On this episode, Kat is joined by Brett Callaghan, MD – South at Rubix, one of the largest suppliers of industrial products and services. Despite Rubrix’s strong people-first culture, Brett delves into the true responsibility for well-being and mental health. He also shares the one positive habit that has had the most incredible ripple effect on his marriage, relationship with his kids, as well as his work performance. KEY TAKEAWAYS Well-being and mental health awareness has come to the top of the agenda more and it’s something we need to get much better at. Since covid. People realised quite quickly how fragile we are – and the world is – and everybody took the opportunity to look inward a bit more. Our business has taken a lot of learnings from that situation, and there are a lot better working practices and more consideration of people’s mental health now too. The biggest negative impact in my life that I’ve only recognised recently, is my lack of appreciation of how sleep impacted my life. I’d stay up late to get a couple of hours of chillout time to scroll on my phone or watch TV rather than spending time with my family. I now don’t allow my mobile phone to send me notifications now and I’ll choose when I want to go to my phone. At 10 o'clock I settle down to go to sleep, going to sleep properly helps me with brain fog which I sometimes get and I notice I’m not myself now if I do stay up late for a couple of nights in a row. As you get more senior in an organisation you feel like you need to be seen and have the mentality that whatever needs to be done I’m going to deliver and you can certainly de-prioritise some of this stuff. I’ve certainly been a victim of that myself, it’s subconscious, you just go that way and a couple of bits will fall off as you go and it’ll continue to drift if you don’t stay on top of it. BEST MOMENTS “There seems to be two types of person: those who are willing to embrace positive change and accept help and those who feel they’ve already got a handle on it and aren’t willing to show that vulnerability.” “The people closest to you have the ability to influence you, even if you don’t take it so well in the first instance.” “It’s said that a habit sticks after 21 days, but in business it needs to be 12 months.” “We’ve seen our business in particular, but the world as well, improve so quickly in these areas, but there’s such a way to go.” ABOUT THE GUEST Brett Callaghan is as experienced Operational and Commercial leader with a demonstrated history of working in the mechanical and industrial engineering industry. Skilled in Branch Operation, Negotiation, Business Relationship Management, Operations Management, and Sales. Strong sales professional striving to go the extra mile every day. LinkedIn ABOUT THE HOST Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself. She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe. LinkedIn Instagram