106: Michelle Gielan – How To Broadcast Happiness
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Ryan Hawk
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🗓️ 13 March 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Episode 106: Michelle Gielan – How To Broadcast Happiness
Michelle Gielan is a remarkable leader… I love the way she approaches her work. Studying happiness and the mindset in which she approaches life inspires me! Her newest book, “Broadcasting Happiness” takes an incredible look at some really interesting topics on happiness including: Priming your brain for high performance, how to spark positive thinking, and How to deal with negative people. We had a fascinating conversation on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.
Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness.
Michelle is the Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research and is partnered with Arianna Huffington to study how transformative stories fuel success. She is an Executive Producer of “The Happiness Advantage” Special on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah’s Happiness course.
Michelle holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her research and advice have received attention from The New York Times, Washington Post, FORBES, CNN, FOX, and Harvard Business Review.
Episode 106: Michelle Gielan – How To Broadcast Happiness
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“Our Happiness Can Be Infinite If We Are Happy For Others”
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- Developing the ability to integrate with your colleagues leads to sustained excellence
- Being happy for others is a key to success
- Being married to Shawn Achor – Living life of happiness…. Also how did they meet?
- Making small shifts to the way we communicate
- Seeing the meaning in the work that you do… How to do that
- What do you say to your spouse when you’ve had a rough day?
- Leading with positivity… Negativity takes up too much space in your brain
- Always being ready to go and take action
- How to deal with takers
- Focus on the 4 C’s
- Compassion
- Build social capital
- Generate contagious optimism
- Give compliments
- Give you brain regular small victories to build momentum
- Learning Leader – Have an incredible influence on others by showing up
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves Are True Even If They Aren’t True”
Continue Learning:
- Go To: BroadcastingHappiness.com
- Follow David on Twitter: @MichelleGielan
- Read: Broadcasting Happiness
- To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12
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Bio From MichelleGielan.com
Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness.
Michelle is the Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research and is partnered with Arianna Huffington to study how transformative stories fuel success. She is an Executive Producer of “The Happiness Advantage” Special on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah’s Happiness course.
Michelle holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her research and advice have received attention from The New York Times, Washington Post, FORBES, CNN, FOX, and Harvard Business Review.
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| 0:00.0 | How can we all of us talk about negative news on TV around the dinner table in our businesses in a way that actually |
| 0:08.6 | Empowers people and helps show them a path forward so that their brains don't get stuck, they actually get activated. |
| 0:16.0 | So I went to the University of Pennsylvania and I studied positive psychology under Dr. Martin Selgman, |
| 0:21.0 | who's an amazing thinker. |
| 0:22.5 | He's a founder of the field. |
| 0:24.4 | And the while there, the thing is, |
| 0:26.3 | I had this epiphany, and it was epiphany |
| 0:28.1 | about all of us. |
| 0:29.7 | We are actually all broadcasters. |
| 0:32.3 | So I was a news broadcaster and I thought that this you know power to |
| 0:35.7 | influence other people was just for broadcasters and professional athletes someone with a show is like yours. |
| 0:43.7 | But really what I'm seeing now is that we're, all of us, |
| 0:47.1 | have this potential to influence other people as parents, as leaders, |
| 0:50.2 | as friends through the things we say, the things we choose to talk about, and those small |
| 0:53.4 | choices either can create success or they can hold all of us back. |
| 0:58.9 | Our leaders born or are they made. |
| 1:01.3 | Our host, Ryan Hawk, believes that leaders can be made |
| 1:04.2 | through determined, focused work on learning the art |
| 1:07.0 | and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders. |
| 1:10.5 | Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success. |
| 1:13.0 | You're listening to the Learning Leader Show I am Ryan Hawk thrilled with tonight's |
| 1:36.1 | featured leader. It's Michelle Geland. Michelle is the founder of the Institute |
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