Wellbeing webinars by Hussle
Discover our upcoming and previous live webinar sessions, exploring a full variety of employee health and wellbeing topics.
Upcoming Webinars
Prioritising Cardiovascular Wellness in the Modern Workplace
25th February 2025 @ 11:00 UTC
Did you know cardiovascular disease is responsible for an estimated 80 million working days lost annually in the UK? We welcome VentriJect to explore how you can take proactive steps to address this growing challenge within your business.
Posture Perfect: Boosting Physical and Mental Wellness in the Workplace
12th March 2025 @ 09:00 UTC
Good posture isn’t just about standing tall – it’s the foundation of both physical and mental wellbeing. In the next episode of the Hussle Wellbeing Webinar Series, we team up with At Work Wellbeing for an interactive session exploring why posture matters. In this practical session, we introduce the three key principles of good posture: Awareness, Balance, and Movement. Plus, take part in our mini workshop to identify your own posture imbalances and learn simple yet effective muscle activation exercises to keep you and your team strong, flexible, and pain-free at work.
Financial Health, Physical Wealth
26th March 2025 @ 09:00 UTC
Financial stress is one of the biggest barriers to overall wellbeing, affecting everything from sleep and productivity to physical health and mental resilience. But what if small changes could create a big impact? In this episode in the Hussle Wellbeing Webinar Series, we team up with MoneyFit to explore the powerful connection between financial stability, physical health, and mental wellbeing – offering practical strategies to help individuals and teams take control of their financial fitness in 2025.
Access the latest recordings from our previous live webinars
Rethinking Drinking: How Alcohol Impacts Employee Wellbeing
Join Hussle and Drinkaware for an insightful session on the impact alcohol had on both the physical and mental wellbeing of employees. In this webinar, we explored how drinking habits influenced energy, productivity, mental clarity, and overall workplace performance. Drinkaware's Ian Blake shared practical advice to help support your team. Watch the recording to gain valuable insights and strategies for fostering a healthier, more productive workplace.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- The effects of alcohol on daily life and workplace performance.
- Recognising the early signs of overconsumption and its health implications.
- Simple, actionable strategies for encouraging mindful drinking and a balanced lifestyle.
Nutrition for Optimal Energy over the Festive Period
Have you ever experienced the 3pm slump? Sophie Trotman, a seasoned nutrition and wellness expert, shared invaluable insights and practical strategies to help employees maintain their energy, health, and wellbeing during colder months. The session was packed with actionable advice designed to support employees in feeling their best during this busy time of year. We hope you found the session helpful and are excited to implement these strategies for a healthier, more balanced festive season.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- The essential nutrients needed to boost immunity and energy during the colder months.
- How to make mindful food and lifestyle choices while still enjoying seasonal treats.
- Practical tips for planning balanced meals and snacks to avoid energy dips.
Supporting Menopause in the Workplace: The Role of Exercise
Menopause affects 900,000 women each year in the UK, with 1 in 10 leaving their jobs due to menopause-related symptoms, highlighting the importance of workplace support during this life stage to retain valuable talent and promote employee wellbeing. In the next episode of the Hussle Wellbeing Webinar Series, we'll explore the role of exercise in managing menopause symptoms and promoting overall wellbeing, helping your team thrive during this transition. We’re excited to welcome Trudi Ruscouet from Vitality 40 Plus, who will share her expert insights and actionable tips for implementing effective wellbeing initiatives.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- How physical activity can improve bone and heart health.
- The benefits of exercise for mental health, including mood stability and stress relief.
- Practical strategies to support employees through menopause and foster a healthier, more inclusive workplace.
Building Resilience Through Yoga and Mindful Movement
Yoga is a powerful tool to manage stress, combining movement, mindfulness and breath-work. This episode welcomed Kasia Soininen, the CEO of Yogaia, who explored how yoga can be used to improve wellbeing. During the session, we learned how yoga can improve employee wellbeing through the release endorphins, our body’s natural mood lifters, while reducing cortisol, the primary stress hormone, promoting relaxation. Through deep breathing and mindful movement, participants experienced how yoga allows us to focus on the present, reducing anxiety and encouraging mental clarity.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- The relationship between exercise & stress relief, with a focus on yoga and mindful movement.
- How stress can be a positive force that drives personal and professional growth.
- How organisations can promote physical activity to help employees manage stress and build resilience.
- Using tailored workouts to build resilience and help you manage stress.
- How fitness can be used as the key in high pressure environments and methods to use stress to our advantage.
Unlocking Mental Wellness: Understanding the Brain, Body and Balance
In the UK, 1 in 4 people will face a mental health challenge each year, often triggered by biological, socio-economic, and modern lifestyle pressures. Engagement in regular exercise is one of many lifestyle adaptations that we can make to help improve our mental wellbeing. In this episode of the Hussle Wellbeing Webinar series we welcome Colin Campbell, a mental health and fitness expert, for a dynamic session breaking down the science of mental health and explained how fitness can make a huge difference towards a healthier, happier workforce.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- The DOSE Model: How dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins impact your mood.
- Natural Mood Boosters: How group exercise and other simple activities can naturally elevate your mental health.
- Why We Feel This Way: The reasons behind modern mental health challenges, supported by real-life case studies from our sporting heroes.
- Holistic Mental Health Solutions: How medication, therapy, and lifestyle changes all play a role in boosting wellbeing.
- Fitness & Mental Health: The powerful link between fitness and mental health, and why it’s so hard to stay active when you’re feeling low.
- Survival Mode: Why our brains are wired to keep us alive, not happy—and how we can work around this to thrive.
