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Episode 186 | Make Well-being Visible in Your Culture | Dr. Jamie Hardy How well do you understand the direct connection between performance and health in your work culture? What creates teams who are energized, engaged, and endure rather than quietly dimming or walking out the door? How do you embed executive well-being into the very culture of work rather than treating it as an afterthought? Transform your approach to retention and performance on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette and Dr. Jamie Hardy. Dr. Jamie is a clinical pharmacist, executive well-being consultant, speaker, and founder of Innovative Wellness. With over 20 years in healthcare, she partners with corporations to optimize talent engagement, retention, and productivity by delivering science-backed consulting and energizing keynotes. Known as "the lifestyle pharmacist," she brings both clinical authority and cultural insight to today's most urgent well-being conversations. Listen as Dr. Jamie explores: ☀️ Her origin story of being escorted from her office to the emergency room as she felt symptoms of a heart attack ☀️ The three transformations she made: prioritize fueling brain and body, reset nervous system in real time, embrace strategic rest as performance multiplier ☀️ Why well-being culture compounds retention results rather than just annual surveys that miss the building dumpster fire ☀️ How the Leadership Retention Index reveals patterns contributing to depletion in your organization sooner than annual surveys ☀️ The 70% gap between what people leaders think they're doing and how people receive it Dr. Jamie transforms how leaders think about well-being by proving that as you make well-being visible in one place, you create cultures where top talent thrives rather than dims. 🔑 Key Insight: "I was so focused on the job, the output, the productivity, how I was being perceived, how I was showing up. I wasn't taking care of the person who was helping to lead the strategy: myself. I was not leading myself well at that point in my career. It shook me to my core and forced me to level up how I was leading myself. I had to prioritize how I was fueling my brain and my body even on my busiest days, even as the calendar was stacked. I had to invent a system to reset my nervous system in real time. I had to lean into this concept that strategic rest is important. It's a performance multiplier rather than a weakness. That ordeal showed me something else: I wasn't the only one. The curtain had been lifted. I was not the only one who had experienced physiological transformations and mental transformations because the work was all consuming." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Find one place inside your organization where well-being is invisible and make it visible. You can start with the morning huddle, the monthly team meeting, or the quarterly business meeting with senior executives. Pick one space where well-being is practically nonexistent and start that conversation. Share something you discovered listening to this episode that you can do in your life as a leader. Model it. People love to hear you say "try this because I tried it" rather than "do as I say." You can initiate these conversations, processes, and forward momentum in your organization. It all starts with one conversation and a person courageous enough to initiate it. Connect with Dr. Jamie Hardy:
Visit LeadershipRetentionIndex.com for your FREE Leadership Retention Index (complete in 5 minutes, reveals patterns contributing to depletion) Visit DrJamieHardy.com for actionable tools, strategies, and blog designed with executive performance and leadership in mind Connect with Dr. Jamie on LinkedIn at Dr. Jamie Hardy Follow on Instagram at @DrJamieHardy Discover how to integrate well-being strategies and solutions into your leadership culture Learn how to close the 70% gap between what leaders think they're doing and how people receive it
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