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How does "quality" apply in all areas of an organization? In this final episode of the Misunderstanding Quality series, Bill Bellows and host Andrew Stotz discuss lessons from the first twelve episodes, and the big ah-ha moments that happen when we stop limiting our thinking. TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.6 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today I'm continuing my discussion with Bill Bellows, who has spent 31 years helping people apply Dr. Deming's ideas to become aware of how their thinking is holding them back from their biggest opportunities. Today is episode 13 and the title is Quality Management: Don't be limited. Bill, take it away. 0:00:30.5 Bill Bellows: Hey, Andrew. So this is episode. What number did you say it was? 0:00:36.2 Andrew Stotz: 13. Lucky 13. 0:00:38.1 Bill Bellows: Lucky 13. So then for those who are concerned about the use of the number 13, this is episode 14. 0:00:51.0 Andrew Stotz: I thought you're gonna say episode 12A. 0:00:54.7 Bill Bellows: And for those who don't mind the number 13, this is episode 13. And as we talked earlier, if Dr. Deming was to title the episode it would be... It would not be "don't." It would be "do not", do not be limited. So at the start I wanted to go back to review the path we're on. We've been on episode one back in end of May, Quality, Back to the Start. All part of the Misunderstanding Quality series for The Deming Institute. Episode two, we got into the Eight Dimensions of Quality with David Garvin. One of those dimensions was acceptability. 0:01:49.8 Bill Bellows: Another was reliability. Another was I say dependability performance. Okay. And I think it's important in a series about misunderstanding quality to look at the work of David Garvin. Just realize I think it's fascinating to... You move out of the world of the American Society Quality and control charts and whatnot. And that's why I think Garvin's work paints a nice... Gives a nice perspective to not be limited.  And then we got into in the third episode Acceptability and Desirability. Episode four, Pay Attention to Choices and the choice of differentiating acceptability which is I'll take anything which meets requirements, and desirability. 0:02:42.3 Bill Bellows: I want that little doggy in the window. Not any doggy in the window. And then we followed that with episode five, the Red Bead Experiment which for many is their first exposure to Dr. Deming's work. I know when I worked for the Deming Institute for a few years the Red Bead Experiment website was one of one of the most popular pages. I believe another one was the 14 Points for Management. And, personally, I've presented the Red Bead Experiment think just once, just once. And I'm going to be doing it at the 2025 at, let me back up, the Bryce Canyon Deming... The Bryce Canyon...Bryce Canyon Forum. I can't remember the name. It's a partnership between Southern Utah University and The Deming Institute, and we're doing it at Southern Utah University. And on one of those days, I'll be doing the Red Bead Experiment, which takes a lot of time and then studying to present it a few years ago I was getting all the videos that I could find of it, many of them on The Deming Institute web page and none of them have the entire data collection. 0:04:18.5 Bill Bellows: They kind of fast forward through six people putting the... drawing the beads each four times and when you're up on stage trying to do that, I had four people that's, you gotta do a lot of work to make it that exciting. But the reason I present it, I say I present it for a number of reasons. One is to do the classic "The red beads are not caused by the workers are taken separately. They're caused by the system which includes the workers. It's an understanding of variation and introduction to control charts" and all of that is as exposed by Dr. Deming is classic. 0:05:00.7 Bill Bellows: But, I'd like to take it one step further, which is to go back into that desirability thinking and look at the concept that we've talked about of going through the doorway and going past the achievement of zero defects, zero red beads, and realize that there's further opportunities for improvement when you start to look at variation in the white beads. And, that then takes into account how the beads are used. And that gets us into the realm of looking at quality as a system.   Looking at quality with a systems view as opposed... That's good, that's good, that's good. With or without an appreciation on how the bead is used. So anyway, that was episode five. We explored that. Next we got into the differentiation of Category Thinking and Continuum Thinking. 0:05:55.5 Bill Bellows: And for those who haven't listened to it, maybe not in a while, the differentiation is category thinking. Putting things in categories such as red beads and white beads are the... It could be any categories, categories of fruit, categories of religion, categories of political systems. We have categories and then within a category we have variation. We have different. We have apples and oranges and then we have a given type of orange. And then there's variation in the juiciness, ripeness. That's called continuum thinking, which goes back to, if we go back to the red beads and the white beads is notion that the white beads are not uniformly white, not uniform in diameter or weight. 0:06:44.5 Bill Bellows: And, what are the implications there? Well, if we think in terms of categories, red beads and white beads, if all the beads are white have we stopped improving? And Dr. Deming and I believe it was Point 5 of the 14 Points stressed the need for continual improvement. And yes, you can continuously improve and reduce cost, you can continuously reduce cycle time, but can you continuously improve quality? Well, not if you're stuck in a category of good, then the role of that is to just to remind people that there's opportunities to go further when you begin to look at variation in white, which is the essence of looking at how what you're looking at is part of a system, which Dr. Deming was well, well aware of. 0:07:33.7 Bill Bellows: Next we got into the Paradigms of Variation and a big part there was differentiating acceptability. Well, going beyond acceptability was differentiating accuracy from precision. Precision is getting the same result shrinking the variation, otherwise known as getting achieving great piece-to-piece consistency. Metrics that begin with the letter C and sub P could be Cp, Cpk, are the two most popular. Those are measures of precision that we're getting small standard deviations that they are very, very close to each other. But in the paradigms of variation that was what I referred to as Paradigm B thinking we're looking for uniformity. Paradigm A thinking being acceptance, we'll take anything that meets requirements... Or academically called paradigm A. Paradigm C is what Dr. Taguchi was talking about with the desirability, where we're saying I want this value, I want uniformity around this specific value. 0:08:43.9 Bill Bellows: Here what we're looking at is uniformity around the target, around an ideal, otherwise known as piece-to-target variability. And, the idea there is that the closer we are to that ideal, the easier it is for others downstream to integrate what we're passing forward. Whether that's putting something into a hole or does this person we want to hire best integrate into our system. So, integration is not just a mechanical thing. In episode eight we then got into Beyond Looking Good which then shatters the Paradigm A acceptability thinking, going more deeply into the opportunities for continual improvement of quality. 0:09:29.1 Bill Bellows: If you shift to continuum thinking. Next, Worse than a thief coming from Dr. Taguchi. And that's the issue of achieving uniform. Part of what we looked at is the downside of looking at things in isolation and not looking at the greater system. Then episode 10 we look at Are you in favor of improvement of quality? 0:09:53.6 Andrew Stotz: I'm in favor. 0:09:55.7 Bill Bellows: To which he would always say, but of course. That was a reference back to chapter one of The New Economics. And he said everyone's got an answer. Improving quality computers and gadgets. And what we spoke about is Quality 4.0, which is gadgets of the 21st century, tools and techniques. And again, what we said is, there's nothing wrong with tools and techniques. Tools and techniques are about efficiency, doing things well, but they lack what Russ Ackoff would say in asking, are we doing the right things well. And then episode 11 delved into what I've...amongst the things I've learned from Dr. Taguchi, To improve quality, don't measure quality. 0:10:42.5 Bill Bellows: If we have a problem with, we want to reduce scrap, we want to reduce rework, we want to eliminate the problems that the customer has experienced or that someone downstream is experiencing. And what Dr. Taguchi emphasized was start asking, what is the function of the thing we're trying to do? And the idea is that if you improve the function, then you're likely to improve the quality as measured by what the customer is looking for. If you focus on what the... If you focus your efforts on reducing what the customer is complaining about, you're likely to get something else the customer is complaining about. And for more on that, go to episode 11. 0:11:19.0 Bill Bellows: And then episode 12, Do specification limits limit improvement? Which again goes back to what I experienced on a regular basis is in my university courses with people I interact with and consulting is a very heavy emphasis on meeting requirements and moving on. And not a lot of thought of going beyond that or even that there's anything more to do, that's alive and well. And that's reinforced by Six Sigma Quality is filled with that mindset. If you pay attention closely to Lean Manufacturing, you'll see that mindset again, alive and well. So, what I wanted to get to tonight in episode 13, Quality. 0:12:04.3 Andrew Stotz: That was quite a review, by the way. 0:12:06.7 Bill Bellows: Yeah, Quality Management: don't be limited, as and I'm teaching for the sixth time a class in quality management at Cal State Northridge. The title used to be Seminar in Quality Management. The title this year is Engineering Quality Management and Analytics. One of the assignments I give them, essays, the quizzes, attending the lectures. 0:12:34.9 Bill Bellows: Learning Capacity Matrix that I learned about from David Langford. But what I was sharing with you earlier, Andrew, is one of the first things I thought about and designed in this course, back in 2019 was I could just imagine students going through the course. And, what I'm going to hear is, what I've heard before is professor, these are very, very interesting ideas, but I'm not sure how I would apply them where I work. Because where I work is different. It's different. And to avoid that question, I came up with an assignment I called the Application Proposal. And there's four parts to it. But part one is: imagine upon completion of this course. And I let them know about this in the first lecture and I say, imagine upon completion of the course, your boss, someone you work with, challenges you to find three things you can do within three to six months of the of the completion of the course. 0:13:34.6 Bill Bellows: And it must include something you learned in this course. I don't say what thing, I don't say two things, I don't say three things. I leave it to them. But all it comes down to is I'd like you to contemplate and within three to six months of the completion of the course, what could you do? And I call that the near-term application. Well, subtask one is come up with three. They have to meet your job, your role, not your boss's role, not another department's role. They have to fit your role because only you know then the method by which you would go about that. And, so for that near-term, I ask them to let me know what is the present state of that near term, the before, the current condition and what is the after. What is the future state of that near-term? So I assign that before the course begins, I give them until week five to submit and give me those three things. The reason I asked for three is if one, if the first one they give me, if they only asked for one and one didn't quite fit, then I say, well, okay, Andrew, go back and give me another one that same time. 0:14:49.7 Bill Bellows: So I said, give me three. And most often all three are fantastic. In which case I say they're all great. Which one would you like to do? But again, it has to fit their role because in Sub-Task 2, the next thing I want them to do is not so much tell me about the present state, tell me more about the future state. And again, the future state is how much can you accomplish within that three-to-six month period? And that's subtask two. Then they come back to me and tell me the plan. What is the plan by which you go from the near-term present state to the near-term future state, tell me about the plan. Tell me what some of the obstacles might be and how you plan to deal with the obstacles. And then I say now what I want you to do is imagine that is wildly successful, jump ahead a year and a half to two years and tell me what you would do next. How would you build upon this? And in that mid-term time frame, what is the present? What is the future of the mid-term? And then go a few years out and tell me how you're going to further expand on what you've learned. 0:16:03.4 Bill Bellows: I call that the far-term. And for the far-term, what's the present, what's the future? So when they submit that to me, then I come back with - it could be questions about some of the terminology.  It could be a suggestion that they look at something with the use of Production Viewed as a System. Or, I ask them to think about operational definitions or perhaps suggest a control chart and, or a book. So, part of the reason I wanted to bring that up is few of the title, few of the topics we are looking at are specifically quality related. They're all about improving how the organization operates. Which goes back to what Dr. Deming stressed is the importance of continual improvement. 0:16:50.9 Andrew Stotz: Can you explain that just for a second? Because that was interesting about quality versus improving the organization. What did you mean by that? 0:17:00.4 Bill Bellows: Well, I, they didn't come to me with this process I have, has lots, has a very high defect rate and I thought that's where I need to focus. Or this process has a lot of scrap and rework. That's where I want to focus. What I was excited by is that they were looking at how to take a bunch of things they already do and better integrate them. Just fundamentally what I found them thinking about is how can I spend time to organize these activities as a system and as a result spend a whole lot less time on this and move on to the next thing. And, what I found fascinating about that is if we keep our thinking to quality and quality's about good parts and bad parts, good things and bad things, and having less bad things and more good things, that could be a really narrow view of what Dr. Deming was proposing. Now another aspect of the assignment was not only do I want them to give me three ideas, we down-select to one. It could be they're writing a new piece of software. One of the applications has to do with a really fascinating use of artificial intelligence. 0:18:27.0 Bill Bellows: And what's that got to do with quality? Well, what's interesting is it has a lot to do with improving the functionality of a product or a service, having it be more reliable, more consistent, easier to integrate. But, the other thing I want to point out is not only do I ask them to come up with three things and then assuming all three things fit well with their job, their responsibilities, their experience.  What I'm also interested in is what from the course are you going to use in this application? And, two things came up that fit again and again.  One is the value proposition of a feedback loop. 0:19:12.9 Bill Bellows: And they would ask me, what do you mean by feedback? I said, well, you're going to come along and you're going to tie these things together based on a theory that's going to work better. Yes. Well, how will you know it's doing that? How will you know how well this is performing? And, I said when I see this is what people refer to as Plan-Do, but there's no Study. It's just... And, I saw that Rocketdyne, then people would come along and say, oh, I know what to do, I'm just gonna go off and change the requirements and do this. 0:19:44.6 Bill Bellows: But, there was no feedback loop. In fact, it was even hard to say that I saw it implemented. It just saw the planning and the doing. But, no study, no acting. 0:19:57.3 Andrew Stotz: Is that the Do-Do style? 0:20:01.3 Bill Bellows: Yes. But what was really exciting to share with them is I said in a non-Deming company, which we have referred to as a Red Pen Company or, or a Me Organization or a Last Straw. And I don't think we covered those terms all that much in this episode, in this series, we definitely covered it in our first series. But what I found is in a Deming or in a non -Deming company, there's not a lot of feedback. And even if I deliver to you something which barely meets requirements and we spoke about this, that in the world of acceptability, a D- letter grade is acceptable. Why is it acceptable? Because it's not enough. It's good parts and bad parts. And so even if I deliver to you, Andrew, something which barely met requirements, and you said to me, Bill, this barely meets requirements. And I say, Andrew, did you say barely meets requirements? And you say, yes. So, Andrew, it did meet requirements and you say, yes. So I say, "Why are you calling me Andrew?" 0:21:12.1 Andrew Stotz: By the way that just made me think about the difference between a pass fail course structure and a gradient course structure. 0:21:20.7 Bill Bellows: Exactly. 0:21:21.5 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. Okay. 0:21:22.5 Bill Bellows: Yeah. So even if you give me that feedback. I reject it. I'm just going to say, Andrew, move on. But I said, in a Deming organization, feedback is everything. The students were giving me feedback on the quizzes and some things that caused me to go off and modify some things I'm doing. And I told them, if I don't have that feedback, I cannot improve the course. So, I met with each of them last week for an hour, and the feedback I was getting is instrumental in improving the course for the remainder of the semester as well as for next year. And, so that's what I found is what really differentiates a Deming approach to improving a process or a service or a product is feedback, which goes then to watching how it's used. It is, I think I mentioned to you Gipsie Ranney, who was the first president of The Deming Institute, a Professor of Statistics at University of Tennessee, when she met Dr. Deming and later became a senior consultant, maybe advisor to General Motors Powertrain. And once she told me, she said to Dr. Deming "You know, Dr. Deming, what do people get out of your seminars?" And. he said, "I know what I told them. 0:22:42.0 Bill Bellows: I don't know what they heard." And, the challenge is without knowing what they heard, because we would also say, and I'm pretty sure we brought this up in one of our this series or the prior series, Deming would say the questions are more important than the answers because the questions provide them with feedback as to what is going on. So anyway, part of what I wanted to bring out today in this quality management, don't be limited, is whether or not you're focusing on quality per se, minimizing scrap, minimizing work. If you're trying to improve a process, again, you're not improving it necessarily because there's more I want to have less scrap. But if your improvement is, I want it to take less time, I want it to be easier to do. I want it to be cheaper to do. Well, while you're at it, think about a feedback loop.  And the role of the feedback is to give you a sense of is it achieving what you're hoping it would achieve? It would allow you over time to maybe find out it's getting better.  Maybe there's a special cause you want to take advantage of or a special cause you want to avoid.  But, without that feedback, how do you know how it's working and then beyond that? 0:23:55.7 Andrew Stotz: And where is the origin of the information coming from for the feedback loop? Is it a feedback loop within your area or is it feedback loop from the next process or what do you. 0:24:08.3 Bill Bellows: All of that. That's what I told her. I said one is, I said, when you're developing the process. I told them, I said, when you're. If in Sub-Ttask 1, your idea is to flowchart a process, come up with a template, a prototype. Part of the feedback is showing that to people. And part of the feedback is, does it make sense to them?  Do they have suggestions for improvement? Do they... Is there an issue with operational definitions?  There would be better clarity based on the words you're using.  You may say in there clean this thing, or early in the semester, one of the assignments I gave the students was to explain some aspect of the course within their organization. And then I thought, well, then now it will explain to who. And I thought, well, unless I say if I felt that without giving clarity to who they're explaining it to, they're going to get lost in the assignment. Am I explaining it to a co-worker? Am I explaining it to someone in management? Am I explaining it to the CEO? And, finally I just thought, well, that's kind of crazy. 0:25:18.3 Bill Bellows: I just said, well, as if you're explaining it to a classmate. But, my concern was if I didn't provide clarity on who they're explaining it to, then they're going to be all over the place in terms of what I'm looking for versus what they're trying to do. And that being feedback and that also being what I told them is part of collecting, part of feedback is looking for how can I improve the operation, how can I improve? Or, what are the opportunities for paying closer attention to operational definitions, which means the words or the processes that we're asking people to follow. 0:25:58.3 Bill Bellows: But, I found in in joining Rocketdyne, I was in the TQM Office and then I began to see what engineering does. Oh, I had a sense of that when I worked in Connecticut, paid more attention to what manufacturing does. Well, then when I moved into a project management office. Well, project management is just like quality management. It's breaking things into parts, managing the parts in isolation. And, so when I talk about quality management, don't be limited. There's a lot Dr. Deming's offering that could be applied to project management, which is again, looking at how the efforts integrate, not looking at the actions taken separately. 0:26:45.4 Andrew Stotz: And, so how would you wrap up what you want to take away. What you want people to take away from this discussion? You went over a very great review of what we talked about, which was kind of the first half of this discussion. And what did you want people to get from that review? 0:27:05.2 Bill Bellows: The big thing, the big aha has been: this is so much more than quality. And, I've always felt that way, that when people look at Dr. Deming's work and talk about Dr. Deming is improving quality, and then when I work for The Deming Institute, the inquiries I would get it was part of my job to respond to people. And they want to know I work for a non-profit, do Dr. Deming's ideas apply. And, so for our target audience of people wanting to bring Dr. Deming's ideas to their respective organizations, even though the focus here is quality, we call this series Misunderstanding Quality. At this point, I'd like you to think more broadly that this is far more than how to improve quality.  This is improving management of resources, management of our time, management of our energy.  So this is a universal phenomenon. Not again, you can look at it as good parts and bad parts, and that's looking at things in isolation. That's what project managers do. That's what program managers do. That's what organizations do relentlessly. And this is what Ackoff would call the characteristic way of management. Break it into parts and manage the parts as well as possible. 0:28:21.5 Bill Bellows: So, I just wanted to bring that back as a reminder of this quality, quality, quality focuses. There's a lot more to this than improving quality when it comes to applying these ideas. 0:28:34.7 Andrew Stotz: And, I would just reiterate that from my first interactions with Dr. Deming when I was 24, and then I moved to Thailand and I did finance business and all that. So I wasn't, applying statistical tools in my business at the time. That just wasn't where I was at. But the message that I got from him about understanding variation and understanding to not be misled by variation, to see things as part of a system. Also to understand that if we really wanted to improve something, we had to go back to the beginning and think about how have we designed this? 0:29:20.3 Andrew Stotz: How do we reduce the final variability of it? And, so, it was those core principles that really turned me on. Where I could imagine, if I was an engineer or a statistician, that I would have latched on maybe more to the tools, but from where I was at, I was really excited about the message. And, I also really resonated with that message that stop blaming the worker. And, I saw that at Pepsi, that the worker just had very little control. I mean, we're told to take control, but the fact is that if we're not given the resources, we can only get to a certain level. 0:29:58.3 Andrew Stotz: Plus, also the thinking of senior management, you are shaped by their thinking. And, I always tell the story of the accumulation tables in between processes at a Pepsi production facility. And that basically allows two operators of these two different machines to, when one goes down, let's say the latest, the farthest along in the production process, let's say the bottling goes down, the bottle cleaning process behind it can keep cranking and build up that accumulation table until it's absolutely full. And, that gives time for the maintenance guys to go fix the bottling problem that you have and not stop the guy behind. And, that was a very natural thing from management perspective and from my perspective. But, when I came to Thailand, I did learn a lot more about the Japanese and the way they were doing thing at Toyota. 0:30:51.4 Andrew Stotz: I went out and looked at some factories here and I started realizing they don't do that. They have their string on the production line, that they stop the whole thing. But the point is the thing, if a worker can't go beyond that, you know what the senior management believe about it. So, that was another thing that I would say it goes way beyond just some tools and other things. So, I'll wrap it up there. And Bill, on behalf of everyone at The Deming Institute, I want to thank you again for this discussion and for listeners. Remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. And if you want to keep in touch with Bill, just find him on LinkedIn. This is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming and that is people are entitled to joy in work. 

