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175. Corporate Wellness | Engage | Energize | Excel · The Kathie Owen Perspective Podcast

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  Alright, let's go! You're listening to Kathie's Coaching Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Kathie Owen.
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  On this channel, we talk all things corporate wellness, fitness, and some reality transurfing.
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  And today, we're talking corporate wellness on steroids.
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  Okay, so we are going to talk today about Top Workplace Wellness, why I created this program, what it's for, and all that.
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  But today, I'm wearing a A jersey, because at OCuSOFT we're doing Beat the Heat Summer.
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  And the theme is, today, it's wear your favorite jersey.
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  Y'all know, I love my Astros.
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  And, so, we're wearing Astros today.
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  Probably should have put Rusty's Texans collar on.
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  But, yeah, we're not going to do that today.
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  So, top workplace wellness.
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  What is this all about?
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  Why did I create it?
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  And what's it for?
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  All that good stuff.
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  So I thought, you know what, I'm just gonna record this while I'm driving to work because I have been so busy I've been unable to record.
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  And I think this is more like just me.
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  Me doing me.
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  And I don't know about you, but I prefer to see my coaches doing their thing in their zone.
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  It just works.
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  So Top Workplace Wellness is for companies that want to start incorporating a wellness program for their team, why it's important, and it's You know, we want to become a top workplace, we want to motivate our team, and we want to have engagement in our programs.
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  And honestly, my program is called the Employee Engagement Accelerator, because if we can get the team engaged in what we're doing, it's going to make a difference.
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  We all know that obesity is on the rise.
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  Four and a half people out of ten are obese in the United States.
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  That's 45 percent of the population.
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  We need to address it as corporate wellness professionals.
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  I coach corporate wellness professionals on how to have employee engagement in the workplace.
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  And that is not an easy thing.
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  It's, it's easy to just go, okay, I'm going to start a corporate wellness program.
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  But over the years I've found there is one thing you need to understand before you even start a program of any kind.
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  And that is motivation.
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  Motivation.
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  Because I could sit there all day long till I'm blue in the face telling people, Yep, we need to start moving 30 minutes a day.
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  And that's not going to motivate them to start moving.
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  We've got to understand motivation.
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  We are humans.
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  We are not robots.
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  We want to understand what motivates them.
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  They can logically understand they need to do that.
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  But as humans, we want our results quick and easy, especially in this world that we live in.
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  And, oh god, just pull out in front of me.
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  That makes so much sense.
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  But we want to understand what motivates our team.
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  And did a video recently on motivation of the different generations.
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  Because each generation has a different motivator.
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  And what is that is going to determine whether your program works or not.
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  So we start my coaching with assessments.
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  And easy assessments to understand what the team may want, what they don't want, what works, what doesn't work.
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  Actually, the very first assessment comes with you.
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  As the coach, as the wellness director, you need to understand yourself as a coach and how you represent yourself as a coach in the workplace.
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  As a wellness director that you partake in things that the team is doing and you put your face out there and you get out there and you make an impression and you influence.
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  Influence is big and it's something that I've studied and I'm going to put a couple of books down in the description and show notes on influence and what that entails for your team.
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  And what that entails for you as a person, you, you want to pay attention to how you're influencing others.
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  Because that's part of the motivation factor.
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  And then we move into assessments and understand what motivates the team.
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  We also move into rewards and how the rewards can work for you to help you motivate people too.
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  Move, get movement in, or take time for mindfulness, and other things like that, and take time for charities, or community service, whatever that may be.
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  It just helps you be more balanced and rounded as a human being an individual.
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  Then we move into physical exercise, which is probably my favorite and my expertise because I've been a personal trainer for now.
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  I've been a personal trainer for 25 years, so I've been doing this a long time.
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  And as a personal trainer, you do continuing education every two years to keep your certification up to date, and fitness is an ever changing industry.
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  Motivation is an ever changing industry.
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  I've also been a life coach for 20 plus years and I incorporate all of that and my degree in psychology, I incorporate all of that into what I do as a coach.
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  Then we move into nutrition and diet and you can't out train a bad diet.
