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Mental health awareness is on the rise in 2020. Even before COVID-19 it was a topic that has been discussed openly and I for one welcome it. This is why I reached out to Matteo. He is a business development professional working within the digital industry. He has steadily gained a passion for organisational design. This however is not why I invited him on to the podcast. Matteo and his partner Dora founded the podcast Stepsero. The aim was to spread awareness of the topic of mental health within the modern workplace. Having worked within the corporate world and gaining an insight into the taboo that mental health has there, I feel very strongly about modern work places removing the taboo and making it something that is openly discussed.

Matteo has suffered his own share of burnout and depression and this has led him on to this path to engage employers to think about employee motivation, work stressors, management styles to ensure workers are protected against threats to their mental well-being.

In this episode we talk about his journey, why mental health awareness within the workplace is important, what organisations are doing well and where they can make improvements.

Thank you for choosing to listen, I hope you enjoy the content as much as I enjoy creating it.

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Sunjay Vyas

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Komal George, The Holistic Pharmacist, is a pharmacist turned lifestyle medicine health coach. Her mission is to help her colleagues in pharmacy live happier and more productive lives through the application of lifestyle medicine. In this episode we talk about her motivation in becoming a health coach as well as the wider role of the community pharmacist in helping to spread the message of lifestyle medicine. Komal talks about her Positive Pharmacy Space Facebook Group has helped other pharmacists in so many positive ways. To hear about Komal’s background and why she decided to go into pharmacy in the first place, please go and listen to episode 5 of the Pharmacist Diaries podcast. This episode picks up where that one left off.

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Sunjay Vyas

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Dr. Charlotte Huntley has over 18 years of experience as an accomplished epidemiologist, microbiologist, consultant, career coach and podcaster. She holds a PhD in Public Health and a Masters of Public Health as well as a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Research Administration. Needless to say, when it comes to public health, Dr. Huntley is a fountain of knowledge as I have discovered in my conversations with her.

She is the host and producer of the Public Health Epidemiology Careers Podcast and the For My Health Today Podcast, which demonstrate her unique communication style and her ability to inspire individuals and communities to take positive action and drive positive outcomes.

In this episode Dr. Huntley and I talk about the importance of lifestyle changes in helping us avoid disease. In particular we discuss the prevalence of type 2 diabetes amongst the ethnic minorities in both the US and UK.

She is a big advocate of using walking as medicine. Having gone through her own battles with health, Dr. Huntley used walking as a way to help improve her health both physically and mentally.

Dr. Huntley gives us a run down of the benefits of engaging in more physical activity before finally leaving us with some great take away tips to improve our health that we can all start to incorporate into our lives.

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Laughter As Medicine

Duncan So is the Co-Founder & Executive Director at The Burnout Clinic. Duncan has been a child of corporate burnout that has led him professionally into the field of human flourishing for over a decade working on systemic social change projects. He’s a social entrepreneur and change agent, on a mission to create a more passionate world building systems and programs for companies and communities on the path of making social good.

Board Certified with the Association of Integrative Psychology.  A Master Practitioner in Mental Emotional Release, NLP and Hypnosis.

The Burnout Clinic, helps leaders who are exhausted, burned out and overworked who have tried everything to recover and realise it is not enough.  Combining a rapid mental emotional release process with tropical vacations to stop burnout at the source, people return back to work happy, productive and in control of their work and lives.

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The new normal that we are all facing has blurred the lines between work, school, family and health. This is has left many women suffering from burnout which manifests itself in many ways, whether it’s added stress, increasing feelings of anxiety or fatigue.

Lissette Gole is the founder of Sanctuary Wellness Collective which provides women with access to a “sanctuary” of experts, coaching and tools with the goal of simplifying their journey to alignment.

Lissette holds a degree in psychology, she is a Certified Meditation Instructor, Holistic Health Coach and is actively involved in public speaking engagement about self empowerment and self healing. On top of all that she is on the leadership team at Google, where she also continues to spread her message of holistic health to employees and clients alike.

Her passion for helping high-achieving women focus on mind and body integration (holistic health) began one decade ago when pregnant with her first child. Trying to be everything to everyone (except herself!) fuelled progressive autoimmune disease. Over the course of 10 years, her autoimmune issues became so severe, she was bound to weekly hospital visits, medication cocktails and severe pain that threatened every aspect of her career and family. To empower her own healing, she immersed herself in research literature, professional expertise and lifestyle changes which led her to the path of understanding deeply the power and science behind the mind and body connection.

As Lissette spoke with other high-achieving women giving themselves to work, family, friends, she discovered that many were struggling with some form of fatigue, anxiety, stress, or illness as they were giving more than personal capacity allowed. The curiosity for furthering her own health has evolved into a calling to help other women re-balance and simplify the path to reaching their unique potential so they can give the best they have to offer to the world without sacrificing themselves.

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The health and fitness industry is a confusing place. Too many mixed messages that just get recycled as the years pass. One of the aims of this podcast is to help simplify the journey and raise the awareness that it really doesn't need to be as complex as it may first seem. My guest on this episode is 100% aligned with this message.

