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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Introducing Season 2 of How's Work?

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.716.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today we're sharing the first episode from season 2 of Esther's other podcast, How's Work? In it Esther focuses on the hard conversations we're afraid to have in our jobs, bringing a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through one-time therapy sessions with coworkers, cofounders, and colleagues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In where should we begin, I invite you to listen in on the struggles of other couples

0:10.9

and on the conversations that emerge between them so that you can have the conversations

0:16.2

that you want to have as well.

0:18.6

In how is work, we do the same.

0:21.3

We just move from the bedroom to the boardroom or to the office.

0:26.8

And we have these conversations at this moment that we really need to have in light of the

0:32.7

pandemic, of months of lockdown, of social and racial reckoning, with our co-founders,

0:40.1

with our colleagues, with our managers, with our partners with whom we work.

0:44.8

And every session of how is work, like every session of where should we begin, is a beginning

0:50.9

of these difficult conversations.

0:54.3

You can find more of us work right now, only unspotted by.

0:59.0

We'll be releasing episodes there every week.

1:15.7

How's work is an unscripted one-time counseling session focused on work.

1:21.6

For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality, names, employers, and other identifiable

1:26.7

characteristics have been removed.

1:29.5

But their voices and their stories are real.

1:44.8

I had an eight-year affair with my career.

1:47.6

It took a crisis for him to find out.

1:51.1

You've said before that sometimes the solution to our problems should be just to live better.

1:57.2

I'm not saying that.

2:01.4

I knew that I would slip and the truth would come out, so it was better that it came out

2:05.7

from me.

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