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How many Mondays do you have left? Statistically, we all get about 4,000 Mondays in our lifetime, so if you're halfway through your life, you might have roughly 2,000 Mondays to go. The good news is that you are in charge of how you spend those days, the question is will you be toiling away at a job that you hate, or will you be creating a career that you love? Will you choose to scroll mindlessly for hours a day, or will you pursue hobbies and travel that light you up? Will you be dreading the inevitable end, or will you be living your life in full in a way that allows you to meet the Grim Reaper with a smile? These are the existential ponderances in which Jodi Wellman thrives. Jodi is a speaker, author, executive coach, and facilitator of living lives worth living. She founded Four Thousand Mondays to help people make the most of the time they are lucky to be above ground. Jodi has a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor and facilitator in the Penn Resilience Program. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Jodi has been featured in The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Fast Company, CNBC, Forbes, Psychology Today, and The Los Angeles Times, to just name a few. Jodi's TEDx talk, How Death Can Bring You Back to Life, has over 1.3 million views and was the 14th most-watched TEDx talk in 2022. Her new book, You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets, made Adam Grant's Summer Reading List, is a Next Big Idea Club must-read. Jodi's book, work, and life show us all how we can gain a newfound appreciation for our lives and prioritize what truly matters. Her book uses a blend of research, personal anecdotes, and practical exercises all done with a sharp sense of humor that guides us through self-assessment, habit identification, and action planning, encouraging us to break free from routine, discover our passions, and live a life in full - brimming with vitality and purpose.

Life's brevity is its greatest gift, reminding us to savor each moment and live with intention. Jodi Wellman, founder of 4000 Mondays, inspires us to embrace the finite nature of life as a tool for living boldly and purposefully. Drawing from her expertise as a positive psychology practitioner, Jodi shares how practicing gratitude, savoring everyday experiences, and creating meaningful routines can transform how we experience time. She challenges us to use the awareness of our limited Mondays not to stress but to prioritize joy, connection, and the things that truly matter. Key Highlights: Use "mortality math" to heighten your awareness of time and create urgency to pursue meaningful goals. Shake up routines with novelty to add vibrancy and excitement to everyday life. Gratitude letters are a powerful way to deepen relationships and enhance personal well-being. Savoring the mundane—like enjoying a favorite drink or completing a simple chore—can provide surprising joy and fulfillment. Boldness and intentionality are essential for living a life that feels complete and regret-free.   About the Guest:  Jodi Wellman is a speaker, author, and facilitator on living lives worth living. She founded Four Thousand Mondays to help people make the most of the time they are lucky to be above ground. Jodi has a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor in the Master's program and a facilitator in the Penn Resilience Program. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Jodi's TEDx talk is called How Death Can Bring You Back to Life; with over 1.3 million views, it is the 14th most-watched TEDx talk released in 2022, out of 15,900! Her book, "You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets" was published in May 2024 by Voracious (Little, Brown & Company) in the US and Canada, and by John Murray One in the UK. https://fourthousandmondays.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/fourthousandmondays/  https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays/    Connect with Dr. Michelle and Bayleigh at: https://smallchangesbigshifts.com hello@smallchangesbigshifts.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/smallchangesbigshifts https://www.facebook.com/SmallChangesBigShifts https://www.instagram.com/smallchangesbigshiftsco   Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. 

Jodi Wellman is an executive coach, speaker, and author, with a Master's in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her TEDx talk, “How Death Can Bring You Back to Life”, has garnered over 1.3 million views, and her new book, “You Only Die Once”, offers a roadmap for living without regrets. Here's what we dive into: — The benefits of contemplating death and why doing so can inspire meaningful life changes. — Jodi's personal practices for keeping death top of mind and how it has transformed her life. — Questions Jodi uses to help her is coaching clients find clarity and purpose. — How Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence can challenge us to live in a way we'd want to repeat forever. And more. You can learn more about Jodi's work at https://fourthousandmondays.com. --- Jodi Wellman is a speaker, author, and facilitator on living lives worth living. She founded Four Thousand Mondays to help people make the most of the time they are lucky to be above ground. Jodi has a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor in the Master's program and a facilitator in the Penn Resilience Program. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Jodi's TEDx talk is called How Death Can Bring You Back to Life; with over 1.3 million views, it is the 14th most-watched TEDx talk released in 2022, out of 15,900! Her book, "You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets" was published in May 2024 by Voracious (Little, Brown & Company) in the US and Canada, and by John Murray One in the UK. --- Interview Links: — Jodi's website - https://fourthousandmondays.com

We had the chance to sit down and chat with Alice to learn a little bit more about Jane's right hand gal! Alice's expertise lies in Corporate Human Resources with a focus on Learning & Development and Leadership. She completed the Equine Connection Facilitator course in June 2017, enabling her to combine her past business experience with her lifelong passion for horses. Shortly after, Alice joined the Leading Edge team as the Director of Business Development. In 2018 she undertook further training to fulfill the role of Assistant Instructor with the Equine Connection Sydney campus. Working across all our programs, Alice is passionate about ensuring our clients achieve genuine and sustainable growth opportunities through our experiential learning-based curriculum. She brings a wealth of experience in skill development having supported clients through the design and facilitation of programs to build skills such as Leadership, Management, Communication Negotiation and Team Building. Prior to joining the team, Alice was Vice President, Human Resources at the Macquarie Group in New York and Sydney. Through her career she has held a number of HR Business Partner and HR Specialist roles for leading Investment Banks including UBS and Barclays. She started her career in Australia, before spending over 10 years based in the US, UK and Middle East. Alice is an accredited NCAS riding Coach and when not in the office she enjoys riding and spending time with the horses.

This week, we are discussing the rhetoric of dating apps. Our guest today is Amber Kinui. Amber is currently a fourth-year English literature Ph.D. student and Assistant Instructor of Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Texas at Austin. She focuses on the digital humanities and the rhetoric of technology. Prior to attending UT Austin, Amber received her bachelor's in English at Loyola New Orleans and her master's at Tulane, where she won the Presidential Fellowship award. Learn more about ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Online Offscript here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Have you ever heard these myths about living a life worth living? Myth #1: You have to sacrifice your career for personal fulfillment. Myth #2: Happiness and success are mutually exclusive. Myth #3: Meaningful experiences only happen during vacations. In this episode, our guest Jodi Wellman will share the truth behind these myths and help busy adults live a more intentional and meaningful life. Jodi brings a unique perspective on time and living a meaningful life that will make you stop and think. By quantifying time in terms of the number of Mondays we have left, Jodi encourages us to live with intention and make the most of every moment. Her website, FourThousandMondays.com, offers a free quiz that helps you assess your current lifestyle and find ways to inject more vitality and meaning into your days. Tune in to this episode to discover how you can live a more fulfilling and purposeful life with Jodi's guidance. You won't want to miss it! Life is not just about living longer, but living wider and deeper. It's about adding vitality and meaning, more fun and pleasure, deeper connections and purpose. - Jodi Wellman About our Guest Jodi Wellman is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps people who might die someday work well and live even better. Her TEDx talk is called How Death Can Bring You Back to Life and has over 1.3 million views! Resources ◼️ Happy Brain Mental Wellness Tips and Resources ◼️ Free Quiz  "How Alive (or Dead) Are You" Quiz Connect with Our Guest◼️ Website: https://fourthousandmondays.com ◼️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fourthousandmondays/ ◼️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays/ Connect with us!---- ◼️Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/seanstevebloch ◼️Show Instagram:http://www.instagram.com/happybrainfm ◼️Sign-up for Happy Brain Tips: https://bit.ly/HappyBrainTips---- Subscribe to the Happy Brain Podcast ◼️ITUNES

THIS EPISODE IS FOR:-anyone who wants to make the most of their precious life-anyone who wants to know how to find joy while alive, but don't know where to begin-anyone who wants to live magnanimously-anyone who is ready to laugh in the grim reaper's face-anyone who wants to discover what makes them feel aliveOUR GUEST: JODI WELLMANJodi Wellman is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better.HOW TO CONNECT WITH JODI WELLMANInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays/ Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/FourThousandMondays Websitehttps://fourthousandmondays.com RESOURCES WE CHATTED ABOUTJodi's TEDEX talk “How death can bring you back to life”Jodi's Monday Mornings You Have Left Calculator Jodi's "How Alive (or Dead) Are You" quiz (look for the pop up!)HERE IS WHAT JUNE & JODI DISCUSSEDIntroducing Jodi WellmanWhy Jodi chose talking about death as her life's callingPlanning “the end” and going backwards to move forwardWhat does it take for people to live their best life How death is a positive reframe3 things as tips to finding joy before you dieDiagnosing the dead zonesWidening and deepening lifeGetting motivated to do fun and find meaning to feel more aliveNovelty is keyHow habits are turning us into zombiesSaying yes to lifeWhat would you do if you only had 12 mondays left?Bucket listingWild abandonWhy counting down your Mondays can support you / Temporal scarcity Memento Mori “Remember Death”NOT living with regret--------------------------------CONNECT WITH JOY GUIDE JUNE! Website Instagram TikTokYouTube LinkedIn If you'd like to work with June one-on-one, join her Joy Guidance Program! Learn more HERE.

Have you ever felt your summer break fly by so quickly, you barely had time to enjoy it?! Then Episode 21 with Jodi Wellman is definitely for you! Jodi Wellman is a speaker, leadership coach, and facilitator on living lives worth living. She founded Four Thousand Mondays to help people make the most of their time while they're alive! She promotes a healthy practice of memento mori and offers life enhancement resources and programs "for people who want to live on purpose, inspired, and totally alive."Jodi has a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania, where she's also an Assistant Instructor in the MAPP program and a facilitator in the Penn Resilience Program. Jodi is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Her amazing TEDx talk is called How Death Can Bring You Back to Life and has over 1.3 million views!In this episode, Jodi and Dana chat about how memento mori, peak-end rule, and the science of novelty can help us make the most of summer break (and why habits aren't the be-all-end-all!). The conversation is filled with Jodi's inspiring and energizing approach to life, with practical ideas to savour summer and avoid the classic, "it flew by too fast!" feeling. Find additional show notes on Jodi's Teacher Fan Club page (teacherfanclub.com/jodi-wellman) and check out her article: Five Ways to Have Your Bestest Summer Ever (fourthousandmondays.com).

