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Kvon Tucker joins Christie Mann to have an open and authentic conversation about being a black man working on his mental health. He shares how his depression ended up being a blessing and provides actionable tips everyone can do to support their mental health. 

You won't want to miss this conversation! Come Learn, Love, UpLevel, and help bring awareness to and end the stigma around Mental Health.

In this episode:

• How suicidal thoughts are more common than one might think
• Focusing on just putting one foot in front of the other
• How his struggles led him to his passion
• Getting himself out of autopilot
• Still being depressed after reaching his 6-figure dream
• Removing himself from societal conditioning
• Not having to be filled with rage
• What depression is
• The power of meditation
• Where to start if you’re new to meditating
• Using writing as therapy
• Self-compassion
• How being kind to yourself actually helps you get more things done

About Kvon:
Kvon Tucker is a professionally trained Learning and Leadership Development expert, who has spent a third of his life dedicated to helping leaders, teams, and organizations learn, adapt, and transform. He has helped leaders at Netflix, Amazon, and Google adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale through experiential learning and coaching.

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About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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Tina Meyers joins Christie Mann in this week's episode and gets very vulnerable as she shares about her mental health struggles and how she now uses her own lived experiences to help others discover how courageous they are. She also shares very practical tips you can start doing right away and even walks us through a meditation that helps bring out our inner warriors.

In this episode:

• Tina’s journey with anxiety
• Panic attacks in elementary school and feeling alone
• Being able to own your whole self
• Naming your inner warrior
• The importance of talking about your mental health
• Tips on how to share that you’re struggling with mental health issues
• The benefits of freeform writing
• Establishing healthy boundaries with yourself and others
• Examining how what you’re consuming is affecting you

About Tina:
After working as an environmental and social justice attorney and clean water advocate for several years, Tina was exhausted and felt like she was fighting to no avail, even when she won cases and received national awards. Knowing there must be something more, she switched paths and received her Master's degree in Spiritual Psychology and trained to become a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) with the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). In working individually and with groups of women leaders and advocates, Tina has successfully combined her advocacy and conflict resolution background with her natural passion and fire to help those who help others.  She founded Tina Meyers Intuitive Coaching in 2016 and Women Advocates Rising in 2018.

Tina now leads women leaders through one-on-one intensive coaching, workshops, conflict resolution, and mastermind programs. Both individual and group work empower women leaders to create a life where they feel more balanced, inspired, joyful and effective at fighting for their cause. Tina’s coaching supports women to get in touch with the answers they already have within themselves and move past any challenges or doubts they might face.

Tina is also global faculty at CTI, where she leads transformational coach training courses.  She was also a manager for four years in CTI’s organizational department, where she brought powerful coaching and leadership development into organizations.  She loves hip-hop dancing, is obsessed with personal growth, and lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her two kitty babies, Hazel and Neka.

https://www.womenadvocatesrising.com

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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In this powerful episode, Master Coach Joni Mar shares her experience with her own mental health journey, how the pandemic affected her and how the anti-Asian hate she experienced made her feel.

Also in this episode:

• The time of day when the suicide hotline rings the most
• How the ​​Circadian Rhythm affects our inner saboteur
• What happens when your boundaries aren’t strong enough
• What Joni did to get back to a healthier mental state
• Having the courage to ask for help
• Getting back what you give
• How being alone can be dangerous
• When you need to listen to the outside voices
• How she gives herself time to get out
• The importance of getting out in nature
• Giving people a safe place to talk
• How to fill out an emotional quadrant
• How to not mask an emotion with food or something else
• One particular situation she experienced that was very hateful
• How you could handle a situation if you experience racism
• How having meaningful work helped her mental resilience
• What people who are in a service industry can do to support their own mental health
• The importance of blocking out time for your rest/vacation even if you’re not able to leave the house

Joni Mar is a Vancouver-based Master Certified Coach who works extensively in both Asia and North America, coaching and developing Leaders and their teams in large multinational organizations. As well as leading corporate courses for the Co-Active Training Institute in her role as a senior faculty member.

http://www.jonimar.com

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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We have felt for some time that the mental health challenges of COVID are the 2nd pandemic! In recent years, 40% of adults in the US (and more globally) have reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, up from 10% in 2019.  And the pandemic has disproportionately affected the health of women and marginalized communities. 

In many cases, people do not have the self-awareness, tools, or support systems to navigate this “new normal.” How has this become our “new normal?” It’s not just affecting us mentally, but it’s taking a toll on our children and us physically, emotionally, and energetically. 

To aid with this, UpLevel Productions is dedicating Season 3 to Mental Health. We'll have informative sessions with experts & folks who have had their own struggles with mental health to support your mental, emotional, physical, and energetic health.

We are committed to ending the stigma around mental health and ensuring that all humans have access to tools and resources to support their well-being. Everyone is welcome! 

In this kickoff to the season, Rachel Baldi and Christie Mann set the stage for a dynamic Season 3.

