The Wellness Value: Recent Episodes
Michelle Strasburger
At the Wellness Value, we work with employers to create wellness strategies that are as unique as their culture and organization. Wellness is much more than a walking challenge or a weight loss challenge and needs to appeal to the majority of your employees. A proper wellness strategy is inclusive, meets the employees where they are individually and provides real results. That's where we come in. We work with organizations to customize programs for their employees that will improve engagement, performance and overall wellness for their teams.
In this podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Patrick Clark on financial wellness for employees. This is such an important topic as our employees are currently facing many financial challenges and spending time worrying about it at work!
Patrick Clark CFP® is a financial planner with Life Solutions Group. He has over 14 years of experience in financial services. Patrick specializes in comprehensive financial planning. He helps his clients by taking a holistic view of their situation and identifying any gaps in planning that may exist. Solutions may then be implemented in order to take advantage of opportunities to create, amass and preserve wealth. Patrick is passionate about helping people learn how to make efficient financial decisions. These decisions help clients grow their net worth and protect their families while on the path to financial independence.
When individuals increase their wealth, the overall financial picture becomes more complicated. Many clients use a variety of financial professionals such as: CPAs, Attorneys,
Investment professionals and Insurance Agents, which often give sound advice; however, they typically offer up their expertise and guidance independent of one another. The client is then primarily responsible for sorting through a wide variety of recommendations. They are left trying to sort out which recommendations are the most appropriate and how to tie them all together. Patrick finds that no individual product is the solution for every client; every person and situation is unique, which deserves special attention and a cohesive plan. Patrick lives in Chelmsford, Massachusetts with his wife Renee, as well as his daughters Rose, Paige and Bridget
This material is for informational purposes only and should not be considered investment advice. Nothing contained herein may be relied upon as a guarantee, promise, assurance, or representation as to the future. Investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible.
Patrick's contact information is:
Patrick Clark, CFP®, CEPA
Life Solutions Group
55 Ferncroft Road, Suite 203
Danvers, MA 01923
Mobile: (978) 967-7285
When looking at your diversity initiatives, are you thinking about recruitment? How about wellness? Do you know that these two things can go hand in hand to support your DEI initiatives, but also help you recruit and retain diverse talent? Underrepresented groups get less exposure to opportunities, but also less access to healthcare. We’re working with Unchained Inc to offer a program to support your DEI initiatives from a recruitment and wellness perspective offering you a full recruitment and retention program targeted to improve diversity in your workplace. In this podcast, we're talking with Founder and CEO, Bilal Issisfou about UNCHAINEDINC and the partnership we have to offer wellbeing and resiliency tools to help recruit, develop and retain talent from a diverse background.
Learn more about this offering here: https://www.thewellnessvalue.com/services-1-1
Today, we met with Cheryl Morrison Deutsch from Zillion and Tony Cabana from Cross Insurance to talk about Restore Balance, Women's Health and why it gets ignored, brushed aside or just not talked about.
RestoreBalance is a digital program with live coaching designed to help women conquer their journey with menopause. Through one centralized location, RestoreBalance provides members with a live coach–specially trained in menopause,–an easy-to-use app, and a scientific-based curriculum designed by a Dr. Machelle (Mache) Seibel, MD. RestoreBalance tackles the core issues so your working women can live with minimal symptoms and added confidence. Our clients have to ability to minimize their employee’s lack of energy, lack of sleep, chronic conditions, and distraction from work or family. Be part of the much-needed solution by providing women with RestoreBalance.
In this podcast we talk about why mental health is important to the individual, their relationships and the workplace. We talk about what organizations can do to support their employees' mental health.
The following resources have been used to assemble this event:
Sangu Delle TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvpmZktlBFs
Elizabeth Medina TED Talk Mental illness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieXB-BGxYwg&t=70s
Mental Health Assessment: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/health/mental-health-assessment
Physical vs Mental Health: http://doc.rero.ch/record/304727/files/S0033291700043993.pdf
80 years of Mental Health decline: https://bit.ly/2HFyxSZ
Ripple Effect of Mental Health Issues: https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/14383-mental-illness-ripple-effect
Stress and your relationship: https://psychcentral.com/blog/7-signs-that-stress-is-affecting-your-relationship/
Stress in the workplace:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2559945/
Depression and productivity study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133577/
PHQ9 questionnaire: https://patient.info/doctor/patient-health-questionnaire-phq-9
Presenteeism: https://hbr.org/2004/10/presenteeism-at-work-but-out-of-it
Dissociation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvhtDZ7G6jI
Decision-making: https://news.stanford.edu/features/2015/decisions/disease-state.html
Emotional Intelligence: https://www.psychreg.org/emotional-intelligence-mental-health/
Stress Management: https://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/stress-management
Toxic relationships: https://bit.ly/2HoV3vY
When to seek help: https://bit.ly/2zTJYmB
Mindfulness in schools: https://mindfulnessinschools.org/
Mindfulness for mental health: https://www.mindful.org/mindfulness-mental-health/
Learn more about Restore Resilience here: https://www.thewellnessvalue.com/services-1
In this podcast, we meet with Zeena Dhalla to talk about posture and ergonomics, why it's important and what returns organizations can expect when you implement one.