Today I sit down  with PSA Hall of Famer, and dog trainer extraordinaire Janet Edwards!! She is Shawn Edwards wife and Co-Owner of Stateline K9 and Deadpool Decoy School! Her resume and achievements are immense and will post below!• Certified Master Trainer, Professional Obedience, Behavior Modification, & Search & Rescue, North State K9 Academy, 2001.• Owner & Head Trainer, Basic Training & Beyond, Winston-Salem, NC 2001-2003.• Assistant Trainer, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. 2003.• Head Instructor, North State K9 Academy, Pet Obedience Program, 2004.• Member, Tarheel Canine PSA & Police Dog Association December 2003 - current.• Assistant Instructor, Police K9 E-Collar Applications, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. Sanford, NC, April 17 & 18, 2004.• Assistant Instructor, 16 Hour Police K9 Decoy School, Tarheel Canine Training Inc. February 4-5, 2005.• Assistant Instructor, Advanced Detection, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD June 2005• Assistant Instructor High Risk Deployment Seminar, Asheboro, NC May 2005• Certificate SARTECH 3, NASAR April 2005.• Head Trainer/Instructor, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. 2005.• Member & K9 Handler, FAS-Trax, SAR Team 2004 - 2005.• Certified Police Dog Instructor, NSK9, September 2005.• AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator 2003-2006.• Professional Member, IACP.• Professional Member NTPDA• Evaluator NTPDA  (National Tactical Police Dog Association) 2006-present •Instructor, Water Cadaver Recovery, National CSAR Seminar, Montreat, NC September 2007• Trainer, Senior Handler Dogs Finding Drugs 2010• Head Instructor Decoy Seminar, Military Working Dog Program, Ft. Hood TX December 2010• Featured on Baltimore's ABC, CBS and FOX news with K9 Zuko• Featured on Washington DC's ABC and FOX news with K9 Zuko• Featured on Good Morning America with K9 Zuko• Featured on Fox News Channel's Justice with Judge Jeanine with K9 Zuko•Featured on Anderson Cooper Live with K9 Zuko February 2013•Judge PSA Nationals 2013, Franklin, NJ•2013 PSA Nationals Level 1 Runner Up and High Protection with K9 “Danny"•2013 PSA Nationals "Top Dog Award" with K9 “Danny”•2013-current East Coast Director PSA, November•2015 East Coast Regional Level 2 Champion with K9 Danny•2006-2010 Assisted Lee County Schools (NC) in several narcotics sniffs•2017 Instructor “Intro to PSA” seminar Dural, NSW, Australia•2018 Instructor “Handling in PSA” seminar Calgary, Canada•2019 Instructor “Protection Dog” seminar Dural, NSW, Australia•2019 Assistant Instructor “High Risk Deployments” Australia Special Forces•2017 Recipient of the PSA Mount Everest Award and the only person to receive this award•2019 PSA Hall of Fame inductee as a handler•4X PSA National Champion•4x PSA Regional Champion•2X National Vice-Champion•Only 1 of 3 people to title multiple dogs to a PSA 3

Jodi Wellman is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better. Get to know Jodi:  https://fourthousandmondays.com https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays/

In this episode, Dana Fulwiler Volk joins me to talk about positive psychology, well-being, and transforming the narrative in our minds and lives. Dana and I connected in a community for female entrepreneurs and I am so grateful that our paths have crossed. In our conversation, I appreciated Dana's openness in sharing her own personal well-being journey and her “Ah-ha” moments along the way. She has a wealth of knowledge and strategies that you will be able to easily implement into your day-to-day without having it be something extra that you need to check off before you head to sleep at night. This episode will inspire you to be more curious, both inwardly and outwardly, and will get you thinking about purpose, hope-mongering, positive disruption and how these ideas fit into your own life and journey.  Dana is dedicated to helping people and communities thrive. Dana is the founder of Well Ed, an initiative supporting well-being in education, and co-founder/host of the Teacher Fan Club, a well-being hub and podcast. Dana holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania where she studied with global leaders in well-being science, and a Master of Education from the University of Saskatchewan where she conducted award-nominated research on sustainable whole-school well-being. She has served as an Assistant Instructor in the MAPP program at UPenn, and is an Instructor in the first mandatory school well-being course in a Canadian Bachelor of Education program at the University of Calgary. Dana has also co-authored book chapters on well-being and anti-racism in education and served as an expert consultant with the government. Dana applies her expertise in well-being science across different industries, including as an advisor for a tech start-up and consultant for local and global clients, like the International Coaching Federation's Thought Leadership Institute. Dana's previous career seasons include classroom teacher, international student coordinator, and mental health specialist.   Listen in as we talk about: Finding comfort in change and transformation. Dana shares how we can approach big life changes with a different perspective, as well as some tools to help during that transition. The power of language when it comes to well-being. We discuss the buzzwords used nowadays, and what well-being means in real life terms. The curation of happiness. Dana talks about the curation of your ‘best life' and challenging the focus of what happiness should really look like. Finding freedom and humanity in self-compassion. We talk about what self-compassion means, and how to find freedom and acceptance in our challenges. How to shift from negativity. Dana gives us her best tips to avoid getting sucked into the negativity that may surround us.   Connect with Dana: Websites: https://teacherfanclub.com https://well-ed.com https://lifeaboveneutral.com Instagram: @danafulwilervolk  @teacherfanclub_  @lifeaboveneutral Facebook: @teacherfanclub  Podcast: Teacher Fan Club    Shared by Dana: Via Institute on Character: https://viacharacter.org Purpose Mindset: https://purpose-mindset.org Book: Emotional Agility by Susan David   Connect with Tiana: Website: https://tianafech.com LinkedIn: Tiana Fech Instagram: @tianafech  Facebook: @tianafech  Book: Online Course Creation 101: A step-by-step guide to creating your first online course    FINDING COMFORT IN CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION Dana explains that her decision to leave teaching was not due to unhappiness, but rather a desire for change and adventure. She emphasizes her love for learning and how it led her to explore positive psychology. She clarifies that positive psychology is not about constant positivity or minimizing suffering but focuses on building what goes right and proactively fostering well-being. Dana believes these principles are applicable in various fields, including education and organizations,

In this episode we discuss Intuitive Machines and how they plan on sending a lander to the Moon later this year!Intuitive Machines is a Houston-based company that designs and manufactures advanced spacecraft for government and commercial customers. Founded in 2013 by Dr. Tim Crain, a respected engineer and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the aerospace industry, the company has quickly established itself as a leader in the field of space exploration and technology. With a focus on reliability, innovation, and cost-effectiveness, Intuitive Machines is committed to advancing humanity's understanding of the universe and expanding our capabilities in space. Dr. Crain, who serves as the company's Chief Technical Officer, is an expert in the design and operation of spacecraft and has played a key role in the development of many of the company's most innovative and ambitious projects.——————————————————————ツ HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS INTERVIEW!

Here's what to expect on the podcast:How can the concept of Four Thousand Mondays serve as a motivational force in shaping your life?What does it mean to live with intention?How can contemplating death be a powerful motivator in various aspects of life?Why is it important to consider pursuing and prioritizing what you truly want in life?And much more! About Jodi:Jodi Wellman is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better. Connect with Jodi Wellman!Website: https://fourthousandmondays.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays/ Connect with Kamie Lehmann!Website: https://www.kamielehmann.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kamie.lehmann.1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shesinvinciblepodcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamie-lehmann-04683473National Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/Get your Podcast on IMDB: https://imdb.failureguy.com/submitpodcastkamieLearn more about how to minimize the emotional side effects of cancer: https://adventurefound.org/The National Eating Disorder Helpline: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline

Jodi Wellman is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better. https://fourthousandmondays.com/dead-or-alive-quiz/ https://fourthousandmondays.com https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/fourthousandmondays/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SyBMINoa0&t

Guest episodes back to back?! Barely even recognize this podcast these days... The team is joined by Adam Trabold (Kat's Boyfriend) in this episode and it is lit. Adam is a professional photographer, an Assistant Instructor of Photography at Milligan University, and an AI artist. So the guys discuss how he uses AI in his art and his thoughts on how this affects the industry, his love for film photography and the techniques he uses, and how social media influencers are using digital doubles. Believe it or not, this is the first time the team and Adam had met. Let's just say they hit it off. It's an entertaining and educational one folks! It is also the last episode of the year, so don't sleep on this one!Huge thanks to our sponsors, Coffeehouse Five & Passion for Acting Theater Company!

Lilly Ryzebol drowned as a child and was terrified of the water until she faced her fear and is now a professional Freediver. Lilly is a competitive freediver, certified Assistant Instructor, professional ice freediver and full-time mom. Diving has also brought comfort and freedom to Lilly's life as she was grieving the loss of her mother to cancer. Lilly's favourite place is freediving under the ice whether in a wetsuit or in a bikini. As a new mom it can be challenging to be in the water but she has found creative ways to continue her passion. @lilfreediver https://www.ontariofreedivers.com Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3opNURn - - - - - - - - - - - - SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS H.V.M.N - 20% off with code BRASS20 - https://hvmn.com/pages/home Combat Flip Flops - 25% off with code UNITY - https://combatflipflops.com Brass & Unity - 20% off with code UNITY - http://brassandunity.com Daisy May Hats Co - 15% off with code BRASS - https://daisymayhats.com American Yogi - 15% off with code BRASS15 - https://liveamericanyogi.com Mid-Day Squares - 15% off with code KELSIE15 - https://www.middaysquares.com Good F*cking Design Advice - 10% off with code UNITY - www.gfda.co Mindful Meds - 10% off with code BRASS - https://mindfulmeds.io - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHOP B&U Jewelry & Eyewear: https://brassandunity.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - Follow #brassandunity - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHARITY Honour House - https://www.honourhouse.ca Vet Solutions - https://vetsolutions.org Heroic Hearts - https://www.heroicheartsproject.org Warrior Angels Foundation - https://warriorangelsfoundation.org All Secure Foundation - http://allsecurefoundation.org Defenders of Freedom - http://defendersoffreedom.us The Boot Campaign - https://bootcampaign.org

