1142: How to Experience Less Stress and More Joy at Work with Amy Leneker

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Amy Leneker discusses how to spot and stop stress for more joyful days at work.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The top five barriers to joy at work

2) The three-step un-stressing method

3) The simple practice that leads to more joy

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— ABOUT AMY —

Amy Leneker is an optimistic, joy-seeking, recovering workaholic. She's also a leadership consultant who has helped over 100,000 leaders and teams – including those at Fortune 100 companies – lead with less stress and more joy. Her soul goal? To help one billion people do the same. With over 25 years of leadership experience – including a decade in the C-suite – Amy understands the soul-crushing toll of burnout because she's lived it. Twice. After surviving her own brush with burnout, Amy became determined to help others succeed without sacrificing their joy, their health, or their weekends. A first-generation college student, Amy earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees while working full-time and later raising a family. She has studied leadership at Yale, neuroscience at the NeuroLeadership Institute, and stress resilience at Harvard Medical School.

• Book: Cheers to Monday: The Surprisingly Simple Method to Lead and Live with Less Stress and More Joy

• Study: "The State of Stress & Joy at Work 2026"

• Website: AmyLeneker.com

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0:00.0	Stress thrives in isolation. Relief comes through connection. Joy is through connection.
0:16.1	So when in doubt, are you feeling connected to the workplace? Who do you feel connected to in the workplace?
0:22.2	Because they are going to be a shortcut to joy for you.
0:31.3	That's Amy Lennacher.
0:32.7	Amy spent over a decade in the C-suite where she suffered from many stress-induced panic attacks.
0:37.9	Having overcome these, she now helps professionals lead with less stress and more joy. And her latest work,
0:42.2	cheers to Monday. The surprisingly simple method to lead and live with less stress and more joy
0:46.1	does just that. So you'll learn one, the top five barriers to joy at work, two, the three-step
0:51.0	unstressing method, and three, the simple practice that leads to more joy.
0:55.3	And if you would like a summary write-up of the actionable wisdom that Amy shares, you can find
0:59.4	that with the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, sign up at awesome at your job.com.
1:04.1	I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job, and now here's Amy.
1:12.1	Amy, welcome. Thank you for having me. It's Amy. Amy, welcome.
1:13.6	Thank you for having me.
1:14.7	It's great to see you.
1:15.9	Well, I'm excited to talk about cheering Monday.
1:19.8	And first, let's hear about your personal story.
1:22.0	You mentioned your recovering workaholic, and you have, I don't know if it's a record,
1:27.4	but a striking number of panic attacks that occurred in a three-month window.
1:32.7	Can you tell us a little bit about this story?
1:34.3	I did. And thank you for asking because it was a horrible, horrible time of my life.
1:40.0	I wish that I could say that my burnout story was because I had an epiphany and decided to do something
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