Dec. 15, 2025

Work Will Always Affect Your Personal Life – Here’s How to Control It

Work Will Always Affect Your Personal Life – Here’s How to Control It

In this episode, Kaila and Kyle discuss both how family has influenced their career paths, how they talk about work with their families, and the importance of figuring out what the right amount of spillover is between work and family life.

00:00 Intro

01:40 How Kaila and Kyle talk about work with their families

07:28 The “spillover-crossover model”

13:19 The danger of co-rumination

15:42 How Kaila’s family influenced her career path

20:34 How Kyle’s family influenced his career path

25:12 Tactics

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