In today's episode Chrissy Cordingley interviewed Jodi Wellman who is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better. https://fourthousandmondays.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fourthousandmondays/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FourThousandMondays  Clarissa Burt is an award-winning international media personality/producer/director, writer, author, and public speaker and supermodel. With hundreds of television and film credits to her name, this Who's Who of International and American Women brings over 30 years of entertainment industry experience in both International and American markets. Her Brainchild, In the Limelight multi-media platform, is an online portal consisting of video/podcast/digital magazine providing educative, entertaining and empowering content showcasing the savvy entrepreneur. Her engaging interviews bring to the forefront their trials, tribulations, victories, and triumphs. Clarissa's fun, light and witty style makes for great conversation and is thoroughly enjoyed by her listeners. Ms. Burt's extensive international social work garnered her two private audiences with Pope John Paul II. As a women's advocate and a leader of social change for a new standard of living, Clarissa was instrumental as Ambassador to the United States for the Walking Africa campaign that awarded African Women the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Clarissa is the first American to present at the Kremlin. She was recently awarded the Woman of Excellence award by the Women's Economic Forum. LET'S CONNECT! Clarissa Burt: www.inthelimelightmedia.com Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ClarissaBurtOfficial LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/clarissaburt Twitter https://www.twitter.com/clarissaburt Pinterest http://pinterest.com/clarissaburt Instagram http://instagram.com/clarissaburt Tumblr http://clarissaburt.tumblr.com Website https://www.inthelimelightmedia.com Contact email: Clarissa@ClarissaBurt.com Core Editorial Themes: Entrepreneurship, Beauty, Fashion, Health, Lifestyle, Finance, Relationships, Money, Wealth, Business, News, Celebrity, Entertainment, Leadership, Charity, Events, News Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Purple Planet Music. “Celebration”. Purple-Planet. 2019. Purple Planet Music. “Teamwork”. Purple-Planet. 2019. Purple Planet Music. “Time of Your Life”. Purple-Planet. 2019. Purple Planet Music. “Victory”. Purple-Planet. 2019. Tags: In the Limelight, In the Limelight Media, Clarissa Burt, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneur Life, Entrepreneurial Women, Business, Lifestyle, Personal Development, Motivational Speaker Add guest tags here Social Hashtags: #ClarissaBurt #InThe LimeLight #IntheLimelightMedia #InTheLimelightTV #Business #Solopreneur #Solopreneurs #Entrepreneur #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #EntrepreneurshipAdvice #EntrepreneurTip #EntrepreneurMotivation #EntrepreneursDontSleep #EntrepreneurialMen #EntrepreneurialWomen #Entrepreneurialism #EntreprenuerSuccess #EntrepreneurInspiration #EntrepreneurJourney #EntrepreneurMind #EntrepreneurMinds #entrepreneurmindset #entrepreneurmindmap #Entrepreneur101 #EntrepreneurGoals #EntrepreneurSpirit #EntrepreneurQuotes #EntrepreneurLife #EntrepreneurLifeStyle #EntrepreneurStyle #EntrepreneurWoman #host #guest #interview #interviews #podcast #talkradio #onlineradio #internetradio #producer #media #mediaoutlet #broadcast #broadcasters #broadcasting #livebroadcast #talk #talkradio #digitalmagazine #digitalmagazine #magazine #clarissaburt #inthelimelightmagazine *Some links above may be affiliate links. This means I may receive a commission through purchases. It does not affect you as a consumer.

Ken Landau talks with Jodi Wellman, an Assistant Instructor in the Master of Applied Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania, who discusses Positive Psychology for Lawyers and others. She explains how following the concepts in the mnemonic "Remap" can increase the ratio of positive emotions to negative ones.

In today's episode, we continue our interview with Jodi Wellman about life, death, and living the best life we can. This is a 2 part interview and if you haven't heard the first part yet, do check that.   Jodi Wellman is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the "big end" in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it.   Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better.   Go to www.thestandard.academy/magazine to become one of the first to get my digital magazine for free that'll help you create a kick-ass life.   You can connect with Jodi at: https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmonday https://www.linkedin.com/in/fourthousandmondays/ jodi@fourthousandmondays.com   Jodi's TEDx Talk (How Death Can Bring You Back to Life): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SyBMINoa0&t=9s   A bit about me (Dr. Orest Komarnyckyj): Dr. Orest Komarnyckyj enjoyed a prestigious career as a periodontal regenerative surgeon moving to a new passion in June 2018. He retired after a 33-year career to pursue new passions. At 69 Dr. Orest has taken on a new role as an Interviewer, Podcaster and government-certified Old Guy. He streams from his new home in Las Vegas, NV. He lives with his wife of 29 years, Oksana. His status as an empty-nesters with two out of college-employed children has left him with time and energy to share decades of successes, failures, and wisdom.   Timestamps: 00:00 - Precap 00:43 - Intro 01:53 - Intro ends/my 3-day exercise 04:40 - Novelty is crucial 05:53 - Wheel of emotion 08:40 - The power of communication 09:25 - Positive psychology 11:20 - People you hang around with 13:52 - Toxic people in life 18:04 - Finding somebody in your life that can help you edge up 18:54 - Commercial 19:27 - Commercial ends/our men's group 21:14 - Socio-emotional selective theory 24:20 - Being real 26:10 - Life jolting question 28:00 - Accountability program 34:00 - Closing thoughts 35:50 - Outro

WE ALL MUST DIE. Did this statement hit a chord with you in any way? Even though we know that death is inevitable, sometimes we forget that and start living life not up to its potential. Today we have Jodi Wellman with us, who is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the "big end" in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it.   Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better.   This is a 2 part series. Do join us next week for part 2.   Go to www.thestandard.academy/magazine to become one of the first to get my digital magazine for free that'll help you create a kick-ass life.   You can connect with Jodi at: https://www.instagram.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/fourthousandmondays/ jodi@fourthousandmondays.com   Jodi's TEDx Talk (How Death Can Bring You Back to Life): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SyBMINoa0&t=9s   A bit about me (Dr. Orest Komarnyckyj): Dr. Orest Komarnyckyj enjoyed a prestigious career as a periodontal regenerative surgeon moving to a new passion in June 2018. He retired after a 33-year career to pursue new passions. At 69 Dr. Orest has taken on a new role as an Interviewer, Podcaster and government-certified Old Guy. He streams from his new home in Las Vegas, NV. He lives with his wife of 29 years, Oksana. His status as an empty-nesters with two out of college-employed children has left him with time and energy to share decades of successes, failures, and wisdom.   Timestamps: 00:00 Precap 00:38 Intro 01:47 Guest introduction 4:50 What does memento mori translate into? 06:10 What is temporal scarcity? 08:40 My experience with ostomy 10:55 Appreciating life 11:40 Understanding suicide 13:30 Hedonic treadmill 15:59 Healthy and unhealthy coping 18:41 Commercial 19:15 Commercial ends/ How important is a purpose to living life? 21:48 My purpose in life 31:40 Tell us about the dark days. How do they show up and how do you cope? 35:02 Outro

Do you know how many Mondays you have left... in life? You get 4,000 on average, and while the bad news is that you're totally going to kick the bucket, the good news is there's still time to live before you die. Learn how your mortality can motivate you to make the most of your precious time above ground. Time's ticking. Jodi Wellman is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better. In episode 301 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out what Jodi learned as a corporate executive for Bally Total Fitness for over seven years, what made her want to go back to UPenn for a Master's Degree, how many Mondays Jodi has left and why is that the key to living the liveliest version of your life, how we can start to live again after the pandemic, how regrets help wake you up to the life you really want to be living, ways that we are boring ourselves to death with our habits and routines, whether college students should be thinking about their legacy in life, what we can do if the organization we belong to doesn't have the vitality and the deeper meaning that we expected it to have, and how we can learn to love the worst day of the week (Monday). Enjoy!

The StclairSpeaksshow is an interview format podcast show where I highlight and showcase professionals in business from across the world, we discuss topics from within their industry expertise and dive into their backstory on how they got to where they are today. https://www.thestclairspeaksshowpodcast.com/ About the guest Jodi Wellman speaker and facilitator, helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground, while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live as we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better. https://fourthousandmondays.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stclairspeaksshow/support

The StclairSpeaksshow is an interview format podcast show where I highlight and showcase professionals in business from across the world, we discuss topics from within their industry expertise and dive into their backstory on how they got to where they are today.https://www.thestclairspeaksshowpodcast.com/About the guest Jodi Wellman speaker and facilitator, helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground, while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live as we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better.https://fourthousandmondays.com/Watch the full interview here https://youtu.be/Q15urNvklqQ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you like Mondays? Did you know that the average person only experiences about four thousand Mondays in their entire life? How many Mondays have you already spent? How many do you think you have left? It's been said that although death is the destruction of the body, it is the awareness of death that actually saves our lives. I feel this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal is timely and very important for all of us as I have a very insightful conversation with Executive coach and speaker Jodi Wellman about her passion to utilize death awareness to bring a higher vitality of life to the world. Jodi named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines light on the finite number of weeks that an average human being has in their life. As a result, we need to live with focused intention and awareness. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better. I would like to extend a special invitation to you to listen carefully to this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast today.

Jodi Wellman is a leading authority on living lives worth living. As a speaker and facilitator, she helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground — while cleverly beginning with the “big end” in mind. She named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines the light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better.P.S.: Check out my TEDx talk on "How Death Can Bring You Back to Life"!LISTEN TO THE REAL RAW TRUTH PODCASThttps://www.robbieraugh.com/podcast​ https://apple.co/3BXmOGQhttps://bit.ly/3EKU2e6 The Real. Raw. Truth. Podcast was started to engage in insightful, relevant conversations with Keri Spring and Robbie Raugh about the Mind. Body. Soul. Spirit. Each episode will focus on living life intentionally and intersecting God's Word in the real hard places that are a struggle for many. Our featured guests, spanning all areas of life, will provide valuable tools, tips or training within their area of specialty. We hope that a regardless of background, fears, age or stage of life, it's something you look forward to listening to each week!

