562: Overcome Work-related Anxiety with Morra Aarons-Mele
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Work can be one of the greatest sources of meaning and purpose in life; but it can also be a huge source of chronic stress and anxiety. Perhaps you’re tasked with more responsibilities than one person can feasibly manage; maybe you work with a toxic boss
or colleague; or maybe your role just feels soul-sucking and the worry that this is it looms heavy on your mind. My guest on this week’s podcast will help you combat workplace anxiety.
Listen and learn:
- How to overcome anxiety by doing an “Is it worth it?” assessment
- Why pace/place/space is crucial to peace of mind
- How to balance working at home with our need for social connection
- About introversion vs. insecurity vs. social anxiety
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Morra is a podcaster and author of the books, Hiding in the Bathroom, and the newly released, The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower.
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| 0:00.0 | Our work life has the potential to be an area of deep meaning and challenge and growth |
| 0:06.6 | even social connection. For a lot of us, work also becomes a source of anxiety. It can be |
| 0:12.5 | anxiety from an overwhelming amount of responsibilities, from tight deadlines, from a difficult boss. |
| 0:18.4 | Sometimes there's anxiety from working from home attempting to self-structure your day. |
| 0:23.2 | There are periods of course where your anxiety is real and necessary. Maybe your job or your |
| 0:28.7 | industry are at risk. The majority of time, however, it's invented. It's in our head. |
| 0:33.8 | But knowing this doesn't necessarily make it any easier to overcome your workplace anxiety. |
| 0:38.6 | So how do you do it? How do you get better? How do you reduce or at least tame your workplace |
| 0:44.1 | anxiety? That's the topic of this week's podcast. If you are new here, it's Lucas Rockwood |
| 0:49.1 | show. I'm a yoga teacher and a trainer. I'm a serial entrepreneur and the father of three kids. |
| 0:53.6 | Firstly, I'm a student. I like to learn things. So I go into the world and find people. |
| 0:58.8 | Writing books and authors, experts, medical doctors, yoga teachers, everyone in between, |
| 1:03.2 | and try to bring their best work here on the show so we can live more educated and inspired |
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| 1:22.3 | with my teaching calendar, my travels, publishing schedule, you can find all of that at |
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| 1:33.2 | questions for the show, direct message me on Instagram. I'm at Lucas Rockwood. |
| 1:39.8 | Welcome everyone. Today's show is called Overcome Anxiety at Work. And I'm joined here with |
| 1:44.3 | Mora Aaron's Milley. Mora is a podcaster and author of a couple of books hiding in the bathroom |
| 1:49.3 | and the newly released The Anxious Achiever. Turn your biggest fears into your leadership |
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