1016: Untangling Identity from Your Work to Rediscover Yourself with Dr. Janna Koretz
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Janna Koretz reveals the pitfalls of letting your job become your identity and what to do about it.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why career enmeshment harms mental health
2) The power of protected thinking time
3) The root cause of workaholism–and how to cure it
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— ABOUT JANNA —
Dr. Janna Koretz is the founder of Azimuth, a therapy practice specializing in the mental health challenges of individuals in high-pressure careers. She has spent over a decade helping her clients face and overcome their mental health issues by developing a unique understanding of industry-specific nuances in fields like law, consulting, finance, and technology.
Dr. Koretz has been featured in many publications, including Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal, focusing on the importance of recognizing career/identity enmeshment. She also writes and speaks on the challenges of discovering and living your personal values.
In addition to therapy, Azimuth provides a set of free online tools that have helped tens of thousands of people, including the Burnout Calculator, Career Enmeshment Test, and Values Navigator. The practice is also developing a values-based journaling iOS app, set to launch later this year, based on the popularity of its Values Navigator tool.
• Website: AzimuthPsych.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
• Past episode: 873: Dr. Steven Hayes on Building a More Resilient and Flexible Mind
• Study: The Stanford Prison Experiment
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| 0:00.0 | What is happiness? What is the expectation of happiness look like? Because it's not eradicating negativity or negative events. I mean, that's impossible. But it's how to manage that in a way that brings the most joy to your life and living well with all these |
| 0:22.1 | other things that are happening to you or with you. |
| 0:31.3 | That's Dr. Janakoritz. She's a licensed psychologist and founder of Asimuth, a therapy practice |
| 0:36.4 | that specializes in therapy |
| 0:37.7 | for professionals in high-pressure careers. She spent over a decade helping your clients face and |
| 0:42.4 | overcome their mental health issues by understanding the industry-specific nuances and feels like |
| 0:47.7 | law, consulting, finance, and technology. So you'll learn one, why career enmeshment harms mental |
| 0:53.2 | health. Two, the power of protected thinking time. |
| 0:56.9 | And three, the root cause of workaholism and how to cure it. |
| 1:00.9 | And if you want a quick summary write-up of these takeaways, |
| 1:02.9 | I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter, |
| 1:06.0 | found at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Pete McItis. |
| 1:09.2 | This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. |
| 1:10.6 | And now, here's Dr. Kourts. |
| 1:16.9 | Dr. Kortz, welcome. Thank you. So happy to be here. Well, I'm excited to be discussing these |
| 1:22.3 | very important matters. And I love it if you could kick us off with a particularly surprising or novel discovery you've made |
| 1:30.3 | about us folks in high-pressure careers and mental health things. |
| 1:35.6 | What's something you know that many of us don't? |
| 1:38.2 | Wow, there are so many to choose from. |
| 1:40.2 | Well, I think a lot of people on a smaller level don't realize how capable they are and how |
| 1:45.1 | resilient they are and how much they're doing despite all of the struggles that they have. |
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