Book & podcast

Deeper conversations about rights, work, and steadiness.

Federal employees need more than a headline. The book and podcast make room for the legal strategy, human experience, and mindfulness that a short update cannot hold.

The workplace can take over your mind long after the workday ends. It does not have to.

In Finding Peace at Work, Shaun brings together employee rights experience and mindfulness practice to help readers navigate toxic dynamics, workplace conflict, and the emotional cost of feeling trapped.

The goal is not passive acceptance. It is to reclaim enough attention and steadiness to see the situation clearly, make a deliberate plan, and stop giving the workplace every unguarded moment.

Chapter One begins with the first hard victory: recognizing when workplace pressure has crossed into hostility and naming what it may be doing to your mind and body. You can read that chapter free in the Work Peacefully library.

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Finding Peace at Work

Your peace of mind deserves a plan.

Shaun SouthworthFinding Peace at WorkA mindful guide from a devoted employee rights attorney

Biweekly podcast

Civil Rights for Civil Servants

Rights can exist on paper while the people who hold them do not know how to use them in practice.

Shaun Southworth and Lydia Taylor created the podcast for that gap. Each episode combines the news federal employees are talking about, one practical protection, a conversation worth hearing, and answers to real workforce questions.

The show is ad-free and sponsored by Southworth PC. It provides legal information, not legal advice, and listening does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Listen and follow

Every episode

A rhythm built for useful listening.

News creates urgency. Structure turns that urgency into something a federal employee can understand and use.

The Docket

The federal-workforce news employees need to know, explained in plain English and connected to what may matter next.

The Case File

One protection, preparation step, or legal strategy federal employees can understand before they need it.

The Interview

A deeper conversation with people who know the system, the workforce, or the human stakes.

Ask Shaun & Lydia

Straight answers to the questions federal employees are already asking.

Premiere episode

18 months that changed the federal workforce.

The first episode looks back at the shock, the court response, and the current stage—and asks what federal employees should be building now.

Shaun and Lydia explain the practical value of an organized employment file, including personnel actions, performance evaluations, position information, awards, and important communications—always within agency IT, privacy, and security rules.

They also return to a central principle: cases are built on facts and evidence, while mindfulness helps a person respond clearly instead of reacting in a way that obscures the record.

Hear the premiere

The Federal Employee Briefing

Don’t wait for a crisis to learn how the system works.

Three important stories, plain-English context, and practical legal or mindfulness guidance—delivered for federal employees.

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