Tamara Myles is a productivity expert and international speaker.  She is the author of The Secret to Peak Productivity: A Simple Guide to Reaching Your Personal Best, and  a consultant for individuals and corporate clients.  She has been featured in USA Today, The Boston Globe, and Success Magazine, among others.

Tamara was born and raised in Recife, Brazil. She currently lives in Concord, MA with her husband and three children. When she is not speaking and consulting, Tamara enjoys traveling, reading, learning to play the guitar, and most of all being a chauffeur and passionate cheerleader for her children’s many sports teams.

Links mentioned in the show:

- Free VIA Assessment of Character Strengths

- Strengths in a New Way practice

- Dan Tomasulo's Learned Hopefulness is out June 1st

- Loving Kindness Meditation by Barbara Fredrickson (where you can find the meditation Tamara practices)

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Regoaling comes out of research in pediatric palliative care to guide a process of accepting where you are, releasing what you thought you wanted, and identifying what to hope for going forward.

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Coping with isolation, the importance of connection, building resilience, and being patient with yourself

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Episode Links:

- Jackie's Instagram

- Michael Singer's book is "The Surrender Experiment"

- It was actually 78% of America living paycheck to paycheck

- Neuro Linguistic Programming

- Optimism Research

- Bill Gates' TED Talk

- Jonathan Haidt on Hiving

- Joe Dispenza

- Barb Fredrickson

- Bruce Lipton

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Jodi Wellman is a co-founder of Spectacular at Work, a leadership consulting firm specializing in well-being at work, spectacular employee engagement, and cultures where people want to work.  She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and ICF Professional Certified Coach working with CEOs, Senior Executives, and emerging leaders.  

In this episode we cover corporate leadership in the COVID19 crisis, the importance of values driven leadership, using ones strengths to lead in challenging times, and how not everyone leads from the front of the room.

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At some point in this crisis we'll all have a moment when the rules of our world change.  This episode is about why that might feel so difficult mentally/emotionally, and strategies to help you approach the shifting times.

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One way to combat negative emotional states is to connect with a sense of gratitude in what we DO have.  As a tool in these challenging times, in the meditation we use gratitude to release tension in the body.

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Coronavirus is getting under all our skins; and it's likely that at some point you'll struggle a bit emotionally.  That's what happened with me this morning, and in today's episodes I'm sharing some of what I know about State Management and Ritual Building that I'm using to help me cope.  Hope it helps.  Stay safe, be kind, and keep sane.

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If you're struggling to deal with the COVID19 threat, this meditation is meant to help you recenter, relax, and move through this difficult time.

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This episode is on the foundational ideas of aligned action, how to cultivate it, and what the terms mean.

What is alignment in yourself. Two models to explore:

- Spiritual alignment

- Psychological ideas of alignment

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