In this episode:

• The traumatic event that challenged their mental health
• Grief, in all areas
• The decline of Global mental health
• Rachel losing her core values
• What you can create from grief and loss
• Being alone during the pandemic
• Living losses
• The difference between grieving and mourning
• What to say to someone who is grieving
• The importance of deep listening
• How holding onto grief affects us
• The importance of employers providing mental health tools
• The importance of schools providing mental health tools
• Being the student rather than the expert
• Where to start in your journey with grief
• The concept of living wakes
• How to live while living

About Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC:
Rachel is on a mission to empower and inspire those around her to lead their lives with conscious presence, authenticity, and responsibility. As an Interfaith Advocate + End-of-Life Coach, Rachel brings her knowledge and expertise in coaching, leadership development, project management, workshop design, and facilitation to act as a conscious bridge between people of different cultures, races, and religions to build healthy relationships.

www.rachelbaldi.com

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transfo

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Rachel Baldi joins Christie Mann to recap the "Well-Being in the Workplace" series, and they talk about the highlights from each episode. If you haven't gotten a chance to listen to the past episodes in this series, this episode will help you get a quick overview so you can decide which one you want to listen to first.

They also issue calls to action so organizations can learn what steps they can take right away to begin placing well-being in the workplace as a priority.

In this episode:

• Having well-being as a strategy
• Companies are trying to go back to a pre-pandemic flow, but that won’t work.
• How well-being in the workplace enhances talent retention and attraction
• The 5 Pillars of Well-being in the workplace
• How to set the tone that well-being is important in the workplace
• What a feedback loop is
• How to help BIPOC employees feel like they have a seat at the table
• Recapping the other episodes in this series

About Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC:
Rachel is on a mission to empower and inspire those around her to lead their lives with conscious presence, authenticity, and responsibility. As an Interfaith Advocate + End-of-Life Coach, Rachel brings her knowledge and expertise in coaching, leadership development, project management, workshop design, and facilitation to act as a conscious bridge between people of different cultures, races, and religions to build healthy relationships.

www.rachelbaldi.com

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

UpLevel Productions is committed to ending the stigma around mental health and ensuring that all humans have access to tools and resources to support their well-being. Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

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In this episode, Jocelyn Pepe speaks with Christie Mann about how health is the foundation of life and how organizations are suffering because of a lack of understanding of how important well-being is. 

She points out that we are not moving the needle on burnout and that burnout is having a very negative impact on our workforce, our people, our productivity, and our profits.  

Jocelyn provides numerous nuggets of wisdom on how companies can work toward moving the needle and ultimately improving their bottom line by making well-being an integral part of the strategy.

Also in this episode:

• The 3 levels of stigma around mental health
• How storytelling from the top improves the culture
• Leading with vulnerability
• Working WITH home rather than AT home
• Making sure the right person is in the right position
• Why it’s important to bring in external resources
• Getting your employees to be aware of and use your resources and tools for well-being
• Boundary setting
• Modeling authentic well-being
• The importance of rest
• Following the cycles
• Going slow to go fast

About Jocelyn Pepe:

Jocelyn Pepe is a health and wellness expert with a rich and varied background in coaching and educating on physical, mental, and social wellbeing. As a global facilitator, Jocelyn takes a holistic approach to training and developing human potential.

In her life, she has felt the impact of being highly engaged in her career and yet out of alignment with her overall health and wellbeing, leading to burnout. As a mother of three navigating divorce, Jocelyn experienced firsthand the power of transformational coaching and what happens when you shift your mindset and reach deep down to access what she always knew was possible.

Through her coaching and speaking engagements, Jocelyn brings the audience along on a journey of self-awareness and self-reflection around their habits and wellbeing. Jocelyn is fiercely committed to every individual realizing the benefits of having their physical, mental, and social well-being aligned to thrive personally and professionally.

Professional Designations:
Jocelyn is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), a Registered Health Coach (RHCTM), a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) via the International Coaches Federation, and a member of the Health Coach Alliance. As a master’s student studying The Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health, Jocelyn is committed to bringing the most current and relevant research into TrU Living and the organization's partnerships for every individual to gain the tools to thrive.

You can reach Jocelyn here: https://truliving.ca

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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In this episode, Jill shares actionable tips for creating a coaching culture in the workplace.

In This Episode:

• Implementing Caregiving time off
• History of work in the US
• Starting by slowing down
• Something workplaces really need to hear
• The impact of DEI on workplaces
• Creating a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Psychological safety
• Fuck Ups and Failures
• How to make it acceptable to talk about mental health at work
• What happens when you don’t talk about things
• Introducing Red, Yellow, Green
• Helping people find purpose at work
• Taking meaningful action

Jill is the Head of People for a PR agency. She oversees all things HR, benefits, and culture and seeks to continually improve employee engagement and employee satisfaction by seeking to put BAM’s people first. In 2017, when she joined BAM, she leveraged her previous operations experience and human-centered philosophies to contribute to BAM’s rapid growth and to further build upon BAM’s culture. Having worked for years as a mentor and soccer coach and running her own fitness-based program with incarcerated youth, she takes pride in having a multi-disciplinary and humanistic approach to individuals and teams rooted in psychology, personal experience, coaching, and leadership studies. 

