Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing

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Welcome to Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing, produced by OOt Social Health and powered by the Global Wellbeing Council. Hosted by Sasha Farley and Thyagi DeLanerolle, this podcast explores the future of leadership through one core belief: When people and the planet thrive, organizations thrive. Each episode brings you conversations with forward-thinking executives, authors, and innovators who are redefining what high performance looks like in the age of AI — where human connection, creativity, and conscious leadership are the real drivers of people, planet, and profits. Together, we uncover practical strategies to strengthen employee belonging, elevate wellbeing, and build cultures where teams feel connected, energized, and equipped to do their best work. Guests share both research-backed insights and real-world techniques across the employee lifecycle — from hiring to retirement — with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion. Join us as we turn wellbeing into action — and action into lasting impact. This is Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing. Where conscious leadership becomes the catalyst for thriving people, thriving organizations, and a thriving planet.

  1. 23h ago

    Sustaining High Performance with Amisha Miller

    Amisha Miller brings a rare perspective to the conversation on wellbeing at work — one forged over more than two decades of operational leadership within a single organization. Rising from Office Manager to VP of Services & Operations at Levata Canada, a global IT services and technology products distributor specializing in barcode, RFID, access control, POS, and networking solutions, Amisha has lived through every phase of organizational evolution: growth, restructuring, rebranding, and the ever-accelerating pace of technology change. Her journey is not just a career story — it is a masterclass in resilience, adaptability, and the kind of institutional trust that only comes from staying deeply committed to people and purpose over time. In a world that increasingly celebrates the new hire and the fast mover, Amisha represents something we rarely celebrate enough: the wisdom and wellbeing that comes from depth, loyalty, and staying the course. This episode explores what it takes to sustain personal wellbeing through decades of organizational change, how operational leaders can cultivate cultures where people genuinely thrive, and why the human infrastructure of a business matters just as much as the technology it deploys.

    Sustaining High Performance with Amisha Miller

  2. 6d ago

    When the Mission is Home with Brent Maney

    Brent Maney is an Air Force Pararescue veteran and Department of Defence Human Space Flight Support specialist, he has built his professional life around a single principle: when conditions are at their worst, you go in anyway. That creed That Others May Live, is not a motto. It is an operating system. But the most demanding mission of Brent's life didn't come with a uniform. In 2007, his wife Trudie was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease at 33. What followed wasn't a crisis to manage and resolve. It became the permanent structure of their life: cognitive changes, financial collapse, bankruptcy, foreclosure, and the compounding weight of full-time caregiving alongside full-time federal work. No exit ramp. No end in sight. What Brent did next is what makes him essential for this conversation. He didn't soldier through alone. He didn't perform resilience. He did the actual work: therapy, veteran programs, licensed counselling, coaching — and he sat, unflinchingly, with what sustained pressure had cost him. Out of that reckoning, he created HeldLight: a platform built on the radical premise that real strength isn't the absence of struggle. It's the willingness to name it. For executives who lead through uncertainty, carry invisible weight, and are expected to project composure while absorbing pressure, Brent doesn't offer a model for avoiding discomfort. He offers something far more valuable: a hard-won, battle-tested framework for moving through it and emerging more capable, more grounded, and more genuinely fit to lead.

    When the Mission is Home with Brent Maney

  3. Aug 6

    Leading Through Complexity with Tyler Chalk

    Tyler Chalk, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer at Southlake Health, a large healthcare organization that is embarking on one of the most significant healthcare transformation efforts in Canada—shifting from a traditional hospital-centric model toward a Distributed Health Network model that redefines how care is designed, delivered, and scaled. At its core, his work is about strategic system redesign under extreme complexity—balancing population growth, resource constraints, infrastructure pressure, and evolving community needs. While grounded in healthcare, the principles extend far beyond it. This conversation is designed for leaders across sectors who are navigating transformation, scale, and uncertainty. It explores how Tyler’s approach to system-level strategy, execution discipline, and cross-sector collaboration can inform how executives think about strategy, operating models, and long-term value creation in their own organizations.

  4. Jul 17

    Seeing Human Potential with Dr. Ulrich Vogel

    Dr. Ulrich Vogel has spent more than 25 years helping organizations understand what truly drives people. As the founder of profilingvalues, he has conducted over 7,000 assessments using a values based approach that reveals the deeper structures shaping how we think, lead, and relate to others. In this conversation, Uli challenges the assumptions we make about talent, performance, and potential. We explore why behaviours can be misleading, how blind spots emerge, and what happens when organizations fail to recognize the qualities they say they value most. Together, we examine what it means to see people more clearly and why doing so may be one of the most powerful ways to strengthen wellbeing, build healthier cultures, and unlock human potential.

