Healing the Workplace
Healing the Workplace
Podcast Description
Work should be a place where we thrive — not just survive.
But for many of us, especially those at the margins, it’s still a space of silence, burnout, and shrinking ourselves to fit in.
Healing the Workplace is a bold, honest podcast exploring the future of mental health at work — through real stories, grounded insights, and socially conscious conversations.
Hosted by Selma Lemsaadi (founder of Heal Magazine) and Axelle Ahanhanzo (founder of LAUDACE), each episode goes beyond surface-level wellness trends to uncover what it really takes to build safer, more human workplaces.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores various themes related to mental health in professional environments, including systemic issues around burnout, the challenge of authenticity at work, and strategies for creating inclusive workplaces. Specific episode examples include discussions on unlearning toxic productivity habits and the importance of setting boundaries in high-pressure jobs.
Work should be a place where we thrive, not just survive.
But for many of us, especially those at the margins, it’s still a space of silence, burnout, and shrinking ourselves to fit in.
Healing the Workplace is a bold, honest podcast exploring the future of mental health at work — through real stories, grounded insights, and socially conscious conversations.
Hosted by Selma Lemsaadi (founder of Heal Magazine) and Axelle Ahanhanzo (founder of LAUDACE), each episode goes beyond surface-level wellness trends to uncover what it really takes to build safer, more human workplaces.
Kimberly Fuqua has spent nearly 30 years inside Microsoft. She's watched the industry go from encyclopedias to AI, from two business trips a year to a pace that shifts hour by hour. And what she's learned across all of it has almost nothing to do with technology.
When her son was diagnosed with autism, Kimberly left Microsoft at the peak of her career. One year later, she came back — fully remote, two business trips a year, and a promotion. She got more by stepping back than she ever got by pushing through. That negotiation, and what it took to believe she deserved it, shaped everything that came after.
In this episode, Selma and Axelle sit down with Kimberly to ask what nearly three decades inside one of the world's fastest-moving companies actually teaches you about staying human. They get into the speed problem — how technology evolves faster than people do, and what gets lost when organisations stop accounting for that gap. Kimberly's framework for staying grounded: identity, purpose, courage, community, resilience. And her distinction between bouncing back and bouncing forward — to the next version of yourself, not the previous one.
Her advice for anyone close to burnout right now: five minutes. No meditation app required. Just sit, and be.
Healing the Workplace is a podcast by Heal Magazine and LAUDACE.
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