The Anxious Achiever
Episodes
Goop’s Chief Content Officer on Balancing Self-Care at Work
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like to lead a team when optimizing self-care and emotional wellness is the point of their work? Goop, a company founded by actress Gwynet...
How Vulnerability Can Be a Leadership Superpower
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Rosario discusses his own journey with depression and anxiety, and the lessons he’s learned about vulnerability, masculinity, and leadership. ...
Leading Through Grief in Life and Work
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout our lives, we will all experience grief in one form or another. It can also translate into depression, anxiety, and other emotional strain....
Wading Through the Imperfect Mess of Parenthood
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with organizational psychologist Stew Friedman and tech entrepreneur Sehreen Noor Ali about the ways pa...
Freelancing, Self-Employment, and Mental Health
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Working for yourself – and working outside an office – can have a lot of benefits for people struggling with mental health issues, including flexi...
Gabrielle Union on Toxic Workplaces, PTSD, and Social Anxiety
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With great success can come even greater stress and anxiety. But Gabrielle Union is using her success to stand up for her truth. A sexual assault surv...
Managing the Stress and Uncertainty of Coronavirus
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The rapid onset of the coronavirus is changing our work – and our lives. For those who own businesses or work in the gig economy, the stress and fin...
Strategies for Managing Day-to-Day Anxiety
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anxiety can affect so many aspects of our work – from how we make decisions to how we receive feedback and behave in meetings. In the final episode ...
Designing the Mentally Healthy Workplace
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In earlier episodes of this show, we’ve talked about how to open a dialogue about mental health and work, and how both employees and leaders can nav...
Mental Health in the Office: Difficult Conversations
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How should you approach difficult conversations about mental health with your colleagues and boss? In this episode, host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with...
Building Mental Resilience While Building a Business
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anxiety shows up in all kinds of business situations — especially when you’re starting your own company. In this episode, host Morra Aarons-Mele s...
Tackling Leadership Struggles, Burnout, and Performance Anxiety
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leading a group of people can produce chronic anxiety, but many leaders who suffer from anxiety don’t even realize it. In today's episode we explore...
What No One Tells You: The Emotional Strain of Startup Life
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We hear the stories of successful Silicon Valley startups all the time. But entrepreneurship can also have a dark side, especially when it involves go...
Battling Depression from the C-Suite
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For most of his life, Paul Greenberg suffered from severe depression -- depression so bad that he had near constant thoughts of suicide from the age o...
Managing Career Transitions Part 2: Taking A Break
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many people in the business world find their success by always being “on.” They wake up at 4 a.m., answer emails 24 hours a day, and don't take va...
Managing Career Transitions Part 1: Facing Childhood Demons
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you’re getting fired, taking a promotion, or leaving a job you love, career transitions are a time of anxiety. In the next two episodes, we’...
How We Cope: Food and Eating Disorders at Work
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Work is a part of our daily lives — as is food. Disordered eating and diagnosed eating disorders can be tricky to deal with at the office, but they ...
How the Mental Affects the Physical
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anxiety and stress can have detrimental effects on your physical health — which can affect your job and your career path. In this episode, host Morr...
The Anxiety of Being the “Only”
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Being the "only" in the workplace -- the only woman, the only person of color, the only one openly suffering from a mental or physical illness -- can ...
Social Anxiety and Success
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're often told that to succeed in the workplace, you need to bring your A game, play office politics, and network nonstop. But how do you do that wh...
Your Mental Health and Your Work
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when we bring so much of ourselves to work, mental health is still something we don’t like talking about at the office. But so many high-a...
Introducing The Anxious Achiever
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Now from LinkedIn Presents: a show about mental health in the workplace. We explore the ways anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues affec...