If you own a AR style rifle for defense you need to set it up correctly.  On this episode of The Green Ops Podcast Luke talks with AR expert Matt McGuire on what gear should be put on your rifle as well as what gear you should leave off, what to upgrade and what to look for in a fighting rifle.  Matt is a United States Marine Corps veteran. Prior to the Marine Corps Matt worked for 2 years as a Martial Arts instructor for a school aged martial arts program and as a student, training in Muay Thai, Boxing, Kali Escrima and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Matt started shooting competitively in 2011 and through 2013 competed in USPSA, IDPA and 3 Gun. He has over 125 hours of professional training from some of the most highly regarded instructors in the industry including Mike Pannone, Aaron Cowan, Scott Jedlinski (as a student, RSO and Assistant Instructor), Bill Blowers, Jared Reston, Kerry Davis, Steve Fischer as well as Green Ops. Matt is also a Modern Samurai Project endorsed Red Dot Pistol InstructorFrom 2018 to 2020 Matt worked as the customer service representative, Quality Control and Law Enforcement sales representative for Sons of Liberty Gun Works. Matt's focus is on the performance use of firearms for civilians in defensive roles helping new shooters develop strong mindsets, efficient technique, enhanced self-awareness and confidence. He is also an NRA certified pistol instructor and a Certified AR-15 Armorer. Matt has been a concealed carry license holder in Florida (2007-2008) North Carolina (2009-2011), Oklahoma (2011-2013) and Texas (2016-present).Check out our sponsors;F3 tacticalhttps://f3tactical.com Sons of Liberty Gun Workshttps://sonsoflibertygw.comSpotter Uphttps://spotterup.comBlue Force Gearhttps://blueforcegear.comCome train with us at Green Ops. https://www.green-ops.com Follow us on Instagram:Green Ops - greenopsincLuke - Wreck_it_LukeDex - redleg_dexBrian - Shooter_Mcchristian_75Matt - mcguire_thewayforwardintro/outro music:Utopia by ASHUTOSH https://soundcloud.com/grandaktCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0Free Download / Stream: Sons Of Liberty Gun Works A superior manufacture of high quality, hard-use, direct impingement freedom tools.F3 Tactical Tactical gear shop located in Chantilly, VA.Spotter Up Spotter Up provides information in support of individuals becoming the best Chessmen they can be.Blue Force Gear Blue Force Gear, manufactures (MOLLE) gear, firearm slings, and other tactical equipment.Green Ops Swag Get all your favorite Green Ops Gear here.Green Ops Come train with us.

On this week's episode of The Indy, we speak with Daniel Nash, Assistant Instructor at Master Yun's Traditional Tai Chi and Kung Fu (www.masteryun.com) about bringing tradition Wu Style Tai Chi to Santa Barbara and how the Tai Chi practice encourages a healthy lifestyle. After, we spoke with Rita Madlock, founder of Monkeytail Intelligent Exercise (www.monkeytailintelligentexercise.com) about cultivating a training program through mind-body techniques as well as how connectivity throughout the body begins with an understanding of anatomy and holistic health.

The smell of coffee is one of the great joys in this life. As professionals we take this important sensory aspect of coffee and build tools and protocols around it so we can fully and accurately assess a coffee's quality and ultimately serve something consistently wonderful to our customers. In order to do this we need to bring balance, calibration, and objectivity to the personal tastes and experiences we all bring to the cupping table.  Today we on the Rate of Rise series from Roast Magazine we will be diving into this subject of scent and calibration with the author of the Jan/Feb 2022 Roast Magazine article "Exploring Scent", Sandra Elisa Loofbourow! Sandra is the Director of Coffee Content for The Crown, a certified Q Grader and Assistant Instructor, and a Q Processing Generalist. She brings with her a depth of experience as a roaster, green buyer, and barista. Sandra is co-host of the bilingual podcast Cafetera Intelectual and chair of the Good Food Awards Coffee Committee. In this conversation we cover: Journey of honing her own sensory skills The role of scent  Passion guiding sensory pursuits  Emotions and scent Why this sense is underdeveloped Consensus and price discovery Bringing objectivity to personal experience  How big does your circle of calibration need to be How we are always calibrating Le Nez Du Cafe Having clear goals First steps and resources to improve your sense of smell Links: https://royalcoffee.com/the-crown/ https://www.cafeteraintelectual.com   Subscribe to Roast Magazine! Use code "ROR" to get $5 off   Related Episodes: RoR #1: A Conversation w/ Anne Cooper of Equilibrium Master Roasters RoR #2: Exploring Quality Control w/ Spencer Turer of Coffee Enterprises RoR #3: Making Contingency Planning a Reality w/ Andi Trindle Mersch of Philz Coffee RoR #4: Practical Thermal Dynamics w/ Candice Madison of Royal Coffee / The Crown Oak RoR #5: Time and Color in Roasting w/ Morten Munchow of Coffee Mind” RoR #6: Buying Less and Doing More w/ Ever Meister RoR #7 Illustrative Sample Roasting w/ Mike Ebert of Firedancer Coffee Consultants ROR #8 How Post-Harvest Processing Impacts Flavor w/ Siva Subramanian and Byron Holcomb of Olam Food Ingredients RoR #9 Inside the Roaster's Tool Kit w/ Kat Melheim of Black and White Coffee and The Coffee People Zine RoR #10 : What Your Broker Wishes You Knew w/ Scott Merle of La Minita Coffee  

Faisal Khan is the founder of 1extrodinarylife.com, offering Consulting, Training, and Coaching to help working professionals and students prevent burnout, find balance, and promote happiness in all domains of their lives. He holds Master's degrees in Technology Management, Business Administration and Management, and Applied Positive Psychology all from the University of Pennsylvania where he is also an Assistant Instructor. He's certified in coaching from IFC and is a member of the Forbes Coaching Council. In this episode we dig far and wide into pandemic stress, struggling careers, what to do when it's time to pivot, overcoming uncertainty, the need for fearlessness, and prioritizing being over doing. This is an episode you'll want to dive into with ears and hearts fully open! Faisal also has a Facebook group to target professionals avoiding burnout. You can sign up to join at positivepsychology4professionals.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/betterthanfine/support

Petra Foerster was Born and raised in East of Germany, before the fall of the Berlin wall. There she was exposed to communist/socialist authoritarian governments and the tail end of the cold war. She started practicing Judo at the age of 6 practicing for more than 15 years achieving her Brown Belt. In December 2012 she decided to move to Vancouver and looking for a new start found Krav Maga at the end of 2014 at a gym in downtown Vancouver. In the fall of 2016, she switched to UTKM where she is now an Assistant Instructor and Green Belt. A few years ago she started training Judo again finally getting her Black Belt and now is teaching Kids classes at the Kensington Judo Club. As part of UTKM requirements, she also trains BJJ recently receiving her Blue Belt from Mike Hansen at Budo Martial Arts Burnaby. In June 2019 she went with fellow UTKM instructors to California and completed the IKF instructor Course under Amit Himelstein. In This Episode, we discuss her Martial Arts Journey, Judo, Krav Maga, Growing up in East Germany, Her recent Blog Post series Doomed to Repeat, Mental health, and more... The post Episode 85 – Petra Foerster is a UTKM assistant Instructor and Green Belt, Judo Black Belt, and BJJ Blue Belt first appeared on Urban Tactics Krav Maga.

On this Episode of "Manny Talks Shooting" we talk to AJ Zito. AJ is a master class single stack shooter in USPSA. AJ also is a custom 1911/2011 builder. AJ has his own training company in Prescott Arizona called Practical Performance. AJ teaches many classes. AJ also is an Assistant Instructor for Scott Jedlinski aka Jedi. We talk about custom guns, some USPSA rules, getting better at shooting with metrics, and putting the ego to the curb. Check out AJ Zito at https://www.instagram.com/practical_performance_org/?hl=en https://practicalperformance.org/

Dana Fulwiler is an Alberta-based educator, consultant, and facilitator. She earned her Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania, where she learned from leading wellbeing researchers and the field's founder, Dr. Martin Seligman. Her teaching and professional experiences over the past 15 years span public education, non-profit, and post-secondary, including current roles as an Assistant Instructor in UPenn's MAPP program and BEd Sessional Instructor at the University of Calgary. Twitter: @danafulwiler Website: https://danafulwiler.com Resources mentioned during the podcast: https://www.viacharacter.org https://characterlab.org Lea Waters: SEARCH framework: https://www.leawaters.com/vwb-search-for-wellbeing-course Brooke Anderson: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_daily_questions_to_ask_yourself_in_quarantine Professor Prilleltenski: https://www.professorisaac.com/mattering Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David

Everyone deserves equal access to compassionate care. And yet, transgender and gender non-conforming individuals face a number of challenges in navigating the healthcare system. As pathologists and laboratory professionals, what can we do to improve the healthcare experience for our transgender patients? On this episode of Inside the Lab, our hosts Dr. Dan Milner and Dr. Lotte Mulder are joined by Dr. Jeff SoRelle, MD, Assistant Instructor of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, Ms. Julie Papango, MLS(ASCPi)CM, Medical Technologist, Humanitarian Aid Worker, and Award-Winning Public Speaker, and Dr. Robin LeGallo, MD, Associate Professor of Surgical and Autopsy Pathology at the University of Virginia, to discuss transgender pathology. Our panelists explore the challenges transgender and gender non-conforming people face in accessing healthcare, describing how lab values can change in patients on hormone therapy, and what we can do to improve anatomic pathology processing and reporting for the transgender population. Listen in for Dr. SoRelle, Ms. Papango, and Dr. LeGallo’s insight on advancing electronic health records to better accommodate transgender patients and learn what we can do as pathologists and laboratory professionals to advocate for the transgender and gender non-conforming community. Key Takeaways · The challenges transgender and gender non-conforming people face in accessing healthcare· The specific challenges transgender people face in the area of anatomic pathology processing and reporting· How lab values change in transgender patients on hormone therapy and what we can do to implement transgender-specific reference intervals· How some laboratory information systems handle the sex field for transgender patients and how electronic health records might be improved· Leveraging precision medicine to better serve the transgender population· What laboratory professionals and pathologists can do to advocate for improved healthcare for the transgender community, especially in rural areas Connect with ASCP ASCPASCP on FacebookASCP on InstagramASCP on Twitter Connect with Dr. SoRelleDr. SoRelle at UT Southwestern Medical CenterDr. SoRelle on LinkedInDr. SoRelle on Twitter Connect with Ms. PapangoSociety of Transsexual Women of the PhilippinesMs. Papango on LinkedIn Connect with Dr. LeGallo Dr. LeGallo at the University of Virginia Connect with Dr. Mulder & Dr. Milner Dr. Mulder on TwitterDr. Milner on Twitter ResourcesInside the Lab in the ASCP Store

