53 - How to Stay Zen When You're Overwhelmed and Stressed with Heidi Hanna

Published: Feb. 2, 2018, 8 a.m.

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Time for another great interview on the Healthpreneur Podcast! Today I am talking to Heidi Hanna, who I often call The Stress Master. She is a stress expert and has really figured out what is going on with stress in our world today\\u2014why we are all constantly stressed out and what we can do in our day-to-day lives to help alleviate some of it.\\xa0

Heidi is a New York Times best selling author, chief energy officer and founder of SYNERGY\\u2014a consulting company providing brain health and performance programs for a ton of companies. Mostly small names like Microsoft, GE, Google, Starbucks, Boeing, Morgan Stanley, Nationwide\\u2014just standard stuff, really. Oh, and she\\u2019s also the executive direct of the American Institute of Stress.

So she\\u2019s fairly qualified. This is really a fantastic episode for any entrepreneur. If you\\u2019ve ever felt like you\\u2019re \\u201cburning the candle at both ends,\\u201d there will be some great insights here for you\\u2014I had some big \\u201ca-ha\\u201d moments in this episode, myself. We\\u2019re going to talk about why everyone needs to make an effort to relax and what it means to truly relax. On the flipside, we\\u2019ll also talk about how stress can be a positive thing.

In this episode, Heidi and I discuss:\\xa0

  • The positive and negative effects of stress.\\xa0
  • Small steps you can take to take a step back and relieve stress in your day-to-day life.\\xa0
  • Stress loads vs. your stress lenses.\\xa0
  • The six primary stress reactions\\xa0
  • Why stress can be addictive\\xa0
  • Why relaxing and recharging is absolutely necessary.
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