#25 - Setting Boundaries at Work with LCSW Garrett Shotwell
Career Therapy Podcast e.25 - Understanding Your Values & Setting Boundaries at Work, with Garrett Shotwell
On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (#25), we talk with Garrett Shotwell, LCSW, Owner, and Psychotherapist at Illumination Psychotherapy. Throughout the conversation, which is part of Career Therapy’s ‘Talks With Therapists’ series, we discuss workplace trauma, understanding your values, working remotely, and setting healthy boundaries at work.
During this Episode, We Discuss:
0:00 introducing Garrett Shotwell
2:50 difference between online and in-person therapy
5:40 virtual interviewing
6:06 mirror neurons and how they work (generally)
7:30 “am I looking at a screen or am I looking at a person?”
8:20 why am I so tired?
10:40 anxiety
14:50 how does the digital noise affect people’s lives?
15:55 our relationship with social media
16:40 “mindful to mindless”
18:00 having power in our career
19:00 imposter syndrome
19:45 selling your goods for a price
23:40 what are their values?
24:20 a quarterly evaluation of your core values
25:00 getting to know your core values
26:50 what’s your ideal day?
29:55 gaslighting
33:20 how milestones in your career impact decision making
34:40 when values are encroached upon
35:25 between stimulus and response, that is where the core values live
38:21 the ability to choose our response
42:00 humans, suffering animals
44:20 a buffer in curiosity
45:50 the emotional ups and downs of the job search
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Now Over To You!
If you know anyone who has been hustling, or started a business, during the pandemic, and has an amazing story to share, let us know who they are! Alternately, if you, or someone you know has recently gone through a layoff, or has a layoff, or any other career transition-oriented story to share, reach out. Contact Martin through his personal LinkedIn page to get in touch. We're always on the lookout for amazing guests for the cast.
As always, thanks for listening!
