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Is workplace well-being a strategic advantage or simply a leadership nicety? In this episode, Kevin Eikenberry sits down with Paula Davis to discuss the seismic shifts reshaping our workplaces, including the lasting impacts of the pandemic, ongoing debates about hybrid work, generational expectations, and the rise of AI. Paula makes a case for adopting new mindsets over merely acquiring new skills. These include Sticky Recognition and Mattering, ABC Needs, Workload Sustainability, Systemic Stress Resilience, and Values and Team Alignment. Paula also addresses the deeper root causes of workplace stress, such as unmanageable workloads, lack of recognition, and organizational unfairness. Listen For 00:00 Introduction 00:08 Workplace wellbeing overview 00:42 Podcast welcome and live events 01:30 About the book Flexible Leadership 01:57 Guest introduction – Paula Davis 04:41 Paula's journey and burnout story 06:21 Why the book matters now 08:34 Why focus on mindsets 10:11 People and performance focus 13:08 Research insights on high-performing organizations 15:05 Root causes of stress and disengagement 16:21 Six root causes explained 20:15 Why these issues matter more today 21:20 Overview of the five mindsets 22:06 Sticky recognition and mattering 24:29 ABC needs: Autonomy, Belonging, Challenge 25:23 Workload sustainability 28:27 Systemic stress resilience 30:15 Summary: human and teaming practices 31:12 What Paula does for fun 32:37 Book recommendation 34:01 Where to find Paula and the book 35:03 Final thoughts and call to action  Paula's Story: Paula Davis JD, MAPP, is the author of Lead Well: Five Mindsets to Engage, Retain and Inspire your Team. She is the founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute. For 15 years, she has been a trusted advisor to leaders in organizations of all sizes helping them to make work better. Paula is a globally recognized expert on the effects of workplace stress, burnout prevention, workplace well-being, and building resilience for individuals and teams. Paula left her law practice after seven years and earned a master's degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the author of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience, which was nominated for best new book by the Next Big Idea Club. Paula has shared her expertise at educational institutions such as Harvard Law School, Wharton School Executive Education, and Princeton. She is a two-time recipient of the distinguished teaching award from the Medical College of Wisconsin. She has been featured in and on The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post and many other media outlets. Paula is also a contributor to Forbes, Fast Company and Psychology Today. https://stressandresilience.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauladavislaack/ https://www.instagram.com/stressandresilience/ https://x.com/pauladavisSRI   This Episode is brought to you by... Flexible Leadership is every leader's guide to greater success in a world of increasing complexity and chaos.      Book Recommendations Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team by Paula Davis Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience by Paula Davis Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters: The Science Behind Employee Happiness and Organizational Performance by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward  Like this? The Leader's Role in Employee Engagement with Michael Lee Stallard Understanding Employee Engagement with Jacqueline Throop-Robinson Beating Burnout at Work with Paula Davis A Practical Guide for Building Engagement with Brian Hartzer Join Our Community If you want to view our live podcast episodes, hear about new releases, or chat with others who enjoy this podcast join one of our communities below. Join the Facebook Group Join the LinkedIn Group   Leave a Review If you liked this conversation, we'd be thrilled if you'd let others know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Here's a quick guide for posting a review. Review on Apple: https://remarkablepodcast.com/itunes    Podcast Better! Sign up with Libsyn and get up to 2 months free! Use promo code: RLP  

