Who is Elaine?
Elaine uses DISC Profiling alongside laboratory and online health assessments to find the root cause of your health challenge Multi award winning Best Health and Wellbeing Mentor 2022 – Business Excellence Awards Brainz Magazine Top 500 Global Award Winner 2022 in recognition of my "entrepreneurial success, achievements, and dedication to helping others".
Best Speech & Health Mentor of the Year 2022 (Nottinghamshire): Elaine Godley- European Business Awards (EU Business News)
Best Disc Profiling Therapy Company – Europe - European Business Awards (EU business news) See more at https://discplus.health
Key Takeaways
Who is Elaine Godley and what does she do? 0:21
The pressures of working in the legal field. 2:11
How did you become interested in nutrition? 3:47
How to be proactive about your health and wellness. 4:54
Looking at your behaviour and health. 6:28
Where to start with a cancer diagnosis? 8:23
Elaine’s journey from leading law firm to helping others. 9:37
How to get in touch with Elaine. 11:19
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Transcript
Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
behaviour, understand, behavioural, elaine, health, 12th, programme, burnout, disk, people, cancer, day, work, books, march, home, team members, show notes, lawyers, cancer diagnosis
SPEAKERS
Elaine Godley, Stuart Webb
Stuart Webb 00:21
Hi and welcome back to five questions over coffee. My apologies we're a little bit late starting this one that's due to my inability to understand my own computer. But that's behind us. I have today with me a really lovely guest. I'm really looking forward to this conversation. So Elaine Godley Elaine is a multi award winning health and wellbeing, mentor who uses disk as part of her part of a work if you know disk, you will understand how that how that works. She's really been transforming team effectiveness, health and wellbeing for professional service firms. And she is a multi award winner, including a brains magazine top global 500. Mentor, I'm really looking forward to this conversation. Welcome to the podcast, Elaine.
Elaine Godley 01:05
Thank you lucky to be here. Thank you for the invitation.
Stuart Webb 01:09
No problem. So let's start by trying to understand who it is your help what what are the what are the what are the people that you are looking to try and help with their health and well being problems?
Elaine Godley 01:21
Well, that's not doable in marketing terms. So I've narrowed it down to lawyers and accountants, in particular, because I know from firsthand how difficult it is, in the current environment, how stressful their environment is, any time of year, lawyers and accountants always have problems. So they are my total market these days, although I do help private individuals.
Stuart Webb 01:48
And of course, I think you were at one stage, somebody who understood the law by taking a law degree, didn't you? I didn't take a law degree. And Stuart, I took her I have a master's in I have an MBA in legal practice from Nottingham law school. And I have been chief executive of a few firms and organisations
Elaine Godley 02:08
both in in legal and accounting.
Stuart Webb 02:11
So you certainly understand the understand the pressures that the search people are under because of your background.
Elaine Godley 02:17
I do indeed. And it's 70 or so from the inside out. So I know how to speak legal and accounting speak, we say,
Stuart Webb 02:25
somebody needs to be able to speak legally. So tell me what are the sorts of problems you find that people that you help so top lawyers, top accountants have got and how they try to help themselves before they seek the sort of advice you give.
Elaine Godley 02:40
And a lot of them suffer with burnout and overwhelm. They're constantly told, Oh, we know, by their employers, we think the world of our team members, and we look after your view, this hack and that, but very often, they're not proactive, not proactively looking after their, their team members. And they'll provide methodologies that they don't score, you know, a foot rub or a gym membership or something like that. But that's kind of after the event, a lot of these people who are so dedicated to their work, they've got their head down the time their desk, they've just pressure upon pressure upon pressure, and they get the bond and their health coke goes. So my aspect these days is merging disc behavioural profiling. So the behaviour aspect with the psychology and the health results. So that's how I've ended up kind of blending the two together.
Stuart Webb 03:35
Can you describe that to us? What what is it you? What is it you do with disc that help people to understand that and now, have you applied that within your own within your life as well?
Elaine Godley 03:47
Well, I was, I was running. I was managing partner of a local London Authority, and suddenly years ago, and so I finished the project. And then the next day, I got the next month, rather, I got the breast cancer diagnosis. I've subsequently had more different versions of cancer, including stage four. So I learned in nutrition, diet, lifestyle, all that kind of stuff, in addition to using disk in and merging it in disk. Previously, I've used the disk model. So disclose. I'm aware it's a lot of behavioural profiling, if you're Personality Typing, it's not about people in boxes. It's about looking at what ageing characteristics are. So for example, people who run law firms and accounting firms are typically different behavioural types to those who are actually doing the work. And there's often a mismatch in communication. So I've used just in terms of helping the teams understand one another, helping the bosses understand the team members in every which way. And I've identified patterns. So when somebody is out of alignment, when they're just behavioural profile patterns for themselves at home, is out of alignment with how they're behaving in the workplace. That's a guarantee for health problems, though I can look at somebody's spiritual profile now, and I can tell you what the likelihood is of them being ill, or they're likely to deal with if reach burnout if they've exceeded burnout. And of course, I had the health strategies now to, I'm not just saying, oh, you know, this person doesn't look very well, or whatever. It's, it's an open for conversation. So it's not a medical diagnosis or anything fancy like that. But I've got the health strategies with my other aspects of training, where I can help people unravel if they have got difficulties. So it's about being proactive.
Stuart Webb 05:39
It's great, great line, is there any advice you can give the audience that, that that will help them to think about how they are proactive about their health and their well being, including understanding their own behaviour?
