Episode 5

#5 From Languishing to Finding Flow: Well-being at Work with Elena Iacono

Elena Iacono designs and facilitates well-being and mental health programs to help people thrive in the workplace. Looking back to our initial podcast conversation in 2021 on Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes, we revisit timely themes, including managing stress, toxic positivity, languishing, finding new ways to thrive, and finding flow.

02:07 Our current state and the mental health landscape

06:03 Withdrawal and isolation

07:00 What is toxic workplace culture?

10:00 The dark side of innovative culture

14:45 What is toxic positivity?

22:31 Languishing in 2021 (Adam Grant)

26:44 Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

37:59 Book and TV recommendations

Articles we refer to in this episode:

Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation (MIT Sloan Management Review)

There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing (New York Times)

Follow Elena on Instagram @ epiacono