295 - Discover Mental Health Ideas For the Contingent Workforce with Colin Yoshioka-Smith and Paula Sweet
The Truth About Mental Health by Paula Sweet at Absolute Mind
Paula Sweet
4.3 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This interview episode was a deep dive into the mental health of the contingent workforce. I want to extend my gratitude to Colin Yoshioka-Smith, He's a Director of RedWizard Consulting, has over 20 years in the HR & People industry. As an active developer of managers and of recruitment; he has played an active role in managing and supporting individuals across businesses and showcasing the importance of mental health in the workforce. He is an ambassador of mental health 1st aid training and supporting people to take positive sets towards a healthy mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Your Absolute. I'm your host Paula Sweet and today's episode is another interview talking all things mental health. But this time we're talking mental health within the contingent temporary workforce. For today's interview, I had the pleasure of chatting with Colin Yosecker-Smith after reaching out to him on LinkedIn. Now Colin is the director of Red Wizard Consulting. |
| 0:22.1 | He has over 20 years in the HR and people industry. |
| 0:25.3 | As an active developer of managers and of recruitment, |
| 0:28.2 | he's played an active role in managing and supporting individuals across businesses |
| 0:32.4 | and showcasing the importance of mental health in the workforce. |
| 0:36.0 | He's an ambassador of mental health first |
| 0:37.8 | day training and supporting people to take positive steps towards a healthy mind. So first up, |
| 0:44.2 | before we go into our interview, I want to say a massive thank you to Colin for his time and his |
| 0:49.3 | expertise that he put into this podcast. The insights and the honesty throughout our call is a great conversation |
| 0:56.1 | that we had and so many areas are covered relating to not only the contingent work and mental |
| 1:00.4 | health, but also mental health overall for everyone. So before we go into our conversation that |
| 1:07.3 | we had, here's some of the key points and the takeaways from our conversation in our chat. So in this podcast, we're going to cover the importance of recognizing the difference |
| 1:16.6 | between contingent temporary workforce and contracted workers and the different concerns that they have |
| 1:22.4 | within the mental health workplace. We also discussed some of the steps that contingent worker might have to take to look after |
| 1:29.2 | their mental health that maybe a contractual worker might not have to think about. Collin also highlights |
| 1:35.9 | how the contingent worker can face added stress with not having that job security due to being |
| 1:41.7 | temporary, which brings along mental health concerns in itself. |
| 1:46.1 | We also discussed the importance of looking after our own mental health to enable us to feel |
| 1:50.4 | more equipped to deal with the stresses of everyday life, which is what this podcast is all about, |
| 1:56.0 | right? Colin also kindly shared some of his tips that he uses not only with employees, but also for |
| 2:01.6 | himself to gain control over those difficult situations and thought processes. |
| 2:06.2 | Now, I really enjoyed this chat with Colin, and I hope you enjoy this podcast too. So let's get to it. |
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