Highway to Well with Derek Bell

Highway to Well: "A Sort of Homecoming," with Sara Martin

Derek Bell

Highway to Well, Episode 26: "A Sort of Homecoming," with Sara Martin

"And you hunger for the time. Time to heal, desire, time. And your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape." - Bono 

In this episode of "Highway to Well," Sara and I will journey through the depths of our collective well-being in a world that is unpredictable, dynamic, and challenging. Living better and thriving requires us to dive into the value of social connection, resiliency, and having a deep understanding of how our mental, physical, and emotional health impacts our happiness. Sara's empathetic, thoughtful, and caring leadership shines through as we search for meaning in difficult times. 

Sara Martin is the Executive Director of the Wellness Council of America. WELCOA helps organizations build high-performing, healthy workplaces. 

For more information about WELCOA: https://www.welcoa.org/ 

WELCOA recently launched WELCOA Connect, including a 6 week virtual series on various worksite wellness topics. For more information: https://www.welcoa.org/welcoa-connect/inner-circle-agenda/ 

For more "Highway to Well" podcasts:  https://www.derekbellwellness.com/highway-to-well-podcast-1 

Thank you for listening. Please share. 

Highway to Well: "Bring My Courage" with Marissa Kalkman

Derek Bell

Highway to Well, Episode 25: "Bring My Courage..." with Marissa Kalkman

"Bring my courage back now. I'm tired of being afraid of what I can't change. I want to be living free." - Glen Phillips

In this episode of "Highway to Well," Marissa Kalkman, Executive Director of the Wellness Councils of Wisconsin, and I traverse over the bumps and bruises COVID life and work has dealt us and arrive at the opportunities we have to overcome our struggles. With her unfettering drive to improve the lives of people and organizations, Marissa shares her ideas about improving mental health, psychological safety, and giving ourselves permission to be authentic. It is through our common ground of connections, values, and courage we will see this through. 

Thank you again for listening. 

For more information about Marissa and the Wellness Council of Wisconsin: 

WCWI 30th Annual Employee Wellbeing Conference, "Courage: Cultivating Possibility": Join WCWI and employers, people leaders, culture designers, and wellness practitioners for a live, virtual experience that will help you lean into the unknown, challenge paradigms, and create action. Courage is the underlying attribute of the leaders and organizations that are boldly and admirably supporting workforce wellbeing. This year’s conference agenda will explore the possibilities of “what’s next” for employee wellbeing and the learning experience is curated in four tracks defined by WCWI’s components of courage: Physical, Creative, Moral, and Social.

·  Discover your personal courage strength: https://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org/Courage-Assessment.htm

·  For a (free) pre-event speaker webinar to get introduced to the four components of courage and a few conference speakers: https://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org/WCWI/Pre-Event-Speaker-Webinars.htm

·  Register for the virtual conference: https://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org/WCWI/Events/30th-Annual-Conference.htm

Links to learn more:

• WCWI’s 30th Annual Employee Wellbeing Conference October 27-29: https://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org/WCWI/Annual-Conference-Experience.htm

• Conference Agenda & Speakers: https://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org/WCWI/Events/30th-Annual-Conference.htm

• WCWI’s Courage Assessment: https://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org/Courage-Assessment.htm

• WCWI’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wellness-council-of-wisconsin/

Highway to Well: "Walk On," with Mandy Nycz

Derek Bell

Highway to Well, Episode 24: "Walk On," with Mandy Nycz

"The only baggage you can bring, is all that you can't leave behind." - Bono 

In this episode of "Highway to Well,"  executive and career coach, Mandy Nycz, and I drive along the pathways to improving our lives and careers. We talk about the need to increase our understanding and attention paid to our values, how to build resiliency, and  help us all answer our most important question, "what do I want to be when I grow up?'

The Inspired Training Institute Services include, executive and leadership coaching, career coaching, and workshops. Mandy coaches people at all career stages to clarify their goals. She also provides resources to build engagement and increase value-based decision making to impact and improve positive change. This process creates greater success for clients and organizations.

For more informatiion about Mandy and Inspired Training: 

 [email protected]   

Inspired Training website: https://inspiredtraining.net/

Upcoming book published by Inspired Training founder: https://inspiredtraining.net/book/

For more episodes of Highway to Well, visit 

https://www.derekbellwellness.com/ 

Highway to Well: "In Times Like These," Mettie Spiess

Derek Bell

Highway to Well: Episode 22, "In Times Like These," with Mettie Spiess

Mettie Spiess is a difference maker in mental health, wellness and suicide prevention. In today's world, we need more of Mettie.  

In this very special episode of "Highway to Well," Mettie and I dive into the state of mental health and wellbeing under the duress of COVID life. We also speak at length about the expanding definition of wellness and that there is no health without mental health.  

Mettie is the 2016 National Alliance on Mental Illness Education Advancement Award Winner, an International Keynote Speaker and the Founder of A World Without Suicide.  As a trusted advisor to workplaces in 22 industries, across 35 countries, Mettie has strategically designed effective, sustainable wellness programs for over a decade. 

 A World Without Suicide (AWWS) Training & Consulting is a global training and consulting firm that helps workplaces effectively address employee mental health to reduce the risk of costly crisis.. AWWS customizes programs to be fully aligned with client’s needs and unique industry challenges. Employers in 22 industries across 35 countries have utilized AWWS’ digital and live certified mental health safety trainings to support their employees and their bottom line. 

Visit StigmaFreeWorkplace.com for more information. 

More about Mettie and AWWS:
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mettie-spiess-cwp-2094a6b7/

Employer Role Models & ROI Case studies: http://corporate.mettiespiess.com/client-results/  

24/7 crisis support:

US textline- text HOME to 741741

US Suicide Prevention Lifeline- 1-800-273-8255 

For more information about Mental Health Month, visit:  https://www.nami.org/Home 

For more Highway to Well podcasts:  https://www.patreon.com/HighwaytoWell 

Highway to Well: "Same in any Language" with Maggie Gough

Derek Bell

Highway to Well: Episode 21, "Same in Any Language," with Maggie Gough

"Everything is in the balance of a moment I can't control. And your sympathetic strings are like the stirrings in my soul." - Neill Finn, "Anytime" 

Welcome to Highway to Well, Episode 21, "Same in Any Language,"  featuring Maggie Gough. 

Maggie is the founder and owner of Realize Wellness, which aims to create workplaces that exude energy and innovation through their vibrant, thriving people.  Through her work she encourages employers to design meaningful work and cultivate a collective responsibility among employees to a healthy workplace. 

In this episode, Maggie and I will talk about the value of patience, grace, gentleness and gratitude in today's work-home-balancing act.  We also dive into social connections and how our current climate involves frequency and need, but we talk about how we must disengage for our well-being, and how our focus should involve making more intentional quality connections. Finally, we will share how micro moments  of wellness can help us find our way through this period.  

Thank you again for listening.  Please share. Maggie's work is tremendous and these conversations are more important than ever. 

For more information about Realize Wellness: https://realizewellbeing.com/ 

You can follow Maggie on Facebook and Instagram. (@maggie.z.gough) 

To get the a new guidebook that Maggie is giving to all wellness practitioners for free (use coupon code Wellness Warrior) 

https://realizewellbeing.com/product/realize-wellbeing-guidebook/

Text Amplify to 48-48-48 to receive weekly motivational texts from Maggie

 Also, Maggie is working with WELCOA to provide tools and resources to employers and individuals, for more information: https://www.welcoa.org/covid/ 

For other podcasts featuring some of the amazing people we mention in this episode:  https://www.patreon.com/HighwaytoWell 

Highway to Well: "Stuck in a Moment," with Christy Bartelt

Derek Bell

Highway to Well, Episode 23: "Stuck in a Moment," with Christy Bartelt

"I'm not afraid of anything in this world. There's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard. I'm just trying to find a decent melody, a song that I can sing in my own company..." - Bono 

What do you need to live vibrantly? What do you need to let go of things in your past that hold you down today? How can you navigate COVID life with your well-being intact? 

