NEW EPISODE: How’s Work? with Esther Perel // Race, Gender, Money

A brand-new episode from the second season of How’s Work? with Esther Perel from Gimlet, a Spotify Studio, is available now on Spotify.

This season finds iconic couples therapist Esther Perel bringing a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through one-time therapy sessions with partners, friends, and colleagues alike about some incredibly unique workplace challenges faced over the past year. 

In the second episode, Esther counsels two lobbyists whose fight for racial equality ends up dividing them -- while simultaneously bringing up questions of allyship as it ties to both race and gender. With Esther, they revisit the circumstances that lead to their decision to split up and confront the subjects at the center of it all: race, gender, and money. 

Listen to the episode: HERE

 Within the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and approaching anniversary of the powerful social protests that has laid bare the multitude of systemic inequalities facing people of color and women, the episode challenges us to ask ourselves: how do we go beyond sympathy to educate ourselves, create space for hard conversations and be a part of meaningful change in our workplace? 

 Season two of the podcast will focus on the hard conversations we're afraid to have in our jobs: Colleagues navigating the new etiquette of a work from home workforce. A newsroom whose journalists feel that covering breaking news has broken them. A doctor who wants to walk away from his profession, during a pandemic. And more.

 Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. 

Her celebrated TED Talks have garnered more than 30 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence is a global phenomenon that has been translated into nearly 30 languages. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity. Esther is also an executive producer and host of the award-winning podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work?.