“To navigate proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases. We must confront monsters and embrace uncertainty, balancing — and rebalancing —our beliefs. We must seek out every useful fragment of data, gather every relevant tool, searching wider and climbing further. Finding the good foundations among the bad. Dodging dogma and falsehoods. Questioning. Measuring. Triangulating. Convincing. Then perhaps, just perhaps, we'll reach the truth in time.”—Adam KucharskiMy conversation with Professor Kucharski on what constitutes certainty and proof in science (and other domains), with emphasis on many of the learnings from Covid. Given the politicization of science and A.I.'s deepfakes and power for blurring of truth, it's hard to think of a topic more important right now.Audio file (Ground Truths can also be downloaded on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)Eric Topol (00:06):Hello, it's Eric Topol from Ground Truths and I am really delighted to welcome Adam Kucharski, who is the author of a new book, Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty. He's a distinguished mathematician, by the way, the first mathematician we've had on Ground Truths and a person who I had the real privilege of getting to know a bit through the Covid pandemic. So welcome, Adam.Adam Kucharski (00:28):Thanks for having me.Eric Topol (00:30):Yeah, I mean, I think just to let everybody know, you're a Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and also noteworthy you won the Adams Prize, which is one of the most impressive recognitions in the field of mathematics. This is the book, it's a winner, Proof and there's so much to talk about. So Adam, maybe what I'd start off is the quote in the book that captivates in the beginning, “life is full of situations that can reveal remarkably large gaps in our understanding of what is true and why it's true. This is a book about those gaps.” So what was the motivation when you undertook this very big endeavor?Adam Kucharski (01:17):I think a lot of it comes to the work I do at my day job where we have to deal with a lot of evidence under pressure, particularly if you work in outbreaks or emerging health concerns. And often it really pushes the limits, our methodology and how we converge on what's true subject to potential revision in the future. I think particularly having a background in math's, I think you kind of grow up with this idea that you can get to these concrete, almost immovable truths and then even just looking through the history, realizing that often isn't the case, that there's these kind of very human dynamics that play out around them. And it's something I think that everyone in science can reflect on that sometimes what convinces us doesn't convince other people, and particularly when you have that kind of urgency of time pressure, working out how to navigate that.Eric Topol (02:05):Yeah. Well, I mean I think these times of course have really gotten us to appreciate, particularly during Covid, the importance of understanding uncertainty. And I think one of the ways that we can dispel what people assume they know is the famous Monty Hall, which you get into a bit in the book. So I think everybody here is familiar with that show, Let's Make a Deal and maybe you can just take us through what happens with one of the doors are unveiled and how that changes the mathematics.Adam Kucharski (02:50):Yeah, sure. So I think it is a problem that's been around for a while and it's based on this game show. So you've got three doors that are closed. Behind two of the doors there is a goat and behind one of the doors is a luxury car. So obviously, you want to win the car. The host asks you to pick a door, so you point to one, maybe door number two, then the host who knows what's behind the doors opens another door to reveal a goat and then ask you, do you want to change your mind? Do you want to switch doors? And a lot of the, I think intuition people have, and certainly when I first came across this problem many years ago is well, you've got two doors left, right? You've picked one, there's another one, it's 50-50. And even some quite well-respected mathematicians.Adam Kucharski (03:27):People like Paul Erdős who was really published more papers than almost anyone else, that was their initial gut reaction. But if you work through all of the combinations, if you pick this door and then the host does this, and you switch or not switch and work through all of those options. You actually double your chances if you switch versus sticking with the door. So something that's counterintuitive, but I think one of the things that really struck me and even over the years trying to explain it is convincing myself of the answer, which was when I first came across it as a teenager, I did quite quickly is very different to convincing someone else. And even actually Paul Erdős, one of his colleagues showed him what I call proof by exhaustion. So go through every combination and that didn't really convince him. So then he started to simulate and said, well, let's do a computer simulation of the game a hundred thousand times. And again, switching was this optimal strategy, but Erdős wasn't really convinced because I accept that this is the case, but I'm not really satisfied with it. And I think that encapsulates for a lot of people, their experience of proof and evidence. It's a fact and you have to take it as given, but there's actually quite a big bridge often to really understanding why it's true and feeling convinced by it.Eric Topol (04:41):Yeah, I think it's a fabulous example because I think everyone would naturally assume it's 50-50 and it isn't. And I think that gets us to the topic at hand. What I love, there's many things I love about this book. One is that you don't just get into science and medicine, but you cut across all the domains, law, mathematics, AI. So it's a very comprehensive sweep of everything about proof and truth, and it couldn't come at a better time as we'll get into. Maybe just starting off with math, the term I love mathematical monsters. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?Adam Kucharski (05:25):Yeah, this was a fascinating situation that emerged in the late 19th century where a lot of math's, certainly in Europe had been derived from geometry because a lot of the ancient Greek influence on how we shaped things and then Newton and his work on rates of change and calculus, it was really the natural world that provided a lot of inspiration, these kind of tangible objects, tangible movements. And as mathematicians started to build out the theory around rates of change and how we tackle these kinds of situations, they sometimes took that intuition a bit too seriously. And there was some theorems that they said were intuitively obvious, some of these French mathematicians. And so, one for example is this idea of you how things change smoothly over time and how you do those calculations. But what happened was some mathematicians came along and showed that when you have things that can be infinitely small, that intuition didn't necessarily hold in the same way.Adam Kucharski (06:26):And they came up with these examples that broke a lot of these theorems and a lot of the establishments at the time called these things monsters. They called them these aberrations against common sense and this idea that if Newton had known about them, he never would've done all of his discovery because they're just nuisances and we just need to get rid of them. And there's this real tension at the core of mathematics in the late 1800s where some people just wanted to disregard this and say, look, it works for most of the time, that's good enough. And then others really weren't happy with this quite vague logic. They wanted to put it on much sturdier ground. And what was remarkable actually is if you trace this then into the 20th century, a lot of these monsters and these particularly in some cases functions which could almost move constantly, this constant motion rather than our intuitive concept of movement as something that's smooth, if you drop an apple, it accelerates at a very smooth rate, would become foundational in our understanding of things like probability, Einstein's work on atomic theory. A lot of these concepts where geometry breaks down would be really important in relativity. So actually, these things that we thought were monsters actually were all around us all the time, and science couldn't advance without them. So I think it's just this remarkable example of this tension within a field that supposedly concrete and the things that were going to be shunned actually turn out to be quite important.Eric Topol (07:53):It's great how you convey how nature isn't so neat and tidy and things like Brownian motion, understanding that, I mean, just so many things that I think fit into that general category. In the legal, we won't get into too much because that's not so much the audience of Ground Truths, but the classic things about innocent and until proven guilty and proof beyond reasonable doubt, I mean these are obviously really important parts of that overall sense of proof and truth. We're going to get into one thing I'm fascinated about related to that subsequently and then in science. So before we get into the different types of proof, obviously the pandemic is still fresh in our minds and we're an endemic with Covid now, and there are so many things we got wrong along the way of uncertainty and didn't convey that science isn't always evolving search for what is the truth. There's plenty no shortage of uncertainty at any moment. So can you recap some of the, you did so much work during the pandemic and obviously some of it's in the book. What were some of the major things that you took out of proof and truth from the pandemic?Adam Kucharski (09:14):I think it was almost this story of two hearts because on the one hand, science was the thing that got us where we are today. The reason that so much normality could resume and so much risk was reduced was development of vaccines and the understanding of treatments and the understanding of variants as they came to their characteristics. So it was kind of this amazing opportunity to see this happen faster than it ever happened in history. And I think ever in science, it certainly shifted a lot of my thinking about what's possible and even how we should think about these kinds of problems. But also on the other hand, I think where people might have been more familiar with seeing science progress a bit more slowly and reach consensus around some of these health issues, having that emerge very rapidly can present challenges even we found with some of the work we did on Alpha and then the Delta variants, and it was the early quantification of these.Adam Kucharski (10:08):So really the big question is, is this thing more transmissible? Because at the time countries were thinking about control measures, thinking about relaxing things, and you've got this just enormous social economic health decision-making based around essentially is it a lot more spreadable or is it not? And you only had these fragments of evidence. So I think for me, that was really an illustration of the sharp end. And I think what we ended up doing with some of those was rather than arguing over a precise number, something like Delta, instead we kind of looked at, well, what's the range that matters? So in the sense of arguing over whether it's 40% or 50% or 30% more transmissible is perhaps less important than being, it's substantially more transmissible and it's going to start going up. Is it going to go up extremely fast or just very fast?Adam Kucharski (10:59):That's still a very useful conclusion. I think what often created some of the more challenges, I think the things that on reflection people looking back pick up on are where there was probably overstated certainty. We saw that around some of the airborne spread, for example, stated as a fact by in some cases some organizations, I think in some situations as well, governments had a constraint and presented it as scientific. So the UK, for example, would say testing isn't useful. And what was happening at the time was there wasn't enough tests. So it was more a case of they can't test at that volume. But I think blowing between what the science was saying and what the decision-making, and I think also one thing we found in the UK was we made a lot of the epidemiological evidence available. I think that was really, I think something that was important.Adam Kucharski (11:51):I found it a lot easier to communicate if talking to the media to be able to say, look, this is the paper that's out, this is what it means, this is the evidence. I always found it quite uncomfortable having to communicate things where you knew there were reports behind the scenes, but you couldn't actually articulate. But I think what that did is it created this impression that particularly epidemiology was driving the decision-making a lot more than it perhaps was in reality because so much of that was being made public and a lot more of the evidence around education or economics was being done behind the scenes. I think that created this kind of asymmetry in public perception about how that was feeding in. And so, I think there was always that, and it happens, it is really hard as well as a scientist when you've got journalists asking you how to run the country to work out those steps of am I describing the evidence behind what we're seeing? Am I describing the evidence about different interventions or am I proposing to some extent my value system on what we do? And I think all of that in very intense times can be very easy to get blurred together in public communication. I think we saw a few examples of that where things were being the follow the science on policy type angle where actually once you get into what you're prioritizing within a society, quite rightly, you've got other things beyond just the epidemiology driving that.Eric Topol (13:09):Yeah, I mean that term that you just use follow the science is such an important term because it tells us about the dynamic aspect. It isn't just a snapshot, it's constantly being revised. But during the pandemic we had things like the six-foot rule that was never supported by data, but yet still today, if I walk around my hospital and there's still the footprints of the six-foot rule and not paying attention to the fact that this was airborne and took years before some of these things were accepted. The flatten the curve stuff with lockdowns, which I never was supportive of that, but perhaps at the worst point, the idea that hospitals would get overrun was an issue, but it got carried away with school shutdowns for prolonged periods and in some parts of the world, especially very stringent lockdowns. But anyway, we learned a lot.Eric Topol (14:10):But perhaps one of the greatest lessons is that people's expectations about science is that it's absolute and somehow you have this truth that's not there. I mean, it's getting revised. It's kind of on the job training, it's on this case on the pandemic revision. But very interesting. And that gets us to, I think the next topic, which I think is a fundamental part of the book distributed throughout the book, which is the different types of proof in biomedicine and of course across all these domains. And so, you take us through things like randomized trials, p-values, 95 percent confidence intervals, counterfactuals, causation and correlation, peer review, the works, which is great because a lot of people have misconceptions of these things. So for example, randomized trials, which is the temple of the randomized trials, they're not as great as a lot of people think, yes, they can help us establish cause and effect, but they're skewed because of the people who come into the trial. So they may not at all be a representative sample. What are your thoughts about over deference to randomized trials?Adam Kucharski (15:31):Yeah, I think that the story of how we rank evidence in medicines a fascinating one. I mean even just how long it took for people to think about these elements of randomization. Fundamentally, what we're trying to do when we have evidence here in medicine or science is prevent ourselves from confusing randomness for a signal. I mean, that's fundamentally, we don't want to mistake something, we think it's going on and it's not. And the challenge, particularly with any intervention is you only get to see one version of reality. You can't give someone a drug, follow them, rewind history, not give them the drug and then follow them again. So one of the things that essentially randomization allows us to do is, if you have two groups, one that's been randomized, one that hasn't on average, the difference in outcomes between those groups is going to be down to the treatment effect.Adam Kucharski (16:20):So it doesn't necessarily mean in reality that'd be the case, but on average that's the expectation that you'd have. And it's kind of interesting actually that the first modern randomized control trial (RCT) in medicine in 1947, this is for TB and streptomycin. The randomization element actually, it wasn't so much statistical as behavioral, that if you have people coming to hospital, you could to some extent just say, we'll just alternate. We're not going to randomize. We're just going to first patient we'll say is a control, second patient a treatment. But what they found in a lot of previous studies was doctors have bias. Maybe that patient looks a little bit ill or that one maybe is on borderline for eligibility. And often you got these quite striking imbalances when you allowed it for human judgment. So it was really about shielding against those behavioral elements. But I think there's a few situations, it's a really powerful tool for a lot of these questions, but as you mentioned, one is this issue of you have the population you study on and then perhaps in reality how that translates elsewhere.Adam Kucharski (17:17):And we see, I mean things like flu vaccines are a good example, which are very dependent on immunity and evolution and what goes on in different populations. Sometimes you've had a result on a vaccine in one place and then the effectiveness doesn't translate in the same way to somewhere else. I think the other really important thing to bear in mind is, as I said, it's the averaging that you're getting an average effect between two different groups. And I think we see certainly a lot of development around things like personalized medicine where actually you're much more interested in the outcome for the individual. And so, what a trial can give you evidence is on average across a group, this is the effect that I can expect this intervention to have. But we've now seen more of the emergence things like N=1 studies where you can actually over the same individual, particularly for chronic conditions, look at those kind of interventions.Adam Kucharski (18:05):And also there's just these extreme examples where you're ethically not going to run a trial, there's never been a trial of whether it's a good idea to have intensive care units in hospitals or there's a lot of these kind of historical treatments which are just so overwhelmingly effective that we're not going to run trial. So almost this hierarchy over time, you can see it getting shifted because actually you do have these situations where other forms of evidence can get you either closer to what you need or just more feasibly an answer where it's just not ethical or practical to do an RCT.Eric Topol (18:37):And that brings us to the natural experiments I just wrote about recently, the one with shingles, which there's two big natural experiments to suggest that shingles vaccine might reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, an added benefit beyond the shingles that was not anticipated. Your thoughts about natural experiments, because here you're getting a much different type of population assessment, again, not at the individual level, but not necessarily restricted by some potentially skewed enrollment criteria.Adam Kucharski (19:14):I think this is as emerged as a really valuable tool. It's kind of interesting, in the book you're talking to economists like Josh Angrist, that a lot of these ideas emerge in epidemiology, but I think were really then taken up by economists, particularly as they wanted to add more credibility to a lot of these policy questions. And ultimately, it comes down to this issue that for a lot of problems, we can't necessarily intervene and randomize, but there might be a situation that's done it to some extent for us, so the classic example is the Vietnam draft where it was kind of random birthdays with drawn out of lottery. And so, there's been a lot of studies subsequently about the effect of serving in the military on different subsequent lifetime outcomes because broadly those people have been randomized. It was for a different reason. But you've got that element of randomization driving that.Adam Kucharski (20:02):And so again, with some of the recent shingles data and other studies, you might have a situation for example, where there's been an intervention that's somewhat arbitrary in terms of time. It's a cutoff on a birth date, for example. And under certain assumptions you could think, well, actually there's no real reason for the person on this day and this day to be fundamentally different. I mean, perhaps there might be effects of cohorts if it's school years or this sort of thing. But generally, this isn't the same as having people who are very, very different ages and very different characteristics. It's just nature, or in this case, just a policy intervention for a different reason has given you that randomization, which allows you or pseudo randomization, which allows you to then look at something about the effect of an intervention that you wouldn't as reliably if you were just digging into the data of yes, no who's received a vaccine.Eric Topol (20:52):Yeah, no, I think it's really valuable. And now I think increasingly given priority, if you can find these natural experiments and they're not always so abundant to use to extrapolate from, but when they are, they're phenomenal. The causation correlation is so big. The issue there, I mean Judea Pearl's, the Book of Why, and you give so many great examples throughout the book in Proof. I wonder if you could comment that on that a bit more because this is where associations are confused somehow or other with a direct effect. And we unfortunately make these jumps all too frequently. Perhaps it's the most common problem that's occurring in the way we interpret medical research data.Adam Kucharski (21:52):Yeah, I think it's an issue that I think a lot of people get drilled into in their training just because a correlation between things doesn't mean that that thing causes this thing. But it really struck me as I talked to people, researching the book, in practice in research, there's actually a bit more to it in how it's played out. So first of all, if there's a correlation between things, it doesn't tell you much generally that's useful for intervention. If two things are correlated, it doesn't mean that changing that thing's going to have an effect on that thing. There might be something that's influencing both of them. If you have more ice cream sales, it will lead to more heat stroke cases. It doesn't mean that changing ice cream sales is going to have that effect, but it does allow you to make predictions potentially because if you can identify consistent patterns, you can say, okay, if this thing going up, I'm going to make a prediction that this thing's going up.Adam Kucharski (22:37):So one thing I found quite striking, actually talking to research in different fields is how many fields choose to focus on prediction because it kind of avoids having to deal with this cause and effect problem. And even in fields like psychology, it was kind of interesting that there's a lot of focus on predicting things like relationship outcomes, but actually for people, you don't want a prediction about your relationship. You want to know, well, how can I do something about it? You don't just want someone to sell you your relationship's going to go downhill. So there's almost part of the challenge is people just got stuck on prediction because it's an easier field of work, whereas actually some of those problems will involve intervention. I think the other thing that really stood out for me is in epidemiology and a lot of other fields, rightly, people are very cautious to not get that mixed up.Adam Kucharski (23:24):They don't want to mix up correlations or associations with causation, but you've kind of got this weird situation where a lot of papers go out of their way to not use causal language and say it's an association, it's just an association. It's just an association. You can't say anything about causality. And then the end of the paper, they'll say, well, we should think about introducing more of this thing or restricting this thing. So really the whole paper and its purpose is framed around a causal intervention, but it's extremely careful throughout the paper to not frame it as a causal claim. So I think we almost by skirting that too much, we actually avoid the problems that people sometimes care about. And I think a lot of the nice work that's been going on in causal inference is trying to get people to confront this more head on rather than say, okay, you can just stay in this prediction world and that's fine. And then just later maybe make a policy suggestion off the back of it.Eric Topol (24:20):Yeah, I think this is cause and effect is a very alluring concept to support proof as you so nicely go through in the book. But of course, one of the things that we use to help us is the biological mechanism. So here you have, let's say for example, you're trying to get a new drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the request is, well, we want two trials, randomized trials, independent. We want to have p-values that are significant, and we want to know the biological mechanism ideally with the dose response of the drug. But there are many drugs as you review that have no biological mechanism established. And even when the tobacco problems were mounting, the actual mechanism of how tobacco use caused cancer wasn't known. So how important is the biological mechanism, especially now that we're well into the AI world where explainability is demanded. And so, we don't know the mechanism, but we also don't know the mechanism and lots of things in medicine too, like anesthetics and even things as simple as aspirin, how it works and many others. So how do we deal with this quest for the biological mechanism?Adam Kucharski (25:42):I think that's a really good point. It shows almost a lot of the transition I think we're going through currently. I think particularly for things like smoking cancer where it's very hard to run a trial. You can't make people randomly take up smoking. Having those additional pieces of evidence, whether it's an analogy with a similar carcinogen, whether it's a biological mechanism, can help almost give you more supports for that argument that there's a cause and effect going on. But I think what I found quite striking, and I realized actually that it's something that had kind of bothered me a bit and I'd be interested to hear whether it bothers you, but with the emergence of AI, it's almost a bit of the loss of scientific satisfaction. I think you grow up with learning about how the world works and why this is doing what it's doing.Adam Kucharski (26:26):And I talked for example of some of the people involved with AlphaFold and some of the subsequent work in installing those predictions about structures. And they'd almost made peace with it, which I found interesting because I think they started off being a bit uncomfortable with like, yeah, you've got these remarkable AI models making these predictions, but we don't understand still biologically what's happening here. But I think they're just settled in saying, well, biology is really complex on some of these problems, and if we can have a tool that can give us this extremely valuable information, maybe that's okay. And it was just interesting that they'd really kind of gone through that kind process, which I think a lot of people are still grappling with and that almost that discomfort of using AI and what's going to convince you that that's a useful reliable prediction whether it's something like predicting protein folding or getting in a self-driving car. What's the evidence you need to convince you that's reliable?Eric Topol (27:26):Yeah, no, I'm so glad you brought that up because when Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel Prize, the point I made was maybe there should be an asterisk with AI because they don't know how it works. I mean, they had all the rich data from the protein data bank, and they got the transformer model to do it for 200 million protein structure prediction, but they still to this day don't fully understand how the model really was working. So it reinforces what you're just saying. And of course, it cuts across so many types of AI. It's just that we tend to hold different standards in medicine not realizing that there's lots of lack of explainability for routine medical treatments today. Now one of the things that I found fascinating in your book, because there's different levels of proof, different types of proof, but solid logical systems.Eric Topol (28:26):And on page 60 of the book, especially pertinent to the US right now, there is a bit about Kurt Gödel and what he did there was he basically, there was a question about dictatorship in the US could it ever occur? And Gödel says, “oh, yes, I can prove it.” And he's using the constitution itself to prove it, which I found fascinating because of course we're seeing that emerge right now. Can you give us a little bit more about this, because this is fascinating about the Fifth Amendment, and I mean I never thought that the Constitution would allow for a dictatorship to emerge.Adam Kucharski (29:23):And this was a fascinating story, Kurt Gödel who is one of the greatest logical minds of the 20th century and did a lot of work, particularly in the early 20th century around system of rules, particularly things like mathematics and whether they can ever be really fully satisfying. So particularly in mathematics, he showed that there were this problem that is very hard to have a set of rules for something like arithmetic that was both complete and covered every situation, but also had no contradictions. And I think a lot of countries, if you go back, things like Napoleonic code and these attempts to almost write down every possible legal situation that could be imaginable, always just ascended into either they needed amendments or they had contradictions. I think Gödel's work really summed it up, and there's a story, this is in the late forties when he had his citizenship interview and Einstein and Oskar Morgenstern went along as witnesses for him.Adam Kucharski (30:17):And it's always told as kind of a lighthearted story as this logical mind, this academic just saying something silly in front of the judge. And actually, to my own admission, I've in the past given talks and mentioned it in this slightly kind of lighthearted way, but for the book I got talking to a few people who'd taken it more seriously. I realized actually he's this extremely logically focused mind at the time, and maybe there should have been something more to it. And people who have kind of dug more into possibilities was saying, well, what could he have spotted that bothered him? And a lot of his work that he did about consistency in mass was around particularly self-referential statements. So if I say this sentence is false, it's self-referential and if it is false, then it's true, but if it's true, then it's false and you get this kind of weird self-referential contradictions.Adam Kucharski (31:13):And so, one of the theories about Gödel was that in the Constitution, it wasn't that there was a kind of rule for someone can become a dictator, but rather people can use the mechanisms within the Constitution to make it easier to make further amendments. And he kind of downward cycle of amendment that he had seen happening in Europe and the run up to the war, and again, because this is never fully documented exactly what he thought, but it's one of the theories that it wouldn't just be outright that it would just be this cycle process of weakening and weakening and weakening and making it easier to add. And actually, when I wrote that, it was all the earlier bits of the book that I drafted, I did sort of debate whether including it I thought, is this actually just a bit in the weeds of American history? And here we are. Yeah, it's remarkable.Eric Topol (32:00):Yeah, yeah. No, I mean I found, it struck me when I was reading this because here back in 1947, there was somebody predicting that this could happen based on some, if you want to call it loopholes if you will, or the ability to change things, even though you would've thought otherwise that there wasn't any possible capability for that to happen. Now, one of the things I thought was a bit contradictory is two parts here. One is from Angus Deaton, he wrote, “Gold standard thinking is magical thinking.” And then the other is what you basically are concluding in many respects. “To navigate proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases. We must confront monsters and embrace uncertainty, balancing — and rebalancing —our beliefs. We must seek out every useful fragment of data, gather every relevant tool, searching wider and climbing further. Finding the good foundations among the bad. Dodging dogma and falsehoods. Questioning. Measuring. Triangulating. Convincing. Then perhaps, just perhaps, we'll reach the truth in time.” So here you have on the one hand your search for the truth, proof, which I think that little paragraph says it all. In many respects, it sums up somewhat to the work that you review here and on the other you have this Nobel laureate saying, you don't have to go to extremes here. The enemy of good is perfect, perhaps. I mean, how do you reconcile this sense that you shouldn't go so far? Don't search for absolute perfection of proof.Adam Kucharski (33:58):Yeah, I think that encapsulates a lot of what the book is about, is that search for certainty and how far do you have to go. I think one of the things, there's a lot of interesting discussion, some fascinating papers around at what point do you use these studies? What are their flaws? But I think one of the things that does stand out is across fields, across science, medicine, even if you going to cover law, AI, having these kind of cookie cutter, this is the definitive way of doing it. And if you just follow this simple rule, if you do your p-value, you'll get there and you'll be fine. And I think that's where a lot of the danger is. And I think that's what we've seen over time. Certain science people chasing certain targets and all the behaviors that come around that or in certain situations disregarding valuable evidence because you've got this kind of gold standard and nothing else will do.Adam Kucharski (34:56):And I think particularly in a crisis, it's very dangerous to have that because you might have a low level of evidence that demands a certain action and you almost bias yourself towards inaction if you have these kind of very simple thresholds. So I think for me, across all of these stories and across the whole book, I mean William Gosset who did a lot of pioneering work on statistical experiments at Guinness in the early 20th century, he had this nice question he sort of framed is, how much do we lose? And if we're thinking about the problems, there's always more studies we can do, there's always more confidence we can have, but whether it's a patient we want to treat or crisis we need to deal with, we need to work out actually getting that level of proof that's really appropriate for where we are currently.Eric Topol (35:49):I think exceptionally important that there's this kind of spectrum or continuum in following science and search for truth and that distinction, I think really nails it. Now, one of the things that's unique in the book is you don't just go through all the different types of how you would get to proof, but you also talk about how the evidence is acted on. And for example, you quote, “they spent a lot of time misinforming themselves.” This is the whole idea of taking data and torturing it or using it, dredging it however way you want to support either conspiracy theories or alternative facts. Basically, manipulating sometimes even emasculating what evidence and data we have. And one of the sentences, or I guess this is from Sir Francis Bacon, “truth is a daughter of time”, but the added part is not authority. So here we have our president here that repeats things that are wrong, fabricated or wrong, and he keeps repeating to the point that people believe it's true. But on the other hand, you could say truth is a daughter of time because you like to not accept any truth immediately. You like to see it get replicated and further supported, backed up. So in that one sentence, truth is a daughter of time not authority, there's the whole ball of wax here. Can you take us through that? Because I just think that people don't understand that truth being tested over time, but also manipulated by its repetition. This is a part of the big problem that we live in right now.Adam Kucharski (37:51):And I think it's something that writing the book and actually just reflecting on it subsequently has made me think about a lot in just how people approach these kinds of problems. I think that there's an idea that conspiracy theorists are just lazy and have maybe just fallen for a random thing, but talking to people, you really think about these things a lot more in the field. And actually, the more I've ended up engaging with people who believe things that are just outright unevidenced around vaccines, around health issues, they often have this mountain of papers and data to hand and a lot of it, often they will be peer reviewed papers. It won't necessarily be supporting the point that they think it's supports.Adam Kucharski (38:35):But it's not something that you can just say everything you're saying is false, that there's actually often a lot of things that have been put together and it's just that leap to that conclusion. I think you also see a lot of scientific language borrowed. So I gave a talker early this year and it got posted on YouTube. It had conspiracy theories it, and there was a lot of conspiracy theory supporters who piled in the comments and one of the points they made is skepticism is good. It's the kind of law society, take no one's word for it, you need this. We are the ones that are kind of doing science and people who just assume that science is settled are in the wrong. And again, you also mentioned that repetition. There's this phenomenon, it's the illusory truth problem that if you repeatedly tell someone someone's something's false, it'll increase their belief in it even if it's something quite outrageous.Adam Kucharski (39:27):And that mimics that scientific repetition because people kind of say, okay, well if I've heard it again and again, it's almost like if you tweak these as mini experiments, I'm just accumulating evidence that this thing is true. So it made me think a lot about how you've got essentially a lot of mimicry of the scientific method, amount of data and how you present it and this kind of skepticism being good, but I think a lot of it comes down to as well as just looking at theological flaws, but also ability to be wrong in not actually seeking out things that confirm. I think all of us, it's something that I've certainly tried to do a lot working on emergencies, and one of the scientific advisory groups that I worked on almost it became a catchphrase whenever someone presented something, they finished by saying, tell me why I'm wrong.Adam Kucharski (40:14):And if you've got a variant that's more transmissible, I don't want to be right about that really. And it is something that is quite hard to do and I found it is particularly for something that's quite high pressure, trying to get a policymaker or someone to write even just non-publicly by themselves, write down what you think's going to happen or write down what would convince you that you are wrong about something. I think particularly on contentious issues where someone's got perhaps a lot of public persona wrapped up in something that's really hard to do, but I think it's those kind of elements that distinguish between getting sucked into a conspiracy theory and really seeking out evidence that supports it and trying to just get your theory stronger and stronger and actually seeking out things that might overturn your belief about the world. And it's often those things that we don't want overturned. I think those are the views that we all have politically or in other ways, and that's often where the problems lie.Eric Topol (41:11):Yeah, I think this is perhaps one of, if not the most essential part here is that to try to deal with the different views. We have biases as you emphasized throughout, but if you can use these different types of proof to have a sound discussion, conversation, refutation whereby you don't summarily dismiss another view which may be skewed and maybe spurious or just absolutely wrong, maybe fabricated whatever, but did you can engage and say, here's why these are my proof points, or this is why there's some extent of certainty you can have regarding this view of the data. I think this is so fundamental because unfortunately as we saw during the pandemic, the strident minority, which were the anti-science, anti-vaxxers, they were summarily dismissed as being kooks and adopting conspiracy theories without the right engagement and the right debates. And I think this might've helped along the way, no less the fact that a lot of scientists didn't really want to engage in the first place and adopt this methodical proof that you've advocated in the book so many different ways to support a hypothesis or an assertion. Now, we've covered a lot here, Adam. Have I missed some central parts of the book and the effort because it's really quite extraordinary. I know it's your third book, but it's certainly a standout and it certainly it's a standout not just for your books, but books on this topic.Adam Kucharski (43:13):Thanks. And it's much appreciated. It was not an easy book to write. I think at times, I kind of wondered if I should have taken on the topic and I think a core thing, your last point speaks to that. I think a core thing is that gap often between what convinces us and what convinces someone else. I think it's often very tempting as a scientist to say the evidence is clear or the science has proved this. But even on something like the vaccines, you do get the loud minority who perhaps think they're putting microchips in people and outlandish views, but you actually get a lot more people who might just have some skepticism of pharmaceutical companies or they might have, my wife was pregnant actually at the time during Covid and we waited up because there wasn't much data on pregnancy and the vaccine. And I think it's just finding what is convincing. Is it having more studies from other countries? Is it understanding more about the biology? Is it understanding how you evaluate some of those safety signals? And I think that's just really important to not just think what convinces us and it's going to be obvious to other people, but actually think where are they coming from? Because ultimately having proof isn't that good unless it leads to the action that can make lives better.Eric Topol (44:24):Yeah. Well, look, you've inculcated my mind with this book, Adam, called Proof. Anytime I think of the word proof, I'm going to be thinking about you. So thank you. Thanks for taking the time to have a conversation about your book, your work, and I know we're going to count on you for the astute mathematics and analysis of outbreaks in the future, which we will see unfortunately. We are seeing now, in fact already in this country with measles and whatnot. So thank you and we'll continue to follow your great work.**************************************Thanks for listening, watching or reading this Ground Truths podcast/post.If you found this interesting please share it!That makes the work involved in putting these together especially worthwhile.I'm also appreciative for your subscribing to Ground Truths. All content —its newsletters, analyses, and podcasts—is free, open-access. 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 Faisal Hoque is the founder of SHADOKA and NextChapter andserves as a transformation and innovation partner for CACI, an $8billion company focused on U.S. national security. He is a #1 WallStreet Journal bestselling author with ten award-winning books tohis name. His new book, TRANSCEND: Unlocking Humanity in theAge of AI, was named a ‘must read' by the Next Big Idea Club andselected as a Financial Times business book of the month. Itbecame an instant bestseller—across multiple categories—onthe USA Today (#1 in Computers, #1 in Philosophy, #3 in Business & Economics, #5 in AllNon-Fiction), Los Angeles Times (#7 in All Non-Fiction), and Publishers Weekly lists.For thirty years, he has been developing commercial business and technology systems,and enabling leadership teams at MasterCard, American Express, GE, Home Depot, FrenchSocial Security Services, US Department of Defense (DoD), US Department of HomelandSecurity (DHS), PepsiCo, IBM, Chase, and others with sustainable growth. Today, Faisal is ahighly sought-after innovation and transformation (digital/AI, business, organization)partner for both public and private sector organizations, and recognized as one of theworld's leading management thinkers and technologists.As a founder and CEO of multiple companies, he is a three-time winner of the DeloitteTechnology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards. Faisal is a contributor at the MIT's IDEAS SocialInnovation program, Thinkers50, and the Swiss business school IMD. His work hasappeared in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, MIT SloanManagement Review, The Financial Times, Psychology Today, BIG Think, BusinessInsider, Fortune, Inc., Kiplinger, Yahoo Finance, Fox, ABC, CBS, and others.Faisal's work and life are profoundly influenced by a distinctive fusion of Easternphilosophy and American entrepreneurial spirit. He frequently speaks at internationalconferences, business schools, corporate gatherings, and business summits. Inspired bypersonal experiences, Faisal is a passionate advocate for cancer research, raisingawareness and supporting research efforts to combat the disease.

