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When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport

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When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport is a podcast exploring the intersection of leadership, organizational culture, and human wellbeing. Hosted through the lens of positive psychology, executive coaching, and systems thinking, each episode unpacks how leaders, teams, and communities can move beyond individual self-care to create cultures of connection, resilience, psychological safety, and sustainable performance. Through real conversations, practical strategies, and research-backed insights, the podcast invites listeners to rethink wellbeing as a shared responsibility and a strategic advantage

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  • 6 episodes
  • monthly
  • Avg 16 min
  • English

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  • #5
    August 24 · 16 min

    Awareness at Work: Building Wellbeing Through Strengths and Purpose

    Burnout is not always caused by having too much to do. Sometimes, it comes from working against your natural strengths. In this episode of When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport, Kristen explores how awareness, character strengths, and purpose can support sustainable wellbeing at work. She shares practical ideas from positive psychology, including VIA Character Strengths, strength spotting, the SOAR framework, and Ikigai. You will learn how leaders can help people recognize what they do well, connect their work to a deeper purpose, and build teams where everyone understands how they contribute and why it matters. Timestamps: 00:00 Awareness, strengths, and sustainable well-being 00:59 How working against your strengths contributes to burnout 02:17 Awareness as the foundation of emotional intelligence 03:10 Mindfulness as attentional clarity 04:18 VIA character strengths and positive psychology 06:33 The underuse and overuse of your strengths 08:18 How to recognize and affirm strengths in others 09:25 Building a sense of mattering within your team 10:48 Replacing SWOT analysis with the SOAR framework 12:38 Using Ikigai to identify your purpose 14:19 How leaders create shared awareness at work 15:25 Reflection: Where are you most aligned?

  • #4
    August 3 · 19 min

    Why Connection at Work Is a Leadership Advantage

    What if stronger performance at work starts with stronger connection? In this episode of When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport, Kristen Lessig-Schenerlein explores why meaningful workplace relationships are not just a nice bonus, but an essential resource for wellbeing, resilience, and high-performing teams. She breaks down the difference between simply interacting and truly connecting, why Slack messages and team-building activities are not enough, and how small moments of presence can build trust and belonging. Drawing on research around high-quality connections, psychological safety, and workplace wellbeing, Kristen shares practical ways leaders can create a culture where people feel seen, supported, and connected. Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome to When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport 01:10 - Why Connection Is a Leadership Advantage 03:06 - Workplace Isolation and the Need for Connection 05:22 - How Connection Helps Teams Handle Stress 06:23 - Why Slack and "Mandatory Fun" Aren't Enough 09:23 - The Power of Small, High-Quality Connections 11:24 - Psychological Safety and High-Performing Teams 12:58 - Practical Ways Leaders Can Build Connection 16:24 - Why No One Runs the Race Alone

  • #3
    July 13 · 18 min

    How Leaders Can Use Opportunities-Thinking to Reduce Burnout

    In this episode of When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport, we explore how leaders and teams can move from constant problem-solving and burnout risk into opportunities thinking. Building on the Co-Care Framework, Kristen explains why workplace wellbeing is not just about rest, resilience, or individual self-care. It is also about creating forward motion, strengthening team culture, and helping people see multiple pathways of possibilities through challenges. You will hear practical ways to reframe obstacles, activate hope, build psychological capital, and invite team members into shaping what comes next. If your team feels stuck, stretched, or stuck in firefighter mode, this conversation offers a grounded way to shift from “what is going wrong?” to “what else is possible?” Timestamps: 00:00 Introducing opportunities thinking 00:59 Burnout is a gradual process 03:11 Wellbeing includes forward motion 04:34 Opportunities thinking is not toxic positivity 06:50 Hope as a skill 09:29 Redesigning through challenges 12:26 The role of mattering 15:40 Finding one pathway forward

  • #2
    July 1 · 19 min

    Leaders Care, So Why Are Teams Still Burning Out?

    Most leaders genuinely care about their teams, so why are so many people still feeling stretched thin, stressed, and on the path to burnout? In this episode of When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport, Kristen Lessig-Schenerlein explores the gap between good intentions and the systems that actually shape workplace wellbeing. She shares why care cannot just live in values statements, wellness apps, or one-off initiatives. It has to be built into team norms, expectations, resources, and everyday agreements. Through the Co-Care® Framework, Kristen offers a practical way to make wellbeing a shared responsibility, helping teams move from silent needs and chronic stress toward healthier systems, better conversations, and more sustainable work. Timestamps: 00:00 Why caring leaders still see teams burning out 02:17 How team norms, routines, and expectations shape wellbeing 05:00 Why burnout is not just a personal resilience problem 07:10 Co-creation as shared design, voice, and responsibility 10:29 Defining psychological safety through listening, respect, and open-mindedness 13:26 Why wellbeing scales through better agreements, not more wellness apps 17:22 Making wellbeing part of everyday work, not another initiative

  • #1
    June 8 · 25 min

    From Self-Care to Co-Care: Why Strategic Wellbeing Is the Leadership Advantage of the Whitewater World of Work

    In the premiere episode of When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport, Kristen Lessig-Schenerlein explores why traditional approaches to wellbeing are falling short in today's fast-paced, ever-changing world of work. Drawing on research, real-world stories, and the Co-Care® framework, she reveals how wellbeing is shaped not only by individual resilience but also by the environments and relationships that surround us. Listeners will discover why sustainable performance depends on shared responsibility, intentional support systems, and cultures where people feel valued and matter. If you're ready to move beyond self-care and rethink wellbeing as a strategic advantage, this episode is your starting point.

  • June 8 · 1 min

    Introducing When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport

    When Wellbeing Becomes a Team Sport is a podcast exploring the intersection of leadership, organizational culture, and human wellbeing. Hosted through the lens of positive psychology, executive coaching, and systems thinking, each episode unpacks how leaders, teams, and communities can move beyond individual self-care to create cultures of connection, resilience, psychological safety, and sustainable performance. Through real conversations, practical strategies, and research-backed insights, the podcast invites listeners to rethink wellbeing as a shared responsibility and a strategic advantage

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