Anxiety At Work? Reduce Stress, Uncertainty & Boost Mental Health

Our guest today is Richard Safeer, MD. Dr. Safeer is the Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-being at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he leads the Healthy at Hopkins employee health and well-being strategy. Prior to arriving at Hopkins, Dr. Safeer practiced family medicine in Northern Virginia. He was then on faculty at the George Washington University. His book “A Cure for the Common Company,” is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble today and will be released in January of 2023.###Three Key Things:Learn what Healthy at Hopkins is all aboutHear how employees benefit and mental wellness is supported - can you use these ideas at your company or on your team?Get a sneak peek into the upcoming book, "A Cure for the Common Company"If you love this podcast please share it with friends, family and co-workers and leave a 5-star review! Join us at LinkedIn and download Chapter One of Anxiety at Work at The Culture Works.###A shout out to our wonderful sponsor, LifeGuides. LifeGuides is a peer-to-peer community that helps people navigate through their day-to-day stressors by providing a place of empathy, listening, wisdom and support with a Guide who has walked in your shoes, experiencing the same challenge or life experience as you. We have a special offer for A@W Community from LifeGuides. It's this easy -  Schedule a demo and drop Healthy2021 in the “Any Questions?” box and receive 2 FREE months service.goHappy Hub is the most inclusive and timely way to communicate and engage directly with your frontline employees and candidates with 95%+ open rates. Easily get the right message to thSupport the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.In this episode, you will hear:the common mistakes we make in our conversations, and how can we be more conscious of what’s happening between the wordswhy stress and emotions can trigger conversations to go off the rails, four fundamental conversation types: Why knowing the way someone is trying to tell you something may help us decipher what is really being said.Our Anxiety at Work guest today is Chuck Wisner, a thinker, coach, and teacher in the areas of organizational strategy, human dynamics, and leadership communication. He has spent twenty-five years as a consultant and advisor to leaders in companies such as Google, Apple, Tesla, General Motors, and Shell. His methods are anchored in years of research and the practical application of the foundations of conversations. He is the author of The Art of Conscious Conversations: Transforming How We Talk, Listen, and Interact.###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.Our guest this week is Traci Fenton, Founder and CEO of WorldBlu®. She has earned the "Oscars" in management award as a prestigious "Thinkers50 Radar Awardee," and has been recognized in Inc. Magazine as a “Top 50 Leadership Thinker.” She also earned the Game Changer award for "Outstanding Results in Shaping the World." She is a Marshall Goldsmith "Top 100 Coach" & has been recognized as a "World-Changing Woman in Conscious Business."Traci is the author of the book, Freedom at Work: The Leadership Strategy for Transforming Your Life, Your Organization, and Our World. She founded WorldBlu in 1997 and has helped spark and lead the global conversation around reinventing organizations using freedom and organization democracy rather than fear and control.###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.In this episode, you will learn:whatever difficulties we may have faced in the past, every one of us can develop more resilienceWhy it is important to embrace failurethere’s a connection between sports and life—especially how we think.Our guest today is Joel Green. A successful man and a former professional basketball player, many would look at Joel Green and define him by his successes, but the truth is, everything worth having is worth fighting for, which is exactly how Joel got to where he is today.Green made the difficult decision to step away from his athletic career sooner than he anticipated, and he pivoted to launching Pro Level Training. Pro Level Training is partnered with Nike delivering camps and training for youth athletes. The connection Joel was able to make with Nike allowed his company to expand more rapidly, and has also resulted in motivational speaking engagements, where Joel presents to business owners, entrepreneurs, and young audiences.Today, in addition to running Pro Level Training, Joel is the National Director for Nike Sports Camps, as well as an accomplished speaker. He was honored to speak to thousands and deliver his own TED Talk ###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.Our guest this week is our friend Anne Davis Gotte, VP and Global Talent Management for Bumble. As a leader on the company’s People and Culture team, Anne oversees key initiatives such as the creation of strategic talent infrastructure and management capabilities to help the company meet its growth and impact aspirations. Prior to joining Bumble, Anne led enterprise talent for Ecolab, a $14B company with 45,000 associates. Anne also spent 14 years with General Mills in a variety of business partner and talent management roles building knowledge and skillsets on DEI, manager development, contingent labor strategy and enterprise organizational design. She holds a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.Our guest this week is our new friend Scott Simon, who is a happiness entrepreneur and founder of Scare Your Soul. He is also the author of the forthcoming book, aptly named “Scare Your Soul.” He is dedicated to creating, curating, and leading opportunities for people around the world to be happier and more courageous. Scott founded the Scare Your Soul movement in 2015, growing it from a single Facebook post to a global movement with sixty volunteer ambassadors. He brings his passion for courage to audiences, a life-coaching practice, and mindfulness-meditations in person and online.###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.Our guest this week is Kasia Curry, who heads up global wellbeing for Baker Hughes. Prior to joining this current firm, she spent more than a decade at GE Energy as HealthCare and Health Promotions Leader. Kasia is dedicated to fostering environments that supports people to be at their best and true selves through an integrated approach to wellbeing including physical, mental, purpose, social, safety and security.###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.In this podcast, Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick are joined by Jason Finucan, a mental health advocate and founder of Stigma Zero, to discuss how to cope with a mental health crisis in your career. Jason shares his personal journey of being diagnosed with bipolar one disorder after a six-day manic episode that led him to found Stigma Zero and write a book about his experiences. He emphasizes the importance of eliminating the stigma of mental health at work and self-care during difficult times such as the pandemic. Jason advises finding a balance between dealing with external pressures and stresses and decompressing through activities such as reading, exercise, and hobbies. He also stresses the need to turn off social media and news regularly and curate our own information. Jason shares his lesson of not "soldiering on" and accepting mental illness as a lifelong battle. It is important to prioritize mental and physical health to be able to be the best version of ourselves in all aspects of life.Our guest is our new friend Jason Finucan, a mental health advocate and founder of StigmaZero. As someone who has experienced both a major physical illness and a major mental illness, Jason shares his personal experiences in his book, “Jason 1: Stigma 0: My battle with mental illness at home and in the workplace.” ###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen priest. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever done. The Study tracked the lives of two groups of men for over 75 years, and it now follows their Baby Boomer children to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and wellbeing in middle age. He writes about what science and Zen can teach us about healthy human development.Dr. Waldinger is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books. He teaches medical students and psychiatry residents at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and he is a Senior Dharma Teacher in Boundless Way Zen.To keep abreast of research findings, insights and more, visit robertwaldinger.com.###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.In this episode, you will find out:How individuals can be more bold—when there are so many worries about failing—especially for those who may be living with anxiety?what leaders can do to create a culture of courage, where bold actions are celebrated. daily practices to keep your emotional fitnessChristie Hunter Arscott is author of the book Begin Boldly: How Women Can Reimagine Risk, Embrace Uncertainty, and Launch A Brilliant Career, that will be published August 2, 2022. A Rhodes Scholar, she has been named by Thinkers50 as one of the top management thinkers likely to shape the future of business. Her article Why So Many Thirty something Women Are Leaving Your Company was selected for the Harvard Business Review collection of the top articles on diversity. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Brown University and two Master’s degrees with a focus on gender research from the University of Oxford.###Support the showFor a weekly dose of gratitude from Chester Elton, text GRATITUDE to 908-460-2820.Until next week, we hope you  find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.  Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Cultur...