    Seeing Human Potential with Dr. Ulrich Vogel

  5. Jul 9

    Growth Through Trust with Jeff Schwartz

    Jeff Schwartz is a CEO who believes that how you treat people — customers, employees, partners — is not a soft consideration sitting alongside the business strategy. It is the strategy. His leadership journey began not in a corporate boardroom, but around a campfire at Camp Timberlane in Haliburton, Ontario, where his time as a camper, counsellor, and unit head instilled in him lessons of teamwork, resilience, and community that became the foundation of his leadership style. From there, nearly two decades at Bell Canada and a high-growth run at Brookfield Infrastructure's Enercare brought him to Go Lime — Canada's leading digital first provider of home and commercial services — where he has led one of the most interesting business transformations in the Canadian consumer market: dismantling an opaque, high-pressure rental industry and replacing it with radical transparency, digital access, and genuine customer trust. Go Lime was founded to restore transparency, trust, and choice to the home comfort industry — and under Jeff's leadership, it has done exactly that, earning nearly 7500 five-star reviews and closing a transformational partnership with Basalt Infrastructure Partners in 2025. He also holds a Workplace Mental Health Leadership certification from Queen's University — a quiet but telling signal that his people-first language is more than positioning.

    Growth Through Trust with Jeff Schwartz

  6. Jul 6

    The Roots of Human Wellbeing with Regina Fuchs

    Regina Fuchs brings a progressive and deeply human perspective to early childhood education—one rooted in curiosity, questioning, emotional safety, and learning through play. In a time when many systems prioritize performance, structure, and measurable outcomes, her work reminds us that wellbeing, creativity, resilience, and healthy development begin much earlier in life than most organizations realize. This conversation explores how the environments we create for children shape not only individual development, but also the future of workplaces, leadership cultures, and societal wellbeing. Through the lens of early childhood education, Regina offers insights into emotional intelligence, intrinsic motivation, community, and the role of nature and exploration in human flourishing. While grounded in childcare and education, this episode is designed for leaders, parents, educators, and professionals across sectors who are rethinking how healthier humans—and healthier systems—are developed from the very beginning.

  7. Jun 22

    What We Carry with RJ Casey

    RJ Casey defies every standard category. He is a combat-decorated Special Operations veteran with tours on four continents. He is the first hire on SpaceX's Personnel Recovery Team, providing technical rescue and remote medicine for human spaceflight missions. He is a SAG stunt performer and military advisor on films including Extraction 2, Jack Ryan, Dunkirk, and Inception. He is a co-founder of Four Branches Bourbon — a service-disabled veteran-owned spirits company featured on the NBC Today Show — and of Brigands Co., a community platform built for veterans, first responders, and their families. He is a NAUI scientific diver doing marine conservation work with FORCE BLUE. He is a physician assistant trained at Fort Sam Houston. He speaks Spanish. And woven through every single one of those chapters is a single thread: service. Not as a resume line, but as a lived philosophy about what it means to show up fully — for your team, your community, the ocean, the mission, the people who didn't make it home. Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing rarely gets a guest like this. This conversation is not about corporate wellness programs or leadership frameworks. It is about what it takes to sustain a human being across thirty-five years of operating in some of the most extreme physical, psychological, and moral environments on earth — and what RJ has learned, sometimes the hard way, about resilience, purpose, grief, brotherhood, and the kinds of wellbeing that nobody talks about until it's almost too late.

    What We Carry with RJ Casey

  8. Jun 8

    The Missing Link with Chris Schmelzer

    Chris Schmelzer has spent more than a decade inside some of the most complex organizational transformations in North America, first at Deloitte and ScottMadden, and now as the founder of The ChangeMindset Co. His new book, The Missing Link, offers a radical reframe of why change programs fail, not because of poor strategy or weak communication, but because of something more fundamental: organizations systematically ignore the biological reality of the human nervous system under pressure. Chris’s central thesis is disarmingly clear. For more than a century, we have designed organizations as if humans were interchangeable units of cognition. But the brain’s primary job is prediction, not execution. When sustained change destroys predictability, the prefrontal cortex, the seat of reasoning, creativity, and empathy, goes offline. Survival circuits take over. And no communication campaign, training program, or culture initiative can reach a nervous system that is signaling danger. The correct sequence, Chris argues, is: Regulation, then Coherence, then Mindset, then Behavior. Most organizations begin at step three or four and wonder why nothing sticks. In this episode, we go deep into the book, the biology, and what it actually looks like to lead change in a way that honors the most fundamental system we have.

    The Missing Link with Chris Schmelzer
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Welcome to Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing, produced by OOt Social Health and powered by the Global Wellbeing Council. Hosted by Sasha Farley and Thyagi DeLanerolle, this podcast explores the future of leadership through one core belief: When people and the planet thrive, organizations thrive. Each episode brings you conversations with forward-thinking executives, authors, and innovators who are redefining what high performance looks like in the age of AI — where human connection, creativity, and conscious leadership are the real drivers of people, planet, and profits. Together, we uncover practical strategies to strengthen employee belonging, elevate wellbeing, and build cultures where teams feel connected, energized, and equipped to do their best work. Guests share both research-backed insights and real-world techniques across the employee lifecycle — from hiring to retirement — with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion. Join us as we turn wellbeing into action — and action into lasting impact. This is Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing. Where conscious leadership becomes the catalyst for thriving people, thriving organizations, and a thriving planet.

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  • Creator
    Global Wellbeing Council
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    77
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Employee Wellbeing Council OOt Inc.
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