Awakening Mindfulness at Work: A Conversation That Matters!

Joy often passes by unnoticed. In this guided mindfulness meditation, you'll practice slowing down long enough to truly experience moments of joy, appreciate your own growth and effort, and reconnect with meaningful relationships. This meditation is designed to help you build resilience, calm your nervous system, and carry more presence into your work and daily life. A simple practice you can retu...

How do you stay mindful when your day is packed with meetings, deadlines, interruptions, and responsibilities? In this practical and down-to-earth conversation, Pierre Khawand and Sarah Pellegrini explore one of the most common questions they hear from mindfulness practitioners: How do I bring mindfulness into my everyday life—not just during meditation? Together, they discuss simple and realistic...

Mindfulness and meditation are often surrounded by misconceptions, jargon, and unrealistic expectations. In this episode, Pierre and Sarah strip away the complexity and explore a simpler, more human approach. What if mindfulness was simply awareness with kindness? What if meditation was nothing more than sitting and befriending yourself? Together, they discuss presence, emotional maturity, self-aw...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah explore one of the deepest realities of life: change. From uncertainty at work to personal transitions, relationships, aging, and the rapid changes happening around us, they reflect on how mindfulness can help us respond with greater presence instead of resistance. Together, they discuss attachment, fear, impermanence, the nervous...

In this special meditation episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Sarah gently guides us through a calming mindfulness practice centered on breath, presence, intention, listening, and embodied awareness. With warmth and spaciousness, this guided meditation invites you to slow down, soften, and reconnect with the aliveness already here—through the body, the heart, and the changing flow of the pr...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre Khawand and Sarah Killeen explore a challenge many of us quietly face every day: avoiding the tasks, conversations, or situations that feel emotionally difficult. But what if the real difficulty is not the task itself—but our relationship with it? Together, they unpack the emotional side of avoidance, including fear, shame, overwhelm, perfec...

A simple quote sparked a powerful reflection for this episode. After reading John Steinbeck’s line, “To be alive at all is to have scars,” Sarah began reflecting on how this idea applies to the workplace—and how mistakes, setbacks, and difficult moments can become powerful catalysts for growth. In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah explore how challenges, mistakes, and...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah explore a situation many people quietly face: being in a work environment that feels difficult, draining, or even overwhelming—while not being able to change it, at least for now. Instead of focusing on quick fixes, this conversation offers a grounded and compassionate exploration of what is still possible. They discuss: How to shi...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah explore a simple yet powerful quote by Thich Nhat Hanh: “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” From this reflection, they open a conversation on awe, gratitude, and simplicity—and how these qualities can transform not only how we see the world, but how we show up at work. They explore...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah continue their conversation with Dr. Jonathan Fisher, this time exploring the theme of lightness. What does it mean to live and work with purpose—while also experiencing joy, ease, and lightness? Are these in tension, or can they support each other? Drawing from his own journey through burnout, Dr. Fisher shares how carrying the we...

In this episode, we turn our attention to a quality that is often overlooked at work—joy. We tend to associate mindfulness with managing stress or navigating difficult situations. While that’s important, it’s only part of the picture. Joy is just as essential—and just as trainable. Pierre and Sarah explore how joy can be cultivated in practical ways throughout the workday. This includes simple mom...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah are joined by Dr. Jonathan Fisher to explore a deeper understanding of wisdom—one that goes beyond thinking and into the body. Together, they unpack how wisdom arises not only from the brain, but also from the heart and the gut, and how learning to tune into these signals can support clearer decisions, reduce stress, and help preve...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah explore a deceptively simple yet transformative approach: working in iterations. Rather than taking on overwhelming tasks all at once, they introduce the idea of creating small, intentional “containers”—clear, manageable steps that help us begin, explore, and make progress with more ease. They discuss how iterations can reduce proc...

In today’s fast-paced work culture, it’s easy to fall into the rhythm of doing more, faster—checking off tasks, staying busy, and tying our sense of worth to productivity. But at what cost? In this episode, Pierre Khawand and Sarah Pellegrini explore a simple yet powerful question: Would you rather be productive—or happy? Rather than choosing one over the other, they unpack how the two can coexist...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah are joined again by Dr. Jonathan Fisher to explore the theme of courage—what it really means, and how it shows up in our daily lives. Rather than focusing on heroic or dramatic acts, they reframe courage as something much more accessible: taking small, meaningful actions aligned with our values, even in the presence of fear. The co...

In a world filled with conflict, uncertainty, and constant exposure to difficult news, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed—sometimes even pulled into resentment or despair. In this episode, Pierre and Sarah explore how we can stay grounded without becoming consumed by negativity. They unpack a simple but powerful two-part approach: first, acknowledging and making space for difficult emotions, and sec...

Multitasking has become the norm in modern work culture—and often a badge of honor. But what if constantly switching between tasks is actually fragmenting our attention and draining our energy? In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah explore the power of single-tasking as a mindful and intentional way of working. Rather than presenting it as a productivity trick, they di...

Judgment quietly shapes how we see ourselves, how we relate to others, and how we interpret what’s happening around us—at work and in life. In this episode, Pierre and Sarah explore judgment not as a flaw to eliminate, but as a deeply human process to better understand. Together, they unpack its many layers, including self-judgment, judging others, and judging situations, and reflect on why judgme...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, we reflect on a simple yet powerful reminder: mindfulness is not about getting it right—it’s a practice and a promise to come back to yourself again and again. We explore how perfectionism, self-judgment, and “all-or-nothing” thinking can quietly undermine mindfulness practice, and why kindness, patience, and repetition matter more than consistency...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, we explore one of the most challenging—and common—topics in mindfulness at work: dealing with difficult people. We begin by acknowledging the power of compassion and understanding, and why they are often a necessary first step. But we also examine their limits. What happens when compassion is not reciprocated? When empathy turns into exhaustion? Wh...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, we explore how to relate skillfully to difficult, recurring thoughts—especially those rooted in worry, self-doubt, comparison, and self-criticism. We begin with mindfulness of thoughts: noticing, labeling, and letting thoughts pass without getting entangled. From there, we introduce two additional approaches for when thoughts feel “sticky” and hard...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, we explore the difference between pain and suffering—and how mindfulness can help us meet discomfort with more ease and less resistance. We talk about physical pain, emotional pain, and the everyday discomfort that shows up when we slow down and pay attention. Through practical reflections, personal examples, and a simple but powerful formula—suffe...

In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah explore the often-misunderstood relationship between discipline and flexibility — not as opposing forces, but as complementary qualities that shape how we live, work, and practice mindfulness. Together, they reflect on how discipline can provide a grounding container — offering stability, safety, and continuity — while flexibility...

As artificial intelligence becomes ever more integrated into our lives and workplaces, how do we ensure we don’t lose touch with what makes us human? In this timely conversation, Pierre and Sarah explore the meeting point of AI and mindfulness — the balance between automation and awareness. They reflect on the quote “You will never be able to automate your humanness,” and discuss how to use AI tho...

As a new year begins, we often focus on what we want to create — but just as important is what we’re ready to let go of. In this episode of Awakening Mindfulness at Work, Pierre and Sarah explore how letting go can create space for clarity, presence, and more intentional living. They reflect on three key areas where release can be especially powerful: habits that no longer serve us, expectations t...