Truth, Lies & Work

# busyness

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15:36Step one: noticing the busyness badgeAl Elliott: So if someone's listening to this and it's resonating deeply, they're going, do you know what? I am wearing busyness as a badge. Can you give them something, some practical steps in saying how they climb downEP 221 · 7 Aug 2025·interview· 15:36–17:3119:55Redefining joy beyond the big smilesLeanne Elliott: I'm busy. She's right. People do say that all the time. It is our default response, and she's connecting it to this need to belong, to be loved. But Al, I'm thinking about our listeners who genuinely are EP 221 · 7 Aug 2025·interview· 19:55–23:5528:12Workplace Surgery: pride in being busy and hustle cultureLeanne Elliott: No. And yes. And leave Al Elliott: There you go. So what you're saying is that no, you shouldn't try and fit in. Yes, you should just do your work, um, in, in the hours that you're allowed. And if that's EP 86 · 2 Apr 2024·workplace surgery· 28:12–31:18

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