I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to Sloemob. Welcome back. My guest today is one that's been awaited on my side for a while

because his work relates to a very personal side of my life. I'm today hosting an esteemed sociologist and

professor at Emory University who is pioneering work on mental health and human flourishing really

earned him a position of a reasonable following because I think we all can relate.

His work was brought to the public eye in a very big way in an article by Adam Grant in the

New York Times and from then he has really coined a term that I think relates very strongly to something I observed a couple of years ago.

This is part of the mini series on stress and when I was writing Unstressable, a little known story is Alice, my co-author and I, because of our very

different approaches to life, almost Tianan Yang completely, wrote different chapters and we edited each other's chapters and I remember vividly that when I was

reading Alice's work on physical stress I was on a retreat barely escaping a burnout and I had to come out of my retreat and

text her and say, Alice, every single symptom you wrote in the book about physical stress is something that I have been

living regularly in my life for a very long time in a very simple way I was languishing.

And Corey's work on languishing, you know, not being well and not being ill is really something that a lot of us allow ourselves to live.

As I said many times as unstressable is, is a mission, it's a million people out of stress every year. We'd appreciate your help to do that by pre-ordering the book if you intend to order it at all.

Pre-order it because that would give it a good push in the first week and help us beyond the charts.

Without further ado, I am very interested to know what's wrong with me and why I language joined by the author of the book itself language,

Corey Kees.

Corey, thank you so much for being here.

How often do you get someone telling you that this is the truth of their life?

More often than you would think.

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