The Form Guide Podcast:

The Form Guide is a brand new podcast and Linkedin Live all around promoting positive mental wellbeing in the workplace and society. 

Hosted by Rob Stephenson, CEO of FormScore and Founder of the InsideOut LeaderBoard; we will hear from CEOs; thought leaders; change-makers; fresh thinkers, and young entrepreneurs. Humans who care about making a difference.

There will be a strong focus on storytelling; tips to stay well during these times and ideas on how to support others.

Welcome our guest:

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome Jeremy Thomas, Keynote Speaker, Shed Talks Host, Mental Health Campaigner. As a result of overcoming his own battle with bipolar disorder, he co-produced with Dr Tony Hughes the Emmy Award-winning documentary ‘Stephen Fry, The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive'  

Jeremy is also the co-author of 'You Don’t Have to Be Famous to Have Manic Depression – An A-Z Guide to Good Mental Health'. 

In this episode we talk about Jeremy’s career in the music business before becoming a mental health campaigner, managing the challenges and joys of bipolar, and his view on mental health and stigma in our workplaces and society.

🎵 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry | Coldplay - Fix You

Resources

• Jeremy Thomas’ website
• Shed Talks podcast
• Jeremy’s books

Dr. Heather helps companies, create evidence-based health and wellness programmes that bring about long-term changes for their customers and employees. She also supports individuals to take back control of their health and build healthy habits that last with her research backed Bite Sized Habits course.

In this episode we will talk about the behaviour change aspects of how to become more intentional about wellbeing and how to build it as a habit. Dr Heather explains why so many of us struggle to make our habits stick, how long it takes to form a habit and how to stop ourselves going off the track after we’ve set a new habit.

🎵 Rick James – MC Hammer, Super Freak | Ludovico Einaudi, Le Onde

Resources:

• Dr Heather McKee LinkedIn page
• Dr Heather McKee website
• A Slight Change of Plans: Maya Shankar

PsycApps is a Digital Mental Health company that uses AI, gamification, and psychology to help people suffering from depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses, stick to therapeutic digital programs and help themselves. 

Silja is the developer of the Emotional Fitness game, eQuoo, designed to teach us the essential psychological skills we need to be able to level up in the game – and in life, too.

In this episode we talk about:

• Looking after our mental health as parents and start-up founders.
• How to utilise the power of gaming, and the behaviour science behind it, as a force for good to improve our mental health.
• AI, gamification, and phycology.
• Non attachment, non judgment, non resistant.

Resources:

• What If Your Job Was Good For You?
• The ROI in workplace mental health programs: Good for people, good for business
• Mental health and employers: refreshing the case for investment

🎵 Tom Browne, Funkin' for Jamaica | Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

In this episode, we talk about the Olympics, how mental health and performance are closely related; mental health challenges when you love your work so much that it defines who you are, and finally tips financial wellness.

🎵 The O'Jays, For the Love of Money | Ludovico Einaudi, Le Onde

Dr Sophie is a Sleep Expert, passionate about sharing the science of sleep and performance in actionable ways.

Sophie recently rowed 1650 nautical miles around the coast of Britain to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation.

In this episode, Dr Sophie takes us through the recent challenge she completed, how it affected her sleep; and the role of sleep in regulating our emotions, health, and performance.

🎵 Walter Murphy, A Fifth of Beethoven

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome Alastair Banks, Co-Founder of the Digital Marketing Agency, Optix Solutions, and InsideOut Leaderboad role model. 

In this episode, Alastair shares his powerful story and the impact of baby loss and grief from a male perspective. 

🎵 Love will bring us together by the great, Roy Ayers

"The human race is, by our nature, social. To be healthy, we rely on interactions and, in modern society, our everyday freedom. […] We all need to make sure we’re as careful with our mental health as we are our physical health. This is especially true in business." Josh K

🎵 I Know You Got Soul, Bobby Byrd | Elbow band

🎵 Parliament, Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) | Elton John, Tiny Dancer

🎵 James Brown, The Payback | Arctic Monkeys, Mardy Bum

I would go as far as to say that Clarke is one of the most eloquent and impactive mental health speakers I have ever heard.

In this very special conversation, Clarke and I will be talking all things football, racism, and mental health. I will also be asking Clarke how I can be a better ally to the anti-racism mission.

We can never truly create a mentally healthy society when racism is rife.

Rob Stephenson

🎵 Fred Wesley And The J.B.'s, Damn Right I Am Somebody | Bob Marley, Three Little Birds

Resources:

• Mental health and wellbeing, Clarke & Carrie Carlisle
• Clarke & Carrie Carlisle masterclass

Avril is an award-winning technology entrepreneur, executive, speaker, author, and cancer thriver.

