Favourite Positions
Favourite Positions is a platform and podcast designed to help you find your dream role.
Founded by Alex Young in 2022, the platform was born from her own frustration with outdated career advice and rigid workplace expectations. Early in her career, Alex was often told she was “too young” to lead or made to feel uncomfortable in environments rife with sexism and performative policies. Like many, she was left disillusioned – not by hard work itself, but by systems that held people back.
Instead of conforming, she looked to those building better businesses – the founders, leaders and creatives shaping inclusive, purpose-led workplaces that prioritise well-being, impact and autonomy. Their stories lit the path forward.
Favourite Positions began as a way to share those stories – and has since grown into a trusted space for candid conversations about work, identity and ambition in a changing world.
Today, Favourite Positions is home to a growing community of over 10,000 people.
Alex’s work has been featured by the BBC, Channel 4, Cosmopolitan, Metro and Start Up Magazine. She is the recipient of the Excellence Scholarship at Imperial College London, where she’s continuing to grow the platform alongside her MBA.
Tune in for honest episodes that showcase the people reimagining work for a new generation.
Whether you’re early in your career, switching paths or leading a team, Favourite Positions is here to help you carve your own path and find work that truly fits.
Favourite Positions
Episode 07: Work In Progress - Solomon Mehta-Slade
đź’¬ Summary
In this episode of Work in Progress, we speak to Solomon Mehta-Slade – creator of Mental Fitness workshops for organisations, coach, and co-founder of The Change:Maker Collective – about building inner stability so you can thrive at work and beyond.
Sol explains how his workshops help people build the mental strength and emotional resilience to perform under pressure, recover quickly from setbacks, and collaborate with more ease. He shares how his own mental health challenges led him to reframe wellbeing as “mental fitness” and why self-worth should never be tied to productivity or job titles. We talk about taming and befriending your inner critic, recognising when your sense of value is coming from output, and how community can make change feel less heavy and lonely. Sol also unpacks what employers often get wrong about wellbeing and offers a vision for workplaces where people can bring their whole selves to work.
đź’ˇ Takeaways
- Mental fitness is proactive – it’s about strengthening your mindset, not just reacting when things go wrong
- Self-worth is unconditional – it should never depend on your role, output, or recognition
- You can tame your inner critic by noticing it, naming it, and replacing judgement with discernment
- Befriending yourself is as important as silencing negative self-talk
- Micro-moments of presence can reset your mind – you don’t always need long breaks
- Work can give you meaning, but it’s risky to make it your sole source of identity
- Community helps you realise you’re not alone in your challenges
- Employers need to embed wellbeing into culture, not bolt it on as an afterthought
- The best workplaces create space for people to be human, not just productive
- Clarity often comes from action – treat roles and career moves as experiments
đź•’ Chapters
00:00 – Who is Solomon Mehta-Slade and what does he do?
01:28 – From mindfulness to mental fitness
03:47 – How Sol’s own challenges shaped his work
06:26 – Mental health vs mental fitness
09:30 – The self-worth trap at work
11:14 – Taming and befriending your inner critic
15:15 – The role of work in shaping self-worth
19:10 – Signs your self-worth is tied to productivity
22:21 – Finding micro-moments to reset
24:56 – A practical three-step tool to break negative self-talk
27:02 – Why community and connection matter
29:18 – What employers often get wrong about wellbeing
31:28 – Green flags to look for when job hunting
33:47 – Red flags in workplace culture
36:20 – Designing the ideal workplace for mental fitness
39:09 – Quick-fire: book, myth, daily habit, and best advice
43:24 – Advice for finding or transforming your dream role
đź”— Follow Sol
Website: https://www.thealtacademy.co.uk/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/solomon-mehta-slade/
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