Episodes

  • Building a Mindful Workplace
    Oct 13 2022

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    Calvin Niles explore practical tips on how to build a mindful workplace with insights from professionals from different industries.

    In this episode:

    • Sanjay Kapoor talks about building a mindful workplace from the grassroots level
    • Sarah Hunt shares more on building a mindful modern workplace from an HR perspective
    • Dr. Richard Safeer talks about the structural building blocks workplaces can implement to ensure organizations and their people can thrive

    Go deeper:

    • "3 Ways To Integrate Mindful Practices Into Your Business"
    • Building the case for Mindfulness in the Workplace

    Book: A Cure for the Common Company by Dr. Richard Safeer

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    27 mins
  • Being Mindful of Our Wellbeing
    Sep 29 2022

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    Calvin Niles talks about wellbeing at work and how mindfulness can support a thriving workplace in an era of growing burnout.

    In this episode:

    • Dr. Richard Safeer talks about the core elements of well-being at work, sharing his experience as Chief Medical Director at John Hopkins Medicine
    • Sanjay Kapoor talks about burnout and the challenges that come with tackling that
    • Katie Gold shares why she prizes empathy and that tuning into how one feels is important to team wellbeing


    Go deeper: Health and wellbeing at work 2022 report

    Book: Connected by James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis

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    37 mins
  • Mindfully Practicing Our Values
    Sep 15 2022

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    Calvin Niles has an exclusive interview with Shamash Alidina, who is the best-selling author of Mindfulness For Dummies and an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Trainer.

    In this episode, Calvin and Shamash explore the importance of values in the workplace and why they are important for doing fulfilling work.

    Go deeper:

    • The worker-employer relationship disrupted: If we're not a family, what are we?
    • Mindful Conversations with Shamash and Calvin


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    37 mins
  • Developing Mindful Workplace Productivity
    Sep 1 2022

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    Calvin Niles goes deeper into workplace productivity, what it is, and how productivity arises from working mindfully.

    In this episode:

    • Sarah Hunt talks about the tactical parts of productivity and how that changes with a mindful approach
    • Katie Gold explains the power of role modelling mindful behaviours in teams


    Go deeper: Building the case for mindfulness in the workplace


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    22 mins
  • Optimizing Mindful Performance
    Aug 18 2022

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    Calvin Niles explores performance at work with Jonathan Reynolds and Renee Metty from the Mindful Life, Mindful Work, Inc. Team.

    In this episode:

    • Renee Metty talks about the essence of a mindfully performing team and shares some of the obstacles to mindful performance
    • Jonathan Reynolds expands on becoming aware of our conditioning and why the process of cultivating a practice is more critical to optimum performance than the idea of perfection


    Go deeper: George Pitagorsky's article: More than Mindfulness: The Path to Optimal Performance


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    22 mins
  • Cultivating Mindful Creative Thinking
    Aug 4 2022

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    Calvin Niles explores how working mindfully can support creative thinking in the workplace with Varun Venugopal Gupta and Sarah Hunt

    In this episode:

    • Sarah Hunt expands on the importance of trust in teams to foster creativity
    • Varun Venugopal Gupta talks about why creativity should be present at every stage of an organisation's development


    Go deeper:

    • Julia Cameron's The Artist’s Way
    • The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation
    • The Culture Map


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    20 mins
  • Making Mindful Decisions More Consistently
    Jul 21 2022

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    Calvin Niles talks about how working mindfully can support good and mindful leadership with the Mindful Life, Mindful Work, Inc. Team and professionals from different industries.

    In this episode:

    • George Pitagorsky explores, in-depth, the subject of decision-making, pitfalls and how working mindfully supports good decisions
    • Sarah Hunt expands on the complexity of the modern workplace and how that affects team performance


    Go deeper: The Growing Importance of Decision-making on the Job


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    24 mins
  • Relating to Our Relationships Mindfully
    Jul 7 2022

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    Calvin Niles talks about how working mindfully can support good and mindful leadership with the Mindful Life, Mindful Work, Inc. Team and professionals from different industries.

    In this episode:

    • Hedy Caplan expands on the deeper aspects of relationships, including intentionality and authenticity
    • Sarah Hunt shares more on current workplace trends and their potential impact on the future
    • Katie Gold talks about the importance of role modelling compassion
    • Jonathan Reynolds talks more about communication and why conflict can be a good thing in teams
    • Varun Venugopal Gupta talks about sensing and checking in and more


    Go deeper: McKinsey & Company, Soft Skills for a Hard World


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    29 mins