This is one of our favorite conversations from the last year. On the surface, it's an interview we did with Michael Lewis to coincide with the paperback release of Going Infinite, his book about Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX. Michael, who spent months hovering over Sam's shoulder, believes he wasn't some malevolent grifter: he was an awkward kid undone by a “pathological ability to foist risk upon other people without asking their permission." But what we love about this episode is that it's not only about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried. It's also about Michael's approach to writing — and living. He opens up about losing his daughter, shares what draws him to a story, and explains how taking pleasure in the world produces his best work.

On today's REAL Personal Branding podcast, Lauren interviews Jodi Wellman, founder of 4000 Mondays, speaker, author, and assistant instructor in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania. Jodi's TEDx talk, “How Death Can Bring You Back to Life,” has more than 1.3 million views, and her new book, You Only Die Once, was featured on Adam Grant's summer reading list and named a Next Big Idea Club must-read. In this thought-provoking and deeply human episode, Lauren and Jodi explore what it really means to make the most of our time. Jodi shares how losing her mother at 58 shaped her mission, why she believes the Grim Reaper is one of our greatest teachers, and how counting our remaining Mondays can jolt us out of autopilot. They talk about the difference between living and truly being alive, the importance of small moments, and how to create meaning without waiting for a major life event. Whether you're navigating a transition or simply wondering if you're using your time well, this episode will inspire you to live with intention—and fewer regrets. Connect with Lauren V. Davis here: https://linktr.ee/ldaviscreative Connect with Jodi Wellman here: https://www.4000mondays.com https://www.instagram.com/4000mondays

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar discusses the neuroscience behind stress—and offers actionable tips for building your resilience.— YOU'LL LEARN — 1) The major myth that leads to burnout 2) The rule of two for building healthier habits 3) How to feel less stressed in one minuteSubscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1065 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT ADITI — Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is a Harvard stress expert, internationally recognized speaker, and national television correspondent with an expertise in stress, burnout, resilience and mental health. Her book The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience is a “must read” by Adam Grant and Malcolm Gladwell's Next Big Idea Club and “best new book” by the New York Post. Named “100 Women to Know in America,” her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, The Today Show and NPR. She is also a frequent keynote speaker with talks at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit and other events.• Book: The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience • Test: Your Stress Score • Website: DrAditi.com— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Tool: Holmes and Rahe stress scale • Study: “Association of wearable device-measured vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity with mortality” by Emmanuel Stamatakis, et al. • Study: “Effects of Exercise on Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” by Jiale Peng, Yuling Yuan, Yuanhui Zhao, and Hong Ren • Past episode: 996: Tackling Work Stressors and Transitions with Dr. Tessa West — THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • Strawberry.me. Claim your $50 credit and build momentum in your career with Strawberry.me/Awesome• Quince. Get free shipping and 365-day returns on your order with Quince.com/AwesomeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We think that cynicism protects us from being disappointed by other people. But Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki says the opposite is true. When we expect the worst in people, we create a self-fulfilling prophecy that brings out exactly what we feared. So in his new book, Hope for Cynics, Jamil sets out to prove that hope isn't naive: it's smart.

