This season on How's Work?, iconic couples therapist Esther Perel focuses on the hard conversations we're afraid to have in our jobs: Colleagues navigating the new etiquette of a work from home workforce. Newsrooms whose journalists feel that covering breaking news has broken them. A doctor who wants to walk away from his profession, during a pandemic. And lobbyists whose fight for racial equality ends up dividing them. Esther Perel brings a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through one-time therapy sessions with coworkers, cofounders, and colleagues—listen and learn as you hear yo...
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56 min
We Sell Happiness But We're Miserable
One is the creative guy, the other runs the business. While their bakery is thriving, their relationship is falling apart. How much of this has to do with the fact that they don't…
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50 min
My Promotion Ended Our Friendship
They were close friends before they started working together. But when one got a surprise promotion, the other began to question her value within the friendship, as well as the org…
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53 min
I'm Your Special One
A young artist and her gallerist are exceptionally close. The line between professional and personal relationship often blurs, or disappears altogether. But it's a fragile intimacy…
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53 min
Since I Can't Be Myself, I Try To Be You
They are identical twins, inseparable since the start of life, now too in business. One brother has dreams of pursuing a career on his own, but is afraid of being left behind. Whil…
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49 min
Breaking News Has Broken Us
A large and scattered network of journalists meet for a virtual session with Esther. Over the past year, they've reported on the biggest stories of their careers, but they are burn…
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Couples Therapy with My Boss
From day one, they’ve described their relationship as “tumultuous." One is new to the workforce, the other is new to this particular workplace. One manages the other. And while the…
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57 min
He Gets The Respect, She Gets the Toilet Paper
Married for ten years and co-owners for seven, they bring their home dynamic to work with them. Their employees are sick of the fights and the struggles for power and control, and…
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52 min
You'd Be Perfect for Ralph Lauren
They've spent their whole lives in careers that made promises it could not keep. They are fashion models, both scouted as teenagers. Now one fights to let go, the other to find a b…
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52 min
Race, Gender and Money
Two lobbyists whose fight for racial equality ended up dividing them. With Esther they revisit the circumstances that lead to their decision to split up and confront the subjects a…
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56 min
If I Quit, What Will People Say?
He’s a doctor, she works for the government. Her job is one thing on paper, and another thing in secret. He wants to leave his job, but doesn’t know how. When their busy careers co…
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Work Will Never Be the Same: Season 2 Trailer
This season on How's Work?, iconic couples therapist Esther Perel brings a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through…
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56 min
Introducing: Couples Under Lockdown
Today we’re sharing an episode from Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel. In this special series of the show, Esther connects with couples under lockdown around the world. Lear…
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52 min
Separated at Home But Still Together at Work
Husband and wife who are co-owners of a winery and restaurant. He loves the colleague that she is at work, but he likes less the wife she is at home. As their marriage ends, they w…
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54 min
The Boss, The Client, and the Hairdresser
They’ve been hairdressers for many years in a job that feels like a cross between salesperson and therapist. They vie for new clients and commissions while absorbing the anxieties,…
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59 min
Stuck in a Job, for Years
She’s been unhappy at her job for more than 20 years and doesn't know how to leave. Her sister, a successful entrepreneur, wants to help, but this only makes her feel less-than. Fa…
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53 min
From Bartender to Business Partner
She owns a successful restaurant. He was her bar manager for six years. Now they’re going into business together as co-owners of a taqueria. They turn to Esther for guidance on how…
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Special Episode: Esther and Adam Grant of WorkLife
In this special episode — recorded in front of a live audience — Esther and Adam explore the dynamics of trust, power, and people-pleasing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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56 min
You're Inching Me Out
They were mates in university before co-founding a successful communications company. They still work together from different coasts, but they barely speak. One wants to move on; t…
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53 min
Laid Off and Starting Over
A year ago they were suddenly let go from their jobs as leaders of a creative team. Now they're starting a new company together. But to build over the scar tissue and begin again,…
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54 min
Not Many Men Work For Their Moms
She started a real estate company 30 years ago. Her son, who calls himself a Mama’s Boy, recently joined the business. They think their close mother-son relationship hurts the bran…