Is This Working?

This week, Tiffany interviews the mindset and business coach Africa Brooke about self-sabotage. It's a fantastic conversation about how our mindset can hold us back not only from achieving success, but also even from enjoying it.

You can find Africa on Instagram @africabrooke and at her website www.africabrooke.com 

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This week, we share how we're both burned out and what we're doing about it.

Links:

• Tiana Clark on Black burnout: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tianaclarkpoet/millennial-burnout-black-women-self-care-anxiety-depression
• Dr Leyla Hussein on combating Black burnout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_6RRmkLOSs
• Tiffany on burnout: https://tiffanyphilippou.substack.com/p/burnout-and-me
• Michele Norris on the Michelle Obama Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ASSMnYfKKdTpsyUUPHbli

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We're thrilled to be joined by two very special guests this week, Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow. The pair co-host Call Your Girlfriend, the podcast for long distance besties. Ann and Aminatou have just published a book together, Big Friendship, a NYT best-seller chronicling their messy and life-affirmation friendship with each other. Order Big Friendship: www.bigfriendship.com

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In this week's episode, we're joined by Cate Sevilla, an author, journalist and consultant, to talk about working through a crisis. Cate has led editorial teams for some of the world’s largest media and technology companies including Google and Microsoft, and also media startups Buzzfeed UK and The Pool. She's currently working on her first book, How to Work Without Losing Your Mind: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316/316822/how-to-work-without-losing-your-mind/9780241439661.html

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Today's episode is about job loses. We've both lost jobs and in this episode, we share how that made us feel and what we did next.

Redundancy rights in the UK: https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/your-legal-rights-when-facing-redundancy

Acas offers free, confidential and impartial advice on all employment rights issues in England, Scotland and Wales. Helpline: 0300 123 1100

The Labour Relations Agency provides an impartial and confidential employment relations service in Northern Ireland. Helpline: 028 9032 1442

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This week's guest is the warm and open-hearted Kati Morton. Kati is a licensed marriage and family therapist from California. She's also YouTuber who's built a global mental health online community. She joins us on the show to chat about the relationship between our work and our mental health.

Where you can find Kati: Kati Morton on YouTube and katimorton.com

💌 Get in touch with the show! We're @isthis_working on Twitter and you can email us on [email protected]. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/isthisworkingshow

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Sick of endless Zoom calls? Or do you prefer a video call to an in-person meeting? This week, we're talking about the good, the bad and the ugly of video conferencing.

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If you feel bad about how much you procrastinate, don't! We all do it and it's not because we're lazy or bad at our jobs. This week, we talk about the real reason why so many of us are struggling to get our work done.

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📌 Links and mentions

• Freedom app: freedom.to

• Calm app: calm.com

• Study on procrastination: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/91793/1/Compass%20Paper%20revision%20FINAL.pdf

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We're back for a brand new season of Is This Working! Your favourite work buddies are here to chat about awkward workplace dilemmas and existential career anxieties.

This week, we're joined by the journalist and podcast host, Pandora Sykes, to talk about her brilliant new book, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Sykes' collection of witty and thoughtful essays about modern life explore our ever-elusive quest to find happiness in our ourselves. What does our obsession with finding happiness at work reveal about us?

Get in touch with the show! We're @isthis_working on Twitter and you can email us on [email protected]. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisworkingshow

Links

• How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Pandora-Sykes/How-Do-We-Know-Were-Doing-It-Right--Essays-on-Modern-Life/24882488

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Season Four of the podcast is back on July 6! If you can't wait til then, join our Patreon community: www.patreon.com/isthisworkingshow

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