🎵James Brown - Mind Power | Boney M - Daddy Cool

Resources:

• Avril Chester LinkedIn page
• Cancer Central website
• Avril’s book, Be with me, It's c, and Taking that leap of faith
• Willow Foundation
• Give Penny - Donate a Song

The Wellness Revolution is a pioneering culture and employee experience company reimagining the workplace to unleash human potential. It's built on the belief that the world of work plays an important role in transforming society and that by supporting people to live happier and healthier lives we can co-create happier and healthier societies together.

🎵 Just Be Good to Me, SOS Band | I want to thank you, Alicia Myers

The channel was originally set up as a repository of hints and tips, but during the pandemic, it became much more than that and followers started reporting that watching the founders solving these puzzles had a positive influence on their wellbeing.

"I have wondered whether it’s because these puzzles have a solution, and that’s not like the real world where we worry about money, health, and problems for which are there are no answers. It feels as if the world works when you do a good sudoku and it finishes correctly.” Simon Anthony

Join us to find out the correlation between solving logic puzzles and mental health.

🎵 Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, Bustin’ Loose | Ocean, John Butler Trio

🎵 Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s - Blow Your Head | Claire Hamill, Voices

Resources:

• Tara Austin on LinkedIn
• Ogilvy
• Could babies' faces reduce crime?
• Fantastic Fungi book
• Edward de Bono - Lateral Thinking
• Book: Drugs without the hot air: Making Sense of Legal and Illegal Drugs
• Book: Influence, New and Expanded UK: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Rory Sutherland TED Talks
• Botanical Tech - Sentia Spirits

It's great to see our podcast featured in Feedspot's Top 20 Workplace Mental Health Podcasts. Thank you to Anuj Agarwal for including us. I am delighted to have appeared on a number of the other shows.

Em is on a mission to get the world to laugh, think and play more. She loves personal development, comedy, clowning, performing, coaching, writing, speaking, and helping people have a great time whilst they change and grow.

She knows that if we play more, create more space, laugh, and allow ourselves to think, we can grow as individuals and our business(es) will follow suit.

Curious to find out how humour affects our mental health? We promise that this talk will give your FormScore a boost.

🎵 Gwen McCrae, All This Love That I'm Giving | Lenny Kravitz, Fly Away Fly Away 

Steve is the Founder of The Jordan Legacy, set up following the death of his son, Jordan, to suicide. Steve works with businesses and communities to achieve a measurable reduction in the frequency of suicides. 

In this episode, we will discuss The Legacy's mission to: 

1. To improve the mental health and wellbeing of individuals. 
2. To reduce feelings of social isolation and increase community spirit. 
3. To improve support structures within organisations to improve staff wellbeing and quality of life. 
4. To support a societal change in culture from ‘what you have’ to ‘who you are’ being most important.

🎵 Stevie Wonder, Ribbon In The Sky | David Ryan Harris

Resources: Hope for Life (UK) Conference

We are chatting with Mark about doing good, helping others, the City Lit Mental Wealth Festival, and its theme of ‘adapting to change’. This year, the festival is about exploring how we have managed, coped, and adapted in a period of extraordinary change and uncertainty, and the impact it had had on our mental health and wellbeing.

🎵 Elton John, Are You Ready For Love?

Foong is the Founder & CEO of Matchable, a B2B platform matching companies and their employees with innovative, upskilling volunteering projects at non-profits and impact startups.

In this episode, we are be chatting to Foong about the benefit of helping others, ahead of the National Volunteers Week (1-7 June).

Foong says: "I believe that every business should not just be about profit but also about purpose and operate in a way that isn't detrimental but instead benefits society and the environment.”

🎵 Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give You Up | The Human League, Don't You Want Me

John is the former Group CEO of HSBC plc.  I remain impressed that, during his tenure as CEO, John introduced the vision of creating the "healthiest human system in financial services", which I believe has left a strong legacy in the bank. 

John is passionate about the creation of workplaces where the health and wellbeing of employees are prioritised, and believes that these values are essential if we want to create high-performance workplace cultures.

In this excellent article by McKinsey the idea that “employees’ satisfaction is positively correlated with several aspects of company performance, including shareholder value” is explored. 

In this discussion, John talks about his journey to CEO; his perspectives on leadership through challenging times and how to catalyse the creation of mentally healthier workplace cultures where employees are empowered to be the best they can be.

🎵 Survivor, Eye of the Tiger | Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major

Geoff is the co-founder of Minds@Work, a charity with purpose to inspire and empower individuals to break the stigma of mental ill-health in their own organisations. 

After 25 years with Unilever, Geoff left his role as Global VP of HR to devote his energy to ending the stigma of depression and anxiety in the workplace. As a speaker and a business transformation consultant, he inspires leaders to embrace mental health and empower organisations to put purpose at their core and play their positive role in the world. 

