Where Work Meets Life™ with Dr. Laura
Bringing you timely insights and inspiration from experts at the intersection of work and life. Topics include workplace, wellness, career, and advocacy.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 117
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Why Companies Should Continue Making Hybrid Work
Dr. Laura offers essential insights for leadership teams aiming to create successful hybrid work environments. She starts by reflecting on the evolution of remote work, from the early days of telecon…
Trauma, Leadership and Consciousness: Why We Must Heal to Lead
Dr. Laura welcomes Kelly Campbell, a Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach, keynote speaker, and author of the book Heal to Lead, to the podcast to talk about “the new TLC”, Trauma, Leadership, and Consci…
Listening to the Call to Live Your Most Authentic Life
Dr. Laura talks with artist Tresa Gibson in Tresa’s Calgary studio about overcoming adversities and listening to the call to live an authentic life. Tresa Gibson has been an artist for over twenty ye…
Difficult vs. Toxic Bosses: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?
Dr. Laura revisits the topic of toxic bosses with in-depth information about the differences between a difficult boss and a toxic boss. In conducting studies and reading research on toxic bosses for …
Building Awareness of Child Sex Trafficking: How We Can All Make a Difference
Content Warning: This episode contains frank discussions about child sex trafficking. We encourage you to care for your well-being as you listen to and share this episode about the all-too-real dange…
Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life
Dr. Laura welcomes Brigid Schulte, journalist, think tank program director, keynote speaker, and author of the best-selling book, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time. Brigid is…
Welcome to Season 5: Trends in the World of Work and How Humanity Can Evolve
Dr. Laura reflects on the past four years as she welcomes everyone to Season Five of Where Work Meets Life™. In looking back through nearly one hundred episodes, she reiterates her desire to help peo…
Three Brutal Types of Toxic Bosses
Dr. Laura’s exploration into the topic of toxic bosses continues in this episode. During her extensive research on the subject of toxic bosses, she learned a great deal that she is compelled to share…
The Great Disconnect: Inability to Listen and Its Impacts on Workplaces
Dr. Laura welcomes Oscar Trimboli, award-winning author, podcast host, and global expert on listening, to the show to talk about listening and how our inability to listen properly is hurting us at wo…
The Resilience Plan: Optimizing your Work Performance and Mental Health
Dr. Laura welcomes Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier, leadership psychologist, executive coach, and author, to the show to tackle the issue of resilience. Resilience is a quality that increases our ability …
What People Don’t Think about When It Comes to Their Career
Dr. Laura welcomes Dr. Lynn Imai, a Registered Psychotherapist, Clinical Director at Canada Career Counselling, and Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Ivey Business School, to the sho…
The Brutal Behaviors of Toxic Bosses
Dr. Laura explores more on the subject of toxic bosses, a topic she is passionate about researching for the benefit of people suffering under one. In this episode, she explains some of the defining a…
Radical Empathy: How Stressed Out Leaders Can Energize Themselves and Their Team
Dr. Laura welcomes special guest Erin Diehl to the show to talk about radical empathy and Erin’s new book “I See You!: A Leader’s Guide to Energizing Your Team Through Radical Empathy”. Erin Diehl is…
The Myths and Facts About Mental Health at Work
Dr. Laura is pleased to welcome special guest Dr. Bill Howatt to the show to talk about mental health in the workplace and the myths surrounding it. Bill Howatt is the Founder of Howatt Human Resourc…
Managing Your Boss: How to Succeed, Thrive, or Know When to Leave
Dr. Laura welcomes best-selling author, speaker, consultant, and president of Careerstone Group, Mary Abbajay, to the show to talk about her book Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed…
Toxic Bosses: The Damage They Do and When to Leave
Dr. Laura explains more about toxic bosses and what they do in this episode. Toxic bosses can be at any level in an organization, from a supervisor up to the CEO, and they impact people negatively th…
Overcoming Challenges to Fulfill Your Dreams: A Conversation with Servant & Superstar, George Canyon
In this episode, Dr. Laura branches away from the specific subject of career fulfillment and speaks with her guest, country music star George Canyon, about spirituality and servanthood. George Canyon…
The 4-Day Workweek: The Future or a Fad?
Dr. Laura welcomes Joe O’Connor, co-founder of the Work Time Reduction Center of Excellence, to the show to continue exploring the topic of the 4-day workweek. Joe originally served as CEO of 4 Day W…
The Four Day Week: A Panacea for Productivity?
Dr. Laura welcomes author, entrepreneur, and pioneer of the 4 day week movement, Andrew Barnes, to the show to examine the benefits of his innovative 4 day work week movement. Andrew explains why he …
Growing Through Discomfort to Thrive in Work and Life
Dr. Laura talks with guest Sterling Hawkins, a keynote speaker and the author of “Hunting Discomfort”, about the possibilities inherent in working through our discomfort. Sterling shares a bit of his…