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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 transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

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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: 
https://themhcollective.com/team/#tiffany-grimes-orange-county-psychologist

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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We are living through times where the separation of an individual's work life and personal life has been minimized. People managers must provide much more than overseeing tasks and workflow; they need to know how to listen empathetically, honor emotions, acknowledge the whole person, and ask powerful questions.

Strong coaching cultures = strong engagement, collaboration, well-being, increased responsibility, development + revenue growth.

In this episode, the other Co-founder of UpLevel, Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, joins Christie Mann to recap this season and issues calls to action for organizations.

Key Takeaways:

1. There’s science behind coaching at work
2. How the Great Resignation can turn into the Great Retention
3. The sweet spot employers need to help their employees find
4. What employees are really looking for in a company
5. The importance of + how to implement a coaching culture in your school
6. Inspiring managers to become courageous coaches
7. The metrics and ROI achieved from a Co-Active Coach training program at Google
8. Why it’s ok to lose some employees in the process of transforming your company culture
9. The 5 steps to creating a coaching culture

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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Did you know employers can build stronger, more goal-oriented teams by having a coaching culture in the workplace? Founder & CEO of Eudaimonic by Design, Andrew Soren joined UpLevel Productions' co-founder Christie Mann to discuss Designing PERMACulture: The Science of Coaching at Work.

Also in this episode:

• What eudaimonic means and why he named his company Eudaimonic by Design
• What makes a good life
• How he got into coaching
• A training alternative to Applied Behavioral Science like what’s used when training dogs
• Why it’s so important to create a coaching culture right now
• What will happen to organizations that don’t
• How to make change with just one other person
• What Permaculture is
• Bridging the gap between the heart and the brain
• How to create a healthy environment of enablement
• The effects of a mismatched written vision versus what’s actually happening

You can reach Andrew here: https://www.eudaimonicbydesign.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 episode, we listen back to a celebration of ICF International Coaching Week (ICW) and the theme “ReImagine the Future,." Co-Founders of UpLevel Productions, Co-Active for Organizations Licensees, and CTI Faculty; Rachel Baldi and Christie Mann were thrilled to curate & host an explorative conversation about the Past, Present & Future of the Coaching Industry with some of the “original players” (OPs) of the profession.

This is an opportunity to hear from our beloved elders, be inspired, and get excited about the future of the coaching profession.

Hear from: 
Karen Kimsey-House
Yuri Morikawa
Rick Tamlyn
Gülsün Zeytinoglu
Cynthia Loy Darst
Henry Kimsey-House

Key takeaways:
--Celebrate coaching and specifically Co-Active coaching.
--Honor some of the original players (OPs) of the profession and our community.
--Learn more about the history of coaching, the roots of Co-Active, and discuss the vision for its future.
--Discover the differences between "older" and "elder."

We have been longing to highlight these leaders and the impact they’ve created on our profession and our world. Come join us to Learn, Love and UpLevel.

This is a fantastic opportunity to hear a group interview/storytelling with some of your favorite Original Players, facilitated by UpLevel Productions.

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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