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This week's session, "Radical Compassion & Grace in the Workplace," is with Dr. Tiffany Grimes, 𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒. 

Dr. Grimes will be sharing tools she uses with her clients to help improve well-being and find Joy in the challenging stuff! There are lots of great nuggets in this one!

Key Takeaways:

• Her definition of well-being
• Having clear boundaries
• “No” doesn’t always mean “Never”
• How to start learning to say “no”
• Quick and free things you can do to boost your well-being quickly
• How organizations can provide easy opportunities for employees to be in charge of their own mental health.
• What people managers are struggling with now
• How to have radical compassion and grace in the workplace

UpLevel Productions is committed to ending the stigma around mental health and ensuring that all humans have access to tools and resources to support their Well-Being. Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

About Dr. Grimes:
Dr. Tiffany Grimes holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Health Psychology from The University of Georgia, a MA in General Psychology from Boston University, and a BS in Psychology and Spanish from Millsaps College. She served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer for three years in Ecuador, where she worked in health promotion and HIV prevention & treatment.

Additionally, Dr. Grimes served as a Public Interest Policy Scholar at the APA in Washington D.C. Her research, policy, and clinical interests meet at the intersection of multicultural identity, health, and resilience. She also specializes in substance use, spirituality, meditation, mindfulness, and movement practices. She is also an alumnus of The George Washington University LGBT Health Policy & Practice Graduate Certificate Program. Dr. Grimes currently works as a primary and group therapist at The Mental Health Collective in Newport Beach, CA, and in private practice.

You can reach Dr. Grimes here: 
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About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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In this episode of the Well-Being in the Workplace Event Series, host Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC is joined by Jocelyn Pepe, Corporate Wellness Coach + Founder of TrU Living.

Key Takeaways From This Episode:

• The definition of well-being
• What companies are now doing to support well-being in the workplace
• What companies can do to gain, retain and engage employees
• The current lag in employees feeling supported in their well-being
• How to have the important conversations
• No separation of work-self and home-self
• Something the Hilton Group is doing that’s working really well
• Authentic vulnerability-based leadership
• The skills leaders need in order to meet where the workplace is now
• How supported employees feel now compared to the beginning of the pandemic

About Jocelyn Pepe:

Jocelyn Pepe is a health and wellness expert with a rich and varied background in coaching and educating on physical, mental, and social wellbeing. As a global facilitator, Jocelyn takes a holistic approach to training and developing human potential.

In her life, she has felt the impact of being highly engaged in her career and yet out of alignment with her overall health and wellbeing, leading to burnout. As a mother of three, navigating divorce, Jocelyn experienced firsthand the power of transformational coaching and what happens when you shift your mindset and reach deep down to access what she always knew was possible.

Through her coaching and speaking engagements, Jocelyn brings the audience along, on a journey of self-awareness and self-reflection around their habits and wellbeing. Jocelyn is fiercely committed to every individual realizing the benefits of having their physical, mental, and social well-being aligned, to thrive personally and professionally.

Professional Designations:
Jocelyn is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), a Registered Health Coach (RHCTM), a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) via the International Coaches Federation, and a member of the Health Coach Alliance. As a master’s student studying The Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health Jocelyn is committed to bringing the most current and relevant research into TrU Living and the organization's partnerships for every individual to gain the tools to thrive.

You can reach Jocelyn here: https://truliving.ca

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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This is the start of Season 2, "Well-Being in the Workplace."

In this episode, UpLevel Co-Founders & Hosts Christie Mann and Rachel Baldi kick off the event series. They discuss why this topic is so important, define what UpLevel means by “Well-Being,” and dropped some quick tips they are using and sharing with clients.

Key Takeaways:

• How much it’s costing the US to deal with unresolved mental health and grief challenges
• Guided Meditation: Ego Eradicator Meditation
• What to do to ground yourself when you’re rushing around
• The results in the workplace of employees not being able to process their grief
• What thriving organizations are doing in response to the increased grief we’ve experienced as people
• What’s costing organizations $75 Billion dollars
• Digital fatigue and what to do about it
• Eye exercise to help with digital fatigue
• The power of power napping
• Getting to a 4-day work week
• The connection between the eyes and the brain
• Not just jumping into brass tacks during meetings

UpLevel Productions is committed to ending the stigma around mental health and ensuring that all humans have access to tools and resources to support their well-being. Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

About Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC:
Rachel is on a mission to empower and inspire those around her to lead their lives with conscious presence, authenticity, and responsibility. As an Interfaith Advocate + End-of-Life Coach, Rachel brings her knowledge and expertise in coaching, leadership development, project management, workshop design, and facilitation to act as a conscious bridge between people of different cultures, races, and religions to build healthy relationships.

www.rachelbaldi.com

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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