Mood and Stress Expert Erika Ferszt on ”Using Your Brain to Prevent Workplace Burnout”

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast, for episode #198 with mood and stress expert, Erika Ferszt, who was a senior creative executive for over 20 years and for 10 of those years, led all of the advertising, media and digital efforts for Ray Ban. She must have made such an impact with her work that the Ray-Ban Erika’s were named after her!</p> <p>Watch our interview on YouTube here <a href='https://youtu.be/y-vFVaiBPrw'>https://youtu.be/y-vFVaiBPrw</a></p> <p>On this episode you will learn:</p> <p>✔︎ The signs and symptoms of work burnout that led Erika to leave a job she loved and create an app to help reduce workplace stress.</p> <p>✔︎ How her health scare led her to pursue 2 years of Postgraduate studies in neuroscience.</p> <p>✔︎ How someone without a science background can understand and teach neuroscience in a way that it's simple and easy to use.</p> <p>✔︎ What she offers at Moodally.com for corporate executives.</p> <p>✔︎ How a stress management program like her app can help improve self-efficacy, so we can better manage our daily stress.</p> <p></p> <p>In 2015 she suffered a burnout episode and was hospitalized for 10 days with stress-related vision loss, and through this experience, went back to school to study the relationship between stress, the brain and the mind and founded her company Moodally.com as a result.</p> <p> </p> <p>If you’ve been following our podcast, you will see clearly why I have asked Erika to join us today, for season 7 of this podcast where we are focused on brain health and well-being. Welcome back.  I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies that we can use to improve our productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. My vision is to bring the experts to you, share their books, resources, and ideas to help you to implement their