You have gotten me through so many dark days. Your "how do you professionally say" series has been gold and I've learned so much. When you see Donna Sue next, please tell her that I replay her "Mama Sue will be here for you wherever you are on your work journey" several times a week.

Wowww, you have come so far... I always like your content because it helps me understand what my right is as a worker and people. It helps me to understand how to take a stand for myself, and for what is important in my life as an office worker. Thank you for your education content

Because of you, I decided to finally put my mental health first. I'll be leaving my job the day before my birthday. So glad I found your channel

Protected from harm Time to rest Community connection Harmony at work Harmony at home Boundaries Know you matter Opportunities for growth

My son is a nurse. Please pray for him and all health workers where most places are very short handed

Now that's what a pleasant wholesome person looks like! Everyone needs someone like this as a close friend 😊💖

A "break" is a specified period of time with no expectations or duties. Showering, exercising, grocery shopping, cleaning your house, scheduling appointments, sorting mail, taking the dog to the vet, and going to the doctor are not breaks. Those are other forms of work that don't produce an income.

Laura, if only you knew how your content has kept me going on tough days. And this, this is over-the-top awesome. You are such a Rockstar! Thank you so much!

OMG you sneaking in your moist question! I loved this so much! I'm in HR and I think it's so important to listen to our employees. Not everyone feels that way so it's a constant battle.

Thank you so much for this informative chat! So often I’ve missed social engagements because I couldn’t get away from work. I’m talking about overtime or off the clock working. This interview inspired me to set boundaries at work and make it clear that I need to prioritize personal time just as I do my work time and that I need to be brave enough to have those conversations with my leader. Any advice on how those conversations could effectively and professionally be done would be helpful. In other words, I’d like a good way of saying, “Sorry, I’m not putting any more time in tonight.”

I have worked in mental health for 30 years. We make a big deal of Mental Health Month. However, there is stigma and judgment around people who need a day (or an hour) off for mental health reasons; whether it’s to take some time to meditate or go to therapy appt. The main concern is having enough staff to care for our patients, but only the bare minimum. This causes stress for the employees. They don’t feel their time and mental health are valued. Administration can spew out all kinds of encouragement to staff to care for their mental health, but if they are not allowed the time to do it, or made to feel weak if we do, then poor self care and neglect if mental health are exacerbated.

Excellent work. I wish more people would also touch on researcher mental health as well

I have worked in the Behavioral Health field for many years and I have noticed that working in a more general environment is more difficult as there is more BH issues than in a treatment situation. Thank you for this.

Really enjoyed the conversation with Dr. Murthy's. In the beginning, I was not sure if I would watch this long video. However, I was deeply engaged and time flew by and I learned a lot about setting the healthy boundaries. Thanks for doing this for all of us at a time when mental health is so critical.

This is a brilliant way to use your far reach. I love your shorts.

Glad I caught this. I have been personally aware of the damage that work burn out can do to one for many years now, and it can turn quite devastating. The piece regarding loneliness really hit home, though, and i REALLY enjoyed this so very much! Thank you! 👋👋

This was a fantastic interview. I learned so much and really enjoyed listening to the two of you in conversation. Thank you so much for sharing this.

This was a wonderful presentation. I am no longer in a work environment, but the themes of loneliness and meaning are important to all of us. I have so enjoyed your 'shorts' but this content is so important as well. Thank you.

Yes, I absolutely love this type of content. I would love to know more about remote home office comfort tips!

Wow!! I love how much you have grown and care for your viewers. Thank you for all your hard work and effort.

The best thing i love about Gen Z's and millennials is that they seen what us Gen-x'ers and boomers went through and they are like "oh hell no" when they get into similar work situations and policies about these things. They are driving companies to focus more on their employees as people than as an end to profits. the one thing the U.S. should do is go to a 4 day work week. Many would argue no, but the studies done show productivity goes up with the same amount of work done. Granted some industries this would be tricky to work out, but it can be done. that alone could shift our species to focus more on bettering ourselves in turn societies and actually grow as a species than continue this brain/soul eating routine we've had for over 100 years. The 5 day work week did wonders, back then, 4 days i feel would be the next jump.

Wonderful conversation! I just came to the comments to share that Dr. Murthy’s calm speaking put my dog to sleep so deeply, she began snoring! 😂

It was great Laura. loved the questions you asked and answers Dr Murthy gave. 🌷 - love from India 🇮🇳

Absolutely loved this conversation. I will definitely be referring to it moving forward. Amazing Laurel!

This was amazing! I’d like to think I am fairly well-researched on mental health, and I still learned a ton throughout this! Also some major validations on things I felt intuitively but hadn’t found a credible source to verify :) Needless to say, not only am I grateful but also proud!! Been following you for a while, and this feels like a milestone - not only was this educational, but I’m ☠️ at the moist inclusion. 😂 As an American, I am also proud to see Dr. Murthy not only talking about mental health with such sincere support… but talking about it with you! 🥹❤️ Appreciate you Loe - cheers!!

