Is being constantly online starting to burn you out? How is technology impacting your life and your relationships? Laura Willis talks about the downside of being hyper-connected and how we can have a healthy relationship with our smartphones and other devices.

Visit https://www.bodyshotperformance.com/podcasts-blog for complete show notes of every podcast episode.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

Laura’s story and what Shine Offline is all about

The different things that drive burnout

How much technology contributes to burnout

How you can start to put boundaries on your use of technology

The impact of overusing technology

3 benefits of implementing boundaries around technology

Key Takeaways:

Most of us have a slightly unhealthy or dysfunctional relationship with our mobile phones, and it’s affecting our sleep, it’s affecting our mental health, it’s affecting the relationships we have with other people, as well as our relationship with ourselves when we’re often engrossed in whatever is on our mobile device.

The predominant reason for burnout is connectivity and the fact that people simply cannot get away from work.

There is now a culture of being available and being accessible all the time through email, and because it’s never been spoken about and because of the speed at which this technology has developed and become so intrinsic in our working lives, people are too busy to stop and reflect on the negative impact that it’s having on our lives.

Action Steps:

Practice mindfulness.

Take a proper break at work.

Set boundaries in place on your smartphone use and use of other devices.

Laura said:

“Businesses are starting to recognise that because we use technology for our work and we carry it with us all of the time and people really can’t disconnect from the office the way we did back in the day, the businesses need to take responsibility for this.”

“Bring a bit of curiosity to your relationship with [your phone]... because we as human beings, we’re not made to deal with the amount of connectivity and information that we have to process now, and that’s a fact.”

Thanks for listening!

If you’re interested in finding out what your health IQ is, take the Health IQ test to find out, and get a free 39-page report built around our six signals, which are sleep, mental health, energy, body composition, digestion, and fitness.

If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard on this episode and it’s added value to you, share the episode with someone you think could benefit from it. And don’t forget to leave a rating or a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

Links to things we discuss in the show:

Shine Offline

Moment app

More from Laura Willis:

Laura’s Twitter: @shinyhappylaura

More from Leanne Spencer:

Bodyshot Performance

Bodyshot Performance Limited Facebook page

Remove the Guesswork BOOK by Leanne Spencer
Rise and Shine BOOK by Leanne Spencer

Leanne’s Email

Do you want to know what holistic dentistry looks like? What does your oral health tell you about other aspects of your health and wellbeing? Find out as holistic dentist Dr. Kathrin Huzelman shares her practice.

Visit https://www.bodyshotperformance.com/podcasts-blog for complete show notes of every podcast episode.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

What’s special about Kathrin’s approach to dentistry

The links between the gut and the mouth

The issue of using mercury fillings in the mouth and what are its alternatives

Craniosacral therapy and how it works

Using hypnotherapy in treatments

Neuro-linguistic programming and how it helps in the practice

Identifying your mental and spiritual health through the mouth

Key Takeaways:

If you look to India, if you look at Ayurveda or traditional Chinese medicine, they all integrate the mouth with the body. It’s only in Western medicine that we look at teeth as a separate entity from the rest of the body.

The mouth is really important, and if it doesn’t function properly or if it smells or if it’s in any way, shape or form unhealthy, then you can’t enjoy your life.

Our teeth are energetically connected. If you look at traditional Chinese medicine, for example, you have a heart tooth, a kidney tooth, a liver tooth, a lung and large intestine tooth.

Teeth are also connected to emotions.

Oregano essential oil is better than any antibiotic for inflammation in the mouth.

Action Steps:

Keep your mouth clean, healthy, and strong.

Choose an essential oil by holding the bottle in your hand, closing your eyes, and trying to see whether the oil has an effect on you.

Dr. Kathrin Huzelmann said:

“The mouth is your portal into the body. How we connect to the world and how the world is coming into you goes through the mouth.”

“The mouth is the first fortress of the immune system. So if the mouth isn’t healthy, it can’t fight whatever comes into the body.”

Thanks for listening!

If you’re interested in finding out what your health IQ is, take the Health IQ test to find out, and get a free 39-page report built around our six signals, which are sleep, mental health, energy, body composition, digestion, and fitness.

