work.

Morra sits down with Newton Cheng to discuss her new book!

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Can I Become An Entrepreneur?

Readers, I’m considering getting a job. I’ve been working for myself since summer of 2006: exactly 17 years. I’ve built and sold a business. I restarted my entrepreneurial journey last year, and I currently have a healthy consulting practice, do paid public speaking, and host a prominent podcast for LinkedIn. By most accounts, I'm a successful entrepreneur.

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What If You Worked 10 Hours A Week?

Before Daniel Mangena was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in his late 20’s, he suffered horrific insomnia for years. Nothing worked. His agony eventually led him to psychotherapist Helen McEwen, and what she told him changed his life forever.

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Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

Achievement has been a salve for self-doubt for many generations. But many of the oldest members of Gen Z, who came of age amid COVID-19, think differently about the value of work. Will they forge a new leadership style? wonders James Heskett.

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Anxiety As an Aid?

If you're one of the many professionals and leaders who publicly or privately acknowledge the battle that wages inside of you due to anxiety (or one of its many close relatives), you are in good company.

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Imposter Feelings Are Not Your Problem

The roots of mental health challenges at work are societal, systemic, and individual. How can we unpack these interconnections? Looking at impostor syndrome is a helpful way in.

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