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From The Anxious Achiever, the book and podcast:

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Dan Ariely On How To Cultivate Resilience In A Tough Job Market

Resilience has become a buzzword, but what does it actually mean? What does it look like in practice? How do you build it? Renowned behavioral scientist Dan Ariely offers valuable insights into the nature of resilience and practical ways to cultivate it, particularly in the context of job hunting and career setbacks.

My 5 Strategies For Better Mental Health At Work

This week: My five strategies for improving mental health at work, based on my latest article for Harvard Business Review. If you're working on implementing workplace mental health programs, let me know what you think.

Killing It at Work But Still Worried? You Might Be an ‘Anxious Overachiever.’

Morra interviewed by Bloomberg to discuss how corporate cultures exacerbate employee anxiety to an unhealthy degree and how quitting isn’t always the answer.

SHRM: Meeting Mental Health Needs Across Generations

Morra interviewed by SHRM to discuss Meeting Mental Health Needs Across Generations.

Morra featured by IMD Business School Magazine

Morra and Alyson sit down and discuss how anxiety often gets a bad rap. Yet for millennia, it has arguably helped keep us alive. It can also be a huge motivating factor that pushes us to excel. For this reason, many high achievers are known to experience anxiety

Anxious Achiever is #3 in Next Big Idea Club’s top 23 leadership books of 2023

The rankings are based on the most popular “Book Bite” audio summaries in the Next Big Idea App. In other words, they are 2023’s best leadership books, according to our tens of thousands of app users.

Are You An Anxious Achiever? Turn Your Fears Into Your Standout Strength

Morra recently sat down with Kathy Caprino on LinkedIn talking about Anxiety at the workplace as part of Kathy’s series “Becoming The Most Powerful and Confident You.”

When Bringing Your ‘Whole Self’ to Work Is Too Much.

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.

Perfectionism holding you back? 3 ways to shift the habit

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

How to Respond When an Employee Shares a Mental Health Challenge

Morra is highlighted in Harvard Business Review and talks about what should you do if your employee comes to you with a mental health challenge?

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How to Release Some Control.

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

How I Built Resilience: Morra Aarons-Mele of Women Online

Morra speaks with Guy Raz from NPR’s How I Build This. On his podcast they talk about how to build resilience into your business during this very challenging year.

Working It — Managing introverts: quiet voices in a loud world. Full Podcast

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel — Talking about anxiety. Full Podcast

HBR IdeaCast — Managing Your Anxiety Can Make You a Better Leader. Full Podcast

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Let’s Not Make Peri/Menopause An “Unsayable.”

Your boss might be a menopausal woman. And she might want to talk about it. Nearly every woman of an age I ask is dying to talk about how their changing hormones affect their work lives… and yet it's something we rarely do in the open. It can feel like an "unsayable."

Is Anxiety Turning You Into A Less Empathetic Manager?

Anxiety can get in the way of our efforts to be the empathetic, thoughtful leaders we want to be. When we're in an anxious state, it's really tough to take a beat, explore the feeling, and react with empathy to another person. We can get impulsive; we worry about getting to the next thing because our threat response is up. We talk too much or over-explain or micromanage. It happens to the best of us.

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My 5 Strategies For Better Mental Health At Work

HBR: Navigating Mental Health in a Multigenerational Workplace

Today’s workers increasingly expect their employer to play a role in improving mental health. But with five different generations coming together in the workplace, who were all raised with different expectations about how to talk about mental health challenges at work, it’s no wonder that it’s a tricky topic for managers to navigate.

How High Achievers Overcome Their Anxiety

Morra is featured in Harvard Business Reviews magazine and explains the 11 most common thought traps—all-or-nothing thinking, labeling, jumping to conclusions, catastrophizing, filtering, discounting the positive, “should” statements, social comparison, personalization and blaming, ruminating, and emotional reasoning—and recommends strategies for overcoming all of them.

Leading Through Anxiety

Morra writes about inspiring others when you’re struggling yourself. You can read the article on The Harvard Business Review website.

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Additional Media Coverage

CNBC — Mental health author shares her 3 best ways to turn anxiety into career success: ‘I had to learn to work differently’. Read More

Forbes — How Courageous Employees And Leaders Can Put Anxiety To Good Use. Read More
Forbes — Turning Anxiety Into Your Leadership Superpower. Read More
SHRM All Things Work newsletter — “How Does Work Change Mental Health?” Read More

CNBC — Perfectionism can be your biggest enemy—but it's simple to fix, says mental health author. Read More
Financial Times — What to Read this Month; link Read More
Fast Company — How to partner with your anxiety, rather than letting it make you miserable; link Read More
Fortune – “Well” bylined feature ‘It doesn’t have to be this hard.’ Diane Patrick talks about her struggle with anxiety. Read More
INC.COM — Team Building Books That Will Help Your Leadership Be More Resilient (John Hall). Read More
Harvard Business Review — How High Achievers Overcome Their Anxiety. Read More
SALON.com — Working hard, but never enough: How to tell if you're an "anxious achiever" (arranged intv w/MaryElizabeth Williams). Read More
Well+Good — 5 Common Thought Traps That Keep You Stuck in Anxiety—And How to Escape Each One. Read More
Boston Globe — Are you an anxious achiever? A new book gives voice to this inner turmoil ... and tells us how to abandon it. Read More
Investor’s Business Daily — How To Keep Your Confidence Up When The Stakes Are High. Read More
Quartz — Your anxiety brings 4 distinct superpowers. Read More

Quartz — Anxiety has increased since 2022: How to make friends with it. Read More
HR Magazine (UK) – May issue roundup “Best of HR Books”. Read More
LinkedIn News UK — Book of the week: The Anxious Achiever by Morra Aarons-Mele – Laurie Ruettimann. Read More
VeryWell Health — What’s The Difference Between Good Stress and Bad Stress? Read More

TED Ideas — Perfectionism holding you back? 3 ways to shift the habit. Read More
CHIEF ‘Chief in Brief’ — “It's Not a Crutch. How to Transform Your Anxiety Into a Leadership Superpower” Read More
Next Big Idea Club — The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower. Read More
The HBR Big Idea — Leading Through Anxiety. Read More
TED Business — 6 Tips to Help You Manage Your Anxiety When Working From Home. Read More
Knowledge@Wharton — Tackling Entrepreneurship Myths. Read More
The New York Times — An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving on the Job. Read More
Entrepreneur — The Hermit Entrepreneur’s Toolkit. Read More
Thrive Global — My Life as an Unhappy Overachiever book excerpt. Read More
The New York Times — How to Be Better at Parties. Read More
Wall St. Journal — Why We Need to Tell Different Stories About Entrepreneurs essay. Read More
The New York Times’ Workologist — ""How Many Work Friends Do You Really Need?” Read More
Harvard Business Review — The Dangerous Rise of Entrepreneurship Porn. Read More
InStyle — On Beauty, Work, and Botox. Read More
WSJ Moneyish — Why It’s Ok to Feel Unworthy On Graduation Day. Read More
Wall St Journal — Read about Morra's unique approach to her business. Read More
Wall St Journal — See Morra's take on being a working mom and entrepreneur. Read More
KTLA — Watch me on KTLA discussing anxiety at work.
Oprah.com — Read how Morra keeps anxiety at bay. Read More
Fast Company — Read an excerpt from Hiding in the Bathroom. Read More.
Quartz — Why Open Plan Offices Don’t Work. Read More
Health Magazine — 9 Tips for Managing Your Anxiety at Work. Read More
Harvard — “Bloggers: Citizen Journalists or Entrepreneurs?" by Howard Gardner and Project Zero. Read More