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It's time to ignite the spark of inclusion with Inclusion Bites. And today is episode 112 with the title dancing with vitality. And I have the absolute honor and privilege to welcome Celynn Morin. Celynn is an holistic well-being advocate for the workplace. That's easy for me to say. And when I asked Celynn to describe her superpower, she said that she helps enrich the quality of people's lives through holistic and practical workplace based well-being training and inspiration. Hello, Celynn. Welcome to the show.

Hi, Joanne, and to all the listeners. It's really, really a pleasure to be here.

Fabulous. I struggled a bit with the intro there. I don't know what my brain's doing today, but anyway, it's great to have you here. So Celynn, Dancing with Vitality, tell us a bit about your mission and where you've come from.

Well, I guess I can tie that into the introduction because, like, you've just authentically shared, how we are is how we are regardless of where we are. So our mental health or how we're thinking and processing things, some days we can have lots of energy, some days not. And in the past, it's almost like we expected the workplace to be purely professional, and anything that was happening in our personal space wasn't there. But, of course, we know that that's changed. And with the pandemic and developments in workplace well-being and the trends around stress and burnout, it's really wonderful to see how now everyone understands how important it is to look at holistic well-being, even if it is a mouthful. So I always knew I wanted to be a healer of some kind. I thought I wanted to be a doctor or a pharmacist. But when I was looking into what I could study, I discovered something called dietetics, which was a degree with doctors and other health practitioners that focused on food and nutrition.

And I thought, you know what? My love of food because of being French, so my entire family are French. I was born in South Africa because my parents went there, and they ended up spending 53 years there. They're now back in France. But the idea of linking food and nutrition to health and well-being and vitality, I just knew that was what I wanted to do, so I studied to be a dietitian. And after 5 years in clinical practice, I had an opportunity to work with a workplace insurer, and that was way back in 2006 where I started doing workplace well-being initiatives. And so my ideal day is when I'm with a group of leaders or any high performing team and speaking about how they can better manage stress, increase resilience, manage their head, heart, and gut so that they they do enrich the quality of their lives.

That's fascinating. I I think you need you need to expand a bit more how your diet can impact your overall well-being, but not only that, but also your stress levels. I'm really intrigued to find out about how this this link between intake of food and stress. How how does that play out? Tell me more.