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Rick Bommelje has spent decades becoming a master listener and helping others do the same. Before you shrug off listening as a topic you already know about, I invite you to think again. In fact, I invite you to question why you may never have received any formal training in what is actually one of our most critical skills. Mostly, I invite you to listen to this conversation like it could hold the key to something that might dramatically upgrade your life.

Mentioned in this Episode

A Listening Heart: The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness

Listening Pays

The Sacred Art of Listening: Forty Reflections for Cultivating a Spiritual Practice

Listening Leaders: The Ten Golden Rules To Listen, Lead & Succeed

Guest Bio

Rick Bommelje is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida where he's been teaching The Listening Course for over 20 years. He's the co-author and author of two books: Listening Leaders in 2004 and Listening Pays: Achieve Significance through the Power of Listening (2013).

Learn more at listeningpays.com.

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Rick Bommelje has spent decades becoming a master listener and helping others do the same. Before you shrug off listening as a topic you already know about, I invite you to think again. In fact, I invite you to question why you may never have received any formal training in what is actually one of our most critical skills. Mostly, I invite you to listen to this conversation like it could hold the key to something that might dramatically upgrade your life.

Americans forfeit over 600 million days of vacation time EVERY year, and there are huge economic, cultural and psychological consequences to this. We're not as creative and productive but we're also not as happy AND we miss out on countless moments we could have used to connect with our loved ones and ourselves. I loved this conversation and I can't with to share it with you, but a word of warning: I have a feeling you'll be booking your next vacation by the time this conversation is done.

Guest Bio

Katie Denis is the Chief of Research and Strategy at Project: Time Off, an initiative which aims to shift culture so that taking time off is understood as essential to personal wellbeing, professional success, business performance, and economic expansion.​

Learn more at https://www.projecttimeoff.com/.

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Americans forfeit over 600 million days of vacation time EVERY year, and there are huge economic, cultural and psychological consequences to this. We’re not as creative and productive but we’re also not as happy AND we miss out on countless of moments we could have used to connect with our loved ones and ourselves. I loved this conversation and I can’t with to share it with you, but a word of warning: I have a feeling you’ll be booking your next vacation by the time this conversation is done.

Wherever you are in your life, chances are you're going to find yourself working with teams at some point. And whether you're trying to solve a challenge at work or plan your next vacation as a family, there's a method to extracting the gold.

Doug Bolger is the Founder & CEO of Learn2, a participant-centered, experiential learning company with programs designed to have teams wildly alter how they work together, solve problems, and innovate.

In this episode, we dive into how having a diversity of perspectives, listening for the gold and creating an effective scaffolding allows teams, groups and families to work together as a cohesive unit to solve problems in an innovative way.

Guest Bio

Doug Bolger wants to change the way the world works. As Founder & CEO of Learn2, Doug believes that every team can achieve inspired results by unlearning, optimizing and creating best practices. At the heart of his award-winning approach to facilitation and design lies Doug's commitment to participant-centered and experiential live sessions.

Learn more at learn2.com.

Mentioned in This Episode

Agile Families: The Secrets of Happy Families by Bruce Feiler

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Wherever you are in your life, chances are you’re going to find yourself working with teams at some point. And whether you’re trying to solve a challenge at work or plan your next vacation as a family, there’s a method to pulling out the gold, as this episode’s guest would say.

Our culture often teaches us to be uncomfortable with emotions, to avoid them, and to set them aside when making important decisions. But neuroscience would have us see them in a different way. In this episode, empathy researcher Karla McLaren invites us to see emotions as data, as fundamental aspects of our intelligence, and inescapable parts of our cognition.

Whether you like it or not, your emotions are always at play. But the good news is, Karla can help us understand the wisdom that they bring and what a gift our emotions truly are.

Guest Bio

Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most "negative" emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy.

Karla is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You (2010), and the multi-media online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (2012). She has taught at University of San Francisco, Omega Institute, Naropa University, Kripalu Center, Hollyhock Learning Centre, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology.

Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration (also known as DEI) is a trailblazing approach to emotions and empathy that reveals the genius and the healing power within the emotional realm. Licensed DEI Trainers and Consultants are available in the United States and internationally.

Karla has also developed the groundbreaking Six Essential Aspects of Empathy model that highlights all of the processes in healthy empathy and makes them easily understandable, accessible, and attainable. This fully realized model teaches people how to access, develop, and manage their empathy intentionally. It also explicitly welcomes people who have been exiled from earlier models of empathy (such as men, boys, and autistic people).

With her husband, Tino Plank MA, MSN, RN, Karla developed the Healthy Empathy® program. Healthy Empathy® helps health and healing professionals develop healthy and sustainable empathy and compassion skills in their practice, in their workplace, and in their lives.

Learn more at https://karlamclaren.com/.

Mentioned in This Episode

Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents Paperback by Christine Carter Ph.D.

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de Becker

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Our culture often teaches us to be uncomfortable with emotions, to avoid them, and to set them aside when making important decisions. But neuroscience would have us see them in a different way. In this episode, empathy researcher Karla McLaren invites us to see emotions as data, as fundamental aspects of our intelligence, and inescapable parts of our cognition.

Belonging and inclusion are both critical to our health and well-being. There's real pain to be felt when we feel like we don't fit in or we're deliberating excluded. It's not theoretical, it's actually physiological, and science has proven this. During this episode, we discuss many great studies but we also bring it down to day-to-day life terms. The research is fascinating but so are the practical applications.

Guest Bio

Dr. Shannon Taylor is an associate professor and Ph.D. program coordinator in the management department at the University of Central Florida. His research examines rude, abusive and unethical behaviors of employees and leaders. His work has appeared in journals in business and applied psychology and has been featured by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox News and NPR. Dr. Taylor gives presentations on leadership and management to audiences in business, education, health, and government. He also serves as research director at Knowtro Inc.

Learn more at business.ucf.edu/person/shannon-taylor/.

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Belonging and inclusion are both critical to our health and well-being. There’s real pain to be felt when we feel like we don’t fit in or were deliberating excluded. It’s not theoretical, it’s actually physiological, and science has proven this. During this episode, we discuss many great studies but we also bring it down to day-to-day life terms. The research is fascinating but so are the practical applications.