Are you an ambitious industrious worker and a high achiever who always delivers, but you feel stuck or unseen, and you struggle to move up in your career? Or maybe it's your peers who seem to get all the recognition and advance, while you're wondering why you're being left behind.  And that is where Lorraine K. Lee can lend a hand.  Lorraine is an award-winning global keynote speaker and an instructor for Stanford University's  Continuing Studies Program and LinkedIn Learning, and she is the author of the bestselling new book, Unforgettable Presence: Get Seen, Gain Influence, and Catapult Your Career, it's also one of the Next Big Idea Club's Must Reads. Through her role as a founding editor at LinkedIn and work with Fortune 500 companies, she's helped millions of professionals develop an intentional, powerful presence that takes them from invisible, to unforgettable. Lorraine's work is a gift to those of us who what to advance, to be effective in the world, and to help live our professional lives in full – and by doing so, she benefits us all, and the world.

Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman broke free from resentment and rumination, shifting into what he calls an empowerment mindset. Are you ready to do the same? • Support our show by becoming a Next Big Idea Club member. Learn more here

On this Live Greatly podcast episode, Kristel Bauer sits down with Paula Davis, author of Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team.  Paula left her law practice after experiencing burnout and earned a master's degree in applied positive psychology.  She is now the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute.  Kristel and Paula discuss mindsets to set you and your team up for well-being and success.  Tune in now! Key Takeaways From This Episode: A look into Paula's book Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team  A look into what sticky recognition is and why it is important Tips to build resilience in the workplace A look into thank you plus The importance of mattering at work About Paula Davis: Paula Davis JD, MAPP, is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute. For 15 years, she has been a trusted advisor to leaders in organizations of all sizes helping them to make work better. Paula is a globally recognized expert on the effects of workplace stress, burnout prevention, workplace well-being, and building resilience for individuals and teams. Paula left her law practice after seven years and earned a master's degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. As part of her post-graduate training, Paula was selected to be part of the University of Pennsylvania faculty teaching and training resilience skills to soldiers as part of the Army's Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program. The Penn team trained resilience skills to more than 40,000 soldiers and their family members. Paula is the author of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience, which is about burnout prevention using a teams-based approach. Beating Burnout at Work was nominated for best new book by the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Malcom Gladwell, and Daniel Pink. Paula has shared her expertise at educational institutions such as Harvard Law School, Wharton School Executive Education, and Princeton. She is a two-time recipient of the distinguished teaching award from the Medical College of Wisconsin. She has been featured in and on The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post and many other media outlets. Paula is also a contributor to Forbes, Fast Company and Psychology Today.  Connect with Paula: Order Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team: https://www.pennpress.org/9781613631898/lead-well/  Website: https://stressandresilience.com/burnout-book/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauladavislaack/  Instegram: https://www.instagram.com/pauladavisspeaker/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Paula-Davis/61565650520592/  About the Host of the Live Greatly podcast, Kristel Bauer: Kristel Bauer is a corporate wellness and performance expert, keynote speaker and TEDx speaker supporting organizations and individuals on their journeys for more happiness and success. She is the author of Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony, and Peak Performance Wherever You Work (John Murray Business November 19, 2024). With Kristel's healthcare background, she provides data driven actionable strategies to leverage happiness and high-power habits to drive growth mindsets, peak performance, profitability, well-being and a culture of excellence. Kristel's keynotes provide insights to “Live Greatly” while promoting leadership development and team building.   Kristel is the creator and host of her global top self-improvement podcast, Live Greatly. She is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur, and she is an influencer in the business and wellness space having been recognized as a Top 10 Social Media Influencer of 2021 in Forbes. As an Integrative Medicine Fellow & Physician Assistant having practiced clinically in Integrative Psychiatry, Kristel has a unique perspective into attaining a mindset for more happiness and success. 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What do failure, artificial intelligence, and mindful leadership have in common? They're all critical elements in the journey of Faisal Hoque - entrepreneur, innovator, and one of today's most respected voices in business transformation. In this episode of Behind The Numbers With Dave Bookbinder, I'm joined by Faisal Hoque for a candid discussion about how great leaders navigate complexity, maintain their humanity, and build organizations that thrive in an era defined by rapid technological change. We explore: Why failure is foundational to entrepreneurial success How Faisal's leadership style has evolved - and the importance of the “middle path” The interplay between innovation, AI, and human-centered values Practical strategies for resilience and purpose-driven leadership We also dive into Faisal's bestselling book, Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI, which outlines a framework for integrating human values into the future of work and technology. Whether you're an entrepreneur, executive, or advisor, you'll take away powerful insights on how to lead with clarity, courage, and character - especially when the stakes are high and the landscape is shifting. Subscribe to Behind The Numbers With Dave Bookbinder on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. If you enjoyed this conversation, please share it with your network and leave a review - it helps more business owners and advisors discover the show! ----more----About Faisal Hoque: Faisal Hoque is the founder of SHADOKA and NextChapter and serves as a transformation and innovation partner for CACI, an $8 billion company focused on U.S. national security. He is a #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author with ten award-winning books to his name. His new book, TRANSCEND: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI, has been named by the Next Big Idea Club as a ‘must read'.  For thirty years, he has been developing commercial business and technology systems, and enabling leadership teams at MasterCard, American Express, GE, Home Depot, French Social Security Services, US Department of Defense (DoD), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), PepsiCo, IBM, Chase, and others with sustainable growth. Today, Faisal is a highly sought-after innovation and transformation (digital/AI, business, organization) partner for both public and private sector organizations, and recognized as one of the world's leading management thinkers and technologists. As a founder and CEO of multiple companies, he is a three-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50TM and Fast 500TM awards. Faisal is a contributor at MIT's IDEAS Social Innovation program, Thinkers50, and the Swiss business school IMD. His work has appeared in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Business Insider, Fortune, Inc., Yahoo Finance, Fox, ABC, CBS, and others.  Learn more at https://faisalhoque.com/ About the Host: Dave Bookbinder is known as an expert in business valuation and he is the person that business owners and entrepreneurs reach out to when they need to know what their most important assets are worth. Known as a collaborative adviser, Dave has served thousands of client companies of all sizes and industries.    Dave is the author of two #1 best-selling books about the impact of human capital (PEOPLE!) on the valuation of a business enterprise called The NEW ROI: Return On Individuals & The NEW ROI: Going Behind The Numbers.  He's on a mission to change the conversation about how the accounting world recognizes the value of people's contributions to a business enterprise, and to quantify what every CEO on the planet claims: “Our people are this company's most valuable asset.” Dave's book, A Valuation Toolbox for Business Owners and Their Advisors: Things Every Business Owner Should Know, was recognized as a top new release in Business and Valuation and is designed to provide practical insights and tools to help understand what really drives business value, how to prepare for an exit, and just make better decisions. He's also the host of the highly rated Behind The Numbers With Dave Bookbinder business podcast which is enjoyed in more than 100 countries.

Send us a textAbout This EpisodePaula Davis, founder of the Stress and Resilience Institute, takes us on her bold journey from burnout to breakthrough in this compelling conversation. Paula's story begins with a choice between her health and her career– a decision point many professionals face but few discuss openly. After walking away from her law practice, she discovered her true calling: helping leaders and teams prevent burnout before it happens. Her personal experience of values misalignment became the catalyst for the research and framework that would ultimately help thousands. Paula also dives into the five leadership mindsets from her new book, Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience. From creating "sticky recognition" that makes team members feel genuinely valued to building workload sustainability, Paula offers practical strategies for leaders at every level. Tune in to start improving how your team works. Paula recommends starting with recognition and mattering, the foundational mindset that opens the door to resilience, belonging, and exceptional performance. About Paula DavisPaula Davis JD, MAPP, is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute. For 15 years, she has been a trusted advisor to leaders in organizations of all sizes helping them to make work better. Paula is a globally recognized expert on the effects of workplace stress, burnout prevention, workplace well-being, and building resilience for individuals and teams. Paula left her law practice after seven years and earned a master's degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. As part of her post-graduate training, Paula was selected to be part of the University of Pennsylvania faculty teaching and training resilience skills to soldiers as part of the Army's Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program. Paula is the author of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience, which is about burnout prevention using a teams-based approach. Beating Burnout at Work was nominated for best new book by the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Malcom Gladwell, and Daniel Pink. Paula has shared her expertise at educational institutions such as Harvard Law School, Wharton School Executive Education, and Princeton. She is a two-time recipient of the distinguished teaching award from the Medical College of Wisconsin. She has been featured in and on The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post and many other media outlets. Paula is also a contributor to Forbes, Fast Company and Psychology Today. Additional ResourcesWebsite: stressandresilience.comInstagram: @stressandresilienceLinkedIn: @PaulaDavisSupport the show-------- Stay Connected www.leighburgess.com Watch the episodes on YouTube Follow Leigh on Instagram: @theleighaburgess Follow Leigh on LinkedIn: @LeighBurgess Sign up for Leigh's bold newsletter

On this Live Greatly podcast episode, Kristel Bauer sits down with the Founder and CEO of Change Enthusiasm Global, Cassandra Worthy to discuss how to thrive amid change.  Tune in now! Key Takeaways From This Episode: How to thrive amid change  How emotions can help us navigate change  A mindset shift around change How leaders can help their team's navigate change  A look into Cassandra's journey around change About Cassandra Worthy: Cassandra Worthy is the world's leading expert on Change Enthusiasm®.  Recently named one of the world's Top 50 keynote speakers, she is lighting the world on fire with her refreshingly unique take on not just ‘managing' but growing through change.  Through her Leadership Development and consulting company, Change Enthusiasm Global, she is sharing this revolutionary approach for not only embracing change but using it to propel you to heights you never imagined with thousands all over the world.  She is trusted by clients around the globe including Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, UnitedHealthcare, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco. After spending nearly 15 years working as an executive within both Procter & Gamble and Berkshire Hathaway thriving through some of the biggest acquisitions ever recorded in the consumer packaged goods industry, Cassandra decided to cultivate the mindset and tools she practiced to grow through these disruptions in a way that inspires, invigorates, and motivates others to grow through their change challenges. She's the author of the bestselling  book ‘Change Enthusiasm: How to Harness the Power of Emotion for Leadership and Success' a Next Big Idea Club nominee. Connect with Cassandra Worthy: Website: https://cassandraworthy.com/  Become a Certified Change Enthusiast™ Practitioner:  go.changeenthusiasmglobal.com/growth-accelerator LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandra-worthy-802ab623/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cassandra_worthy_speaker/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wearechangeenthusiasts/  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRSgcTNQnQPCTF_0ydJdZvw  About the Host of the Live Greatly podcast, Kristel Bauer: Kristel Bauer is a corporate wellness and performance expert, keynote speaker and TEDx speaker supporting organizations and individuals on their journeys for more happiness and success. She is the author of Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony, and Peak Performance Wherever You Work (John Murray Business November 19, 2024). With Kristel's healthcare background, she provides data driven actionable strategies to leverage happiness and high-power habits to drive growth mindsets, peak performance, profitability, well-being and a culture of excellence. Kristel's keynotes provide insights to “Live Greatly” while promoting leadership development and team building.   Kristel is the creator and host of her global top self-improvement podcast, Live Greatly. She is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur, and she is an influencer in the business and wellness space having been recognized as a Top 10 Social Media Influencer of 2021 in Forbes. As an Integrative Medicine Fellow & Physician Assistant having practiced clinically in Integrative Psychiatry, Kristel has a unique perspective into attaining a mindset for more happiness and success. Kristel has presented to groups from the American Gas Association, Bank of America, bp, Commercial Metals Company, General Mills, Northwestern University, Santander Bank and many more. Kristel has been featured in Forbes, Forest & Bluff Magazine, Authority Magazine & Podcast Magazine and she has appeared on ABC 7 Chicago, WGN Daytime Chicago, Fox 4's WDAF-TV's Great Day KC, and Ticker News. Kristel lives in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area and she can be booked for speaking engagements worldwide. To Book Kristel as a speaker for your next event, click here. Website: www.livegreatly.co  Follow Kristel Bauer on: Instagram: @livegreatly_co  LinkedIn: Kristel Bauer Twitter: @livegreatly_co Facebook: @livegreatly.co Youtube: Live Greatly, Kristel Bauer To Watch Kristel Bauer's TEDx talk of Redefining Work/Life Balance in a COVID-19 World click here. 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How many Mondays do you have left? Statistically, we all get about 4,000 Mondays in our lifetime, so if you're halfway through your life, you might have roughly 2,000 Mondays to go. The good news is that you are in charge of how you spend those days, the question is will you be toiling away at a job that you hate, or will you be creating a career that you love? Will you choose to scroll mindlessly for hours a day, or will you pursue hobbies and travel that light you up? Will you be dreading the inevitable end, or will you be living your life in full in a way that allows you to meet the Grim Reaper with a smile? These are the existential ponderances in which Jodi Wellman thrives. Jodi is a speaker, author, executive coach, and facilitator of living lives worth living. She founded Four Thousand Mondays to help people make the most of the time they are lucky to be above ground. Jodi has a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor and facilitator in the Penn Resilience Program. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Jodi has been featured in The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Fast Company, CNBC, Forbes, Psychology Today, and The Los Angeles Times, to just name a few. Jodi's TEDx talk, How Death Can Bring You Back to Life, has over 1.3 million views and was the 14th most-watched TEDx talk in 2022. Her new book, You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets, made Adam Grant's Summer Reading List, is a Next Big Idea Club must-read. Jodi's book, work, and life show us all how we can gain a newfound appreciation for our lives and prioritize what truly matters. Her book uses a blend of research, personal anecdotes, and practical exercises all done with a sharp sense of humor that guides us through self-assessment, habit identification, and action planning, encouraging us to break free from routine, discover our passions, and live a life in full - brimming with vitality and purpose.

