Positivity Matters

Guest: Kimberly Rath , Chairman and Co-Founder of Talent Plus and Co-Author of Near, Now, Next VIA Strengths: Fairness | Honesty | Kindness | Teamwork | Forgiveness Core Values: Integrity | Kindness | Positivity | Love | Belonging Vision: “My goal is to inspire and empower individuals and unlock their potentiality and achieve personal and professional collective joy to create a better world.”  Rec...

Guest: Dr. Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley , Senior Lecturer in Education at Bath Spa University.  Eri's strengths: Humor | Creativity | Fairness | Curiosity | Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence Recorded: 4/24/2024 Forthcoming Book - Human Flourishing: A Conceptual Analysis

Guest: Ryan Wieber, Director, Lincoln City Libraries Ryan’s strengths: Arranger | Futuristic | Learner | Responsibility | Strategic Recorded: 3/29/2024

Guest: Dr. Gustavo Carlo , Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine.  Gus and I explore the idea that there may exist at least three kinds of kindness. The following are the kinds of kindness discussed and an example of each: Playful:  host a block party . Compassionate: become a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) .  Generative: become a mentor . Gus’s Stre...

Guest: Corey Keyes, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Emory University Recorded: 1/12/2024 Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down By Dr. Corey Keyes  Publication date: February 20, 2024 www.languishingbook.com Adam Grant’s article from the NY Times discussed in this episode: There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing https://tiny.cc/languishing

Richard Dienstbier Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Nebraska-LincolnRecorded: 1/1/2024 Building Resistance to Stress and Aging: The Toughness Model by Richard A, Dienstbier "As we engage in toughening activities, physiological toughness develops in response to various genes being turned on or off—sometimes temporarily, but sometimes for a lifetime. Those physiological events le...

Alexander Nehamas | https://nehamas.scholar.princeton.edu | Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities | Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Princeton University | Author of On Friendship From the Community Matters archive. This conversation first aired on KZUM 89.3 FM in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 25, 2016. Philosopher Alexander Nehamas joins Commun...

Gregory Jusdanis | https://classics.osu.edu/people/jusdanis.1 | Humanities Distinguished Professor, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University | Author, A Tremendous Thing: Friendship from the Iliad to the Internet From the Community Matters archive. This conversation first aired on KZUM 89.3 FM in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 20, 2015. Gregory Jusdanis joined Nick by telephone from Columbus...

Jenni Jex | Wendy Johnson | Nebraska Literary Heritage Association | https://nebraskaauthors.org/about/nlha | Ann Hintz | Lincoln Green by Design | https://lincolnearthday.org From the Community Matters archive. This conversation first aired on KZUM 89.3 FM in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 13, 2015. Jenni Jex and Wendy Johnson came to the studio for the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association, which...