Claire McNulty is the founder of Align and Thrive with the mission to create a space that promotes a holistic approach to wellness; a place for people to leave their troubles behind and begin to understand the greater connections between the body, the breath and the mind.

Having been a student of yoga for 20 years, she took the plunge and became a yoga teacher in 2019. She is also a Civil Servant for the UK government, a wife and a mother of 2 boys. She understands the pressure, stresses and strains that we are under in the modern world, whether that's as parents, carers or simply caught up in the corporate world.

In this episode we talk about her own journey into health and how what she thought was the picture of health was not what it turned out to be. Claire talks about the moment she realised that she wanted to follow her passion, what she has learnt along the way, how she overcame hormonal issues and how she incorporates staying well into her busy life. We discuss the band aid approach to health, which I'm glad to say is changing, but it is still ingrained in the mindset of the general population. Towards the end of the episode Claire shares some simple and effective ways that you can get started for yourself, so be sure to stick around till then!

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She's back! I am of course talking about Anisha, the better half. A lot has changed in the short time since her last episode. Anisha has started her own podcast, The Pharmacist Diaries and she's been a guest on other podcasts. As a family we have upped our game in terms of creating helpful and healthy lifestyle habits, like waking up at 4.30am every weekday to make time for exercise, relaxation and some time for ourselves (this is usually reading).

She has been amazed at what a few weeks of consistently doing something can do for her mind and body, and how much focus and direction it has brought into her life.

Anisha puts her new found way of life down to the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. More surprisingly neither of us have finished reading the book! Yet the changes we have made have been profound. We talk in depth about some of these changes and how our a simple mindset shift has brought new focus and energy into our lives.

She also talks about her podcast, which as you will hear it is something she is very passionate about. In fact I have never seen her this passionate about anything that was not work or family related. She discusses the future for the podcast which has evolved at a rapid pace.

Finally we have a little announcement that we share for the first time in the episode (and no, it's not what you are thinking!).

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This week I speak to Elaine Bellew who is a yoga instructor based in Dubai. I met Elaine while I was a group exercise instructor and she was one the regulars in my fitness classes. Her story is a great example of finding something that you are really passionate about and and making that an integral part of your life. Like all stories there is a pivotal turning point. And this for Elaine was when she suffered a cycling accident that led her to the world of corrective exercise and Pilates. Having witnessed the power of Pilates in her rehabilitation she found yoga and the love affair began. After a few years of practicing yoga along side her other fitness interests she took the leap of faith to leave her family and travel to India for a month to undergo her yoga teacher training. Her story will resonate with many as we have all been at that junction at some stage in our lives.

We talk about her international travel experiences, from backpacker through to living in corners of the world, meeting her husband in Australia and how they came to settle in Dubai. Her experience with physical activity and exercise and why yoga made a big impact on her life.

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Sunjay Vyas

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Most people would be shocked to know that around 22,000 people with diabetes die early every year. Type 2 diabetes is a leading cause of preventable sight loss in people of working age and is a major contributor to kidney failure, heart attack, and stroke.

There are currently 3.4 million people with Type 2 diabetes in England with around 200,000 new diagnoses every year. While Type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented and is not linked to lifestyle, Type 2 diabetes is largely preventable through lifestyle changes.

Haya Murad is a clinical nutritionist and a diabetes prevention coach. She works on the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme as well as running her own private nutrition clinic. In this episode we talk all about diabetes. Covering the various types of diabetes, through to complications, symptoms and treatment. We focus mainly on type 2 diabetes as this is largely preventable through lifestyle changes.

Those changes are improving nutrition (EAT), increasing physical activity (MOVE), managing stress and improving sleep (LIVE).

Whether you are at risk of diabetes or not, the information in this episode applies to any of us out there living in the modern world. It was a pleasure to have Haya on the show and I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I enjoyed recording it.

**** The information in this episode is not medical advice. Please see your healthcare professional before you embark on any changes with your health ***

The views on this episode are our own (Haya and Sunjay) and not of any organisations that we work with.

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I really enjoyed this conversation, Nikhil and I have so much in common from our own journey through to the way we approach coaching. Nikhil is a personal trainer and coach who is passionate about behaviour and habit change. 

Having gone through his own personal body transformation from being an overweight, body conscious and slightly shy student to someone who has the confidence and knowledge to coach others through a similar journey. 

Nikhil started life as a pharmacist (and he still is) but soon realised that this was not stoking his fires when it came to his career. He felt that he could help more people make positive changes to their lives as a health and fitness professional. 

In this episode we talk in depth about behaviour and habit change: how do you create healthy habits? Why exercise and nutrition is not the only aspects of your health you need to look, the steps you need to take in order to illicit change and how to create accountability in your own health journey. 

It's full of some of my favourite analogies about health and habits as well as three great tips from Nikhil to get you started on your own path to wellness! 

Reach out to Nikhil through his social channels (links below) for a consultation. 

It will be well worth it, no matter where you are with your own health and wellness. 

Thanks to Purple Planet for all the music featured in this episode. Thank you for choosing to listen, I hope you enjoy the content as much as I enjoy creating it. 

Stay Whole 

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