Evolve Ventures
Co-hosts, Emilia Smith and Bianca Thomas are taking state-of-the-art research, experience, and data-backed methodologies to evolve the old version of themselves leveraging their obsessions into Evolve Ventures, a podcast designed to accelerate evolution, excellence, and extraordinary. Evolve Ventures is designed to radically equip you for today’s experiences, and tomorrow’s challenges, shifting you into unlimited potential. Topics will dive into the keys of leadership, elite brain performance, the not-so-scary parts of tech, the tools to navigate mental health, strategies for optimal living, relationships, and of course, personal development without the fluff. You can look forward to deeper stories, insights, and tactical takeaways to leverage and apply in your everyday life. Connect with the Evolve Ventures team on Instagram: @EvolveVentures @EvolvewithEmilia @EvolvewithBianca | Like the Evolve Ventures Facebook Page to connect with the global community: https://tinyurl.com/evolveventures
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#462 | How to Set Up Your Workspace for Safety & Success
Your results are not random. They are being shaped long before you start working. In this episode, we challenge a hidden belief about productivity, safety, and success that quietly controls focus, self-worth, and decision-making. We connect psychology, emotional healing, and data-driven personal development to show why your environment matters more than motivation and how small shifts can change how you think, feel, and perform.
This conversation is for anyone doing the work but still feeling stuck, drained, or off-track. Redesign the space around you and watch what finally moves.
Episode References:
1. Impact of Workplace Design on Employee Well-Being and Productivity
2. Impact of Employees' Workplace Environment on Employees' Performance
3. Poorly Designed Workplaces Cost the UK Economy £71bn a Year
4. Women Feel Less Safe Than Men in Many Developed Countries
5. Gender Disparities in Perceived Visibility and Crime Anxiety in Piloti Parking Spaces of Multifamily Housing: A Virtual Reality Study
6. Design, Gender, and the Future of Public Places
7. Invisible Women: Sex-Disaggregating the Workplace
8. A Dopaminergic Switch for Fear-to-Safety Transitions
9. Dopamine Impacts Your Willingness to Work
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Here are the related episodes, each one builds on today’s conversation:
#378 | The Differences in Boundaries You NEED to Know - https://apple.co/4hs4Y39
#353 | Why We Are Afraid to Learn - https://apple.co/44ANeiJ
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🤝 Out of the Mud (OOTM) - “Beating Anxiety: Take Back Control of Your Mind” - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IykObX8eR7ixJaQ-qqZogw#/registration
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Show notes:
(2:01) Productivity, creativity, and comfort balance
(3:16) The 1.4 Vs. 100 principle
(7:06) How your brain decides for you
(9:08) Looks Vs. Function mistake
(12:09) High utility workspace
(16:36) Community Win: Books for Babes.
(19:15) Comfort and grind
(23:16) Dopamine design and safety
(30:38) Micro-rest prevents burnout
(34:11) Outro
