UWR 003 – How stress affects the bottom line – with Karrie Brazaski

Annette:           Hi, everyone. Welcome to Uncover Wealth Radio, episode 3. I am Annette Ferguson, the CEO of Annette and Co. I help online service entrepreneurs find the clarity in their numbers, increase their wealth, and have more money in their pockets. In today’s episode, I’m speaking to Karrie Brazaski, and we are speaking about stress.                         Karrie is the owner of Karrie Brazaski Coaching, and she’s a registered nurse, stress reduction specialist, a certified transformational nutritional coach, and a certified yoga teacher. She is passionate about sharing the gifts of stress reduction and wellness with others. She insists self-care is imperative and not a luxury. Karrie helps busy professionals tame the chaos and stress in their lives so they can avoid burnout, find their energy, and love their life.                         She is blessed to be a mom to her twelve-year-old son, and a wife of 21 years to the love of her life. When she’s not helping clients, she loves hanging out with her guys and playing in the kitchen, creating new recipes. So let’s dive into today’s episode.                         Today I have the massive pleasure of speaking to Karrie. Karrie helps organisations realise that stress and burnout can erode their bottom line, and it’s so important to her CEOs to take care of ourselves and our team. It’s not just a luxury. It’s a massive, massive necessity in our businesses. Not only does it impact the individuals, it actually impacts the bottom line at the same time.                         Karrie, thank you so much for joining me today. Karrie:              Thank you. I’m so happy to be here. Annette:           Awesome. So, why don’t we start by speaking about what is causing this stress to the CEOs, and the stress to the team as well? Karrie:              Well, there’s lots of different things that are kind of going into stress. Overall, people are feeling more stressed out now than what they have in the past. There’s a bunch of different polls and research out there that are showing that. What’s happening is… what I’m finding, even with the individual business owners, it’s the stress of being ultimately responsible for everything, the inability to delegate well, as well as not taking care of ourselves.                         We have for so long, and I...