#KatieTalks with Sean Hall, TEDx speaker, mental health advocate + CEO of human performance company Energx

#KatieTalks

If you're limping towards the end of 2021, in need of some recharging and downtime, this is the podcast for you.

This is an extremely insightful conversation with a professional whose superpower is helping humans and workplaces slay the energy vampires that cause burnout, crush creativity and stifle inclusion. We discuss the elusive concept of balance and Sean talks us through three very specific practices to put in place to set boundaries and manage our energy.

Listeners are encouraged to document how they will implement boundaries to manage:

• Technology and email: what time you'll put devices away and when you'll pick them up again, and when you'll open your first email of the day and what time you'll send the last one.
• Social media and news: approach social like you're joining for the first time and deciding how to use it, including only engaging with positive forces (no energy vampires). Decide how often and when you'll consume news and avoid 'doom scrolling'.

People's access to you: embrace your chronotype (what most people understand as being an early bird versus a night owl) and share this information with colleagues. Protect your optimal deep flow working time in your diary and ask your team mates and respect those boundaries.

As I round out a second year in my beloved Melbourne, when we became the most locked down city on the globe and we hopefully farewell home schooling forever, I was really energised by this conversation. It has given me lots of food for thought, which I plan to noodle over while I'm having a summer break. I hope that you feel similarly inspired.

Thanks for sticking with #KatieTalks over this most frenetic of years, wishing you a wonderful festive season and I look forward to being back in your ears in 2022.

Hosted by Katie Bennett-Stenton, who you can find at @KatiebMarketing on Twitter or [e-mail].

Disclaimer this podcast is a personal passion project, not associated with my professional role.