S5: Ep8 Peter Magnani - Stress

This week on The Mojo Podcast we land on a subject which is likely to effect us all at some point, to some degree. We’re talking about stress and specifically the stress that can come from working your way to the top of your game or profession and then the ongoing battle to stay there.

Our conversation centres around my old industry - advertising and media. A dynamic, fast paced & intense business which I found mostly fun & enjoyable but looking back I know I was in a stressed state for more time than is probably healthy.
You may have seen the brilliant dramatisation of 1960s era advertising set in New York with Don Draper as the charismatic chauvinistic brilliant and flawed lead character - well today we dip into the other reason Mad Men maybe gets its title.

I’m joined by Peter Magnani - Peter was my very first boss in advertising - and I have to say with all honesty - he helped guide me and mentor me for those key early years of anyones career. We then worked in different and competitive agencies - always in touch but not close enough for me to know what he was experiencing
Very candidly Peter shares his mojo story - of great success and peak moments, and of the grind and sacrifice which characterise many careers. You’ll hear that when he should have been celebrating his greatest business triumph he was actually in the midst of a profound stress-induced episode.

Peter decided to make a profound change his life and founded Beam in 2019, developed on the twin foundational pillars of “open data for good” and ‘helping people to help themselves” by empowering them to better manage everyday micro-stressors and prevent them building up into anxiety or depression.

Prior to launching Beam, Peter worked in the advertising and media industry at Interpublic and Omnicom across brands such as Apple, Google, and Vodafone. As with many others around the world he has in the past struggled with stress and three years ago decided to apply his knowledge of behavioural analytics, insight, and technology to developing a data-led, self-management tool that was accessible and affordable for individuals and businesses

Available for free currently, Beam allows every person suffering stress to intervene on their own behalf. It helps people join the dots making life less complex and more manageable by helping people discover the “stories in their data”.

You can download the BEAM app to take a look by clicking this link: https://www.beamandme.com/get-beam/
or go to the website: https://www.beamandme.com/
and can view a short explainer video at: https://vimeo.com/537442811 for more information

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Hope you love it
Richard 🦋

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