
Is Your Job Killing You? Don't Wait Till You Break with Deepa Purushothaman
Deepa Purushothaman was a partner at Deloitte for 21 years. At year 17, she started getting sick — headaches, stomach pains, skin rashes. Small things at first. And then over the course of two years, it grew until she couldn't feel from her knees down or her elbows down. She spent eight months in bed. She saw 14 doctors. And doctor number 14 said the thing the other 13 didn't:
"Your job is killing you. Do you feel like you have to do a big job like this to be worthy? Don't you just see you're worthy being you?"
Deepa left that office in tears. And what followed — the months of sitting in that…
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