VerticAlign Posture Coaching helps busy people and teams find freedom from pain through good posture, alignment, and mobility. No prescriptions, no surgery, no intimidating fitness equipment. We offer one on one posture therapy, individual ergonomics assessments, corporate workshops, and online desk coaching. Teams at companies like Google and Microsoft have already joined the posture revolution by learning how to decrease pain and improve productivity! We look forward to helping you reclaim your workday from pain.
Contact information:
Website: www.VerticAlign.com
Email: zeena@verticalign.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeena-dhalla/
LinkedIn Company Site: https://www.linkedin.com/company/verticalign
Faebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeenaDhallaVerticalPilates/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZeenaDhalla
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zeenadhalla
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/VerticAlignPostureCoaching
In this podcast, I met with Sandy Demarest, CEO of Demarest Directions. As a passionate executive career and leadership coach, Sandy leverages her extensive experience by supporting organizations and their talent to continue to elevate their abilities to lead and create collaborative cultures. With a long proven track record, throughout her career, Sandy
has focused her training and impact enabling individuals, teams and organizations to optimize performance and connection across generations and New Chapters with
proactive intention for greater success and engagement for the benefit of all.
In this episode, we talk about The Great Resignation and how to reverse it. In addition to her work with individuals and organizations, Sandy is co-authoring a book, called. Conscious Living in The Second Half of Life. Hope to be published by the end of the year...stay tuned.
In this episode, I was blessed to meet with my good friend Kimberly Bozeman. Kim is the Founder and Principle Consultant at KNB Sensible Solutions. In this episode, Kim shares her story of being a black woman facing health issues with unsatisfactory access to healthcare. Add on top of it the trauma from current effects in the black community. She talks about how this affects her in the workplace and how workplaces can support their black employees during these trying times. This episode was so great, we're going to do another that focuses on what employers can do to give access to healthcare for everyone in their DEI strategies.
You can reach Kim at www.knbsensiblesolutions.com
Hi Everyone and welcome to The Wellness Value Podcast. I am very excited for our conversation today. I was introduced to Milly Christmann a few weeks ago and her story is very similar to mine. Milly made a transformation in her career because her health was starting to suffer, but I’ll let her tell that story. Milly is the founder of Marathon Growth Management, and is dedicated to supporting small to medium size businesses with their Talent Needs as well as a coaching practice. Our focus on today’s call is to talk about the clash between health and success. In this podcast, Milly also describes the three pillars that need to be in alignment for wellness.
In this podcast, we met with Melissa Doman, M.A., to talk about how leaders can create a culture that's open to discussing mental health at work.
Melissa is an Organizational Psychologist, Former Clinical Mental Health Therapist, & Author who specializes in mental health at work. Melissa works with international, national, and local organizations and Fortune 500 companies across industries and across the globe – including clients like Salesforce, Siemens, Estée Lauder, and Janssen. Mel has also been featured in the BBC and CNBC about the mental health aspects of the Great Resignation, something that’s all on our minds in our industry. She also has an international perspective on her work as she’s lived abroad in South Korea, Australia, and England and traveled to 45+ countries. She uses these experiences to highlight how cultural differences and personal experiences impact how we perceive mental health, stress, and mental illness. And, how we bring these beliefs into work. Mel has one core goal: to equip companies, individuals, and leaders to have constructive conversations about mental health in the workplace. Her book - Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work (Here’s Why and How To Do It Really Well) just came out in October, with the specific goal of doing just that. Melissa is determined to put mental health in the workplace at the forefront of everyone's minds around the world.
In this podcast we’re talking about exposing your rough edges as a leader to do just that!
Today, we met with my good friend and former colleague, Jaclyn Smeaton ND. Jaclyn is a busy mom, Executive Leader and a Naturopathic Doctor focusing on Women's health & fertility. Learn more about Jaclyn at https://www.hellofertility.com
At The Wellness Value, we offer a program for employers to help women with their health and empower them to advocate for their health and wellness. Learn more at https://www.thewellnessvalue.com/corporate-wellness
Here at The Wellness Value, we are in a mission to make the world of work a healthy place. Wellness Strategies are important in the workplace and are so much more than a challenge once a month. In this episode, I’m excited to introduce you to The Wellness Value and how we’re partnering with organizations to create a wellness strategy.