Episode 18 | A conversation with wellness expert, Sumana Jeddy!

Are You Waiting For Permission?

Sumana has an effervescent personality and values compassion, community, empathy and kindness. She loves the outdoors, and physical wellness is a priority. She is an extrovert with many friends around the globe but she also appreciates silence and reflective hours. Her motto is to live in the present and joyfully say no to anything that does not bring you any joy.

You can find her on Instagram, TikTok, Clubhouse and Twitter @sjeddywellness. She is also very active on LinkedIn and her website is www.sumanajeddy.com

Sumana Fathima Jeddy is a content creator, influencer and the founder of Wellness Shots, a Canadian wellness company. Sumana has completed a Bachelor of Science Degree in Microbiology followed by a Master of Public Health degree, both from the University of British Columbia.

She spent 10 years of her career in infectious disease surveillance in public health (many of those years were spent in a laboratory extracting DNA/RNA from viruses) as a scientist and later in management leading a team of analysts to support epidemiology and surveillance of infectious diseases. Sumana has published 20+ peer-reviewed research articles on various infectious diseases and has presented disease research at international conferences in Canada and the United States.

Her brand Wellness Shots provides targeted outcome-based wellness strategies for healthcare businesses. She does this by identifying unique organizational barriers and provides solutions that are grounded in science, data, and empathy — and are also modern and playful. Sumana believes that healthy people will create healthy communities. She empowers and educates individuals, organizations and communities about workplace wellness, workplace toxicity, and burnout. She also offers educational workshops on burnout and is currently mentoring MPH students and graduates on how to navigate leadership challenges to be better healthcare leaders.

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Your hosts of Are You Waiting for Permission? are Meridith Grundei and Joseph Bennett. They're friends, co-hosts, actors, improvisers and coaches. She lives in NYC and coaches actors, business professionals and presenters to fully engage with their audience, and themselves. She also mentors young actors and directors. He lives in San Miguel de Allende, México and coaches artists and other creative beings about the beautiful business of art — and life.

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Meridith Grundei the performer artist gal

Meridith Grundei Coaching

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Joseph Bennett the artist/coach extraordinaire

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