Episodes

  • Self Worth Was Never Something Your Boss Could Give You

    Self Worth Was Never Something Your Boss Could Give You
    Sep 25 2026
    Self-worth slips away in small moments at work. A boss who does not smile back, a promotion that goes to someone else, a meeting you replay all evening. None of that is proof you are not enough. It is an old habit of handing your worth to other people.

    Susan Schmitt Winchester, a former Chief Human Resources Officer and co-author of Healing at Work with Martha I. Finney, explains how self-acceptance and even joy can be learned. Leave knowing the approval you need starts with you.
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    Break free from your inner critic and master workplace conflict. Learn the Rapid Power Reclaim® method for emotional triggers, break the self-limiting patterns that hold you back, and build stronger working relationships.
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    📚 Healing at Work: A Guide to Using Career Conflicts to Overcome Your Past and Build the Future You Deserve, by Susan Schmitt Winchester and Martha I. Finney
    👉 https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0914JZHS7
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    📚 Book: Healing at Work, https://www.susanwinchester.com
    📄 Free Guide: The ASDP's Guide to Overcoming Overwhelm, https://programs.healingatwork.com/overcoming-overwhelm
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    49 mins
  • Emotional Regulation Is Physical Not a Mindset Problem

    Emotional Regulation Is Physical Not a Mindset Problem
    Sep 18 2026
    Emotional regulation is the one skill your career never trained you for. You can name your pattern, understand exactly where it came from, and still send the email at 11 pm. That is not a discipline failure. The part of the brain storing the charge has no language capacity, so talking yourself down was never going to move it.

    Susan Schmitt Winchester, a former Chief Human Resources Officer for two public companies and co-author of Healing at Work with Martha I. Finney, gives the three-step process. Leave with something to actually do.
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    Healing at Work® Signature Course
    A twelve-week course for leaders working through the emotional patterns holding them back. Covers the Unconscious Wounded Career Path, the Conscious Healing Career Path, Bumper Car Moments®, and the Rapid Power Reclaim® process taught in this episode. Includes a workbook, a 90-day planner, and bonus mini-courses. Questions go straight to Susan by email, and she answers personally.
    👉 https://programs.healingatwork.com/course

    📄 34 WAYS TO MAKE YOURSELF FEEL BETTER INSTANTLY
    Susan and Martha I. Finney's list of what to do in the moment you are upset at work. Exactly what you want in the thirty seconds this episode is about.
    👉 https://programs.healingatwork.com/34-ways-to-feel-better
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    📚 Book: Healing at Work, https://www.susanwinchester.com
    📄 Free Guide: The ASDP's Guide to Overcoming Overwhelm, https://programs.healingatwork.com/overcoming-overwhelm
    📊 Free Assessment: https://susanwinchester.com/assessment/
    📅 Work with Susan: https://calendly.com/susanwinchester/30-min
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    51 mins
  • Emotional Triggers Fade in 90 Seconds. Your Story Doesn't.

    Emotional Triggers Fade in 90 Seconds. Your Story Doesn't.
    Sep 11 2026
    Emotional triggers at work rarely last as long as the fallout. Someone questions your work or leaves you off the invite, and you are still replaying it at midnight. Research says the emotion itself clears the body in ninety seconds, so everything past that is the story you keep telling.

    Susan Schmitt Winchester, a former Chief Human Resources Officer for two public companies and co-author of Healing at Work with Martha I. Finney, has the thirty-second interrupt. Leave able to stop the spiral before it starts.
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    34 Ways to Make Yourself Feel Better Instantly
    Susan's own list of what to do in the thirty seconds after a bumper car moment, built for exactly the situation this episode is about.
    👉 https://programs.healingatwork.com/34-ways-to-feel-better
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    📚 Book: Healing at Work, https://www.susanwinchester.com
    📄 Free Guide: The ASDP's Guide to Overcoming Overwhelm, https://programs.healingatwork.com/overcoming-overwhelm
    📊 Free Assessment: https://susanwinchester.com/assessment/
    📅 Work with Susan: https://calendly.com/susanwinchester/30-min
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    49 mins
  • Workplace Triggers Are Showing You an Older Pattern

    Workplace Triggers Are Showing You an Older Pattern
    Aug 28 2026
    Workplace triggers rarely start at work. One coworker gets under your skin, one meeting leaves you rattled, and the reaction runs far bigger than whatever actually happened. That size difference is the signal, not a character flaw. The person setting you off is usually standing in for someone from much earlier, which makes the office the most repeatable place to practice a different response.

