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

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—why we are all constantly stressed out and what we can do in our day-to-day lives to help alleviate some of it. 

Heidi is a New York Times best selling author, chief energy officer and founder of SYNERGY—a 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—just standard stuff, really. Oh, and she’s also the executive direct of the American Institute of Stress.

So she’s fairly qualified. This is really a fantastic episode for any entrepreneur. If you’ve ever felt like you’re “burning the candle at both ends,” there will be some great insights here for you—I had some big “a-ha” moments in this episode, myself. We’re going to talk about why everyone needs to make an effort to relax and what it means to truly relax. On the flipside, we’ll also talk about how stress can be a positive thing.

In this episode, Heidi and I discuss: 

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