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  Food is fuel and.
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  It's missed in this world and, and I think the reason obesity is on the rise and so prominent is because we have so much good food out there and it's filled with fillers and it's, it's made to taste good but it's no, got no nutrient value and people don't pay attention to that, to how that food makes them feel.
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  And that's not helpful.
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  You know, that's important to understand what food does to you, to understand the food labels, how much sugar you're intaking, how much processed foods you're taking, and also to be mindful of that, be mindful of what you're putting into your body is so helpful.
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  and so beneficial.
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  Let's move to the next part of physical burnout or physical health of teams and that is sleep and recovery.
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  And I combine these two together because they're the same thing pretty much and people don't prioritize their sleep.
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  as much as they should.
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  And should is a dirty word.
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  I'm going to just say that right there.
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  But when you prioritize your sleep, you're going to feel better.
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  You're going to recover from a stressful day a lot better.
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  And it's just something that's very helpful to your health and burnout and all that good stuff.
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  So the first thing I coach is Engagement of your team, which is assessments.
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  Because you want to know what your team wants in the first place, then we go into health fairs.
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  Health fairs are a big deal.
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  I'm just telling you, those things will change your workplace.
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  As a corporate wellness professional or even a human resources director, if you hold a health fair, Health fair for your team in the right way, of course, but if you hold a health fair for your team, it's going to change your impression of you as the employee because it, that like quantum leaped my job as a corporate wellness professional because I just ran a gym.
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  That's all I did.
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  I was run a gym and health fairs made a huge difference.
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  in my job, and it changed everything.
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  And I do a health fair once a year, and then I also do a wellness day once a month.
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  And so that wellness day is like a micro health fair.
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  And I have a checklist for a health fair.
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  I'll have the link to that in the description and show notes below.
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  But the health fairs make a huge difference in your job as a corporate wellness.
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  professional.
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  If you just run a gym like I used to do, that will change everything.
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  Everybody will look at you differently.
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  It happened in real life.
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  Right Russ?
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  He's so cute, right?
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  He's so cute.
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  Anyways, and then, so in the first part is employee engagement.
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  We have assessments, we have health fairs, we have recognition and rewards of your team.
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  Then we go into the next leg, which is physical burnout, physical health.
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  We have exercise, we have diet and nutrition, and we have sleep and recovery.
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  And then in the third leg, we have mental health.
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  And mental burnout and how to prevent that.
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  Okay, this will be in the bloopers.
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  I'm going to have a few bloopers in this video.
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  Be sure to stay to the end to watch that.
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  All right.
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  So we have mental health burnout and obviously we definitely need to address stress management.
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  And we also talk about communication.
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  We also talk about emotional intelligence.
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  Those three things we cover in mental health awareness.
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  And what I find a lot in companies that I work with is leadership.
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  I'm just going to say this.
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  The managers need to be on board with your corporate wellness program.
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  And I have to say that there are managers that don't care.
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  They don't care.
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  Honestly, they have one foot out the door.
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  They've been with the company so long that they are secure in their job.
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  And they don't care.
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  They just don't care.
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  I've even been told by my manager, I'm sorry to call her out like this, but I'm not.
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  I'm sorry, but not sorry, you know.
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  She's told me that if it was up to her, I wouldn't be there.
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  And that I don't do anything.
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  What?
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  I don't do anything?
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  Part of the reason I started creating this program was because I was like, I'm, I felt so shamed in that.
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  And she's lucky I have an entrepreneurial spirit because I will bust my tail for OCuSOFT and my team and not for her because she doesn't matter.
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  She'll, she'll be gone in a couple of years.
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  She'll be retired and we'll watch what happens when that happens.
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  Don't get me wrong.
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  I love this person.
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  Like I love and respect my mother.
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  Mean, I, I've worked at this company for 12 years and I just got over it.
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  So it is what it is.
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  And I'm really good at what I do despite her.
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  Just put that there.
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  So communication is a huge factor there and the leaders need to be on board with your wellness program to have it be successful because the managers are the ones that are going to ask the team how they're doing and be involved in their wellness and care about them because the managers that care about their team, their team is going to be a lot more productive, they're going to be successful.
