Today we talk to Estela Quesada Zuheros, IBMer and author of the book "The Mindful Response: Lessons, stories and practices toward responsible leadership through mindfulness".

In the podcast we talk about the book, about what's mindfulness for Estela and how she discovered it and what took her to deciding to start writing.

A beautiful journey thanks for listening.

You can find below the links about the book:

Canada https://amzn.to/3JrQnWF
UK https://amzn.to/3lrvgMc
US https://amzn.to/3yNB065

#70 The Mindful Response

In this podcast episode, we talk to Akshata Nagesh (Program Lead, Global Delivery Transformation at Kyndryl)
With Aks we discuss the benefits of practicing mindfulness in managing emotions to experience exuberant enjoyment of life. 
She shares her personal experiences of being short-tempered in the past and how mindfulness helped her become aware of her emotions and gradually learn to control them. She also emphasizes the importance of being kind to oneself and not beating oneself up for past mistakes. Through mindfulness, she has learned to live in the moment, appreciate what she has, and respond to life in a more positive way.

In other words: practicing mindfulness has many benefits and can help individuals become better versions of themselves and most importantly it helps to have a real  joie de vivre, to experience life fully.

Enjoy our discussion, thanks for listening

#71 The Power of Mindfulness: To find real joie de vivre by managing emotions

Today we talk to Alicja Zalewska-Choma, Senior Lead, Corporate Social Responsibility @Kyndryl that is bringing her knowledge to talk about sustainability and how to deal with the anxiety connected with the climate crisis we are experiencing these days.

Mindfulness is in fact a practice that helps to deal better with anxiety and that's what we share in the podcast along with the RAIN practice.

Enjoy.

This is the first episode of a long series dedicated to the benefits of mindfulness so we can all discover what comes as side effect when we start establishing a daily mindfulness practice.

#72 Benefits of Mindfulness | Dealing with anxiety

Today we talk to Fie Jeppesen (Global Culture Lead for Commercial Solution Areas at Microsoft) about mindfulness and in particular another of the benefits of mindfulness that is the ability to regulate stress to respond to stress wisely.
We also talk about Fie's experience with mindfulness, about self compassion and we end with a lovely practice.

Thanks for listening.

More about Fie https://www.linkedin.com/in/fie-jeppesen-6948982/

#73 Mindfulness for stress regulation

Today we bring another benefit of the mindfulness practice, peace of mind. So practicing mindfulness leads to getting more chances to pacify your mind.
And we talk about it with Ron Francis, IBMer and host of the podcast PeaceLoveMoto (https://www.peacelovemoto.com)
With Ron we touch his story into mindfulness and motorbiking, we talk about nature, we talk about our mind and how with the mindfulness practice it can be pacified.
Ron is also leading us into a beautiful practice at the end.
Thanks a lot for listening.

#74 Mindfulness for a peace of mind

Today we talk to Sean Harvey recurring guest of our podcast and recent author of the book Warrior Compassion written to help men discover the truth of who they are, learn to love the truth of who they are, unearth their inherent gifts, and realize the ways they are meant to contribute in the world.  

In the podcast we talk about what it means to be a man in our time and why compassion is an important factor to open man to live better with themselves and the world. We talk about the role of mindfulness in it and why it leads to a more compassionate awareness.

We cover also some parts of the book and recent work of Sean.

For more about Sean check the website: https://warriorcompassion.com  
or his linkedin profile: https://linkedin.com/in/seanharvey 

Thanks for listening

#75 Mindfulness for men compassion

Today we talk to Zarin Suchi, IBMer, student of psychology and member of the Mindfulness@IBM community.
With Zarin we talk about mindfulness and its connection with the study of psychology. We talk about stress, stress resistance, about the good and bad moments of life and about acceptance and what acceptance has to do with mindfulness.
Thanks for listening.

# 76 Mindfulness for acceptance

This is the last episode of 2023 where Lele and Pat wish all the best to the mindfulness communities and focus on gratitude for the year ending and all the beautiful things that happened to us. 
The podcast ends with a co-lead breathing practice.
Thanks for listening

#77 One last episode of 2023 - Mindful Reflections

Today we go back to basic in a new style for our podcast with guest, comment, practices and answers to the most basic and wanted questions about mindfulness.

Nieta, Pat and Lele today interview Andy Lee asking him the following questions: 
1. How do you define mindfulness, what it is and what it isn’t?
2. Aren’t we already aware? What’s the point with mindfulness?
3. How mindfulness makes us more aware, according to what process?
4. How different are you now that are practicing mindfulness for a long time?

Enjoy Andy answers and also the final body scan offered by him.

Something more about Andy Lee:
Andy Lee is a pioneer in bringing the benefits of mindfulness into the workplace. He brings a unique blend of business experience and mindfulness expertise to his work.​ He has been practicing mindfulness for over 20 years and has been teaching in organizations since 2011.
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Before founding Mindful Ethos, Andy was Chief Mindfulness Officer at Aetna where he and his team developed a range of programs to create a deeply rooted culture of mindfulness. These programs included in-person courses, webinars and digital resources. He also developed a network of internal mindfulness advocates and created a Mindfulness Center in Aetna’s home office.

Andy has an MA in organizational psychology and is a certified mindfulness teacher and executive coach. 

# 78 What is mindfulness? with Andy Lee

Today Pat, Nieta and Lele are just sharing some news from the communities and Pat is leading a practice for everyone called the 3 steps breathing space. It's short and powerful enjoy it a fully!

#77 One last episode of 2023 - Mindful Reflections

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