In a Q&A, Aarons-Mele explained how perfectionism and anxiety can take a toll on employees, along with strategies for taking care of your mental health.

For many high achieving professionals, the post pandemic “workday” has turned into a 18 hour blur. It's not unusual for people to be emailing at 11 p.m. and then again at 5 a.m. Many forces conspire to stress us out, but the erasure of time-delimited boundaries and the reliance on digital media is a big one. It’s difficult to be well when you’re in a constant state of arousal and anticipation.

Do you believe you are worthy? Truly? For many years, United States Congressman Adam Smith managed anxiety and depression. And he hid it, and pushed through, until he couldn't anymore. After a lot of work and therapy, here's what Smith knows now: You can still be the same ambitious, obsessive, successful person but without "the self-loathing." Imagine that!

Feeling micromanaged sucks. And if you're like me, you micromanage people in your life and don't even realize it. Ugh. You micromanage because you're anxious, or overwhelmed, or just used to offering advice! EDHEC Business School's Prof. Dr. Julia Milner understands that most micromanagers mean well- and she wants to help us break the habit. It starts with listening and asking open ended questions. It starts with adopting a coaching mindset.

This week on LinkedIn Live Morra sits down with Lisa Orbé-Austin they discuss about how 2024 is going to be THE year to stop feeling like a fraud all the time.

It’s possible to balance the impact of social media on your life with some personal guidelines, says author Morra Aarons-Mele.

“We’re not lacking, and we’re not failures. We’re just human – and we want to be in community with each other, bringing out each other’s best.”

HBR On Leadership curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock the best in those around you. Morra sits down with HBR on Leadership to discuss how you can help your organization make employee mental health a priority.

As I watched A Christmas Carol with my kids the other night, it struck me that the holidays are a useful time to consider the role of social class in our lives. And then I thought about my own LinkedIn feed, and its consistent class coding, from the alumni groups I belong to to the photos I share.

Morra and Alyson sit down and discuss how anxiety often gets a bad rap. Yet for millennia, it has arguably helped keep us alive. It can also be a huge motivating factor that pushes us to excel. For this reason, many high achievers are known to experience anxiety

The rankings are based on the most popular “Book Bite” audio summaries in the Next Big Idea App. In other words, they are 2023’s best leadership books, according to our tens of thousands of app users.

Join LinkedIn News editor-at-large Beth Kutscher and Morra Aarons-Mele, host of The Anxious Achiever podcast, for a live conversation with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on the epidemic of loneliness and what it means for workplaces.

Morra on stage with Larry Green at Google Bay View Campus for the John E. Martin Symposium!

Morra is featured on Business Insider India!

In the article the author wrote about how Morra speaks about anxious teams being well documented and how they can be less likely to take risks, to innovate, and have low psychological safety.

This week on LinkedIn Live Morra sits down with Hihar Chhaya and they share their practices for reflection and goal setting

Morra and Dorie Clark discusses anxiety as a leadership superpower

This week on LinkedIn Live Morra sits down with Charlene Li and they talk about improving health, and discussed how you can disrupt your own unhealthy patterns.

Personal issues intersect with work. Learning how to talk about them with respect and understanding is the heart of leadership. “I think that menopause is a human issue. One set of humans experiences it, and it just seems incredibly important that all the humans “get it.”

When you're with your family of origin, do you suddenly find yourself acting like a kid again? Many of us regress into old roles when we're home for the holidays or with our parents and siblings. Many of us regress into these roles when we're at work!

Listen to the episode now and discover the role anxiety plays in our workplace behavior, and how can we unconsciously be allowing it to effect the team around us.

Do you feel comfortable in chaos? If you keep moving all the time, it can be easier to avoid feeling uncomfortable feelings. Today’s podcast and newsletter are all about how to stop running, and settle. It’s such a valuable skill (and very challenging for me, I must admit!)