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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 15.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This is a classic session of How's Work? A large and scattered network of journalists meet for a virtual session with Esther. Over the past year, they've reported on the biggest stories of their careers, but they are burned out, isolated, grieving, and disconnected from the very thing that supports and energizes them all: their newsroom. Over the last few years, workplace culture has been transformed by remote work, inconsistent in-office presence, and an intergenerational workforce. Where Should We Begin? At Work is a new game designed to transform your work culture – one story and one relationship at a time. Brought to you by Esther Perel and Culture Amp, this isn’t your typical icebreaker. It’s a new data-backed game that will help you create community at work. Details at https://game.estherperel.com/products/where-should-we-begin-at-work Want to learn more? Receive monthly insights, musings, and recommendations to improve your relational intelligence via email from Esther: https://www.estherperel.com/newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What you are about to hear is a classic session of How's Work with Esther Perel.
0:06.0	Howe's work is a one-time unscripted counseling session focused on work.
0:11.0	For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality,
0:14.0	names, employers, and other identifiable characteristics have been removed,
0:19.0	but their voices and their stories are real.
0:27.6	For so long, relationships in the workplace were considered soft skills, highly idealized in principle, but then disregarded in reality.
0:39.3	And a major shift is taking place in the workplace now, where relational intelligence is on the forefront.
0:47.3	It is not the soft skills, it's the hard skills.
0:50.3	So in my work, studying relationships in the workplace, I found that there were four pillars that are foundational.
0:58.0	Trust, belonging, recognition and collective resilience.
1:04.0	With trust, I mean, do you have my back?
1:07.0	Can I rely on you? Can I disagree with you without having to face the consequences?
1:12.4	Are you here for me?
1:13.6	Trust.
1:15.1	Belonging.
1:15.9	Am I a part of this system?
1:17.9	Am I taken into account even when I'm not here?
1:20.6	Am I seen?
1:22.2	Recognition is am I valued?
1:24.8	Am I contributions valued?
1:27.8	And collective resilience, which I think is really the significant one,
1:31.2	especially for this episode, is when there is a crisis,
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