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  Um, more cohesive.
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  They're not going to do the quiet quitting, which is a thing for real.
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  And then we also have in the mental health part, we have emotional intelligence.
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  One thing I see missing in the workplace is people are unaware of their emotions and how they affect other people.
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  Take my boss, for example.
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  I've been in her office before when somebody else on my team needed to ask her a question and I was talking to her and then when I got done, she asked that person, what do you want?
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  Just like that.
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  And I'm like, Hold on.
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  And that person just said, I just wanted to say good morning.
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  Because that person was emotionally aware to understand that you can't just treat somebody like that.
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  It was so rude.
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  And then we need to be aware of how we're treating other people.
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  And emotional intelligence has a lot to do with that.
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  When you are emotionally intelligent, you understand, hey, I'm responsible for this team.
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  I will be available for them emotionally when they ask me a question or when they're in my office.
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  If they're in my office, they need something.
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  It's not like they just want to say good morning when you're not emotionally aware.
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  You don't get that.
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  So, that's that.
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  Anyways, this video is going to be chopped up and edited because I talked a lot about silly stuff.
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  That doesn't matter, but I'm practicing and I'm getting a video out.
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  Which I'm going to start doing a lot more of.
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  I'm going to start doing a lot more of that.
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  I'm going to start showcasing what I do and how I do it.
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  And why I do what I do.
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  Now you understand.
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  I had a leader who didn't care about me, but I am successful despite her.
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  And not to be ugly, I'm not shaming or condemning her either, because I'm used to people doubting me.
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  And when you doubt me, my mom used to tell me, tell Kathie she can't do something, she'll do it.
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  And that really, if you want me to do something, just tell me I can't.
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  So we're at work now.
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  This is Rusty's favorite thing to do.
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  He loves coming to work every day.
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  He comes to work with a smile on his face and it's his favorite thing.
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  I can't leave him at home.
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  Like when I go to the gym in the morning, if I've left him at home, he's very upset.
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  He sits at the window and waits for me to come home.
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  So if I don't take him to work, he's really upset.
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  So in conclusion, let me just say this about the course that I'm teaching, I'm just starting with the small steps, which is the very first part of my course and coaching.
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  And that is, I'm starting with assessments and health fairs.
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  Those two things I'm going to coach and I'm opening the doors to that in September.
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  I will have a link to that in the show notes and description below.
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  At the very bottom of the triangle in this course is employee engagement.
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  How do we get that?
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  How do we know what the team wants?
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  We do assessments.
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  We don't just do assessments for the team, we also assess our own.
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  Self and understand what motivates us.
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  Understand motivation.
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  Motivation is a big, big component of corporate wellness.
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  It really is.
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  Because otherwise people aren't going to get involved and you got to understand what motivates them, what doesn't motivate them.
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  And then we go into rewards and recognition and this is in my main course and it's not in the small step program.
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  But understanding the rewards and recognition of your team and what motivates them.
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  It's going to make a big difference in your culture.
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  That's what you want to understand.
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  Your culture of your team, alright?
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  And then we go into the physical burnout, physical health of the team.
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  We go into exercise, which is my specialty, my forte.
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  Exercise and movement.
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  Um, I even teach how to redesign a gym and how to fix that up and what I did with the gym and fitness center at OCuSOFT.
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  We talk about diet and nutrition for the team.
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  We also talk about sleep and recovery for the team.
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  We go into mental health and we talk about communication, effective communication with your team.
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  We go into stress management.
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  Who can't use some stress management.
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  And then I coach on emotional intelligence and emotional awareness.
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  And that right there will be a top workplace wellness program that engages, energizes, and excels your team.
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  Who's about that?
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  All right.
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  That's my episode for today.
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  I trust that you found it helpful.
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  If you know somebody who can benefit from this, please share it with them.
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  And until next time, I will see you next time.
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  Peace out and Namaste.
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  See ya.
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  This will be in the bloopers.
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  I'm going to have a few bloopers in this video.
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  Be sure to stay to the end to watch that.
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  All right.