#114 - THE AUTHENTICITY PARADOX: NAVIGATING IDENTITY AT WORK, with Dr. Jessica Jackson
Career Therapy Podcast e.114 - THE AUTHENTICITY PARADOX: NAVIGATING IDENTITY AT WORK, with Dr. Jessica Jackson
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On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.114), we welcome Dr. Jessica Jackson to the conversation.
Dr. Jackson is a passionate practitioner, scholar, and advocate in the field of counseling psychology. She divides her time between clinical practice, public speaking, advocacy, writing, and research to deliver culturally centered, evidence-based treatments to adult clients with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and adjustment problems — including anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship problems.
In a nutshell, she’s awesome.
In this episode, we discuss how to to manage our expectations and emotional reactions at work and in the job search, the importance of boundaries and how to implement them properly in the workplace, and how you can practice more self compassion in order to better handle the ambiguity of work, life, and identity in the workplace.
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That’s all for the intro. Now let’s dive into this week’s conversation with Dr. Jessica Jackson…
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During this Episode, We Discuss:
0:00 introducing Dr. Jessica Jackson
5:45 Navigating vs. solving
7:33 Fixing things
11:25 Managing your JOB
15:14 Dealing with the REALITY of the workplace
18:40 Burnout and culture fit
25:55 Setting boundaries
29:01 Build the skills
33:52 CEO ghosting story (name the thing)
40:11 Psychological safety at work and real conversations
45:50 Mindsets that will help us with acceptance
50:29 Pressure from society and social media
52:31 Tips to calm reactivity in the workplace
Resources, links, and/or books mentioned in this episode:
As always, thanks for listening!
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