Bittersweet is the story of India Taylor, a stay-at-home mom who has dedicated her life to her family. However, when she meets Paul Ward, a Wall Street tycoon, she begins to question the sacrifices she has made and the life she has chosen. With Paul's encouragement, India starts to rediscover her creativity and courage, leading her to make heart-wrenching decisions that change her life forever. The novel explores themes of freedom, dreams, and the complexities of relationships[1][3][5].
This book offers strategies for effectively expressing emotions at work, improving productivity and well-being. It explores how to balance authenticity with professionalism, providing practical advice on managing emotions in the modern workplace.
Big Feelings offers an insightful and approachable guide to managing complex emotions. The book explores feelings such as uncertainty, comparison, anger, burnout, and perfectionism, providing practical strategies to turn overwhelming emotions into manageable ones. It combines surprising science with personal stories and original illustrations to help readers understand and navigate their emotions more effectively.
Today we welcome Mollie West Duffy who is an expert in organizational design, development, and leadership coaching. She’s helped advise and coach leaders and founders at companies including Casper, Google, LinkedIn, Bungalow, and Slack. She’s experienced in designing talent processes and systems, as well as organizational structures and behaviors, cultural values, and learning and development programs. Mollie is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book No Hard Feelings. Her most recent book with Liz Fosslien is called Big Feelings: How To Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay.
In this episode, I talk to Mollie West Duffy about how to navigate big feelings. Our emotion-phobic society has a lot of misconceptions about dealing with difficult emotions and what they mean. According to Mollie, big feelings can lead to a deeper understanding of ourselves if we sit with our emotions and work through them. Mollie and I share our personal experiences with depression and anxiety and how we coped. We also touch on the topics of anger, perfectionism, social comparison, burn out, and uncertainty.
Website: molliewestduffy.com
Twitter: @molliewest
Topics
01:43 Mollie and Liz’s collaborations
05:08 How Big Feelings was published
08:31 Our emotion-phobic society
12:26 Illustrating emotions
15:13 Myths about big feelings
18:32 Emotional labor
21:14 Anxiety, uncertainty, resilience
25:03 Scott’s tips to manage anxiety
29:48 Separate the “withins” from the “beyonds”
32:14 Assess your tolerance of uncertainty
36:26 Embrace comparison
43:00 Mollie’s tips to manage depression
48:30 Translate your anger
50:43 Perfectionism isn’t as helpful as we think
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