Dealing with Anxiety at Work with Adrian Gostick | EP556

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of drastic changes in everybody’s lives, but one thing we don’t talk about as much as we should is the impact it has on our mental health. In this episode, we have Adrian Gostick to talk about how to deal with anxiety at work. 

Key Talking Points of the Episode

[04:30] Leadership and how it affects success

[05:23] What are leaders struggling with today?

[07:12] Starting your day with yourself

[07:50] Dealing with your team

[09:05] How do you achieve balance as a leader?

[10:05] Why won’t people talk to their bosses about mental health? 

[10:46] Creating a safe place for people

[12:50] Creating relationships within your team

[14:30] How can people start their day better? 

[17:26] Gratitude as a mantra

[18:15] Anxiety at Work

Quotables

“Financial success is great, but we also have to make sure that we’re successful within ourselves.”

“With the pandemic, all of a sudden, the anxiety and stress many people were feeling in private became very public because we were all feeling it.”

“We gotta take better care of ourselves and we also gotta take much better care of our teams way more than before, and start to bring up this mental health aspect.”

“If you wanna become successful financially and as a leader, start everyday with yourself.”

“We’re not asking for managers to become therapists, by any means. We’re asking them to be empathetic.”

“Breathe in four, hold in four, release four.”

“The human mind isn’t capable of holding two thoughts at a moment. If I am grateful for what I have, what’s happened, what is going on right now, I can’t be anxious at the moment.”