Martha Knudson, J.D., MAPP is the Executive Director of the Utah State Bar’s Well-Being Committee for the Legal Profession working with Utah’s judges, lawyers, and law students to enhance engagement, performance, resilience, and overall well-being. As part of her role, she also advises researchers at the University of Utah conducting empirical research of lawyers and law students in the western United States. Prior to working in the well-being field, Martha practiced law for almost 18 years. She earned her law degree in 1999, graduating magna cum laude. After passing the bar Martha became a litigator in private law-firm practice where she rose to the rank of shareholder. She later became General Counsel of a leading real estate management company where she was provided legal over-site on all aspects of the company’s national operations, advised leadership, and worked with the messy reality of keeping a business and its people thriving. In 2015, Martha earned a master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from The University of Pennsylvania where she has since served as an Assistant Instructor to the graduate program. Martha also works with private clients and regularly speaks and publishes articles on well-being in the law. She recently contributed a chapter in the book The Best Lawyer You Can Be: A Guide to Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Wellness. Transcript:CHRIS NEWBOLD:                Hello, and welcome to episode eight of The National Task Force on Lawyer Wellbeing Podcast Series, The Path to Wellbeing in Law. I'm your cohost, Chris Newbold, the executive vice president of ALPS Malpractice Insurance. And our goal here is simple, to introduce you to cool people doing awesome work in the space of lawyer wellbeing, and in the process, build and nurture a national network of wellbeing advocates intent on creating a culture shift within the legal profession. I'm joined today by my friend and fellow co-chair of The National Taskforce, Bree Buchanan. Bree, welcome.BREE BUCHANAN:               Thanks, Chris. Good to be here.CHRIS:                Yeah. And today, we're going to continue an evolution that we've done over the last two podcasts, which is kind of a march around the states. We started in Virginia. We spent some time with Heidi Alexander in Massachusetts, and we really do kind of feel like the states are really kind of getting out front, testing new wellbeing initiatives and commitment, making investments in wellbeing in terms of the health of their members and the health of the profession. And as we know, movements generally are driven by things that happen at the grassroots level. And so today, we're going to kind of continue that. And a few states have jumped out front. One of them is the state of Utah. And we're very excited to have us joined today by Martha Knudson, who is the executive director of the Utah State Bar's Wellbeing Committee for the Legal Profession. And Martha is the byproduct of some work that's happened in Utah, and we're really excited about some of the things happening in Utah and excited to welcome Martha to the podcast. So Bree, would you be so kind to introduce Martha?BREE:               Absolutely. And Martha, just welcome. We're so delighted to have you. So Martha Knudson, prior to working in the wellbeing field, she practiced law for 18 years. She was a litigator in a private law firm practice. She was also general council of a leading real estate management company. And then, of course, I imagine there's a story here, hopefully we'll hear it, in 2015, Martha's career took a turn and she pursued ... Well, she earned at that point in time, a master's degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. And she now regularly speaks and publishes articles on wellbeing in the law, as well as the great work that she's doing at the Utah bar. So welcome, Martha.I wanted to ... We always ask our guests a question at the very beginning. And it's about what brought you to the wellbeing movement, what experiences in your life are really drivers behind what I know is that you have a passion for this work.MARTHA KNUDSON:            That is a great question. And as you so deftly noticed, there is a story. I was attracted to the wellbeing in law movement for very personal reasons. Because I really suffered from burnout, depression, and anxiety that got kind of manifested when I was in private practice, about the third year of practice at my firm. I remember just suddenly not being happy. Life had no color. I felt like I was going to grow old and die behind my desk, but I kept putting my head down and working and working because I wanted to excel in the profession. I wanted to learn how to be a litigator. I wanted to make partner, and I did all those things. Right?But it wasn't like ... I always thought, "I'll be happy when." But by the time I got to 10 years into my practice, I was miserable, burnt out, all the rest, and so I walked away from my partnership, and thought I was just washing my hands of it. I really figured that I could either do well as a lawyer, or be happy in my life. So retirement didn't last long. I got talked out of it to go work for a great company as their general counsel. And as I made the decision to do so, I thought, "I want to do this differently. I want to see if I can do well at work and as an attorney, and be well in my life."So I went out and I started doing research. So all good research is me-search. So I came across, as I'm looking. How can you thrive in your career in your life? So I found the science of positive psychology, which is really the science of optimal human performance and thriving. And I learned about focusing on strengths and protective factors, and how to work better with my emotions and cognitive processes, and all the different things that science tells us goes into increased wellbeing. And I learned that doing well, or being well in your life, really drives doing well [inaudible 00:05:31]. Yeah. I'd be making a false choice.So that is what led me back to school, so ended up going and getting my master's degree while still working full-time and remodeling my house. So that actually probably was not the best wellbeing choice, little overloaded there. But yeah, and as I came out, I made the decision to step back from the practice in favor of serving the profession.BREE:            Yeah. I just want to echo some things that you said earlier that really popped out to me when you talked about being in the practice, and you said, "Life had no color." And that's just a great phrase, really. When I was with the lawyer's assistance program in Texas for about a decade, and I heard that, and I could just envision that as when I had so many people call, they were just really unhappy in their lives and unhappy in their practice. And it was manifesting as depression, or anxiety, or et cetera. Yeah, I just wanted to kind of capture that a little bit.CHRIS:                Yeah. And Martha, what a bold move. Right? I mean, most people don't have that willpower to be able to say, "I've climbed the mountain. I'm at the partnership level," but then to really kind of look inside and say, "But am I really, truly satisfied in where I'm at?"MARTHA:            Well, thank you. It felt like a lifesaver for me at the time. But I know I had lots of colleagues that ... Well, it was interesting. I had some that were scratching their heads. But I had others, I had partners that came into my office and said, "I will deny this if you ever use my name, but I wish I could do what you're doing. Go. Run free. Be free." And that was interesting to me to hear that from people that they were envious of the decision that I was making. And it's too bad because it doesn't need to be that way. And the more that I've learned about the science of wellbeing and performance and the rest, and the more I interact with attorneys on this end, it really doesn't need to be that way. The law is an incredible profession, and we all deserve, and frankly, society deserves for lawyers to be doing well.BREE:          Well said.CHRIS:                 Well, let's talk a little bit about Utah. Right? And I'm curious, and I have a little bit of experience with Utah because I was actually on your task force, although not as probably actively involved as I should have been, but which oftentimes happens. But obviously, the Utah Supreme Court, you have a couple of great leaders in Justice Paige Peterson and your former bar president, Dickson Burton. And you guys get going, and you launched this task force. Talk about that process and how that came together, how long the task force worked, and how you finished that phase of where that phase took you, and where we are now.MARTHA:              Great. Well, so it really was the brainchild of Chief Justice Matthew Durrant. And this came as a result of the incredible task force report that you folks were a big part of. So Justice Durrant and Justice Peterson, they just dove into that report, and they answered the call that was made to states, bar associations, courts, et cetera, to take a look at lawyer wellbeing. And so they brought in Dickson Burton, who was an incredible leader, and they formed this task force. And it was really important to Justice Peterson and Dickson Burton to have thought leaders on this task force, thought leaders in firms, in law schools, in small practice, solo practice, across the courts, different judges, and to also have different experts be a part of this because they wanted to put something out that people would notice and listen to.And so I was fortunate enough to be on this task force because of the combination of my experience practicing law and my positive psychology expertise. So we sat down together about once a month for I think it was nine or 10 months, and we really used that national task force report as a blueprint for how to operate. And we followed along with the recommendations that were in that task force report, which was beautiful not to have to reinvent the wheel. And we came up with different recommendations for the various stakeholders in the Utah legal profession, for example, the courts, lawyers, law students in law schools, the bar, regulators, et cetera.And one of the primary recommendations that the task force made, and this was near and dear to my heart, was to have a baseline assessment done using scientific measures by the science guys to figure out where Utah sits. We have that national study, which was so instrumental in galvanizing this movement. But does Utah look just like that? Are we the same? Are we different? Are we better in some areas, worse in others? And we also wanted to try to drill down to see. Are there pockets of different types of practice, or age, or whatever, or rural versus urban, where lawyers are doing better, or lawyers are doing worse? So we can get some clues on where we should be focusing our efforts.So we are working with the University of Utah School of Medicine, an occupational epidemiologist named Dr. Matthew Thiese. And he came in and we worked together to put a survey out. So that is, so the recommendations and the beginning of this lawyer study kind of started at the same time. And in the midst of all this, the decision was made to convert the task force to a permanent standing committee under the Utah State Bar's umbrella. And the purpose of the task ... Excuse me. The purpose of the committee is to carry out the recommendations of the task force. And so that is where we are now, is we are working on those recommendations and the study is ... We have results back on the baseline study, and we are still analyzing data and working forward on that as well.BREE:            I had heard about the study that you were doing, and really excited about it and the implications that it can have for other states as well. Do you have a sense of when it's going to be completed or the data will be available?MARTHA:            Yes. I actually can give you some of the data now. So we continue to pull in more data using the same survey. But the preliminary data was made available at the beginning of 2020. And I'll tell you a little bit about that. And then we continue to collect data as we go along, and the study will morph. But the preliminary data that we are seeing is there's some good and there's some troubling. Let's start with the positive. Right? So we are seeing actually, there are areas that lawyers in Utah are doing really well. About 46% of us have a moderate or high level of job satisfaction, which is awesome. And there's things that lawyers have answered when we've asked, dug in on why that is. Lawyers in Utah that say they are satisfied with their job, they really enjoy collaborating and working with others. They like that connection piece, which we know from the science, how important that is to motivation and wellbeing and performance.They like intellectual challenge. Those folks enjoy knowing that their contributions matter, that they have a sense of meaning and purpose in their work. And all those things are really great to find that out because we're seeing that those are areas that are right for us to go and see if we can create more of that for more of the population.BREE:            Absolutely. Yeah.MARTHA:          So those are the positives. There were some really troubling results though that we found. So as we did this research, we were really mindful about how we set it up because we used a lot of different measures. But one measure in particular that we used is called the PHQ-9, and it's a measure that is used a ton. There's really reliable, valid, and it measures depressive symptoms or likelihood to have clinical depression and also measures suicide, or your suicidal ideation and those kinds of things because that's something that we've been concerned about because of what we've seen nationally and also anecdotal evidence. And we also chose that measure because there is a national data collection set that comes out every couple years called the NHANES. And we wanted to be able to compare what our population here in Utah, the Utah lawyers, look like compared to people in the national general working population. How do we compare?So what we found is that lawyers in Utah are five times more likely to experience depressive symptoms than the general working population. About 44.4% of responding lawyers reported feelings of depression. And from our data, we are seeing that it indicates about 15% have a serious depressive disorder, and that is really troubling.BREE:        That is. And so Martha, let me ask just real quick. When you talk about comparing lawyers with the working population, is that just all workers in the population? Or is that lawyers?MARTHA:            That's all workers in the population.BREE:          Okay. Okay.MARTHA:        Yeah. So we want to see: If you're a lawyer, rather than just generally employed individual, does that increase your risk of developing some of the occupational hazards that we too often see in our profession? And so along those lines, I'll give you two more numbers, and then but I think there's a lot more encouraging that's coming out. But we're seeing about 48.7% of the Utah lawyers responding are reporting some level of burnout. And burnout I think is something a lot of us can relate to on some level. And it's very common, can happen to anybody in any job. But it is a risk factor for developing some of these other more serious problems that we see.BREE:          And Martha, just real quick. Is that 48.7 burnout, percent of burnout, I assume that's pre COVID. Right?MARTHA:              Yes. Yes. This is all pre COVID data. The data that we collected is pre COVID that's going into these numbers that I'm telling you. And then we'll see. I'm curious as we move forward with continuing data collection, if we see an uptick in some of these, both positive or negative. Right? Because it could be that we see some positive things come out of that as well. But one last number that I'd like to just share with you because it is really guiding a lot of our work here in Utah and I think it's something that nationally we all should be paying attention to.So there is a question in that NHANES measure that we talked about that asks: How often do you have thoughts of being better off dead or of hurting yourself? And what we have found is that lawyers in Utah are 8.5 times more likely to report thoughts of being better off dead or hurting yourself than compared to the general working population, and that is very sobering.BREE:        That is. Let me real quick, because I think people will be listening, and they're trying to compare thinking about their state compared to what you're talking about. How many lawyers in Utah? What size is the bar?MARTHA:          We have a little shy of 10,000 that are active.BREE:              Okay. Yeah. That's helpful.CHRIS:                And your survey sample size ended up being generally what?MARTHA:            Our survey sample size was about 700, so we had a statistically significant number. And we sampled from across geography, age, gender, all the things. So we have a really good sample that is very reliable.CHRIS:              Yeah.BREE:          That report, has that been written up, reduced to writing, and is that available anywhere?MARTHA:          So the preliminary numbers that I talked about today, they are available. They came out in an article to the Utah State Bar. They're available on our wellbeing website, which is wellbeing.utahbar.org, under data on Utah lawyers. And then there are, we're drilling down even further into the data on a lot of the other measures we're looking at. And we've got some articles that are out for publication right now, and so those are not available yet, but they should be available hopefully within the next few months. [crosstalk 00:20:30]. And I'm happy to answer questions to anybody that's interested. Or I could connect them with our researcher. I know Dr. Thiese has been speaking with several other states about using the same survey we developed, and all of us working together on this.BREE:              Great. Right. So for people who are listening, if you scroll down if you can see this online, in the transcript, we'll have links that Martha was just talking about if people want to be able to access that.CHRIS:                 Yeah. Martha, first of all, I want to commend again the leadership there because I think, I mean, obviously, we're an evidence-based profession. Right? And I think that probably goes to kind of one of the things that you were thinking about, which is we need to be able to document the issue as it relates to Utah lawyers to then kind of know where we're at and where we need to get to. I'm curious how much you needed to spend for the survey because I know one of the things that I oftentimes recommend to state task forces is some type of a survey apparatus. Sometimes it's more of the informal, unscientific method, which is still important because you're still doing a lot of education through the survey tool itself. You went a much more kind of academic scientifically based method, so I'm just kind of wondering what type of resources you invested to be able to produce that.MARTHA:            Well, we pulled a rabbit out of a hat a little bit here. And the bar originally, and the courts were thinking of hiring a survey company. And myself and a couple other members of the task force really lobbied against that because we wanted to have that evidence-based scientific survey, so we could know that what we were asking, we were getting correct, reliable answers. So then we can measure again to see if we moved the needle, all those things. And we were fortunate enough to have connection to Dr. Thiese, and he comes at it from the population standpoint instead of an individual, looking at what's going on in the population.And we talked to Matt, and he was willing to pitch in and do this for us for a very reasonable sum. At the time, I believe we paid him less than 15 grand to do this. And I'll tell you, he has put in so much time and effort and resources above and beyond that amount, that it's been phenomenal. And I know he's very willing to work with other states on this and to help them out and do what he can with the resources that they have. But also, we're out right now in the community talking to other organizations, working on getting grants because what we'd like to do with this research is expand it far beyond Utah and start doing some interventional studies where we get in and you tweak something to see if it changes.And Dr. Thiese and his partners are out there right now trying to find grant money so we can do this. So support of anyone listening that would like to be involved in this is invited.CHRIS:Yeah. Very