TSL Lunch & Learn - Let's Talk: Business, beers, and breaking the stigma

It's about time we normalise conversations around mental health. Why is it considered taboo to speak about your mental health with friends, family, and colleagues, but it's ok to speak openly about being physically ill? Why do we shy away from having discussions about our mental health? Because after all, our mental and physical health is all a part of being HUMAN.

From conversation prompts on coasters to balcony beers to hypnotherapy, our panellists are experts in getting the conversation started. In this session, we'll talk about breaking the stigma around mental health and how you can help normalise these conversations.

• How to bring up mental health challenges in everyday conversations
• Checking in and looking out for others
• Impact literacy and awareness
• The importance of coaches, mentors, and experts

MEET OUR PANELLISTS

Julie Demsey, Mindset Coach | Clinical Hypnotherapist | Startup Advisor, juliedemsey.com
Julie is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, transformational coach and business leader who has spent her career helping individuals and organizations grow and thrive. She understands firsthand the challenges faced by both entrepreneurs and corporations, having come to Australia from the Silicon Valley where she held leadership positions with various large companies and startups. Her unique combination of skills has made Julie a sought after speaker, facilitator, mentor and adviser for the Australian business community. Julie is passionate about working with people, groups and organisations to adapt their mindset for greater personal satisfaction and professional success.

Josh Reid Jones, Founder, Just Be Nice Project
Founder of the Just Be Nice Project, Josh is an accomplished entrepreneur, innovator, speaker, and educator. Driven by a desire to ‘create extraordinary positive change in the world by helping people make ordinary positive change’, Josh works extensively with organisations, communities, and individuals to help people, help people. An expert on creating pathways to housing, employment, and good mental health; assessing, utilising and improving community and peer support is a key part of Josh’s work. Josh educates and empowers people to utilise their talents to have meaningful impact while improving impact literacy and challenging them to be better.

Trevor Lowder, Founder & Director, Craft Beer Coopery
Trevor is the founder of the Craft Beer Coopery, a social enterprise based startup that revolves around bringing mates together to tackle mental health issues, that way too many Aussies experience - which he is no stranger to himself. Over the past 3 ½ years they have delivered 44 different conversation crates and lubricating almost 10,00 life-changing conversations, but his story starts much earlier than that.  

Moderator: Anita Baccam, Head of Events, Tank Stream Labs
With over 12 years’ of events experience, Anita has predominately worked within the financial services, tech, and startups spaces. She is currently the Head of Events at tech-focused co-working space, Tank Stream Labs, and launched anitaplanner, an event consultancy business in May 2019. She is passionate about supporting the growth of the startup and tech communities through leading event management and delivering strategic and innovative events. 

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