Ep 143 - Jessie Pavelka: Show the human side of your business.

This is how to take control, turning negativity into positivity for good.

Jessie Pavelka is an internationally-recognised health and wellbeing expert, known for his expertise in extreme weight loss. He hosts Obese: A Year To Save My Life and was a trainer on NBC's The Biggest Loser.

In addition to his work helping people and businesses change lives, he's the ambassador for Cancer Research UK's Race For Life and England Athletic's Run Together initiative.

For more information on the Escape Your Limits podcast visit https://escapefitness.com/podcast

Video version - https://youtu.be/ZAS3Cq5e-44

Jessie Pavelka started out as a trainer in the early 2000s. He immediately knew that he wanted to be an independent changing lives instead of working directly for gym chains.

It didn't take long before his focus shifted to extreme weight loss with his business partner to help clients better understand their needs making changes beyond the physical alone.

Jessie also understood the importance of platform, and continued his journey as a fitness model to develop his personal brand and profile around his passion. In 2008 he got his first break on TV, adding production values and broadcasting experience to his list of abilities.

During the coronavirus uncertainties, Jessie Pavelka has been teaching his clients all about control, consistency and connection to cope with everything that's happening in the world. His pathway to a better understanding revolves around the  physical, mental, emotional and social needs of us all to feel more grounded and in control.

In his business Jessie Pavelka believes that everybody can find true health through the four elements of: Eat, Sweat, Think, Connect. By disrupting your normal, Pavelka can help you achieve more than you dreamed possible.

Pavelka Wellness is a wellbeing partner for a range of organisations, including technology giants Cisco Systems, helping employees become more resilient and healthier in a fast moving, dynamic world.

Visit https://pavelka.co.uk and https://pavelkawellness.com

 

Episode highlights - 

• How lockdown and the issues around the COVID pandemic have been both challenging and opportunistic, and how anyone can react positively to both elements for a better business.
• What the uncertainty of the coming months has meant for the majority of people who are looking for finish lines, and why you need to embrace 'different' as much as you can.
• Why it's important to confide in people in your close circle to let them know how you feel during difficult times, but also to better understand yourself through their support.
• How you can understand your connection to yourself, connection to your team, and connecting to something greater than you. Identify what they mean to you in your own life, and use that to do better in every relationship.
• Why building your personal brand and profile in addition to following your professional passion is vital to not just personal development but long term business opportunities as well.
• How to manage the conflicting values between making work about genuinely helping people and also building yourself as a professional personality. In particular, why the modern world of influencers can fall foul of achieving this.
• What you can do to as someone struggling with weight or an entrepreneur struggling with burnout to understand the overall value of behaviour, both positive and negative.
• How you can understand your baseline; the standard of living that you start off with every single day. This is how you stop making things too complex, slow down, simplify and define how you want to live your life at a base level.
• How to shift mindset from reactive to proactive in business, and what you can do to improve your employees' mindset in addition to holding your own company accountable.
• Why giving employees creative space for reflection in some level of solitude is much more important than preventing them from breaking up the day and clock-watching.
• How you can show the human side of your business by not only looking after your people, but also understanding your customers' genuine needs and challenges, too.
• What you can use to help other people if you've already had a transformation of your own.

 

Join Matthew Januszek in conversation with Jessie Pavelka…