Stop Stressing Me Out

Victoria Smith
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Stress Management Coach, Victoria Smith, shares stress less tips and interviews experts to help you build resilience and better enjoy your daily life.

  1. 2024-05-02

    Why Cutting DEI Budgets Is Bad for Workplace Wellbeing with Janelle St Omer

    It's the penultimate episode of this season on workplace wellbeing, so we wanted to talk about what's going on in real-time. Companies are cutting their DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) budgets left, right and center. We'll talk a little bit about why that's happening, but also why it's the biggest mistake an organization can make. DEI and your wellbeing in the workplace are intricately connected, which is why I wanted to have this conversation today with Sr DEI Consultant, Janelle St Omer.  In this episode we talk about: the many ways DEI shows up at work that you may not even realize how it correlates positively or negatively to stress and retention why companies are cutting their DEI budgets why that is an EPIC mistake what individuals, teams and leaders can do about it what gives us hope  Connect with Janelle on LinkedIn Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn If you enjoy this episode, please share it on LinkedIn or with someone who will find value in the content.

    53 min

  2. 2024-04-25

    Organizational Readiness for Engagement with Denise Lloyd

    Engagement surveys. Love them or hate them, they're an incredibly useful tool to understand where an organization is at, and where their people feel they need to go. They're also a useful tool to understand workplace wellbeing. But how do we use them to their maximum effect so they don't become something that organizations dread?  We dive into this and more with Denise Lloyd, the Founder and CEO of Engaged, an award-winning, Victoria based human resource consulting firm that provides leading-edge HR services to organizations across Canada. Denise is a leader that brings new ideas and innovation to the way HR contributes to an organization and is known for transforming workplaces. Denise has over 25 years of HR leadership experience, has a Master of Arts in Leadership, and holds the prestigious designation of Fellow Chartered Human Resources Professional (FCPHR).   In this episode we talk about: the core differences between engagement, pulse and engagement surveys, when to do them and why the criticality of organizational readiness to seeing improvements to workplace engagement the key elements to effectively rolling out and communicating an engagement survey and its results how to diagnose stress and burnout using engagement surveys as a tool, and how to get to the root cause of a complex issue and much more! Connect with Denise on LinkedIn Find out more about Engaged and their course offerings

    52 min

  3. 2024-04-17

    Managing the Stress of Job Hunting with Career Coach Darci Smith

    Job hunting consistently ranks as one of the most stressful experiences. It triggers feelings around self-esteem, financial security, worth and purpose, all massively important areas of our lives. That's why this week I wanted to bring Career Coach and Financial Recruiter Darci Smith to the microphone.  In this episode we talk about: current state of the job market tips to be successful in your job search the importance in finding clarity in your needs and fine-tuning your search how to keep your spirits up and maintain momentum job hunting myth-busting! navigating internal job moves and much more! Follow Darci on Instagram Connect with Darci on LinkedIn Darci's Recruitment Firm - Roklyn

    59 min

  4. 2024-04-10

    The Evidence Connecting Goodness and Wellbeing with Ryan Adams

    We've talked a couple of times now about the connection between purpose, volunteerism and wellbeing... but where is the evidence? I'm all for evidence-based decision-making, so today on the podcast we're joined by Ryan Adams, the head of Strategic Partnerships at Benevity. Benevity is a corporate purpose software that provides charitable donation-management, volunteer-management and grant-management solutions for corporations. It also happens to be my former workplace, and one of my favourite parts of the job was the data that was produced from the 1000+ clients and millions of participants. In March 2024, Benevity produced its most recent State of Corporate Volunteering Report and the data is fascinating, and for me, I couldn't help but see the connections between corporate purpose programs and an employee's wellbeing. Ryan has a deep background in all things social impact, which we discuss in the podcast, and we also talk about: turning implicit understandings about volunteerism into explicit findings the push-pull between high participation and the quality of volunteer activities the fine line between being courageous and cautious in your social impact program the individual search for purpose in the workplace and how it ties to stress the connection (to be studied!) between psychological safety and acts of kindness in volunteer programs why hard economic times are NOT the time to pull back on corporate purpose programs and so much more! Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn The Book: Stress Less in 90 Days: Your Guide to Beat Burnout, Build Resilience and Actually Enjoy Your Daily Life

    1h 3m

  5. 2024-03-27

    Workplace Purpose Through Volunteerism with Jerome Tennille

    Multiple studies have shown that most workplace wellness features don't actually make a difference to employee wellbeing. But there is one that has been proven to work at retaining people, giving them a sense of purpose and improving their wellbeing - employee volunteerism. Today I am joined by social impact leader, Jerome Tennille, to talk about why employee volunteer programs make such a difference to our wellbeing, how to thoughtfully develop your own program, how we can better measure impact and much more.    Check out our Less Stressed Leaders Training  Follow Jerome on LinkedIn

    53 min

  6. 2024-03-13

    What Does HR Have to Do With Employee Stress with Michelle Berg

    This week on the podcast I'm very excited to bring Michelle Berg to the mic. Michelle is the Chief Visionary Officer of Elevated HR, a fractional HR services firm that believe fiercely that work shouldn't suck.  To continue our conversation on workplace wellbeing and organizational stress, I wanted to have a frank conversation about what is the role HR can and/or should play in supporting organizations to reduce stress and burnout. In this conversation we talk about: How the motto work shouldn't suck is their north star and what organizations should aim for Whether or not engagement surveys should exist Workplace trends regarding stress and burnout Tips for transitioning employees back to the office after stress leave (and tips for leaders to see early warning signs in the first place) Why HR may not be the team to teach leaders about psychological safety, and the role HR play vs department leads in building psychological safety Why more part-time professional roles don't exist and how we can get to a more flexible workplace And much more!  To check out the Less Stressed Leaders training go to impactfulengagement.com/training

    1h 6m

  7. 2024-03-06

    The Dark Side of Corporate Values

    If you work for a corporation, your company website likely has some values listed on it. We believe in x, y and z. You might even have your performance assessed against it. And corporate values can't be bad, right?  In this short episode I dive into where corporate values can go wrong, and what you as a leader need to do to make sure your team are on the same page. Less Stressed Teams training launches April 17th https://www.impactfulengagement.com/training  Hub Spot Culture Code https://www.hubspot.com/culture-code/the-hubspot-culture-code

    14 min

  8. 2024-02-28

    The Power of Psychologically Safe Teams with Jen Singhal (Part 2)

    We're back for Part 2 with Jen Singhal. Last week we dove into what it takes to move a team from low engagement to a highly engaged and high performing team. We talked tangible practices to build team morale and in this episode we dive even deeper into the practices to develop psychologically safe teams. It's far more than a buzzword, and we can talk psychological safety in theory for ages, but Jen breaks down tangible tools to put it into action.    Check out Less Stressed Leaders training at impactfulengagement.com/training  Follow Jen on LinkedIn

    32 min
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Stress Management Coach, Victoria Smith, shares stress less tips and interviews experts to help you build resilience and better enjoy your daily life.

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  • Creator
    Victoria Smith
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2024
  • Episodes
    221
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2017 All rights reserved.
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    Stop Stressing Me Out