Welcome to Untangle. I'm Patricia Carpice. In today's Throwback Thursday Encore episode,

our guest is Leah Weiss. She is a PhD, MSW, researcher, lecturer,

lecturer, consultant, and author of the book, How We Work, Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your

Sanity, and Em and embrace the daily grind.

Leah is also the co-founder of a company focused on workplace health called Skylight.

She's best known for her teaching at Stanford's graduate school business and her groundbreaking

work with Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived originally by the Dalai Lama.

She's an expert in workplace anxiety, burnout, and resilience,

and offers a multitude of ways to support our mental health.

Leah shares several practical tools for finding our purpose

and aligning our goals and values so that we can live our best life.

Now, here's Leah.

Leah, it's so great to have you on Untangle today. Thanks for being with us.

Thank you for inviting me. I've been looking forward to it.

So you've written a book called How We Work, And of late, I've been thinking so much about how

work is changing for all of us. And it includes how we work at home or out in the world. And I'm so

curious what your thoughts are on how COVID has changed the way we work and what you think

some of those changes are in the short term versus the long term. Are you seeing any kind of a

vision of change in the future? Yeah, it's such a great question. And immediately, some of the challenges jumped to mind,

but I also like the idea that we might explore some of the opportunities for innovation as we go.

I think in terms of what people are navigating, we were already in a context before COVID,

where burnout was on the rise, two and three employees experiencing

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