Work Trauma: Mandy Tang and Dawson Church in Conversation

Mandy Tang is the author of Heal Your Career Wounds: Navigating the Trauma of Today’s Workplace. A career coach and holistic healer, Mandy helps clients such as large technology companies, start-ups, and the nonprofit sector bring more creativity and joy into their work lives. Her training includes an MBA in finance from Columbia, certification as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, and completion of a three-year shamanic practitioner program.

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Mandy's diverse background

Why there isn’t "great" leadership and management in many companies

How to get you in touch with your potential at work

Overreliance on an analytical the mind and how that leads to bad decisions

Listening to your own inner guidance system; disconnecting from external noise

Why the best decisions are rarely linear

How we talk to ourselves and why that makes a huge difference

Noticing and raising our level of vibration around work

What to do if you’re feeling stuck

Trusting your own voice