On episode 14 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by Kim Godsey to explore stress and its impact on our physical health and mental health, taking better care of our heart health, and the four steps to decreasing stress in your life.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why our mental health and physical health are intertwined.
• How stress impacts our risk taking.
• The 90-second rule for emotional health.
• The four steps to decrease stress.
• And so much more!

Connect with Kim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-godsey-rn-msn-ag-acnp-bc-92429a69/

Watch Kim's TedTalk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1G7H3vQ58

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart.

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 13 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay explores the Three Es of Human Safety: empowerment, emotion, and empathy. 

In this episode, we cover:

• The definition of psychological safety.
• Paying attention to our emotions and how they impact our lives at home and at work.
• Specific actions you can take to build a psychologically safe work environment.
• The 3 Es of Human (aka Psychological) Safety, including empowerment, emotion, and empathy.
• And so much more!

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 12 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by Celeste DiMilla to explore kindness, creating a culture of kindness at work, and the intersection of kindness, stress, health, and safety.

In this episode, we cover:

• The power of self-kindness.
• How small acts of kindness leads to a happier life.
• The impact of stress at work.
• Tips for business leaders to foster more kindness.
• Why stress leads to making unsafe decisions.
• And so much more!

Order Celeste's book here.

Connect with Celeste at CelesteDiMilla.com.

Psychotherapist, Celeste DiMilla, knows the transformational power of kindness. When a midlife crisis left her empty and unfulfilled, practicing kindness transformed her life and made her happy. Celeste and her colleague, Louis Alloro, have now written the book, Live Kind, Be Happy, to teach others how simple kindness practices can improve every aspect of their lives and ultimately be world changing. Celeste is passionate about creating a kinder and happier world and she writes and speaks about topics such as kindness, mindfulness and wellbeing

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart.

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 11 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by Chris Burns to explore everything fleet safety, driving safety, and driver safety!

In this episode, we cover:

• What goes into keeping your fleets, and drivers, safe.
• The direct and indirect costs of not being safe.
• Getting buy-in from your fleet drivers on safety compliance.
• The risk of fleet batteries dying. 
• Building a culture around safety.
• Distracted and unsafe driving.
• Tips and strategies for being a safer driver.
• Cameras, devices, and other safety tools for fleets.
• And so much more!

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbburns/
Connect with Midwest Fleet and Safety: https://midwestfleetandsafety.com/

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 10 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay shares three essential strategies to combat feeling beat down at work and in life!

In this episode, we cover:

• Placing value in the knowledge we gain.
• Taking action with the knowledge we have.
• Community and its role in supporting our actions.
• The Okay Concept
• Mental Ergonomics
• Carry Your Own Weather
• And so much more!

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 9 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by Silvana Dominioni to explore how safety professionals, leaders, and employees can better connect with each other.

In this episode, we cover:

• How employees can get to the point of validating unsafe choices.
• Taking risks because that's the way it's always been done.
• Toll booth safety (yes, it's a thing!).
• When management doesn't have a grasp on their safety obligations.
• How Silvana has learned to connect with employees and earn their trust.
• How to help employees learn about the impact of their safety decisions.
• Feng shui for your office environment.
• And so much more!

Connect with Silvana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvanadominioni/
The Feng Shui Collective: https://www.fengshuicollective.com/

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 8 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by guest Khara Huhta to explore the six types of Working Genius and how to to use the Working Genius framework to foster stronger and more effective working relationships.

In this episode, we cover:

• Each of the six types of Working Genius: Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Enablement, Galvanizing, and Tenacity.
• Why the Working Genius framework helps foster understanding, empathy, and care within your teams. 
• How better awareness of each of our Working Genius types helps us better understand ourselves and each other.
• How to turn our frustrations into competencies.
• How the Working Genius framework exists within the safety world.
• Lindsay's and Khara's Working Genius types.
• And so much more!

Khara Huhta is a passionate and dedicated Certified Safety Professional and Certified Athletic Trainer with experience on all sides of occupational safety including safe preventative practices, injury response, root cause analysis, and corrective actions. In her previous career life, Khara provided athletic training services to the magical cast members at Disneyland before she found her new passion in health and safety. Khara began her safety consultant career in 2016 and has performed fall protection assessments, confined space inventories, and ergonomic assessments, along with program and project management tasks. She works entertainment conventions as a side gig and if you are looking for her on a weekend, you will often find her relaxing in the company of her husband, Erik, and their two dogs, Willow and Barrett. 

Connect with Khara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kharahuhta/
Learn more about Working Genius: https://www.workinggenius.com/

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 7 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay explores the intersection of habits and safety to help each of you answer the question: What are your safety habits?

In this episode, we cover:

• The definition of habit.
• Why everyone has habits, some you’re aware of and some you’re not.
• What habits look like at home and at work.
• Why it’s hard to change our habits.
• How are habits are impacting our safety at home and work.
• How reducing stress can help us break habits.
• And so much more!

And special shoutout to you listeners for helping us reach the milestone of 250 downloads! Thank you! Let's keep it going!

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 6 of The Safety Gambit, Lindsay sits down with Emily Elrod to discuss how expectations impact our performance.

In this episode, we explore:

• The importance of HOT (Humble, Open and Transparent) conversations
• Designing environments for humans to work properly, safely, and caring of well-being
• Psychological safety as the most important for employees
• Creating space for employees to be vulnerable
• How validation has shifted fro working harder to working smarter.
• And much more!

About Emily Elrod:
Her clients describe Emily Elrod as energetic, wise beyond her years, and the person that gets things done. Her husband describes her as a blonde, good momma, and animal philanthropist. But if you ask her, she is just a lover of humanity, dark chocolate, and nouns as she will gladly nerd out with you on ways people, places, and things (aka nouns) go from stressed to strategic as she helps them perform at their top potential. She has a background in ergonomic engineering, Human Resources, and Wholistic Human-Centric design. She is blessed to own a company called Workzbe that works with high-performing, high-pressure teams of all sizes to create WISE work environments where people show up, collaborate, perform, and have fun while doing it.

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 5 of The Safety Gambit, Lindsay sits down with Teri Slater to discuss the intersection of financial stress and risk tolerance. In other words, financial flashpoints!

What is your financial flashpoints?

In this episode, we explore:

• How financial stress impacts how people show up to work.
• The level of distraction and its role in financial stress.
• Risk tolerance in our financial decisions.
• What separates those who have high risk tolerance from those who have low risk tolerance.
• Safety gambits in the financial space.
• Tips for dealing with risk tolerance and financial stress.
• And more!

Teri Slater has helped high achievers overcome shame, guilt and overwhelm with their finances as a financial coach since 2008. Despite her finance degree however, she and her former husband used credit cards as an extension of their incomes to buy lifestyle and happiness. After a "line in the sand moment", Teri ditched over $200,000 in debt, the mindsets that got her there and eventually the marriage. She discovered a more profound approach and joy in helping others overcome debt and create more confidence on their financial journeys.

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!