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A Brave New Podcast


May 12, 2021

Polly Yakovich is Co-founder and Chief Strategist at A Brave New, a Seattle digital marketing agency focused on helping businesses accelerate their growth through inbound marketing, branding, and web design. She specializes in working with clients to identify barriers to their growth and overcoming them with strategic content and marketing tactics. She has more than fifteen years of experience in digital marketing and branding.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

  • How work-from-home has permanently changed how we see the workplace, and how the pandemic has dramatically impacted our collective mental health over the last year
  • How author Adam Grant wrote a New York Times article about why "languishing", a sense of stagnation and emptiness, may be the dominant emotion of 2021
  • How a number of intersecting factors have created a perfect storm in our present mental health crisis, and what important lessons we can learn from pandemic life
  • How "flow" is the antidote to the feeling of languishing, and why focusing on the moment and achieving and recognizing small wins is crucial
  • How the A Brave New team starts their meetings with an "emotions wheel" that allows team members to vocalize what they're feeling in the moment
  • How the pandemic has created a universal experience, teaching many of us that talking about mental health and expressing vulnerability is okay
  • Why leaders need to express support and ensure that their team members are taking advantage of PTO and of the mental health resources available to them
  • How the concept of "positive regard" works, and how this key value empowers the A Brave New team to support each other through the challenges we all face
  • How the meditative practice of mindfulness can help us avoid burnout and help us be more present in the moment

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