interesting. And I'm curious whether the scope at all addressed any of the corresponding causation issues. Or was there any movement into that area in terms of just the overall scope of the survey?MARTHA:              Yes. The data that's come out thus far has been very focused on what we're finding with some of these outcomes, I guess, if that's the right way to say it. But we also, we could've had a huge, long survey. And I was like, "Let's add this, and let's add this," and using all my positive psychology background. But we decided, we pinpointed a few areas to look at, to see if we could get some clues. Right?So one of the areas that we are looking at, and did look at with the survey, is social support, and the perceptions that people have that they are supported, belong in their organizations, in the community, in their lives outside of work. So social support is something that is incredibly important, and we are doing the analysis right now to see correlations between perceived social support and where you sit on some of these other measures. So we looked at that, we looked at work engagement. We looked at how often people are moving, on the physical movement piece of that. I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff. It's been a while since I've looked at the survey.But yeah, we are definitely trying to look at the causation piece, and that's something we will continue to dig into because this survey, we see it as a real starting point because that's what we want to do, is get to the causation. Right? We want to see what's going on and why this is happening. So this gives us a place to really drill down. For example, if you see one area of practice, like family law, and if we see that folks in family law tend to be having a harder time with some of these wellbeing measures than others. What are they doing differently? So we can go back and work with some of these same study participants. The University of Utah can. This is all confidential. Right? I don't know who said what, and nor should I know, nor should the bar know. And they won't. But to see what clues we can get, so then we can start build out some ... To find out the cause, and then build out interventions.CHRIS:Yeah. Awesome. It's interesting having kind of looked at this issue and monitored obviously over the last several years that the growth of the scientific approach in our space is something that is a real opportunity for us. And I think we're all thankful that both you and Utah in general is kind of jumping out in front because I think that documenting the issues and understanding causation, that's going to allow us to ultimately to be more surgical in our approach on what levers we need to pull to improve the overall wellbeing of the profession, which obviously then leads to a better legal system in general.MARTHA:              Right. One thing I didn't mention that I'd love to just throw out there for all the listeners is the focus that Utah is moving toward on organizations. As part of our study, we have enrolled, oh gosh, I can't remember the exact number, but I think it's nine, between nine and 12 law firms to participate in the survey as an organization. So we can start to suss out: Why is one organization doing better than another? So we can see some clues there because organization and culture has such an incredible impact on wellbeing. We talk about wellbeing a lot as individual things that we all can do, and they're very important. Right?But the fish bowl that we swim in is just as, if not more so, important to our wellbeing. So the more we can see what our culture is like, what our organizations are doing that help our wellbeing, and that could cut against it, I think the more we can really get to the bottom of what's happening to cause some of these problems. And what are people doing that are lending ... What are organizations doing that are helping lawyers to thrive?CHRIS:              Yeah. Well, let's take a break here. I'd like to come back, Martha, and talk more about just kind of where you're at in your day to day, what you're hoping to accomplish as you kind of think about the various pathways that you've selected to pursue. And then obviously, words of wisdom that you have for other states who are embarking either on this journey or embarking on the journey, so let's take a quick break and we'll be back.—  Advertisement:                       Your law firm is worth protecting and so is your time. ALPS has the quickest online application for legal malpractice insurance out there. Apply, see rates, and find coverage all in about 20 minutes. Being a lawyer is hard. Our new online app is easy. Apply now at applyonline.alpsnet.com.— BREE:          Welcome back, everybody. We've got with us today, Martha Knudson, who is the director of the Utah Bar's Wellbeing Committee for the Legal Profession. And we've been talking about some really interesting data that's coming out of the survey that they're doing. But Martha, I wanted to hear. What else is the committee working on right now?MARTHA:            Well, there's a lot. Let's see if I can give you some broad areas that we have been working on and seeing some success. One area that Utah has really done well with is communicating that wellbeing is important. And we're doing so using several mediums. We regularly have wellbeing related articles in our bar journal. At every CLE conference that we have, there is a track that is discussing different wellbeing related areas, so we're seeing that. We've got social media that is posting. We are using our monthly e-bulletin and putting out little wellbeing bites and news on that area. So we're really promoting and getting out and talking about the importance of wellbeing. And we're seeing that branch to beyond the wellbeing committee into other committees that are starting to take up the same push with the importance of wellbeing.We're also working on increasing education and teaching people about what are the protective factors to some of the things that we're seeing. And also, many of us don't ever experience those things. But how can we go from where we are to even doing better? How can we really thrive in the practice of law? And it was recently after COVID hit, we did a three part resilience series for lawyers, and had an overwhelming response. I was amazed. We had over 500 people on every session that we offered.BREE:      That's amazing.MARTHA:       Yeah, that was super encouraging to see lawyers talking about that, so we're doing those things. We're working on stigma reduction. We are really pushing awareness of resources available. How do you get access to them? Gosh, what else? I could go on and on. We're working on amending some of the rules of professionalism to expand the definition to allow for more programming in that area. And that is something is very supported within the MCLE board and the rest, and that's pending.BREE:              That's great. That's such an important piece.MARTHA:            Yeah. The law schools are doing awesome things. Both law schools have dedicated counselors for the students, so we're really seeing a push. But right now, so much of it has to do with education, getting people to recognize or understand. What is wellbeing? Why does it matter? And how do we start? And we put together a couple of phase one best practices for organizations and individuals to give people that place to start.CHRIS:            Yeah. One of the things that we talk a lot about on the podcast and encourage our guests to opine on is: What are ultimately the drivers of the culture shift that we're trying to engineer? And it sounds like in Utah, you've put a lot of your marbles into the education space. The more that we can make people aware, the more that we can build a set of practitioners and others associated with the legal professional that are aware of the realities of our profession, that's going to go a long way in terms of ultimately having us think through just a different lens than we do today.MARTHA:           Right, right. And I think in Utah, we put our eggs in, let's see, probably three broad baskets. I might add one as I speak, but we'll see. So one would be research. Where are we? So we know where we are and where we're going. We talked about that. The other one is education. What is wellbeing? And why should you care? Even if you don't care about people being happen, even though it's the right thing to do, you should care because it makes you a better lawyer. And better lawyers can pack the bottom line. Right? Organizations, your lawyers are your assets, so that.And number three, resources, providing ... What are the things that people can build within themselves and within their organizations? Which is part of education. Right? What can you do to actually start to move the needle? Where do you start? So those are probably the big three that we have focused on first. And within those, there's just so much stuff going on. But yeah, that's really where we're starting because if you want to ... Culture change is hard. Right? It is very hard to turn the Titanic. Well, I guess that's probably not. I shouldn't say Titanic. It's really hard to turn a really large ship. Lawyers are not the Titanic. That was probably a bad use of example.But culture is hard to change, and it takes education. It takes leaders being willing to stand up and talk about why wellbeing is important, and then walk the talk. This is COVID and the coronavirus is actually something I think, one of the silver linings is that I think that is going to drive a culture change because it's been speeding up the process of getting our profession to recognize that wellbeing is bound up with everything that we do as a lawyer. Our wellbeing is vital to our ability to practice well and do so sustainably. And so where it was even eight months ago, we're starting to see the conversation get bigger and bigger. But it's also easily put by leaders and a lot of organizations kind of pushed aside, or pushed off to HR or something, that just HR deals with.And now we have this situation where work is disrupted, and things have gone a little bit bonkers. And you have law firm leaders that are recognizing they have to care about the wellbeing of their people if they want this workforce to be sustainable. And so I think that is going to drive culture change in a really positive way.CHRIS:             Those are interesting insights. I think we've all spent time in our shelter in place positions, and just had a lot of time to reflect. Right? What is it that we want? And what is our position? What is our family? What is our firm? I'm really kind of thinking about those big picture issues that I think you're right, that the pandemic has been a very interesting time I think, and potentially a real disruptive force for the betterment on the wellbeing front.MARTHA:            Agreed.CHRIS:              Yeah. Let's talk a little bit about, Martha, your role. You're the executive director. I presume that you're working full-time. But talk to me about just kind of your commitment because we do need folks who play the point guard position and can kind of lead the symphony, if you will. And I'm just kind of curious on you and your role with the Utah State Bar.MARTHA:             Yeah. My role with the Utah State Bar looks a little different I think than my counterparts. There's the few of us out there. So I actually am not a full-time employee of the bar. I contract with the bar for about 10 hours of my time a week to focus on wellbeing efforts and to take the recommendations of the task force and now the committee and move them forward. And this is really, this position was really the brainchild of Justice Paige Peterson, who she thought, "We have all these great ideas, and we have all these folks on the committee and in the court and the bar, who really care about wellbeing." But unless you have somebody that's paid for it, it's really difficult to make that the top priority. Right?So that's my relationship with the bar, so I do that work. And then I do other things as well. But yeah, that's how it's worked out. And it's really been interesting to me how much we can get done with that amount of time. [crosstalk 00:38:42].CHRIS:              I think there's oftentimes, we kind of feel like, boy, if we can't have a full-time person, we're just not going to be able to make a difference. And I think that you're proving in Utah that in fact, with very limited resources and a limited allocation of a state bar, a state supreme court, you can actually make a huge difference with something that's far less significant than what we're seeing in states like Virginia and Massachusetts, where you're actually seeing kind of lawyer assessments on bar dues. Right?MARTHA:            Right.CHRIS:        That there's some real opportunity out there for smaller states, let's call it states less than 25,000 lawyers to really invest in wellbeing, but to do it in kind of innovative and contract labor-based ways.MARTHA:           Right, right. Yeah. I think that it would be absolutely wonderful to have access to more resources. And we'll see where that all goes, not just in Utah, but in other states. But I think if you want to get your state moving forward with wellbeing, you certainly need to have a group of thought leaders in the community that people listen to, so you need a group of those folks. And then if you can have somebody that is dedicated [inaudible 00:40:05] with their time, paid, to moving initiatives forward, I think that makes a huge difference. And I would say it's very important to have an attorney do that if at all possible.The benefit that I have with my position, and I'm certainly not super unique in this, I guess I am to some extent, but that I have ... I practiced law for 18 years. I know what it's like to be a law firm partner. I know what it's like to be general council and run cases and try cases and do all the things. So I know what it's like. And then I also have the positive psychology expertise side of it. So you don't have to have necessarily that expertise. But I think to have someone that has experience as an attorney take this forward is something that does make a difference. But it is definitely something that states can do on a limited budget.BREE:            And so Martha, I'm just really, one of the things we like to ask is: What are the secrets to your success, your state's success so far? And one common theme, which I definitely see in Utah is that you have strong leadership from the Supreme Court in getting this started. Are there other secrets to your success that you want to share that you haven't already?MARTHA:         Well, yeah, you're right on the strong leadership. Having folks that are visible in the community and that walk the talk is a definite benefit. Right? That's a secret to our success. I think the science side of it, really look at evidence based decisions is something that is valuable. Another secret to the success that we've been seeing, I think is a willingness of those same leaders that we discussed being able to be vulnerable and authentic about why their wellbeing matters and what they do to take care of it.And we've had a push, and this is part of the anti stigma campaign too, we've had several of our leaders that are on the committee and otherwise, stand up. And of course, we've had some that are in recovery and have said, "Hey, look. This is my path. This is what happened to me. This is what I do now to stay on track." And then we have others though that say, and well respected in the community, that we've had panels and that have stood up to say, "Look. This is how I take care of my mental health." The old stereotypical law firm male partner, I go to therapy every couple weeks. I schedule time to do this. I schedule time with my friends. I make sure I do this. And so we have those leaders that people are like, "Well, that guy can do this. I can do this." So I think that is huge.BREE:              It is.MARTHA:            And also, I have to give a shout out to the culture of the Utah Bar. Folks here tend to be pretty helpful and care about each other, so that has been a secret to our success, is just that we have that culture.BREE:            On the flip side, are there any things I guess that you've learned the hard way that you'd want to warn other folks about trying to follow in Utah's footsteps?MARTHA:            Yes. One of the big ones that I keep seeming to have to learn and tell myself and our committee, we have to tell ourselves, is you can't eat the elephant all at once. It is small steps. Right? One step at a time. And celebrate small wins, and recognize that, hey, look where we were five years ago compared to now. So one small step at a time and recognize that this is a marathon, not a sprint because it's easy for me to get in my head and start thinking, "Oh, we should already have this all done by now," which is crazy talk, but that is ... So you can end up getting in that bucket.Another lesson that I have learned the hard way through a lot of different experiences, but I've tried to use that lesson now, is the more you can make small shifts in things that are already happening, meet people where they are, and make small shifts. For example, we want to get the message out about wellbeing. And so I thought, "Some states have done a whole new wellbeing newsletter, all these things," and that's wonderful. But we don't have the budget or the bandwidth to build that up. So how can I use what's already there to start pushing that message out? So that is a big lesson.And also, another thing that I've had to keep reminding myself, and I think I said this, meet people where they are. So in the world that I have become immersed in with wellbeing, both working with the University of Pennsylvania positive psychology program, being on the wellbeing committee, talking to all you folks nationally, is you start to forget that there's a lot of folks that still need ... They don't know what we're talking about with wellbeing. They need to understand the basics again, and again, and again, and again, and again. So that's you can't just say it once and then jump to the next five things.BREE:              They don't see the world through our eyes.MARTHA:            Exactly. Exactly. You've got to meet people where they are.CHRIS:                Heidi, one ... Sorry. Martha, one final question. Optimistic or concern about what lies ahead on the wellbeing front?MARTHA:            Optimistic. I'm optimistic. I think that we're waking up as a profession. And silver lining of coronavirus I think is helping that. And I'll give you a little story maybe that would highlight this. When I was a young lawyer, nobody talked about this stuff. And I think that's probably pretty common. It was definitely not unique to my organization. And if anything, if somebody struggled, the answer was, oh, they can't cut it. Right? I don't hear that anymore. I am very optimistic about that. People are talking about it. They are talking about not just the preventative proactive stuff, but they're talking about their own struggles. And so that is making me super optimistic.look what's happening nationally with the organization that you two have been so instrumental in putting forward. We have research that we're learning more, so I'm optimistic.CHRIS:                Well, excellent. Well, Martha, we so appreciate you coming on the podcast. Your presence and the Utah State Bar's commitment to wellbeing is in fact one of those small wins that adds up to kind of where we're trying to get to in this long marathon. But it certainly is exciting to know that we're in good hands as our leader, as you lead in Utah. Right? And I think again, we need to be thinking about ways that we can firmly have people at the grassroots level around the country who are just focused and excited about this particular issue because the bigger our army gets, I think the more success we ultimately will have.MARTHA:           Agreed. Agreed.CHRIS:Yeah. All right, Bree. Any final closing comments?BREE:            That's it. Thank you, Martha, so much for being with us today. Exciting stuff.MARTHA:           Well, thank you for having me. I love what you all are doing nationally. Keep it coming.CHRIS:          When I heard your kind of notions of research and education and resources, it made me really think about a lot of those early discussions at the national task force level, so it's nice to know that we're aligned I think in understanding what the drivers are to this movement and ultimately where we're going.MARTHA:          Right, right. Agreed.CHRIS:            Good stuff. Thanks. Thanks, Martha, and we'll be back in a couple weeks. And until then, be well. Thanks for joining us.MARTHA:       Thank you. 

