How's Work? with Esther Perel

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How's Work? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

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This season on How's Work?, iconic couples therapist Esther Perel focuses on the hard conversations we're afraid to have in our jobs: Colleagues navigating the new etiquette of a work from home workforce. Newsrooms whose journalists feel that covering breaking news has broken them. A doctor who wants to walk away from his profession, during a pandemic. And lobbyists whose fight for racial equality ends up dividing them. Esther Perel brings a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through one-time therapy sessions with coworkers, cofounders, and colleagues—listen and learn as you hear your own workplace dilemmas play out in the lives of others.

Episodes

10. We Sell Happiness But We're Miserable

One is the creative guy, the other runs the business. While their bakery is thriving, their relationship is falling apart. How much of this has to do with the fact that they don't show the same love a...
Sep 7, 202156m

9. My Promotion Ended Our Friendship

They were close friends before they started working together. But when one got a surprise promotion, the other began to question her value within the friendship, as well as the organization. To save t...
Aug 31, 202150m

8. I'm Your Special One

A young artist and her gallerist are exceptionally close. The line between professional and personal relationship often blurs, or disappears altogether. But it's a fragile intimacy, threatened by feel...
Aug 24, 202152m

7. Since I Can't Be Myself, I Try To Be You

They are identical twins, inseparable since the start of life, now too in business. One brother has dreams of pursuing a career on his own, but is afraid of being left behind. While the other has neve...
Aug 17, 202152m

6. Breaking News Has Broken Us

A large and scattered network of journalists meet for a virtual session with Esther. Over the past year, they've reported on the biggest stories of their careers, but they are burned out, isolated, gr...
Aug 10, 202148m

5. Couples Therapy with My Boss

From day one, they’ve described their relationship as “tumultuous." One is new to the workforce, the other is new to this particular workplace. One manages the other. And while they like each other on...
Aug 3, 20211h 0m

4. He Gets The Respect, She Gets the Toilet Paper

Married for ten years and co-owners for seven, they bring their home dynamic to work with them. Their employees are sick of the fights and the struggles for power and control, and so are they. Meanwhi...
Jul 27, 202157m

3. You'd Be Perfect for Ralph Lauren

They've spent their whole lives in careers that made promises it could not keep. They are fashion models, both scouted as teenagers. Now one fights to let go, the other to find a better way to stay. L...
Jul 20, 202152m

2. Race, Gender and Money

Two lobbyists whose fight for racial equality ended up dividing them. With Esther they revisit the circumstances that lead to their decision to split up and confront the subjects at the center of it a...
Jul 13, 202152m

1. If I Quit, What Will People Say?

He’s a doctor, she works for the government. Her job is one thing on paper, and another thing in secret. He wants to leave his job, but doesn’t know how. When their busy careers come crashing to a hal...
Jul 6, 202156m

Work Will Never Be the Same: Season 2 Trailer

This season on How's Work?, iconic couples therapist Esther Perel brings a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through one-time therapy ses...
Mar 25, 20212m

1. Introducing: Couples Under Lockdown

Today we’re sharing an episode from Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel. In this special series of the show, Esther connects with couples under lockdown around the world.  Learn more about your a...
May 14, 202056m

Separated at Home But Still Together at Work

Husband and wife who are co-owners of a winery and restaurant. He loves the colleague that she is at work, but he likes less the wife she is at home. As their marriage ends, they wonder if the future ...
Apr 28, 202051m

The Boss, The Client, and the Hairdresser

They’ve been hairdressers for many years in a job that feels like a cross between salesperson and therapist. They vie for new clients and commissions while absorbing the anxieties, frustrations, and b...
Apr 21, 202053m

Stuck in a Job, for Years

She’s been unhappy at her job for more than 20 years and doesn't know how to leave. Her sister, a successful entrepreneur, wants to help, but this only makes her feel less-than. Family tensions and re...
Apr 14, 202059m

From Bartender to Business Partner

She owns a successful restaurant. He was her bar manager for six years. Now they’re going into business together as co-owners of a taqueria. They turn to Esther for guidance on how to transition from ...
Apr 7, 202053m

Special Episode: Esther and Adam Grant of WorkLife

In this special episode — recorded in front of a live audience — Esther and Adam explore the dynamics of trust, power, and people-pleasing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...
Mar 31, 20201h 8m

You're Inching Me Out

They were mates in university before co-founding a successful communications company. They still work together from different coasts, but they barely speak. One wants to move on; the other is grasping...
Mar 17, 202056m

Laid Off and Starting Over

A year ago they were suddenly let go from their jobs as leaders of a creative team. Now they're starting a new company together. But to build over the scar tissue and begin again, they must first let ...
Mar 10, 202052m

Not Many Men Work For Their Moms

She started a real estate company 30 years ago. Her son, who calls himself a Mama’s Boy, recently joined the business. They think their close mother-son relationship hurts the brand. With Esther’s hel...
Mar 3, 202054m