There is a Soul At Work worth discovering.

To every subscriber of The Good, Bad & Ugly,

In April 2023, I started writing field-notes on change and leadership in a newsletter called The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. You were one of the readers who stayed with it.

I paused writing the newsletter in 2024 — not because I ran out of things to say, but because I needed to search my own soul for where I wanted to go next.

That searching led to three realisations:

1. I'm still learning from client work. Still processing the hard lessons of building, closing, and rebuilding my own organisations. All these insights want to be useful to someone somewhere — not just filed away.

2. I want to find the leaders who see the gap between what they value and what's actually practised at work — and give them language, not just encouragement.

3. I want the content to be more human and interactive than a newsletter. Something that feels more like we’re taking a walk and talk around the block together — like the real life conversations I have with leaders I work with or mentor.

So I'm launching a podcast called The Soul at Work — and making some changes to this newsletter.

The newsletter will be renamed The Soul at Work and kept as an archive of everything written here.

New insights and field-notes will now live in the podcast and short reels instead.

Each podcast episode follows the same arc as this newsletter: The Good worth protecting. The Bad that creeps in. The Ugly if left unchecked. And one Beautifully practical strategy you can bring to work that week.

So to keep learning together with me:

• Join our mailing list – for direct messages from me, updates on upcoming trainings, community events and offers

• Follow us at @oursoulwork – for short reels of micro tactics for modern workplaces

• Listen to The Soul at Work podcast – for 30 min episodes of insights on leading change at work

First podcast episode drops 28 May.

Come take a walk with me.

— Shiao-Yin