Normalize Mental Health, Forge Habits of Hope with Lindsay Recknell
Release Date: 01/17/2023
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info_outlineIn this episode of Good Enough for Now, we hear from Lindsay Recknell, president and CEO of Paradigm Corporate Wellness, Inc. As a life-long learner, Lindsay strives to know more when the answers aren’t all there. When met with burnout from managing mental health and addiction on the home front, and overworking herself in high-demand jobs, she set out to research what was going on, and what she could do about it. She found hope.
Lindsay is on a mission to share the science of hope with others. She shares how to cultivate habits of hope in our lives that sustain us for the long run ultimately nourishing our level of success in all aspects of life. With hope, comes action, comes change.
Tune in to hear how Lindsay is bringing the hope she’s cultivated in her life into the sphere of corporate businesses, and in her podcasts to normalize the conversation around mental health so that we may all live more free and positive lives, together.
Three reasons why you should listen to this episode:
- Learn how to create life-sustaining goals that cultivate hope and habit
- Discover how organizations are normalizing the conversation around mental health in the workspace
- Delineate the difference between hope and optimism
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