In this new episode of our Wise Talk series, Bobbi and our guest Flora Castillon discuss common limiting beliefs and how to overcome them.

Flora believes that we can all address a lot of what challenges us at a rapid pace by rewiring our belief systems and harnessing how our mind operates. With far too many people battling with a lack of clarity, confidence, self-worth, crippling anxiety, imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and the inability to make the right decisions, she successfully helps her clients realise their goals, ambitions, and deepest desires – and fast. 

With decades of experience in the corporate world, Flora has witnessed how everyone shows up at work with a set of limiting beliefs about who they are, no exception made for the C-suites. And as a result, we affect everyone around us, including the bottom line. Flora is on a mission to educate and turn the narrative around so we all start putting our oxygen mask on. And thrive. 

In this new episode of our Wise Talk series, the main topic is mental health. 

Out guest Laura Russell is a registered nurse and corporate wellness with Safe Hands. Her role here focuses on all areas of corporate wellness, managing employee wellness programs for in excess of 50 local and international companies. She is passionate about mental health in the workplace, regularly conducting webinars, training and seminars on all areas of this topic to provide awareness, education and insights. 

She is a qualified Mental Health First Aider and is currently completing her post graduate degree in Mental Health. 

Laura also delivers internationally recognised first aid training for adults, corporate groups, teens and the community with Safe Hands and has certified thousands of first aiders in her time with Safe Hands. 

In this episode, Laura explains the role of mental health in the workplace, the importance to have an awareness about it and what are the risks to organization's employees if we neglect it.

This new episode of our Wise Talk series is all about nutrition and how this is linked to our wellbeing.

Our guest speaker today is Sara Babar. Sara is a public speaker, certified holistic wellness coach, spinning instructor and experienced restaurant consultant with a passion for helping individuals to feel their best through sustainable food and lifestyle changes. Through her coaching and consultancy practice, Sara has built a comprehensive understanding of health and wellness that she is passionate about sharing with others.

Sara explains to us what are the benefits of gut health and the risks of not having it, also, she gives us some tips on how to start on the right path with nutrition.

Sara points out the importance of investing and protecting in your body to better perform in the workplace and how eating healthy helps with increasing focus and having energies.

Sara's contacts:

Website: https://www.sarababar.com/ 
Instagram: @sarababar
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-babar-19138a118/ 

In this new episode of our Wise Talk series, our special guest Oliver Baxter from Millerknoll Insight Group and Bobbi discuss how, when and where we work have an impact on our wellbeing. 

Oliver explains how the pandemic has impacted the workspace, and how people are now more aware about the relation between workspace and wellbeing for the long-term success of the organisation. 

Oliver's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverbenjaminbaxter/ 

In this episode, Bobbi and our guest George Kasparis discuss how heart variability technologies are making a transition from the sport world into the corporate one, and the benefits these technologies could bring to a company and how they can help and value employees. 

 George's contacts:

Personal LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-kasparis-51ab3b35/
Company LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstbeat-technologies-oy/mycompany/
Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/Firstbeat
Company Insta: https://www.instagram.com/firstbeat_technologies/ 

Shane Tolley is a qualified insurance broker who specializes in Group Health and General Insurance, he  is the Corporate Services Manager at Beneple and has been with the company for over 5 years, having been in the UAE for 8 years. 

In this episode, Shane explains  what his role as a broker looks like, how medical insurance works in the UAE, and gives some advices to HR managers looking to purchase medical insurance for their employees.

Most importantly, Bobbi and Shane discuss the relation between wellbeing and medical insurance in  the workplace.

Shane's contacts:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanetolley/
[email protected] 

For this new episode of our series 'Wise Talk' we highly encourage everyone to listen it, as it will give you some valuable advice on how to deal with pregnancy in the workplace, both from the employer and employee point of view!

Our guest speaker is Perihan AbouZeid, an award-winning serial entrepreneur and business strategist. She is the founder of Pericare, a FermTech startup focused on building products for working mothers, starting with a standalone state-of-the-art design nursing pod.

In this episode, she tells us what her maternity journey was like and how she believes employers could provide better support for employees who are pregnant.

Perihan's contacts:

www.linkedin.com/in/pabouzeid
www.instagram.com/pabouzeid
www.twitter.com/perihana

In this last episode of this audio series, we analyze how Motley Fool has achieved enviably low staff turnover through a focus on culture and the employee experience. The business has gone to great lengths to develop a fun-loving culture for its employees, affectionately referred to as 'fools'.

Lastly, we draw our conclusions on the role that workplace wellbeing is playing today in a business, its challenges and solutions to put in place.

In this episode, we present you the Southwest Airlines' case study: the business adheres to the philosophy that 'if we treat our employees right, they will treat our customers right, and in turn that results in increased business and profits that make everyone happy'.

In addition, we explain why a good planning of a workplace wellbeing strategy is fundamental to achieve real results.

In this episode we present you the Next Jump's case study. The company places employee development at the centre of its business strategy, and how they do it is very interesting: the business does not have a HR department and every employee spend 50% of their time working on HR and culture.

In addition, employees are supported to maintain their physical and mental health by being encouraged to visit the the onsite gym twice a week and offered healthy meal choices each day. 

With this case study, we aim to show you how Next Jump's pursuit of business excellence through integrating employee development throughout its policies and processes has paid off with significantly increase in sales.