I can promise you that you will experience a 7x increase in your employee engagement

when one person on your team has one person that they would call a work best friend.

Why would you trust a coworker much less to have a best friend at work?

So there's some really interesting research around the impact of relationships.

People that had good friends that they knew after they experienced conflict.

Their bodies produced markedly less cortisol just by knowing I'm going to have people I can talk to about this.

She's challenged the status quo, built a mission-driven company, and written the

playbook for purposeful living. Liz Bohannon, founder of Seiko Designs and author of Beginners

Pluck, isn't just building businesses, she's building bold leaders. I take more risks because I'm

more willing to fail because I know I have like this safety net backup. Of course, I still feel shame and I still feel disappointment.

Burnout is when we don't have anywhere to go with those feelings because I don't know if I

should say this on the internet. All right, Liz, one word, only one word. You can change you

five minutes from now, so no pressure.

Okay.

One word to describe you as a professional right now.

Plucky.

Plucky. Tell me more.

Pluck. It means spirited and determined courage.

And I think one thing that I bring into a space is an innate belief that things are figure outable,

that we have agency that many of us don't think that we have, and that building cool stuff with

cool people is a beautiful way to live life.

Did you come by that term early, or is this a relatively new word?

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