Coronavirus COVID-19: Rise Above the Panic: Surviving the Pandemic of Fear
Wellness Evolved
In a matter of weeks, our personal and business lives transformed due to global pandemic COVID-19 novel coronavirus. Evolution Hospitality's Chief Wellness Officer, Dr. Romie, discusses how to rise above the panic. In a pandemic, the fear is often as or more dangerous than the disease itself. In this episode you will hear: 1) What is COVID-19 novel coronavirus and how is it different than the flu? 2) How can we boost our immune system naturally, including the importance of sleep and nutrition. 3) How we can start to rise above the panic so we can function in our personal...
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10 MINUTE TIME-OUT: STRESS RELIEF FOR YOUR BRAIN & YOUR TEAM
Wellness Evolved
Take a moment to pause and ask yourself, how do you feel after hearing our leaders speak at the Town Hall meeting or reading emails? Change in any organization can create fear, even in times of success and growth. Evolution Hospitality's Chief Wellness Officer, Dr. Romie, discusses how to take ten minutes to destress your mind and destress your team. After a period of intense focus, or when you’re feeling stuck, taking just a few minutes away from your desk and looking up from your screen can be just the thing you need. In fact, researchers have found that taking regular...
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Manage Your Energy Before Leading Your Team: Interview with Campus Manager Michael Murray
Wellness Evolved
What happens if you are not mindful of your energy as a leader? Whether your energy is positive or stuck in discomfort, your team will pick up on your mood and mirror your attitude. Evolution Hospitality's Chief Wellness Officer, Dr. Romie, hosts this episode of "Wellness Evolved" as we discuss managing through change at our properties. Campus & General Manager Michael Murray oversees operations at three hotels and over 200 team members on the Redondo Beach Campus. Michael shares how mindfulness, servant-leadership, and Evo's guiding principles are helping his team navigate growth...
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Shift Happens: Managing Fear Through Change
Wellness Evolved
In the workplace, change is inevitable and also considered a four-letter word. The human mind seeks comfort in daily routines and rituals. When our environment changes, our brain shifts into a high-stress mode and then feeds into fear. In this episode, Chief Wellness Officer and host, Dr. Romie, breaks down the neuropsychology of why the brain's initial response to change is fear. When fear sets in, the instinctual response is to question, "Am I safe?" and "Am I cared for?" As our company faces change, Dr. Romie discusses how Evo's mindfulness program and guiding...
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Bring Your Evo Swagger: Leading Through Change with COO Will Loughran
Wellness Evolved
As season two of Evolution Hospitality's podcast is launched, organizational restructuring, rapid growth, and personnel change have created the perfect storm. Evo's Chief Wellness Officer & host, Dr. Romie Mushtaq interviews Chief Operating Officer, Will Loughran to discuss how to lead and manage stress during times of change. In this episode, we cover: Evo is a company built on a culture of practicing servant leadership, and the priority is making sure everyone reaches their full potential. What steps leaders can take to combat the stress, anxiety, and fear that are natural...
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HOW TO ADOPT AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE
Wellness Evolved
One of the most guiding principles of Evolution Hospitality is to work with gratitude and humility. Listen to John Murphy's perspective on gratitude. "I think there's a relationship between joy and gratitude." He speaks of being humble and grateful as being the keys to the kingdom. As we come back to the holiday season, we have busy days and busy minds. Remember, gratitude rewires our brain for true happiness and joy. We will dive into how the brain processes and transforms with gratitude. I'll also teach you the psychological principles of processing gratitude. Yes! There is psychology...
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STRESS, SLEEP & MINDFULNESS WITH VP OF OPERATIONS MARK VAN COONEY
Wellness Evolved
As a vice president of operations, Mark Van Cooney, talks about how stress can interrupt sleep, and how mindfulness helped him welcome peaceful sleep. Mark also introduced The Power of Pause to his children to help them not only sleep calmly but also shine in surfing competitions. Mark breaks down how introducing our Evo culture and mindfulness program to our new leadership teams in hotels helps us learn that "none of us is as good as all of us." His leadership advice to new Evolutionaries is to start each day at a team asking, "what are we grateful for today, and what guiding...