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For many indigenous communities, passing down knowledge to the next generation is critical to cultural survival. The preservation of these cultures have traditionally been done through the study and documentation of languages, traditions and rituals. In today’s episode, we’ll start by hearing from Burr Settles, Head of Research and AI at Duolingo, and go into a discussion between Davar Ardalan from IVOW AI, AI writer Chamisa Edmo, Alva Lim from Agora Food Studio, AI Researcher Victor Yarlott, and Tracy Monteith, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft who spent 20 years putting the Cherokee language in Microsoft Word. Our guests dive into the role AI can play in helping ensure that our collective knowledge, histories and cultures will be around for generations to come.Burr Settles leads the research group at Duolingo, an award-winning website and mobile app offering free language education for the world. He also runs FAWM.ORG, a global annual songwriting experiment. He is the author of Active Learning — an intermediate text on machine learning algorithms that are adaptive, curious, and exploratory (if you will). His research has been published in NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL-HLT, and CHI, and has been covered by The New York Times, Slate, Forbes, WIRED, and the BBC among others. In past lives, he was a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon and earned a PhD from UW-Madison. Burr currently lives in Pittsburgh, where he gets around by bike and plays guitar in the pop band delicious pastries.Davar is a tech entrepreneur and founder of IVOW AI. Prior to this, she was Deputy Director of the Presidential Innovation Fellowship Program in Washington D.C. and before that a veteran journalist at NPR News. In 2015, her last position at NPR was senior producer of the Identity and Culture Unit.Chamisa Edmo is a citizen of the Navajo Nation, Blackfeet and Shoshone-Bannock and resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous and American Indian Studies, with an emphasis in Tribal Sovereignty, from Haskell Indian Nations University. She is currently working toward a Masters in Computer Science. She is a certified full stack developer and has worked on various web development and robotics projects in her post-baccalaureate career. Chamisa worked for Hanson Robotics as a conversational AI character writer for Sophia the Robot and at CNM Ingenuity as an Assistant Instructor for the Deep Dive Coding Fullstack Bootcamp. In addition to high tech projects, Chamisa is also interested in exploring how North American tribes and Indigenous populations around the world can leverage technology while exercising tribal sovereignty and self-determination.Agora Food Studio is a plant-foward restaurant created by the Timor-Leste Food Lab - a social enterprise dedicated to mentoring future food and coffee innovators. The Timor-Leste Food Lab represents a community of people that believe in a simple, but powerful idea: "Food should be good, clean and fair for producers, eaters and the environment. We believe in a food system that celebrates biodiversity and nourishes the planet; a food system that creates healthy communities where everyone can eat, and eat well." We are based in Timor-Leste, located 8.8 degrees south of the equator. This half-island nation is part of a greater archipelagic region with profound food diversity and bio-cultural history that we hope to research, experiment, taste and document, and then share to a wider audience. Every day is an exploration.Tracy Monteith is a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft. His decades-long work as an innovative technologist and leader have produced unique results on a global scale. Tracy has received a first place finish in world’s largest private hackathon (23K participants, 400 cities world-wide) for AI approach to translating tribal-polymorphic languages and a second place finish for an IoT, cloud-connected beehive-sensor array. His passion for hackathons is shared with thousands of STEM-focussed tribal students across North America as he conducts hackathons for tribal schools. Tracy was the driving force and technical-innovator behind the inclusion of the Cherokee Syllabary in Windows and Office, the first tribal language with that distinction. His work continues with enhancing polymorphic-languages preservation and dissemination through the infusion of appropriate technology into indigenous circles.Wolfgang Victor Yarlott is a member of the Native American Crow tribe. Yarlott’s pioneering research took place with the Genesis Story Understanding System at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In collaboration with his Professor Patrick Winston, Yarlott wanted to determine whether the system could understand stories from Crow folklore as well as it understood the works of Shakespeare. At first his “audience” was the program itself — he wanted to instill an understanding. https://aiforgood.itu.int Twitter: https://twitter.com/ITU_AIForGood LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2651...LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8567748Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiforgoodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AIforGoodhttps://www.xprize.org/blog See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At only 25 years of age, Amir Khan is a professional fighter and assistant instructor at Evolve Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Singapore. One of Asia's finest martial arts superstars, Amir is a Muay Thai champion and one of the top lightweights in ONE...

