On air with Public Radio Tulsa speaking about my new book The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower.

Morra speaks with Daryll Henrich on Fortune.com

When leaders of public companies and other high-profile institutions start speaking openly about their experiences with depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges, the veil of shame that conceals many of these conversations at work starts to lift.

Most of us assume that anxiety and strong leadership are incompatible. But entrepreneur and former mental health advisor Morra Aarons-Mele says that’s a misconception. “I am convinced that anxiety is baked into effective leadership,” she writes in The Anxious Achiever. “It doesn’t matter if you have a fancy title and are managing thousands of people or you’re launching a tiny startup on a shoestring – leadership comes with a heightened set of pressures and responsibilities … If you’re invested in the work, you’re going to experience some anxiety.”

On our latest podcast episode, I had a fantastic conversation with Jessica Grose, an opinion writer for The New York Times.

Pursuing new opportunities can be exciting and daunting, especially in our careers. It’s normal to feel anxious about the unknown and the pressure to succeed but how do we make sure this doesn’t stop us from achieving all that we’ve set out to?

In the most recent article in Harvard Business Review I talk about how many anxious achievers push themselves to the point of overwork in an effort to achieve impossible standards.

Morra on Investors Business Daily speaking about keeping your confidence high!

It's easier to feel confident when little is on the line. But confidence is critical when stakes are high — so it's worth knowing how to silence self-doubt before you're put to the test.

Why is there a shortage of stimulant medication in the U.S, and what does this tell us about our broken mental health care system?

This is a fascinating topic -- and one that has huge implications for people who take medications like Ritalin and Adderall to treat ADHD or other conditions. My guest Lindsay Scola offers her perspective; she needs Adderall to treat narcolepsy, and finding it has been a nightmare.

Today Chip Conley, entrepreneur and NYT bestselling author, and me offer tips on how to manage a manager who makes you anxious.

Morra is featured on The Wall Street Journal! She speaks about how to set boundaries on what you share with your co-workers.

The pandemic made many of us more comfortable talking about our mental health at work, surveys show. Feeling less pressure to act like we’ve got it all together, some people now swap struggles with burnout and impostor syndrome almost as freely as they talk about sore joints after a weekend 5k.

Morra on Fortune.com recently spoke with Diane Patrick about mental health in the workplace.

So what’s driving your perfectionism? Is it about proving your worth to others? Is it about avoiding feelings of shame or judgment?

Turns out anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the world. But in our workplaces, anxiety has been a hidden problem—there in plain sight but ignored. Until now.

The state of our mental health has a profound impact on how we work and manage others.

Stress is an inevitable part of life, but it’s not always negative.

The business world has increasingly begun to recognize the importance of mental health, but we still have a long way to go in openly acknowledging our challenges with it.

My mother was here last week for my book launch. (Yes! My new book – The Anxious Achiever – an FT Book of the Month, no. 1 New Anxiety Release on Amazon and Next Big Idea Club Book of the Month is on sale now!) In earlier conversations, I told my mother it was a bad time for me but she came to visit anyway.  I really needed physical and emotional boundaries from her to focus on my work and my own complicated emotions about my work. But I did not set those boundaries. Despite years of therapy, I did not protect myself. I fell back into the co-dependent pattern of my childhood.

Do you ever find yourself struggling with worry and dread about everything that could go wrong?

If you're not anxious, are you really living? Digital consultant (and Lexington mom) Morra Aarons-Mele hosts “The Anxious Achiever“ leadership podcast, in which she slices into the gritty underbelly of what so many working parents face: a sense of imposter syndrome, of striving and wondering why, of nerves around finances (college, anyone?), and that endless slog toward contentment.