Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy dive into the challenges of handling emotions at work, emphasizing the need for a middle path. They discuss the importance of acknowledging and understanding emotions, the role of psychological safety in effective teams, and strategies for creating a safe and inclusive workplace. They also reflect on their own experiences of burnout and power differentials in the workplace.

Humans: we've got Big Feelings. From happiness to regret, delight to frustration, we all experience a rollercoaster of emotions. But while it's become more acceptable to talk about and even embrace them, it still feels like there is a stigma around admitting that you're grappling with a less-than-positive feeling. Mollie West Duffy (Chris’s wife!) and Liz Fosslien (not Chris’s wife!) are the co-authors of two celebrated books about feelings, “No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions At Work” and “Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay.” In this episode, they share thoughtful insights on the across-the-board importance of talking about our emotions as well as offer tips on how to identify, manage, and learn from the big feelings that make us all human. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, in a special bonus episode, we bring you a live conversation between Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy, authors of “No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work,” and our curator Susan Cain. They discuss over-sharing, crying at work, psychological safety, and mocktails that taste like your first kiss.---What are you waiting for? Download the Next Big Idea app right now: nextbigideaclub.com/app

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.comTwitter: @molliewest Topics01:43 Mollie and Liz’s collaborations05:08 How Big Feelings was published08:31 Our emotion-phobic society 12:26 Illustrating emotions15:13 Myths about big feelings18:32 Emotional labor21:14 Anxiety, uncertainty, resilience25:03 Scott’s tips to manage anxiety29:48 Separate the “withins” from the “beyonds”32:14 Assess your tolerance of uncertainty36:26 Embrace comparison 43:00 Mollie’s tips to manage depression48:30 Translate your anger50:43 Perfectionism isn’t as helpful as we think See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our friends at It's Been a Minute speak with Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy about their new book, Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay. They explore seven emotions — uncertainty, anger, burnout, comparison, perfectionism, despair and grief — with hopes to normalize conversations on these "big feelings" and share what they've learned in that process.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy