Join our hosts and special guest, Sh’Maughn Wright, as we discuss how to find balance in our busy lives and be confident that we are more than our 9-5.

How do you separate what you do on day-today basis with who you are at home or in other capacities?
What are some of the assumptions that you’ve encountered about the role of work in our daily lives?
What are some helpful suggestions you have for people seeking to find balance in their work/life?

Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate

Does not make you THE BEST EMPLOYEE EVER – it makes you a healthier

Where do these worlds collide?
Transcript:
- Hello, and welcome to the What's Career Got To Do With It? Podcast where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance and maybe some laughs along the way.

- On today's episode, we are joined by special guest Sh'Maughn Wright, career specialist, as we discuss and answer or many to the question, who are we beyond the 9 to 5.

- Sh'Maughn?

- Hey, Sh'Maughn.

- Hey.

- Top of the morning. Hey.

- Good morning.

- Do you mind introducing yourself real quick? Tell us who you are, where you're from.

- Well-

- For your people?

- Well, I am Sh'Maughn Wright. I am, well, for one, a licensed clinical mental- health counselor associate and also a career advisor here at Duke. I'm from Goldsboro, North Carolina originally, if anyone knows where that is.

- I do.

- Wayne County?

- So, yep, Wayne County. So that's the little town that I'm from. Been in the Durham area probably about 10 years now, so.

- We're throwing up signs in here , the cool city sign.

- Alright.

- K didn't do it, but K should have been the first one, I'm just saying.

- Oh.

- See, when you're from here, you ain't gotta throw it up, it speaks.

- We hear K in the background.

- It's gonna be a day, y'all. Hang on.

- Yeah.

- So we, we've been talking over the past couple episodes and past couple weeks about people leading double lives. No, I'm just kidding. Not double lives , but people, people living beyond their 9 to 5 because that does take place. I think we so much, we focus so much on that 9 to 5 job, but there's also, people have other passions, other things that they want to get into. And, at the beginning, you, you talked a little bit about your credentials. Do you mind sharing a little bit more about that? Because we know you as the career advisor, but do you mind telling us a little bit more about what goes on beyond that?

- Yeah, so outside of the career, being a career advisor, I am a therapist and I, I, I see individuals as well as couples. So I've been doing that for about three years now. About three years. So finally about to be fully licensed in that area.

- Woo hoo!

- Hey. I graduated from Central back in 2021,

- Eagle Pride.

- So, yes, yes, amplified.

- OK.

- My Camels, Campbell is playing them this weekend, so.

- Yeah, they're good.

- Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. So we'll be watching that. But yeah, so I, I've, I've been doing that, as well. So I do that kind of like part time. So that's been actually a real big help when it comes to me balancing my 9 to 5 because during my program, I was able to teach myself like, you gotta engage in like selfcare. You gotta make sure your, your cup is full at all times. So that's been, like, a priority for me for a good minute now.

- That's awesome. And, and if you don't mind, just diving into selfcare, too I'd be curious and everybody else kind of chime in on that, too. Selfcare, like what, what are you doing?

- So selfcare for me looks different, almost like, so it evolves. So, like, I feel like as we evolve and change your selfcare plans and treatments will, will change, as well. So for me, I of course try to work out at least five times a week-

- Oh, sorry.

- Trying to do-

- Sorry,