Episode 77

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25th Jul 2024

Aurora Founder's Story: Meet Ngozi Weller

This episode discusses sensitive topics, including mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts. Listener discretion is advised. If you or someone you know is struggling, please seek help from a mental health professional or contact a local support service.

Welcome back Rebels!

It’s Ngozi here, and this episode The Wellbeing Rebellion is a special one. For the first time, I’m taking a step back from our usual discussions on workplace well-being to introduce myself and my journey to you.

I’ll share the deeply personal and candid story of how I came to co-create Aurora with Obehi, and why our mission to promote mental health in the workplace is so close to my heart.

Expect a raw and vulnerable dive into my experiences with mental health challenges and why I am driven to ensure everyone can have fulfilling and healthy work environments.

Join me in this unusual episode as I open up about my past, my aspirations, and the transformative experiences that shape my advocacy today.

Highlights:

(7:42) Racial diversity in the workplace, personal growth, and career stagnation

(15:31) Workplace promotion and diversity

(23:03) Mental health struggles and suicidal ideation

(31:30) Burnout, career change, and personal growth

(39:51) Preventing burnout and mental health support in the workplace

(47:03) Transforming workplaces for positive mental health

Connect with us here:

Website: https://aurorawellnessgroup.co.uk/

Ngozi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngozi-weller-aurora/

Obehi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obehi-alofoje-psychologist-aurora/

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About the Podcast

The Wellbeing Rebellion
Welcome to The Wellbeing Rebellion, an award-winning podcast.

We’re Ngozi Weller and Obehi Alofoje, Directors at Aurora — a leadership and organisational effectiveness consultancy.

This podcast explores how the way organisations are led shapes performance, trust, wellbeing and culture over time.

The challenge with many approaches to wellbeing and culture is that they place responsibility on individuals to cope, rather than examining the leadership decisions, behaviours and systems that create the conditions people are working within.

This is where the conversation needs to shift.

On The Wellbeing Rebellion, we explore leadership behaviour, organisational systems and decision-making under pressure through honest conversations with senior leaders and advisors navigating real organisational complexity.

Some episodes are just us. Others bring in leaders and experts reflecting candidly on what works, what doesn’t, and what leadership requires in practice.

If you’re responsible for people, culture or organisational performance — and want to think more critically about how leadership shapes outcomes — this podcast is for you.

About your hosts

Obehi Alofoje

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Obehi is a psychologist and culture change consultant who helps senior HR and business leaders reduce employee burnout, absenteeism & talent attrition through mental wellbeing strategy, training & coaching.

Ngozi Weller

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Ngozi Weller is a culture change consultant and an ICF accredited coach who helps build resilience into your business by creating psychologically safe workplaces that enable employees to thrive.