Managing healthy cholesterol levels and heart health through exercise
High cholesterol affects almost 1 in every 2 adults, and is closely linked to increased chances of heart attack, stroke and vascular dementia. Engagement in regular exercise is one of many lifestyle adaptations that we can make to help look after our cholesterol levels and keep our hearts healthy. In this, the latest episode in the Hussle wellbeing webinar series, we are looking forward to welcoming HEART UK - The Cholesterol Charity to explore how we can support our employees with these areas of their wellbeing.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- What cholesterol is, and how it functions in our bodies
- Why it is important to be aware of our cholesterol levels
- The benefits of fitness on cholesterol levels and heart health
- How to encourage our employees to adapt their lifestyles to maintain healthy levels of cholesterol
Employee fitness benefits: Breaking down the barriers to entry
Fitness has the potential to transform our lives, from boosting mental and physical wellbeing, to reducing stress, and enhancing productivity across a full range of life tasks, the benefits are profound. Welcoming Tom Ward, Business Manager at Topnotch Gyms, Soho; this webinar provided a full range of tips for employers who are looking to support their staff members in becoming more active.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- How exercise can help prevent and alleviate common workplace health concerns such as stress and musculoskeletal injuries
- How to encourage employees to engage in fitness activities
- What we can do to support individuals in going to the gym for the first time
- Specific steps we can take to stay active safely during the warmer summer months
The link between sleep, exercise and employee wellbeing
Sleep and wellbeing are closely related. Research shows that engagement in exercise can help us to sleep better, but we must be conscious of the times of day that we are active, and types of activity that we engage in closer to bedtime. In this episode of our wellbeing webinar series, we were very lucky to speak with Lisa Artis, Deputy CEO at The Sleep Charity to explore the close links between good sleep, exercise and workplace wellbeing.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- What happens when we sleep, and why?
- The common causes of insomnia
- The link between exercise and sleep
- How to support employees in developing healthy sleeping patterns
- The business case for workplace fitness incentives
Fitness and peer support for mental wellbeing
As many as 1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England. The symptoms of these conditions pose a huge challenge for both individuals and businesses. When it comes to tackling such difficulties, some of the most effective tools can be exercise and talking therapies. During 2024’s Mental Health Awareness Week, we were delighted to welcome mental health peer support group, Andy’s Man Club as our guest speaker, to discuss the combined benefits of fitness and talking therapies on employee wellbeing.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- How fitness can support employee wellbeing
- Top tips for staying active
- Why men, in particular find it difficult to talk about their mental health
- The wonderful work that Andy’s Man Club do
- The role played by women in supporting men’s mental health at work
- The substantial ROI that employee fitness benefits can deliver to a business
Nutrition for enhanced fitness and wellbeing
As fitness professionals, we often talk about the importance of good nutrition to help support our activity goals. We all have different daily diets and food preferences, but what we eat can have a tremendous impact on both our physical and mental wellbeing. In this webinar, we welcomed nutritional expert, Andrea Bremner, to explore the widespread benefits that nutrition and physical activity can have on our wellbeing and workplace performance.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- The link between what we eat, and how we feel, mentally
- How our diet can support our fitness goals
- The fascinating science behind the gut-brain-axis
- How a healthy diet can bring benefits to employees and businesses
- The steps that your organisation can take to support your employees in engaging in healthier lifestyles
Bringing the benefits of fitness to work
Fitness can, of course, make us happier and healthier, but did you know that it can also increase chances of career success, mitigate the physical effects of ageing, and foster productivity and creativity in the workplace? In this, Hussle’s FIRST EVER webinar, we welcomed Barbara Solis, HR Manager at Huntsman Savile Row, to discuss the widespread benefits that employee fitness benefits have had within her organisation.
Attendees gained a better understanding of:
- How exercise impacts the body and mind.
- The impacts of stress in the workplace
- Fitness as a stress-conquering tool
- Productivity, creativity and career success: the widespread benefits of fitness at work
- How to encourage participation in workplace fitness incentives
Hosts
Sophie Fletcher
Events Marketing Manager
Sophie is passionate about creating impactful events that promote wellness and drive engagement. With a Master’s in Aerospace Engineering, Sophie brings a problem-solving mindset and a love for innovation to her role, using her skills to craft successful marketing strategies. She is a keen sportsperson, with her interests lying in running, hockey and skiing. Sophie has experienced first hand the benefits fitness brings to her day to day live, and continues to drive to make fitness accessible to all.
Matt Giblin
B2B Marketing Manager at Hussle
Having recently joined Hussle as B2B Marketing Manager, Matt is focused on enabling as many organisations as possible across the UK to provide their employees with access to fitness as a wellbeing initiative. As an active runner, gym user, climber and cricketer, Matt is an advocate for the tremendous benefits that exercise can have upon our health, wellness and work performance.
Lawrence King
Director of Partnerships at Hussle
Lawrence has worked with Hussle since 2019, joining us as Head of Commercial Partnerships, and since progressing to Director of Partnerships. Using his experience spanning over a decade working in the loyalty and partnerships space, Lawrence has an expert insight into how brands can use rewards and incentives to influence a positive change in consumer behaviour.
Matt Hatcher
Director of Business Development
An experienced sales director who’s been working with employee focussed solutions for the last 10 years and has spent the last 7 in the wellbeing space introducing preventative and crisis management tools to companies and their employees globally. Matt joined Hussle mid summer 2024 to lead and grow the corporate sales team. He is a family man with a huge passion for fitness and helping people live healthier lives.
