The future is always bright…if you know where to look. Join me each week for A Bit of Optimism! I talk to inspiring people who teach me more about life, leadership and general interesting things.
168 episodes transcribedWhen you show up with love and aim only to give of yourself, everyone you interact with can feel it.Carla Hall has led a life and a career filled with...
Every generation is different, but one thing currently unites Boomers, Gen X-ers, and Millennials: they are all struggling to understand Gen Z. David...
New year, new opportunities, new questions!We’re ringing in 2023 with more answers to the hundreds of questions our listeners sent in from all over th...
A few weeks ago, I put out an open call on social media to see what questions my listeners have for me. And there were a LOT of responses.So, as an e...
Remember how it was an incredible idea to get Brené Brown and Adam Grant on a call, have absolutely NO plan, and hit record?Well, this is the second p...
What separates exceptional ideas from good ideas? Here’s an example of a good idea: Book two podcast guests and meticulously plan a conversation abou...
Daring to be different feels risky. There’s constant pressure to “read the room” or “tone it down.”Kathryn Finney discovered at a young age that – whe...
Turns out laughter isn't the best medicine. Medicine might not even be the best medicine. If you were to ask Dr Mark Hyman, he would tell you that foo...
Most of us think that social media is the bastion of our younger generations. Until a middle-aged woman named Janis Burl proved that assumption comple...
There’s something profound in life’s bitter moments. The transformative beauty of a sad song, the anguished past of a story’s hero, the unexpected tur...
You went to Harvard undergrad, you went to Harvard Law, you became a hot-shot Private Equity guy. So your next move is obviously…?If you’re James Rhe...
Don’t you hate it when you’re coasting along -- not a care in the world -- and then it feels like life comes out of nowhere and hits you like a car, a...
It’s what all the poets write about, all the musicians sing about, and all the brokenhearted cry about. That’s right… It's time to talk about love. I...
If you walk up to someone and say “you’re being unreasonable!” most people would be offended. Will Guidara, however, would take it as a compliment. A...
Some of the most successful people in the world all have a secret power. It’s not their experience or technical expertise that matter most – it’s thei...
We've all been told in our darkest times: "Don't worry this will get better"...but what happens if everything's going right? Should we be afraid that...
We all know a bit about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, but which President was drunk at his inauguration? Who was the first gay president? A...
Can we ensure that we will stay happy through every phase of our lives? Arthur Brooks discovered that there is a clear fork in the road that we will a...
When people want to do good they often get stuck because they don’t know what they can do. Mark Bustos figured out that to do good, all we need to do...
Short packets of content. That’s the world we live in. We've condensed and compressed so much of what we consume that our entertainment and our news s...
