Mita Mallick

I think have the conversation with the people you trust around you.

Particularly, ambiguity and stress right now is constant.

I grew up in a time in corporate America where leaders were supposed to have all the answers.

It's like that pyramid.

I'm at top, and here's everyone else, and I know everything.

Those days are long gone.

And if you can't show some level of vulnerability at work, I'm struggling with this.

This is also stressing me out.

I need help with this.

What do you think about this?

And people will say to me, well,

I'm not interested in having a therapy session.

I'm not telling you to get into long therapy session conversations at work or trauma dump.

I'm just saying, if you said, you know, yeah, the tariffs are really stressful.

We're going to figure this out together.

This is what we know now.

And this is what we don't know.

This is what we can control.

How much better does that sound that your leader just is saying that out loud versus just sweeping it under the rug?

God, what you're talking about is like the get out of jail free card, the weaponizing vulnerability.