Talking to Britt Frank a year ago was not only one of my favorite podcasts ever, it was a revelatory moment for me concerning trauma. I loved the way Britt changed the framing of that word and made it more accessible and approachable, and now with her new book she has done the same with anxiety. If you are someone who wonders why they are losing the battle with their minds or too afraid to explore the different parts of themselves, please, don't miss this episode and share it with someone who needs it. It could be life-changing.PREORDER her new book “Align Your Mind” NOW - https://www.brittfrank.com/align-your-mindBritt Frank, LSCSW, SEP is a licensed neuropsychotherapist and author of The Science of Stuck (Penguin Random House), named by SHRM, Esquire, New York Magazine, and The Next Big Idea Club as a must-read. Britt received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her master's degree from the University of Kansas, where she later became an award-winning adjunct instructor. Britt is a contributing writer to Psychology Today and her work has been featured in Forbes, NPR, Fast Company, Psych Central, SELF, and Thrive Global.Join us as we explore:What part's work is and how making allies with the parts of you will align your mind.The inner child, the imposter, the critic, the cheerleader and the coach - how to talk to, with them and build relationships!The three do's and don'ts when feeling anxious.Logic and lion mode, why your brain is a toddler not a monster and the importance of being precise and avoiding metaphor with our emotional language.The problem with ”why” questions.Contact: Website - https://www.brittfrank.comBook - https://www.brittfrank.com/align-your-mind Instagram - @brittfrankMentions:Podcast - Healing Trauma, How to Change, and the Science of Stuck with Britt Frank, https://youtu.be/yIODpLr_f7s?si=NWfEIolc-S0CyHuU Product - reMarkable journal, https://remarkable.com/Support the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I'd be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

Are you thinking big enough about your retirement? You'll have time for the things you always wanted to do but didn't have time for in your full-time working years. With a blank canvas to work with, what are the meaningful personal goals you'd like to pursue now? How you start can make the difference. Caroline Adams Miller joins us to discuss her new book Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life  and how you can use a research-backed method to set challenging but attainable goals - and make this year your best year. Caroline Adams Miller joins us from Maryland. ________________________ Bio Caroline Adams Miller is a globally renowned expert in positive psychology, with a special focus on goals and grit. For over 30 years, she has been a trailblazer in advancing these fields, helping individuals and organizations reach their most ambitious goals and improve overall well- being. She was among the first to earn a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, a program pioneered by Dr. Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology. Caroline also graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, laying the groundwork for her future achievements in psychology and personal development. She is a black-belt martial artist and a Masters swimmer. Caroline is the author of nine influential books, including:  My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988, Gurze 2000, Cogent 2014), a pioneering recovery memoir that has given hope to countless individuals battling eating disorders. •    Getting Grit (SoundsTrue 2017), which explores the science of perseverance and was recognized as one of the “top ten books that will change your life” in 2017 and one of the “top 25 books that will help you find your purpose” in 2023. •    Creating Your Best Life (Sterling 2009, 2021), a #1-ranked book on goal-setting that combines the science of success with research on happiness and was the first mass-market book to bridge these fields using Locke and Latham's goal- setting theory. •    Big Goals (Wiley, 2024), which offers an accessible, updated framework for achieving significant goals, incorporating modern research on mindset, grit, artificial intelligence, and resilience. It provides practical strategies for both personal and organizational success, grounded in 15 years of new research in positive psychology. This book is destined to change the way people view goalsetting and has been selected as a must-read for The Next Big Idea Club. Her books have been translated into multiple languages, including German, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian, reaching a global audience. Caroline's impact on positive psychology has earned widespread recognition. Dr. Martin Seligman highlighted her work in Flourish, and Angela Duckworth, a leading researcher on grit, praised Caroline's profound insights and practical applications of grit research, saying, “No one has thought more than Caroline about how to apply the scientific research on grit and achievement to our own lives!” A sought-after speaker, Caroline has presented at prestigious venues such as Wharton Business School's Executive Education program and delivered a TEDx talk titled “The Moments That Make Champions,” resonating with audiences worldwide. Her work has been featured in major media outlets like BBC World News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and CNN. She has consulted with high-profile clients, including Morgan Stanley, lululemon, Coldwell Banker, American Bankers Association, Blizzard Entertainment, RE/MAX, Booz Allen, Harvard Law School, The World Bank, and Swisse Wellness, helping them pursue ambitious goals and create environments that foster success and well-being. Caroline's memoir My Name is Caroline details her personal journey of overcoming bulimia and demonstrates her belief in the power of grit an...

Goal-Setting for Women: Understanding your Strengths with Caroline Adams Miller  - Part 2In part two of my interview with Caroline Adams Miller, she explores goal setting for women.  We talk about gender differences and what women can do to achieve their dreams.  The episode explores how women can effectively achieve their big goals by understanding their character strengths and confiding in the right supportive networks. Carolyn Adams Miller shares valuable insights into goal setting, the significance of a strong support system, and practical steps for personal growth.In this episode, you will learn:• Gender differences in goal achievement • The importance of confiding in the right people for support • Why women benefit from a mastermind group  • The difference between learning goals and performance goals • Understanding and utilizing character strengths for success • Empowering conversations about strengths with family and friends • Resources for listeners to assess and leverage their strengthsYou can take the VIA Character Strength Survey here.  The survey is free.  Bio:For over 30 years, Caroline Adams Miller has been a trailblazer in advancing these fields, helping individuals and organizations reach their most ambitious goals and improve overall wellbeing. She was among the first to earn a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, a program pioneered by Dr. Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology. Caroline also graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, laying the groundwork for her future achievements inpsychology and personal development. She is a black-belt martial artist and a Masters swimmer.Caroline is the author of nine influential books, including:• My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988, Gurze 2000, Cogent 2014), a pioneering recovery memoir that has given hope to countless individuals battling eating disorders.• Getting Grit (SoundsTrue 2017), which explores the science of perseverance and was recognized as one of the “top ten books that will change your life” in 2017 and one of the “top 25 books that will help you find your purpose” in 2023.• Creating Your Best Life (Sterling 2009, 2021), a #1-ranked book on goal-setting that combines the science of success with research on happiness and was the first mass-market book to bridge these fields using Locke and Latham's goalsetting theory.• Big Goals (Wiley, 2024), which offers an accessible, updated framework forachieving significant goals, incorporating modern research on mindset, grit,artificial intelligence, and resilience. It provides practical strategies for bothpersonal and organizational success, grounded in 15 years of new research inpositive psychology. This book is destined to change the way people viewgoalsetting and has been selected as a must-read for The Next Big Idea Club.Her books have been translated into multiple languages, including German, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian, reaching a global audienceYou can find more information about Caroline Adams Miller Thanks for listening! Please send me your feedback in a text message - Want to start your own podcast?Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.If you're enjoying Stories of Change and Creativity, make sure to subscribe, rate, and leave a review—it helps more people discover the show. Here's to a year full of change and creativity.

Big Goals with Caroline Adams Miller  - Part 1 In this episode, Caroline Adams Miller explores effective goal setting and presents a research-backed approach to achieving personal and professional aspirations. In this episode, you will learn: • The limitations of the SMART goal system • Introduction of Locke and Latham's goal-setting theory • Key differences between performance and learning goals • Importance of goal clarity in personal and professional settings • Real-life examples of goal-setting failures • Using the Oura Ring to maximize health and well-being• Advice for cultivating a growth mindset • Encouragement to embrace challenges and setbacks as learning experiences • Insights on tracking progress and measuring successBio: For over 30 years, Caroline Adams Miller has been a trailblazer in advancing these fields, helping individuals and organizations reach their most ambitious goals and improve overall wellbeing. She was among the first to earn a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, a program pioneered by Dr. Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology. Caroline also graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, laying the groundwork for her future achievements inpsychology and personal development. She is a black-belt martial artist and a Masters swimmer.Caroline is the author of nine influential books, including:• My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988, Gurze 2000, Cogent 2014), a pioneering recovery memoir that has given hope to countless individuals battling eating disorders.• Getting Grit (SoundsTrue 2017), which explores the science of perseverance and was recognized as one of the “top ten books that will change your life” in 2017 and one of the “top 25 books that will help you find your purpose” in 2023.• Creating Your Best Life (Sterling 2009, 2021), a #1-ranked book on goal-setting that combines the science of success with research on happiness and was the first mass-market book to bridge these fields using Locke and Latham's goalsetting theory.• Big Goals (Wiley, 2024), which offers an accessible, updated framework forachieving significant goals, incorporating modern research on mindset, grit,artificial intelligence, and resilience. It provides practical strategies for bothpersonal and organizational success, grounded in 15 years of new research inpositive psychology. This book is destined to change the way people viewgoalsetting and has been selected as a must-read for The Next Big Idea Club.Her books have been translated into multiple languages, including German, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian, reaching a global audienceYou can find more information about Caroline Adams Miller here.   Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life.   Thanks for listening! Please send me your feedback in a text message - Want to start your own podcast?Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.If you're enjoying Stories of Change and Creativity, make sure to subscribe, rate, and leave a review—it helps more people discover the show. Here's to a year full of change and creativity.

What if your internal conflicts are the very signals pointing you toward personal growth and success? Join me as I sit down with Kelli Thompson, a dynamic keynote speaker and women's leadership coach, to discuss her latest book, Closing the Confidence Gap. This episode promises to equip you with strategies for overcoming societal "shoulds" and identifying the barriers that hinder your confidence, especially for women balancing an unpaid workload alongside professional responsibilities. Together, we unpack the intricacies of people-pleasing tendencies in leadership and the pitfalls of overcommitment and perfectionism. Through introspective exercises, you'll learn how to align your commitments with your values, define what "good enough" means, and delegate tasks that don't align with your strengths. Explore the powerful intersection of empathy, confidence, and negotiation as we navigate the art of salary discussions. Kelli and I discuss the importance of self-compassion as a means to bolster confidence and overcome internal doubts. Kelli also shares actionable advice on identifying personal and organizational values and how operationalizing these values creates an engaging work environment. Through thought-provoking discussions, this episode invites you to transform reflection into action, empowering you to lead with authenticity and confidence. What You'll Learn: • Overcoming internal conflicts and building self-trust • The impact of societal pressures on women's confidence • Strategies for aligning commitments with personal values • Navigating overcommitment and perfectionism • The art of empathetic and confident salary negotiation Podcast Timestamps: (00:00) - From Aspiring TV Meteorologist to Top Women's Leadership Coach (11:00) - Identifying and Overcoming Internal Conflict (22:43) - Navigating People-Pleasing in Leadership (27:13) - Identifying and Defining Your Values (32:21) - The Purpose and Power in Implementing Organizational Values (45:11) - Empathy, Confidence, and Salary Negotiation More of Kelli: Kelli Thompson is an award-winning leadership coach, keynote speaker, and author of Closing the Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck, which was named a "Must Read" by the Next Big Idea Club, curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, Adam Grant, and Susan Cain. With over 10 years of experience in financial services and technology, Kelli has coached and trained thousands of women leaders to lead with clarity and confidence through her compassionate yet no-nonsense approach. Her thought leadership has been featured in top publications like Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, and Business Insider. Holding an MBA and recognized for her impactful programs, Kelli is a sought-after speaker known for delivering practical, insightful strategies. Fun fact: she's also a trained storm spotter and aspiring storm chaser. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelliraethompson/  Mentions: Closing the Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential, and Your Paycheck by Kelli Thompson The Waymakers: Clearing the Path to Workplace Equity with Competence and Confidence by Tara Jaye Frank Key Topics Discussed: Positive Leadership, Empowerment, Women, Women's Leadership, Self-Confidence, Values, Self-Trust, Minimizing Resentment, Avoiding Overcommitment, The Perils of Perfectionism, Organizational Values, Salary Negotiation, Empathy, Self-Compassion, Personal Growth, Introspection, The Power of Delegating, Behavioral-Based Interviewing, CEO Success More of Do Good to Lead Well: Website: https://craigdowden.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigdowden/

Elsa Richardson shares five big ideas from her book "Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut."

