Podcast appearances and mentions of jan bruce

This podcast interview focuses on what it takes to build a successful software company by following your convictions even when easier paths tempt you. My guest is Jan Bruce, CEO of meQuilibrium (MeQ). In 2011, after years in the media industry during its technological disruption, Jan witnessed firsthand how stress and resistance to change were devastating careers and organizations. Despite having no background in technology or clinical work, she made the bold decision to create a software solution when she barely understood what a software application was.  For the first five years, she and her team worked for almost nothing, deliberately avoiding the tempting direct-to-consumer route that was attracting massive funding for competitors, instead patiently building a B2B model that would prove more sustainable long-term. And this inspired me, and hence I invited Jan to my podcast. We explore the counterintuitive leadership decisions that led to her company's success while competitors faltered. Her approach challenges conventional wisdom in three critical areas:  avoiding the "capital trap" of raising too much money too early,  resisting the temptation to pursue direct-to-consumer strategies despite industry hype,  and having the patience to discover your true value proposition through customer insights rather than preconceived notions.  Jan's leadership journey reveals that sometimes the most profitable path is the one where you say "no" to what everyone else is saying "yes" to. Here is a quote that captures one of Jan's most striking business lessons: "There was a time when there were a lot of we had potential competitors entering in the direct to consumer space, and they were raising a lot of money, which, as you know, from a tech perspective, capital can deliver speed to build. And so there's always that temptation to, well, should we do it to get the money? But we didn't do it, and it was the right thing to do." By listening to this podcast you will learn: How to achieve "funding freedom" by bootstrapping until investors need you more than you need them Why saying "no" to popular market trends can create a sustainable competitive advantage How to discover your true value proposition by listening to customers rather than industry hype The leadership mindset required to build a profitable software company when you have no technology background For more information about the guest from this week:  Guest: Jan Bruce  Website: meQuilibrium.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New research reveals managers are facing unprecedented levels of stress and burnout. MeQ co-founder Jan Bruce joins us to unpack data about manager wellbeing and shares practical strategies for building resilience in leadership roles. Discover why supporting your managers might be the most important investment your organization isn't making. Follow The Made Leader for more leadership insights and strategies. For the links mentioned, visit: https://growthsignals.co/  

Getting team alignment is crucial to the success of any organization, particularly in the face of change. As organizations experience change, it is essential to have a cohesive team that can adapt and work collaboratively towards shared goals. Today's guest is Janesse Bruce, Founder, and CEO at meQuilibrium. Inc Magazine ranked her company #2813 on the 2022 Inc 5000 list. meQuilibrium (meQ) is the #1 global digital resilience solution to build workforce well-being and performance. Their mission is to make any workforce a workforce for growth. In this episode, Jan talks about getting team alignment in the face of change. She also talks about resilience and over-communicating. Join us as we explore different approaches to getting team alignment, including communication strategies, creating shared vision and values, and team-building exercises. Tune in to discover the secrets of getting team alignment and build a strong foundation for your team's success.   Get the show notes for Getting Team Alignment in the Face of Change with Jan Bruce at meQuilibrium Click to Tweet: Listening to a fantastic episode on Growth Think Tank with #JanBruce featuring your host @GeneHammett https://bit.ly/gttJanBruce   #GettingTeamAlignment #GeneHammettPodcast #GHepisode989 #meQ #digitalresilience   Give Growth Think Tank a review on iTunes!

Mental health challenges, stress, and burnout are at an all-time high in the workplace. The need is now greater than ever before to  help organizations promote resilience skills as a part of their culture to have a positive impact on employees and equip them to thrive, preventing and mitigating burnout, and lessening turnover.   Join Marjorie Morrison and Patrick J. Kennedy for an in-depth discussion with Jan Bruce, the CEO of meQuilibrium, the first holistic cognitive platform built for organizations as they navigate the need for a more innovative and agile workforce. In this episode, they discuss ways to help people improve their own mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.   If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to follow or subscribe wherever you are listening, and share the show with your colleagues and friends. You can also subscribe to our YouTube Channel here, https://www.youtube.com/c/PsychHub.   Future Of Mental Health is a Psych Hub Podcast and is for educational purposes only. Visit https://psychhub.com to dig deeper and access the world's most comprehensive platform for behavioral health education.   Follow us on Social Media Twitter: https://twitter.com/FOMHshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychhubeducation YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PsychHub