In this comprehensive episode, we explore the multifaceted nature of modern leadership with Dr. Brenda Fellows, President and CEO of Fellows Corporate Consortium. She is a distinguished industrial, organizational, and clinical psychologist who partners with corporate boards and C-Suite executives across Fortune 20-500 companies. Drawing on over two decades of strategy and management consulting experience, Dr. Fellows reveals her groundbreaking framework combining eight distinct intelligences and four capitals that shape effective leadership.Key themes include:How cognitive, emotional, authentic, cultural, social, spiritual, humility, and leadership intelligence work togetherThe integration of human, resource, political, and community capital in organizational successUnderstanding different leadership styles and their impact under comfort versus stressWhy psychological awareness and behavioral science are critical "hard skills" for organizational transformationHow to bridge gaps between learning systems, knowledge systems, and policy shapingThis fascinating discussion challenges conventional thinking about leadership capabilities, offering unprecedented insight into how organizations can develop more effective, holistic approaches to leadership in an increasingly complex world. As a faculty member at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Harvard University Medical School, Dr. Fellows shares practical frameworks for assessing and improving leadership across all organizational levels.Guest:President & CEO, Principal Strategy & Management Consultant, Industrial/Organizational Psychologist at Fellows Corporate Consortium, LLCCo-Hosts: Marco Annunziata, Co-Founder, Annunziata + Desai PartnersSeries Hosts: Vikram Shyam, Lead Futurist, NASA Glenn Research CenterDyan Finkhousen, Founder & CEO, Shoshin Works

