Episode 127 - Burnout with guest Briony Gunson

Episode #128. The Burnout Miniseries ep5 – The last episode in our mini-series on burnout shares the story of an agency marketer who, following her experience of extreme burnout, uses the power of breathwork, meditation and wellbeing to help and prevent burnout in others.  Abby’s guest is Briony Gunson, mindset coach, wellbeing trainer, meditation teacher and breathworker. Passionate about supporting people in managing stress, anxiety and burnout, some of Briony’s corporate clients include NHS, EY, Santander, Lloyds bank, We Work and Freemasons.  In this episode, Briony shares her definition and experience of burnout, listening to your mind and body system, processing trauma, safe spaces, slowing down feeling uncomfortable and power of breathing and techniques.  Plus her advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest:  Briony Gunson | LinkedIn   The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

Episode #127. The Burnout Miniseries ep4 – We’re continuing our focus on burnout and how together, we can raise awareness to prevent it and support each other in our challenging yet rewarding marketing profession.  Abby’s guest is Senior Reporter for Marketing Week, Molly Innes. Molly has been researching burnout for the past two years having written many articles about it and is passionate about marketers’ careers, ways of working and recruitment.  In this episode, Molly shares how she began highlighting burnout, factors that her research identified can led to burnout, being ‘addicted’ to high performance and recognition, stories of unhealthy culture and burnout effecting women.  Plus her advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest:  Molly Innes | LinkedIn   The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

Episode #126. The Burnout Miniseries ep3 – The third episode in our burnout series, raising awareness to the physical, mental and emotional exhaustion that prolonged stress in our profession that cause – and what we can do about it.  This episode highlights burnout from a leadership perspective and the pressure to become other people’s version of a leader, not your authentic self. Sharing their first-hand experience is Abby’s guest, Rowan Morrison.  An experienced agency-side leader, Rowan is co-founder and co-MD of Rationale, a strategic marketing communications agency. Alongside her role she coaches women in innovation-led businesses.  In this episode, Rowan shares her definition of burnout, her story of burnout accumulating over a year, target-driven stress, the effect of stress on her health, conflict in leadership expectations, boundaries and her processes to empower those in her agency to prevent burnout.  Plus her advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host:  Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest:  Rowan Morrison | LinkedIn   This episode is sponsored by Tracksuit  This episode is brought to you by Tracksuit, the beautiful, affordable, and always-on-brand tracking dashboard that helps marketers answer - is what we're doing working?  Making brand tracking accessible and easy to understand, Tracksuit data gives you full visibility on your brand health metrics.  Visit  www.gotracksuit.com to start your always-on brand tracking journey.    The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

Episode #125. The Burnout Miniseries ep2 – Continuing our focus on burnout, this episode discusses the experience of a high-achieving marketer who went through burnout and their reflections on preventing it again - for themselves and others in the future.  Abby’s guest is Alan Trice, an experienced and passionate senior marketer, having held Head of and Director-level roles within retail, entertainment, sports, lifestyle and fashion organisations such as Puma, Diesel, Coach, IMG, Screwfix and Clarks. Alan currently holds a NED position at the prestigious Mount Kelly school and is a Marketing Society member.   In this episode, Alan shares his analogy of burnout, his experience of how burnout manifested, the lead up over 18months, spotting the signs and how he looks after his wellbeing to prevent in the future.  Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest:  Alan Trice | LinkedIn   This episode is sponsored by Tracksuit  This episode is brought to you by Tracksuit, the beautiful, affordable, and always-on-brand tracking dashboard that helps marketers answer - is what we're doing working?  Making brand tracking accessible and easy to understand, Tracksuit data gives you full visibility on your brand health metrics.  Visit gotracksuit.com to start your always-on brand tracking journey.    The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

Episode #124. The Burnout Miniseries ep1 – Understanding burnout through a scientific lens is the focus of this episode, shining a light on the signs of burnout and how it physically and mentally manifests, as we see a rise in unsustainable stress amongst our profession.  Burnout is a topic that Abby is passionate about addressing and a fundamental part of burnout prevention is linked to the ‘personal understanding’ pillar or the whole marketer philosophy – the greater we know and understand ourselves, the better we can spot the signs in ourselves and others when we’re starting to burnout.  Discussing the science behind burnout is Abby’s guest expert Dr Fiona Crichton, VP of behavioural science at Groov, the workplace science platform on a mission to help 100 million people feel and perform better.  In this episode, Dr Fiona shares her definition of true burnout, measuring burnout through cortisol, predictors of burnout, 5 Bs for burnout prevention, burnout vs depression and how leaders can support teams.  Plus her advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest: Dr Fiona Crichton | LinkedIn   This episode is sponsored by Tracksuit  This episode is brought to you by Tracksuit, the beautiful, affordable, and always-on-brand tracking dashboard that helps marketers answer - is what we're doing working?  Making brand tracking accessible and easy to understand, Tracksuit data gives you full visibility on your brand health metrics.  Visit gotracksuit.com to start your always-on brand tracking journey.    The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

