007: Mental Wellbeing in Financial Services - with Zoe Flint

In this episode, Zoe explains the importance of mental health awareness and wellbeing in the corporate workplace and how mindfulness and positive psychology can help. Zoe gives great insight into the way the human brain works and how developing a culture within the workplace can support us as a company and as individuals.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: “15% of people who have mental health issues whilst at work are caused by their workplace.” “If you're bringing together different organisations with different cultures, the way our mind may respond, unless it's managed exceptionally well, is defensive according to the perceived ‘threat’. “There is a developing field of neuroscience, which is really starting to understand our brain, how it works, what's happening when we're under different stresses.  BEST MOMENTS: “One of the things that we're missing so deeply in our society is a sense of community. There's been a lot of studies recently by the government think tank on wellbeing and loneliness. It makes us ill - we’re social beings. We are not supposed to be these highly individualised, I can do everything by myself, everything's wonderful type of person. We are supposed to be living in a community.” “The group that I worked with at the organisation I was just talking about, I trained mindful champions, who now run their own mindfulness sessions. I think they do one morning one lunchtime and one evening a week so that the staff can go in and just all de stress together with it.” RESOURCES: Work Live Thrive Website:  https://worklivethrive.co.uk/ ABOUT THE HOST Sarah Myerscough is the Sales and Marketing Director of Boston Tullis Group. The founder of The Insurance Brokers Podcast, she brings a wealth of marketing experience and a fresh perspective on marketing in the insurance sector. Boston Tullis works with insurance brokers to offer solutions to business development ceilings, particularly in the rapidly developing fields of video marketing and thought leadership. If you would like Sarah to help you develop an integrated marketing strategy, using state of the art concepts, then please book a free 20 min call via Calendly    Website: https://bostontullis.co.uk/ Evaluation Link: https://s.bostontullis.co.uk/s/podcastevaluation ABOUT THE GUEST Zoe Flint is the Director of Work.Live..Thrive Wellbeing Consultancy who deliver cutting edge, evidence based and fun wellbeing solutions, enabling everyone to thrive; at work and in life.  Founded in 2017, Work.Live.Thrive was established to share the knowledge, tools and techniques Zoe used to recover from a 20 year battle with anxiety and depression.  Now a trained Coach, Hypnotherapist and Mindfulness Trainer, Zoe also works one to one with clients and specialises in trauma and anxiety.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-flint-20729647/