This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

If your vision of career success includes experiencing things like emotional wellness at work

and like long-term job satisfaction, a vital skill is learning how to deal

with difficult co-workers effectively.

On today's show,

we'll be discussing the different kinds

of tough cookies we can all encounter on the job,

as well as action strategies for handling all of them.

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super important topic that I know is near and dear to so many of your hearts because this is one of the key components to

true job satisfaction. It's often not the work itself. It is the interpersonal relationship

dynamics that we encounter on the job. And as you may know, if you've listened to this podcast

before, at my practice growing self, we often do career counseling, and certainly some of it is devoted to things like career exploration

and that what do I want to be when I grow up.

But because the career counselors on our team have a background as licensed therapists,

we're often doing work in the career domain that is much deeper than

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