How's Work?

Esther's Office Hours

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. 2 OCT • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    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.

    53 min

  2. 2 OCT • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    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.

    49 min

  3. 1 JUL • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    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.

    48 min

  4. 28 MAY • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    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.

    52 min

  5. 10/12/2024 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    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.

    47 min

  6. 09/12/2024 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    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.

    49 min

  7. 08/12/2024 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    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.

    55 min

  8. 07/12/2024 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    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.

    49 min
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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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