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The Gratipreneurs Podcast – Episode 12 – Show Notes

In today’s episode, we look at more creative and kid-friendly ways of expressing gratitude, such as gratitude collages and games. We then explain how we are increasing exposure of our apparel business, Naturally Grateful, through public relations.

As discussed in previous episodes, we increase exposure of Naturally Grateful through various channels, such as this podcast, an ambassador program, and Google Shopping. In addition, Tim has been making appearances on podcasts and blogs to share our story and promote our business.

To find out more about our ambassador program, visit our website or listen to episode 5, “Gratitude Rocks, Are Women More Grateful Than Men, and Affiliate Marketing.” 

And of course, we love finding ways of expressing gratefulness accessible to everyone; that’s why we love gratitude collages, as anyone can take a few pictures and put together a beautiful collage. They’re a great way of being purposeful with your gratitude, and in the end, you’ll have a visual representation of what you’re thankful for. Gratitude games are another great way of conversing about gratitude with your family. Tune in for all the details!

What to Listen For:

How to Create a Gratitude Collage [1:00]

5 Reasons to Create a Gratitude Collage [3:45]

Play the ABCs of Gratitude with a Gratitude Game [11:40]

Marketing More Effectively with Enthusiasm [14:10]

Increase Your Exposure with Media and Public Relations [16:00]

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Quotes:

“It’s for all ages and gives you a purpose for the pictures you’re taking.” [04:45]

“It could give a person a real, almost overwhelming sense of how much they have in their life to be grateful for.” [06:50]

Connect with Us:

Website: naturallygrateful.com/gratipreneurs-podcast/ 

Facebook: Naturally Grateful

Instagram: @gratitudegarb

Twitter: @gratitudegarb

We appreciate your support at Naturally Grateful and helping us to fight cystic fibrosis. Thanks for tuning in and enjoy the episode!

Gratipreneurs is a show about our family's journey to build a business based on gratitude and fight cystic fibrosis. Each week we'll share our experiences on entrepreneurship and teaching kids how to start a t-shirt apparel business, living a more mindful and simple life, and, most important, how to be more genuinely grateful and joyful. Of course, we'll also touch on homeschooling and homesteading since that's central to our lifestyle.

The Gratipreneurs Podcast – Episode 11 – Show Notes

In this episode, we are going to talk about Gratitude Reflection and Meditation. We conclude that Gratitude Reflection is another way that you can practice gratitude. The method is a combination of reflection and meditation.

There are combined benefits of meditation and gratitude with each reflection that you do. Reflection simply means reflecting in your mind and thinking back on something or giving something a serious thought or contemplation. Just clearing your mind helps with Gratitude Reflection.

In our previous episode, “Writing Gratitude Letters,” we talked about writing letters of gratitude and how it’s more effective than verbally it to someone. We concluded that Gratitude Letters are more thoughtful and more emotional that denotes a deeper meaning. Writing a letter instead of typing it on a computer emphasizes your effort to write for them, making them feel loved and remembered.

Gratitude Reflection is the best way for people who like meditating more than writing. It allows you to spend more time thinking about something without distractions. Clearing your mind allows for new feelings or emotions to come up.

Research shows that meditation increases your immune function, reduces stress and anxiety, promotes emotional health, boosts your self-control and self-awareness, and improves sleep. Other research shows that it brings greater happiness, provides more positive emotions, improves health, and helps with relationships. Looking at these benefits, meditation gives you the life to live with a simple gratitude reflection.

