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Today's guest is the amazing Chelsea Pottenger. Chelsea is the founder and director of EQ Minds, which she runs with her husband, Jay. She is one of Australia’s most popular corporate wellness presenters, helping more than 90,000 professionals every year to take charge of their mental health. 

Chelsea is an accredited mindfulness and meditation coach. She is an absolute legend and I say that because she walks the talk. She is passionate about every part of mental well-being and she herself is a vision of health and happiness. Chelsea has so many compelling and helpful tips and insights. So, it’s a good thing that she has just written a book called The Mindful High Performer, and I must say it is a ‘must read’. It is available on Audible and is possibly my favourite self-development book of all time. 

If you’re keen on making the most out of your career and life, then this an episode you don’t want to miss. 

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Guest: Chelsea Pottenger

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Want to be more productive and feel more creative in your work day? Author and founder of EQ Minds Chelsea Pottenger shares her top productivity hacks, the importance of brain breaks and how to find your flow state.

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Find out more about Chelsea via her website, here, or follow her on Instagram @eqminds or @chelseapottingerofficial. Grab her book The Mindful High Performer, here.

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No doubt it’s the biggest time suck in your work day, so listen to author and founder of EQ Minds Chelsea Pottenger share her top hacks to control your emails without letting them control you. 

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To hear today's full interview, where Chelsea shares her top productivity hacks...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods.

Find out more about Chelsea via her website, here, or follow her on Instagram @eqminds or @chelseapottingerofficial. Grab her book The Mindful High Performer, here.

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On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV here.

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In May 2015, today’s guest Chelsea Pottenger, found herself suicidal and in a mental hospital. For Chelsea, a self-confessed high achiever and Type A personality, it was the last thing she expected to happen when she gave birth to her first child.

But rather than wondering why this had happened to her, Chelsea viewed her predicament as an opportunity. As part of her recovery she studied psychology and radically shifted her priorities to put her mental health first, the process so life changing that she founded her business EQ Minds.

Today, an accredited mindfulness and mediation coach, and mental health ambassador for R U OK and the Gidget Foundation, Chelsea works with the world’s biggest brands. In addition, EQ Minds helps more than 90,000 professionals every year take charge of their mental health. Chelsea is on a mission to share the tools and resources that saved her life, and in this episode, we’re going to discuss simple, yet powerful, shifts to help recharge your mental health to improve your mental health, how to achieve a high-performance mindset, plus so much more.

Connect with Chelsea on Instagram or visit the website, or buy Chelsea’s new book The Mindful High Performer, it’s a goodie!

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Do you ever look at successful people and wonder how the hell do they do it? Meditation coach and founder of EQ minds Chelsea Pottenger shares exactly what sets high performers apart from the rest of us. 

WANT MORE FROM CHELSEA?

Find out more about Chelsea via her EQ Minds website, here, or follow her on Instagram @eqminds or via @chelseapottingerofficial. If you want to pre-order her book The Mindful High Performer, click here.

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On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley. 

On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here.

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Get this: millennials check their phone on average 85 times* per day. Meditation coach and founder of EQ minds Chelsea Pottenger talks about the importance of healthy phone use for our mental wellbeing and how to actually put the damn thing down.

*Nottingham Trent University

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To hear today's full interview, where Chelsea shares her tips on how to live a high performance life...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods.

Find out more about Chelsea via her website, here, or follow her on Instagram @eqminds or via @chelseapottingerofficial. If you want to pre-order her book The Mindful High Performer, click here.

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Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.

On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley. 

On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here.

In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). 

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In this episode Brooke sat down to chat with mindfulness expert and advocate for awareness of postnatal depression Chelsea Pottenger. Chelsea works with organisations to develop mindfulness and wellbeing programs for their staff, is studying to be a clinical psychologist, and works as an ambassador for R U OK? and the Gidget Foundation, an incredible organisation that offers a range of services for new mums who are experiencing (or think they might experience) postnatal depression.

This week is actually Postnatal Depression Awareness Week, so it’s a perfect time for an honest, very open chat about this often-hidden disease. Chelsea and Brooke have had parallel experiences into new parenthood, both of them suffering from postnatal depression and then using it as a vehicle to improve their mental health across the board, as well as their lives and work.

Soon after her daughter Clara was born Chelsea started to experience symptoms of postnatal depression (including anxiety, insomnia, hypersensitivity to sound, shame and guilt) but like so many of us do, she put up a front and pretended that everything was fine. She eventually got to a breaking point, and after opening up to her husband was admitted to a postnatal depression ward in hospital the next day.

During her time in hospital she worked with an amazing psychiatrist who introduced her to mindfulness from a clinical perspective. Chelsea became curious about neuroplasticity, felt the benefits of meditation throughout her stay and when leaving the hospital, decided to study to become a clinical psychologist herself.

Now her life’s work is twofold: to bring awareness to postnatal depression as an ambassador for R U OK? and the Gidget Foundation and to share what she’s learned about mindfulness and its benefits in the corporate environment. She now spends part of her time helping people in big organisations like Ebay and Uber learn healthy coping tools under the umbrella of mindfulness. Her programs cover everything from self-care and productivity to gut health and meditation, all of it backed by science.

Chelsea’s life is full and mindful, and at the end of the podcast she shares some of the tools she uses to stay grounded and productive, while fiercely protecting her time as well as being selective about the people you spend your time with. There are some great tricks and tools here for anyone wanting to get better at saying no, like the 2am appointment time!

Head over to http://slowyourhome.com/213/ for all the links and resources mentioned, as well as the blog post.

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