    Susan Schmitt Winchester, co-author of Healing at Work and a Chief Human Resources Officer for two public companies, has the decoding questions. Leave able to read your own reactions.

    📄 Free Chapter 5: Why the Workplace Is a Lab for Emotional Healing, https://susanwinchester.kartra.com/page/fPv846

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    📚 Book: Healing at Work, https://www.susanwinchester.com
    📄 Free Guide: The ASDP's Guide to Overcoming Overwhelm, https://programs.healingatwork.com/overcoming-overwhelm
    📊 Free Assessment: https://susanwinchester.com/assessment/
    📅 Work with Susan: https://calendly.com/susanwinchester/30-min
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    40 mins
  • Perfectionism at Work Is Fear of Failure in Disguise

    Perfectionism at Work Is Fear of Failure in Disguise
    Aug 17 2026
    Perfectionism at work gets rewarded, promoted, and mistaken for high standards. The overworking, the people pleasing, the sense that nothing is ever quite good enough- none of it starts with the job. It starts with a nervous system that learned pressure feels safer than calm, and the pattern holds no matter how senior the title gets.

    Susan Winchester, a former Fortune 500 Chief Human Resources Officer and co-author of Healing at Work, names the four survival responses running underneath it. Leave knowing which one is yours.

    📄 Free Guide: The ASDP's Guide to Overcoming Overwhelm, Susan's special report on the neuroscience of overwhelm and her Rapid Power Reclaim process, https://programs.healingatwork.com/overcoming-overwhelm

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    📚 Book: Healing at Work, https://www.susanwinchester.com
    📄 Free Guide: The ASDP's Guide to Overcoming Overwhelm, https://programs.healingatwork.com/overcoming-overwhelm
    📊 Free Assessment: https://susanwinchester.com/assessment/
    📅 Work with Susan: https://calendly.com/susanwinchester/30-min
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    46 mins
  • Workplace Burnout Starts Long Before Your First Job

    Workplace Burnout Starts Long Before Your First Job
    Aug 6 2026
    Workplace burnout keeps finding you no matter how senior the title gets or how many wins stack up. That is not a discipline problem or a workload problem. It is a pattern learned long before your first job, running under every meeting that leaves you replaying the day at night.

    Susan Winchester, a former Fortune 500 Chief Human Resources Officer and co-author of Healing at Work, spent thirty years on that path before naming it. Miss this and you keep chasing promotions that never make the feeling stop.

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    📚 Book: Healing at Work, https://www.susanwinchester.com
    📄 Free Guide: The ASDP's Guide to Overcoming Overwhelm, https://programs.healingatwork.com/overcoming-overwhelm
    📊 Free Assessment: https://susanwinchester.com/assessment/
    📅 Work with Susan: https://calendly.com/susanwinchester/30-min
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    34 mins
  • High Achievers Don't Burn Out From Ambition—They Burn Out From This

    High Achievers Don't Burn Out From Ambition—They Burn Out From This
    May 11 2026
    What if your burnout, perfectionism, and self-doubt at work aren't really about work at all?

    Host Stacey Chillemi welcomes Susan J. Schmitt Winchester — former Chief HR Officer for two Fortune 500 companies, executive coach, and #1 internationally bestselling author of Healing at Work — for a powerful, compassionate conversation about what's really driving your stress at work and how to start healing it today.

    In this episode, you'll learn:
    🧠 How unresolved childhood experiences silently shape your career
    🔥 Why perfectionism is fueling your burnout — not protecting you from it
    🪤 What "Bumper Car Moments" reveal about your deeper patterns
    😮‍💨 How to stop the spiral from triggered to exhausted
    🛠️ Simple, practical tools to step onto a conscious healing path — starting now

    This isn't just about surviving work. It's about finally understanding yourself well enough to thrive.

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    📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/falcorspirit
    📚 Book: Healing at Work, https://www.susanwinchester.com
    📄 Free Guide: The ASDP's Guide to Overcoming Overwhelm, https://programs.healingatwork.com/overcoming-overwhelm
    📊 Free Assessment: https://susanwinchester.com/assessment/
    📅 Work with Susan: https://calendly.com/susanwinchester/30-min
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    55 mins