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Episode 33: We Overachieve and We Burnout to Make Our Parents Proud with Hamza Khan
Greg Martin Greg Martin

Episode 33: We Overachieve and We Burnout to Make Our Parents Proud with Hamza Khan

Episode 33. There are many reasons we work hard at our jobs. Sometimes we work too hard and sometimes we work without really thinking why. Hamza Khan is an international keynote speaker, author and business owner who has been through the trenches working the long hours he needed to prove himself. Unfortunately when you do that, you can burnout, without even recognizing what happened.

In this episode we speak with Hamza about his book The Burnout Gamble, along with his theories around work, millennials and how we are sometimes motivated by fear and other times trying to prove something to ourselves and our parents.

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Episode 10: Caring About Workplace Mental Health with Michael Stroh
Greg Martin Greg Martin

Episode 10: Caring About Workplace Mental Health with Michael Stroh

When we’re consumed by work, our mental health in the workplace can become all that’s important. If we live for work, we better be happy there - or at least create the right environment for everyone.

In this episode, host Greg Martin talks with Michael Stroh, a psychotherapist who works with K-12 education and workplace mental health, about what it means to be in control of your own health and be able to recognize troubling signs in others.

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Episode 6: Juggling Kids and an Intense Career During Covid with Anna Stevens
Greg Martin Greg Martin

Episode 6: Juggling Kids and an Intense Career During Covid with Anna Stevens

Are we going to be working from home forever? What has the experiment of Covid-19 taught us about enjoying our job and enjoying our kids?

Anna Stevens is Program Director at a digital marketing agency in Toronto. When Covid-19 hit she fled her downtown Toronto life with her husband and kids and moved North to cottage country - it was a 5 month experiment in a different kind of life.

In this episode, host Greg Martin and Anna talk about the good and bad this pandemic is doing for our relationships with our kids, family and colleagues. The biggest question - what has Covid-19 taught us and what do we do about it?

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