338: Broadcasting Happiness with Michelle Gieland
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Positive thinking is great, but how do you handle yourself when your spouse is in a funk or your boss is negative every minute of the working day? With all the best intentions for the day, many of us wake up and get hit with the Fox News or CNN.com onslaught of gloom and doom, and this influence shapes our reality for the remaining of our waking hours.
Our guest this week was neck-deep in news broadcasting for years and now dedicates her research and work life to broadcasting happiness—literally.
Listen & Learn:
- Write down 2-3 new and unique things that are positive
- How to separate the signal from the noise in news media
- Why 3 min of negative news per day can ruin your day
- Happiness = the joy we feel growing toward our potential
- How to start a conversation with a positive “top story”
- Why compassion is a great combatant to negativity
- How you can indeed change people
Links & Resources:
- Michelle’s Site
- Michele’s Books (on Amz)
ABOUT THE HOST
Michelle Gielan is a CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher and 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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| 1:09.5 | Of all the things that have really influenced me in my adult life, audio content in the form of audio books, podcasts, webinars, |
| 1:22.0 | completely transform my life. It's just been my adult education. I've read |
| 1:26.1 | literally hundreds of books. In some cases I've read over a hundred books in a single year. |
| 1:31.2 | Podcast now are one of my news sources and other streaming audio content. year. |
| 1:33.0 | Podcast now are one of my news sources and other streaming audio content. |
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