The Mental Health Advantage
The Mental Health Advantage
Podcast Description
Welcome to The Mental Health Advantage—the podcast dedicated to transforming workplace mental health from reactive to proactive! I’m Stephen Sokoler, founder of Journey and author of The Mental Health Advantage.
Building on insights from my book, this podcast dives deeper into proactive mental health care in the workplace—something I know so many of you are passionate about. Each episode, I sit down with top HR leaders, mental health experts, and industry innovators to explore how organizations can move beyond crisis management and build cultures that truly support well-being, engagement, and performance.
We’ll break down the most pressing challenges, share actionable strategies, and highlight real-world success stories from companies leading the way. Our conversations are designed to be engaging, insightful, and practical—so whether you’re a benefits leader, HR executive, or a business owner looking to drive meaningful change, you’ll find something valuable here.
Episodes are about 30 minutes long and released bi-weekly, so be sure to subscribe and follow on your favorite podcast platform. Let’s redefine workplace mental health—together.
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The podcast focuses on proactive mental health care in the workplace, covering topics like adding mental health support for families, creating people-first cultures, and scaling mindfulness programs. Episodes include discussions on US Foods' innovative approach to family mental health support, Claude Silver's strategies for inclusivity at VaynerMedia, and Google's gPause program for fostering resilience.
Welcome to The Mental Health Advantage—the podcast dedicated to transforming workplace mental health from reactive to proactive! I’m Stephen Sokoler, founder of Journey and author of The Mental Health Advantage.
Building on insights from my book, this podcast dives deeper into proactive mental health care in the workplace—something I know so many of you are passionate about. Each episode, I sit down with top HR leaders, mental health experts, and industry innovators to explore how organizations can move beyond crisis management and build cultures that truly support well-being, engagement, and performance.
We’ll break down the most pressing challenges, share actionable strategies, and highlight real-world success stories from companies leading the way. Our conversations are designed to be engaging, insightful, and practical—so whether you’re a benefits leader, HR executive, or a business owner looking to drive meaningful change, you’ll find something valuable here.
Episodes are about 30 minutes long and released bi-weekly, so be sure to subscribe and follow on your favorite podcast platform. Let’s redefine workplace mental health—together.
In this episode of The Mental Health Advantage, Stephen Sokoler, Founder & CEO of Journey, sits down with Laura Butler, Chief People Officer at TTEC.
TTEC operates at global scale – with thousands of employees working in dynamic, high-demand environments. To better understand what truly drives stress, burnout, and attrition, TTEC developed a proprietary Job Complexity & Stress Index: a structured way to evaluate how elements of work, from job security and scheduling stability to customer sentiment, KPIs, and compliance risk, combine to increase pressure and predict turnover.
Rather than treating burnout as an individual resilience issue, the Index reframes stress as a system-level signal – one that can be measured, managed, and redesigned.
Together, Stephen and Laura explore:
- What actually makes a job “high complexity”
- Why stress correlates so strongly with attrition
- How organizations can redesign roles before burnout escalates
- And how proactive mental health strategy must go beyond benefits to address the structure of work itself
This conversation moves mental health upstream – from reactive care to operational design.
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