Dr. Dhru welcomes Dr. Dorothy A. Martin-Neville onto the podcast to discuss leadership, development, and personal growth. The focus of their discussion is on stress management and how stress impacts our physical, mental, and emotional health. Dr. Dorothy’s unique experience in health and wellness brings inspiring insights into how we can change our mindsets, embrace our lives, and find joy in the ordinary. Dr. Dorothy shares how stress is directly related to our susceptibility to disease, illness, and physical health. By sharing anecdotes of memorable patients and clients, Dr. Dorothy paints a picture of what can be possible when we give ourselves the opportunity to get in touch with our desires and pursue what really matters to us rather than pushing through the stress. Taking care of our mental health enables us to create better relationships with our families and employees. She encourages leaders to embrace their inner knowing and express their leadership as an authentic expression of who they are rather than a job to be done.About Dr. Dorothy A. Martin-NevilleHaving formed five companies of her own and supported 1,000s expand, change, or begin their own organizations as well as supported senior executives’ transition while transforming their careers and lives, Dorothy clearly sees through the stories and masks to what is really needed, wanted, and dreamed of. The bottom line of effective leadership begins with purpose, passion, and power. Is it time to claim yours?--Contact Dhru Beeharilal | Nayan Leadership: Website: NayanLeadership.comLinkedIn: DhruBeeFacebook: NayanLeadershipYouTude: DhruBeeContact Dr. Dorothy A. Martin-Neville | Ask Dr. Dorothy: Website: AskDrDorothy.comFacebook: AskDorothyLinkedin: DorothyMartinNevilleVimeo: DrDorothyYouTube: DrDorothyCT–TranscriptDhru 00:00Hey, everybody, this is Dr. Drew Bee. And I'm here to welcome you to my podcast Ikigai Leadership. We're gonna be talking to leaders in all different industries from all different backgrounds and demographics from all over the world. And we'll be discussing topics like leadership development, culture, DEI, content creation and marketing, and all things business and entrepreneurship. Everybody welcome back to another edition of Ikigai Leadership. My name is Dhru Beeharilal, and I'm here today with Dr. Dorothy A Martin Neville. Thanks so much for joining me today, I really appreciate it. It's an honor to have you here and talk to you about the work you do because you're also a business and executive coach. But your approach is a little bit different from most. So do you want to say a little more about that and who you are.Dorothy 00:47Because I spent 20-something years as a psychotherapist, in private practice, as well as being a pioneer in integrative health care here in the United States. What I do is combine the depth of knowledge I have around health and psychology and how leadership is impacted by their belief systems by how they hold their stress by their understanding of leadership, their understanding of who they are theoretically supposed to be. And when you move into levels of self-betrayal or levels of confusion, you may be in transition, where am I going? What am I going to do? And as a leader, you can create all kinds of illusions about what you should be doing and where you should go and all of this. And that ends up not only impacting the effectiveness of your leadership, it impacts your health emotionally, spiritually and physically, so that you don't get to bring the best of you to the table. Yeah.Dhru 01:45Yea, and I think that last part is the part people don't necessarily connect the dots on, right, that affects your physical health, we tend to prioritize physical health over other types of health, which is interesting in our society. You know, I think now it's kind of coming around a little more where mental health is becoming more of a focus. But frankly, it's become an excuse and a lot of the time sometimes, because how do you measure mental health? Right? There's no like, objective way to measure mental health and in terms of like being like, Oh, you're even pain, right? Because it's your pain? Is it a five? Well, hers is a five, two, but you guys might have different thresholds for pain. And how do you how do you talk to people with the with that kind of feeling about that?Dorothy 02:21For me, what I look at is, what's your functionality? If you're emotionally healthy in and we all have stuff, I don't care who we are, we all have stuff, you know that stuff to the day we pass. However, for some of us, we are working so hard not to see our stuff, that we spend our days pushing through it, thinking we are functioning well. And yet, when you're working with people, they can see how quickly you go into defense, how quickly you go into rage or push and will and in or collapse. And although you think it's not impacting you, it's having a huge impact. So to me, when I see somebody emotionally healthy...
