We believe that this podcast interview deserves it's own space here in the blog section.

Scott Hewlett is a career firefighter in Ontario Canada.  He is a champion of wellbeing for 1st responders with a very holistic lens. 

He engages with trauma and tragedy as a vocation, but strives to live his life in a balanced way.

He invited Wendy to speak on the podcast he founded called Multiple Calls.  

Without any agenda to cover, Scott invites Wendy on a 2 hour journey through her past and shares openly things not often done publicly by Wendy.

If you are curious about who Wendy is and how Wellth Management came to be, this interview is one for the books. 

Click here to listen to Scott Hewletts interview with Wendy Lund

‘When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves’

Victor Frankl

Imagine for a moment that you are at work, in a meeting with your team and your direct report begins with 'today's meeting is to share with you some things that are going to need to change around here'. Reflexively what do you think and/or feel even reading that? Do you feel yourself get excited and eager to hear what's going to change or does your mind and body feel the weight of something heavy about to go down?

Change is often correlated to stress. Our brains are naturally wired to threat detect and rightly so. Our survival depends on it. Understanding the negative bias of the brain offers insight into how and why your mind works the way it does. While we cannot (nor should we) change our built in survival systems, emerging science tells us it's possible to train our minds to more skilfully engage experiences that light up our stress response. Is it possible to change how we se...

Trends are often nothing more than a preview of what's to come. The word trend is just a gentler way of saying change and our negativity bias in our brain can reflexively see change as stress. For the past 4 decades, we've seen a liberalized trend on our view of cannabis. This trend was a preview to the now current legislation in Canada. Now that Bill C-45 is law, how has this trend shown up for you or your organization and can you, to some degree, anticipate emerging trends that you can plan now as a way of building individual and organizational resiliency?

Workplaces all over Canada are now grappling with the impact Bill C-45 and in-house corporate lawyers may be feeling the stress of this recent change more than anyone else in their organization! Mindfulness techniques and practices can help you manage your own stress and even to make friends with trends that dramatically impact our work. Building awareness of your own beliefs and attitudes towards cannabis (or any other substan...

Uncorking a memory

Imagine you are sitting in a fine dining restaurant. You made reservations to eat there months ago and today is finally the day! You are greeted at your table by the house sommelier. You immediately feel like you are in good hands because this professional is here to guide you. You both take turns listening and asking questions about each other's history. They listen attentively, not evaluating or judging what you share, but with an open curiosity about what you know. More importantly, they are listening for gaps of knowledge or experience that might exist in your mind with respect to wine so that they can create a novel and rich new experience for you. This quality of communication between the sommelier and you is prerequisite for the quality of experience that happens next.

You too are mindfully listening to what they have to say, innately trusting that their history and experience will benefit your experience this evening. You let go of being expert from t...