Elaine Godley 05:55
Well, first of all, looking at how different potentially their behaviour is at home from in the workplace, did they put on a suit or when some cases people put on a uniform, and they'd behave differently? They put on like a public mask. And a lot of people do this without even realising they're doing it. So think about what your behaviour is like at home, what your behaviour is, like, is it work? Are you building up stresses and strains at work, and then going home to the family or the kicking the dog or whatever you do? So look at how your behaviour potentially is changing? And are you asking yourself, are you an element? Ideally, to your view, are what you see is what you get? Very often, that's not what we say. So look at your own behaviour. Look at your health situation. Are you drinking too much? That's a typical one with lawyers in particular, particularly litigator so are you thinking too much? Are you eating rubbish food? Are you taking exercise? Are you moving at all? I use it as your school day. And are you suffering with migraines? Do you join steak? If you've just taken inventory of your of your body really? And the because the answers are all there in the body, the body knows the body will tell you when something's wrong, but very often we don't listen.
Stuart Webb 07:12
Absolutely, right. Absolutely right. I'm going to put a link down at the bottom of this page. So that you can see some information about where you can go and read more about Elaine and her fascinating history. So if you have a look at here, which is Elaine godley.com. That's Elaine godly e l a i n e godly g o d l ey.com. And if you go to this page about underscore us, you'll see some great information about Elaine and what she does and how she helps people. So Elaine, I hope you don't mind I shall put that into the show notes so that people can go and have a look into your website and learn a bit more about the sort of thing you do to help people. So Elaine, is there a particular you mentioned your your cancer diagnosis? Was there a particular book or course or programme that set you understanding how your health and well being could be affected by your the food and the things that you do and eat to help you overcome some of those troubles that you mentioned?
Elaine Godley 08:23
There are so many books is difficult to know where to start. When you're given a cancer diagnosis, it's It's scary. It's very scary, particularly when they say stage four, and you've got less than a year to live, which is what happened to me in 2015. I previously had to two versions, I had different types of breast cancer previously. So I'd already had any kind of what to do. I've, I support a number of different small charities, I don't support big charities, and then marketing budgets and fancy travel and whatnot. I believe in small charities, and there's one called cancer active.com. And that is an amazing resource. So rather than recommend a book, I'd recommend this resource because the creator of that site Chris woollens has written a number of books, or any number of his books will tell you what to do and how to get started in the cancer field. Obviously, contact me
Stuart Webb 09:23
contact that cancer active.
Elaine Godley 09:27
Yes, cancer active.com. And as I say, there's various there's research articles, there's books, there's all kinds of information on there, which is really really useful.
Stuart Webb 09:37
Terrific. I shall also make sure that goes into the show notes look like it's been really interesting hearing about your your journey from from leading law firms, accounting practices through to somebody who's now trying to help those people are doing exactly the same job. And there must be a question that's currently on your mind that I haven't yet actually asked you which you're itching for me to do. So I'm I'm gonna just now throw open to you. What is the question that I should have asked, which I haven't? And then obviously, once you've, you've made know what that question is, you'll need to answer it. Otherwise, we'll all be left hanging for forever.
Elaine Godley 10:12
Yeah, so I suppose the question might be, as you know, what do I do currently have I've merged with the disk and their behaviour together? How do I actually help people, and she's on Long live in golf, as you know, Stuart. So I've got a very nice lifestyle here. So I do everything I do online, which mate means that my support is cost effective. And you see, nobody needs to leave home. And I've got a number of training programmes that I'm in the process of creating, which aren't on any of the websites at the moment. But do contact me I've got a course coming up on the 12th of March, which is a 10 week programme, looking at all the areas is 10 areas that people get themselves into trouble with, and those 10 areas, and we will be going into deep dive discussions on a Sunday evening, starting from March the 12th. From six till 830. And that's fascinating, okay, and you can reverse Iran's illness or how you can avoid it.
Stuart Webb 11:19
I think we're gonna have to try and promote that one for your land, because it sounds like that sort of thing we know a number of people should be getting involved with. So that's the 12th of March. This point, if you're listening to this, after the 12th of March, obviously, you can have to catch up but the 12th of March 2023.
Elaine Godley 11:37
Yes, absolutely. So obviously, email me or LinkedIn lingo view on LinkedIn. And I can send
Stuart Webb 11:47
it once again. Oh, make sure that that that is in the show notes. So that's Elaine, Elaine godly.com. I think if I remember right, and your email address later, to Elaine, Elaine godly.com. So I should make sure that's in there. Elaine, thank you so much. Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. I appreciate you breaking away from the lovely life you've got there in Portugal and the dreadful the dreadful difficulty it must be to sort of tear yourself away from doing something fun. And come inside and speak to us on a call like this. Thank you ever so much. I'm really looking forward to seeing how you develop those those courses because I think that'd be a really great resource for us to all understand exactly how to do better with our mental and physical health to enjoy pushing forward. If you've managed to avoid I managed to survive Morula stage four cancer for more than a year. You've done remarkably well, haven't you? And I'm sure there are many doctors around the world who are still looking at you and wondering quite how they can copy everything you've been doing. So it'd been really great spending some time listening to you and talking to you about this. Thank you.
Elaine Godley 12:49
I did it in three months and that was eight years ago. Example.
Stuart Webb 12:55
It can be done. It can be done. encourage everybody to find out how by following what Elena is doing at Lane. godley.com. Lane, thank you so much for spending some time with us. I really appreciate it
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