Listen now: WorkLife season 5

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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WorkLife with Adam Grant is back for a fifth season! Organizational psychologist Adam Grant knows that you spend a quarter of your life at work–and in this show, he talks to some of the world’s most unusual professionals to discover how we can actually enjoy all that time. From breaking down “The Great Resignation” to identifying the work culture that’s right for you, to learning the art of the pitch, this season is packed with actionable insights to help you make work not suck. To hear episodes right now, find and follow WorkLife with Adam Grant wherever you're listening to this.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Dr. Jen Gunter. I'm super excited to say that body stuff will be back on May 11th,
0:05.8	and we've got some amazing episodes to share with you. For now, though, I'm excited to share
0:11.1	that work life with Adam Grant, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, is back with a new
0:17.1	season coming out weekly. They've got tons of great conversations coming up, including Dolly Parton,
0:23.0	John Patiste, and Alex Honald, and many more episodes on the Science of Making Work,
0:29.6	Not Suck. Here's the trailer. Do here more, find and follow work life with Adam Grant wherever
0:36.5	you're listening to this. Hey, it's Adam Grant. I'm here to tell you that a new season of
0:42.8	work life, my podcast with TED, is out now. Let's face it, even the best workplaces have had
0:50.1	a rough couple of years. In the old days, you would just suck it up and do it. But work life has
0:55.6	always been about how to make work not suck. Today is officially my last day at the toxic corporate
1:02.8	job. There has never been a better time to rethink how we work, lead and live. Like no one's even
1:09.2	acknowledged that it's my last day. So, I'm a little confused.
1:21.2	Burnout, Zoom fatigue, loneliness, languishing, meh. These are all topics we've gotten a little
1:29.9	too familiar with. There are also issues we've touched on in past seasons of work life. As always,
1:36.3	our aim is to take a workplace issue you've read about or lived through and help you think about
1:41.0	it in new and creative ways. Take, for example, the so-called Great Resignation. Apparently,
1:49.2	everyone's quitting their jobs now, right? Once you've made that decision to leave, there's no
1:54.2	guidebook. And because it's secretive, there's a lot of people that you can't talk to about it.
1:59.6	But what if the Great Resignation is actually a huge opportunity? Call it the Great Retention.
2:07.1	You can spend a lot of time focused on the people who need a lot of help but are not pulling
2:12.4	their weight or you can have a chat with the people who are the strong performers and understand
2:18.0	their magic. Also this season, we've all heard a lot recently about how important it is to have
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