Life Habits

Life Habits episodes:

• 04.24.2024

  LH127 — Disconnect to Reconnect: A Guide to Digital Detox

  In this illuminating episode, Karel and Paige delve into the transformative practice of digital detoxing. Together, they explore the concept and offer practical recommendations for integrating it into daily and weekly routines. Through insightful quotes and eye-opening statistics on smartphone and...

  
• 04.17.2024

  LH126 — Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence with Dr. Robin Hills Part 2

  In this engaging episode, Karel and Paige continue their discussion with Dr. Robin Hills, focusing on the application of emotional intelligence in personal contexts. Dr. Hills emphasizes the importance of empathy, active listening, and perspective-taking in fostering meaningful connections. Providing...

  
• 04.10.2024

  LH125 — Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence with Dr. Robin Hills Part 1

  In this episode, Karel and Paige delve into the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace with psychologist Dr. Robin Hills. He defines emotional intelligence as the ability to effectively manage emotions to make informed decisions and cultivate meaningful relationships....

  
• 04.03.2024

  LH124 — Morning Routines to Power Your Day

  In this episode, Karel and Paige delve into the vital role morning routines play in shaping our days and overall success. They highlight the importance of taking control of your mornings and share practical recommendations for crafting an effective routine....

  
• 03.27.2024

  LH123 — Personal Freedom with Dr. Dravon James

  In this enlightening episode, Karel and Paige chat with Dr. Dravon James, author of 'Freedom Is Your Birthright'. Dr. Dravon delves into the transformative power of freedom, gratitude, and introspection. Drawing from her book and personal experiences, she shares invaluable...

  
• 03.20.2024

  LH122 — Hybrid Work: Doing it Right

  Karel and Paige delve into the intricacies of hybrid work, sharing insights and best practices to set you up for success in this evolving work landscape. They explore the transition from mandated remote work during the height of the COVID-19...

  
• 03.13.2024

  LH121 — Be Kind, Age Well Part 2

  Karel and Paige welcome back MJ Shaar for the second half of our conversation about aging well. We conclude this two part episode with MJ Shaar discussing the key role that kindness plays in helping us age well. She explains...

  
• 03.06.2024

  LH120 — Be Kind, Age Well Part 1

  Karel and Paige welcome back the esteemed MJ Shaar, a returning guest, to delve into the fascinating realm of healthy aging. With extensive research under her belt, MJ unveils the intricate web of factors contributing to this concept. From genetics...

  
• 02.28.2024

  LH119 — Lifelong Learning

  Karel and Paige devote this episode to discussing the importance of lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is defined as on-going, voluntary, self-motivated learning in the pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. In last week’s episode LH118 — Landing...

  
• 02.21.2024

  LH118 — Landing the Job

  Many people are out of work right now, especially in the tech sector. Paige and Karel devote this episode to providing strategies on the entire journey of finding and then Landing the Job. This episode is an expansion of LH55...

  
• 02.14.2024

  LH117 — Passion Struck: John R. Miles

  In this episode Karel and Paige chat with John R. Miles about his brand new book ‘Passion Struck’. The book outlines his 12 step framework to live a life that truly matters in three sections: Mindset Shifts, Behavior Shifts, and...

  
• 02.07.2024

  LH116 — Resilience with Mandy Kloppers

  In this episode Karel and Paige welcome back, by popular demand, Mandy Kloppers. Mandy has been on the podcast 7 times sharing her insight as a psychologist and cognitive behavioral therapist. In previous episodes Mandy talked with Karel about self-confidence,...

  
• 01.31.2024

  LH115 — Life Habits 2.0

  Karel is thrilled to welcome Paige Heron to the Life Habits podcast as the executive producer and co-host. We discuss the need for the change, how the idea for Version 2.0 came about, and the rationale for the changes we’re...

  
• 01.24.2024

  LH114 — Coping with Adversity

  My guest for this episode is Paige Heron. I’ve tried to get her on this podcast for a long time to discuss a number of different topics but we landed on a topic that has been and continues to be...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH113 — Career Transitions: Part 3

  Karel continues on with his leveling up series focussing on career transitions. He is again joined by Renee Albert and Herman Colquhoun. In Part 1 of the interview in the LH111, Renee and Herman describe their early lives and their...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH112 — Career Transitions: Part 2

  Karel continues on with his leveling up series focussing on career transitions. He is again joined by Renee Albert and Herman Colquhoun. In Part 1 of the interview in the LH111, Renee and Herman describe their early lives and their...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH111 — Career Transitions: Part 1

  Karel continues on with his leveling up series and this time focusses on career transitions. He is joined by Renee Albert and Herman Colquhoun discussing their fascinating and successful careers. We had so much to talk about so this episode,...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH110 — Leveling Up: The Connections Cure

  Karel is again joined by popular guest Marie-Josėe Shaar (MJ) for this the second instalment in the Leveling Up series with this episode focusing on The Connections Cure.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH109 — Leveling Up

  Karel’s back with more episodes! In fact, he has a whole new series called Leveling Up. The series takes the topics you’ve learned to date to a whole new level and a set of new topics too.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH108 — Checking-in to Stay the Course

  This is the third episode in the “Checking-in” series focused on coping during the pandemic. Karel devotes this episode on providing ideas to help you stay the course during this long-running pandemic.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH107 — Checking-in on Mental Health

  Karel is joined by UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers to discuss mental health during this difficult period of a pandemic and social unrest and to discuss a variety of approaches to coping given different situations and circumstances.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH106 — Check-in - Working from Home

