The Mind Solution Podcast

Featuring Martyn Dawes, author of "The Overwhelmed Manager"

What if it's not your job that's making you sick? In this episode, I'm joined by Martyn Dawes—author of The Overwhelmed Manager—to unpack a radically different view of stress, one that challenges how we think about mental wellbeing at work.

With firsthand experience of burnout in the health and social care sector, Martyn now teaches managers and leaders how to access a deeper understanding of where our experience is truly coming from—and why that changes everything.

• 📉 Why traditional views of stress don't work—and what to focus on instead

• 🧠 A powerful introduction to the Three Principles and their impact on leadership

• 🔍 What it really means when managers feel overwhelmed (hint: it's not about workload)

• ⚕️ Lessons from health and social care on emotional overload, responsibility, and resilience

• 🔄 How this insight is transforming the way managers lead, support teams, and manage mental health

If you're exploring how to support leaders who feel emotionally stretched, this conversation will help shift your perspective—and theirs. It's a powerful entry point into more sustainable employee wellbeing solutions and emotionally intelligent leadership.

Explore how our mental health training for managers, employee wellbeing programmes, and emotional intelligence training can support your leaders to build resilience—without burning out.

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How much does the title of this podcast 'the overwhelmed manager' resonate with you?

Join us where we speak to Martyn Dawes, author of the book The Overwhelmed Manager who shares with us;

- his personal experience of managers in the health and social care sector

- how the book is radically transforming how managers view stress

- recognise why it isn't our job that makes us sick

- where our experience of life and situations is really being generated from

- a glimpse of the 3 Principles

https://www.theoverwhelmedmanager.com/the-overwhelmed-manager

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Inclusion isn't just about diversity quotas or equality training—it's about how people feel. In this powerful conversation with Perrine Farque, inclusion expert and bestselling author, we explore what it really takes to create a workforce where every employee feels psychologically safe, valued, and empowered to contribute.

If you're serious about fostering true employee wellbeing in the workplace, inclusion must be more than a tick-box. It must be lived.

• ✅ What inclusion really means—and why it's a strategic priority, not a "nice to have"

• ✅ The makeup of a truly inclusive, high-performing team

• ✅ Why psychological safety is the foundation of wellbeing and innovation

• ✅ The pivotal role of leadership coaching in embedding inclusive behaviours

• ✅ Why inclusion goes far deeper than traditional Equality and Diversity training

• ✅ Where to begin if you're serious about long-term change

Creating an inclusive workplace isn't just good ethics—it's good business. The most resilient organisations are those where people feel safe to speak, lead, innovate, and show up fully as themselves. That's what builds sustainable performance and wellbeing.

This episode was featured in Feedspot's list of the Top 20 UK Workplace Podcasts. A big thank you to everyone who listens and shares these important conversations!

We partner with organisations to deliver company wellbeing programmes and employee wellbeing webinars that don't just educate—they transform culture.

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In this interview with Perrine Farque, author of Inclusion - The ultimate secret to an organisations success we explore;

- What inclusion means

- What a great team looks like

- Why psychological safety is key for inclusion

- How leadership coaching plays a key role in Inclusion

- Why Inclusion is more than Equality and Diversity training

- Where to begin in creating an inclusive workforce

We also shout out to Feedspot who nominated us in the Top 20 UK workplace podcasts!

https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_workplace_podcasts/

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In this episode, I pull from years of experience in organisations like British Airways and Virgin Atlantic to unpack how stress, emotional regulation, and thought patterns shape employee wellbeing—and why many workplace wellbeing strategies miss the mark.

If your current initiatives aren't driving real change, this is where to look.

• What High Performance Really Means: It's not about pushing harder—it's about working smarter through emotional regulation and awareness.

• The Evolution of Workplace Wellbeing: Why perks aren't enough and how long-term employee wellbeing programs drive measurable results.

• The Mind-Body Connection: How the unconscious mind, stress response, and emotional triggers silently shape behaviour and performance.

• Managing Mental Exhaustion: Simple shifts in presence and focus that make all the difference in today's always-on culture.

• Why Thought Awareness is Foundational: Before we optimise sleep, nutrition, or resilience—we must understand how our thinking creates experience.

• Wellbeing as a Performance Strategy: How powerful, psychology-backed employee wellbeing solutions improve productivity, engagement, and retention.

This episode is for HR leaders, L&D professionals, and business owners who are ready to move beyond surface-level perks and implement employee wellbeing in the workplace that supports high performance.

We help organisations design company wellbeing programmes that integrate mental health education, emotional intelligence, and neuroscience-backed tools that stick.

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How do you ensure your employees achieve a consistent level of high performance?

HR leaders have long been focused on high performance. However, as you will hear, there are 2 key things employees need to be able to do to achieve consistent high performance that have nothing to do with behaviour!

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What if failure isn't real? What if it's just a thought—a momentary story your mind tells you? In this episode, we challenge the entire concept of failure, revealing how fear is generated from within—and why understanding this can transform how we lead, perform, and show up at work.

We talk about fear of failure all the time in the workplace. Fear of getting it wrong. Fear of looking foolish. Fear of letting people down.

But what if none of that fear comes from the situation? What if it's all created internally?

This episode explores:

• Why fear of failure is a thought, not a truth

• How your perception creates your emotional reality

• Why freeing yourself from the illusion of failure changes everything—from leadership to performance to wellbeing

When people realise their experience is internally generated, they gain the most powerful thing of all: choice.

You'll hear:

• Why fear dissolves the moment it's seen for what it is

• How emotional clarity creates confident action

• Why this kind of insight is foundational to emotional intelligence training and employee wellbeing at work

If fear of failure is something you—or your people—struggle with, this episode offers a powerful reframe: There is no failure. Only thought. And thought isn't permanent, personal, or predictive.

Our employee wellbeing webinars help organisations build teams who see beyond fear—and lead from grounded insight, not reactivity.

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Have you experienced a fear of failure?

The fear that holds you back from achieving your goals and desires? From making positive changes in your career or personal life?

Tune in to discover why a fear of failure doesn't actually exist!

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Before we talk about sleep, resilience, or high performance, we need to talk about stress. In this short episode, I explain why understanding the stress response is the essential starting point for any employee wellbeing programme or webinar—and why skipping this step is like building on sand.

There are some fantastic employee wellbeing programmes and employee wellbeing webinars available today—covering everything from nutrition and sleep to leadership and energy management.

But if your people don't understand what stress actually is, none of it sticks.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why 99% of physical health conditions begin with the stress response

• What the freeze, fight, flight, and fawn patterns look like in real time

• How stress is created internally—not by tasks, people, or job roles

Wellbeing isn't something we layer on top of burnout. It's something we build from the inside out—starting with awareness.

This episode helps you reframe:

• Why awareness of the neuroscience of stress is the first step to real change

• How stress patterns become invisible without education

• Why this is the foundation of wellness at work and not a "nice to have"

If your organisation is investing in wellbeing but still seeing high stress levels, this episode offers a simple but powerful truth: Until people understand what's happening in their own bodies and minds, nothing else can take root.

Our employee wellbeing webinars and employee wellbeing programmes bring the science of stress into the workplace in a practical, accessible way—helping your people build real capacity and clarity.

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With so many organisations investing in workplace wellbeing initiatives, we share with you why it's vital that in order to create the right impact, you have to start with the basics.

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