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Why Winning Can Still Destroy People | Dave Albrechta
What if modern systems aren’t actually designed to heal human conflict?
In this episode of Thought Atlas, Blessed sits down with Dave Albrechta — former employment litigator, mediator, coach, and writer — for a conversation about justice, burnout, reinvention, identity, conflict, and the emotional cost of adversarial systems.
After spending years representing employees in federal litigation, Dave began questioning whether the legal system truly resolves conflict… or often escalates it emotionally, psychologically, and relationally.
That realization eventually pushed him away from traditional…
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