Mental health is the biggest problem all around the world. It's fascinating and also its a big task for our whole country to come together. We have all the tools, we need to use it, and make Mental health a discussion

I currently work in a tech firm, I think I'm going to share this video or a summary of with my team as we are working on a WoMen initiative that aims to further D&I, content like this is so valuable ❤️

this is an amazing segment. thank you for putting this together.

One of my fears when speaking up and setting boundaries with a manager is just straight up being fired. It’s reassuring to hear this is a wide spread concern, just makes me not feel nuts 😂

Really enjoyed this. I'm sharing this video on my email christmas card today to all my co workers.

Donna Sue interviewing Dr. Murthy would be great.

This is great!! Totally off topic- can you do a plant tour? I see gorgeous greens behind you!

And this is how you exceed yourself everyday! Great new content.

Excellent interview! Moist appreciated. 😉

This man has my full respect 🤗

Schools should really look at this for all staff.

Thank you for this interview and perspective!

Loved this!

Such a great interview and definitely shared with friends. Have a wonderful holiday season ☺️

Wow, this was great to watch. And it gives me so many tips, points and thoughts. I will definitely share this in my wellbeing community at work. Thank you. I love your channel.

Excellent. I really enjoy your posts. Well done for having this interview. Thank you from the UK.

Awesome thanks for doing this

I’m really struggling at my job and spend everyday painfully pulling along. Trying to find my way out of here to save any trace of my mental health and marriage but it’s not really helping. Hoping for better days

Moist helpful!

Love this!!! Yes more of this content! Would love to see if you could have a sit-down with Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. of SHRM on this same topic - maybe even more on how employers can take action to ensure employee wellness & build real cultures of employee wellness.

Thank you! This was a great conversation, enlightening, informative, useful, and fun!!

I love to watch but I ain't getting cristmas holiday this year. So I'll keep it in my watch later. Love your work. You keep me sane Ma'am.

I follow Cash Jordan who is a leasing agent in New York City. He showcases apartments including their neighborhoods and more and more lately he has been talking about the devastation that COVID has caused the city. His main concern I think is that with everyone working from home there is a shortage of nicer living space that people want to\have room to work from, meanwhile huge office buildings have been vacated and will soon fall into disrepair because everyone is working from home with no backsies in sight. With the office crowd gone the lunch and "on the way home" businesses are suffering as well. It seems rather obvious to me that the thing to do is convert part of these office buildings into living spaces, in various sizes with nice but simple styles with amenities in each building and then the companies that operate from them can offer living arrangements as part of their compensation. If you have say...a 10 story building you could do say 1 underground parking, mechanicals, storage maybe a pool. 2-3-4 reception, mail and offices, 5 daycare and conference spaces that transition to social spaces at night, 6-7-8 smaller apartments and guest accomodations for out of town visitors, 9-10 executive living spaces. Roof garden and outdoor play and exercise area. Of course I'm not an expert in these things. What you think in terms of work life balance, mental health concerns in general, maybe even the legal and societal pitfalls to making it workable?

Love this

We need a lot of these things put into Policy where businesses must provide for workers. Including global worker teams. Paid time off, and regular work day breaks including ensuring a lunch break.

That was excellent! I found it very informative!

Girllllllllll I love this type of content! I subscribed just at the perfect time.

Toodamazing!!! Great interview and very helpful tips 🎉

I love your content! Thank you for taking the time to make us laugh and think about how the workplace is and how we should navigate through it

Thank you for the awesome videos as always. ❤toodaloo 😊

Love this content! Very helpful information for so many of us.

This was a valuable video on so many levels. Thank you

Thanks for the informative interview. Many important topics and guidance. Truly enjoyed the interview and ideas. Good stuff.

This is amazing ! I cannot thank you enough for this content. Your channel keeps me going through tough days at work and my daily life !

I love this so much. Thank you for all your content

Make some shorts of this, and pin the link as a comment 😍😍 great info in here

Loved this, but all i can think about is the time either in 2020 or 2021 when a high ranking naval officer got in front of a crew that had lost crewmates. Losses because those people successfully unalived themselves due to stress from a strenuous work environment and long months at sea. That higher up told that crew that they needed to knuckle down and not complain so much because their lives could be so much worse. Implying that so long as they werent being shot at in a fox hole, that they were coming out on the bright side of the situation. Completely invalidating the harshness of their work life imbalance, long hours, and extended family separation. I only listened to the first part of this video and didn't notice the uniform in the thumbnail. Once i glanced at my phone and saw what he was wearing i couldn't help but become indignant at the words he was saying, because all i could hear was another man in uniform completely contradicting these lovely words and mistreating the hardships an entire Carrier's worth of people went through. TL:DR Its all fine and dandy to SAY all these things about valuing a person's mental state to preserve efficiency, but it needs actions to back it up.