If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard on this episode and it’s added value to you, share the episode with someone you think could benefit from it. And don’t forget to leave a rating or a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

Links to things we discuss in the show:

Episode 48: The Gut-Brain Connection and Why Health Starts with Your Microbiome with Dr. Christine Rosche

Episode 49: Intersecting Health, Medicine, Science and Technology with Ex-professional Athlete and the Sportie Doc, Dr Tamsin Lewis

More from Dr. Kathrin Huzelmann:

Kathrin’s Website: www.holisticdentistlondon.co.uk

Kathrin’s Practise: Carnaby Street Dental

Kathrin’s Email: [email protected]

More from Leanne Spencer:

Bodyshot Performance

Bodyshot Performance Limited Facebook page

Remove the Guesswork BOOK by Leanne Spencer
Rise and Shine BOOK by Leanne Spencer

Leanne’s Email

How do you overcome diversity? How do you get back that sense of self-worth and self-confidence? How do change and become empowered? For strength and nutrition coach Maria Marklove, it was through mindfulness, meditation, and physical training. Listen as she shares her inspiring story, and learn how you, too, can take control of your life.

Visit https://www.bodyshotperformance.com/podcasts-blog for complete show notes of every podcast episode.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

Maria’s life story

Where Maria drew support and inspiration from

What it was like for Maria to try to make a positive change for herself

The initial first steps that Maria took towards changing her life

The mindfulness-based stress reduction method

What Maria got from her mindfulness and meditation practices

How physical training helped Maria overcome anorexia

How being physically strong helped Maria feel mentally strong, and the difference that made to her life

Some of the things that Maria does to take herself to her discomfort zone

Key Takeaways:

The thoughts that you’re constantly thinking about aren’t necessarily the truth. They are more like opinions, beliefs, or habitual responses.

Sometimes pain can be the catalyst for change. When the pain becomes too much for you to handle, you simply can’t continue to live your life that way.

You can’t change other people in the same way that other people can’t change you. Change has to come from within.

If you’re strongly attached to negative thoughts, you’re going to have a very different life and outlook than if you see them for what they are, which is just noise.

Your comfort zone is so small and everything else is outside of that. If you want to grow, if you want to make progress in your life, you have to push outside your comfort zone.

Action Steps:

Focus on the creative solutions to your problem.

Choose the thoughts that you pay attention to.

Let go of useless thoughts, no matter how many times they come up.

Start with small steps to go out of your comfort zone.

Don’t fake it until you make it. Do it until you make it.

Maria said:

“If you want to change your happiness and your self-belief and your confidence and therefore, your life, you have to change your mindset. You’ve got to direct your focus towards things that are helpful.”

“Thoughts are kind of like clouds in the sky. And you can just be aware of the clouds, you don’t have to be inside the cloud… And you can ask if these thoughts, these clouds if they’re actually useful. And if they’re not useful, you can decide to let it go.”

Thanks for listening!

If you’re interested in finding out what your health IQ is, take the Health IQ test to find out, and get a free 39-page report built around our six signals, which are sleep, mental health, energy, body composition, digestion, and fitness.

If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard on this episode and it’s added value to you, share the episode with someone you think could benefit from it. And don’t forget to leave a rating or a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

Links to things we discuss in the show:

TEDxWandsworth: Why fitness is more important than weight by Leanne Spencer

Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Toastmasters

More from Maria Marklove:

Maria’s Website: http://www.noctrlz.co.uk/

More from Leanne Spencer:

Bodyshot Performance

Bodyshot Performance Limited Facebook page

Remove the Guesswork BOOK by Leanne Spencer
Rise and Shine BOOK by Leanne Spencer

Leanne’s Email

If you’re an HR manager or an HR director and you’re responsible for the wellbeing, the resilience, and the energy and performance levels of the people within your organization or business, then this bonus episode is for you! In line with our event, Increasing Employee Engagement and Retention: What Part Does Wellbeing Play and Why Does It Matter on the 3rd of July, Steven Cochrane of Pinsent Masons joins the podcast to talk about the legal implications of not having a retention policy or strategy, and not thinking about wellbeing for your organization. We’ve got a wealth of information to share, so make sure you don’t miss out!

