[To listen to this article as a solocast, scroll to the bottom of this post] Happy Labor Day! If you look up the holiday, it will ironically say something about a “tribute to the achievements of American workers”. But you know how I feel about the word achievement 😄 If you delve …
Lean Out Podcast: Health with Ginamarie Papia
When you lean out from the hustle culture, you have the opportunity to lean in to other things. Things like improving your health, rediscovering old interests you'd forgotten about, or spending time with the people who matter most in your life. My guest on the Lean Out Podcast is doing just …
Lean Out Podcast: Prevention with Marjan Bolouri
Prevention is kind of a strange theme for a Lean Out Podcast episode. But my guest has demonstrated the concept of prevention in many ways during her lean out journey. Her name is Dr. Marjan Bolouri. Marjan is a mother, a wife and a board certified radiologist specializing in breast imaging in …
On the Other Side of No
(To hear this post as a podcast episode, scroll down!) As a work-life balance advocate and coach, I talk to people a lot about making boundaries. Boundaries are basically ways to say No to things you don’t want to do or things that aren’t aligned with your values or current priorities. I even …
The Cost No One Talks About
The first part of my book Lean Out is all about how the current "lean in", hustle culture has significant costs for women professionals. Chapter 3 is all about the cost no one talks about. So much so, that I pitched and gave a talk about this topic at a very large physician conference a couple …
Lean Out Podcast: Retreat with Stacey Funt
What are you really passionate about? What seeps through your value system? For my guest on the most recent Lean Out Podcast, that thing is travel to unique and adventurous locales. She's been taking trips - solo and with family - since she was a young adult. Her most recent trip was to …