On today's episode of the RecruitingDaily Podcast, William Tincup speaks with guests Jan Bruce and Brad Smith of meQuilibrium about employee wellbeing.Jan and Brad are in the virtual studio today to discuss data focused around current threats to employee wellbeing.  They are observing an upward trend over the past 18 or 19 months in stress, burnout, and work life imbalance due to the pandemic.All of these things certainly have a cumulative effect on employee wellbeing.meQuilibrium is an HR SaaS digital platform, built to help employers and workforces deal with the challenges of work and life. These challenges can include stress, burnout and mental health as well as purpose and personal wellbeing. People access the program through a personalized app that acts like a personalized coach for each individual.Our employee wellbeing experts discuss:We discuss their tools to help predict or identify levels of burnout across an entire organization.How the cycle begins with stress, moves to burnout and ends with employees leaving.Perceived support is shown to have a powerful, protective impact on wellbeing.Tune in for the conversation.What's next for many of us is changing. Your company's ability to hire great talent is as important as ever – so you'll be ready for whatever's ahead. Whether you need to scale your team quickly or improve your hiring process, Greenhouse gives you the right technology, know-how and support to take on what's next.

There's nothing like a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic to instill stress, uncertainty, and fear into people's lives. And that includes your employees. Jan Bruce is out to change that. She's CEO of meQuilibrium. Based in Boston, meQuilibrium gives your employees online stress management solutions & measurements. Which has a major impact on your business. Previously, she was Managing Director & Publisher at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. And she's onto something big. Her backers include Chrysalis Ventures, HLM Venture Partners, Safeguard Scientifics, Crimson Seed Capital, Eastward Capital Partners. In this 20-minute conversation, Jan reveals what this past year has taught us about mental health & how she's putting a Rockstar in every seat of her company.

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As organizations regain their footing from the COVID-19 pandemic, employees’ emotional wellbeing has become a focal point. meQuilibrium’s Jan Bruce talks with Willis Towers Watson’s Steve Blumenfield, Suzanne McAndrew and Julie Stone about the value of resilience in a time of uncertainty and the importance of helping employees cope with their stress and get control of their lives to be more successful — both at work and at home.

“Stress is the new fat. It makes us sick, depletes us emotionally, and diminishes our quality of life.” ~ Jan Bruce, co-author of meQuilibrium Just like managing weight, managing stress is about becoming aware of personal choices and making better ones, and rewiring thought patterns so that an individual’s habits sustain well-being rather than sabotage […] For additional content and links, visit http://www.EngagingLeader.com

“Stress is the new fat. It makes us sick, depletes us emotionally, and diminishes our quality of life.” ~ Jan Bruce, co-author of meQuilibrium Just like managing weight, managing stress is about becoming aware of personal choices and making better ones, and rewiring thought patterns so that an individual’s habits sustain well-being rather than sabotage […]

Jan Bruce has been a trailblazing media entrepreneur in health and wellness for nearly 20 years. She has repeatedly gravitated toward businesses that offer compelling, relevant and useful products that help people feel better and live healthier. She has reliably anticipated the trends that have shaped the field of consumer health and wellness. She is the CEO and co-founder of MeQuilibrium, the ... Read More

Jan Bruce created meQuillibrium a breakthrough personalized stress management solution that helps people cope with daily pressure to live happier, healthier and more productive lives.

