How to Become a Positive Broadcaster with Michelle Gielan
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Happiness researcher and former CBS news anchor Michelle Gielan joins us to discuss how we can become positive broadcasters in our lives.
Highlights
- Why we are all broadcasters
- What causes us to miss the meaning in certain moments
- Finding a way or making one with our challenges
- Identifying the parts of a story that are most meaningful
- The power of how we start conversations
- 7 Strategies for being more influential in a positive way
- Using the power of positive habits to alleviate depression
- Finding “fueling facts” to tell a different story about our lives
- Dealing with the negative people in our lives
Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness. 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 | Remember that we are all broadcasters, that we are all constantly sharing information with other people, |
| 0:06.0 | and these are small messages. These are messages like, |
| 0:09.0 | I am stressed, I'm tired, how are you? |
| 0:12.0 | I, oh, you know, the boss is driving me nuts or I don't deserve to be at this |
| 0:16.0 | company versus how are you I'm doing great I'm grateful I'm grateful for this |
| 0:20.5 | opportunity I'm so excited to see that my son was able to get an A on |
| 0:24.7 | a math test. Those small changes influence every single business and educational outcome |
| 0:30.8 | that we know how to track. So when we make those small changes to our |
| 0:35.0 | communication style what we find is that it raises our chances of promotion at |
| 0:39.1 | work by 40% over the next year. We've seen people who deliver one piece of positive |
| 0:45.2 | praise to one person on their team and are able in three weeks time to raise the |
| 0:49.3 | entire team's level of productivity by 31%. So imagine being able to infuse all the people in |
| 0:55.6 | your company with a higher level of that productive energy. Parents who have decided |
| 1:00.6 | instead of just saying how was your day they say what was the best part of |
| 1:05.4 | your day or what was the coolest thing you've learned have gotten their kids to not |
| 1:09.6 | only scan their day for more positive things but they've been able to also train their |
| 1:14.3 | brain from a scientific perspective to be more optimistic. |
| 1:18.8 | I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window |
| 1:27.4 | into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started |
| 1:31.4 | movements, built thriving businesses, written best selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:37.0 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative. |
| 1:57.6 | You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
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