Welcome to the Work and Life Podcast with Stew Friedman -- bestselling author, celebrated professor at The Wharton School, and founder of Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. Stew is widely recognized as the world's foremost authority on cultivating leadership from the point of view of the whole person. On this podcast, Stew talks with a variety of experts -- leading researchers, progressive executives, policy advocates, inspiring educators, and more -- about how to cultivate harmony between work and the rest of your life; that is, your family, your community, and your private self (mind, body, and spirit). Conversations in all Work and Life Podcast episodes are taken from broadcasts of Stew's Work and Life Radio Show, which airs weekly on SiriusXM 111, Business Radio Powered by Wharton. Tune in on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Eastern.
Episodes (63)
Found in 45 episodes
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Ep. 60. Barry Schwartz: Making Work Meaningful
Ep. 60. Barry Schwartz: Making Work Meaningful
Published: 14 Feb 2018 Duration: 25:37Barry Schwartz, the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action (Emeritus), has been at Swarthmore College since receiving his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He’s author of 10 books and 100s of article... Read more →Barry Schwartz, the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action (Emeritus), has been at Swarthmore College since receiving his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He’s author of 10 books and 100s of article... Read more →
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Ep 45. Sarah Green Carmichael: Work Obsession
Ep 45. Sarah Green Carmichael: Work Obsession
Published: 1 Nov 2017 Duration: 41:15Sarah Green Carmichael is a Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review and host of the award-winning HBR IdeaCast, where she’s interviewed Stew a couple of times. So this episode turns the tables. Sarah edits HBR.org, which has won the Webb... Read more →Sarah Green Carmichael is a Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review and host of the award-winning HBR IdeaCast, where she’s interviewed Stew a couple of times. So this episode turns the tables. Sarah edits HBR.org, which has won the Webb... Read more →
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Ep 27: Jason Fried: Signal vs. Noise -- Less Work, More Production
Ep 27: Jason Fried: Signal vs. Noise -- Less Work, More Production
Published: 28 Jun 2017 Duration: 31:23Jason Fried is Co-Founder and CEO of Basecamp, a leading project management tool that has helped over 2.5 million users improve their organizational skills. Basecamp was founded in 1999 and today it has over 2.5 million users (including, fu... Read more →Jason Fried is Co-Founder and CEO of Basecamp, a leading project management tool that has helped over 2.5 million users improve their organizational skills. Basecamp was founded in 1999 and today it has over 2.5 million users (including, fu... Read more →
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Ep 25. Monica Worline: Awakening Compassion at Work
Ep 25. Monica Worline: Awakening Compassion at Work
Published: 14 Jun 2017 Duration: 48:04Monica Worline is the founder and CEO of EnlivenWork, an organization that teaches businesses how to use compassionate leadership to enliven, or humanize and energize, the work they do. She is also a research scientist at Stanford Universit... Read more →Monica Worline is the founder and CEO of EnlivenWork, an organization that teaches businesses how to use compassionate leadership to enliven, or humanize and energize, the work they do. She is also a research scientist at Stanford Universit... Read more →
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Ep 30. Eric Barker: Debunking Myths about Work and Life
Ep 30. Eric Barker: Debunking Myths about Work and Life
Published: 19 Jul 2017 Duration: 32:57Eric Barker is a University of Pennsylvania graduate and author of the popular blog Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Eric gives evidence-based answers and expert insight to questions about how to be awesome at life and he does so in a funny and p... Read more →Eric Barker is a University of Pennsylvania graduate and author of the popular blog Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Eric gives evidence-based answers and expert insight to questions about how to be awesome at life and he does so in a funny and p... Read more →
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Ep 57. Joanna Barsh: Grow Wherever You Work
Ep 57. Joanna Barsh: Grow Wherever You Work
Published: 24 Jan 2018 Duration: 50:36Joanna Barsh is a director emerita at McKinsey & Company and President of the Centered Leadership Project. She has deep experience leading growth strategy, performance improvement, organization effectiveness, and leadership development proj... Read more →Joanna Barsh is a director emerita at McKinsey & Company and President of the Centered Leadership Project. She has deep experience leading growth strategy, performance improvement, organization effectiveness, and leadership development proj... Read more →
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Ep 7. Cal Newport: Focus for Success in a Distracted World
Ep 7. Cal Newport: Focus for Success in a Distracted World
Published: 8 Feb 2017 Duration: 26:57Cal Newport is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown and author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. In Deep Work, Cal argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace and that those who master it... Read more →Cal Newport is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown and author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. In Deep Work, Cal argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace and that those who master it... Read more →
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Ep 53. Amy Wrzesniewski: Job Crafting
Ep 53. Amy Wrzesniewski: Job Crafting
Published: 27 Dec 2017 Duration: 29:24Amy Wryzesniewski is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management. Her research on how people make meaning of their work has been published in a wide range of top academic journals and highlighted in several best-se... Read more →Amy Wryzesniewski is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management. Her research on how people make meaning of their work has been published in a wide range of top academic journals and highlighted in several best-se... Read more →
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Ep 17. Brad Harrington: Fathers at Home
Ep 17. Brad Harrington: Fathers at Home
Published: 19 Apr 2017 Duration: 48:48Brad Harrington is Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family and leads research focusing on the changing role of fathers, career management, and work-life integration. He recently completed a series of papers collec... Read more →Brad Harrington is Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family and leads research focusing on the changing role of fathers, career management, and work-life integration. He recently completed a series of papers collec... Read more →
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Ep 24. Joan Williams: What Elites Don't Get About the White Working Class
Ep 24. Joan Williams: What Elites Don't Get About the White Working Class
