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Love your stress

Love your stress

By Toms Astahovskis

🥰 Love your stress! That's the best, most efficient way of managing your relationship with stress!

💞 Why relationship? Because stress is an inseparable part of our life!

☯️ There are 2 types of stress!

✅ Positive stress which motivates and excites us, gets things done.

❌ Negative stress, which leads us to either boredom or overwhelms.

🎙️ This podcast brings awareness of different shades of stress so you can recognize it in your life, as well as shares proved formulas for effective stress management!

Tune in & be present / 🐝 💝 /

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Love your stress Ep #1 with Tim Beanland

Love your stressAug 30, 2021

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Love your stress Ep 23 with Jarne - Unpopular road to leadership - inner work
Oct 25, 202250:43
Love your stress - Ep 22 with Brad Strydom - Deep health not just good looks
Oct 14, 202239:54
Love your stress Ep #21 with Prof. Pete - "I am not a pizza"?

Love your stress Ep #21 with Prof. Pete - "I am not a pizza"?

Another great interview between two stress management professionals. 

In this interview we answer the following questions:  

How is "I am not a pica" helping to reduce stress? 

Is meditation not working for you? 

Interested more in hands-on practice than listening to podcasts? 

Price of living under stress? 

Are you also burning the candle on both ends?  

Outline:

      0:00 - Highlights

      1:12 - Intro 

      2:33 - Define stress?

      4:59 - No.1 stress relief tool: gratitude

      7:00 - Grateful? Grateful for what?

    11:27 - Impact of accomplishment list

    13:37 - Inner critic

    19:29 - Not taking compliments?

    21:12 - Energy and attraction

    24:01 - Focus on what you want

    27:38 - Why stress?

    29:32 - Stress-induced diabetes

    37:11 - Meditation not working for you?

    38:14 - Intro for Short visualization exercise

    39:03 - 1min visualization practice

    40:50 - After visualization practice

    41:51 - Love your stress?

    44:21 - One takeaway

    45:19 - Connect with Pete

    46:18 - Next guest?

    47:24 - Thanks!

Oct 06, 202247:47
Love your Stress Ep. 20 with Rishad - Life beyond thinking

Love your Stress Ep. 20 with Rishad - Life beyond thinking

Are you interested in finding out a way for you to recall any memory? 

What if the thought was just another sense? 

How would that change the quality of our lives? 

Are we actually over-using our thinking? 

Is problem-solving pointless?  

This is the "Love your stress" podcast with Rishad Ahmed where we dive deep into the questions above and many more. 

Smile & Be present!  


Connect with Rishad: 

https://zencoach.co.za/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishad-ahmed-zencoach/

Sep 22, 202253:33
"Love your stress" Ep 18 with Aileen A'Vard - stress resilience and confidence for youth - 2022

"Love your stress" Ep 18 with Aileen A'Vard - stress resilience and confidence for youth - 2022

Sep 05, 202248:01
Love your stress Ep #17 with Marie Alessi

Love your stress Ep #17 with Marie Alessi

Outline:

0:00 Highlights

5:18 Intro

6:45 How do you define stress?

8:58 What does it mean to you: love your stress?

10:13 Deciding factor to learn the skill to manage stress?

16:44 Would my partner want me to be happy?

18:06 "I have to move forward" vs "I choose to move forward"

21:56 Difference: grief vs stress?

25:03 Role of sharing to overcome grief?

27:59 Labeling paradox?

34:48 Re-trigger to heal neglect

36:52 Sense of being guided

39:00 Labeling emotions?

44:43 How to express your empathy for loss?

52:18 How to help someone in loss?

1:00:10 More about Marie's group

1:02:18 Thumbs up ghost?

1:07:57 Any projects coming up?

1:09:47 Best way to reach out to Marie?

1:11:27 Next guest on podcast?

This podcast episode is with Marie Alessi - a legacy coach helping people to Love their life after grief!

Get in touch with Marie:

https://www.mariealessi.com/



Aug 16, 202201:12:39
Love your stress #16 with Angelique Pellegrino - 2022

Love your stress #16 with Angelique Pellegrino - 2022

Outline:     

0:00 - Highlights     

3:32 - Intro     

4:00 - About Angelique     

6:03 - Can you define stress?     

7:41 - Emotional clues for stress?     

8:39 - Journey of self development   

17:11 - Traveling, mindset, energy  

23:18 - How stress is affecting us?  

25:58 - RTT - Rapid transformational therapy  

29:59 - RTT letting go  

35:45 - Clear energy tips?  

40:56 - Love your stress?  

43:26 - Next guest?  

44:21 How to get in touch with Angelique?


