Meet Mandy Hooper, who is such an outstanding Project Manager, we didn’t just place her once, but twice! – firstly with Wilson Group and now Mandy works in her rewarding and busy role with Bunnings.

Mandy is the author of Incremental Health, a book for busy professionals, to help bring health and good habits into everyday living. And what great timing this read is as we head out of a challenging year and into 2021.

In our second Side Hustle, we are celebrating our people and what they do outside their traditional work commitments, so we caught up with Mandy to find out more about her inspiring Side Hustle.

What is your current role and what company do you work with?

Service Delivery Manager, Bunnings

How long have you been working with NSG and how has your experience been with us so far?

I first started working with Bridget in April 2019. My experience with NSG has been nothing but exceptional. I have found the team to be incredibly helpful, both as a candidate and a customer. I have been so impressed with the service I have received;

I have recommended Bridget to friends and family for their own recruitment and to hiring managers looking for recruitment support.

Tell us about your side hustle

Incremental Heath is a book designed to bring joy and health to the lives of busy professionals. Designed around

nine pillars and underpinned with habits and the pursuit of happiness, Incremental Health provides information and helpful tips for better sleep, hydration, eating clean, exercise, relationships, mental stimulation, soul food, managing stress and beauty and skin care. It’s the one-stop shop to help you take small, meaningful steps towards greater health and wellbeing.

Where did you draw inspiration for Incremental Heath?

I have always loved writing. I find it simultaneously cathartic and creative. When my Dad’s health began to decline, I’d write him short stories to keep him entertained. It was this small act that led my Dad to encourage me to write about one of my long-term passions, health.

Incremental Health was the result! It was a labour of love that I worked on before and after work for nearly two years and self-published in June 2020.

Tell us about your journey.

What started as a bit of entertainment for my Dad, quickly formed into a solid piece of work. I drew up a framework of the information I wanted to share with busy people and crafted the book to deliver this in a light-hearted and non-judgemental way.

I had already done the bulk of the research for myself, as I transitioned out of a failed marriage and started to focus on my own wellbeing, so the work was in pulling the information together in a meaningful way.

I designed Incremental Health to allow people that were short on time to be able to pick up a chapter and work on an aspect of their life that needed some attention. That’s how the nine pillars were established. While the book has been written so that it flows logically from one pillar to the next; enabling the reader to build on the foundations of work from previous chapters, it can also be used and abused to get some quick gains in any area that may need a little extra attention.

Once I’d written the first draft, I meticulously edited the manuscript until I had taken it as far as I could myself. I then engaged a professional editor. Deb polished my rough diamond into something I am truly proud of.

I am honoured to have my son’s artwork featured on the front cover with internal graphics produced by Alline from The Infologist.

It is really important to me to support local, so I engaged the services of Green Hill Publishing in South Australia to help me turn my hard work into a beautiful, marketable book.

What's next for you?

I will continue to add content to the blog on the website regularly.

I am currently studying a Diploma in Sport Nutrition and plan to commence work on the next book in the Incremental Health family early in 2021 – Incremental Health at Work.

Where can we learn more about Incremental Health?

Website - http://incrementalhealthbymandy.com/

Buy the book - https://amzn.to/2WmSoeo

Instagram - https://bit.ly/38bOASO