In this episode of "Highway to Well," we dive deep into the layers of our complex human souls with Christy Bartelt, and seek to understand what we all need more of - self-love, confidence, and compassion.  We’ll also talk about the common need for people to seek understanding through resolving their past so they can live vibrantly today with optimism for a better tomorrow. Christy's passion lies in helping people thrive in their lives, relationships, and work. These are all things we need in abundance to live each day enhancing our wellbeing. 

Thank you for listening. For more information about Christy: 

Website:   https://www.christybartelt.com/

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/christy_bartelt/
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/christybarteltRTT/?ref=bookmarks

Whole Point Podcast:  https://www.wholepointpod.com/

Highway to Well: Episode 10, "The Touch," with the People's Champ, Andy Molski

Derek Bell

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. That's how it works.

On this Episode of Highway to Well, Coach Andy Molski and I talk about making healthy change and how significant resiliency is in that process. We also talk about how community, environment and social connections support living a better life. And finally, as you would expect when you lock us into a room, we talk about the finer things like, does hair-metal sound better today than in 1987, what's the most perfect walk-up song, or whether or not the Hacksaw Jim Duggan might be the greatest pro-wrestler of all-time? 

Andy is a fitness expert, personal trainer, CrossFit coach and wellness advocate. You can follow Andy on Instagram: @amolski715. 

Highway to Well: Episode 8, "Dreams," with Marissa Kalkman

Derek Bell

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." Joseph Campbell

Marissa Kalkman is the Executive Director of the Wellness Council of Wisconsin (WCWI), the only nonprofit organization in Wisconsin dedicated exclusively to helping employers design results-oriented wellness programs to maximize the health and productivity of their most valuable asset- their employees. WCWI embodies the concept, "people follow people," and fosters professionals to connect and grow. 

In this episode, Marissa and I share our wellness journeys and how that has impacted our career paths. Along the way we shine a light on what we should be talking about in the wellness field, and ways we can foster and grow more impactful health and wellness cultures. 

For more information about the Wellness Council of Wisconsin, visit: https://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org/WCWI.htm

WCWI Blog: https://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org/WCWI/Resources/Blog.htm

WCWI LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wellness-council-of-wisconsin/ 

WCWI Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/WellnessCouncilWI/ 

Highway to Well: Episode 4, "Born to Run," with Ashley Schneider

Derek Bell

“One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one”
― Clifford Geertz 

Ashley Schneider lights the fires of inspiration and lives her "why" with every step she takes. In this special "Highway to Well - Team Early AF  http://www.teamearlyaf.com/  episode, we traverse the landscape of how she went from doing a solo run across the United States to building a 19 segment relay to raise awareness of Multiple Sclerosis and funding for supporting those who are impacted by MS.  

Along the way, we speak about motivation, fear, vulnerability, chasing goals, and learning how a community can inspire change. 

For more information about MS Run the US, visit  https://www.msruntheus.org/

Highway to Well: Episode 7, "I Wanna Be a Debaser," with Kent Youngstrom

Derek Bell

Kent is an artist, but not the tortured kind. He's on a mission to create opportunities for you to get out of your comfort zone and explore your creativity, to be expressive, vulnerable, adventurous. 

In the wellness field, we like to think we're creative. But we often find ourselves run down, burned out and stressed out, and we need voices like Kent to light our fires to remove the box we're in. 

In this episode we'll talk about Kent's path, the value of creativity to our wellbeing, and we'll also share excerpts from a beautiful letter he wrote to the soccer team he coaches.For this soccer coach, that piece touched my expressive heart. 

  Follow Kent on Instagram: @kentyoungstrom

For more information about Kent and his work: http://experience.kentyoungstrom.com/shop/

 And: kentyoungstrom.com 

Thank you for listening.