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_outlineRejuvenating our mindfulness power of pause program is a current goal. I am so proud of our mindfulness team of 57 Evo guides. These are people who have dedicated a full day of training on the power of pause and who are going through monthly classes on how to be mindfulness advocates and practice stress reduction. This episode is a quick recap on what the power of pause is and the benefits on a team level.
Then I have an interview with Michael Kapoulis the 2018 general manager of the year from the Hyatt Centric Fisherman's Wharf. His entire team has beautifully and openly embraced the power of pause. We talk about how this helps teams on a business level and each individual on a personal level. We also talk about implementing different techniques for different sectors such as engineering, housekeeping, and the front desk.
Show Notes
- [03:34] The power of pause at Evolution Hospitality is our custom created program that brings together brain science, psychology, and mindfulness to help every evolutionary live up to their full potential.
- [04:18] The best way to help the power of pause to grow organically is to recruit other people into the movement as power of pause champions.
- [05:02] Ask enthusiastic group members if they would like to be champions and just ask for volunteers.
- [05:28] To train other power of pause champions work with them over the phone or in private. Have them read the script and practice with you before they are in a team setting.
- [06:00] You can also empower them using the voice recordings. Consistency is key so ask that person to lead the pause every day.
- [07:30] Taking a moment to pause can diffuse a sticky situation with guests.
- [08:47] Ask employees to take a personal pause before they come to meetings.
- [11:50] Michael was the general manager at Hotel Adagio and now he's the general manager at Hyatt Centric. Both of these properties are busy tourist destinations in a union stronghold. Michael still found time to embody the culture and embrace the power of pause.
- [12:58] The guiding principles really helped things at the hotel Adagio. It also solidified the relationship with the team at the Hyatt Centric.
- [13:40] Michael believes if you take care of your people, they will be there for you.
- [13:56] Starting the power of pause just takes a couple moments first thing in the morning. It also creates a cohesive team energy.
- [15:14] The housekeepers are the hardest-working evolutionaries. There was a joy when we all found calm together.
- [16:20] Michael has a pause with the team, and it helps unite them and lets them know that they are not on their own.
- [16:55] Michael is all about the team and treating people with respect.
- [17:23] It's the one-year anniversary of launching the power of pause. We are also training Evo Revolution guides.
- [18:27] Michael and his partner do something like play a game before bed that doesn't involve screens. This enables Michael to sleep a full 8 hours soundly. The digital detox is very beneficial.
- [19:30] One of our guiding principles is leading by example. Michael embodies this.
- [20:14] Michael thinks of the happiest place on earth, Disney, when he takes a pause. This is his happy place.
- [22:14] Michael's favorite guiding principle is make it better than it was before.
- [23:20] Michael's advice for new leaders is to truly get to know the people you are working with.
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