Dr. Leah Weiss: ...how to address workplace mental health issues

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the mental health of people around the world, with surveys showing increased symptoms of anxiety and depression since it began. Experts say the mental health consequences of the pandemic are likely to linger for years.

Joining us on this episode is Stanford University Professor Dr. Leah Weiss, who is the co-founder of both the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Program and Skylyte, a venture-backed startup designed to address workplace mental health challenges. She’s also the author of the book, "How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.5	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	The pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the mental health of people around the world,
0:20.2	with surveys showing
0:21.2	increased symptoms of anxiety and depression since it began. And experts say the mental health
0:26.4	consequences of the pandemic are likely to linger for years. Joining us on this episode is Stanford
0:31.7	University professor Dr. Leah Weiss, who is the co-founder of both the Stanford Compassion
0:37.4	Cultivation Program and Skylight,
0:40.3	a venture-backed startup designed to address workplace mental health challenges.
0:45.5	She's also the author of the new book, How We Work, Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity,
0:51.5	and Embrace the Daily Grind.
0:54.0	Dr. Weiss, thank you so much for joining us.
0:56.3	Thanks for having me. Tell us more about what you have observed in terms of the pandemic's
1:02.8	impact on the mental health of the workforce. Yeah, there's so many ways that the pandemic has
1:09.3	influenced us. I think one of the key statistics is the millions of
1:15.7	women leaving the workforce in this country. We've also, as you already mentioned, seen a massive
1:21.5	increase in depression and anxiety. I was just reading an article quantifying depression rates at this time as threefold
1:30.7	what they were prior to the pandemic. And I think that anxiety understandably kicks up with a lack
1:39.1	of certainty and clarity about where we're headed. And of course, this new variant is, you know, is really
1:47.1	impacting people and kind of changing how we're thinking about what can we rely on. And then,
1:54.1	of course, the workforce, we are the same people, whether we're in our roles at work or whether we are thinking of
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