Episode #123. This episode is leadership skill on empowerment – a fundamental pillar of the Whole Marketer approach in order to create a wave of successful and fulfilled marketers.  Adopting empowerment as a leadership style means building the belief and confidence in the marketers in your care; giving them the clarity, control and confidence to make decisions independently, so they can contribute to and achieve goals.  Abby’s guest expert is Ellie Norman, a trailblazing marketing leader and Chief Communication Officer at Manchester United. Prior to this, Ellie’s roles included Virgin Media and Formula 1, where she was part of the exec team who grew it’s fanbase and share price. She is also NED at The Marketing Society and a Marketing Academy Fellow.  In this episode, Ellie shares her definition of empowerment, clear communications for your team, her reflections on her own leadership style, coaching skills, benefits of empowerment and how to set the culture in a new role.  Plus her career highs and lows and advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest:  Ellie (Tory) Norman | LinkedIn   This episode is sponsored by Tracksuit  This episode is brought to you by Tracksuit, the beautiful, affordable, and always-on-brand tracking dashboard that helps marketers answer - is what we're doing working?  Making brand tracking accessible and easy to understand, Tracksuit data gives you full visibility on your brand health metrics.  Visit gotracksuit.com to start your always-on brand tracking journey.    The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

Episode #122. Representation is the topic discussed in this episode, a skill for all marketers to ensure we are connecting and communicating with different people, groups and communities to truly reflect the world around us.  Joining Abby is her guest Nishma Patel Robb, Founder of Glittersphere, ex Senior Director of Brand and Reputation Marketing at Google UK. As a Founder, Speaker, Podcaster, President of WACL and fellowships with IPA and The Marketing Society, Nishma is on a mission to make our world as representative as it can be so all different types of people can be seen and accepted.  In this episode, Nishma shares her definition of representation, why it’s important, commercial benefits, social responsibility for marketers, curiosity, culture fit vs culture add, tips for discovering different people and cultures and going against the algorithm.  Plus her career highs and lows and advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest:  Nishma Patel Robb | LinkedIn   This episode is sponsored by Tracksuit  This episode is brought to you by Tracksuit, the beautiful, affordable, and always-on-brand tracking dashboard that helps marketers answer - is what we're doing working?  Making brand tracking accessible and easy to understand, Tracksuit data gives you full visibility on your brand health metrics.  Visit gotracksuit.com to start your always-on brand tracking journey.    The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

Episode #121. Today’s episode is a technical skill on psychological biases, where we’ll discuss the patterns found in decision-making that marketers can use to better understand their customers and consumers biases and how we can address them and work with them.  Abby’s guest expert is Richard Shotton, author of bestselling and award-winning book The Choice Factory and founder of Astroten, a consultancy that applies findings from behavioural science to improve marketing, working with brands such as Google, Mondelez and Meta. In Richard’s latest book ‘The Illusion of Choice’ he highlights 16 and ½ key biases that influence the way we buy.  In this episode, Richard shares his definition of psychological biases, 3 reasons why knowing this helps marketers, test and control experiments with examples, and frameworks to help marketers get started.   Plus his career highs and lows and advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host:  Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest:  Richard Shotton | LinkedIn   This episode is sponsored by Stickybeak  It’s time to put the consumer back at the heart of every decision, and thanks to Stickybeak, consumer feedback is at your fingertips. The self-service, affordable, consumer testing platform delivers actionable insights in hours, not weeks! So to find out what your consumers think before you go to market    Visit Stickybeak.co/wholemarketer and use code WHOLEMARKETER for $100 USD off your first test, so you can see how Stickybeak are changing the way marketers work.     The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

Episode #120. This episode is a leadership topic on Impact and the methodology of an impactful leader.  Creating impact is an important skill for marketers as so much of our role is about creating a positive effect and influence i.e. impact, both internally with stakeholders and externally with our markets, customers and consumers.   Abby is joined by Scott Morrison, Founder, Speaker, Author and NED. Scott is an experienced client-side and agency-side marketer at businesses including Diesel, Levi’s, Activision, W&K and Saatchi & Saatchi. As founder of The Boom, Scott works with ambitious leaders who want to create impact with pace with his Unblock, Unlock and Unleash approach to create movement and “business unusual”.  In this episode, Scott shares his definition of impactful leadership, positive disruption, boom and bust mindset, leadership fundamentals and barriers that prevent impactful leadership. Plus his career highs and lows (including an experience with Nelson Mandela) and advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest: Scott Morrison FRSA | LinkedIn    This episode is sponsored by Stickybeak  It’s time to put the consumer back at the heart of every decision, and thanks to Stickybeak, consumer feedback is at your fingertips. The self-service, affordable, consumer testing platform delivers actionable insights in hours, not weeks! So to find out what your consumers think before you go to market    Visit Stickybeak.co/wholemarketer and use code WHOLEMARKETER for $100 USD off your first test, so you can see how Stickybeak are changing the way marketers work.     The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com

Episode #119. Gaining buy-in is the soft skill, leadership and personal understanding topic of today’s podcast.  Gaining buy-in is a critical skill for marketers, particularly as marketing moves from a support function to one leading the long-term commercial agenda – gaining buy-in and alignment on our strategy and vision is imperative to gain support, investment and resource from the Board to bring these plans to life.  Joining Abby to discuss how marketers approach gaining buy-in is Rachael Wheatley, MD of Watertight Business Thinking. As a strategist, planner, trainer, mentor and coach with 35 years in the marketing profession, Rachael is passionate about marketing-centred business transformation.  In this episode, Rachael shares her definition of buy-in (both for the marketing function and for individuals), the 2 key challenges marketers need to overcome and finding allies. Plus Rachael’s career highs and lows and advice for marketers of tomorrow.  Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest: Rachael Wheatley | LinkedIn   This episode is sponsored by Stickybeak  It’s time to put the consumer back at the heart of every decision, and thanks to Stickybeak, consumer feedback is at your fingertips. The self-service, affordable, consumer testing platform delivers actionable insights in hours, not weeks! So to find out what your consumers think before you go to market    Visit Stickybeak.co/wholemarketer and use code WHOLEMARKETER for $100 USD off your first test, so you can see how Stickybeak are changing the way marketers work.     The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com