How to Be Awesome at Your Job5 Dec 2024

1016: Untangling Identity from Your Work to Rediscover Yourself with Dr. Janna Koretz

Dr. Janna Koretz reveals the pitfalls of letting your job become your identity and what to do about it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why career enmeshment harms mental health

2) The power of protected thinking time

3) The root cause of workaholism–and how to cure it

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— ABOUT JANNA —

Dr. Janna Koretz is the founder of Azimuth, a therapy practice specializing in the mental health challenges of individuals in high-pressure careers. She has spent over a decade helping her clients face and overcome their mental health issues by developing a unique understanding of industry-specific nuances in fields like law, consulting, finance, and technology.

Dr. Koretz has been featured in many publications, including Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal, focusing on the importance of recognizing career/identity enmeshment. She also writes and speaks on the challenges of discovering and living your personal values.

In addition to therapy, Azimuth provides a set of free online tools that have helped tens of thousands of people, including the Burnout Calculator, Career Enmeshment Test, and Values Navigator. The practice is also developing a values-based journaling iOS app, set to launch later this year, based on the popularity of its Values Navigator tool.

• Website: AzimuthPsych.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

• Past episode: 873: Dr. Steven Hayes on Building a More Resilient and Flexible Mind

• Study: The Stanford Prison Experiment

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