The first season of Healing the Workplace asked what it would take for work to feel human. Season two picks up somewhere harder: a moment defined by workplace uncertainty, when work itself has stopped feeling stable. AI is reshaping roles overnight. Layoffs move through industries in waves. People are lonelier at work than ever, and most organisations still have no language for any of it, let alone for the workplace uncertainty running underneath.
Across four episodes, Selma Lemsaadi from Heal Magazine and Axelle Ahanhanzo from LAUDACE sit with guests who have lived this from the inside: a burnout that put someone in hospital at 22, a platform built on naming what people feel but rarely say at work, and nearly three decades inside one of the world’s biggest tech companies. Together they ask one question from every angle: how do you stay grounded when the ground keeps moving?
Here is what each episode covers:
Episode 1 | Burnout, AI, layoffs and loneliness: why work stopped feeling human
Season 2 opens with just Selma and Axelle, no guests. Twelve years of chaotic environments taught Selma to overplan her way to control. Axelle’s burnout built slowly across several jobs before she had words for it. They bring the numbers into the room too: only 13% of European employees are engaged at work, and 150 million people across the EU live with a mental health condition. AI disruption, mass layoffs and the loneliness epidemic are not separate crises. They land on the same person, in the same body, on the same Tuesday.
Episode 2 | The dark side of high performance culture (and what it’s doing to our bodies)
Bianca Errigo burnt out at 22, on a sales floor of 800 people, trying to earn enough to buy her dying father his health back. What followed was hospitalisation, fibromyalgia and cortisol so high she couldn’t sleep lying down, while doctors kept finding nothing wrong. Now the founder of HumanOS, she brings the neuroscience and the lived experience to a hard question: what if your highest performer is the one running most dangerously on empty? This episode is paired with a companion article by Heal Magazine and LAUDACE, going deeper into the research behind it. Read it here.
Episode 3 | Still showing up, already gone: the emotional truth behind quiet quitting
Nicole Sura built ShowerrBear around naming the things people carry through their working lives but rarely say out loud. In this episode, she traces quiet quitting back to something more primal: the fear of losing your livelihood, and what that fear does to the gap between how you feel and what you can name. She talks about panic attacks she couldn’t connect to stress at the time, her mother’s back pain ending a corporate career, and why the next step always has to come from inside you.
Episode 4 | 30 years inside big tech: what actually keeps you human when everything accelerates
Kimberly Fuqua has spent almost 30 years at Microsoft, through a shift from encyclopedias to AI. When her son was diagnosed with autism, she left at the peak of her career. A year later, she came back, fully remote, with fewer travel demands and a promotion. In this episode, she shares her framework for staying grounded through change: identity, purpose, courage, community, resilience, and the difference between bouncing back and bouncing forward, into the next version of yourself rather than the last one.
Season 2 does not offer easy fixes for workplace uncertainty. It offers four honest accounts of what it takes to stay grounded inside it. Listen in, and take what you need for your own corner of work.
