How To Stop Finding Your Self-worth Through Your Job (w/ Gloria Chan Packer)
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus episode from our friends at the How To Be A Better Human podcast: For some of us it's easy to lose ourselves in our work. But a lack of boundaries between your personal and work life is something mental wellness educator Gloria Chan Packer would warn you twice about. Gloria speaks about the perils of gaining your sense of self-worth from your job, discusses her experience with burnout and stress and shares empowering insights on how to shift our perspectives to create – and maintain – a healthy distance. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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| 0:34.5 | from our friends at the How to Be a Better Human podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | If you found yourself checking your emails at the barbecue today, you'll want to keep listening |
| 0:42.2 | because host Chris Duffy brings on mental wellness educator Gloria Chan Packer, who has |
| 0:47.2 | some wonderful advice for finding your worth outside of work. I'm going to hand the mic over to Chris |
| 0:53.2 | now and we'll see you back here next week |
| 0:56.0 | for a new episode of How to. |
| 1:02.5 | You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm your host, Chris Duffy. |
| 1:08.5 | I started struggling with debilitating chronic migraines that for me meant that after months of no change and no medication or treatment working, I knew I had to take at least a leave from work. |
| 1:23.1 | And that was devastating for me because work had really become my everything. |
| 1:27.6 | Gloria Chan Packer is a management consultant, but not just any consultant. |
| 1:31.5 | She was and is one of the best in the world. |
| 1:34.1 | She was working with people at corporations all across the globe. |
| 1:37.5 | But when illness forced her to suddenly take a step back from her job, it felt like she was |
| 1:41.9 | losing herself. |
| 1:43.5 | There is a memory that haunts me from that time. It was like she was losing herself. There is a memory that haunts me from that |
| 1:46.1 | time. It was the night before I was about to go and leave. And I was just grabbing dinner with a |
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