Where Work Meets Life™ with Dr. Laura Dr. Laura
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Bringing you timely insights and inspiration from experts at the intersection of work and life. Topics include workplace, wellness, career, and advocacy.
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Overcoming Challenges to Fulfill Your Dreams: A Conversation with Servant & Superstar, George Canyon
In this episode, Dr. Laura branches away from the specific subject of career fulfillment and speaks with her guest, country music star George Canyon, about spirituality and servanthood. George Canyon has recently released his memoir, My Country, and the book reveals the challenges and adventures he’s faced, his determination to help others dealing with Type One diabetes, and the faith that keeps him going.
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The 4-Day Workweek: The Future or a Fad?
Dr. Laura welcomes Joe O’Connor, co-founder of the Work Time Reduction Center of Excellence, to the show to continue exploring the topic of the 4-day workweek. Joe originally served as CEO of 4 Day Week Global, the company co-founded by the last episode’s guest, Andrew Barnes. Joe and Dr. Laura explore the 4-Day workweek in great detail, examining both myths and truths about the four-day week and looking at the future of this global movement.
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The Four Day Week: A Panacea for Productivity?
Dr. Laura welcomes author, entrepreneur, and pioneer of the 4 day week movement, Andrew Barnes, to the show to examine the benefits of his innovative 4 day work week movement. Andrew explains why he originally piloted a 4 day week and how that led to a global research program involving academics from leading universities. Would this benefit us? And in what ways would we realize that benefit?
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Growing Through Discomfort to Thrive in Work and Life
Dr. Laura talks with guest Sterling Hawkins, a keynote speaker and the author of “Hunting Discomfort”, about the possibilities inherent in working through our discomfort. Sterling shares a bit of his story, which started with amazing opportunities, and then plunged him into the depths of discomfort. He reveals how much he learned from that experience.
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Preventing Burnout In Our Lives
In a companion episode to Dr. Laura’s last episode on burnout (E73), she addresses what we need to know to identify and treat our burnout. Rather than talking to workplaces about how to prevent burnout in employees, this episode is all about us as individuals. What does burnout look like? What contributes to it? And what can we do about it? How do we help ourselves?
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Leveraging Life Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs
Dr. Laura welcomes Soren Kaplan, bestselling author, founder of Praxie.com, and Columnist for Inc. Magazine, to talk about his latest book, “Experiential Intelligence”. Soren talks about the impetus behind writing his book and defines Experiential Intelligence, or XQ, as a key factor in the road to success, alongside Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ).
Customer Reviews
Excellent host, great questions
Dr. Laura has a very elegant way to weave-in the right questions and identify key perspectives that we need to consider. Truly enjoyed my conversation with her on strategic resilience.
Insightful, Informative and Interesting!
Such a range of incredible guests. The sincere passion and excitement that Laura brings to these very timely and important topics makes listening a pleasure. It is always interesting and often shares insights I wouldn’t have realized on my own. 10/10 would recommend!
Humans who work - listen hear!
I adore hearing the voice of Dr. Laura and the insights of her wise guests regarding all things work. Thank you for speaking about the real deal in work and in life. It’s making the world better. 🙏🏼