  With the overall series tagline for all these years being “staying sane in a crazy world”, Karel was inspired to start record episodes again with a collection of Check-in episodes to help listeners deal with and cope during the Coronavirus...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH105 — Exploring the World

  Karel continues his occasional series of episodes on major life changes, this time focusing on exploring the world. His guest is Kate Paddison who is currently in Melbourne, Australia. She describes her decision to buy a one-way ticket and explore...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH104 — Innovation by Design

  Karel devotes this episode to the design methods and tools now available to everyone in order to innovate on products, services, and really anything anyone wants to improve. He summarizes his seven habits of highly effective design thinkers.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH103 — Career Pivots

  Here’s another in the occasional series of episodes on major life changes. This episode focusses on career pivots, that is major career changes, and discusses insights, lessons learned, and advice from someone who has recently gone through this. Karel is...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH102 — All You Need is Love

  Karel is again joined by Marie-Josée Shaar as they both explore an extension to Marie-Josée's Sleep, Food, Mood, and Exercise theme by focusing on mood and the quality of relationships yielding love, caring, and connectedness.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH101 — Creating Your Own Job

  This is the first of an occasional series of episodes on major life changes. This episode Karel deals with the topic of creating your own job and he's joined by Chui Chui Tan from Bristol, England who details her story...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH100 — Celebration & Review

  Karel celebrates the 100th episode of the podcast series by thanking his listeners and his guests and then reviewing briefly each of the episodes in the series.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH99 — Diversity & Inclusion

  Karel's back with a podcast episode dealing with the important topic of diversity and inclusion. In addition to reviewing previous episodes related to the topic and providing some inspirational quotes, Karel focuses on three habits: Recognizing and eliminating bias, understanding...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH98 — Career Workouts

  Karel expands on his previous episodes dealing with career advice to make the case for approaching career health much like we know how to deal with physical health by doing workouts, journals, and checkups.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH97 — Having Personal Impact

  Many parts of the world are experiencing unprecedented levels of uncertainty due to political, economic, and religious types of instability. This episode will give you ways of dealing with uncertainty, becoming an agent of change, and having personal impact.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH96 — Mindful Meditation

  The results of a listener poll led to a request for an episode on Mindful Meditation and Karel delivered on that request in this episode. Karel talks about the research evidence for the benefits and then provides guidance of practicing...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH95 — Escaping Average

  Karel is joined by Cynthia Tripathi to talk about her first book "Escaping Average". Karel and Cynthia discuss ways of upping your game in the areas of mental state, health, career, finance, and social life.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH94 — Fixing Unhelpful Thinking Habits

  Karel is again joined by UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers to discuss recognizing and then fixing common errors in thinking.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH93 — Social Intelligence for Success

  In response to listener suggestions, Karel devotes this episode to three themes for developing and applying social intelligence to entrepreneurial, intrepreneurial, and self-improvement initiatives.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH92 — Optimizing Happiness

  After conducting a poll with listeners via social media as to what topic to focus on next, Karel determined that Optimizing Happiness was far and away the most asked for. Karel builds on the foundation that was built in LH84...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH91 — Optimizing Travel

  Karel hasn't recorded episodes lately because he's been traveling a lot so he thought he'd dedicate his first new episode to the topic of providing advice to optimize travel.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH90 — Gender Equality

  Inspired by Emma Watson's UN speech, Karel devotes this episode to providing advice for woman and men to promote gender equality.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH89 — Developing Empathy

  Karel devotes this episode to the critically important habit of developing empathy.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH88 — Life as a Sport

  Karel is back after a hiatus and devotes this episode to understanding what insights and lessons sports can provide in improving our life skills.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH87 — Thinking Errors that Hurt Your Health

  Karel is joined again by Marie-Josée Shaar this time to address the errors in thinking that can hurt your health and what you can do to prevent them from doing so.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH86 — Profit from the Positive

  Want to apply the power of Positive Psychology to business and to your working life? Karel is joined by Margaret Greenberg for this episode discussing the book she wrote with Senia Maymin, "Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH85 — Affirmations & Mindfulness

  Karel addresses listener questions and introduces affirmations and mindfulness together with guest UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH84 — Being Happier

  Karel devotes this episode to the topic of being happier and summarizes a list of ten items from Positive Psychology that you can start to do right away to be happier. He also recommends a new social network focused on...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH83 — Communication Challenges

  Karel devotes this episode to listener questions on the topic of communication challenges.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH82 — Dealing with Change

  Karel is again joined by UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers as they address a listener question asking for advice on dealing with change.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH81 — Becoming More Productive

  Karel devotes this episode to a listener suggestion to address becoming more productive using technology. Karel discusses four major themes 1) doing things more efficiently, doing more things at once sensibly, doing fewer things at once sensibly, and doing nothing.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH80 — Cultures of Wellness

  Karel is again joined by Marie-Josée Shaar this time to discuss four approaches to creating cultures of wellness. Make sure to visit Marie-Josée's website smartsandstamina.com which also includes a link to her book. For further information on this topic, make...

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH79 — Impression Management

  In response to a listener suggestion, Karel devotes this episode to various ways of improving your personal impression management using the techniques and approaches from product marketing.

  
• 01.21.2024

  LH78 — Staying True to Yourself

  Karel devotes this episode to listener requests along the theme of staying true to yourself. He addresses awareness, consistency, and strength.