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Dec 2021
41 m

Why the Workplace is Actually a Good Pla...

Morra Aarons-Mele
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Host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with Susan Schmitt, co-author of Healing at Work: A Guide to Using Career Conflicts to Overcome Your Past and Build the Future You Deserve, about how we can face childhood trauma, understand how it impacts our work, and use the office as a lab for changing our behavior. 
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