Prenatal Stress & Fetal Programming:

The Left of Burnout podcast is all about prevention, preventing stress related ill-health and keeping people well. There is no better place to start the PREVENT journey then with an expectant mother and unborn child. If we're to give people the best possible start in life we have to do everything we can to support the expectant mother.  This episode with leading expert Professor Vivette Glover outlines why this is so important and some of the things we can all do to help prevent stress related ill-health in the next generation. You kind find out more here Begin Before Birth .   

The Left of Burnout podcast is produced by John Allison, a British Army veteran with 24 years of service.  Upon retirement he became health and wellbeing manager for two large London-based advertising agencies.  Five years later, in 2017, he started holistic wellbeing service Motion to Mind™ and developed the 4M Framework™ for health and happiness.  More recently he launched a groundbreaking modular program, Stress Injury Prevention Training™ (SIPT™) to provide employers with a new program to support employees in work and in life. 

Left of Burnout is a phrase coined by John Allison and is a take on the term Left of Boom or Left of Bang which was used to describe a preventative approach to the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) threat in Iraq when John served as intelligence officer - Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC) Baghdad.  Stress related ill-health can be visualised as being on a continuum, from being well on the far left, to being mildly irritated, to dealing with anxiety, depression and at the far right of the continuum, issues such as depression, traumatic stress injury, burnout and psychosis at the far right hand end of the continuum.  Helping people to empower themselves to keep far, far left of burnout and stay well, is the aim of the show.