Does free will exist on a sliding scale? Will humans and AI co-evolve? Are aliens already here on earth? These are just a few of the many mind-bending questions Rufus and Sara Walker, author of “Life as No One Knows It,” explore in the second half of their conversation. 1️⃣ If you missed the first half of Sara's interview, you can find it here

We've had many bracing thinkers on this show, but Sara Walker might take the cake. A physicist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, she's just written "Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence," a thrilling exploration of life's origins and the search for it across the cosmos.

You may think you know what strategy is, but Seth Godin is willing to bet you haven't got a clue. It's not just setting goals. It's not just making plans. It's— Well, you'll have to tune in to find out.

Today, master woodworker Callum Robinson on craft, history, family, and our relationship with the natural world.

Greg Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT, wants you to think twice before putting your faith in Silicon Valley's promises.

When he was 26, Will Guidara took the helm of a middling brasserie in New York City called Eleven Madison Park. A decade later, it was named the best restaurant in the world. How did he pull off this unprecedented transformation? By practicing unreasonable hospitality. (This episode first aired in Sept. 2023.)

For two decades, Ann Wroe has written weekly obituaries for The Economist. Some of her subjects are luminaries (Queen Elizabeth II, Paul Newman). Others are little-knowns (cheesemakers, storm chasers, typewriter repairmen). But all of them, in Ann's words, “have enhanced the world by their existence.” Her obituaries are celebrations of life, and Ann is a soul-catcher — souls, for her, being the best word for the “unique and essential part of ourselves, our self-conscious and transcendent core.” It's a job that requires empathy, patience, almost tactile curiosity, and, well, love. It's a job from which we can all learn a great deal.

Philosophers have long maintained that the Good Life is braided from two strands: pleasure and purpose. But Middlebury's Lorraine Besser says there's a third: psychological richness — or, as she calls it, The Interesting. Exciting experiences, she contends, captivate our minds, engage our thoughts and emotions, and often change our perspective. Today, she'll teach you how to find them.

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. These are Cal Newport's three principles for achieving your goals without burning out. Today, in a special preview of our first-ever podclass, Cal explains how to harness the power of slow productivity to bring meaning, purpose, and a genuine sense of accomplishment into your life and work. ✉️ To hear the rest of Cal's podclass, sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter. Get your special discount here

In this episode of the Passion Struck Podcast, host John R. Miles welcomes Jason Silver, a multi-time founder, startup advisor, and author of "Your Grass Is Greener: Use What You Have, Get What You Want at Work and in Life." Jason shares his transformative journey from engineering to entrepreneurship, emphasizing the importance of redefining career satisfaction.He discusses how fulfillment at work doesn't necessarily come from landing a dream job or making a drastic career change, but rather from leveraging the skills and resources you already possess to create a more balanced and rewarding life. Jason's practical strategies include accomplishing five days of work in four, advancing your career without burning out, and finding genuine satisfaction in your current role.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/jason-silver-your-grass-is-greener/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:Intentionality in Decision-Making: Jason emphasizes the importance of being clear about your intentions when making decisions.The Impact of Miscommunication: Jason highlights the difference between visible and invisible miscommunications, stressing that understanding how others interpret your words is crucial for effective communication.Fast Decision-Making: Drawing from Larry Page's insight, Jason argues that good, fast decisions are essential for companies to thrive.Learning from Failure: Jason's journey includes learning from failures, such as the challenges he faced during his career. He encourages embracing a mindset of experimentation, where trying different approaches can lead to personal and professional growth.Transforming Work Satisfaction: In his book, Jason advocates for transforming our work to find fulfillment rather than seeking a "dream job."Connect with Jason Silver: https://www.thejasonsilver.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Join the Passion Struck Community! Sign up for the Live Intentionally newsletter, where I share exclusive content, actionable advice, and insights to help you ignite your purpose and live your most intentional life. Get access to practical exercises, inspiring stories, and tools designed to help you grow.  Learn more and sign up here.Speaking Engagements & Workshops Are you looking to inspire your team, organization, or audience to take intentional action in their lives and careers? I'm available for keynote speaking, workshops, and leadership training on topics such as intentional living, resilience, leadership, and personal growth. Let's work together to create transformational change. Learn more at johnrmiles.com/speaking.Episode Starter Packs With over 500 episodes, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. We've curated Episode Starter Packs based on key themes like leadership, mental health, and personal growth, making it easier for you to dive into the topics you care about. Check them out at passionstruck.com/starterpacks.Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on Reinvent Yourself: The Journey from Ordinary to ExtraordinaryCan't miss my episode with Dr. Michael Gervais on How You Unlock the Science of SuccessWatch my episode with Lauren Handel Zander on Unlocking the Power of Radical Personal AccountabilityDiscover my interview with Steve Swift On How to Create a Career of ServiceCatch my interview with Jessica Kriegel on How to Build an Intentional WorkplaceIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

Join host John R. Miles in Episode 526 of the Passion Struck Podcast as he welcomes back Eric Edmeades for a transformative discussion on health, nutrition, and the concept of the "evolution gap." Discover how our rapid innovation outpaces biological evolution, leading to chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes. Eric shares insights from his groundbreaking book, explores the six hungers that drive our eating habits, and offers practical steps for aligning your lifestyle with your biological needs. Tune in to learn how to make lasting health changes and unlock the power of intentional living!Full show notes and resources: https://passionstruck.com/eric-edmeades-how-to-gain-control-of-food-habits/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The post-diabetic concept: Eric Edmeades explains how type 2 diabetes can be reversible and the importance of dietary changes.Exploration of behavioral science: The episode delves into how daily habits and routines can support or sabotage health.The role of heredity in diabetes: Understanding how genetic predispositions can be managed through lifestyle choices.Practical steps for aligning lifestyle with biological needs: Tips on making incremental changes in diet and behavior for lasting health improvements.The significance of emotional and behavioral aspects of eating: Recognizing the six primary reasons why people eat, which include nutritional hunger, thirst, empty stomach hunger, low blood sugar hunger, variety, and emotional hunger.The impact of habits on eating behaviors: Understanding how emotional intensity and repetition influence the formation of eating habits.Connect with Eric Edmeades: https://ericedmeades.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Join the Passion Struck Community! Sign up for the Live Intentionally newsletter, where I share exclusive content, actionable advice, and insights to help you ignite your purpose and live your most intentional life. Get access to practical exercises, inspiring stories, and tools designed to help you grow.  Learn more and sign up here.Speaking Engagements & Workshops Are you looking to inspire your team, organization, or audience to take intentional action in their lives and careers? I'm available for keynote speaking, workshops, and leadership training on topics such as intentional living, resilience, leadership, and personal growth. Let's work together to create transformational change. Learn more at johnrmiles.com/speaking.Episode Starter Packs With over 500 episodes, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. We've curated Episode Starter Packs based on key themes like leadership, mental health, and personal growth, making it easier for you to dive into the topics you care about. Check them out at passionstruck.com/starterpacks.Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on How Your Environment Influences Who You BecomeCan't miss my episode with Kara Collier on How Real-Time Glucose Monitoring Systems Can Transform Your HealthWatch my episode with Eric Edmeades on the essential Keys to Postdiabetic TransformationDiscover my interview with Dr. Jud Brewer on How to Break Out of Your Food JailCatch my interview with Katy Milkman on Creating Lasting Behavior Change for GoodIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!Show Less

In this episode of Passion Struck, host John R. Miles welcomes Dr. Susan Grau, a world-renowned soul healer, grief expert, and an evidential medium. The conversation delves into the profound insights gained from Susan's near-death experience as a child, which set her on a lifelong journey of spiritual exploration and healing.Susan shares her remarkable story of being trapped in a freezer at a young age, leading to a near-death experience where she encountered beautiful lights and a sense of overwhelming love. This experience shaped her understanding of the afterlife and the importance of love in our lives. She emphasizes that our souls crave expansion, with love being the highest form of that expansion.Listeners are reminded that even in dark times, there is light to be found through the support of others and the lessons learned from adversity. Susan's insights provide powerful tools for healing and connection, encouraging everyone to embrace their journey and the lessons it brings.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/susan-grau-how-life-experiences-shape-our-souls/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The importance of love as the highest form of expansion for the soul.Insights on self-love and the journey towards unconditional love.Dr. Susan Grau's near-death experience and how it shaped her understanding of the afterlife.The concept of the "room of hearts desires" and how not all desires are granted for our soul's growth.The idea of Earth School, where we learn and grow through experiences in physical form.The role of soul contracts and free will in shaping our life experiences.The significance of cracks in our lives as opportunities for transformation and personal growth.How to find light during dark times and the importance of community support.The connection between pain and joy, and how they help us understand our experiences.The role of spiritual guides and angels in our lives and their influence on our journey.Connect with Dr. Susan Grau: https://susangrau.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on How Your Environment Influences Who You BecomeCan't miss my episode with Rebecca Rosen on Unveiling Your Divine PurposeWatch my episode with Scott Simon on How to Harness Courage for a Limitless LifeDiscover my interview with Kate Bowler on Why There is No Cure for Being HumanCatch my interview with Seth Godin on How You Create the Song of SignificanceIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

Chris Deaver is co-author of Brave Together (McGraw-Hill), featured in The Next Big Idea Club (with Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant), as INC.'s Top 5 Books for Transforming, Business, in Big Think, and Forbes. Top 3 Value Bombs 1. The future is not self-made, its shared. 2. The key is to be brave together . Work harder, work smarter but work creatively together with others. 3. Culture is the perpetual motion machine that creates continuous growth. It's the people with the brain thrust that builds incredible things together. Supercharge your Future. Free Tools and Resources on Chris' website - Brave Core Sponsors HubSpot: Get ready for growth, without the growing pains. Visit HubSpot.com/spotlight to see the dozens of major product updates that'll make impossible growth feel impossibly easy FranBridge Many EOFire listeners have launched franchises in a variety of industries outside of food – and FranBridge Consulting has guided them to these premier opportunities! Sign up for a free consultation with Jon - or get a free copy of his book, Non-Food Franchising - at FranBridgeConsulting.com

In this compelling episode of the Passion Struck podcast, Dr. Zoe Chance, Yale professor and author of Influence Is Your Superpower, joins John R. Miles to uncover the science behind winning hearts and minds through ethical interpersonal influence. Dr. Chance dives deep into the ways we can harness influence to create meaningful change—not just in our personal lives but in the world around us.The conversation explores how influence, when used ethically, becomes a tool for connection rather than manipulation. Dr. Chance shares research-backed strategies on how to negotiate confidently, build trust, and align with others to achieve positive outcomes. Listeners will walk away with actionable insights into how to use influence to elevate relationships, inspire others, and drive real-world impact.Whether you're leading a team, managing relationships, or simply looking to improve your communication skills, this episode provides powerful tools to win hearts while staying true to your values.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/zoe-chance-apply-the-science-of-winning-hearts/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The importance of reaching out to individuals at the right time to influence their decisions effectively.Insights from Dr. Zoe Chance on interpersonal influence and how it can be used ethically and effectively.The significance of social support in the writing process and the challenges authors face in getting their work recognized.The impact of influential teachers and mentors on personal growth and resilience.The role of behavioral science in understanding consumer behavior and decision-making.The concept of "moments of truth" in customer experience and how timing affects influence.The distinction between System 1 (unconscious, instinctive) and System 2 (conscious, analytical) thinking and their relevance in influencing others.Connect with Dr. Zoe Chance: https://www.zoechance.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on How Your Environment Influences Who You BecomeCan't miss my episode with Alison Fragale on Master the Science of Status for SuccessWatch my episode with David S. Yeager on the Science of Inspiring Young MindsDiscover my interview with Finnian Kelly on How You Recode Your Mind and Manifest YouCatch my interview with Amanda Slavin on How to Change Lives By Inspiring ChangeIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