In this episode of That Queer Fitness Podcast, co-hosts Lizzy and Rya explore their personal experience with and the queer perspective of the eight dimensions of wellness. In this part, they dive into emotional, physical, occupational, and social wellness. Tune in next week for part two!Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thatqueerfitnesspodcast/   Follow us on Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@thatqueerfitnesspodcast  Music by: Kelsi CreekWebsite: https://kelsimusic.com/  Instagram: www.instagram.com/kelsicreek  Music mixing and mastering by: www.fiverr.com/onedayclint  Logo by: www.fiverr.com/juugend  00:00 Introduction 00:32 Life Updates and Exciting News02:13 Casual Icebreaker: Current Wellness Focus04:31 Exploring the Eight Dimensions of Wellness05:49 Emotional Health13:27 Physical Health28:55 Occupational Health36:13 Social Health42:16 Conclusion 

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In this episode, Autumn Carter, mom of four and a dedicated life coach, shares her journey of balancing motherhood and personal growth, emphasizing the importance of reclaiming time and sanity for moms. We dive into the common struggle of losing oneself amidst the chaos of parenting and how Autumn's personal experience and professional expertise guide moms in rediscovering their identities. She discusses practical systems and routines she implemented to manage her household and personal life efficiently, allowing her to pursue her interests and passions. Autumn introduces us to the concept of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness, explaining how maintaining a balance in these areas can lead to a fulfilling and joyful life. She also shares valuable insights on how moms can explore new hobbies and interests, setting up systems that bring more organization and peace into their lives. Join us for an inspiring and informative conversation that will leave you feeling empowered to reclaim your identity and thrive as a mom. Tune in and start your journey towards a more balanced and fulfilling life! As a dedicated life coach for moms, Autumn Carter specializes in helping mothers navigate the complexities of parenthood while pursuing their personal goals. With a background in psychology and a personal journey as a mom of four, Autumn combines practical strategies with empathetic understanding to empower moms in achieving a balanced and fulfilling life. Her approach is rooted in creating effective, sustainable systems for managing family life and self-care, ensuring that every mom she coaches can thrive both as a parent and an individual. Autumn's passion lies in transforming motherhood into a journey of growth, joy, and self-discovery. Connect with Autumn: https://wellness-in-every-season.ck.page www.alysialyons.com Connect with me: linktr.ee/momsupportcoach --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/momsupportcorner/support

