In this episode, split out into two parts, I’m shifting the well-being discussion to the workplace. Knowing that we all carry our personal experiences with us, we might at times have a ton on our minds and the interactions we have with each other can impact not only how we feel, but our vision for the future.

I’m joined by the ever so inspiring, and Canada’s leading psychological health and safety in the workplace leader, Mary Ann Baynton, and a behavioural scientist and organizational coach and thought-leader in the San Diego area, Victoria Tucker.

My discussions with Mary Ann and Victoria give us insights into how we can consider to help create moments of positive mental health in the workplace – and like both Mary Ann and Victoria maintain, our organizational cultures are shaped not just because we have strategic frameworks in place, but because of the commitments we make as individuals to mindful and considerate business practices and communications.

Part 1: I sit down with Victoria Tucker who shares her perspectives on the long-lasting well-being impacts of the everyday, considerate actions we take with each other in the workplace. Victoria also connects workplace well-being to glass sponges in such a fascinating way and why it is that nature offers us innovative ways to think about human challenges.

Part 2: I chat with Mary Ann Baynton who gives us a look at her rich thinking on pragmatic, yet deeply methodical ideas to empower good mental health in the workplace, while helping people stay healthy and psychologically safe so they can live and work meaningfully and with great purpose and belief in themselves and their future.

I’m Elena Iacono and my aim with Sturdy Glass Sponges is that we're inspired to look at our own lives, and with episode 6 our workplaces, in a renewed way.

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