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Globally Grounded: The Work-Life Reset
Globally Grounded is a weekly podcast for busy professionals seeking a healthier, more sustainable way to live and work in a world that increasingly prioritizes busyness over well-being.
Host, Kyra Khanna, is a wife + mom, avid traveler, athlete, and breast cancer survivor. After 20 years in tech, consulting, and international affairs, she transitioned from corporate life into launching her own work-life design practice. Passionate about travel, as well as workplace well-being, she now helps…
Episodes
- Globally Grounded: The Work-Life Reset
Episode 37: The Paradox of Unlimited PTO
In this episode, Kyra explores why employees with unlimited PTO consistently take less time off than those with a set number of days, one of the more…
- Globally Grounded: The Work-Life Reset
Episode 36: A Good Reason to Do Nothing
In this episode, Kyra explores what happens when you stop filling every moment with something. Pulling from neuroscience and a personal story about a very…
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Episode 35: How Are We So Connected At Work, Yet Still So Lonely?
In this episode, Kyra tackles workplace loneliness, a topic that resonates with her personally, having experienced this on more than one occasion. One in five…
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Episode 34: The Millennial Career Reckoning and What Comes Next
In this episode, Kyra explores one of the more frustrating contradictions of the Millennial career experience: a generation that seemingly did everything right…
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Episode 33: In the Age of AI, the Humans Are Still Here
In this episode, Kyra gets into AI from a human perspective. She acknowledges the real and justified fears (lately, it feels almost catastrophic), including…
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Episode 32: What If We Never Lost That Back to School Feeling?
In this episode, Kyra is getting into seashells, camps, and the French concept of la rentrée, and what all three have to do with why September feels so…
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Episode 31: What Dancing in the Streets of Oslo Taught Me About Collective Joy
In this episode, Kyra returns from a jam-packed summer vacation with her family, which included two very busy but incredible weeks in Europe. She left with one…
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Episode 30: In Pursuit of Optimization, We Lost the Plot
In this episode, Kyra takes a playful but pointed look at optimization culture — the Oura rings, the 4am wake-ups, the biohacking routines, and the growing…
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Episode 29: Is It Burnout Or Something Else Entirely?
In this episode, Kyra dives into burnout. Drawing on a recent Fast Company piece by burnout prevention consultant Sally Clarke (We don’t have a burnout…
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Episode 28: The Manager in the Middle - What the Data Says About the People Holding It All Together
In this episode, Kyra zooms in on one of the most striking — and most human — findings from Gallup's 2026 State of the Global Workplace Report: the global…
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Episode 27: What the World Is Telling Us About Workplace Stress and Engagement
In this episode, Kyra digs into Gallup's 2026 State of the Global Workplace Report and what it reveals about stress, thriving, and the complicated relationship…
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Episode 26: The Messy, Complicated Truth About Retirement
In this episode of Globally Grounded, Kyra asks: What does retirement actually mean? And is the version we inherited even working for anyone? She unpacks the…
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Episode 25: A Work-Life Q&A to Celebrate 25 Episodes!
Twenty-five episodes ago, Globally Grounded began as a mission to find the data, the global traditions, and the cultural shifts that could help us fix our…
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Episode 24: Living on Full - Purpose, Longevity, and Building a Home in Tijuana
In this episode, Kyra takes listeners to a dusty home-build site in Tijuana, Mexico, during a transformative weekend where a mix of volunteers, including kids…
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Episode 23: Big Sur, Disconnection, and What Happens When You Actually Step Away
In this episode, Kyra reflects on a recent trip to Big Sur, CA and what it revealed about the uneasy balance between disconnection and peace. From unreliable…
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Episode 22: Does Success Exist Without an Audience?
When was the last time you had a win that no one else knew about, and it felt just as good? In this episode, Kyra continues her exploration of the 2026 World…
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Episode 21: The 2026 World Happiness Report & What Actually Makes Us Happy?
In this episode, Kyra revisits a topic she's explored before: the World Happiness Report. The 2026 edition just dropped, with Finland claiming the top spot…
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Episode 20: Is This Still My Company? Navigating a Values Shift at Work
In this episode, Kyra gets into what happens when the values you signed up for at work subtly or not so subtly shift under your feet, especially in fast-moving…
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Episode 19: What Would You Tell Your 18-Year-Old Self?
In this episode, Kyra reflects on what she'd tell her 18-year-old self about work…the one who went into college pre-med, convinced she'd be a neuroscientist…
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Episode 18: Navigating Ambition, Pressure, and Identity in Youth Sports (and Work)
In this episode, Kyra dives into the question no one wants to ask but everyone needs to: whose dream is this, really? After watching her son compete at a…
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Episode 17: Too Old to Start Over? Let's Talk About That.
In this episode, Kyra explores the reality of midlife career pivots and why reinvention is both increasingly common and surprisingly difficult depending on…
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Episode 16: My 13-Year-Old Has Thoughts on Your Meeting Culture
What does work look like to someone who hasn't entered the workforce yet? In this episode, Kyra sits down with her 13-year-old son—right on the cusp of Gen Z…
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Episode 15: Showing Up When the World Feels Heavy
In this episode of Globally Grounded, Kyra explores what it means to keep showing up when the world feels loud, uncertain, and chronically stressful. From…
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Episode 14: The 4-Day Workweek – What We’ve Actually Learned So Far
In this episode of Globally Grounded, Kyra takes a look at the four-day workweek to explore what’s actually happened when organizations around the world have…
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Episode 13: Redefining Success – Who Decides What “Making It” Means?
In this episode, Kyra explores how our definitions of success are shaped by culture, economics, and the stories we’ve inherited about work and achievement…
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Episode 12: Why 2026 May Be the Year We (Start to) Redesign Work for Humans
In this episode, Kyra kicks off 2026 by unpacking a timely Fast Company article that argues this year could mark a real turning point for employee well-being…
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Episode 11: Holding It All – Global Practices for Closing the Year
In this episode, Kyra closes out the year with a thoughtful, honest reflection on what it means to live in a world that holds both beauty and heaviness at the…