Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency in space to simplify

and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends.

I am super excited about today's guest.

Stella Grzant has a master's in happiness, also known as Applied Positive Psychology,

and a new book called The Work Happiness Method, Master

the Eight Skills to Career Fulfillment. In her book, Stella notes that according to Gallup,

77% of employees around the world feel unengaged and checked out. Yikes. But people do want

more than just a paycheck, for example, purpose, passion, joy. So how do we get there?

I'm so excited about this conversation with Stella for many reasons. Among them, a number of people

chimed in on the Edit Your Life survey that they need help finding joy and purpose at work.

Indeed, one person made the request. Help me figure out how to be a

person, not a robot at work. And also because Stella's framework is around inner skills, which are

directly connected to our agency and life. And you all know how much I love personal agency and finding

the small ways to ignite big change in life. Welcome,

Stella. I am so excited for you to be here today. Oh, I am super excited. Thank you so much for having me.

Oh, well, welcome, welcome. And I have a lot of questions for you. So I'm just going to dive right in.

Great. And I want to start with inner skills, which I just referenced in the intro.

Can you share what they are and why they matter, especially in this age of automation and

AI, and also given that one's ability to fortify those inner skills can impact the perspective

of whether a new job might solve your

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