Hello and welcome to Episode 5 of the People Powered Business Podcast!
In today's episode we have our first guest interview, Leanne Faulkner – Founder of Fortitude at Work.
Join me as I discuss with Leanne the impact of mental health on small to medium sized business owners, talk through some strategies and tactics she recommends and uncover the importance of you as the business owner taking care of your own wellbeing for the good of you and your business.
If you’d like to connect with Leanne her website is: www.fortitudeatwork.com.au
As promised we also have some great resource pages for you to take a look at if you’d like to get some advice or see what support is out there, these are:

• www.asbfeo.gov.au/mybusinesshealth - A great resource for both business support and wellbeing support all in the one place
• www.aheadforbusiness.org.au - A great resource for people who are sole-operators or micro-business owners, and for people trying to support those types of business owners.
• www.headsup.org.au - This is the place for people who want some general workplace mental health advice or want to know how to manage the mental health of their employees including a specific small business section too.

As always, if you have questions, comments or would like to start a conversation head on over to Facebook where you can ask a question, make a comment or send me a message directly at www.facebook.com/peoplepoweredbusiness

In next weeks episode we’ll be unpacking the complex legislative framework that underpins Industrial Relations in Australia and simplifying the most important aspects of this legislation as they relate to your business.