What we've started seeing is, you know, in some of our smaller companies, people talk about their favorite therapist.

And people talk about what kind of problems that they want to go to the therapist with.

And managers saying, hey, like, you seem stressed like, do you maybe want to get hurt? with and I think that conversation for me, and I think that conversation for me, and I still can't say that conversation for me,

and I still can't say that I've seen an organization wide,

but that conversation for me is so key because as

somebody who manages people I know that you know when my engineers are feeling their best

they're actually putting out their best work and it's really not

about the hours they're putting in.

It's, you know, people call it the zone, people call it whatever they want, but it's so clear

to me that when they are at their mental best, they're also at their professional best.

Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers.

This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general,

and some of those could be sensitive for you.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also

respect and recognize your limitations so please use your best judgment.

I will never be offended if you need to skip a question

or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out,

check out the episode, and just see what happens.

If you need to skip, that's okay.

But, you know, feel free to give it a

shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your

psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct

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