Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Squiggly Career Podcast from Amazing If.

We're here to help you develop the skills you need to be successful in the squiggly world of careers.

I'm Sarah and as always I'm joined by my co-founder Helen.

Hello.

And today we're talking about stress, which almost feels stressful to start to think about,

which I think is a reality now for so many of us.

So, you know, people talking about feeling anxious or stressed comes up so commonly, I think,

in employee feedback, employee engagement.

And actually, I've noticed that even things like st john's ambulance now

actually do like mental health first aid um and that's that's something actually we started to test

to things like sainsbury's so that as a whole i just couldn't have imagined that five or ten years

ago so i think it's a really relevant topic for us i think that's also really good that it's starting

to be recognized i think mental health and the role that stress at work plays into mental health is being recognised. There's some

research by the health and safety executives that says over half a million people suffer from work

related stress. And when you look into the implications of that, not only does it affect, you know,

people's happiness and productivity at work, it can also be a trigger for things like depression. I think it can be a trigger for other

more physical illnesses in your body. And again, Mind have done some more research on this and they

found that work is actually the biggest cause of stress. So it is more significant than

financial drivers of stress or actually more significant than health as a cause of stress. So it is more significant than financial drivers of stress or actually more significant

than health as a cause of stress. So this topic of work-related stress is very important and

relevant. And I think we will do what we can to share today our experiences of this and

hopefully some of the things that we've found to cope with it. And I think it's also important to distinguish between stress and being busy.

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