"My purpose is simple; I want to create a world where everybody in every workplace feels they genuinely have the choice to put up their hand and ask for help when they are suffering from mental ill health."

🎵 Jennifer Rush, Power of Love | Belinda Jo Carlisle, Heaven is a Place on Earth

We are talking about Nature as the theme for this year's Mental Health Awareness Week, why spending time in nature is so important for our mental health and how workplaces can take advantage of the theme.

🎵 Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, Together in Electric Dreams 

From sick care to wellbeing, Dr. Marcus' career journey over the past two decades has led him from the patient's bedside to a wider stage as he now creates global impact via systemic change.

Completing his Bachelors of Science and Medical degrees from University College Medical School in London, his passion for extreme physiology has allowed him to conduct field research across the planet. With expeditions taking him to the sides of Everest, skiing in the Arctic and the European Alps, he has served as a medical officer in the Royal Air Force and at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

A champion of wellbeing, Marcus is a big believer that sustainably improving the lives of billions of people the world over can only be brought about by enhancing the positive aspects of health rather than focusing solely on pathogenesis and disease.

In this episode, we talk about the connection between physical and mental health.

🎵 Miami Sound Machine, Dr. Beat

Craig is a business person and entrepreneur and has worked in technology for 20 years. He leads  Strategy & Operations for Google in UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Craig is an investor, mentor and supporter of a range of businesses including several start-ups.

In this episode we talk about wellbeing at work and how work affects our mental health.

🎵 A Flock of Seagulls | Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

During this time she was diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria, and later while she was working at The College of Law, she transitioned her gender expression from male to female; this at a time when it was difficult to be out and trans in the City.   

In 2015, Rachel founded Global Butterflies, a trans and non-binary inclusion training company that comprises of trans only staff.  Global Butterflies donates a percentage of its profits to LGBT+ causes.  

🎵 Wham!, The Edge of Heaven | Lou Reed, Perfect Day

After having experienced burnout, Daryl knows that a healthy life-work balance isn’t just good for your wellbeing: it has a profound impact on business success.

Daryl founded Advantage Business Partnerships in order to help heart-centred people, who realise there's more to life than business, but who want to do business well.

In this episode, we are chatting to Daryl about stress management and burnout prevention, ahead of the Stress Awareness Month.

🎵 Paul Simon, You can call me Al | Linkin Park

Faye is the Director of Programmes at Education Support. Previously she was leading the mental health charity, Mind as the Head of Workplace Wellbeing Programmes.

In this episode, we focus on the mental health of educators.

We also talk about Faye's commitment to “support education employers to deliver better workplace cultures, so staff can thrive at the same time as advocating for improvement in the workplace at policy level.”

🎵 Kenny Loggins, Footloose | Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

Faye McGuiness, Director of Programmes at Education Support

We are chatting to Andrew about FormScore and mental ill-health, ahead of the Word Bipolar Day. The ups and downs; the drive and the success; the highs of mania and lows of depression; how it affects relationships, work, and all aspects of everyday life.

🎵 Two Tribes | Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Karl says: "Many people still think of health and safety as just physical wellbeing, but good mental health in the workplace is just as important because both body and mind are connected." 

🎵 Phil Collins, Sussudio | Paul Child, Bread Of Heaven - Wales Forever

Katherine is the Executive Director of The Stability Network and Many Minds Collaborative, living with bipolar disorder with recurrent psychosis, suicidal depression, anxiety, and OCD.

In this episode, we focus on storytelling and maximising advocacy opportunities through The Stability Network because we know that sharing our own mental health experience improves others’ lives.

🎵 Lionel Richie, Dancing On The Ceiling | Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314/271k: III. Rondo. Allegretto

"My vision for Intent Health is to create a community where difference is celebrated. Where everyone has a true voice, and one that is heard. Where we don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations. Where we accept that constructive conflict creates the best ideas, because if we all agree, what is the point? Where empathy and trust are the foundations of our relationships with colleagues and clients. Where we step aside and give others a chance. Where we embrace life and celebrate both our successes and our mistakes."

In this episode, we discuss her trailblazing decision to set up a business with intent and her personal story with mental health. 

🎵 ACDC, For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) | Michael Sembello, Maniac

In this episode, we delighted to welcome Radha Balani.

Rob Stephenson is chatting to Radha about addiction, her inspirational journey to recovery and hope. Such a powerful story!

🎵 Whitney Houston, How will I know | Robbie Williams, Come Undone | Imagine Dragons, Believer

🎵 Blondie, Heart of Glass by Blondie | Mozart, Flute concerto

We discuss parenting during lockdown and the impact it has on parents as well as children. We also share tips on how to maintain positive mental health over the next weeks. 

🎵 Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall | Pharrell Williams, Happy

🎵 Criticize by Alexander O'Neal | Dangerous by Michael Jackson