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On intrapreneurship & not compromising mental health in the corporate jungle, with Lucy Cooper

“There’s one thing I do not that I didn’t do before; vocalise what you’re feeling.” Accenture’s Head of Innovation Europe, Lucy Cooper, joins NAKED to talk about her career as an entrepreneur, investor, and now intrapreneur at a large corporation, and how Covid-19 triggered new mental health struggles.

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About Episode

Lucy Cooper has been an entrepreneur, an investor, and is now an intrapreneur within a large corporation, in her role as Head of Innovation Europe at Accenture. Lucy represents a role that faces similar challenges to a ‘traditional founder’, particularly when it comes to mental health. Lucy’s mental health was triggered by a Covid-19 infection in December 2020, but in reality, her mental health struggles go back much further.

Specific topics covered in this episode include:

Anxiety, depression and insomnia;
How early life experiences should be recognised as trauma;
The role of therapy and the importance of vocalising feelings.

In addition, we discuss the following questions:

How do you deal with an overwhelming fear of losing the people you love?
How do you recognise the signs that could lead to a breakdown?
What strategies can you put in place to keep mentally healthy?

Show notes

Connect with Lucy: LinkedIn

Reading materials:

We need to talk about the dark side of intrapreneurship | Tim Heard, Sifted
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One | Jenny Blake
Mental Health at Work | James Routledge
Waking Up | Sam Harris
Unwinding Anxiety | Dr Judson Brewer
Gratitude, diaries and tracking
- Aura Health
- The 6 Minute Diary
- The Journal and Manifest | Roxie Nafousi

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