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As an HR professional, you know how stressful each day can be.  The pressure of the job compounded with a bad commute, negative news, etc.  If you don't take some steps to combat it, it can kill you.  Literally!  Fortunately, our guest today, health and wellness coach Linda Coveney has some great tips and techniques to let you take care of yourself and heal from the damage.  Linda has a ton of operational and HR experience so she knows what you deal with, but she knows how to conquer it too.  Listen until the very end as she has a great offer for you!

As an HR professional, you probably face adversity on a regular basis.  How you survive and overcome it is key.  Our guest today is Payton "Crazy" Hayes, a mixed-martial arts (MMA) fighter from Clarksville, TN.  Payton shares how he overcame defeat and how his lessons can apply to the adversity you face.  We also spend a little time talking about MMA and he even shares some easy-to-implement fitness tips you can do on your most busy day.

As a busy HR professional, you experience your fair share of defeats.  Or are they REALLY defeats?  Our guest today, Alexa Beavers, Founder and CEO of the Axela Group shares information on how to reframe what appears on the surface to be a loss, into a learning experience that lets you win!  It's a great conversation with useful takeaways so be sure to take good notes!

You're on the way home from a busy, frustrating day at work.  You're racing to pick the kids up from daycare and suddenly the driver in the car next to you cuts you off.  What do you do?  Our guest on today's show, Lauren Smith is an expert on mindfulness and she'll help you script out a proper response (that doesn't involve the middle finger) for this situation and also for the many stressful situations you face each day.  Lauren is a business consultant, author, podcaster, and coach who specializes in leveraging mindfulness for success.  Wait for your drive home to or from work to listen to this one.  You won't regret it!!

Making the transition to parenthood is hard enough, but throw on top of that having to make the move back to the workforce upon completion of maternity leave.  As an HR professional, you may be experiencing this now or you're the one that has to help your employees make this transition.  Fortunately, our guest today, Lori Mihalich-Levin, Founder of Mindful Return and author of Back to Work After Baby:  How to Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave has some great tips for you.  She'll share her own personal journey and give us tips that we can both use and pass along for those in this exciting season of life!

As an HR professional, you're looking for every edge you can have in motivating, communicating with, and developing your team.  There are many great tools out there to help and in this episode, my good friend Jeremy Evans shares one that he uses in his organization.  Great ideas in this one so be sure to take notes!

As a busy HR professional, you don't have enough time to get your regular job done much less take care of YOU.  Our guest today, author, speaker, and consultant Pete Leibman makes the case that if you have the mindset of an athlete, you'll achieve balance and productivity.  He has great tips here so take notes and be sure to get a copy of his book, Work Stronger:  Habits for More Energy, Less Stress, and Higher Performance at Work.

Conflict is one of those things you'll constantly deal with as an HR professional.  You can certainly use your positional authority to do it, but what if there was a better way?  Our guest, Kate Vendemio has some great tips on managing conflict and making it more productive.  She'll even help you figure out how to handle conflicts YOU might have with groups of managers.  We originally recorded this for our sister podcast, The Boss Builder Podcast but I think it's a good one for this channel.  Be sure to take good notes because there is a lot of practical advice in this interview!