In this episode, Bill Bellows and Andrew Stotz discuss David Garvin's 8 Dimensions of Quality and how they apply in the Deming world. Bill references this article by Garvin: https://hbr.org/1987/11/competing-on-the-eight-dimensions-of-quality TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.4 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we continue our journey into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today, I'm continuing my discussion with Bill Bellows, who has spent 31 years helping people apply Dr. Deming's ideas to become aware of how their thinking is holding them back from their biggest opportunities. This is the Misunderstanding Quality series, episode two, The Eight Dimensions of Quality. Bill, take it away.   0:00:30.4 Bill Bellows: Welcome back, Andrew. Great to see you again. All right, episode two, we're moving right along. So in episode one, which the title I proposed, waiting to see what comes out, the title I proposed was, Quality, Back to the Start. And that was inspired by some lyrics from Coldplay. Anyway, but this is a, it's going back to my start in quality and last time I mentioned discovering Taguchi's work long before I discovered Dr. Deming. In fact, Gipsie Ranney, who is the first president of the Deming Institute, the nonprofit formed by Dr. Deming and his family just before he passed away, and Gipsie became the first president and was on the board when I was on the board for many years. And I spoke with her nearly every day, either driving to work or driving home. And once, she calls me up and she says, "Bill," that was her Tennessee accent, "Bill."   0:01:50.5 BB: She says, "It says on The Deming Institute webpage that you infused Dr. Taguchi's work into Dr. Deming's work," something like that, that I... Something like I infused or introduced or I brought Taguchi's work into Deming's work, and I said, "Yes." I said, "Yeah, that sounds familiar." She says, "Isn't it the other way around?" That I brought Deming's work into Taguchi's work. And I said, "No, Gipsie," I said, "It depends on your starting point. And my starting point was Dr. Taguchi." But I thought it was so cool. She says, "Bill don't you have it? Don't you... " She is like, "Isn't it the other way around?" I said, "No, to me, it was all things Taguchi, then I discovered Dr. Deming." But I was thinking earlier before the podcast, and I walked around putting together how, what I wanna talk about tonight. And I thought, when I discovered Taguchi's work, I looked at everything in terms of an application of Dr. Taguchi's ideas.   0:03:29.7 AS: And one question about Taguchi for those people that don't know him and understand a little bit about him, was he... If I think about where Dr. Deming got at the end of his life, it was about a whole system, the System of Profound Knowledge and a comprehensive way of looking at things. Was Taguchi similar in that way or was he focused in on a couple different areas where he really made his contribution?   0:04:03.9 BB: Narrower than Dr. Deming's work. I mean, if we look at... And thank you for that... If we look at Dr. Deming's work in terms of the System of Profound Knowledge, the elements of systems psychology, variation, theory of knowledge, Taguchi's work is a lot about variation and a lot about systems. And not systems in the sense of Russ Ackoff systems thinking, but variation in the sense of where's the variation coming from looking upstream, what are the causes of that variation that create variation in that product, in that service?   0:04:50.9 BB: And then coupled with that is that, how is that variation impacting elsewhere in the system? So here I am receiving sources of variation. So what I deliver it to you has variation because of what's upstream of me and Taguchi's looking at that coupled with how is that variation impacting you? So those are the systems side, the variation side. Now, is there anything in Deming, in Taguchi's work about psychology and what happens when you're labelling workers and performance appraisals and, no, not at all.   0:05:37.6 AS: Okay, got it.   0:05:38.4 BB: Is there anything in there about theory of knowledge, how do we know that what we know is so? No, but there's a depth of work in variation which compliments very much so what Dr. Deming was doing. So anyway, so no. And so I discovered Taguchi's work, and I mentioned that in the first episode. I discovered his work, became fascinated with it, started looking at his ideas in terms of managing variation to achieve incredible... I mean, improved uniformity to the extent that it's worthwhile to achieve. So we were not striving for the ultimate uniformity, it's just the idea that we can manage the uniformity. And if we... And we'll look at this in more detail later, but for our audience now, if you think of a distribution of the variation in the performance of a product or a service, and you think in terms of... It doesn't have to be a bell-shaped distribution, but you have a distribution and it has an average and it has variation.   0:06:50.4 BB: What Dr. Taguchi's work is about in terms of a very brief, succinct point here in episode two is how might we change the shape of that distribution? How might we make it narrower, if that's a worthwhile adventure? It may be worthwhile to make it wider, not just narrower, but in both cases, we're changing the shape of the distribution and changing the location. So Taguchi's work, Taguchi's Methods, driven by variation comes to me, variation impacts you is how do I change the shape and location of that distribution? So on a regular basis, as I became more fascinated with that, I started thinking about, well, how might I apply Taguchi's ideas to these things that I encountered every day? Well, prior to that before discovering Taguchi's work, when I was a facilitator in problem solving and decision making training, I did the same thing, Andrew.   0:07:52.4 BB: I started looking at, oh, is this a problem? Is this a decision? Is this a situation that needs to be appraised? And so prior to that, what I was thinking about is when I was just a heat transfer analyst working on my Ph.D., I didn't look at how the heat transfer stuff affected all these other aspects of my lives. I didn't think about it when I went into a supermarket, but there was something about the problem solving and decision making that just infatuated me. And I would look at, oh, is Andrew talking about a decision or is Andrew talking about a problem? So I started hearing things. And so when I went into Taguchi's work, it was the same thing. And then shifting into Deming's work, it's the same thing. And I've... There's nothing else that I've studied that I look at things through those lenses. Anyway, so in studying, getting exposed to Taguchi, I mentioned that I had some time away from work, I went out on medical for some reasons and went and bought a book, a bunch of books.   0:09:02.4 BB: And one of the books I bought by David Garvin had come out in 1987, is entitled "The Eight Dimensions of Quality." There's a Harvard Business Review article that I wanna reference in this episode, and I'll put a link to the article. It's a free link. And so when you hear people talk about a quality product or a quality service or quality healthcare. We think in terms of it's quality as things, it's either good quality or bad quality or high quality, or somebody calls it low quality, or we just say it's a quality product. But what does that mean? So what I find is very loosely, we think in terms of categories of quality, good, bad, high, low. What we'll look at in a future episode is what would happen if we thought about quality on a continuum, which I believe Taguchi's work really demonstrates vividly as well as Dr. Deming's work.   0:10:07.4 BB: But even to back up before we talk about the eight dimensions of quality, I wanted to give some background on the word quality. The word quality, and this comes from an article and I'll put a link to this article, I wrote it for the Lean Management Journal a number of years ago, the word quality has Latin roots, beginning as qualitas, T-A-S, coined by the Roman philosopher and statesman, Marcus Tullius Cicero. He later became an adversary of this bad guy named Mark Antony. You've heard of him. Feared by Antony, this guy was feared by Antony because his power of speech led, you know what it led to, Andrew, his power of speech?   0:10:54.5 AS: What?   0:10:54.6 BB: His beheading.   0:10:55.8 AS: Oh my goodness.   0:10:56.5 BB: So for those of you with great powers of speech, watch out for your Mark Antony. But meanwhile, he introduced fellow Romans to the vocabulary of qualitas, quantitas, quantity, humanitas, humanities, essentia, which is, essence, he also is credited with an extensive list of expressions that translate into English today. Difference, infinity, science, morale. Cicero spoke of qualitas with his peers when focusing on the essential nature, character or property of an object. And this is kind of interesting. I mean, you can count how many apples do we have. And again, he came up with the term quantitas for quantity, but he is also talking about the essence of the apples. That's the quality word. And then 2000 years later when writing "The New Economics", Dr. Deming provided his definition and a little bit different.   0:12:05.3 BB: He says, "The problem anywhere is quality. What is quality?" Says the good doctor, "A product or service possesses quality if it helps somebody, it enjoys a good and sustainable market." And I said in the article, "As with Cicero, Deming saw quality as a property." And then some other background on quality before I talk about Garvin, "long after Cicero and well before Deming, quality as a property was a responsibility of guilds." Guilds. I mean, now we have writers guilds, we have actors guilds, and it's kind of cool that these guilds still exist and they are associations of artisans who control the practice of their craft, each with a revered trademark. So here in Los Angeles, we have writers guilds, actors guilds. They were organized as professional societies, just like unions.   0:13:00.2 BB: And these fraternities were developed, and within these fraternities they created standards for high quality. All right. So what is this quality management stuff from David Garvin? So this article was written 37 years ago and reviewing it for tonight's episode and I thought it fit in really, really well. I was reminded of... First time I read this article, 1989, I knew a lot about... Well, I knew, I was excited about Taguchi as I knew a lot about Taguchi, didn't know a lot about Dr. Deming. So I'm now reviewing it years later with a much deeper, broader Deming perspective than at that time. But I do believe, and I would encourage the listeners to get ahold of the article, look at it, if you wanna go into more depth, there's Garvin's book. And doing some research for tonight, I found out that he passed away in 2017, seven or so years ago.   0:14:04.6 BB: He was, I guess from, most of his career and education he was at the Harvard Business School, very well respected there. And so in the article it talks about, again, this, 1987, that's the era of Total Quality Management. That's the era in which Dr. Deming was attracting 2000 people to go to his seminars. 1987 is two years before Six Sigma Quality, two years before “The Machine That Changed The World.” And in the article, he says, "Part of the problem, of course, is that Japanese and European competition have intensified. Not many companies tried to make quality programs work even as they implemented them." This is back when quality was an era of quality circles. He says, "In my view, most of the principles about quality were narrow in scope. They were designed as purely defensive measures to preempt failures or eliminate defects, eliminate red beads."   0:15:10.3 BB: "What managers need now is an aggressive strategy to gain and hold markets with high quality," there we go again, "as a competitive linchpin." All right. So in the article, he has some interesting explanations of... Highlights. In the book is more depth. He talks about Joseph Juran, "Juran's Quality Handbook". Juran observed that quality could be understood in terms of avoidable and unavoidable costs. Dr. Deming talked about the economics. The New Economics, right? But Juran is looking at avoidable, unavailable costs resulting from defects in product failures. That's very traditional quality today.  The latter associated with prevention, inspection, sampling, sorting, quality control. And so this is what I found fascinating, is 37 years later, this is still the heavy sense of what quality is all about. Avoiding failure, avoiding defects.   0:16:18.3 BB: Then he talks about Total Quality Control coming from Armand Feigenbaum, who was a big name in the '80s. Again Dr. Deming's work kind of created this big quality movement but it wasn't just Dr. Deming people discovered, they discovered Philip Crosby in a Zero Defects advocacy, Feigenbaum, Juran, sometime later. Again, mid '80s, Dr. Taguchi's name started to be heard. All right. And then the reliability. All right. Now I wanna get into the... Oh, here's, this is good. "In 1961, the Martin Corporation, Martin Company was building Pershing missiles for the US Army. The design of the missile was sound, but Martin found that it could maintain high quality only through massive inspection programs."   0:17:13.0 BB: You know what Dr. Deming would say about inspection? It's after the fact. Sorting the good ones from the bad ones after the fact. No prevention there. But Martin found that it could only do it with inspection. And decided to offer... Again, this is 1961, and this is still the solution today, decided to offer workers incentives to lower the defect rate. And in December, 1961, delivered a Pershing missile to Cape Canaveral with zero discrepancies. Buoyed by this success, Martin's general manager in Florida accepted a challenge issued by the Army's missile command to deliver the first Pershing missile one month ahead of schedule. He went even further, he promised that the missile would be perfect. Perfect. You know what that means, Andrew?   0:18:12.3 AS: Tell us.   0:18:12.8 BB: All good, not bad.   0:18:14.9 AS: All good, not bad.   0:18:15.9 BB: He promised missile would be perfect with no hardware problems or document errors, and that all equipment would be fully operational 10 days after delivering. And so what was neat in going back to this is we still have this mindset that quality is about things being good, not bad. What is bad we call that scrap, we call that rework. That's alive and well today.   0:18:45.0 AS: The proclamations are interesting when you listen to what he's saying, when you're quoting that.   0:18:52.4 BB: Yeah, no, and I remember, 'cause again, I read this recently for the first time in 37 years and I'm going through it. And at the time I was thinking, "Wow, wow, wow, this is a really big deal. This is a really big deal." Now I look at it and say, "This is what we're still talking about today, 37 years later." The absence of defects is the essence of quality. All right. But so I would highly recommend the article. Now we get into what he proposes as eight critical dimensions of quality that can serve as a framework for strategic analysis. And I think even in a Deming environment, I think it's... I think what's really cool about this is it provides a broad view of quality that I think Deming's work fits in very well to, Dr. Taguchi's work fits in very well to, and I think covers a lot of what people call quality. So the first dimension he talks about is performance.   0:20:01.4 BB: And he says, "Of course, performance refers to a product's primary operating characteristics." He says, "For an automobile, performance would include traits like acceleration, handling, cruising speed. For a television, sound and picture clarity." He says "A power shovel in the excavation business that excavates 100 cubic yards per hour will outperform one that excavates 10 cubic yards per hour." So the capacity, that could be miles per gallon, carrying capacity, the resolution of the pixels, that's what he calls performance. Okay. Features is the second dimension of quality. Examples include free drinks on an airplane, but not if you're flying a number of airlines they charge you for those drinks, permanent press cycles on a washing machine, automatic tuners on a color television set. A number of people in our audience won't know what those are, bells and whistles. Features are bells and whistles.   0:21:17.2 BB: There was a time people would say the number of cup holders in your automobile, a feature could be intermittent wipers. So these are features. So again, I mean, so performance is kind of cool. What is the capacity, is it 100 horsepower, 200 horsepower, that's performance. Features, bells and whistles. Okay. Fine. Reliability, now we're talking. The dimension represents the probability of a product malfunctioning or failing within a specified period of time. So your car breaking down, are you gonna drive to work every day and one morning you're gonna go out and it's... That's a reliability issue. Okay. That's... When I think about reliability, that's a Taguchi thing, that's a Deming thing.  And looking at time between failures, okay, fine. Reliability comes down to... And if importance for the impact of downtime, if you're looking at engines not working and you're sitting at the gate, that's a reliability issue. The reliability is, it can be repaired, but it's gonna take some time, perhaps. Conformance. All right.   0:22:40.4 AS: Is number four, right?   0:22:42.2 BB: This is number four, a related dimension of quality is conformance or the degree to which a product's design and operating characteristics meet established standards. "This dimension owes to the importance of traditional approaches," it says, "to quality pioneers such as Juran." All products and services involve specifications of some sort. When new designs or models are developed, dimensions are set for parts or purity, these specifications are normally expressed as a target or a center. Now it's starting to sound a little bit like Dr. Taguchi's work, an ideal value, deviance from the center within a specified range. But this approach equates good quality with operating inside the tolerance band. There is little interest in whether the specifications have been met exactly. For the most part, dispersion within specifications is ignored. Ignored. That's balls and strikes, Andrew, balls and strikes.   0:23:51.2 BB: As long as the ball is somewhere in the strike zone, as long as the characteristic is somewhere within requirements, conformance, this gets into what I talk about in terms of the question number one of quality management. Has the requirement been met, the requirement for the performance, the dimension, is it within requirements? And there's only two answers, yes or no. That's conformance. I used to think that the American Society for Quality might be better known as the American Society for the Preservation of Conformance. I find there's a lot of conformance thinking. I'm reminded of, I'm a member of the American Society for Quality as I'm on the Deming Medal Committee, so I have to be a member of ASQ. So I get a daily or every other day newsletter with comments and conformance is a big part of the conversation. Good parts and bad parts, scrap and rework. All right.   0:25:02.3 BB: Conformance is number four. And it's not to say there isn't a place for the conformance, but conformance is then again different from what Dr. Taguchi is talking about. All right. Durability, the measure of a product life. Durability has both economic and technical dimensions. Durability is how long does it work before I throw it away? So reliability is about, I can repair it. Okay. And that's an inconvenience. Durability is like light bulbs. It runs and runs or a refrigerator and someone says, "Well, it's time for a new one." That's a durability issue. Okay. Durability is the amount of use you get before you haul it off to the junkyard. That's durability. Okay. Serviceability. And back in the '60s, now I'm dating myself, there would be commercials for... I don't know which television brand, but what they talked about is, and these would be commercials. Commercials on television as to "our TV is easy to repair." And I thought, is that a good thing?   [laughter]   0:26:22.4 AS: Is that a foreboding?   0:26:24.4 BB: Yeah. And so... But again, the last couple of days I had to fix the sprinkler system in the backyard. And here in California we have, everybody has a sprinkler system. In the East Coast, people have above ground sprinkler systems. Here, they're all below ground. You don't have to worry about the lines freezing, at least in Los Angeles. And so anyway, one of the valves broke and I thought I was gonna buy a new one and take some of the parts from the new one to put it into the old one. And that didn't quite work. And so meaning to say, serviceability on the design was awful. I couldn't service it.   0:27:11.5 BB: I had to replace the whole damn thing, which was a lot more work than I was expecting. Anyway, however they designed it, serviceability didn't seem to be a consideration in the... That's dimension number six. Again, not to say there's anything wrong with thinking about serviceability. In terms of... Yeah. Okay, I'll leave it with that. Okay, serviceability. Number seven, aesthetics. The final two dimensions of quality are the most subjective, aesthetics, how a product looks, feels, sounds, taste, or smells is clearly a matter of personal judgment. Nevertheless, there seem to be patterns, a rich and full flavor aroma.   0:28:01.0 BB: That's got nothing to do with Dr. Taguchi's work. I mean, you can go off and do market research, find out what is the most appealing flavor, the most appealing taste, the most appealing aroma. And this is what I used to tell students is, and once you understand that or that vivid color that attracts the customer, then you could use Dr. Taguchi's work for, how can I reliably, predictably recreate, week after week, day by day, car by car, that aroma, that flavor, but Taguchi's work is not gonna tell you what it is. And then the last dimension of quality, you ready, Andrew?   0:28:45.8 AS: Give it to me, Bill.   0:28:47.7 BB: Perceived quality. "Consumers do not always have complete information on a product's attributes and direct measure is maybe their only basis. A product's durability can seldom be observed." And so we talk about perceptions of quality. Again, this is 1987, he says, "For this reason, Honda, which makes cars in Marysville, Ohio, and Sony, which builds color TVs have been reluctant to publicize that their products..." Ready? "Are made in America." Because the perception in 1987 is we want them to be made in Japan. And then we could talk about the perception of Cadillac quality, the perception of Jaguar quality.   0:29:35.7 BB: My father's gas station back in the early '70s, it was a block away from the nearby hospital. So a lot of our customers were doctors and they came in in their Cadillacs and Mercedes. And it was just a lot of fun. It was pretty cool. And one doctor against all of his peers' recommendations bought a Jaguar XJ12, V12, 12 cylinders, and they told him again and again, they said, "It'll spend more time in the shop than you driving it." No, no, no, he had to have one, he had to have one. And sure enough, it spent most of the time in the shop, but I got to drive it now and then, which was pretty cool. But that's perceived quality.   0:30:27.5 BB: So I just wanted to, in this episode, throughout those eight dimensions of quality. Again, I encourage our listeners, viewers, I think to get a broader sense of quality before you just look at quality from Dr. Deming's perspective, quality from anyone else's. I think that Garvin has done a really good job covering eight bases, if I can use that term, of quality. And then what I think is neat is to look at which of these tie into Deming's work, which of these tie into Dr. Taguchi's work? And that's what I wanted to cover in this episode.   0:31:01.8 AS: Fantastic. Well, let's just review that for the listeners and the viewers out there, eight dimensions. The first one is performance, the second one is features, the third one is reliability, the fourth one is conformance, the fifth one is durability, the sixth one is serviceability, the seventh one is aesthetics, how it feels and all that, and then the eighth one is perceived quality. Woah, that was...   0:31:29.4 BB: All about... Yeah. And it is reputation. You either have a great reputation or not.   0:31:38.3 AS: All right. Well, Bill, on behalf of everyone at the Deming Institute, I want to thank you again for this discussion. For listeners, remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. And if you wanna keep in touch with Bill, just find him on LinkedIn. This is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming, "People are entitled to joy in work."

