The anxious achiever is the podcast about your mental health and your work where

leaders from top companies, entrepreneurs, athletes, celebrities, and leading

experts share how they've managed through anxiety, depression, and other mental

health challenges and how they've become better leaders in the process. You'll

laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel seen, and you'll learn great tools and skills. And I

guarantee you're gonna look at leadership in a new way. Come find out why we won

the Mental Health America 2023 Media Award. Get the anxious achiever wherever

you find your podcasts. From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and

this is Hello Monday. Welcome back to the re-opening series. This week we're

on to our third of six big questions about what we want from work. This one's

super practical. Now that a lot of us are back in person, at least sometimes, how

do we talk to our colleagues again? I don't think it's possible to overestimate

how challenging it's gonna be to figure out a new office culture. We didn't

leave offices. Offices left us. They were for a time a dangerous idea, gathering

in any way was. And beyond quarantine itself, our grief and loss wasn't only

focused on COVID-19. We felt it in the loss of Black Lives to police

violence. And through all of that, we also, some of us, we started new jobs and

welcomed new colleagues. It was all just so much. So how do you make small talk

after that? I called the very best person I could think of to advise us on this

Asterra Perrell. Asterra is a couples therapist, an expert on relationships and

relating. Perhaps you've heard our podcasts where should we begin and house

work? Well, today is really all about workplace relationships. Here's Asterra.

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