When you ask Jan Bruce where she grew up, she says “in the media business.” Jan worked early on in the magazine and then digital media sectors, backing into the health and wellness category through opportunity. She planned a career as editor and publisher but always found herself gravitating to selling the advertising rather than […]

People enduring chronic stress are less likely to eat right, exercise, sleep enough, or do many of the basic things necessary for good health, says Jan Bruce, co-founder of meQuilibrium. The answer, of course, is simple. Find ways to reduce stress, but the path to a less stressful existence isn’t as clear as it might be. Bruce co-founded meQuilibrium to deliver individualized plans for employees designed to help them build “resilience” to stress. Psilos CEO Steve Krupa and Bruce delve into the actual impacts stress is having on health and the economy. Guest Bio: Jan Bruce has devoted much of the last twenty years to pioneering new brands in health, wellness, consumer lifestyle, and holistic medicine. She has a passion for building strong business strategies and cohesive management teams that deliver results. She is widely recognized as an authority on women’s attitudes toward a balanced healthy lifestyle and sustainable living. She also regularly speaks on business turnarounds and LOHAS business issues. In 2004 Bruce sold her company, body+soul/whole living, to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and then served as her former firm’s managing director for five years, during which time she led the growth of the business: quadrupling the revenues and tripling the circulation, spawning a multi‐platform franchise that includes website, video on demand, a daily radio show, and a new green cleaning product‐line. She then co-founded meQuilibrium after having a surprising personal epiphany that stress was keeping her from enjoying the rewards of her work.

Like food, your body needs some stress to function optimally. The problem arises is when you have too much of it.We all experience stress, whether it's good or bad.Unfortunately stress is seemingly more present than ever in today's society.As special guest Jan Bruce puts it, "stress is the new fat," in that how it affects your well-being has become of utmost importance. Like food, your body needs some stress to function optimally. The problem arises is when you have too much of it, especially too much of the bad kind.To address this increasingly problematic issue, Jan created meQuilibrium, a "digital resilience platform," which helps both individuals and corporations achieve measurable results in emotional well-being, stress management and performance optimization. “Stress and overwhelm are the new norm, so today’s workforce needs resilience as a front line defense, not strictly when crisis occurs," says Jan. "meQuilibrium delivers high impact, including extremely high engagement, so everyone can experience the power of more resilience and every company can benefit from the promise of a more resilient workforce."When creating meQuilibrium, Jan looked more at the way individuals react to stress, rather than the individual stressors themselves. Listen in as Jan joins Naturally Savvy hosts, Andrea Donsky and Lisa Davis, to share how meQuilibrium works and why it's so essential to manage the stress in your life.

Stress is a part of life but HOW you deal with affects your quality of life.  Listen to my interview with Jan Bruce, co-author of MeQuilibrium - 14 Days to a Cooler, Calmer and Happier You. Hear immediate ways you can rethink your approach to stress and find more peace.

Jan Bruce, the co-founder and CEO at meQuilibrium.com, a website and app that helps consumers DESTRESS joins Host Deirdre Breakenridge on Women Worldwide. Jan is recognized as a wellness entrepreneur, and a consumer health and wellness trailblazer.   Jan shares her journey from Sr. VP, Managing Director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia to launching your new start up, meQuilibrium, and the interesting transition to entrepreneur. With an online site focused on Destressing consumers, Jan gives her best tips on how she personally manages stress, and how you can thrive in your career and life.   A little more about Jan Bruce … Jan has been a trailblazing media entrepreneur in health and wellness for nearly 20 years. She has repeatedly gravitated toward businesses that offer compelling, relevant and useful products that help people feel better and live healthier. And, she has reliably anticipated the trends that have shaped the field of consumer health and wellness.   You can connect with Jan on Twitter and LinkedIn and learn more about Jan and her book, meQuilibrium: 14 Days to Cooler, Calmer and Happier at her website, meQuilibrium.   A little more about Your Host, Deirdre Breakenridge … Deirdre Breakenridge is an author, entrepreneur and the CEO of Pure Performance Communications. A 25-year veteran in PR and marketing, she is the author of five Financial Times Press books including her latest titles, “Social Media and Public Relations,” and “Putting the Public Back in Public Relations.” Breakenridge speaks nationally and internationally on the topics of PR, social media and marketing. She's an adjunct professor at NYU and UMASS at Amherst, a recognized blogger at PR Expanded, and also the co-founder of #PRStudChat, a dynamic twitter chat with PR professionals, educators and students.