I love this; this is fantastic. Keep em coming! I recommend you add the tag 'listenable' to this video 🙂

Toodaloo ❤

Awesome sauce! THANK YOU in advance! 😃

The trickiness of remote work in a shitty environment is something I've been thinking about since my boss dictated code changes line by line to me while I sat in my kitchen. Being micromanaged in the safety of my own home really messed with my mind.

Love this! ❤❤❤

This video deserves so many more views but not getting them

I really liked this video, you asked questions that I had been thinking about. New subscriber from Australia 🙂

This is amazing!!!

Thank you so much for this video!!

Thank you so much! It is hard to have a work/ home balance when you work from home.

Love your videos, can relate

Love your content 🧡 Just subscribed to your channel! Very beneficial in today's world. Keep bringing the awesome information and humour :)

Thank you for doing this.

Love this!

I hit burnout a while ago and this came at a great time. Reading the framework document you linked helped me better identify what issues I'm dealing with at work and I plan to discuss it with my manager.

Really good one. Keep at them Loe! Maybe a Brene Brown interview.

The most toxic aspect of the workplace is different rules for different people.

Great work!

Girl we need more outfit videos!

Very cool Loe!

Laura, thank you so much for your content, it helped me so much! I still have trouble to find a balance between being close with my colleagues (eg talking about personal issues), and then saying no or push backing as I want to be "appreciated". Do you have an advice? Thank you 🙏

For me the biggest source of job satisfaction is knowing that _I_ made a difference, that the good solution I came up with is one very few people would have been able to come up with. And the biggest source of job di-satisfaction is having to be at work when I've got jackshit to do. Specially having to be in the office; I work in the software side of IT, so the inmense majority of my work can be done remotely. If I don't have work to do, let me... clean my house. Go for a walk. Read a novel. I've had jobs which were on-site and it was OK to bring a book or do your stretches or whatever, so long as your job was done and what you were doing got dropped the instant new tasks appeared; I've had others where I had maybe a few hours of work every week but we were expected to "have our workface on" for a lot longer. Worst one: 1h actual work per week, 50 hours of being at work because the HR guy forced us to take a false "2h lunch break" in a place with nowhere to leave to.

How do you professionally say You don't even do your own caseload, don't tell me how to do mine. You might be my boss, but overloading me isn't the right answer when you've got plenty of time to do it yourself.

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you're the coolest omg

Escribo este comentarioen español por dos motivos. En primer para llamar tu atención y confirmar que te escribo desde Uruguay, asi poder verificar el alcance e impacto de tu contenido. En segundo lugar para que experimentes en ti misma lo dificultoso que es comprender algunos conceptos en una lengua que no dominas. En mi caso, mi ingles es de un nivel medio y me doy cuenta de que es dificil para mi comprender algunos puntos de tu contenido, aún cuando puedo leer los subtítulos en inglés. Por eso quiero pedirte si es posible para vos habilitar subtítulos en español y otros idiomas. Estoy segura de que no soy l única que tiene esta dificultad y tu contenido IS SO VALUABLE AND ALSO SO FUN!!! I want t close this coment with deep gratitude for your contribution to a better working life, and also my most sincere wishes that you have a beatiful chistmas and prosperous new year!!! Hug for you and TOO DALOO!!!

thank you for this :)

hi i love you video's since i also work a corporate job ! do you have advice how to ask nicely for more salary when you get a promotion offered? it sounds a bit much maybe but i have been working there 7 years and i finaly aplied for a other function and got it which is a promotion but net worth not a big step up 😢

This is interesting. Do you work in private sector, non profit or in the public sector?

Need help My previous lady boss told me that "it's good that we bullied you. Bullying is actually good." I am feeling like cursing her so much even if cursing is not my character...like I want to curse her children that they get bullied in their school and work and then maybe their despair will make her change as nothing will change her....but this cursing is so not me.. I feel like talking with someone who can help me with my feelings... but there are no such therapist available here. Anyone's any advice will be much appreciated.

Such a handsome man 🤩

I feel like there is a "that's really just you in a Dr. Vivek Murthy wig" in there somewhere

Thank you for this. I’m not at a good place mentally, and I feel so seen and understood. I work from home and have almost 0 contact with fellow colleagues, we video call like once a month and only talk about work. I don’t feel included as I’m the newbie. And overall, I feel undervalued, I’m also not being challenged at work and never get feedback of any kind. I really want to change my job, the main factor that is pushing me to do so is loneliness, I need to socialize and build social connections. Ideally, I want a job where I feel included and feel like I’m actually contributing to something. Positive social connections and a positive atmosphere at your workplace are soooo important and definitely have a huge impact on your wellbeing. So again, thank you for this converstation. I’m 26 and mentally, the last break I had was in 2019, since the pandemic, online courses & homeoffice have taken their toll on my health🥲

Wow... more videos like this! But please do something about the background echo.

Loe my baby 🥰🥰🥰

Indian everywhere 🫡🇮🇳

Love the video, but it‘s very hard to listen to, because the acoustics in this room seem to be bad.

Where’s Donna Sue??