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Jade is executive creative director at Huge, a design and innovation company based in London and New York. A graduate of St. Martin's, Jade describes herself as a creative adventurer. She's worked on brands from Sony to Starbucks and also runs Creative Adventures, where she supports founders and entrepreneurs.

Jade is also helping to drive forward NABS' Art Auction - submit your piece by 9 September and help to raise funds with your creativity nabs.org.uk/artauction

Jade is relatable, empathetic and speaks honestly about her experience of being working-class and LGBT while finding her way in the industry. In particular, her take on what happens when you don't come out until your twenties is super insightful.

Key takeaways:

• The fun and the fallout of coming out in your twenties and how this affects your mental wellness at work
• The micro stresses you can encounter as a working-class industry entrant
• Listening, listening, listening, helps a team to bond and grow

Resources:
NABS' Art Auction 

NABS Advice Line 

She Says 

The Other Box 

NABS All Ears 

Creative Adventur.es 

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Josh Krichefski is CEO of GroupM, EMEA and UK and president of the IPA. This industry influencer is also a huge advocate for mental wellness in our industry, and at the IPA has introduced the People First Promise to promote mental health awareness and support across adland. Has your organisation signed up to it yet?

Josh talks about his own struggles - anxiety and insomnia - as well as how to get involved with the People First Promise. He's very clear, down-to-earth and honest about the difference between good stress and the need to work hard and bad worries that can eclipse your mood and thinking.

Josh is a big NABS fan and we're happy to have his support. Josh is also a big Arsenal fan, which may or may not impact his mental wellness, depending on the season. 

 tw: suicide

Key takeaways:

• How to spot a toxic workplace, and why these have to be deleted from our lives;
• The People First Promise is about action, not just signing up to a policy; and 
• The magic of meditation in helping your brain to switch off.

Resources:

IPA People First Promise

NABS workshops

 Managing Anxiety: guided meditation - NABS

Jonny Benjamin – Mental Health Campaigner

NABS All Ears Community Consultation Report

The Inclusive Leader - NABS

 IPA | Adland's Wellbeing Lab

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Amy Kean is a creative sociologist, advertising strategist, poet and best selling author. Her book, The Little Girl who Gave Zero F***s, is a clarion call to females everywhere who are too used to caring about what other people think of them. As Amy explains in this podcast, it's time to stop that right now in the name of your self-esteem. 

Amy is frank, down-to-earth and fond of a swear word or six. She is also one of our industry's biggest names when it comes to speaking out for better diversity and fairer working practices. 

Key takeaways:

• Happiness should be your key priority every day
• We have to get over our obsession with tone in the workplace
• Your self-esteem does not depend on the opinions of other people 

Amy runs Good Shout, a professional training company that helps people to find their voice. Find out more at goodshoutcommunity.com

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Cat Wiles is an award-winning strategist who is as passionate about mental wellness as she is about creating great work. She has championed the right to disconnect, volunteered as an industry mentor, and set up mental health first aid programmes.  As well as being Lucky General's first-ever Chief Strategy Officer she's currently also training to be a hypnotherapist to help people uncover their potential and overcome their self-limiting beliefs.

In this uplifting interview, Cat shares with how her personal mental wellness 'tumbles' led her to therapy, and how she applies the insights this gave her to her life like a true Strategist. Cat likens her journey to Kintsugi -the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden seams- and says today she is stronger in some ways, weaker in others. We're definitely richer for hearing her story.

 Listen now to hear how:

• After you fake it to make it, the next step is to become it
• How to quiet your inner critic
• How to support yourself by asking strategic questions

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How to give care and connect with others, with Scott Sallée 

tw: suicidal ideation

Scott Sallée is senior manager, Sustainability and Social Impact at Dentsu and is one of the leading voices in LGBTQ+ advocacy in the UK. Scott has won various accolades in the DE&I space, all very well-deserved.