The SHOCKING Reason You're Sabotaging Your Success – In this must-listen episode of the Passion Struck podcast, host John R. Miles interviews cognitive scientist Art Markman to uncover why so many of us struggle to achieve our goals. It's not just about effort—how misaligned actions and values quietly undermine our success. Art reveals how understanding your brain's natural tendencies can help you align your behaviors with your values, leading to sharper decision-making, stronger discipline, and deeper empathy.John R. Miles and Art Markman dive into practical strategies for overcoming cognitive biases, building mental resilience, and mastering habits that drive success. If you're ready to stop sabotaging yourself and finally achieve your goals, this episode is packed with actionable insights you can't miss!Full show notes and resources: https://passionstruck.com/art-markman-unlock-unstoppable-success/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:How misaligned actions derail your successUsing cognitive science to make better decisionsBuilding discipline and mental strengthThe surprising link between empathy and leadershipBreaking free from cognitive biases to lead more effectivelyConnect with Dr. Art Markman: https://provost.utexas.edu/the-office/art-markmans-bio/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on How to Live Intentionally With Passion and PerseveranceCan't miss my episode with Katy Milkman on Creating Lasting Behavior Change for GoodWatch my episode with Angela Duckworth on the Keys to Achieving Long-Term SuccessDiscover my interview with Amy Leigh Mercree on Master Your Aura, Master Your LifeCatch my interview with BJ Fogg on How Tiny Habits Can Transform Your LifeIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this enlightening episode of Passion Struck, host John R. Miles welcomes back renowned therapist and author Terri Cole to discuss her latest book, "Too Much." Terri dives deep into high-functioning codependency (HFC) and how it affects our relationships and personal well-being.Discover the traits of HFC, the reasons behind the compulsion to fix others, and the importance of self-consideration. Terri shares powerful insights and practical exercises to help you break free from the cycle of over-giving and start prioritizing your own needs.Full show notes and resources:   https://passionstruck.com/terri-cole-break-high-functioning-codependency/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The definition and traits of high-functioning codependencyHow to recognize when you're taking on others' problemsPractical steps to cultivate self-consideration and set healthy boundariesThe significance of understanding your relational blueprintConnect with Terri Cole: https://www.terricole.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on Bridging Divides Through Love and KindnessCan't miss my episode with Lily Walford on How to Create Compatible LoveWatch my episode with Teri Cole on How to Create Healthy Boundaries & Inner PeaceDiscover my interview with Amy Leigh Mercree on Master Your Aura, Master Your LifeCatch my interview with Dr. Scott Rick on Should You Marry for Love or MoneyIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!Show Less

In this episode of the Passion Struck Podcast, Topaz Adizes, an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and author of "12 Questions for Love," shares his insights on the transformative power of asking better questions about the love we feel for another person. He emphasizes that the essence of meaningful conversations lies in the answers we seek and the questions we pose.Topaz explains that he has facilitated over 1,200 conversations through his project, The And, where participants interview each other using carefully crafted questions. He believes that the right questions can illuminate a shared humanity and deepen connections. Individuals can shift their perspectives and foster more profound emotional articulations by focusing on the questions rather than the answers.Full show notes and resources:   https://passionstruck.com/topaz-adizes-asking-better-questions-key-to-love/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The power of questions: The way questions are framed can significantly shape the answers and the depth of conversations.Intentionality in relationships: Engaging in meaningful conversations can deepen connections and enhance understanding between individuals.The importance of creating a safe space: It's crucial to foster an environment where participants feel safe to explore uncomfortable questions without pressure to answer.Emotional articulation vs. emotional intelligence: Emotional articulation involves the ability to express feelings in words, while emotional intelligence is about understanding emotions in oneself and others.The structure of conversations: The arrangement of questions can guide the flow of a conversation, leading to more profound insights and reflections.Shared humanity: Emphasizing the connection between individuals can elevate relationships and foster a sense of community.Connect with Maha Abouelenein: https://www.mahaabouelenein.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on Bridging Divides Through Love and KindnessCan't miss my episode with Lily Walford on How to Create Compatible LoveWatch my episode with Aaron Ahuvia on Why We Love Objects and How It Defines UsDiscover my interview with Amy Leigh Mercree on Master Your Aura, Master Your LifeCatch my interview with Dr. Scott Rick on Should You Marry for Love or MoneyIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this episode of the Passion Struck podcast, host John R. Miles interviews Maha Abouelenein, a strategic communication and personal branding expert. The conversation centers around how small actions can lead to significant success, emphasizing the importance of self-reliance, creating value for others, and building meaningful relationships.Maha shares her personal journey, highlighting her experiences growing up as a minority in Minnesota and later moving to Egypt to care for her parents. She discusses the challenges she faced and how they shaped her understanding of self-reliance and the value of hard work. Her father's teachings about the importance of knowledge and reputation play a crucial role in her philosophy.Full show notes and resources:   https://passionstruck.com/maha-abouelenein-small-actions-big-success/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The Power of Small Actions: Success is built on daily consistency and small efforts rather than waiting for big moments.Creating Value: Focusing on how to serve others can lead to personal and professional growth.Long-Term Thinking: Playing the long game and building relationships can yield significant rewards over time.Learning Opportunities: Working for free or taking on challenges can provide invaluable learning experiences that open doors in the future.Connect with Maha Abouelenein: https://www.mahaabouelenein.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on Building a Team from the Ground UpCan't miss my episode with Gerry Hussey on How You Lead Yourself to Infinite PotentialWatch my episode with Coach Matt Doherty on How You Rebound From Life's Toughest MomentsDiscover my interview with Clint Padgett on Driving Team Performance ExcellenceCatch my interview with Rusty Shelton on How You Build Your Authority AdvantageIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this episode of the Passion Struck Podcast, John R. Miles sits down with Jessica Kriegel, Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture at Culture Partners and author of Unfairly Labeled. With over 15 years of experience guiding top organizations like Toyota, Lockheed Martin, and Bank of America, Jessica shares her expert insights on building intentional workplace cultures that drive both people and profitability.Jessica explores the key strategies leaders can use to create thriving workplaces, overcome challenges like burnout, improve employee engagement, and navigate the complexities of virtual work. She also challenges generational stereotypes and offers practical solutions for fostering intergenerational collaboration. Her advice provides a powerful roadmap for leaders looking to transform their workplace cultures and create environments where both employees and organizations can flourish.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/jessica-kriegel-how-build-intentional-workplace/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The concept of the "culture equation," which emphasizes the alignment of purpose, strategy, and culture to drive organizational results.Insights from a study conducted with Stanford University showing that organizations with aligned purpose, strategy, and culture achieve significantly better revenue growth.The role of beliefs and values in influencing employee actions and overall workplace culture.The necessity of intentional experiences to shape positive beliefs among employees.The dangers of generational stereotypes and the importance of understanding individuals beyond labels.The concept of "purpose fit" over "culture fit" in hiring practices to ensure alignment between personal and organizational purposes.The impact of consistent communication and repetition in reinforcing organizational values and goals.Connect with Jessica Kriegel: https://www.jessicakriegel.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on Master Your Mind: 6 Proven Strategies to Overcome Self-DoubtCan't miss my episode withJacob Morgan on the Vital Power of Leading With VulnerabilityWatch my episode with Coach Matt Doherty on How You Rebound From Life's Toughest MomentsDiscover my interview with James Rhee On How You Lead Change Through KindnessCatch my interview with Rusty Shelton on How You Build Your Authority AdvantageIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this episode of the Passion Struck Podcast, Diego Perez, known as Yung Pueblo, shares his profound insights on self-healing, emotional wisdom, and the power of intention. Diego discusses his personal journey from hitting rock bottom at age 23 to becoming a #1 New York Times bestselling author. We explore key themes from his latest book, The Way Forward, the final installment of his poetic trilogy, where Diego reflects on how trauma shaped his life's direction and the importance of intention in personal growth.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/diego-perez-on-the-way-forward-trauma-to-triumph/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:Kindness and Karma: Diego emphasizes that acts of kindness may not always be reciprocated by the same individuals, but they will return to you in some form, often from unexpected sources.Personal Transformation: Diego shares his defining moment at age 23 when he hit rock bottom due to substance abuse. This experience led him to commit to self-healing and meditation, which transformed his life.Intuition and Intentionality: The importance of listening to one's intuition is highlighted as a guiding force in making intentional choices that lead to personal growth and fulfillment.Mindfulness and Meditation: Diego discusses his extensive meditation practice, including long silent retreats, and how these experiences have shaped his understanding of impermanence and inner peace.Reframing Trauma: He explains how trauma can be reframed as a tool for growth, encouraging listeners to find their own healing modalities and build resilience.Change and Acceptance: The conversation touches on the inevitability of change and the importance of accepting it rather than resisting it, as well as the need to cultivate inner peace amidst external chaos.Building Relationships: Diego emphasizes the significance of nurturing close relationships and the role of values in fostering healthy connections.Looking Ahead: The episode concludes with a preview of Diego's upcoming book, How to Love Better, which will build on the lessons from The Way Forward and focus on developing love-filled, intentional lives.Overall, the episode is a rich exploration of personal growth, the power of mindfulness, and the importance of living with intention and compassion.Connect with Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo): https://yungpueblo.com/aboutOrder Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on How Life Lessons From Sailing Lead To Success and GrowthCan't miss my episode withJacob Morgan on the Vital Power of Leading With VulnerabilityWatch my episode with Andre Sólo on Unlock Your Sensitivity for Personal GrowthDiscover my interview with James Rhee On How You Lead Change through KindnessCatch my interview with Admiral James Stavridis on the Bold Decision to Risk It AllIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!Show Less 

In today's Passion Struck episode, we have the privilege of exploring the transformative world of the Enneagram with the brilliant Dr. Deborah Threadgill Egerton, affectionately known as Dr. E. As an internationally respected psychotherapist, certified Enneagram teacher, and a trailblazer in inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism (IDEA), Dr. E brings her unique perspective to this conversation.As the founder and president of Trinity Transition Consultants, Dr. E has spent over two decades helping individuals and organizations break free from limiting beliefs to embrace a more compassionate, connected way of living. Her latest book, Enneagram Made Easy, masterfully breaks down the nine distinct personality types—Idealist, Helper, Achiever, Individualist, Investigator, Loyalist, Enthusiast, Challenger, and Peacemaker—and how this powerful system can be used as a tool for personal growth, conflict resolution, and emotional intelligence.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/deborah-egerton-how-to-read-your-enneagram-chart/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The importance of recognizing your inherent sense of belonging, regardless of how others may treat you.The concept of "kinetic kindness" and its role in fostering a better world through intentional acts of kindness.Personal stories highlighting the impact of kindness from strangers and the significance of authentic relationships.The distinction between tolerance and true inclusion, emphasizing the need for deeper connections in society.The Enneagram as a tool for understanding personal motivations and behaviors, rather than just surface-level traits.The nine Enneagram types and their characteristics, including the body, heart, and head centers of intelligence.The significance of self-reflection and inner work in discovering one's authentic self and desires.The connection between the Enneagram and spiritual growth, helping individuals understand their flaws and embrace their true selves.Practical advice for those feeling stuck, focusing on self-respect and understanding personal needs.Connect with Dr. Egerton: https://www.deborahegerton.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on How Life Lessons From Sailing Lead To Success and GrowthCan't miss my episode withJacob Morgan on the Vital Power of Leading With VulnerabilityWatch my episode with Andre Sólo on Unlock Your Sensitivity for Personal GrowthDiscover my interview with James Rhee On How You Lead Change through KindnessCatch my interview with Admiral James Stavridis on the Bold Decision to Risk It AllIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!Show LessTranscriptComing up next on passion struck so efficacy is a fancy psychological term for power, and when you can see or others can point out to you more aptly, that you are making a difference in the greater...

