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.
181 episodes transcribedTurns 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...
Less than 5% of major crimes end in a conviction. For cold cases, that number drops to 1%. Those numbers won’t stay low forever. David Mittelman...
Engraved on the Statue of Liberty it reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...” A beautiful sentiment, in...
How would you react if you found out that your friends purposely planned a birthday party when you were out of town so you wouldn’t attend? And what i...
Fear and anger seem to dominate the headlines. So, to start the New Year, I thought it would be a good idea to find out if there is anything we can do...
Stressed from work? Stressed from life? For all the talk of mindfulness and meditation, a lot of us still struggle to find that calm we want. Omar Bro...
Despite all our “social” media, more and more people report feeling lonelier, more stressed and more adrift than ever before. How can we protect our m...
We live in an era in which possessions are, too often, more important than personal health and the health of our planet. That never felt right to acti...