This week we dive into what and who inspired Chelsea to explore Aerial Arts become an Assistant Instructor. Up Flying Yoga owner, Kimberely Simonetti, shares with us all of the benefits of Aerial Yoga and what you can expect from trying out this amazing form of art and exercise for the Body and Mind. You'll be so inspired we bet you'll want to jump into a hammock yourself! Follow @upflyingyoga on Instagram and learn more about the classes they offer at www.upflyingyoga.com

 Larry Mackinnon has been with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the past 21 years and a Diver with the RCMP recovery team for the past 16 years. A Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black-belt, International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation World Masters Gold Medalist at Blue Belt and Brown Belt, Assistant Instructor at Gracie Humaita Winnipeg and Owner and instructor at Buffalo Jiu-Jitsu. Larry answers the questions: Is Martial Arts training prevalent in the law enforcement community? Can you compare a situation where you needed to use physical force before you started BJJ with a situation where you needed to use physical force after you had been doing BJJ?  How important do you think physical fitness is in relation to police defensive tactics? And more!

Becky Codi (DFIT, RKC2, Strength Faction) joins the show for ep38! We discuss popular fears regarding kettlebells, coping with anger, imagining a trainer’s life without social media, the learning experience from an Assistant Instructor’s point of view and a bunch more! You can learn more about by Becky by visiting http://dfitstudio.com and following her on Instragram at www.instagram.com/rkat51. Want to train or take a course with Fury? Head over to www.coachfury.com to get the heads up on all things Die Mighty! Interested in exclusive show content? Follow the podcast at www.instagram.com/coachfurypodcast and www.facebook.com/coachfurypodcast. Do you love this show and want to express it? You can make a small financial donation by becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/coachfurypodcast. I am grateful for your support! Please subscribe, rate and review. Live long. Be strong. Die mighty! -Fury

✨There is more to dance than you think.✨ My guest Aubrey Monk Warren is a wife and mom of 2 boys. She started dancing when she was 4 years old and started working at a dance studio as an Assistant Instructor when she was 13. After graduating TCU in 2002, she started practicing yoga to heal her body from chronic infections. She has studied with Toni Bergins, the creator of JourneyDance, and Lucia Horan of 5 Rhythms, a mentee of the late Gabrielle Roth, the "mother of Conscious Dance." She left the gym world in 2016, to help her best friends establish Keller Yoga. She is now a Certified Yoga Education Provider, training future yoga instructors and offering continuing education to current teachers. She teaches weekly asana classes, facilitates regular conscious dance practices, and her most recent passion is teaching at music festivals.

Our special guest this episode is Greg Wing. Greg serves as Professor of Trumpet at Morehead State University, holds a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the School of Music at Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Morehead State University. He performs with the Horizon Brass Quintet and Faculty Jazz Septet. In addition, Professor Wing has served as an Assistant Instructor of Trumpet at Indiana University under Professor William Adam and an Instructor of Trumpet for the Nevada School of the Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada. Classical performances are numerous and include engagements with Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nevada Wind Ensemble, the Lexington Brass Band and the Lexington Philharmonic. Professor Wing is a member of the DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra, "DOJO". He has been a studio musician for Westwind Musical Productions of Upland, California since 1988 and has recorded numerous commercial productions and convention soundtracks including both the 2001, 2002 and 2003 National Homebuilders Association shows featuring Lee Greenwood and Winter Olympic themes. Professor Wing is recognized as one of the nations leading trumpet artists having served as Lead Trumpet with the Buddy Rich Big Band, Paul Anka, and four years with Tom Jones. In addition, he has played Lead Trumpet for the Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas Hilton, Flamingo Hilton, and Stardust Hotels' house orchestras. Professor Wing has played for virtually every major entertainer in the world including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, and Natalie Cole. Professor Wing has also had a long association with the Conn-Selmer Corporation as an Artist/Clinician for Vincent Bach Trumpets. The show notes for this episode can be found at www.bobreeves.com/55.

Ep. 110:  Leslie Barlow is a practicing artist living and working in Minneapolis, MN.  Primarily an oil painter, Barlow's current work employs the figure and narrative elements to explore issues of multiculturalism, "otherness", representation, and identity. She investigates complex topics and social tensions through the use of the personal; often creating works depicting family, friends, and people in her community, and personal experiences, to reflect the subtle and not-so-subtle integrations of these ideas into individual lives and identities. Barlow received her BFA in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin- Stout and her MFA in 2016 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Leslie Barlow has received great recognition from her home state of Minnesota. She appeared in the season 7 television segment of tpt's Minnesota Original, airing April 2016, was published in the "Best New Art 2016" list in Minnesota Monthly Magazine, and was published as "Artist of the Year" for 2016 in the City Pages. Recently she received a Third Place award in the Minnesota State Fair Juried Exhibition in 2015 for a large oil painting from her latest series. In 2014, another painting from the same series also received an Honorable Mention in the national juried exhibition at the Washington Pavilion Museum of Arts and Sciences in Sioux Falls, SD. Barlow actively exhibits her work throughout the United States and many of her pieces can be found in private and public collections. Her work can be seen at the new US Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis, where in 2016 she was commissioned by the Vikings team to create 6 portrait paintings of iconic Vikings players. Maintaining a vigorous studio practice, Barlow has also recently participated in artist residencies including the 3 x 5 Emerging Artist Residency at The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN) and she was the Artist-in-Residence at Whitworth University (Spokane, WA) for the month of October, 2016.  Her studio is located in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.  In addition to her studio practice, Barlow currently works as an Assistant Instructor at Juxtaposition Arts, as the Administrative Assistant for Northern Lights.mn, and is a board member of the Minneapolis Art Lending Library.  Barlow has a keen interest in arts programming and organization management, and has over 400 hours of volunteer work with the Soap Factory, serving as the Public Relations Intern in 2011 and as Co-Director of the Volunteer Biennial exhibition in 2012.  Barlow has also worked as the Gallery Manager for Waiting Room, helped manage the Art Department at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, and during her undergraduate education Barlow helped start and manage an artist co-op gallery. Leslie Barlow is a 2016 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant recipient. For more on Leslie Barlow, please see her website at: http://www.lesliebarlowartist.com/ For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please click here: MULTIRACIAL FAMILY MAN PODCAST Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Brought to you by PREPARE MAGAZINE   Pick up your FREE Digital Subscription Today: http://www.PREPAREMag.com  I enjoyed talking with Don Alley not only to get more aquainted with him myself, but to share with you a different 'take' on preparedness that you may not have thought of before.  Don brings a perspective of Martial Arts from an every day preparedness point of view into his family's emergency plan.  I hope you'll listen and learn some new ideas as I did! EnJOY the Journey,  Donna Donald Alley is a martial practitioner with over 10 years of experience. He has practiced personal protection training methodology with broad-spectrum awareness. He is a black belt in classical Ju Jutsu, Assistant Instructor at the Martial Science Center, and an Emergency Preparedness Instructor and Program Coordinator at Martial Tactical Training of Michigan. Furthermore, he is an NRA Instructor for Basic Pistol and Personal Protection firearm training. His product line, Bu Tactical, includes items for protection, preparedness, and survival applications.