Minds Over Meetings: A Personal Perspective on Wellness in the Workplace

by Kody Green

How to manage your mental health at work and create supportive environments for teams you lead

Drawing on popular influencer Kody Green's inspirational story as a diagnosed person with schizophrenia who succeeded in finding and maintaining a job across diverse industry sectors including production, distribution, office settings, and management, Minds Over A Personal Perspective on Wellness in the Workplace provides practical strategies for fostering an understanding, empathetic, and supportive and inclusive work environment as well as self-care and coping strategies to help all professionals manage their mental health better at work.

Backed by the latest research findings in the field and emphasizing the vital role of open and honest communication, Green explores topics

Finding available accommodations through employee assistance programs (EAP) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Retaining talent in the workplace by promoting education and fighting stigma Building relationships between friends and colleagues to strengthen teamwork Minds Over A Personal Perspective on Wellness in the Workplace earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all individuals seeking to thrive in the workplace through effective management of their mental health, along with all managers and business leaders seeking to create an open and supportive environment to improve worker wellbeing.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

240 pages, Hardcover

Published January 9, 2025

About the author

Kody Green (He/Him) is a 30 years old with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. Kody is a motivational speaker and content creator with over 1 million followers on TikTok. He has struggled in the past with drug addiction, incarceration, and serious mental health issues.

In order to be a better advocate and speaker, Kody has been trained as a peer support specialist, recovery coach and suicide prevention specialist.

Now, Kody shares his stories about his struggles and how to navigate through recovery, mental health issues, and life after incarceration. He chooses to pursue motivational speaking and mental health advocacy for schizophrenia awareness, drug recovery and mental health in the workplace.

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Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kody does an excellent job of offering suggestions to employees, coworkers, family and leadership as it relates to mental wellness in the workplace. Highly recommended-let's hope the laws and support he references can stay in place over upcoming years.

[C · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m excited to recommend this useful book - and not just because some illiterate twerp who can’t spell his own state’s name had a hissy fit about “DEI” and swore they’d never carry his book.

That’s ok - other libraries will!

I’ve loved seeing the progression for Kody - from sharing his experience on social media, to actively advocating for those with mental health struggles and mental illness hurdles, to being a public speaker, and now this book. He gives some great perspective on advocating for yourself and working with HR teams to find reasonable accommodation, as well as perspective for companies in retaining their employees. The cost of turnover is high - it’s not just in filling the position, but the time and money spent in getting new hires trained and up to speed. Such a good point…

I listened in audio. Narration was pretty good - I do wish he’d done the narration!

Library friends - we have it on Hoopla in text and audio.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kody Green provides guidance not only for individuals living with mental illness looking for work, but also human resource teams and employers looking to be able to better manage mental health and bias in the workplace. It's one step forward to ending the stigma of having a SMI.

[Jilly Marie C · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice book to listen to about mental health in the workplace!

[Christina Spriggle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read about how to support mental health in the workplace; specifically how one caring HR professional made an impact on the author's life.