TAKEAWAYSThere are eight dimensions of wellness: financial, spiritual, emotional, occupational, physical, social, environmental, and intellectualKatherine's book can be used as a devotional or a Bible studyDon't purchase and store foods in the house that are unhealthy that you will be tempted to eat in large quantitiesOur natural activity level is limited because of modern technology

Honoring the Lord with how we take care of our bodies is vital in maintaining our spiritual health because it's the temple of the Holy Spirit. Katherine Pasour is an author, teacher, and speaker with a passion for educating others on healthy living and wellness. She gives common-sense ways we can acquire and maintain healthy habits. “God wants us to have an abundant life and to treat our body the way that God wants us to treat it,” she says. Katherine also points out how physical health intersects with spiritual and emotional health. She encourages eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, avoiding processed foods and fast food, and getting some outdoor activity in each day. TAKEAWAYS There are eight dimensions of wellness: financial, spiritual, emotional, occupational, physical, social, environmental, and intellectual Katherine's book can be used as a devotional or a Bible study Don't purchase and store foods in the house that are unhealthy that you will be tempted to eat in large quantities Our natural activity level is limited because of modern technology

Phil Rutherford and Dr. Nzinga Harrison get deep into the equity of recovery, from harm reduction to representation. Phil shares why he changed his mind about harm reduction facilities and explains how his recovery pathway destination shifted from cessation of substances to, well, something bigger. Resources mentioned in this episode: Black Faces Black Voices - https://bfbv.org/ Eight Dimensions of Wellness - https://bit.ly/3QqIrbF Faces and Voices of Recovery: https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/ https://www.instagram.com/facesandvoicesofrecovery/ https://www.facebook.com/facesandvoicesofrecovery https://twitter.com/facesandvoices _____ Pre-Order "Un-Addiction: Six Mind-Changing Conversations That Could Save a Life": https://www.nzingaharrisonmd.com/ Find Nzinga on Threads and X (Twitter): @nzingamd / LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nzingaharrisonmd/ Follow us on IG: @unaddictionpod If you'd like to watch our interviews, you can catch us on YouTube @unaddictionpod.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Bryan Dosono is a design research leader with over ten years of experience scaling insights-driven practices in consumer technology. He applies human-computer interaction research methods with visual storytelling to modernize the design of global marketplaces and online communities. In this episode, he discusses the importance of prioritizing wellness in developing personal and professional growth. We also talk career transitions, travel hacking, finances/ credit cards, Filipino martial arts, and more! Connect with Bryan Dosono, PhD, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bdosono/ Learn more about National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month: https://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/minority-mental-health/ Learn more about Eight Dimensions of Wellness: https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/d7/priv/sma16-4957.pdf Learn more about IncrediPaul and sign up for the IncrediPaul Student Community by going to incredipaul.org/community, schedule your free coaching discovery call to see if I'm the right coach for you by going to www.incredipaul.org/coaching. Pick up IncrediPaul merch and stay connected on all things IncrediPaul by checking out my website: incredipaul.org or linktree: www.linktr.ee/incredipaul Follow me on Threads. TikTok, Twitter or Instagram @imincredipaul. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/incredipaul/message

EAB's Lindsay Schappell, Matt Mustard, and Ed Venit explore the eight dimensions of wellness as they related to keeping students engaged, healthy, and on path academically. The three offer data that highlight the magnitude of the student mental health challenge and the extent of staffing challenges that are decimating college counseling centers. They also share tips for university leaders on better ways to identify students who may be struggling and support those students with a coordinated care network.

Today begins our series, “LOVE With Confidence”, our theme for Season 5! This episode introduces our theme and outlines the upcoming journey that we will take together through our energetic realms of experience - body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit - to deepen our capacity to love others and ourselves with confidence!   Our mission to help balance the energetic realms - body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit - is based partly on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; our spiritual energy centers - the Chakra system; and the Eight Dimensions of Wellness from SAMHSA. In this episode, I provide information to highlight the psychological foundation of the concept: loving with confidence. I offer considerations to highlight why the combination of  love with confidence is important in our present lives, to reflect on where the concept comes from, and to provide action steps including Metta - a practice in loving-kindness - that you can perform to move forward with intentional vision to cultivate and enhance your LOVE with confidence!   Visit the Empowered By Design Podcast episode website for time stamps, resources, links, and more! https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-101              #101 | Season 5, Ep. 2   Stay connected with me by getting on my email list and download the FREE design guide, our signature formula, Dream, Design, Deliver: https://www.drlyz.com/DDD  Let's Connect! Join Dream Vibe Tribe: a PEAK Performance Collective of Professional Women Empowering+Manifesting+Sustaining Confidence+Abundance+Excellence+Peace in LIFE, WORK, and LOVE!!  For high vibe, heart-driven, passionate women who recognize the POWER of cultivating connection, tuning in, showing up with authenticity, investing in excellence, and aligning our energy with our values, mission, and vision.  Beautiful Souls, Let's FLY!!!!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/471432945148137/ 

In today's episode of Your Permission Prescription we'll explore one of the Eight Dimensions of Reinvention - Calibration. Calibration is the way we gauge, assess, and adjust as we move through the process of reinvention. It's an act of radical honesty with ourselves. Calibration invites us to check-in with our current pathway to ensure it still serves our vision, or course-correct if it doesn't. Our inability or unwillingness to recalibrate can lead to self-sabotage. We won't move closer to our goals if they're not in alignment with our vision. Often, what keeps us from our vision are Incompletions. What unfinished business, loose ends, or neglected responsibilities do you have in your life? Dive deeper into The Eight Dimensions of Reinvention inside my guided journal, The Art of Change: https://nancylevin.com/nancy-levin-books/#aoc

It does seem like everyone is talking about wellness these days, so Liletta and Mirena are back to take a crack at it like only they can. They discuss a medical update (walking is HARD), crazy close encounters at the Stevie Nicks concert, the unexpected dimensions of grief, making plans to be more social AND alone, and why we should spend lots of money on ourselves. While discussing the Eight Dimensions of Wellness, our fearless heroines check in on themselves and each other because…that's just what ex-wives and current girlfriends do.

We often reference the Eight Dimensions of Wellness on the Ways to Flourish podcast, but we know that eight different dimensions are a lot to keep track of and truly understand. To help with this, we're beginning a series to tackle each dimension in more depth: Welcome to the 8 Dimensions series!Today, we are kicking off the series with Wellness Ambassadors Becca Gaylin and Katie Diehl to talk about the emotional/mental dimension of wellness. We chat about how a college environment can place stress on our mental well-being, how we can be positive without ignoring our negative emotions, and what resources we can access if we need a little help. Resources:8 Dimensions webpage

We celebrate Episode 200 by talking about wellness, its various forms, how focusing on wellness will improve your health, and much more!     Check out old episodes in video form: http://bit.ly/TWMPUTube  Follow & reach out to Keoni at: @KeoniTeta nhcnc.com  Follow & reach out to Bryan at: @BBrozy BryanBrozy.com; You can also subscribe to Bryan's mailing list to get actionable health information delivered right to your device by clicking here:https://bit.ly/B_Well  Please email us at wellmanspodcast@gmail.com, telling us how we can best serve you!  https://www.facebook.com/The-Well-Mans-Podcast-555112064834290/ https://www.instagram.com/thewellmanspodcast/ 

Today we learn all about A Place For Hope: Recovery & Wellness Center from their Board Chair, Alison Wolbeck. A Place For Hope (AP4H) operates from the clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation by supporting people with a history of mental illness rejoin society and maintain their place in it. AP4H utilizes the Eight Dimensions of Wellness approach to help members connect with each other through planned activities, community outings, meal gatherings, volunteering, and peer-to-peer mentoring.Learn More About A Place For Hope: https://www.aplace4hope.org/Give To A Place For Hope:  https://www.aplace4hope.org/donateSupport This Podcast! Make a quick and easy donation here:https://www.patreon.com/dogoodbetterSpecial THANK YOU to our sponsors:Donor Dock - The best CRM system for your small to medium sized nonprofit, hands down! Visit www.DonorDock.com and use the Promo Code DOGOODBETTER for a FREE month!Brady Martz - The Nonprofit Audit Specialists! Visit www.BradyMartz.com to connect with folks to make your fiscal life a heckuvalot easier!About The Official Do Good Better Podcast:Each episode features (fundraising expert, speaker, event creator and author) Patrick Kirby interviewing leaders and champions of small & medium nonprofits to share their successes, their impact, and what makes them a unicorn in a field of horses. Patrick answers fundraising questions and (most importantly) showcases how you can support these small nonprofits doing great big things!iTunes: https://apple.co/3a3XenfSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2PlqRXsYouTube: https://bit.ly/3kaWYanTunein: http://tun.in/pjIVtStitcher: https://bit.ly/3i8jfDRFollow On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoodBetterPodcast/Follow On Twitter: @consulting_do #fundraising #fundraiser #charity #nonprofit #donate #dogood #dogoodBETTER #fargo #fundraisingdadAbout Host Patrick Kirby:Email: Patrick@dogoodbetterconsulting.comLinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fundraisingdad/Want more great advice? Buy Patrick's book! Now also available as an e-book!Fundraise Awesomer! A Practical Guide to Staying Sane While Doing GoodAvailable through Amazon Here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1072070359

Living a healthy and happy life is what Holistic Wellness can do - Letting you live the life you were meant to live. We will be talking more about that with the “Go-to guy for Wellness”, Jason Cronan. Jason is the host of the podcast, "Wellness On The Go '' which teaches wellness tips that will enhance your life by developing a healthier mind and body. He believes "one should live life to the fullest”. Don't miss: ●  What are the Eight Dimensions of Wellness ●  What's been the biggest surprise for Jason since launching his podcast ●  What is “Blank Slate List” exercise that will clear your mind at night ●  Things You can do to reduce stress levels, as you're navigating yourself into entrepreneurship ●      Your brain runs your whole body - Focus on your Mind, then your Body, and then your Business About Jason Cronan: Jason Cronan achieved a Masters degree in Exercise Science from East Stroudsburg Univ. of PA. He specializes in holistic personal and group wellness coaching  for corporate and business individuals.  He is certified by the ACSM as a certified Exercise Physiologist, certificated as a Nutrition Specialist and certified by the National Strength & Conditioning Association as a Strength and Conditioning Coach. He has been a Keynote speaker on Anti-Bullying, Finding Balance and plans to focus his extra time on motivational public speaking.  Lives in Mount Juliet Tennessee. He developed a mobile personal training company called BodyXpress Wellness Solutions. BodyXpress Wellness Solutions. He offers services both online and on location.  His Podcast "Wellness On The Go" features professionals and individuals interviews that focus on one or more of the eight dimensions of wellness. Check it out at www.anchor.fm/wellnessonthego. Jason believes "one should live life to the fullest."   Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/bodyxpressws ( http://www.facebook.com/bodyxpressws) Twitter: bodyxpessws Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/bodyxpressws/ ( bodyxpressws) LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bodyxpress-wellness-solutions ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/bodyxpress-wellness-solutions) YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/JayC.TV ( http://www.youtube.com/JayC.TV) Websitehttp://www.bodyxpressws.com/ ( http://www.bodyxpressws.com) About the Host: Michelle Abraham - Podcast Producer, Host and International Speaker. Michelle was speaking on stages about podcasting before most people knew what they were, she started a Vancouver based Podcasting Group in 2012 and has learned the ins and outs of the industry. Michelle helped create and launched over 30 Podcasts in 2018 and has gone on to launch over 200 shows in the last few years, She wants to launch YOURS in 2021! 14 years as an Entrepreneur and 8 years as a Mom has led her to a lifestyle shift, spending more time with family while running location independent online digital marketing business for the last 9 years. Michelle and her family have been living completely off the grid lakeside boat access for the last 4 years! Check Us Out on: Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MyPodcastCoach (https://www.facebook.com/groups/MyPodcastCoach) Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/AMPLIFYOU.ca/ ( https://www.facebook.com/AMPLIFYOU.ca/) Twitter:https://twitter.com/YouAmplif ( https://twitter.com/YouAmplif) Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/amplifyou.ca/ ( https://www.instagram.com/amplifyou.ca/) To Join our FREE Podcasters Tool Kit:https://bit.ly/PodcastToolKit ( https://bit.ly/PodcastToolKit) For More Podcast Training -http://www.mypodcastcoach.com/ ( www.mypodcastcoach.com) 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 note in the comment section

