Let's get intentional about our wellbeing.

The Form Guide Podcast:

The Form Guide is a brand new podcast and Linkedin Live all around promoting positive mental wellbeing in the workplace and society. 

Hosted by Rob Stephenson, CEO of FormScore and Founder of the InsideOut LeaderBoard; we will hear from CEOs; thought leaders; change-makers; fresh thinkers, and young entrepreneurs. Humans who care about making a difference.

There will be a strong focus on storytelling; tips to stay well during these times and ideas on how to support others.

Welcome our guest:

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome Jeremy Thomas, Keynote Speaker, Shed Talks Host, Mental Health Campaigner. As a result of overcoming his own battle with bipolar disorder, he co-produced with Dr Tony Hughes the Emmy Award-winning documentary ‘Stephen Fry, The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive'  

Jeremy is also the co-author of 'You Don’t Have to Be Famous to Have Manic Depression – An A-Z Guide to Good Mental Health'. 

In this episode we talk about Jeremy’s career in the music business before becoming a mental health campaigner, managing the challenges and joys of bipolar, and his view on mental health and stigma in our workplaces and society.

🎵 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry | Coldplay - Fix You

Resources

• Jeremy Thomas’ website
• Shed Talks podcast
• Jeremy’s books

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Heather McKee, a Health Behaviour Change Specialist

Dr. Heather helps companies, create evidence-based health and wellness programmes that bring about long-term changes for their customers and employees. She also supports individuals to take back control of their health and build healthy habits that last with her research backed Bite Sized Habits course.

In this episode we will talk about the behaviour change aspects of how to become more intentional about wellbeing and how to build it as a habit. Dr Heather explains why so many of us struggle to make our habits stick, how long it takes to form a habit and how to stop ourselves going off the track after we’ve set a new habit.

🎵 Rick James – MC Hammer, Super Freak | Ludovico Einaudi, Le Onde

Resources:

• Dr Heather McKee LinkedIn page
• Dr Heather McKee website
• A Slight Change of Plans: Maya Shankar

This is a Form Guide Special, recorded live at the Rising Vibe “Race in the Workplace Event”. Here, we chatted to Adrienne Everett, Account Director at LinkedIn and Advisory Board member of Form for ALL

In this very special conversation to launch the InsideOut LeaderBoard 2021 we chat to Jen Fisher, Deloitte's Chief Wellbeing Officer and Clarke Carlise, Former Professional Footballer and Mental Health Advocate.

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome Silja Litvin, psychologist, founder, and CEO of PsycApps. 

PsycApps is a Digital Mental Health company that uses AI, gamification, and psychology to help people suffering from depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses, stick to therapeutic digital programs and help themselves. 

Silja is the developer of the Emotional Fitness game, eQuoo, designed to teach us the essential psychological skills we need to be able to level up in the game – and in life, too.

In this episode we talk about:

• Looking after our mental health as parents and start-up founders.
• How to utilise the power of gaming, and the behaviour science behind it, as a force for good to improve our mental health.
• AI, gamification, and phycology.
• Non attachment, non judgment, non resistant.

Resources:

• What If Your Job Was Good For You?
• The ROI in workplace mental health programs: Good for people, good for business
• Mental health and employers: refreshing the case for investment

🎵 Tom Browne, Funkin' for Jamaica | Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

Alex is a Former Olympian, Mental Wellbeing and Financial Wellness aficionado, passionate about bringing about Health Strength, and Happiness to all through best practices and purpose focussed technology.

In this episode, we talk about the Olympics, how mental health and performance are closely related; mental health challenges when you love your work so much that it defines who you are, and finally tips financial wellness.

🎵 The O'Jays, For the Love of Money | Ludovico Einaudi, Le Onde

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome Dr Sophie Bostock.

Dr Sophie is a Sleep Expert, passionate about sharing the science of sleep and performance in actionable ways.

Sophie recently rowed 1650 nautical miles around the coast of Britain to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation.

In this episode, Dr Sophie takes us through the recent challenge she completed, how it affected her sleep; and the role of sleep in regulating our emotions, health, and performance.

🎵 Walter Murphy, A Fifth of Beethoven

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome Alastair Banks, Co-Founder of the Digital Marketing Agency, Optix Solutions. 

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome Alastair Banks, Co-Founder of the Digital Marketing Agency, Optix Solutions, and InsideOut Leaderboad role model. 

In this episode, Alastair shares his powerful story and the impact of baby loss and grief from a male perspective. 

🎵 Love will bring us together by the great, Roy Ayers