What to Listen For:

Reflecting in your Mind [1:10]

What’s good about Meditating [2:56]

How to do Gratitude Reflection [6:05]

The Benefit of Practicing Gratitude Reflection [10:33]

Having a Commercial in a Podcast [16:00]

Enthusiasm, Inspiration, and the Why [20:00]

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Quotes:

“Giving yourself some time to appreciate something that you’re grateful for might cause you to change the way that you act and behave in your day to day life.” – Liz [11:16 – 11:25]

“What sells is enthusiasm, and enthusiasm comes from passion and your belief in what you’re doing.”  - Tim [20:06 – 20:13]

Connect with Us:

Website: gratitudegarb.com/gratipreneurs-podcast/ 

Facebook: Gratitude Garb

Instagram: @gratitudegarb

Twitter: @gratitudegarb

We appreciate your support at Gratitude Garb and helping us to fight cystic fibrosis. Thanks for tuning in and enjoy the episode!

Gratipreneurs is a show about our family's journey to build a business based on gratitude and fight cystic fibrosis. Each week we'll share our experiences on entrepreneurship and teaching kids how to start a t-shirt apparel business, living a more mindful and simple life, and, most important, how to be more genuinely grateful and joyful. Of course, we'll also touch on homeschooling and homesteading since that's central to our lifestyle.

Podcast Transcript

A Slightly "Less than Perfect" Transcript

To make this podcast accessible to those hearing impaired or who prefer to read rather than listen to podcasts, we offer the following AI-generated transcript. Yeah, it's far from perfect. But it should be close enough to give those who aren’t able or inclined to learn from audio interviews a way to enjoy our episodes. Enjoy :-)

Tim 0:00You're listening to Gratipreneurs from timy12.sg-host.com

So last week when we were talking about you were, I'm Liz. I'm Tim Maisie. Okay, now they know who we are. So go ahead. Okay. So last week when we were talking about the differences in the way that genders in America feel gratitude, it brought up another topic, which is how people from different countries express gratitude. So I did a little looking into that. And I read in the gratitude, but you say, right, well, I said, like, one's better than the others just different. Okay.

So, in the gratitude project, but they cited a few different studies that talked about how different countries express or learn gratitude. So what do you think Maisie Do you think people from different countries feel or express gratitude in different ways? Or is it a universal feeling where everybody feels at the same day? Most definitely, especially in different ways, because there are other parts of the world. And besides, they speak different languages.

They do have different words to mean gratitude.

Push neg? I don't know about that. But in 2008, and 18, Jonathan tudge, and colleagues research gratitude in children from seven to 14 years old, and they looked at various countries, and they asked the kids, what is your greatest wish? And then what would you do for the person who granted you that wish? So do you think all kids would kind of say the same thing to someone who gave them who granted them their wish? No, not really. They do treat it differently. So in China and South Korea, the kids tended to favor giving gifts to whoever it was that helped them. And the kids always seem to make sure that the gifts were meaningful to the person receiving it. So something that the person might actually like, such as making a favorite snack for their brother or sister as a way of showing their gratitude seems like a pretty good thing, right.

And in the United States, the kids leaned towards giving something also to show their gratitude. But they tended to give something that they lie to themselves, rather than something that the person they were thinking might like. So for example, the child might say, Oh, I'm grateful to my parents. So I'm going to give them my favorite toy. Well, the parent might not want that toy, that might not be something that the parent wants, that's something that the child liked. So they showed gratitude by giving something again, but they weren't really thinking of it from the person who they were thankings perspective. Yeah, I get it. I thought that was an interesting difference. And then another difference was, the kids from Guatemala didn't tend to give things at all, in order to show their gratitude. Instead, they were partial to verbal gratitude, just to say thank you, and to show their appreciation through words rather than giving something and the researcher said they thought that was because in the Guatemalan culture, it's common to say, thanks to God. And so verbal thanks was common in their culture. So they thought maybe that's why the kids had learned to show gratitude that way, rather than giving something you would think it would have to do with demographics, too. I mean, the the income and the spending habits of all these countries are very different. So in the richer nations, I mean, I think you have people that are used to buying things. And you know, when the poor nations, you know, you don't have the means to buy things. So you know, what's left, but to express it, you know, with words, that's a good theory. Yeah. And actually,