I was going to drop this one on Friday but just couldn't wait. I'm trying to balance the need to get this info out there with the discipline to create a good show and drop the podcast on a specific day of the week. I promise to get o a schedule and to keep improving the show.I was formally introduced to this idea last week, Since then I've been going through our programs and training to ensure this is a part of everything we do for our vets. In this podcast I discuss a few of the ways we address each of these areas.Emotional / Mental.Environmental.Financial.Intellectual.Occupational.Physical.Social.Spiritual.scubarob.comneptunewarrior.orgIG: Neptune WarriorIG: Scuba monk rob Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of OmbuLabs, the Ruby on Rails development shop behind FastRuby.io. He comes back to the podcast to talk about code quality: what it is, what it is perceived to be and what its like to maintain a few Ruby code quality gems, including ruby-critic and skunk. Show Notes & Links: OmbuLabs :: The Lean Software Boutique (https://www.ombulabs.com/) FastRuby.io (https://www.fastruby.io/) 309: Upgrading Rails & Skunk for Scoring with Ernesto Tagwerker (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/309) rails_stats (https://github.com/fastruby/rails_stats) rubycritic (https://github.com/whitesmith/rubycritic) skunk (https://github.com/fastruby/skunk) metric_fu (https://github.com/metricfu/metric_fu) Eight Dimensions of Quality (https://www.toolshero.com/quality-management/eight-dimensions-of-quality/) The Code Quality Challenge - Tuple.app (https://tuple.app/code-quality-challenge) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You'll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they're prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Season 3 of Dr Bae Bae On Call Podcast will include empowering information on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness.  In this podcast listen as Dr Bae Bae covers the  dimension of "Environmental Wellness" from the vantage point of using the mind to overcome fear in order to influence the outcomes of a future where "it's OK to be OK"! 

Listen to the full episode by supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhourAmy hosts the show with Allie Middleton this week, a Licensed Psychotherapist, A Yoga Teacher & Therapist, and an Author. Allie hopes to build relationships with influencers that are in adjoining fields of health care. They chat with Dr. Peggy Swarbrick, a pioneer and global wellness leader at Rutgers University. Dr. Peggy coordinates activities for the Wellness Institute of the Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey. She is an avid Yoga Practitioner. She talks about her model “The Eight Dimensions of Wellness', How the model evolved from the 1980s till now, and the benefits of Peggy's Model.The month of July 2021 will incorporate guests from the field of Behavioral Health so that we in the field of Yoga Therapy can learn how to grow and expand our message and influence. We will take lessons from these 4 guests and apply what they have learned in decades of experience while growing a similar field. Amy, Allie & Peggy talk about the following:·        Peggy's background and how she came about her model ‘The Eight Dimensions of Wellness”. We discuss the similarities this model has to Yoga Therapy.·        What motivated Peggy to decide to do pursue this pathway for over 40 years and how that has culminated in changing the world!·        How Peggy's idea started off with healing herself, then expanded to help others and eventually became adopted by major government organizations and ended up in every wellness textbook that exists. Key, it is about whole health and healing and her model “landed” because it is intuitive, and people recognize themselves in the model. Keep it simple and easy to understand is Peggy's advice!·        Peggy's advice to people on what to think about when they have a new idea. It is a very yogic way to look at our work.·        What opportunities Yoga Therapists have Post Covid and that there will be money coming down the pike to support the work of yoga therapists, and how to tap into that stream to do your work.·        Allie's experience with cocreating Wellness & Recovery programs together and the parallels to Yoga Therapy, especially starting to work with the healthcare providers and giving them an experience of what yoga therapy really is.·        Embodied Innovation from the inside out. How to listen deeply to your own heart and then bring your gifts to the world.·        Research and Systems based strategies that can help Yoga Therapists move from the little ME into the big WE consciousness and why that matters.·        Coaching & Counselling models and how it pertains to Yoga Therapy. Yoga Therapy is much more akin to coaching and this is great news because healthcare is excited about coaching!·        Challenges Peggy faced implementing her model and how she overcame adversity in getting her message out to the public over 40 years. She has suggestions for how we as yoga therapists can expand out influence and make a difference in the world.July's podcasts is sponsored by:  Optimal State Therapy Schoolhttps://theoptimalstate.com/ Foundations we supporthttp://www.kym.orghttps://givebackyoga.org/We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $500 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $500 in any given month, it will roll into the following month's payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation Books mentioned in the podcastYoga Radicals: A Curated Set of Inspiring Stories from Pioneers in the Fieldhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XSGX1QF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Meet Allie https://alliemiddleton.com/Meet Peggy https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-swarbrick-127a4765/Check out Amy's website http://www.amywheeler.com  Creating a Healthier Lifestyle https://store.samhsa.gov/product/Creating-a-Healthier-Life-/SMA16-4958 https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/d7/priv/sma16-4958.pdf Wellness Quiz https://alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/wellness-in-recovery/quiz/

Vanessa Baker is a parent and teen mindset coach, as well as the author of the book, "From MEAN to REAL CLEAN," and a parenting course of the same name.  She has five teenagers and a toddler. She uses her background in education, business and coaching to teach parents how to create healthy relationships with their teenagers, and ultimately, with themselves. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her wife, kids and her cat, Walter White.Statement from Vanessa's website: THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE is to be courageous and free--to be, do and say the exact thing that will move me and others from pain to healing, from hate to love, from control to trust, and from fear to full self-expression--so that we can all live out the joy and power of being who we were made to be.Links mentioned on the show:Vanessa's website: https://www.vbakermindset.com/Vanessa's blog: https://www.vbakermindset.com/blogVanessa's podcast (You'll Understand When You're Younger): https://www.vbakermindset.com/podcastBuy Vanessa's book: "From MEAN to REAL CLEAN" Learn how to write a letter to your teen that will change everything: Sign Up HereVanessa's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanessabaker_mindset/notMYkid blog on self-care for parents: "The Eight Dimensions of Wellness"Behavioral/mental health resources:National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255Crisis Text Line: Text "Listen" to 741741Community Information and Referral Services: Dial 211 or visit 211.orgSAMHSA Behavioral Health Treatment Locator: https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/notMYkid Website: https://notmykid.org/notMYkid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notMYkid/notMYkid Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notmykiddotorg/notMYkid Twitter: https://twitter.com/notmykidtweetsnotMYkid YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/notMYkidVidsWin This Year show email: WinThisYear@notmykid.org

Season 3 of Dr Bae Bae On Call Podcast will include empowering information on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness.  In this podcast listen as Dr Bae Bae presents some basic facts regarding the  "Physical Wellness" dimension by encouraging you to "take care of you without stressing you" which is key to  "being OK with being OK"!

Season 3 of Dr Bae Bae On Call Podcast will include empowering information on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness.  In this podcast listen as Dr Bae Bae outline Part 2 of the dimension of "Spiritual Wellness" as the foundation to forming a life where wellness is defined as "being OK with being OK"!

Season 3 of Dr Bae Bae On Call Podcast will include empowering information on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness.  In this podcast listen as Dr Bae Bae outline the dimension of "Spiritual Wellness" as the foundation to forming a life where wellness is defined as "being OK with being OK"!

Karim Ibrahim disrupted his life and got out of his comfort zone when he envisioned the collapse that might happen in Egypt. His outstanding leadership capabilities and solid secure base allowed him to have a constructive vision for his family, particularly for his children. Karim presents a plethora of golden nuggets talking about his rich experience in teaching, mentoring, consulting, leadership training, speaking, and much more. His advice to young people is priceless.Here are the resources that Karim mentioned in his story: 1. Movies: The God Father and What About Bob2. Book: Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin3. Article: "Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality" by David GarvinIf you would like to reach out to Karim: karim77@yahoo.comRemember the subject line: With Reference to the Discussion with Amina Listen to Karim's story and how gaining awareness of what was needed to change in his character as a young chap, and then later on what awareness he needed to disrupt and uproot his family, is an eye-opening narrative that teaches us many great life lessons. Download and listen to Karim's story anytime, anywhere.  

Today I'm talking with a health coach Eva Rodriguez about transformational self-care for busy women and moms. Eva is a certified health coach, personal trainer, emotional eating expert, and host of Healthy, Sexy, Strong Podcast. Eva works with women to help them end the battle with food and their bodies so they can live and love their lives.Eva shares how self-care is more than having a spa day. She explains the difference between transactional self-care and transformational self-care, and walks me through how transformational self care is a holistic practice that enhances and enriches your life on the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social levels.Find out why transformational self-care is key to improving your mood and having a good relationship with yourself, and what actions you can take to promote your well-being. Learn why each self-care practice is individual, the Eight Dimensions of Wellness adaptation, and how you can reframe your thoughts to prioritize self-care into your daily life.Show Highlights[02:01] How Eva made the leap from her former job to her health coaching business.[05:21] What is transformational self-care?[08:20] Elements of individual self-care within the Eight Dimensions of Wellness Adaptation.[12:06] How you can practice environmental self-care.[14:17] Prioritizing self-care practices daily.[16:45] Why self-care isn't selfish or frivolous.[20:18] Self-care and playing the long game. Why it's important for your mental health.[24:45] Types of physical self-care you can do for yourself.[27:15] The importance of having healthy boundaries.Subscribe Today!Apple PodcastSpotifyAndroidStitcherRSSLinks | ResourcesIG: @DrNicoleByersFacebook: Dr. Nicole ByersWebsite: Drnicolebyers.comEmail support@drnicolebyers.comWhat's Your Stress Personality QuizSign up for my Confidence Boot Camp!Visit Eva on the webListen in to her podcastMy interview on Healthy, Sexy, Strong Podcast

