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This season on How's Work?, iconic couples therapist Esther Perel focuses on the hard conversations we're afraid to have in our jobs: Colleagues navigating the new etiquette of a work from home workforce. Newsrooms whose journalists feel that covering breaking news has broken them. A doctor who wants to walk away from his profession, during a pandemic. And lobbyists whose fight for racial equality ends up dividing them. Esther Perel brings a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through one-time therapy sessions with coworkers, cofounders, and colleagues—listen and learn as you hear your own workplace dilemmas play out in the lives of others.

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  1. 02/10/2025 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    He Gets The Respect, She Gets the Toilet Paper

    Married for ten years and co-owners of a gym for seven, they bring their home dynamic to the gym floor. Their employees are sick of the fights and the struggles for power and control, and so are they. Meanwhile, she also worries their roles at the gym have dividied along gender lines. This episode was originally released on July 27, 2021.

  2. 02/10/2025 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    You'd Be Perfect for Ralph Lauren

    They've spent their whole lives in a career that made promises it could not keep. They are fashion models, both scouted as teenagers. Now one fights to let go, the other to find a better way to stay. This episode was originally released on July 20, 2021.

  3. 01/07/2025 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    Race, Gender and Money

    Two lobbyists whose fight for racial equality ended up dividing them. With Esther they revisit the circumstances that lead to their decision to split up and confront the subjects at the center of it all: race, gender, and money. This episode was originally released on July 13, 2021.

  4. 28/05/2025 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    If I Just Quit, What Will People Say?

    He’s a doctor, she works for the government. Her job is one thing on paper, and another thing in secret. He wants to leave his job, but doesn’t know how. When their busy careers come crashing to a halt because of the pandemic, they face a new reality at home. Who gets to be the one to leave a job during uncertain times? And can they rely on their 19 year marriage for stability and support? This episode was originally released on July 6, 2021.

  5. 10/12/2024 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    Separated at Home But Still Together at Work

    Husband and wife who are co-owners of a winery and restaurant. He loves the colleage that she is at work, but he likes less the wife she is at home. As their marriage ends, they wonder if the future of their business depends on the future of their marriage.

  6. 09/12/2024 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    The Boss, The Client, and the Hairdresser

    They’ve been hairdressers for many years in a job that feels like a cross between salesperson and therapist. They vie for new clients and commissions while absorbing the anxieties, frustrations, and burdens of their regulars. How they each handle this balance is a study in contrasts.

  7. 08/12/2024 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    Stuck in a Job, for Years

    She’s been unhappy at her job for more than 20 years and doesn't know how to leave. Her sister, a successful entrepreneur, wants to help, but this only makes her feel less-than. Family tensions and resentments, both at home and at the office, keep her frozen in place. Esther walks the sisters through an exit plan.

  8. 07/12/2024 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    From Bartender to Business Partner

    She owns a successful restaurant. He was her bar manager for six years. Now they’re going into business together as co-owners of a taqueria. They turn to Esther for guidance on how to transition from employer-employee to partners in a new venture. But they walk away with a deeper understanding of the ways their different cultural backgrounds and previous working relationships influence their partnership.

  9. 05/12/2024 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    Laid Off and Starting Over

    A year ago they were suddenly let go from their jobs as leaders of a creative team. Now they're starting a new company together. But to build over the scar tissue and begin again, they must first let go of the painful ending that came before.

  10. 04/12/2024 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    Not Many Men Work For Their Moms

    She started a real estate company 30 years ago. Her son, who calls himself a Mama’s Boy, recently joined the business. They think their close mother-son relationship hurts the brand. With Esther’s help, they start to explore the many gender and familial biases at play...both in the office and around the family dinner table.

  11. 03/12/2024 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    Sex Work: An Unofficial Resume

    Friends and fellow dancers at a strip club: one brings years of experience, the other a youthful energy that turns angry at times. They’re here to talk about boundaries that are crossed, educating “civilians" about their work, family acceptance, and how they'll transition from the sex work industry into professional careers. Can sex work be a bullet point on a resume?

  12. 02/12/2024 • Hanya untuk Pelanggan

    The Break-Up

    They flew fighter jets together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then they co-founded a successful business. Now, for the first time in their adult lives, they’re ready to part ways professionally, but they don’t know what their lives would look like without their "brother of choice." Side-by-side on Esther's couch, they talk about letting go of the fierce loyalty bonds forged in the cockpit.

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This season on How's Work?, iconic couples therapist Esther Perel focuses on the hard conversations we're afraid to have in our jobs: Colleagues navigating the new etiquette of a work from home workforce. Newsrooms whose journalists feel that covering breaking news has broken them. A doctor who wants to walk away from his profession, during a pandemic. And lobbyists whose fight for racial equality ends up dividing them. Esther Perel brings a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through one-time therapy sessions with coworkers, cofounders, and colleagues—listen and learn as you hear your own workplace dilemmas play out in the lives of others.

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