This chat is wonderfully nurturing thanks to Scott's outlook on caregiving and boundaries. Scott also has a unique take on setting contracts within friendships, as well as working relationships, in order to better understand how other people function as well as to get your own needs met.

Key takeaways include:

• The transformative effect of breathing and breathwork - and how to fit it into our busy lives
• How to structure wellbeing into your ways of working to get the best out of you and your team
• The importance of self-care and the seven (yes, seven!) types of rest

Mentioned in this episode: The Nap Ministry

Find Scott's on  LinkedIn 

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Ed Couchman is head of sales, UK & northern Europe, Spotify, and one of our industry's most prolific senior leaders. He's as well-known for his charity work as his professional life, including supporting NABS. 

Ed knows first-hand what mental wellness looks like, and what happens when serious mental health challenges arise. He's beautifully honest about how his family was affected by a mental health crisis and what he learned from the episode.

Despite this, Ed is positive and practical throughout this uplifting conversation. 

Key takeaways: 

• How your community can help you to prevent a mental wellness crisis
• The importance of promoting social mobility in adland
• The value of giving back, and how to look after yourself when doing so

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Tobi Asare is managing partner, head of growth, at OMD and someone who's passionate about creating opportunities for women and working parents Her book, The Blend, gives brilliant advice on how to find fulfilment at home and at work. 

 Tobi is also an absolute joy to chat with. You will feel her smile throughout this episode. What a tonic, and proof that we can still feel hope and positivity even when tackling big career challenges.

Key takeaways include:

• The importance of finding a sponsor at work
• How to find a support network, even if you're not naturally outgoing
• When to change a culture, and when to leave it

Find Tobi's book The Blend on Amazon.

Watch Tobi's NABS Talk hon our Youtube channel

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James Appleby is one of our industry's most senior figures. He's managing partner at Assembly Global and also chair of Fast Forward, NABS' flagship pitching training programme.

In this positive and open chat, James discusses his experience of redundancy, and how the power of connecting with old and new contacts helped to lift him up during a period of uncertainty.

James also talks about the importance of giving ourselves a break why sleep is so important.

Key takeaways:

• Identify the aspect of your life that's most affected when your mental wellness is challenged, and track it to help you get support when you need
• Even a 20-minute chat can lift you up when you need a boost
• Connections are everything in our industry

To find out more about Fast Forward, visit nabs.org.uk/events/fast-forward
To find out more about James, visit his LinkedIn profile 

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Rob Mayhew makes hundreds of thousands of people laugh with his daily sketches lampooning agency life. As loved for his trademark woolly jumpers as he is for his relatable wit, Rob joins us to discuss creativity, mental wellness and being funny at work.
 
Rob also recalls when he used NABS in the past to find like-minded flatmates. Happy to oblige, Rob.
 
 Rob is an absolute delight. His team at Gravity Road, where he works as a creative director two days a week, are lucky to have him.
 
 Key takeaways:

• It's OK to enjoy your job and it's also OK to moan about it
• Identify your priority areas for wellness and happiness
• Making good decisions for yourself is key to supporting yourself and those around you

 To buy a copy of Rob's day book, visit this link

To sign up for Rob's free NABS Talk, taking place 1pm 9 November, visit the NABS website

To enjoy Rob's sketches, visit @robmayhewcomedy on Instagram

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Marty Davies is one of adland's leading strategists and joint-CEO of Outvertising, the industry's advocacy group for LGBTQIA+ people in the industry. Marty is founder of Smarty Pants, a strategy-first creative consultancy specialising in customer activation and retention. Among Marty's many achievements is their role as Campaign magazine's first transgender columnist. 

In this podcast, Marty talks openly and vulnerably about the process of realising their identity and the need to take better care of their mental wellness.

Key takeaways include:

• How Marty looks after their staff and freelancers, putting wellness above profit;
• Why pronouns matter, and how it feels to be misgendered; and 
• The mental magic of exercise.

Check out Marty's Campaign column and find out more about Outvertising on their website.

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