Hello, world. Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 200. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents

to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Once a week, I interview

a well-known expert from the fields of personal development, education, career, and life planning,

and other disciplines who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners

along their journeys. Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Dr. Paul White.

Welcome, Paul. Thank you, Don. Glad to be here. Thank you, sir. It's nice to be with you again.

Dr. Paul White is a psychologist, speaker, and consultant who makes work relationships work.

Co-author of the five languages of appreciation in the workplace, rising above a toxic workplace,

and sink or swim, Dr. White's expertise has been cited in Bloomberg's Businessweek,

Entrepreneur.com, Fast Company, Foxbusiness.com, and U.S. News & World

Report, Yahoo Finance, and numerous other publications. His clients include Fortune 250 companies,

federal government agencies, international nonprofit organizations, numerous medical institutions,

and over 250 colleges and universities.

Paul, today's topic is how to survive a toxic workplace, which regrettably seems to be an

increasing problem out there in the world. Set the table for us and just define the topic so

listeners can get their head around it.

Sure.

So actually, the way this came about was, you know,

I've written with Dr. Gary Chapman, the author of Five Love Languages,

we wrote a book on the Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace.

And while going out and speaking and training on that,

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