ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Work Is Third is a podcast for people who are ready to rethink how we work, lead, and live.
Hosted by Dawn Hunter, JD, MPH, CWP — Workplace Culture Strategist and leadership speaker — this show explores burnout prevention, boundaries, organizational wellbeing, and sustainable ways of working through honest conversations, research-informed insights, and real-world leadership stories.
Each episode offers practical tools, reflective moments, and culture-shifting ideas to help individuals and organizations build healthier, more human ways of working — without losing what matters most.
Hosted by Dawn Hunter, JD, MPH, CWP — Workplace Culture Strategist and leadership speaker — this show explores burnout prevention, boundaries, organizational wellbeing, and sustainable ways of working through honest conversations, research-informed insights, and real-world leadership stories.
Each episode offers practical tools, reflective moments, and culture-shifting ideas to help individuals and organizations build healthier, more human ways of working — without losing what matters most.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
35 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
77 episodes
since March 31, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Crystal Stutler had the career she dreamed of. She was a senior manager at a consulting firm, on the partner track, traveling the country. Then one night she found herself on her living room floor at 11:30 p.m., gasping for air with her work still unfinished. Three ER visits in 18 months later, inc…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode of Work Is Third, host Dawn Hunter sits down with Michael Tennant, founder and CEO of Curiosity Lab, creator of Actually Curious, and author of The Power of Empathy, for a conversation about grief, felt values, and what it takes to build empathy as an actual skill.
After losing two…
There are very few workplace problems that bettercommunication can't improve, at least according to today's guest.
In this episode of Work Is Third, I sit down with BJ Talley, Founder and President of the strategic communications firm Gladius, to talk about what actually builds trust on a team. BJ…
What if the version of you that got you here isn't the version you need for what's next?
Emily Adams left the Amish community at 17 with no roadmap—jumping out of a two-story window in the middle of the night with no plan. She went on to manage production lines for Ford, GM, and BMW, save millions…
What happens when the role you're playing on the outside stops matching who you actually are underneath it?
On this episode of Work Is Third, Dawn Hunter talks with Jonathan Cave about daring to become that person instead. Jonathan is the author of The Tree and the Mountain – Dare to Become where…
What has to happen in your life for you to realize that you need a break – and to take it?
Brooke Dukes has built four companies in 24 years, and she's found the same problem inside every one of them: the founder becomes the bottleneck. Brooke Dukes is the founder of Success by Design, a leadersh…
What if the people around you are one of the best ways to invest in yourself?
Self-Published Author, Speaker, Female Mentor and Women's Advocate, and corporate finance professional, Urmi Hossain joins Dawn to talk about "friendtors," speed mentoring, and the boundaries that let her inve…
Have you ever felt like you didn't belong somewhere but couldn't explain why? Organizational scientist, adjunct professor, and keynote speaker Andrea D. Carter has spent years studying exactly that feeling — and she has the data to prove it's not in your head. It's in your nervous system.
Her belo…
What does health actually look like — when you factor in ADHD, night owl energy, systemic barriers, and the courage to say the hard thing out loud?
In this episode, I sit down with Jen Fry — conflict resolution coach, speaker, tech entrepreneur, and author of I Said No: How to Have a Backbone and …
Are you building a life that feels right for you , or one shaped by expectations, achievement, and what you think you're supposed to do?
In this episode of Work Is Third, Dawn Hunter sits down with Calvalyn Day to explore freedom, flexibility, reinvention, and the choices that shape our lives. Tog…
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