154: Michelle Gielan - Broadcasting Happiness • Seeing Stress As A Challenge • Social Support = Happier You
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Gielan is a national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher and the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness. She is the Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research and holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Michelle is an Executive Producer of “The Happiness Advantage” Special on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah’s Happiness course. Her research and advice have received attention from The New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, CNN, Fox, and Harvard Business Review.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Michelle saw another light and left her job as a news anchor at CBS
- Her biggest takeaway from working at CBS
- Why are people so drawn to negative news?
- Negative news in the morning can lead to you having a bad day
- Our brains are threat focused
- Staying informed but not being prey to negative news
- The 21 day positive email challenge
- Michelle's morning routine
- The upsides of positive news
- We are all broadcasters
- Overcoming our negativity bias
- Fact checking our story
- Don't ignore reality... it's about being rationally optimistic
- See stress as a challenge instead of a threat
- Stress: see it, own it, use it
- Social support... the greatest predictor of happiness that exists
- It might be time for a strategic retreat
- Positive sources of information and being around positive people leads to better health
- Power leads: start conversations with something positive and meaningful
- Using power leads in emails, too
- What is transformative journalism?
- Michelle's last broadcast at CBS
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Related links:
Michelle Gielan - Broadcasting Happiness (book)
Follow Michelle Gielan on Facebook and Twitter
Inspire Happiness - Michelle's PBS Program
The Success Scale - Broadcasting Happiness
Listen to Arianna Huffington previously on TUHP (episode #107)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 154 |
| 0:13.9 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level |
| 0:20.2 | This week our featured guest is Michelle Geland, a national CBS news anchor turned positive psychology |
| 0:26.8 | researcher and she's the best-selling author of Broadcasting Happiness. |
| 0:31.6 | She's the founder of the Institute of Applied Positive Research and holds a |
| 0:35.2 | Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. |
| 0:39.7 | Michelle is an executive producer of the Happiness Advantage special on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah's happiness course. |
| 0:48.0 | Her research and advice have received attention from the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, CNN, Fox, and Harvard Business Review. |
| 0:57.0 | We had such a great conversation with Michelle about happiness. |
| 1:01.0 | This is such a topic that is so important for everybody. We brought it up many times on the show, but she has such a unique perspective you guys are going to love. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, it was really refreshing to talk about happiness. It's been a while and you guys are really going to enjoy this and all the positivity coming out of Michelle. |
| 1:18.6 | So speaking of happiness and positivity, we got another amazing review this week and this one is |
| 1:25.0 | one is coming from Mick Tillson. It's a five-star review |
| 1:28.0 | and it's titled I'm Hooked. |
| 1:30.0 | This has been the greatest discovery. I can't thank you guys enough. I travel full time as a yoga teacher, |
| 1:35.0 | leading retreats around the world, and I actually look forward to my long international flights and bus rides now so I can listen continuously to these insightful talks. You do a great job of |
| 1:44.9 | providing a diverse range of speakers that touch on health from a number of |
| 1:48.5 | different perspectives and theories. It has sparked a lot of interest for me and allowed me to go much deeper into various subjects on my own. |
| 1:55.8 | Keep it up, please. I love taking you on my adventures with me. |
| 1:59.6 | Well, we're really excited to go on the adventures with you. |
| 2:02.8 | Thank you so much for listening and thank you so much for your awesome review. |
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