Today, it's great to have Isaac Prieltensky on the podcast.

Isaac holds the inaugural Erwin and Barbara Montner Chair in Community Wellbeing at the University

of Miami.

He has published 12 books and over 140 articles and chapters.

His interests are in the promotion of well-being in individuals, organizations, and communities,

and in the integrations of wellness and fairness.

His most recent book is How People Matter, Why It Effects Health, Happiness, Love, Work

and Society, co-author with his wife, Dr. Aura Prieltensky.

Dr. Prieltensky, it is so great to have you on the psychology podcast today.

Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure.

I've wanted to have you on the show for a long time.

The topics you study are so essential to the world, of course, to society, to politics,

to lots of other things, but also the field we both work in, positive psychology.

So I thought we could go through a lot of your work and wink it to these other things

that I just mentioned.

Great.

Great.

Okay, let me start off by asking you what your own conceptualization of well-being is.

Well, in my view, well-being is multi-dimensional, and my research team and I developed a multi-faceted

conception of well-being, which we summarized in the acronym ICOPE, I, interpersonal, community,

occupational, physical, psychological, and economic well-being.

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