Visit https://www.bodyshotperformance.com/podcasts-blog for complete show notes of every podcast episode.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

What wellbeing means in a legal

What questions you should ask around wellbeing

Legislation that’s relevant to employees’ wellbeing

The Health and Safety at Work Act

The Equality Act

The Working Time Regulations

Flexible Working

The legal implications of a company without a wellbeing strategy

The costly errors and oversights made by some organizations

The impact of technology on wellbeing

Key Takeaways:

The law is important, but thinking about wellbeing through a legal prism often leads to a compliance-led approach to wellbeing, which is not very helpful and may even be counterproductive. Rather than asking “What do we need to do?” or “What can we not do?” or “What are the liabilities if we do X, Y, or Z?” the questions should be around “What makes the employees happy?”  “What are the stressors in the workplace and how do we mitigate or eradicate them?”

There are a number of legal protections in the wellbeing space. From a statutory perspective, there is a whole raft of employment legislation that deals with stress at work and wellbeing, as well as a whole raft of European and domestic safety legislation, and common law obligations and duties of care. These are all highly relevant in terms of thinking about wellbeing from an employee engagement perspective.

It’s not always easy to find an approach that works for everybody. While many organizations assume that flexible working, agile working, remote accessing, etc. is a great thing, some employees might find it rather invasive, intrusive, and actually quite stressful. There are those who like to separate work from home, and so technology in terms of remote working and having access to the system and being able to work from home has a negative impact on their wellbeing.

Action Steps for HR Managers and HR Directors:

Make sure that you have a retention policy or a wellbeing strategy in place.

Don’t take the compliance-led approach when dealing with employees.

Steven said:

“What we see more often are situations where employees are suffering from stress. That’s exacerbated quite often by poor management, lack of support, lack of empathy, quite often by a lack of education and mental health awareness.”

“In terms of success stories, employers who have excellent retention and their attrition rates are very positive, that’s the best success story you can have.”

Thanks for listening!

If you’re interested in what you just heard and you happen to be in London on Tuesday, 3rd of July, we are running an event called Increasing Employee Engagement and Retention: What Part Does Wellbeing Play and Why Does It Matter. Check out the link for more details!

And if you’re interested in finding out what your health IQ is, take the Health IQ test to find out, and get a free 39-page report built around our six signals, which are sleep, mental health, energy, body composition, digestion, and fitness.

If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard on this episode and it’s added value to you, share the episode with someone you think could benefit from it. And don’t forget to leave a rating or a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

Links to things we discuss in the show:

Increasing Employee Engagement and Retention: What Part Does Wellbeing Play and Why Does It Matter - an event by Bodyshot Performance Limited

More from Leanne Spencer:

Bodyshot Performance

Bodyshot Performance Limited Facebook page

Remove the Guesswork BOOK by Leanne Spencer
Rise and Shine BOOK by Leanne Spencer

Leanne’s Email

What is the connection between sleep and body composition? How does lack of sleep over just one night or a build-up of sleep debt affect weight loss, weight gain, weight management, and building muscle mass? Find out as sleep scientist Dr. Greg Potter shares the answers found in various studies.

Visit https://www.bodyshotperformance.com/podcasts-blog for complete show notes of every podcast episode

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

What are some of the identified genetic barriers to sleep?

How can we identify whether we are meeting our sleep needs?

What are the benefits that we get from sleep?

What happens when we don’t get enough sleep?

What is the connection between sleep and body composition?

What does sleep do in terms of helping us build lean muscle mass?

Is there a connection between sleep and Alzheimer’s disease?

How can we improve our sleep?

Key Takeaways:

The benefits of sleep depend on the different stages of sleep that you’re looking at.

Sleep has evolved for many different reasons, and when one’s sleep is disrupted, there is almost no aspect of one’s biology that is not impaired by that lack of sleep.

There is a large variability in susceptibility to the negative effects of sleep loss among individuals.

One study has found that people who were short sleepers have 45% higher odds of developing obesity in the coming years.

Sleep is essential for any kind of weight loss program. Restricting sleep tends to increase one’s calorie intake by 385 calories per day.

Most people need 7 to 9 hours of sleep, but it’s the composition of that sleep that’s as important as the duration. It should be roughly 50% light, 25% deep and 25% REM sleep.

The more activity you do during the day, both mental and physical, the more likely you are to experience the beneficial effects of deep sleep at night.

Action Steps:

Make sure you get enough sleep.

Track your sleep and recovery with an OURAring.

Get enough bright light exposure during the day.

Engage in lots of physical activity.

Have a routine before going to bed.

Filter out the blue light coming from your gadgets and block out any extraneous lights when sleeping.

Make sure your bedroom temperature is cool, but raise your skin temperature before going to bed with a warm shower.

