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Burnout is a word that comes up a lot among entrepreneurs, especially as authenticity and vulnerability have increasingly become catchwords on social media. But how do we know if what we’re feeling is actually burnout instead of something else and what can we do to recover from it? Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen tackle this issue comprehensively with the help of their guest, Kate Steiner , a b...

The COVID pandemic has pushed a lot of us to the edge of sanity. In this episode, Jason Wrobel & Whitney Lauritsen discuss mental health triggers, especially in the service industry. Customer service is incredibly challenging; there's a lot of entitlement and cruelty that can happen from customers that lack the awareness of what it's like to work in those positions. We all need to work on havi...

As the world continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, people are fighting not only for a healthy body but a healthy mind as well. This goes beyond the many psychological problems caused by the pandemic but transcends into the battle of personal beliefs. Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen discuss how today's chaotic setting pushed everyone to uphold contrasting opinions about racism, polic...

Creativity is a form of self-expression. All human beings have it. But some have creativity buried deeply that they may not identify themselves as creative people. Jason Wrobel & Whitney Lauritsen’s guest is  Kirk Westwood , co-founder, and CEO of  Glass River Media . In this episode, you’ll discover different forms of creativity. You just have to dig deep into yourself and release i...

Recently, the internet was shaken with the posting of Khloe Kardashian's unedited photo – and how she went to great lengths to make her legal team involved just to get rid of its existence online. This doesn't only reveal so much about her personality but also how this kind of situation shapes the public perception of beauty culture. Dissecting the many takeaways from this issue, Whitney Lauritsen...

When you look at the medical staff's historical treatment towards the black community, you can completely understand why so much of a high percentage of black people don't want to receive the vaccine. For instance, James Marion Sims, known as the Father of modern gynecology, experimented on enslaved black women without anesthesia. Today, the black community has lesser access to healthy food, adequ...

Social media platforms were designed to bring out the creativity and the inner DaVinci in us. Indeed, it paved the way for trending opportunities that young and adult alike can participate in. But it's not always peaches and cream, if you feel the burnout or deterioration on your social media routine, you may have grown an addiction to social media. Joining Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen for a...

Organizations use personality tests and classifications to identify how candidates behave at work and predict job performance and interaction towards a team or individual project. The accuracy and reliability have been questions to these examinations, and candidates are being labeled without digging outside the generated results. In this episode, hosts Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen talk about...

This pandemic made a significant impact in our lives that introverts and extroverts alike are dealing with this unexpected switch. Do introverts feel relieved that they no longer need to socialize with other people? How are the extroverts dealing with the restriction against going out and mingling with others? Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen take a moment to talk about how the pandemic affects...

People are considered the most adaptable creatures that they can acclimate to various degrees. We were once in the "discovering yourself" stage but it seems we cannot go out of our prized comfort zones. Almost always you hear people saying that they are growing and yet, they are lost in the stagnant space. Sitting down in conversation with Whitney Lauritsen and Jason Wrobel, Gresham Harkless Jr .,...

There's an immense rise in popularity with superfoods in the Western diet, like quinoa, spirulina, and chia seeds. The dark side of this is how Indian farmers, who grow these crops, are now unable to purchase these products themselves. In this episode, Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen discuss how the soaring demand and price of superfoods result in the exploitation of Indian farmers. To help rem...

You may not have heard of the term financial gaslighting before, but chances are you have already felt its effects in one way or another. Do you feel like it’s harder to live nowadays? That no matter how hard you try, you still find yourself struggling to provide more for your family? You are not alone. Keeping afloat in this economy as a single person is hard enough in itself. Starting a family i...

The path towards sobriety is also a story of mental healing. Since it directly impacts our minds, dealing with anxiety and depression is also a huge factor when getting rid of addiction. However, treatments for such a diagnosis are primarily dependent on a huge amount of medication. Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen talk with Rynda Laurel  to share how her pursuit for natural-based solutions...

Trigger Warning: Discussion of harassment and harm to women.   In this episode, Jason Wrobel & Whitney Lauritsen discuss the issue of women's physical safety. Whitney starts off with a curiosity around her seeming ignorance of her own safety as a woman. She's traveled very far distances on her own without having been threatened. But one woman’s experience, of course, cannot speak for all...

Are you often told that other people have it worse than you? This phenomenon is what Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen refer to as the Reverse Comparison Trap. When you share your sufferings with people, their immediate response is to compare your pain with that of others in an attempt to console you. The question is, does it help? Or does it worsen your sufferings? Jason and Whitney believe the...

In today's world full of divisive communities, many people deal with multiple identities, particularly their sexual orientation. But this burden does not only lie with the people who are struggling with their own identities, but also the individuals who mingle with them – and sadly, diminish their importance through homophobia and misogyny. Author and speaker Britt East  joins Jason Wrobel an...

Human as we are, we’re living life constantly reaching for the better things. We’re aiming for the next opportunity, next level, next step in our career, or the next phase in our lives. But why is that? Why do we want to be better? Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen reflect on this human quest of personal development, seeking and striving to become better. At the heart of this episode is the quote...

Society has instilled in our minds that we should gain the trust of others to have self-fulfillment. But with our constant pursuit of people-pleasing, our own personality and humanity may be sacrificed and diminished. Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen talk about how seeking validation from others can lead to making ourselves small, have a constant feeling of burnout, and ultimately, soul exhausti...

We often take shame for granted, but it is actually one of the most basic, earliest developed emotions that we, humans, have. Nick Jaworksi even goes so far as to treat shame as a structural force that shapes a lot of things we live with in the world. In his podcast, Shame Rules!  he explores the different ways in which shame shapes the way we think, speak and act in the world. In this conver...

What does it mean to reach milestones personally and professionally? The show has been on for 200 episodes now, but to Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen, it seems like it was only yesterday when they capped the 100th. With Wellavatr’s third anniversary and Whitney’s birthday on the horizon, there is much to unpack when it comes to milestones. Is there a deeper significance to these markers aside...

Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen take the National Day Of Unplugging seriously. Also inspired by "Digital Minimalism,"  they realize the many benefits that you gain when unplugging from technology. For one, you'll have more time in your hands, helping you to become more present in the moment. You get many things done when you're not distracted by scrolling through social media on your phone...

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology." ~ E. O. Wilson   Society treats anxiety like a tumor. We have been trying to cut it out, burn it, and act like it's something that needs conquering. Yet even with this, so many people still suffer from anxiety no matter how hard they try to run away. Maybe it is time...

The pandemic has made many of us a bunch of skeptics, particularly on the institutions that seemingly hold us during these trying times. Now, social trust is deteriorating, and more and more people are holding back from a lot of things they used to do. In this episode, Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen dive deep into the erosion of social trust that is happening during this pandemic. They look ba...

Termed by psychologist and researcher Paul Slovic, compassion fade is the idea that the more people are impacted by a tragedy, the more empathy decreases. In today’s episode, Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen discuss compassion fade in light of approximately 500,000 deaths caused by COVID-19 in the US as of February 2021. It begs the question, "What are the roots of how empathy is born and engend...

Even with the growing use of plant medicines, many people are still hesitant to try out these alternatives to healing—owing to the fact that we simply haven’t fully understood it yet. When thinking about plant medicine and CBD products, people get so hung up on the images of stoners and other misconceptions, overlooking the many health benefits it offers. Sponsoring this episode, Jason Wrobel and...