Watch it here:

https://youtu.be/6roLYSc1w9k


Connect with Angelique: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelique-pellegrino-677417162/


Connect with me directly: https://be.astmens.com/linktree

Aug 09, 202250:07
Love your stress Ep #15 with Aldwyn Altuney

Love your stress Ep #15 with Aldwyn Altuney

Outline:      

0:00 - Highlights      

4:02 - Intro - Aldwyn Altuney      

4:46 - Background of Aldwyn Altuney   

13:21 - Stress relief & coping    

17:38 - How do you define stress?    

19:26 - Good stress?    

26:11 - Love your stress?    

32:52 - Go-to stress release tools?    

40:12 - Tips for people pleasers?    

43:22 - Traveling?    

45:23 - Drama conditioning?    

50:47 - Let the steam off?    

55:08 - Favorite breath-work?    

57:35 - Satisfaction with your stress? 

1:01:38 - Guest for the next episode? 

1:04:43 - Best way to connect with Aldwyn?


Watch it here:

https://youtu.be/CQbERKs7Qfo


Connect with Aldwyn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aldwyn/

Connect with me directly: https://be.astmens.com/linktree


Aug 02, 202201:07:52
Love your stress Ep #14 with Amanda Barrientez - Money Mindset

Love your stress Ep #14 with Amanda Barrientez - Money Mindset

In This episode, we have Amanda Barrientez as our guest. She shares her story about the mindset shift from lack to abundance, from poor to rich. Amanda is enthusiastic about improving entrepreneur relationships with money.


Connect with Amanda on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nfamoney/


    0:00 Highlights

    3:09 Intro - Amanda Barriente

    3:56 How do you define stress?

    5:19 Flow state & sweetspot stress

    7:27 Past stress relationship: chronic stress

    7:59 Past stress relationship: what changed

  10:41 Roadmap to happiness?

  13:19 How did you get to a doctor's title?

  13:34 Work with incarcerated man... what causes change?

  14:40 Your relationship with stress?

  15:46 Best stress release tools & practices?

  18:16 How do you align yourself?

  19:51 How about not enough stress?

  21:22 Misalignment. Too much or not enough stress?

  22:14 How long have you been choosing to be in flow?

  23:42 Most inspiring people to start with?

  24:14 Most inspiring people: Quote from C.J. Jung

  24:41 Most inspiring people: "The big leap"

  25:39 Most inspiring people: "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind"

  26:52 Most inspiring people: "Max Potential Money"

  27:10 Most inspiring people: Russel Brunson

  27:15 Most inspiring people: Abraham-Hicks

  27:20 Most inspiring people: Amy Porterfield

  27:34 Most inspiring people: ProjectMe with Tiffany Carter

  28:36 Life altering takeaways?

  28:48 Next guest?

  30:15 Post interview chat

  33:59 Highlights 


Nov 19, 202137:55
Love your stress Ep #13 with Otto - Mindset of Overcoming burnout

Love your stress Ep #13 with Otto - Mindset of Overcoming burnout

Stress & burnout. Rephrasing a quote from Otto F. Gatternigg: "There are many steps towards healing and mostly it is changing the mindset towards the stress."



This is already Ep 13 of the "Love your stress" podcast with our guest Ott. In this episode, we focus on providing the listeners with deep and powerful insights on how to detect and overcome burnout, manage and befriend stress.


Otto is a passionate & full-time Mental Happiness & Inner Health advocate. He has overcome and healed from burnout and found his path to befriending the stress. And Otto has a lot of wisdom to share on the path of "love your stress".


Outline:

  0:00 - Highlights

  3:18 - Introduction

  4:48 - What is your relationship with stress?

  6:03 - How would you define stress?

  8:00 - Top 3 things stressing out?

  9:08 - How are you handling stress?

10:02 - Mind your words?

11:35 - Powerful breathing techniques

15:50 - Mind your words. Take a breath. Take a break.

17:32 - Different people = different methods

18:00 - What motivates you to release stress?

19:26 - Burnout signs and prevention

26:35 - How did you start to get out of burnout?

30:23 - Stress prevention activities?

33:35 - One takeaway?

35:23 - Next guest?

37:18 - Be Present / 🐝💝 / 


Connect with Otto on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/otto-f-gatternigg-54732451/

Nov 15, 202137:21
Love your stress Ep #12 Antonio Prescott - Stress & Focus

Love your stress Ep #12 Antonio Prescott - Stress & Focus

The guest of this Episode is sales fanatic Antonio Prescott. Learn about the mindset of a stress-free life.


Connect with Antonio on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonioprescott


Outline of podcast:

  0:00  -   1:48 – Hightlights

  1:48  -   3:50 – Introduction

  3:50  -   4:43 – Why red color in Antonio's branding?

