Colleen Pelly: Mental Health In The Workplace
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, the Lautners sit down with Colleen Pelly, founder of The Linchpin Co., a company focused on building healthier, more human-centered workplaces! Colleen brings a wealth of insight on the intersection of mental health and the work environment, drawing from her experience as a small business owner, mental health advocate, and mom navigating postpartum life. She dives into what’s broken in the way most companies approach mental well-being, why burnout and disengagement are at an all-time high, and the common misconceptions organizations have when trying to support employee mental health. Colleen shares her perspective on psychological safety, what it really means, and how leaders can begin to foster it within their teams, as well as how redefining your strengths can help you thrive both at work and at home. She opens up about the tools and daily habits that keep her grounded, the importance of boundaries in a world where we’re constantly reachable, and how small, intentional moments can make a lasting impact.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | You know what we need for you? |
| 0:04.2 | What? We need to put a severance chip. Oh my gosh. So, hey, your work day's over. Okay. Boobo. Burnout and disengagement are at all time high. A lot of companies see mental health has like a checklist item. If we make a post during mental health awareness month, we offer yoga. Then we're great. We've created this ability to be reachable all the time. |
| 0:02.5 | There's almost like an expectation that responsiveness is like rewarded. There's some companies where people try to like set those boundaries and then it's like, well, Colleen responded to me at 10 p.m. So I'm going to promote her. An email can wait a day. Yeah. Like no's going to die if I don't get an offer letter out. |
| 0:38.2 | That's something I've actually had to work on because I'm so used to... |
| 0:41.3 | That's what I was going to say. You're a perform. |
| 0:43.7 | Like, you want to perform. You want to do the best you can. |
| 0:47.4 | We're all replaceable, and no one really cares. |
| 0:49.7 | Toughen up buttercup. |
| 0:50.8 | Like... enough buttercup. |
| 1:08.4 | Hello, lemon drops. Welcome back to another episode of The Squeeze. We are so excited for this |
| 1:13.0 | episode because we're about to dive into all things mental health and the workspace. |
| 1:18.1 | And if you guys know my story at all, you know that mental health in the workspace is a big |
| 1:22.9 | part of my story. For those of you who don't know, I worked as a COVID nurse. |
| 1:29.0 | And we were not really provided any form of mental health care as we were working as COVID nurses, which then, |
| 1:33.6 | as a result, led to lots of burnout, PTSD, and all of the above. So that's why I'm so excited |
| 1:40.8 | about this episode, and I think whatever your job is, I think there's |
| 1:45.2 | going to be something for you to relate to whether you're a president of a company or |
| 1:50.5 | you're a new employee somewhere. There's really going to be something that can help you wherever |
| 1:54.4 | you're at. We're going to talk about lessons that can be learned from layoffs, finding |
| 1:58.5 | balance that can prevent burnout, which is something that I really needed to know, psychological safety in the workplace, redefining your strengths |
| 2:05.8 | along with daily mental health tools, habits that are useful not only in the workspace, but more |
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