How to Handle Your Emotions at Work | Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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These seven rules illustrate a middle path between completely stifling your emotions and bringing your whole self to the office.
Liz Fosslien is an expert on emotions at work and is also on the leadership team at Atlassian's Team Anywhere and previously served as the head of content and communications at Humu. She has been featured by TED, The Economist, Good Morning America, The New York Times, and NPR.
Mollie West Duffy is also the head of Learning and Development at Lattice, and was previously an Organizational Design Lead at global innovation firm IDEO, and a research associate for the Dean of Harvard Business School. She has worked with companies of all sizes on organizational development, leadership development, and workplace culture.
Liz and Mollie are the co-authors of No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work and Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
In this episode we talk about:
- Why not acknowledging your emotions can lead to worse outcomes
- How to understand the data that comes from emotions
- The importance of psychological safety
- And how to recognize burnout before it's too late
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello, my fellow suffering beings. You know, we get a lot of very mixed messages about how to handle |
| 0:27.0 | emotions at work. Some people say emotions don't belong in the office at all. You should be |
| 0:31.6 | stoic and spotlight. Others say you should bring your whole self to work, whatever that means. |
| 0:38.1 | My guests today, however, have found a middle path. They point out and I agree with this. It seems |
| 0:43.6 | inarguable that it would be unwise and probably impossible to stifle your emotions at work, |
| 0:49.3 | but that you also don't want to be a dysregulated, sloppy, compulsive overshare. |
| 0:54.2 | Liz Fossiline and Molly West Duffy have come up with seven rules of emotion at work. |
| 1:00.3 | Liz and Molly are the co-authors of two books, No Hard Feelings, The Secret Power of Embracing |
| 1:06.5 | Emotions at Work, and then they followed that up with a book called Big Feelings. |
| 1:10.5 | Liz is an expert on emotions at work, and is also on the leadership team at Lassian's team |
| 1:16.9 | anywhere. Molly is the head of learning and development at lattice and previously worked at |
| 1:21.6 | IDO and Harvard Business School. This is, I should say, episode three of a four-part series. We're |
| 1:26.8 | doing called Sainly Ambitious. We're investigating how work life balance actually works. |
| 1:32.8 | Last week, we heard from Simone Stolzoff and Matthew Hepburn. In our final episode on Wednesday, |
| 1:38.6 | we're going to talk to Bruce Filer about redefining success. I should say at the end of this interview, |
| 1:44.2 | you're going to hear something new. My producer on this episode, the producer who's been working on |
| 1:48.4 | this whole series, Justine Davy, is going to pop on, and we're going to debrief after the episode. |
| 1:53.2 | This is a new segment we're going to experiment with in this season of experimentation that we've |
| 1:58.4 | entered on the show. And the idea is to give you a glimpse behind the scenes. Let us know what you |
| 2:02.4 | think of this new segment. Hit me up on Twitter or go through the website 10%.com. One final thing, |
| 2:07.9 | and this is unrelated. I do have a quick plug for a live event I'm doing coming up outside of Denver |
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