  4:43  -   6:28 – How do you define stress?

  6:28  -   7:12 – How do you feel stress in your body?

  7:12  -   8:20 – Why does praying work for stress release?

  8:20  -   9:44 – How is your relationship with stress?

  9:44  - 13:49 – Love your stress?

 13:49 - 16:05 – What is life about?

16:05  - 20:32 – Dream of helping people from heart

20:32  - 22:15 – Cause of the stress? Acceptance?

22:15 -  24:33 – Cause of the stress? Lack of focus?

24:33 -  27:51 – What helps to keep that focus?

27:51 -  29:06 – Recommendation for the next guest?

29:06  - 32:16 – Final quote?

Smile and be present!

Nov 08, 202132:24
Love your stress Ep #11 with Ipek - Understanding principles behind stress management

Love your stress Ep #11 with Ipek - Understanding principles behind stress management

Ipek is an Insight Coach, Ho’oponopono guide  & practitioner, Ikigai coach. She lives happily with her family in Canada.

In this episode, we talk about stress, powerful tools to release the stress. We also touch on why and how they work and how not to sabotage these methods by understanding underlying principles.

And we finish up with chatting about tarot cards. 


Outline of the podcast:


  0:00 -   4:37    – Highlights

  4:37 -   7:31    – About Ipek

  7:31 -   9:01    – Stress is something we need... in moderation

  9:01 - 10:13    – I meditate and it helps A LOT (to destress)

10:13 - 11:51    – How do you define stress?

11:51 - 13:42    – Why is it important to define stress?

13:42 - 15:44    – Love your stress?

15:44 - 17:00    – Visualize stress as a friend

17:00 - 21:44    – How do you get aware of the stress?

21:44 - 27:09    – Isolation as a symptom of stress?

27:09 - 28:59    – Stress-induced loneliness

28:59 - 32:11    – Psychosomatic symptoms and emotional problems

32:11 - 33:38    – Emotional intelligence as a skill

33:38 - 35:15    – How to measure emotional intelligence?

35:15 - 40:08.   – Emotional intelligence when hiring?

40:08 - 41:42.   – Emotional intelligence when job seeking?

41:42 - 45:28.   – Best stress management practices?

45:28 - 51:14    – Sabotaging stress release techniques?

51:14 - 52:58    – Why should you count your breath?

52:58 - 57:52    – Meaning of "The Hermit" tarot card?

57:52 - 58:31    – One takeaway from the conversation?

58:31 - 1:00:34 – Whom to invite for the next podcast episode?

1:00:34                – Smile & Be Present


If you want to get to know more about Ipek and see how she can help you, visit her website:

https://ipekwilliamsoncoaching.com/

Nov 01, 202101:01:15
Love your stress Ep #10 with Arthur Russell - ex-paramedic sharing law of attraction insights

Love your stress Ep #10 with Arthur Russell - ex-paramedic sharing law of attraction insights

In this episode, we have Arthur Russel - an ex-paramedic who had to learn the hard way to manage his high-stress job.


Connect with Art on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-russell-260288a5


Outline of the podcast: 

    0:00 - Highlights

    4:32 - Intro Arthur Russell

    7:10 - Connection between the law of attraction, stress, and self-development

    9:57 - How do you define stress?

  12:26 - Experience with overwhelm side of the stress?

  14:17 - Relationship with stress now?

  18:21 - Be present strategies?

  24:10 - Awareness of being stressed?

  28:11 - Healthy habits

  32:55 - Anything else breaks you free, back to center?

  38:23 - What not who we are?

  45:06 - Taking care of the body needs?

1:05:41 - Love your stress?

Oct 25, 202101:14:48
Love your stress Ep #9 with Maz Ifzal & TOms - The Secret behind fear of public speaking?
Oct 18, 202136:46
Love your stress Ep #8 with Rachida Djellab - Be Guilt-free & gentle on Self

Love your stress Ep #8 with Rachida Djellab - Be Guilt-free & gentle on Self

In this episode, we are having a dynamic conversation with passionate mental health advocate Rachida Djellab.  

Connect with her on LinkedIn where she posts insightful content about wellbeing in the workplace: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachida-d/


Outline of the interview

     0:00 - Highlights

     6:44 - Intro - Rachida Djellab

     7:17 - Define "stress"?

    10:40 - Difference: healthy & unhealthy stress?

    16:42 - Guilt of disturbing?

    20:32 - How do you notice stress in your body?

    24:04 - Impact of tress on the digestive system?

    27:44 - How to be aware of emotions?

    31:23 - Stress relief?

    33:51 - Physical activities?

