Mary Wingo was born in the United States where she earned a Ph.D. in human stress research from The University of North Texas. In 2014, She emigrated to Ecuador, a tiny country in South America. Living in a new and very different society opened her eyes to the unsustainable social, economic, and political costs preventable stress causes in the modern world. Dr. Wingo’s aim is to clearly explain to the public the biological mechanisms behind the stress response, as well as its staggering costs to society. In the past year, she has had more than 100+ media placements, including those with BBC, ABC, and Men’s Health. Dr. Wingo’s academic specialty is physiology, and specifically, the human physiological stress response. One thing that seems to escape many analysts and political leaders is the staggering costs of stress in modern society within the psychological, social, political, and economic sectors. In fact, preventable human stress leads to (many, many) millions of unnecessary deaths every year.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I just remember thinking, I could do this so much better on my own, or whatever, because I’ve had a lot of customer service experience and dealing with people, it was never really say dealing with the students or the clients it was dealing with the Machiavellian bosses and if I could just remove those bastards out of my life, everything would be great and so that’s what I did”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Favourite Quote:
“Simplify simplify simplify”
Recommended Online Resources:
Fooled by Randomness – Philosophical and practical essays on uncertainty.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
- “There are very few entrepreneurs that are overnight successes I would truly advise you manage your stress with the stress management”
- “Organisation goes a long way, and you don’t have to work 80 hours, you may have to work more than 40 but if you’re organised then you work smarter and not longer”…[Listen for More]
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.” David Powning
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mary Wingo:
- “Really understand the functioning of how your frontal lobes work because that’s what makes the business work”
- “If you understand how to preserve your concentration and not fatigue yourself then you will have power everyday to carry out all kinds of mundane boring and not so boring functions to get your business going”
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