Block out any noise from outside.

Go to bed neither too hungry nor too full.

Cut down your caffeine and alcohol intake. Don’t consume any caffeine at least 9 hours before sleep.

Dr. Greg Potter said:

“Exactly why we sleep is a really important question that we still don’t necessarily have a really good handle on.”

“Sleep is a dynamic process, it’s not as if you always need 8 hours of sleep.”

Thanks for listening!

If you’re interested in finding out what your health IQ is, take the Health IQ test to find out, and get a free 39-page report built around our six signals, which are sleep, mental health, energy, body composition, digestion, and fitness.

If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard on this episode and it’s added value to you, share the episode with someone you think could benefit from it. And don’t forget to leave a rating or a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

Links to things we discuss in the show:

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker

OURAring - use the promo code BODYSHOTOURA and get a $50 discount

humanOS - use the promo code REMOVETHEGUESSWORK and get 1 month for only $1

humanOS Radio

More from Dr. Greg Potter:

Dr. Greg Potter’s Twitter

More from Leanne Spencer:

Bodyshot Performance

Bodyshot Performance Limited Facebook page

Remove the Guesswork BOOK by Leanne Spencer
Rise and Shine BOOK by Leanne Spencer

Leanne’s Email

Are you dealing with feelings of disenfranchisement, unfulfillment, and boredom at work? How are you dealing with stress at work on a daily basis? Wellbeing is a real buzzword at the moment, and wellbeing in the workplace is not only an interesting and timely topic to discuss but certainly a topic that deserves our attention.

Visit https://www.bodyshotperformance.com/podcasts-blog for complete show notes of every podcast episode

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

The definition of wellbeing

Things that are important for wellbeing

The problems facing companies today with regards to wellbeing (absenteeism, presenteeism, leaveism)

Exploring solutions to these problems

The difficult strains on mental health and physical health that can come from stress and overwork

Why wellbeing in the workplace matters

Key Takeaways:

Wellbeing is really a state of being comfortable, healthy or happy.

A part of wellbeing is mental health. The World Health Organization defines mental health as “a state of wellbeing in which every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with enormous stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.”

Wellbeing in the workplace, specifically, includes a job that is challenging, rewarding, fulfills a clear need or purpose and has a support network within it. It is also feeling that you’re a part of something — a team, a common cause, or an overall sense of purpose.

A healthy and happy workforce creates a culture that increases employee retention and engagement, and that’s a huge competitive advantage for any company.

Companies must have a mutually inclusive duty of care starting from the top of the corporate ladder. Meaning that the employee has a duty of care to ensure that they’re fit for the rigors of business, and the employer has a duty of care to ensure that they are reasonable in their expectations and creating a working environment that does not preclude health or wellbeing.

Action Steps for Employers/Companies:

Prioritize wellbeing in the working world.

Ensure that you have an environment that is set up for an active day.

Set policies around email after working hours and policies around working at weekends or during holidays.

Leanne said:

“It’s toxic to every cell in your body to keep at something you’re essentially fighting against.”

“Wellbeing is going to be the way that companies differentiate.”

Thanks for listening!

If you’re interested in what you just heard and you happen to be in London on Tuesday, 3rd of July, we are running an event called Increasing Employee Engagement and Retention: What Part Does Wellbeing Play and Why Does It Matter. Check out the link for more details!

And if you want to find out more about what we do for corporates, you can jump on our website and check the Bodyshot Performance Corporate Page.

And finally, if you’re listening to this and you’re curious about your health, I invite you to take the Health IQ test to find out your score.

If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard on this episode and it’s added value to you, share the episode with someone you think could benefit from it. And don’t forget to leave a rating or a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

Links to things we discuss in the show:

Remove the Guesswork Episode 10: Good Mental Hygiene, Courageous Leadership and Addressing the Stigma of Mental Health in the Workplace with Geoff McDonald - released August 23, 2017

Minds@Work
Bodyshot Performance Corporate Page

Increasing Employee Engagement and Retention: What Part Does Wellbeing Play and Why Does It Matter - an event by Bodyshot Performance Limited

More from Leanne Spencer:

Bodyshot Performance

Bodyshot Performance Limited Facebook page

Remove the Guesswork BOOK by Leanne Spencer
Rise and Shine BOOK by Leanne Spencer

Leanne’s Email