Grand mal epileptic seizures are a serious business, often leaving someone on the floor convulsing. They’re scary for people around them and very dangerous for those who experience them. Kyle’s been living with them for nearly 20 years. Despite that length of time, it’s only recently he’s to come to terms with the fact that … Continue reading "#15 Stress, Drugs and Rigmarole, Epilepsy At Work With Kyle"

Kristina Schiano is a professional drummer who at 23 years old has built a following of more than 750,000 subscribers to her Youtube channel. Her most popular video has been watched more than 10 million times.  These are remarkable achievements and even more remarkable when you consider periods of anxiety as a teenager left her … Continue reading "#14 Drums, Depression and a Dog, with Kristina Schiano"

As Shannon read the driving direction, she fell asleep again. This wasn’t the first time, in fact, she’d done it after every direction. Her inability to stay awake had become a problem, and she finally to finally see a doctor. The doctor informed her she has narcolepsy. It hadn’t just affected road trips with her … Continue reading "#13 When A Good Night’s Sleep Isn’t Enough – Narcolepsy At Work"

Max was 20, in an unfamiliar neighborhood in Paris, thousands of miles from home, desperately unhappy and in tears. More than a decade later he was founding a mental health ERG. This is his story. Listen To Episode 12 Show Notes Depression can take a grip on anyone, at any time. Imagine being a 20 … Continue reading "#12 Purgatory in Paris – The Road To A Mental Health ERG"

“It’s not you, you just don’t see the giant monster behind you that I’m reacting to” Kellie Wagner, CEO @ Collective What do you know about Borderline Personality Disorder? The answer to that question for most people is “not a lot”. So, why do we know so little compared to other mental illnesses like anxiety … Continue reading "#11 The Monster Behind You – Living And Working With BPD"

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in five women will be a victim of rape at some point in their lives. If that number shocks you, it’s because many victims of sexual assault and rape cope with their trauma in silence. In 2017, the silence broke as women started speaking out on … Continue reading "#10 Healing From PTSD and the Trauma of Sexual Assault"

“I don’t want to be anybody else, I want to be me.” – Scott Scott is part of an active ADHD community on Twitter, focusing on ADHD advocacy in the UK.  It was while working as an online bingo presenter a colleague suggested he might be on the autistic spectrum, and that suggestion put Scott … Continue reading "#9 Accepting Yourself and Accommodating Employees – ADHD"

Competitive, adventurous, life of the party, a rock. All things friends might have said about Reid before, through the course of a year, he experienced a series of setbacks: a close friend died, he was laid off and he broke his arm while snowboarding.  Those setbacks put him in a depression that robbed him of … Continue reading "#8 Getting Men’s Mental Health Out of The Shadows"

Meet Rachel. She’s a coach and the founder of the Resoul Revolution, a transformational retreat for women in leadership.  Rachel is one of millions of people working with depression. In this episode, Rachel tells us about the dark force she experienced as a child but because she didn’t understand it, she described it as a … Continue reading "#7 Resoul Revolution – Anorexia and Working With Depression"

Throughout his career, Kent always tried to help people understand the “why” for their work. That desire lead him to be a recruiter and then an HR leader. It was while leading an HR team that the competing demands of “the system” of work and his own “why” came into conflict. Frozen by the side … Continue reading "#6 Living In The Time of Not Enoughness – Depression"