023: People Pleasing

Welcome back to another episode of Change By Degrees! Today we’re talking about something everyone struggles with in some capacity—people pleasing. It can be a difficult balance between trying to make coworkers, bosses, classmates in group projects, and professors happy with you, and then sacrificing your time, energy, and happiness over impossible expectations to keep people as satisfied as possible. How do we find this balance, and when does people pleasing go from a positive thing to a toxic thing? For both us and everyone around us? And how does people pleasing translate to social media?Listen as we discuss this tricky topic, and let us know what you think on our social media!