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Follow: Ford Hastings - www.fordhastings.com FH LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/company/ford-hastings/ Joe Thomsett LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/joethomsett/ Joe Thomsett Twitter - @joethomsett Will Hastings LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/will-hastings-7814abb1/ ----- Katie Maycock ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-maycock-901a6430/ ) spent the first eighteen years of her life living with anxiety. She called it various things such as eating disorders, personality traits, digestive issues, fear, and/or life. Not once did she acknowledge she was stressed or might have anxiety; having spent her early twenties working in corporate sales as a Type A individual that couldn’t get enough of the fast pace industry she worked in. At 25, everything changed. Going from being super productive and an efficient machine, functioning with only 5 – 6 hours of sleep a night, exercising six days a week and routinely working twelve plus hours, to not being able to get out of bed. Katie spent the next few years developing and refining techniques to help break the cycle of stress and anxiety. She created practical tools that, to this day, help keep stress and anxiety to a minimum. In her words she finally Got Her Sh*t Together. Now her goal is to give back. In this Episode, we cover: - The difference between stress and anxiety - The link between the gut and the brain - Foods to cut out and include for good gut health - On the importance of sleep - Practical tools to combat stress and anxiety - morning routines, meditation, free writing, reading - How to deal with successes and failures - On short and long term goal setting and much more! Listening to Katie and her journey will give you practical tools to combat stress and anxiety. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! ----- This episode is brought to you by Ford Hastings - fordhastings.com - , a board level search firm for startups, scale-ups and SME's. Ford Hastings have for over 20 years sourced C-Suite professionals and Non-Executive Directors on behalf of SME's, VC Funds and PE houses. As a listener of this episode, you can get up to £2,000 off a board search by quoting 'Podcast-Maycock' when enquiring.