Gemma Speck
speaker
6,373 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jun
Gemma Speck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You just need to signal to your brain, okay, like we are done with that for the day.
We are switching to this other area of our life.
our personal life.
And they sound really small and simple, but psychologically having that kind of physical boundary is important because the brain relies heavily on contextual cues to mode an identity switch.
Essentially, without a clear transition, your nervous system struggles to distinguish between work mode and personal life mode, especially when so many of us work from home or we just have to be digitally connected after hours.
There's been this research into role transition theory, especially around people who work in high pressure environments.
So think like emergency rooms, prisons, policing.
And it shows that having this kind of cue helps reduce emotional spillover because they have that cognitive separation between their professional identity and their personal identity.
You have to be consistent with it though.
Like it's not going to register if you don't make it a routine, but that is like one of the first easiest ways to separate work from home.
Number two, be careful of role enmeshment by making sure that you have things you genuinely care about and are working towards outside of work.
I think our 20s are when we are most at risk of our professional identity becoming our only identity because we're kind of like
fresh to this new environment.
We haven't really learned like the balancing act that people older than us have.
And I honestly think, well, I can say that like the beginning of nine to five life, it's very romantic.
It's really fun.
It's kind of like being in the startup from uni again, like you're friends with everybody, you're working hard, there's free snacks.
Like it's very easy to be like, this is great.
This is so fun.
This is so romantic.
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