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Interview with Adam Lund of Evolution Hospitality: Campus Manager for the Bayside Campus in San Diego
Wellness Evolved
As Campus Manager for Evolution Hospitality, Adam has worked from the ground up on our guiding principles and has been an essential figure in growing our corporate mindfulness programs, The Power of Pause. Adam started working for Evolution Hospitality 19 years ago. He was recruited in March of 2000 by John Murphy, who joined Tarsadia Hotels at Regency Plaza. With rebranding and renovation, they changed to DoubleTree Hotels. In 2011, the business became a part of Evolution Hospitality. Since these beginnings started with one property, we have scaled to more than 70 properties. Adam speaks...
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A LIFE CHANGING BOTTLE OF EXCELLENCE WITH GM JUSTIN HART
Wellness Evolved
Award-winning General Manager, Justin Hart, overcomes his fear of public speaking to champion the Power of Pause at Evo corporate headquarters and join Dr. Romie on the Wellness Evolved Podcast. Justin explains what happened when his team steered away from the habit of practicing mindfulness in the workplace. The hotel's leadership team started to feel disconnected and chaotic, and Justin talked about how to "make it better than it was before." You'll hear how the entire team at Domain Sunnyvale Hotel created a meditation room for them to take a pause to decompress,...
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The Power of Connecting Wellness into Meetings with Ashly Balding & Catherine Chaulet
Wellness Evolved
Wellness is not just important in the workplace, but also now a required element in decision making for planning meetings. In this week's episode, Dr. Romie interviews two dynamic global female leaders in the hospitality and meetings industry.
info_outlineAs a busy senior hospitality executive, father to young children, and newly engaged- the last thing Scott Roby expected was that vague abdominal pain would turn out to be Stage 4 cancer.
On this week's episode of Evolution Hospitality's Wellness Evolved podcast, Senior Vice President of Operations, Scott Roby, shares his powerful journey on crushing cancer. Today by focusing on nutrition, mindset, and love of his family he has reached his important 5-year survival mark with a poignant call to action. You will hear what you can do today to start your own wellness journey.
We also invite you to support Scott Roby's Cancer Crusher team raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma by donating or signing up to join our team to "Light The Night" at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Sept 21, 2019.
https://pages.lls.org/ltn/ocie/OrangeCo19/EvolutionHospitalityOC
Show Notes:
- [02:20] This is the beginning of season 2 where we talk about the path of wellness as we Nourish ourselves.
- [03:18] Scott Roby just celebrated 14 years with Evolution Hospitality. He started out in 2005 as the Corporate Director of Revenue. He was then promoted to Vice President of Revenue Management. Last year, he made the move to operations.
- [04:13] In December of last year, Scott became the father of a baby boy and he also has four girls.
- [05:17] In order to stay grounded, Scott finds time for himself during his commute.
- [06:54] Scott shares how he wasn't feeling well and eventually ended up being diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma.
- [07:56] He had just proposed to his new wife.
- [08:23] He spent four months in the hospital with an intensive chemotherapy regimen.
- [08:50] Some of his inspirations were The Art of Mindful Living. He also meditated. His office was also in an eighth floor room looking over the ocean. He was also inspired by The Serenity Prayer.
- [10:36] His wife was super supportive and started researching health and wellness. He cut sugar, alcohol, and nightshades out of his diet and added things like tumeric.
- [11:59] A rigid diet regimen is almost impossible to follow.
- [13:08] He wanted to give back, so he got involved in Light the Night. He also created the Cancer Crusher team. The money goes towards research which has helped a broad variety of cancer patients.
- [17:12] Find community to inspire you and start now.
- [18:42] Community is a huge part of the wellness triangle. Social isolation is a big problem in the US.
- [19:55] Scott is the mastermind behind Rapid Fire where he fires questions at someone for three minutes to get to know them.
- [21:06] Scott takes a pause in the car. He also pauses with his family.
- [22:09] Scott's favorite guiding principle is none of us is as good as all of us.
- [23:45] Dr. Romie expresses her gratitude towards Scott.
- [24:44] What can you do to support your wellness?
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