Summary: Kelly Hater is a life coach that guests to talk about her Mama Bear Domain and mom burnout. In this episode, she will discuss her eight dimensions of wellness.  Kelly explains how she got to a point in her life where she realized the importance of being self-aware of herself and her feelings. Inspired by her father and his work ethic, she knew she needed get help and find a better way to live to avoid the same fate. Kelly specializes in creating self-awareness for moms and she has a list of questions to ask yourself honestly to see where you are in life. Amy will answer these questions honestly, and Kelly will give suggestions on ways to improve her well-being.  Quick Links: Check out Kelly’s website and newest book at https://www.mamabeardomain.com. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mamabeardomain/ Instagram @mamabeardomain Pinterest Mama Bear Domain Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/MAMABEARDOMAIN?sub_confirmation=1   8 DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS   Physical Wellness How do you feel? Do you feel healthy? More questions: Are you tense? Are you exercising? Are you going to the doctor? Are you eating healthy? Rank yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 being you feel great, you love how you look, and you don’t need to improve. Amy’s score: 8 Mental and Emotional Are you stressed? Are you depressed? More questions: Are you lonely? How are your relationships? Do you feel mentally stable? Are you happy? Rank yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. What matters is how YOU feel. It doesn’t matter about your life or what it appears, it matters how you feel. Amy’s score: 9 Financial Are you stressed about money? Do you feel financially secure? More questions: Does money effect your health and mindset? Rank yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 being you never worry about money, stress about money, or feel bad for spending money. Amy’s score: 4 Occupational Wellness Do you feel satisfied with your work? Do you like your work? More questions: Do you feel valued and appreciated? Are you satisfied with your flexibility? Do you like how much you make? Rank yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 being you love your job, your feel appreciated, you feel valued, and you love the hours. Whether you work full time or from home, paid or unpaid it’s still a job. Amy’s score: 7 or 8 Spiritual How are you connected with your core values? What do you do so you feel connected? More questions: Do you feel zen? Are you going to church? Rank yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 being you feel connected with your core values and feel certain about where you are with the divine connection. Amy’s score: 9 Social Do you have a healthy relationship with your friends and family? Do you feel like there needs to be more boundaries? More questions: Do you feel good about your boundaries? How do you feel connected with other individuals? Rank yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 being you have secure boundaries, good relationships, and feel happy with your circle of friends. Amy’s score: 7 or 8 Environmental Wellness Do you feel like your home is a safe place? Is it clean? Is it organized? More questions: How do you feel when you are in your environment? Are you happy? Rank yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 being you would not change any piece of your home and feel happy, comfortable, and safe when you are in your space. Kelly’s suggestion if you don’t like your space. TAKE ACTION. Do something small like pick out a new paint color or set a timer to remind you pick up the messiest part of your home. Amy’s score: 6 Intellectual How is your personal growth? Have you been reading books? More questions: Do you go back to school? What can you do to be growing more? Rank yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 being you feel like you actively try to grow, and you’re satisfied with your rate of growth intellectually. Amy’s score: 7            Amy is a Nutrition/ Fitness Coach

Blueprints are technical drawings used for architecture. We need schematics to build our best selves. Our structures (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual) need a diagram in order to stay ABOVE.  You will notice that this idea contains half of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness. These designs only come to life if you have an outline to chart your course. Create your blueprints now. 

In our 6th and final episode in this Wellness Vlog Series, Amanda and Kelsi wrap up the discussion on mental health education awareness and coping into a neat package with action steps for moving forward. Links to resources mentioned in today's episode: -SAMHSA's Eight Dimensions of Wellness: http://www.ncdsv.org/images/SAMHSA_EightDimensionsOfWellness_revised2012.pdf  -Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs:  https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gyptw/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gyptw/support

In a show taped in May, Kaiser chats with New York–based rapper Bohan Phoenix, who has gained audiences in both the U.S. and China, and Allyson Toy, his manager, a Chinese American who has worked on cross-cultural music promotion and lived in Shanghai for a few years before returning to the U.S. in 2018. In a wide-ranging discussion, they look at hip-hop’s development in China, its relationship with African-American culture, and the travails of bridging two worlds as a Chinese-American hip-hop artist. 5:36: An introverted immigrant becoming an American hip-hop artist21:30: Inclusion and the changing hip-hop landscape in America23:52: The early days of China’s hip-hop scene32:54: Rap and racism in China54:05: There’s no such thing as “Chinese hip-hop” Recommendations:Allyson: Asian Not Asian Podcast, hosted by the two New York City–based comedians Fumi Abe and Mic Nguyen.Bohan: Jay Chou’s third studio album, The Eight Dimensions (八度空间 bā dù kōngjiàn), by Jay Chou.Kaiser: An article in The Atlantic, titled the Prophecies of Q, by Adrienne LaFrance.

Where are you headed? Are you heading to a beautiful place in your relationships, your career? In this episode we will discuss what's a wellness wheel? And is your life moving backwards, staying the same or moving forward!

This episode explains the Eight Dimensions of Wellness and how we can use them as an excellent tool for self-awareness, self-analysis and self care. I hope you find it helpful! Please subscribe to our channel where we cover all topics having to do with self-growth and emotional well-being such as anxiety relief, mindfulness, self-care and acceptance, living in the moment, motivation, cultivating joy and much more!

In this episode, I interviewed Dr. Kelly Crace, Associate Vice President for Health & Wellness at the College of William & Mary. We spoke about the definition of Integrative Wellness and the "Eight Dimensions of Wellness" promoted at the College of William & Mary. We shared the crossover between their model and yoga therapy frameworks plus how they are including yoga & other healing modalities into the services they are offering for their student population. And we talked about the term "flourishing" --what it means and what predicts it.Support the show (https://innerpeaceyogatherapy.com)

Today, Chuck talks about David Garman's eight dimensions of product quality: performance, features, reliability, conformance, durability, serviceability, aesthetics, and perceived quality. These categories are well-known in the TQM community, and they help people think about how to measure quality.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/agilechuckwagon)

Policy Research Associates is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. In this podcast, members of PRA’s Leadership Team talk about what occupational wellness means to them, and how they foster this dimension of wellness for themselves and the staff they supervise. Suggestions are offered that can translate to any number of workplace environments, including discussions about work-life balance, professional development, employee recognition, and much more! This podcast features PRA President and CEO Pamela Clark Robbins, and Program Area Directors Terri Hay, Kristin Lupfer, Chan Noether, and Lisa Pellitteri. To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

Policy Research Associates is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. In this podcast, you’ll hear PRA employees discuss how social wellness plays an integral role in their lives and overall wellness. Featured in the podcast are Michael Foley, System Administrator; along with Senior Project Associates Abigail Kirkman, Ashley Krider, and Dazara Ware. Nicole Vincent-Roller, Communications Specialist at PRA, moderates the episode. In this episode, the presenters discuss different activities they take part in to enhance their social wellness, how those activities enhance other wellness dimensions, strategies they have used to connect with others, and much more! To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

Policy Research Associates is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. In this podcast, you’ll hear from Dr. Crystal Lee Brandow, Senior Project Associate at PRA and Betty Vreeland, as they talk about the importance of emotional wellness. Betty has her Master’s of Science in Nursing and is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. She’s also a registered yoga teacher, and practices yoga and meditation herself on a regular basis. On this podcast, Dr. Brandow questions Ms. Vreeland to get down to the basics of mindfulness. Ms. Vreeland details topics like Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for adults with mental health conditions, and the connection between mindfulness and physical wellness. To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

Policy Research Associates is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. On this podcast, Dr. Crystal Lee Brandow, Senior Project Associate at PRA, moderates a discussion with three guests about spiritual wellness: Jimi Kelley, Behavioral Health Consultant and Advocate for the Inclusion of Spiritual and Faith Practices in Health Care; Claudia Debs, yoga practitioner, teacher, and life artist, and Michael Miriello, an individual with lived experience. Science behind spirituality for positive health is cited, and the three guests share their personal experiences with spiritual wellness and recovery. To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

Policy Research Associates is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. This podcast features Allie Middleton, Founder and Principal of Integrative Leadership Practices. Allie is a leadership development coach and organizational team consultant, facilitating innovative body-mind practices. In this discussion, she talks with two individuals, Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, Missy Stancil, the Regional Director of Carenet Counseling Central Region, and Dr. Jana Spalding of Setup4Success, LLC, about the value of intellectual wellness in recovery and overall well-being. The three talk about a hero’s journey, a universal storytelling approach, and how it can be used to empower individuals with behavioral health conditions. To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

Policy Research Associates is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. In this podcast, you’ll hear about environmental wellness from Dr. Crystal Lee Brandow, Senior Project Associate at PRA and Dr. Margaret Swarbrick, an expert at Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey and Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. Dr. Swarbrick has been a leader, author, and advocate within the mental health system and consumer survivor movement. She has published and lectured nationally and internationally on wellness, peer operated services, employment, and recovery. In this discussion, Dr. Brandow and Dr. Swarbrick identify personal health habits and routines that can support environmental wellness and improve physical health. To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

Policy Research Associates, Inc. is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. In this podcast, you’ll hear from Dr. Crystal Lee Brandow, Senior Project Associate at PRA and Betty Vreeland, as Dr. Brandow questions Ms. Vreeland to get down to the basics of mindful eating. Ms. Vreeland details topics like the ways in which a mindful approach to eating can help with weight management, decreasing risk factors for diabetes or high blood pressure. Betty has her Master’s of Science in Nursing and is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. She’s offered workshops on Mindful Eating at Rutgers and to the Society of Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses. To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

Policy Research Associates is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. In this podcast, we offer our listeners a guided meditation presented by Betty Vreeland. Betty has her Master’s of Science in Nursing and is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. She’s also a registered yoga teacher, and practices yoga and meditation herself on a regular basis. We ask that you please listen to this guided meditation at a time where it’s safe for you to relax, close your eyes, and be present. To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

Policy Research Associates, Inc. is committed to the well-being and wellness of individuals with behavioral health conditions. To help spread information about the importance of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness in recovery, we created a podcast series to address each pillar of wellness. This podcast on physical wellness features Dr. Marc Steinberg, a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Steinberg is joined by two guests, Lisa and Diedre - both of whom are Consumer Tobacco Advocates. In this podcast, Dr. Steinberg provides statistics related to smoking among individuals with serious mental illness and Lisa and Diedre share their personal life experiences with smoking cessation. To learn more about PRA’s work on well-being and wellness, contact us at wellbeing@prainc.com.

