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Gillian is back from her holidays feel fresh and relaxed, but for how long? Balancing our work and home lives is proving increasingly difficult and a massive 54% of us have reported our stress & anxiety levels are increasing.

Gillian speaks to Neil Shah - Chief De-stressing Officer at The Stress Management Society and Author of The 10-Step Stress Solution about the dangers of stress, how to identify it and what to do about it before its starts damaging our health.

Health & Wellbeing Journalist Victoria joins us also to explain how exercise could be the key to career success and how taking the time to have a lunchtime run could increase your productivity by an extra working hour, not to mention all the creative ideas the fresh air will generate. But is there a downside? Employers are constantly looking for that edge in the recruitment process, could we see us ordinary Joe's who don't like to take part in Ironman's and Tough Mudders being side-lined for jobs because we're not deemed 'driven' enough?

And if you're screaming at the radio thinking you just don't have time to exercise during your working day, well we hear from Ally MacPherson who works for Calmac Ferries and does shifts of two weeks on, two weeks off. His only option for training is to run round the car deck of the ferry 100's of times to get the mileage in for his ultra-running races!