Published: 7 Jun 2017 Duration: 35:36Joan Williams is a Distinguished Law Professor at the University of California Hastings and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, which promotes gender and racial equality in the workplace. She’s written extensively on gender an... Read more →Joan Williams is a Distinguished Law Professor at the University of California Hastings and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, which promotes gender and racial equality in the workplace. She’s written extensively on gender an... Read more →
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Ep 12. Emma Seppälä: Cultivating Resilience
Ep 12. Emma Seppälä: Cultivating Resilience
Published: 15 Mar 2017 Duration: 27:00Emma Seppälä is author of The Happiness Track and Science Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University. She is also Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at Yale C... Read more →Emma Seppälä is author of The Happiness Track and Science Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University. She is also Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at Yale C... Read more →
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Ep 61. Christine Porath: Workplace Civility
Ep 61. Christine Porath: Workplace Civility
Published: 21 Feb 2018 Duration: 48:58Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and author of Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace. Christine also consults with organizations to help them create a thriv... Read more →Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and author of Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace. Christine also consults with organizations to help them create a thriv... Read more →
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Ep 22. Marci Alboher: Encore Careers
Ep 22. Marci Alboher: Encore Careers
Published: 24 May 2017 Duration: 32:08Marci Alboher is Vice President at Encore.org, a nonprofit making it easier for millions of older people to pursue second acts in their career. She is the author of The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Se... Read more →Marci Alboher is Vice President at Encore.org, a nonprofit making it easier for millions of older people to pursue second acts in their career. She is the author of The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Se... Read more →
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Ep 63. Ellen Galinsky: Making Life Better for Parents and Children
Ep 63. Ellen Galinsky: Making Life Better for Parents and Children
Published: 7 Mar 2018 Duration: 50:49Ellen Galinsky is the Chief Science Officer at the Bezos Family Foundation where she also serves as executive director of a program called Mind in the Making. In addition, she’s Senior Research Advisor for the Society for Human Resource Man... Read more →Ellen Galinsky is the Chief Science Officer at the Bezos Family Foundation where she also serves as executive director of a program called Mind in the Making. In addition, she’s Senior Research Advisor for the Society for Human Resource Man... Read more →
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Ep 13. Scott Barry Kaufman: The Messy Minds of Creative People
Ep 13. Scott Barry Kaufman: The Messy Minds of Creative People
Published: 22 Mar 2017 Duration: 34:23Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive psychologist who studies the messy minds of creative people. He is Scientific Director of the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center and professor of Positive Psychology at The University ... Read more →Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive psychologist who studies the messy minds of creative people. He is Scientific Director of the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center and professor of Positive Psychology at The University ... Read more →
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Ep 15. Doug Conant: World-Class Employee Engagement
Ep 15. Doug Conant: World-Class Employee Engagement
Published: 5 Apr 2017 Duration: 48:13Doug Conant is founder of Conant Leadership and former CEO of the Campbell Soup Company, where he transformed employee engagement from average into world class. Doug is also a NYT bestselling author, Chairman of the Kellogg Executive Leader... Read more →Doug Conant is founder of Conant Leadership and former CEO of the Campbell Soup Company, where he transformed employee engagement from average into world class. Doug is also a NYT bestselling author, Chairman of the Kellogg Executive Leader... Read more →
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Ep 18. Michael Baime: Mindfulness Master
Ep 18. Michael Baime: Mindfulness Master
Published: 26 Apr 2017 Duration: 34:34Michael Baime is a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director Director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness. Michael started the program to help professionals reduce stress and increase performance. Since ... Read more →Michael Baime is a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director Director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness. Michael started the program to help professionals reduce stress and increase performance. Since ... Read more →
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Ep 42. Nancy Drozdow and Debbie Bing: The Family Owned Business
Ep 42. Nancy Drozdow and Debbie Bing: The Family Owned Business
Published: 11 Oct 2017 Duration: 52:12Nancy Drozdow and Debbie Bing are two principals at CFAR; a private management consulting firm that focuses on both performance and relationships in family-owned businesses. CFAR was started as a research center at the Wharton School was e... Read more →Nancy Drozdow and Debbie Bing are two principals at CFAR; a private management consulting firm that focuses on both performance and relationships in family-owned businesses. CFAR was started as a research center at the Wharton School was e... Read more →
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Ep 47. Michael Bungay Stanier: Say Less, Ask More
Ep 47. Michael Bungay Stanier: Say Less, Ask More
Published: 15 Nov 2017 Duration: 46:06Michael Bungay Stanier is founder of Box of Crayons, a company known for teaching 10-minute coaching so busy managers can build stronger teams and get better results. Michael left Australia 25 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Univ... Read more →Michael Bungay Stanier is founder of Box of Crayons, a company known for teaching 10-minute coaching so busy managers can build stronger teams and get better results. Michael left Australia 25 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Univ... Read more →
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Ep 48. Sanyin Siang: Find Your Superpower and Launch
Ep 48. Sanyin Siang: Find Your Superpower and Launch
Published: 22 Nov 2017 Duration: 49:05Sanyin Siang is an author, leadership advisor, and CEO coach. She co-founded and leads the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. As a CEO coach, she applies an ecosystem approach to prob... Read more →Sanyin Siang is an author, leadership advisor, and CEO coach. She co-founded and leads the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. As a CEO coach, she applies an ecosystem approach to prob... Read more →
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