Running a business is very rewarding, but it’s also one of the most stressful things you’ll ever do. Rather than having a good work/life balance, you might find that you’re stuck working longer hours, feeling stressed and overwhelmed, and missing out on time with your family and friends.

As well as potentially causing a lot of stress, work pressures can also affect your physical health and wellbeing.

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Resilience is the ability to overcome challenges, setbacks, and problems, and come back even stronger than before. But it’s not just about overcoming challenges, it’s about learning from them, and seeing them as an opportunity for improvement. You shouldn’t fear challenges and problems, or see them as failures, or weaknesses; you need to experience difficulties to become more resilient.

The question you should ask yourself, though, is do you approach challenges and problems in a way that build resilience?

Listen to the podcast for more thoughts and hopefully help your thinking pattern

Mehreen Mir is an Emerging Leader coach & Business Leader. Part of her role covers working with Schools to enhance their processes & systems alongside life coaching.

Mehreen’s passion clearly came out in the interview & kept me enthralled for the session.

Mehreen shares insight on getting it right with change, how to include your team & having discussions.

Mehreen talks generally about some of her experiences from the Life coaching she does, including “What is it that you really want” & how we sabotage ourselves by making assumptions on what others think.

Mehreen also covers loss of motivation at work & how to deal with it. We also touch on being overwhelmed at work & tips to help.

Mehreen is passionate about celebrating each step that you take & the results it gets you.

We touch on the key attributes a Manager needs including “Treating people as equals”

We also talk about the 3 top leadership skills needed & about Managers who keep information to themselves & the detrimental effect it causes.

Difficult conversations can be very difficult

If you’re anything like many other small business owners, you probably wear a lot of hats from manager to customer service and more. If you don’t have any HR personnel, you’re likely to be the person responsible for hiring employees and everything in between; and you’ll no doubt be amazed at how time-consuming employee issues can be. Performance reviews are an important tool that will help you manage and develop your employees proactively.

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It pays to remember that negotiation is not all about you. Listen to my tips to help your small business.

This interview gave me such an insight into Nadine and her thinking.

In this podcast, Nadine covers Ambition v wellbeing and whether you have to work long hours to get there.

Nadine shares her passion for her business and how she wants to move to the next level in coaching.

Nadine discusses “how important it is to look after your delegates when running your masterclass and how the learning environment has a big impact on her” We talk about learning experiences and how the right environment makes all the difference.

Nadine talks about the diversity of her clients and how much she enjoys that along with the diversity of her role.

Nadine also talks about the speed of change and how much of an issue it is becoming for leaders.

Nadine shares some really useful tips on handling difficult conversations.

Salma Shah talks about her business which helps Coaches and the key points she has picked up along the way through the years through the coaching.

Salma is a Co-Active coach and talks about what this means and shares some useful tips for those listening.

Do you view failure as a disaster? Do you just want to give up? Listen to my tips to change your mindset.

Are you micromanaging your employees and your small business? The podcast covers the repercussions of this and gives tips to help you move from micromanaging.

Do you know a disorganised colleague or Manager? Listen to my tips on how to help them.