The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low

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153. Work Is Not Family: Boundaries, Burnout, and Toxic Workplaces (Katie Hadiaris)

2026-09-2038:14

What happens when we expect our workplace to meet emotional needs that it was never designed to meet? In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, I speak with Katie Jean Hadiaris, founder of Work Is Not Family, about the hidden expectations we bring into our careers—and how those expectations can leave us vulnerable to burnout, overwork and workplace harm. Many of us were taught that being a good worker means being productive, helpful, agreeable and willing to go the extra mile. For women e...

152. The Skills That School Never Taught Quiet Achievers (Rob Heller)

2026-09-1329:29

There is a particular kind of dread that shows up around a first performance review, a first networking event, a first job where nobody hands you a manual. For introverted professional women who spent years being praised for grades and credentials, the workplace often demands a different currency entirely — people skills, self-advocacy, the ability to connect without performing extroversion. Nobody taught this. It was never on the syllabus. That is the gap Rob Heller has spent two decades try...

151. Inside The Cage: Mia Hanks On Surviving Covert Narcissistic Abuse

2026-09-0628:38

For twenty-nine years, Mia Hanks believed that if she just held on a little longer, things would eventually get better. They never did. Behind a marriage that looked, to the outside world, like a life with a charming, generous man was a quieter reality: a husband who grew angry when she was sick, controlled every dollar she touched, and slowly convinced her that she was the one who was too sensitive, too much, too wrong. That is covert narcissism, and Mia Hanks understands its texture better ...

150. Letting Go of Control: How an INFJ Conductor Healed Generational Trauma (Joel Bein)

2026-08-3046:40

Joel Bein still remembers the exact feeling of trying to control something he could never control: standing in front of an orchestra, arms raised, believing the gesture had to look right rather than simply be true in the moment. Letting go of that grip, he says, was the same letting go he later had to learn in his own healing work. In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, host Serena Low talks with Joel Bein, founder of Human Liberation and host of The Joel Bein Show, about being a...

149. Harnessing Courage: How Laura Bratton Turned A Life Without Sight Into A Journey Of Grit and Gratitude

2026-08-2327:24

At nine years old, Laura Bratton was told she would go blind. The diagnosis landed softly at first — the way impossibly hard truths sometimes do with children, held at a distance by the mercy of a young mind that couldn't yet process what was coming. The real reckoning came in eighth grade, when the sight loss accelerated and the grief hit with full force: panic attacks, debilitating depression, and the particular ache of becoming invisible to the people around her — not through cruelty, but ...

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The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low