#10: James Routledge - Making Mental Health Cool in the Workplace
Episode description
James Routledge is the co-founder Sanctus. Sanctus is on a mission to change the perception of mental health and James is on a personal mission to make mental health in the workplace cool and to put a mental health gym on every high street. James and Sanctus want to normalise the conversation around mental health in the workplace and make good mental health practices commonplace as good physical health.
The areas we covered include:
How Sanctus came about.
The core business model of Sanctus.
Why the perception of mental health of just being mental illness has to change.
How Sanctus business is structured in terms of funding and how it’s run.
What's the underlying cause behind people's desire to improve themselves from a mental health perspective.
What is the Mental Health Pledge.
What is the culture at Sanctus and how does Sanctus maintain the culture within the business as it grows.
What's next for Sanctus.
What is James’ advice to other business owners or entrepreneurs that want to have more meaning to their work.
You can find out more about Sanctus and James at https://sanctus.io/ or on Twitter @sanctus.
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