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January 2025

Do Workers Want a Workplace Glow-Up?
As American workers return to in-person work, what are they hoping to find in their offices, warehouses, and work floors? Here's an intergenerational…
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Craig Mattson
There's a reason this job feels pointless
By most measures in today's economy, most people's jobs are eminently ignorable. Here's why accepting that reality can bring you wellbeing and even a…
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Craig Mattson
We Traced the Call. It's Coming from Inside Your Head...
A podcast about the stories that shape your professional life and why they so often originate in your own all-too-busy brain.
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Craig Mattson
Emotional Disengagement at Work Only Sort of Makes Sense
Many workers use apathy as a coping mechanism for a boring or pointless but needed job. Here's how to stay human at work--and how to help your team do…
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Craig Mattson
My Severed Self Reacts to Season Two
How do we repair our divided souls when institutions fracture them? Sign up below to see my review of Severance 2, Ep 1
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You are wired to mentor at work
Your nearest mentor is closer than you know. The mentor nearest you may actually be--you. Here's a podcast about "lateral mentoring" in org community.
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Craig Mattson
What to do about interruptions at work
Your job's so full of digital and relational NOISE, shouldn't 2025 be the year you finally learn to reject interruptions to your tasks? I don't think…
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December 2024

Feeling Meh about Lunch Today?
A work-culture convo w/ Matthew Halteman on lunching beautifully & imperfectly. We think it's ok to eat your feelings at work, if those feelings are as…
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Craig Mattson
You don't trust anyone at work?
Feeling cynical about your dismissive manager? Feeling skeptical about work-avoidant coworkers? Sounds familiar. But here's why we HAVE to take time and…
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Just in Case: A Workplace Legal Episode
Say you're harassed at work. Who do you talk to first--your HR manager or a workplace attorney? Press play on this week's podcast to find out.
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