#46: Sexuality in the Workplace, with Asya Brodsky
Career Therapy Podcast e.46 - Exploring Intimacy and Boundaries at Work, with Clinical Social Worker Asya Brodsky
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On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (#46), we talk with psychotherapist Asya Brodsky.
Asya is a Clinical Social Worker, Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist. She has her own therapy practice focused on sexuality and sexual relationships, and loves helping people recognize the connection between sexuality, ourselves and our sense of wholeness.
During the episode, we talk about intimacy and boundaries at work, what individuals can do to bring their professionally authentic selves to office, and how company policies can exacerbate, or abate tensions in the workplace.
During this Episode, We Discuss:
0:00 introducing Asya Brodsky
6:30 what are we looking for at work?
7:20 Tom Hanks talking about Hollywood workplaces
8:10 companies that handle it well
9:14 objectionable behavior as part of the culture
9:25 Salma Hayek in ‘Frida’
10:10 marketing & advertising tropes
13:00 Bhad Bhabie and OnlyFans
15:15 “we learn through experience”
23:15 company response: shut it all down
27:30 the challenges of “professional authenticity”
29:50 “it takes two to tango” / victim blaming
34:35 people start to talk / employee satisfaction
35:30 relationships at work
37:59 workplace harassment training
38:45 orientation around collegiality and fellowship
41:45 are things moving in a good direction?
43:15 networking to find the right workplace culture
45:00 “intimacy is what makes us happy”
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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!
