Join Kat as she sits down for a conversation with inspiring Operations Director, Carol-Anne. Together, they take a look at what it really means to create a healthy, open workplace where employees feel safe to prioritise their mental health. Carol-Anne also opens up about her own experience with intermittent fasting and how small changes can make a big difference in how we feel and show up in life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Employee well-being is a shared responsibility between employers and employees.
• In a fast-paced world, people often neglect their own well-being due to time constraints. It's essential to prioritise reflection and self-care, even if it means scheduling time for it in a busy calendar.
• Employers should create an environment where issues can be raised and heard, while employees need to take the initiative to speak up about their mental health and well-being.
• Carol-Anne notes how getting to know your team, and treating employees as individuals, can help to improve workplace performance.

BEST MOMENTS

‘There is no more time than is physically available during the day.’

‘There's a lot of times where employees don't talk or speak up until the last minute and it becomes too late and it's a bigger issue than potentially what it needs to be.’

‘I met somebody very senior in the week and she said that her boss can tell when she's been running before work without even having a conversation about the fact that she's been running.’

‘I think there's something in today's culture around that where we seem to be a lot more free in what we have the ability to chastise people around these days than we would have done a few years ago.’

‘We don't recognise the journey that people have been on to achieve milestones, whether that's career or personally, or maybe, you know, recovering from an addiction or whatever it might be. We just look at the moment when people are achieving some kind of success.’

‘Your truth can sometimes be very different to what the truth is, and having the ability to separate them can really take you down a different path.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Carol-Anne Foote is a seasoned business manager with over 20 years of experience working in private healthcare. Currently, she works as an operations director for Meallmore, one of Scotland's most trusted providers of nursing and residential care. Skilled in strategy, finance, leadership, sales, HR, and change management, Carol-Anne also holds active nurse registration and a First-Class Executive Master’s in Business Leadership and Innovation.

ABOUT THE HOST

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.

She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

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In this episode, Kat speaks to Chris James, who reveals the lies we tell ourselves that keep us stuck and shares his powerful SCALE framework for growth. Chris shares his thoughts on optimism, relationships, and why most productivity apps are just expensive procrastination tools. Kat and Chris will challenge everything you think you know about success, time management and what it takes to build a life you don't want to escape from.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Chris shares his SCALE framework: systemise processes, create evergreen content, use automation/AI, delegate labour to others and eliminate unnecessary tasks to clone yourself in business
• Phone notes and pen and paper with weekly planning work better for Chris to keep him focused and organised. For most of us, productivity apps create procrastination instead of actual progress
• Chris uses a ‘perfect week’ calendar to balance daily business tasks with personal non-negotiables, which creates a better work life balance
• If you're not following through on scheduled commitments, you're simply not experiencing enough pain to drive real change
• Chris maintains optimism by zooming out, every problem becomes smaller when you widen your perspective
• If you’re struggling with a situation, Chris suggests you write out the problem and you'll feel better, then create a solution and realise it wasn't that bad
• Chris's business philosophy shifted from money driven to impact focused after he achieved financial freedom

BEST MOMENTS

"You're not in enough pain. If you are in enough pain, you'd do the thing."

"I have found the most productivity apps are actually just stopping you from being productive because they're forcing you to procrastinate when you should just be doing the thing.”

"Your mood, follow the plan, you feel bad about something, does it tie in with the main thing? No. Well, it doesn't matter then, does it?"

"We're overconsuming and we're underproducing, it's no wonder so many people are feeling really overwhelmed."

"The man who moaned about having to walk a mile to work suddenly shut the hell up when he saw the man with no feet."

ABOUT THE GUEST

Chris James helps coaches and marketers build 6 figure businesses without ads. He's a
best-selling author and speaker.

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ABOUT THE HOST

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.

She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

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Kat shares a powerful reminder in this solo episode that you are not your thoughts. In every talk she delivers, she asks the same question and urges you to do the same “What is one of the first thoughts that you have when you open your eyes?” Kat shares why this question is so important, and you need to start taking note of these thoughts and how they impact your day.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The thoughts you have first thing in the morning are shaping your day.
• Thoughts create actions, behaviours and your feelings.
• Negative thoughts have an evolutionary advantage to protect you, but in day to day life, they are sabotaging your growth and potential.
• When we believe every thought we have, including the negative ones, that’s when we impact our self-esteem and progress.
• You can’t stop your thoughts, but you can notice them without becoming them.

BEST MOMENTS

“Those thoughts are shaping your entire day”

“The job of this voice is to protect you and keep you safe, but often that voice can end up sabotaging you”

“I have got to a point now where I recognise those thoughts and I don’t let them control me or my actions”

ABOUT THE HOST

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.

She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

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