Ep136 | The Mental Health Crisis Every Leader Must Address Now | Anne Grady

How effectively is your organization addressing the mental health challenges that one in three of your employees will face?

Discover how to build genuine resilience in yourself and your team on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette. Anne Grady, bestselling author and resilience expert, shares powerful insights on creating workplace cultures that support mental health, reduce burnout, and help people thrive even during challenging times.

Listen as Dr. Joey and Anne explore:

☀️ Why stress, anxiety, worry, and overwhelm require different coping strategies despite being used interchangeably 

☀️ How to create psychological safety that goes beyond politeness to make it safe for people to be themselves 

☀️ The importance of moving from negative emotions to neutral rather than jumping straight to positive 

☀️ Practical techniques like "worry windows" and "mirror moments" for daily resilience building 

☀️ Why gratitude practices can drop cortisol levels by 23% and improve team collaboration

Anne transforms organizations by helping leaders understand that resilience isn't genetic—it's a learnable set of skills and habits. Drawing from her personal journey of trauma and triumph, she provides practical tools that help teams build their "resilience buffer" to better absorb life's challenges while maintaining peak performance.

🔑 Key Insight: "You can't promote what you don't practice. You have to do these things for you first. Psychological safety is created from vulnerability, and you have to make it okay to not be okay. That starts with you. It's okay to go from negative to neutral—from 'this sucks' to 'we'll figure it out'—rather than trying to jump from negative straight to awesome."

💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Say thank you for something specific. Not just "good job," but appreciate people for particular actions—"I really appreciated yesterday in that meeting when you took a risk speaking up" or "Thank you for helping me with that project last week when I was overwhelmed." The more specific the praise, the better, because people repeat behavior that gets positive attention.

Connect with Anne Grady:

• Visit her website: https://www.annegradygroup.com/
• Get her free resilience toolkit: https://www.annegradygroup.com/strong
• Check out her books at: https://www.annegradygroup.com/books/
• Watch her TEDx Talk "Strong Enough" https://youtu.be/MQ-bCUXZaEI?si=VcOE0XgZybqro42Y
• Subscribe to her Tuesday Resilience Reset emails
• Connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/annegrady/

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