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🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Kindness is a super power and a breath of fresh air in a world where negativity and hardship aren't hard to find. Yet what my guest Adrienne Bankert found, is kindness isn't merely about being nice. A mindset of kindness ripples into a staggering amount of personal fulfillment, growth, and empowerment.
Adrienne Bankert is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning correspondent for ABC News, Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and Nightline. She reported live from Chiang Rai, Thailand, during the rescue of thirteen boys and their soccer coach as the world watched the historic rescue.
Her compelling interviews from guests that range from wounded warriors to celebrities including Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and more have gained widespread attention.
Adrienne saw firsthand how the power of kindness can work in her career. Uncertain about where she would go next and determined to pursue her dream of being on national TV, she took a chance and landed a Los Angeles reporting job. Her new boss told her it was her reputation for kindness throughout her career that was the key to her being hired. Just a few months later, that opened the door to the biggest break of her life.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Thanks for having me in your ears today. I'm very excited to get started because we're talking about one of my favorite topics, which is kindness. And right now you're like, what? Kindness. That's right. Kindness is a superpower. And our guest today wrote the book. |
0:22.6 | Adrian Banker is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning correspondent for ABC News. |
0:28.6 | You've probably seen her on the Good Morning America show, maybe World News Tonight or Nightline. |
0:34.1 | Among other things, she has reported from Chang Rai, Thailand during the rescue of 13 boys and their soccer coach as the world watched. |
0:41.5 | She's also traveled to London to cover the Royal Wedding. |
0:43.6 | It was the first network journalist to report live from the scene when so many police officers were killed in Dallas, Texas back in 2016. |
0:51.5 | I've seen her interview guests ranging from wounded warriors to celebrities |
0:55.9 | like Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, The Rock. But the thing that captured my heart was her recent book, |
1:02.7 | Your Hidden Superpower, The Kindness That Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You With Anyone. |
1:08.2 | And that is the topic. My belief in kindness and my belief in Adrian |
1:12.7 | Bankhart as the person to help us understand more about kindness is what wanted me to have her on |
1:17.5 | the show. And if you're wondering what what what how kindness translates into your life, |
1:22.5 | I'll just give you a couple of bullets of things we talk about. It's how you can use kindness as a superpower, |
1:30.2 | especially in times that are hard and difficult. It is an amazing unlock that until you have |
1:37.3 | actually employed that you might not understand, it's a way for, there's a way for us to see |
1:42.8 | rather simple acts of kindness as a new and hugely empowering lever that we have in our day to day. |
1:52.0 | Um, we talk with Adrian about how to make kindness a habit. There's an actual practice, not just somewhere from the creative practice that I advocate for or the gratitude practice, this idea of making |
2:02.8 | kindness a habit and an experience that can bring you more peace, inspiration, and impact. |
2:09.0 | If any of these things are of interest and you want to know the power of kindness and how it can |
2:14.5 | help you reconnect with your authentic self, you punish your passion, |
2:18.0 | and your creativity, and find your voice, then this conversation is for you. And Adrian's just a |
2:23.5 | light. She is just like a beaming ray of light. And I know you're going to enjoy our conversation. |
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