The Vital Side Podcast 71. How to Build Mental Fitness At Work & At Home with Michele Johnson, The Stress Strategist
Have you considered the impact that stress might be having on your body? And how it impacts your work, your health & personal relationships? This week, Cait and Lindsay are joined by “Stress Strategist” Michele Johnson where they talk about how we can become more resilient through the lens of mental fitness.
Known as “The Stress Strategist,” Michele Johnson is a Duke Trained Physician Associate, CEO of The Pain Free PA Consulting Firm, ICF Certified Life Coach, Positive Intelligence Coach & International Best-Selling Author. Her holistic experiences in China & Cuba inform her unique approach to empowering high performing leaders and teams to foster resilience in times of stress and overwhelm through authentic connection and mental fitness.
Her firm’s framework and training & coaching services have helped Fortune 500, non-profit and healthcare industry leaders reclaim healthcare dollars, execute effective wellness strategies, and weather immense changes and challenges gracefully. Her biggest passion is to truly hear and understand leaders – which is what allows her to take speaking events, trainings & workshops to the next level …and to support building happier and healthier company culture inside of organizations.
Show Notes:
-Michele’s journey of 21 years healing from chronic pain and fibromyalgia
-Words Michele lives by: “You can always pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start again”
-Michele saw high-achieving executives and leaders struggle with stress, maintaining work-life balance, and chronic issues and symptoms of their own
-Using positive intelligence as an operating system – combines emotional intelligence with nervous system rewiring
-Identify parts of the brain that are wired for survival and those that are wired for authenticity and thriving
-The importance of starting with mental fitness & nervous system rewiring in the workplace (where most people spend most of their time)
-Workplace trends in wellbeing: 1) people are realizing they have choice 2) people are leaving their jobs to pursue their passions 3) people are overwhelmed and overworked 4) there is still a skills gap among leaders (i.e. emotional intelligence, mental fitness)
-Take 5 - hold out your hand and trace your fingers when you’re looking for a moment of reprieve & need to support yourself
-Getting people to experience what it feels like to have a cohesive team is the first step to understanding mental fitness in your company
-The importance of meeting people where they are to drive engagement in the workplace when it comes to wellbeing initiatives
-The Value Shift: creating resilient people in the workplace drives creative risk taking, problem solving, innovation and bigger impact
-“We can’t think our way into solutions when we’re stressed.”
-Building mental fitness inside of teams: 1) know where you are right now to know where you want to go 2) get insights from other leaders in same & different industries 3) attend think tanks and roundtables, such as ones hosted by Michele and her firm
-“Separate yourself from the identity of what you’re going through.”
Resources:
-Click here to visit Michele’s website
-Contact Michele at michele@thepainfreepa.com
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-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
-Visit Lindsay’s Website
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