This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

Beck, soul-sucking jerk. Can't you just visualize him running through the mini mall in his underwear?

I can. And I hope for your sake that your job isn't quite that bad. But still, I thought that Beck's old 1994 anthem about like the worst job in the history of the world would be a nice kind of set up for our

conversation today because today we are going to be talking about a sad situation and

and sadly common situation which is what to do when you are stuck in a really toxic workplace environment.

You know, we spend a lot of time in our jobs, and it is sad but true that there are, just like

some families are really outrageously dysfunctional and traumatizing and damaging to the people who are existing in them.

There are also workplaces, boss employee relationships, corporate cultures that are just as toxic.

And they have a real impact on your mental health, the quality of your life,

the way you feel, and unfortunately the rest of your life a lot of time. And so, you know,

this is something that we hear a lot about here at Growing Self because, oh, wait a minute,

I should introduce myself, Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, counselor,

life coach, marriage counselor, clinical director of growing self counseling and coaching,

and host of the love, happiness, and success podcast. There, I did it. Now it's out of the way.

But anyway, in our practice, you know, we do a lot of career counseling, executive coaching,

in addition to our relationship work. And we hear a lot about what it feels like on the inside

of some of these workplaces, you know, and all occupations have different kinds of stress. You know, there is a unique

stress with running your own business or trying to get something off the ground or a startup.

You know, there's no perfection. You know, we all have to deal with a certain degree of stuff.

But I tell you what, some workspace situations are much, much worse than others.

And so, again, because we hear about this on our team, it's a topic of conversation.

We talk about this in our consultation groups, you know, how do I help this client who's

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