#386 Josh Roberts: Why We're So Bored At Work

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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My guest today is Josh Roberts, author of Anxious Man and Generation Drift (Why We’re Up Career Creek and How to Paddle Home). He is a mental health writer, speaker and consultant; and cohost of the Voicemale podcast with Jamie Laing. He started his career as a Strategy Consultant at Deloitte, before moving into advertising. Three years ago, he experienced a rather intense mental breakdown which culminated in being diagnosed with a Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Inspired by comments and stories he received, he resolved to quit his job and devote my time to trying to help others through writing, broadcasting and public speaking on the topic of mental health. I really enjoyed this new book on careers, mental health, comparison, success and why so many of us are ‘drifters’. Hope you enjoy this conversation and definitely recommend grabbing a copy of the book!

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0:00.7	This episode of Control or Delete is sponsored by King Fischer, the company behind
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0:10.4	accessible for everyone. And who, by the way, doesn't love a pop down to B&Q? I definitely do.
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0:46.1	So if you're interested, go to careers.kingfischer.com today to find out more about their tech and
0:52.6	digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fischer for sponsoring this podcast.
0:58.1	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is the author Josh Roberts.
1:02.8	He's the author of Anxious Man and Generation Drift. Why were up Career Creek and how to
1:07.6	Paddle Home? That's the book we're talking about today on the podcast which I really enjoyed.
1:12.8	He's a mental health writer, speaker, and consultant, and the co-host of the voicemail podcast
1:18.1	with Jamie Lang. He started his career as a strategy consultant at Deloitte before moving into
1:23.8	advertising, which were, you know, in quote, good jobs. And then three years ago, he experienced a
1:29.9	rather intense mental breakdown which culminated in being diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.
1:36.3	He wrote about this really personally in Anxious Man, a really brilliantly brave and honest
1:41.2	look at what he went through. And inspired by all the comments and the stories he received,
1:46.0	he resolved to quit his job and devote more time to try and help others on the topic of mental
1:51.0	health through his writing, broadcasting, and public speaking. I've really enjoyed this new book by
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