In this episode of Passion Struck, host John R. Miles sits down with Dr. Michael Gervais, a world-renowned high-performance psychologist, to explore the science of unlocking success. Dr. Gervais dives deep into the psychology behind overcoming the fear of others' opinions, the primal need for safety and belonging, and how intentionality and efficacy play critical roles in reaching your full potential. Filled with actionable insights and strategies, this conversation provides a powerful roadmap for mastering your mind and becoming the best version of yourself.Full show notes and resources:   https://passionstruck.com/dr-michael-gervais-unlock-the-science-of-success/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The concept of efficacy as a psychological term for power and its impact on our sense of belonging and safety.The importance of early life experiences, such as growing up on a farm and surfing, in shaping personal identity and understanding social dynamics.The significance of paying attention to one's environment and the lessons learned from navigating both nature and social settings.Insights on how to foster a sense of belonging and purpose in the workplace, emphasizing the need for leaders to recognize individual contributions to the greater whole.The difference between traditional leadership models and modern leadership that focuses on unlocking individual potential and dignity.The role of honesty and transparency in high-stakes environments, such as elite sports and business, and how it fosters trust and collaboration.The concept of FOPO (fear of people's opinions) and its constraining effect on personal potential and authenticity.Practical strategies for overcoming the fear of others' opinions to achieve personal mastery and fulfillment.Connect with Dr. Michael Gervais: https://findingmastery.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on How Life Lessons From Sailing Lead To Success and GrowthCan't miss my episode withJacob Morgan on the Vital Power of Leading With VulnerabilityWatch my episode with Andre Sólo on Unlock Your Sensitivity for Personal GrowthDiscover my interview with James Rhee On How You Lead Change through KindnessCatch my interview with Admiral James Stavridis on the Bold Decision to Risk It AllIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this powerful episode, Naseem Rochette shares her remarkable story of survival after being run over three times by a car in 2018. Naseem turned this traumatic experience into an opportunity for growth and resilience, ultimately celebrating Unbreakable Day to inspire others to thrive in the face of adversity. She discusses the lessons from her memoir, The Unexpected Benefits of Being Run Over, and how she found strength in vulnerability, community, and purpose. This conversation offers a unique perspective on overcoming life's toughest challenges and finding meaning through the most difficult moments.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/naseem-rochette-paying-it-forward-changes-lives/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The importance of recognizing and accepting help from others during difficult times.How a traumatic experience can lead to profound personal transformation and growth.The significance of vulnerability in building deeper connections with others.The impact of a lack of remorse from others in traumatic situations and its emotional consequences.The concept of "paying it forward" and how small acts of kindness can create a ripple effect in the community.The value of living with intentionality and presence in relationships with loved ones.The lessons learned from navigating personal struggles and how they can inspire others.The idea that breaking doesn't mean being broken; challenges can lead to resilience and strength.Connect with Naseem Rochette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naseemrochette/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on Why You Must Feel to Find Emotional HealingCan't miss my episode withKara Robinson Chamberlain on Be Vigilant About Your SafetyWatch my episode with Flory Seidel On Creating a Happy LifeDiscover my interview with Kegan Gill on How to Not Just Survive but Thrive in LifeCatch my interview with Admiral James Stavridis on the Bold Decision to Risk It AllIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this episode of Passion Struck, I had the distinct pleasure of welcoming my friend Cory Allen, an acclaimed author, influencer, and the host of the popular podcast "And Then It Hit Me." Our conversation centered around Cory's transformative new book, "Brave New You," which serves as a powerful guide designed to help individuals unlock their full potential, break free from negative thinking, and infuse their lives with meaning and purpose.Cory and I will be holding a moderated talk about my book Passion Struck at Book People in Austin, TX on November 3rd, 2024 at 430pm. We would love to see you there.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/cory-allen-on-how-you-create-a-brave-new-youSponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The importance of recognizing how our present decisions and feelings shape our identity and impact those around us.Insights into the power of intentionality and how it can help you become the best version of yourself.The significance of being open-minded as a starting point for transformation and personal growth.Strategies for reframing your perspective to engage curiosity and turn experiences into opportunities for growth.The role of mindfulness and self-awareness in breaking free from negative thinking and limiting assumptions that hold us back.The concept of "turning poison into medicine" by recognizing and transforming negative impulses into positive actions.The idea that many barriers to personal growth are imaginary, rooted in our own narratives and assumptions.The value of self-trust and how taking intentional actions can build confidence and lead to significant breakthroughs.Connect with Cory Allen: https://www.cory-allen.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy interview with Amy Leigh Mercree on Master Your Aura, Master Your LifeCan't miss my episode withSharon Salzberg on Building Equanimity in a Chaotic WorldWatch my episode with Dandapani on How to Harness the Incredible Power of Your MindDiscover my interview with Gabby Bernstein on finding profound freedom and inner peaceIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this episode of Passion Struck, I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Marty Makary, a renowned Johns Hopkins surgeon, health policy expert, and bestselling author. Together, we explored key insights from his latest book, Blind Spots, which has already made a significant impact by reaching #2 on Amazon before its release. Dr. Makary shared his personal journey from working within the medical establishment to becoming a vocal advocate for reform, questioning the deep flaws in American healthcare.Full show notes and resources: https://passionstruck.com/dr-marty-makary-on-the-hidden-blind-spots-in-medicine/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:Understanding the systemic flaws in modern healthcare, including the over-medicalization of everyday life.The importance of intentional behavior change in taking control of your own health.Insights into the rise of chronic diseases like childhood obesity, diabetes, and autism, and their root causes.How billing and coding have taken precedence over addressing root health issues in the medical system.The role of the microbiome in overall health and the dangers of antibiotic overuse.Why transparency and independent thinking are critical for medical professionals in challenging outdated norms.Real-world examples of medical dogmas that have caused harm, such as peanut allergy guidelines and hormone replacement therapy.How individuals can become the CEOs of their own healthcare journeys by adopting a more holistic approach.Connect with Dr. Marty Makary: https://www.martymd.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy interview with Eric Edmeades on the essential Keys to Postdiabetic TransformationCan't miss my episode withMorley Robbins on How You Reclaim Your Health and VitalityWatch my episode with Dr. Mark Hyman on How Personalized Medicine Is Revolutionizing HealthcareDiscover my interview with Dr. Chris Palmer on How Brain Energy Improves Mental HealthCatch my interview with Unlocking Limitless Health: Dr. Casey Means on Metabolism's Key RoleIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this episode of Passion Struck, we delve into the groundbreaking insights of behavioral scientist Alison Fragale, author of Likeable Badass. Fragale reveals how women can elevate their workplace status and secure career success by mastering the delicate balance of warmth and assertiveness. Drawing from decades of research, she offers practical strategies and actionable advice to help women navigate office politics, earn recognition, and achieve a fulfilling career. Discover how to transform perceptions, negotiate effectively, and rise to the top with Fragale's proven playbook for professional advancement.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/alison-fragale-master-science-status-for-success/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:Mastering the science of status: Understand how blending assertiveness and warmth can lead to greater respect and influence in the workplace.Balancing likability and capability: Cultivate both traits to gain value and respect from peers and leaders.Unlocking potential through intentionality: John R. Miles shares the mission of Passion Struck in helping individuals realize their potential with purpose and direction.Managing dual careers: Alison shares strategies on developing remote work arrangements and managing career-family balance before it became mainstream.Key themes from “Likeable Badass”: Grasp the difference between status and power and how they impact career advancement.Overcoming the competence-likability bind: Use specific strategies to showcase competence without sacrificing likability.Tackling limiting mindsets: Address the five limiting beliefs that hinder the journey to becoming a likable badass.Connect with Alison Fragale: https://alisonfragale.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on How To Live Intentionally With Passion And PerseveranceCan't miss my episode withHilary Billings on the Psychology of Attention, Mastering Short-Form Video, and Personal Brand BuildingWatch my episode with Jen Gottlieb on How to Create Your Own Success by Being SeenDiscover my interview with Rory Vaden On How To Find Your Uniqueness And Exploit It In The Service Of OthersCatch my interview with Rusty Shelton on How You Build Your Authority AdvantageIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this powerful episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles sits down with Dan Cnossen, a former Navy SEAL and Paralympic gold medalist, to explore his extraordinary journey of resilience, mental toughness, and elite performance. After a life-altering injury on the battlefield, Dan refused to let adversity define him. Instead, he turned his setbacks into a springboard for unstoppable success. In this conversation,Dan shares the mindset that allowed him to overcome the fear of failure, find optimism in the face of challenges, and unlock the secrets to achieving greatness. He also discusses his involvement with the Mountain Seed Foundation, which helps Ukrainian soldiers through outdoor activities. Dan defines success as living a fulfilling life and contributing positively to others, regardless of outcomes.Whether you're seeking inspiration, peak performance tips, or a masterclass in perseverance, this episode will motivate you to conquer your own obstacles.Watch Dan's incredible 60 Minute story of climbing with the Mountain Seed Foundation.Full show notes and resources: https://passionstruck.com/dan-cnossen-on-unstoppable-success-adversity/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:Overcoming fear of failure: Dan explains how acknowledging and confronting failure can fuel progress and push you toward success.Power of optimism: He delves into the mindset of maintaining positivity in the darkest of moments and how it contributes to a fulfilling life.Elite performance mindset: Dan shares the mental framework that enabled him to reach the pinnacle of success in both the military and the Paralympics.Finding purpose through service: His involvement with the Mountain Seed Foundation highlights the healing power of helping others and giving back to the community.Resilience through adversity: Learn how Dan turned a devastating injury into an opportunity to grow, adapt, and excel at a global level.Daily discipline for greatness: Dan emphasizes the importance of structure, discipline, and small daily habits that lead to extraordinary results.Connect with Dan Cnossen: https://dancnossen.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy interview with Hari Budha Magar was about defying your limits to climb your Everest.Watch my episode with Navy SEAL John Doolittle on why anything is achievable.Catch my episode with Paralympian Oksana Masters on how the hard parts lead to triumph.Catch my interview with Katy Milkman on Creating Lasting Behavior Change for Good.Listen to my solo episode on The Importance of Empathy to Your LifeIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this episode of Passion Struck, host John R. Miles interviews Gabriel Reilich, the head of content and innovation at Good and Upworthy. They discuss the power of intentionality in combating the negative effects of social media and the importance of seeking out stories of human goodness. The conversation delves into the impact of positive stories on our brains, social connections, and overall well-being. Gabriel also shares a personal story from his upcoming book, "Good People, Stories from the Best of Humanity," highlighting the transformative power of kindness and connection.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/gabriel-reilich-on-stories-inspire-real-change/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The importance of intentionality in living an intentional lifeThe three Bs to fight against the momentum: broaden, balance, and beautifyThe mission of Upworthy to showcase the positive side of human natureThe power of sharing stories of human goodness and kindnessThe concept of moral beauty and its impact on individualsThe triple ripple effect of kindness on the giver, receiver, and observerThe significance of balancing positivity with acknowledging real challengesThe role of everyday heroes in fostering connection and positivityThe impact of mean world syndrome on individuals' mental stateThe agency and empowerment found in everyday interactions and moments of kindnessConnect with Gabriel Reilich: https://www.gabrielreilich.com/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckMy solo episode on 7 Reasons Why Acts of Kindness Are More than Meets the EyeCan't miss my episode withJames Rhee On How You Lead Change through KindnessWatch my episode with Dacher Keltner on the Hidden Power of Moral BeautyCatch my interview with Katy Milkman on Creating Lasting Behavior Change for GoodListen to my solo episode on The Importance of Empathy to Your LifeIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In  episode 502 of Passion Struck, we tackle a subject that's hitting hard in our world right now: cynicism. Cynicism creeps into our thoughts, erodes our connections, and chips away at our belief in one another. To help us untangle this, we have an extraordinary guest, Dr. Jamil Zaki, a professor of psychology at Stanford University and an expert in empathy and kindness. His new book, Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness, reveals how we can overcome cynicism through hopeful skepticism.Dr. Zaki shares powerful insights from over two decades of research on how to escape the cynicism trap and boost your mental well-being. We discuss the myth of the cynical genius, how to combat polarization, and foster a more unified world. Dr. Zaki also delves into his personal journey, including how his parents' difficult divorce influenced his study of empathy and understanding others.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/jamil-zaki-science-of-human-goodnessSponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The impact of cynicism on personal and social livesThe role of cynicism in US politics and worldwideHow cynicism affects society's ability to address major issuesThe harmful effects of cynicism on health, relationships, and careersThe misconception that cynics are smarter and socially smarterThe importance of adopting hopeful skepticism to combat cynicismThe case study of Microsoft's organizational cynicism under Steve BallmerConnect with Jamil Zaki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamil-zaki-b0b4a9192/Order Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckCan't miss my episode with Angela Duckworth on the Keys to Achieving Long-Term SuccessListen to my interview withBJ Fogg on How Tiny Habits Can Transform Your LifeWatch my episode with Dacher Keltner on the Hidden Power of Moral BeautyCatch my interview with Katy Milkman on Creating Lasting Behavior Change for GoodIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!

In this milestone 500th episode of Passion Struck, host John R. Miles sits down with renowned life coach and founder of The Handel Group, Lauren Handel Zander, to dive deep into the life-changing impact of radical personal accountability. Lauren shares her no-nonsense approach to personal integrity, intentional living, and mastering your inner dialogue. Learn about the "chicken, brat, and weather reporter" voices we all have and how they sabotage our progress. Through her practical tips and exercises, discover how to overcome self-doubt, design your day, keep promises to yourself, and unlock the confidence to achieve your dreams. This episode is packed with transformational insights and is the perfect guide for anyone ready to take control of their life.Full show notes and resources:  https://passionstruck.com/lauren-handel-zander/SponsorsBabbel: Unlock the power of learning a new language with Babbel's innovative system. Passion Struck listeners can get 60% off their subscription at Babbel.com/PASSION.Hims: Regrow your hair before it's too late! Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK.Quince: Experience luxury for less with Quince's premium products at radically low prices. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/PASSION.For more information about our sponsors and promo codes, visit: passionstruck.com/dealsIn this episode, you will learn:The importance of designing your day with intention and outcome in mindThe concept of directing your subconscious through daily designThe impact of personal integrity on achieving dreams and aspirationsThe significance of radical personal accountability in living wisely and avoiding ignoranceThe power of intentionality in becoming the best version of yourselfStrategies for unlocking personal happiness, self-esteem, and confidenceThe role of internal dialogue in achieving personal growth and successPractical advice on how to change negative thought patterns and overcome dream decayThe value of keeping promises to oneself and building personal integrityThe 12 areas of life to focus on for holistic personal developmentConnect with David Yeager: Handel GroupOrder Passion StruckUnlock the principles that will transform your life! Order my book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life. Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, this book has earned accolades such as the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Order your copy today and ignite your journey toward intentional living!Catch More Passion StruckCan't miss my episode with Angela Duckworth on the Keys to Achieving Long-Term SuccessListen to my interview with Angela Foster on Biosyncing for Peak Health and HappinessWatch my episode with Tricia Manning on How to Lead With Heart and Leave a LegacyCatch my interview with Katy Milkman on Creating Lasting Behavior Change for GoodIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Even one sentence helps. Be sure to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can personally thank you!