    40:39 - How to find your physical activities?

    41:35 - Identify stress mindset?

    43:00 - Relationship with stress?

    45:43 - Why not self-compassion?

    50:08 - Between being harsh and self-loving?

    56:23 - Reset! Move & Hydrate!

    58:37 - Most stressful areas of life?

1:02:25 - Proactive stress management?

1:05:06 - Activities during the day?

1:08:03 - What motivates you?

1:10:18 - How much of physical activities do you do?

1:13:14 - How much do you sleep?

1:15:44 - How do you feel about your diet?

1:18:17 - How satisfied are you with your life?

1:21:03 - One thing to share?


Oct 11, 202101:28:49
Love your stress Ep #7 - Naveena - wellbeing advocate from YAHA Life
Oct 04, 202138:50
Love your stress Ep #6 - Graham Coath - Workplace management and stress impact

Love your stress Ep #6 - Graham Coath - Workplace management and stress impact

This interview is with Graham Coath - a passionate LinkedIn marketing marketer strategist for Health and Wellbeing sector!   

We continue our journey into Loving our stress. And in this episode, our main focus is bringing awareness and solutions to the negative ends of the stress spectrum: burnout and boredom.   

Both are detrimental to any individual or company's success, plummeting productivity, and creativity.   

We also gave special attention to the impact management has on the culture of stress levels in the workplace. Both from a sense of leadership and management structures. What is to blame for an unproductive environment? Check it out in the podcast!   


Outline:  

0:00 - Interview Highlights   

3:46 - NextStand Promo clip   

4:13 - Start of Full interview, Love your stress  

5:57 - How do you define stress?  

6:48 - Stress extremes: Burnout & Bordom 

10:07 - What can we do about it: Burnout & Boredom? 

11:40 - Stress in terms of working environment? 

17:01 - Commonalities between how people work? 

19:21 - Stress causes: psychological vs management? 

21:30 - Management first - lead by example! 

22:06 - Management structures & stress 

26:31 - Particularly stressed industries? 

28:33 - Stress extremes: burnout & boredom 

33:02 - What does "meaning" mean? 

35:13 - "I feel good" 

35:28 - Connect with TOms (IG: @be.astmens) 

  

Connect with TOms on LinkedIn: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/beastmens

Connect with Graham on LinkedIn: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-coath-abetterwayoflife

Check out more on NextStand: 

https://nexstand.eu/?ref=astmens (affiliate/personal recommendation link)

Sep 27, 202137:02
Love your stress Ep #5 - Minna - Cravings, bad habits, coping with stress
Sep 20, 202137:57
Love your stress Ep #4 - Allen Martin - What is on the other side of the stress?

Love your stress Ep #4 - Allen Martin - What is on the other side of the stress?

In Episode 4 we meet a magnificent mindset shifter - Allen Martin. Allen is an Executive Coach, enthusiastic about People Development, and an experienced Sales Trainer. Check out his recent book 📚 - The Panacea Principles.


0:00 - Highlights of the interview  

3:28 - Introduction with Allen Martin  

5:39 - Panacea? What? And why?  

7:31 - How would you define stress? 

10:03 - What is on the other side of the stress? 

11:41 - How would you rate your stress? 

12:54 - What is your relationship with stress? 

19:20 - How does stress feel to you? 

23:05 - How do you release the stress? 

25:45 - How do you practice being present for the meetings? 

29:14 - What motivate you to be? 

32:09 - What physical activities do you practice? 

35:55 - How much do you sleep? 

40:44 - What's your one takeaway from this conversation? 

41:55 - Who would you recommend as the next guest? 

44:07 - Behind the scenes... Pre-interview chat...    


Connect with Allen on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenmartinmindsetshifter

Sep 20, 202150:24
Love your stress Ep #3 - Rajesh Malhorta - Stress with Type 1 Diabetes
Sep 13, 202152:59
Love your stress Ep #2 with Edward Zia

Love your stress Ep #2 with Edward Zia

In this episode, we have legendary Edward Zia whom I know from running the best international networking events.

Most notably, my one takeaway from this episode is that as a good leader you must treat your employees as top-performing athletes if you expect them to deliver top performance in their work.

Tune in for more nuggets and be present! 🐝💝

Sep 06, 202138:04
Love your stress Ep #1 with Tim Beanland

Love your stress Ep #1 with Tim Beanland

This is the very first episode of "Love your stress" and our first guest is Tim Beanland. He not only shares some tips and experience with podcasting in general, he has also ample awareness and stories to share about stress management.

Tim Beanland - your podcast coach helping you in creating 1-3 Months Worth of Video Content In 45 min.


Tune in and be present!



Aug 30, 202143:29