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What is self-care? Tune in to hear Stacy's definition of self-care: what it looks like and how it relates to all areas of life, not only with regards to physical health but mental and emotional health as well. Stacy reveals what percentage of health care issues come back to self-care, and talks about its relevance to everything from dental care and medical care to therapy. The Eight Dimensions of self-care Living Upp's programs are based on eight specific dimensions regarding self-care. Listen to Stacy give an outline of each of these dimensions, covering everything from emotions and inner truth to financial and environmental facets. She briefly paints a picture of how each of these dimensions impacts our well-being. Common Problem Areas Find out the most common area that many people neglect to nurture, and why this key component can affect all other dimensions. The Importance of a Multi-Dimensional Approach Here Stacy talks about how every individual is always evolving, and why self-care is not a ‘one size fits all' solution. Learn why everybody needs an individualized plan and how day to day life changes will require different focuses. Trends in Self-Care Learn about the latest trends in the self-care realm according to Stacy, and why you can't necessarily believe all the latest articles and information that floods the internet. We also learn about how self-care strategies can save you time, money, and stress by preventing issues from arising in future. “Stacking” Dimensions Discover how to power up your self-care with stacking: identifying those activities or behaviors that will hit multiple dimensions, saving you time and leveling up your fulfillment. Stacy shares some tips and examples of how stacking works. Self-Care in Relationships Keep tuning in to find out the importance of self-care with regards to personal relationships, and how you can create the conditions to enable both partners to feel fulfilled. Stacy tells us that self-care is not necessarily a solo journey. Warning Signs that you need more self-care What does it look like when you neglect to take care of yourself? Find out the warning signals and symptoms that clue you in on when you need to take a step back, and a few simple tools that Stacy herself uses every day to check in, monitor her progress and keep herself accountable. About Stacy Fisher Gunn Founder of Living Upp, a self-care planning, and design company, Stacy Fisher-Gunn is an author, public speaker and self-care designer with over 18 years of experience in the healthcare industry. A registered Dietician and certified diabetes educator, she has worked in a large range of different facilities; including nursing homes, hospitals, doctor's offices, and corporate wellness programs for companies such as Dell, Boeing, and Nike. Stacy loves to work with people and organizations to help them come up with self-care strategies, using her tailored eight-dimensional self-care system. Her book Uppward: A Self Care System for Purposeful Living describes eight unique facets of self-care, which act as the building blocks for all of Living Upp's programs and pieces of training. Stacy lives with her husband Jeremy in Issaquah, WA. Links and How to Contact Stacy Fisher-Gunn Visit the Living Upp website to see how it all works, schedule a strategy session and find out more about the self-care mastery program. https://www.LivingUpp.com/self-care-mastery-program More info: Web - https://www.bettersexpodcast.com/ Sex Health Quiz - http://sexhealthquiz.com/ If you're enjoying the podcast and want to be a part of making sure it continues in the future, consider being a patron. With a small monthly pledge, you can support the costs of putting this show together. For as little as $2 per month, you can get advance access to each episode. For just a bit more, you will receive an advance copy of a chapter of my new book. And for $10 per month, you get all that plus an invitation to an online Q&A chat with me once a quarter. Learn more at https://www.patreon.com/bettersexpodcast Better Sex with Jessa Zimmerman https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/better-sex/More info and resources: How Big a Problem is Your Sex Life? Quiz – https://www.sexlifequiz.com The Course – https://www.intimacywithease.com The Book – https://www.sexwithoutstress.com Podcast Website – https://www.intimacywithease.com Access the Free webinar: How to make sex easy and fun for both of you: https://intimacywithease.com/masterclass Secret Podcast for the Higher Desire Partner: https://www.intimacywithease.com/hdppodcast Secret Podcast for the Lower Desire Partner: https://www.intimacywithease.com/ldppodcast

What is self-care?Tune in to hear Stacy’s definition of self-care: what it looks like and how it relates to all areas of life, not only with regards to physical health but mental and emotional health as well. Stacy reveals what percentage of health care issues come back to self-care, and talks about its relevance to everything from dental care and medical care to therapy.The Eight Dimensions of self-careLiving Upp’s programs are based on eight specific dimensions regarding self-care. Listen to Stacy give an outline of each of these dimensions, covering everything from emotions and inner truth to financial and environmental facets. She briefly paints a picture of how each of these dimensions impacts our well-being.Common Problem AreasFind out the most common area that many people neglect to nurture, and why this key component can affect all other dimensions.The Importance of a Multi-Dimensional ApproachHere Stacy talks about how every individual is always evolving, and why self-care is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution. Learn why everybody needs an individualized plan and how day to day life changes will require different focuses.Trends in Self-CareLearn about the latest trends in the self-care realm according to Stacy, and why you can’t necessarily believe all the latest articles and information that floods the internet.We also learn about how self-care strategies can save you time, money, and stress by preventing issues from arising in future.“Stacking” DimensionsDiscover how to power up your self-care with stacking: identifying those activities or behaviors that will hit multiple dimensions, saving you time and leveling up your fulfillment. Stacy shares some tips and examples of how stacking works.Self-Care in RelationshipsKeep tuning in to find out the importance of self-care with regards to personal relationships, and how you can create the conditions to enable both partners to feel fulfilled. Stacy tells us that self-care is not necessarily a solo journey.Warning Signs that you need more self-careWhat does it look like when you neglect to take care of yourself? Find out the warning signals and symptoms that clue you in on when you need to take a step back, and a few simple tools that Stacy herself uses every day to check in, monitor her progress and keep herself accountable.About Stacy Fisher GunnFounder of Living Upp, a self-care planning, and design company, Stacy Fisher-Gunn is an author, public speaker and self-care designer with over 18 years of experience in the healthcare industry. A registered Dietician and certified diabetes educator, she has worked in a large range of different facilities; including nursing homes, hospitals, doctor’s offices, and corporate wellness programs for companies such as Dell, Boeing, and Nike.Stacy loves to work with people and organizations to help them come up with self-care strategies, using her tailored eight-dimensional self-care system.Her book Uppward: A Self Care System for Purposeful Living describes eight unique facets of self-care, which act as the building blocks for all of Living Upp’s programs and pieces of training.Stacy lives with her husband Jeremy in Issaquah, WA.Links and How to Contact Stacy Fisher-GunnVisit the Living Upp website to see how it all works, schedule a strategy session and find out more about the self-care mastery program.https://www.LivingUpp.com/self-care-mastery-programMore info:Web - https://www.bettersexpodcast.com/Sex Health Quiz - http://sexhealthquiz.com/If you’re enjoying the podcast and want to be a part of making sure it continues in the future, consider being a patron. With a small monthly pledge, you can support the costs of putting this show together. For as little as $2 per month, you can get advance access to each episode. For just a bit more, you will receive an advance copy of a chapter of my new book. And for $10 per month, you get all that plus an invitation to an online Q&A chat with me once a quarter. Learn more at https://www.patreon.com/bettersexpodcastBetter Sex with Jessa Zimmermanhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/better-sex/

What is self-care?Tune in to hear Stacy’s definition of self-care: what it looks like and how it relates to all areas of life, not only with regards to physical health but mental and emotional health as well. Stacy reveals what percentage of health care issues come back to self-care, and talks about its relevance to everything from dental care and medical care to therapy.The Eight Dimensions of self-careLiving Upp’s programs are based on eight specific dimensions regarding self-care. Listen to Stacy give an outline of each of these dimensions, covering everything from emotions and inner truth to financial and environmental facets. She briefly paints a picture of how each of these dimensions impacts our well-being.Common Problem AreasFind out the most common area that many people neglect to nurture, and why this key component can affect all other dimensions.The Importance of a Multi-Dimensional ApproachHere Stacy talks about how every individual is always evolving, and why self-care is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution. Learn why everybody needs an individualized plan and how day to day life changes will require different focuses.Trends in Self-CareLearn about the latest trends in the self-care realm according to Stacy, and why you can’t necessarily believe all the latest articles and information that floods the internet.We also learn about how self-care strategies can save you time, money, and stress by preventing issues from arising in future.“Stacking” DimensionsDiscover how to power up your self-care with stacking: identifying those activities or behaviors that will hit multiple dimensions, saving you time and leveling up your fulfillment. Stacy shares some tips and examples of how stacking works.Self-Care in RelationshipsKeep tuning in to find out the importance of self-care with regards to personal relationships, and how you can create the conditions to enable both partners to feel fulfilled. Stacy tells us that self-care is not necessarily a solo journey.Warning Signs that you need more self-careWhat does it look like when you neglect to take care of yourself? Find out the warning signals and symptoms that clue you in on when you need to take a step back, and a few simple tools that Stacy herself uses every day to check in, monitor her progress and keep herself accountable.About Stacy Fisher GunnFounder of Living Upp, a self-care planning, and design company, Stacy Fisher-Gunn is an author, public speaker and self-care designer with over 18 years of experience in the healthcare industry. A registered Dietician and certified diabetes educator, she has worked in a large range of different facilities; including nursing homes, hospitals, doctor’s offices, and corporate wellness programs for companies such as Dell, Boeing, and Nike.Stacy loves to work with people and organizations to help them come up with self-care strategies, using her tailored eight-dimensional self-care system.Her book Uppward: A Self Care System for Purposeful Living describes eight unique facets of self-care, which act as the building blocks for all of Living Upp’s programs and pieces of training.Stacy lives with her husband Jeremy in Issaquah, WA.Links and How to Contact Stacy Fisher-GunnVisit the Living Upp website to see how it all works, schedule a strategy session and find out more about the self-care mastery program.https://www.LivingUpp.com/self-care-mastery-programMore info:Web - https://www.bettersexpodcast.com/Sex Health Quiz - http://sexhealthquiz.com/If you’re enjoying the podcast and want to be a part of making sure it continues in the future, consider being a patron. With a small monthly pledge, you can support the costs of putting this show together. For as little as $2 per month, you can get advance access to each episode. For just a bit more, you will receive an advance copy of a chapter of my new book. And for $10 per month, you get all that plus an invitation to an online Q&A chat with me once a quarter. Learn more at https://www.patreon.com/bettersexpodcastBetter Sex with Jessa Zimmermanhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/better-sex/

Occupational wellness is the personal satisfaction and enrichment derived from one’s work according to SAMHSA’s Eight Dimensions of Wellness, and no one supports that better than today’s guest, Judy Chambers, the Executive Director of Dress for Success Austin. Dress for Success is a nonprofit that provides pre and post-employment educational and support opportunities for disadvantaged women in Central Texas. Many of those women are in recovery from substance use issues. Dress for Success Austin is one of 133 affiliates in 16 countries and is built upon a foundation of volunteerism and community which are essential elements of recovery.   Judy shares heart touching stories of women overcoming adversity and reaching new heights of success and talks about the award winning documentary, In Her Shoes, shot in Austin, Texas that highlights a Dress for Success community member’s journey from homelessness to wellness.   Judy also shares her inspiring journey. Judy is a retired educator and guidance counselor with 32 years of experience in Colorado and Texas.  Judy holds a BS in Family Studies from Colorado State University and has completed two Master’s programs, one in Educational Administration and the other in Guidance and Counseling. From fall 2002 until December 2005 she accompanied her husband on his work assignments, living in Mexico, China and Italy.  While in China she served as a volunteer in several Beijing-area orphanages.  In Mexico she taught English as a second language at a local community college.  She is currently serving a 6 year term on the Examiners Board for Optometry, a gubernatorial appointment. She is married with three grown children and 4 grandsons.     How did you like the episode? Please give us feedback.

Click here. We need your feedback.   Sobering fact: people in recovery have higher rates of heart attacks and strokes compared to the general population. More than the damage we did to our organs in active addiction, its the chain smoking, artery clogging food choices and sedentary lifestyle that causes many of us to survive chemical dependency only to die of cardiovascular disease. The good news, is that we can lower our risk by adding heart health and wellness to our path of recovery. So, tune in, turn on, and check us out because RecoveryPeople’s Million Heart series is going to help show you what we are talking about.   This episode it the kickoff of a special RecoveryPeople podcast series on heart health and wellness which is supported through a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 2014 Million Hearts grant award. SoberHood is honored to be one of four recipients of this award in the nation which is apart of a much larger Million Hearts initiative aimed at helping prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2014. Follow this link to learn more about about blood pressure control, smoking cessation and other preventive measures.   Plus, RecoveryPeople is excited to welcome Sandy Hollier as our new co-host. Sandy joins Kirk Zajac and Jason Howell in our newly equip studio (that sounds LEGIT! Thank you, SAMHSA) to discuss heart health and the Eight Dimensions of Wellness. And, a big thanks to Michael Brockman for helping us set up the studio. RecoveryPeople has never sounded better.