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Positivity Matters episodes
- Shigehiro Oishi: Interesting! Three Paths of/to the Good Life
Shigehiro Oishi
What’s the real key to a fulfilling life?Recorded 3/12/2025
43 min - Omani Carson: Coffin Up Purpose!
Omani (formerly Ron) Carson is the founder of the Carson Group and Omya. Omani shares about purpose, kindness, strengths, community, and more!
Recorded 1/22/2025
16 min - Michael Steger: The Regenerative Power of Purpose
Prof. Steger is the director of the Center for Meaning and Purpose at Colorado State University.
Recorded 12/2/2024
31 min - Rose Liesveld: Building a Strengths-Based Law School
Rose Liesveld: Building a Strengths-Based Law School
Rose’s CliftonStrengths: Futuristic | Activator | Significance | Relator | Command | Belief | Focus | Maximizer | Communication | Self-Assurance
Recorded: 11/25/2024
32 min - Carol Graham: How Hope Can Heal Humanity
Carol Graham is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at Brookings, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a senior scientist at Gallup.
In this episode, we discuss her most recent book, The Power of Hope, and she kindly reflects with us on our H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. meta-model of wellbeing models:Recorded: 2024-11-13
31 min - Roger DeWitt: Thriving Through ADHD and Positive Psychology
Meet Roger DeWitt and AI Coach Roger
Roger’s Masters capstone: ADHD, Willpower, and Interest: A Positive Approach
Roger’s top 5 VIA strengths: Perspective | Humor | Kindness | Love | Social Intelligence
Recorded: 9/4/2024
1 hr 1 min - David Lay Williams: Friendship is the Pathway from the Good Life to Kallipolis
Guest: David Lay Williams is professor of political science at DePaul University and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx
Prof. Williams’ top five VIA Strengths: Perseverance | Love of Learning | Judgment | Curiosity | Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence
Prof Williams and I converse about the nature and harm of economic inequality, wellbeing, friendship, and much more.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of T.K. Seung
Recorded: August 30, 2024
1 hr 12 min - Tim Hodges: How to Build a Generative Community with Strengths
Guest: Prof. Tim Hodges, Executive Director of the Clifton Strengths Institute and Assistant Professor of Practice in Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Prof. Hodges' top Gallup strengths: Maximizer | Relator | Belief | Woo | Positivity
Recorded: June 19, 2024
49 min - Isaac Prilleltensky: Mattering is About Adding Value and Being Valued
Guest: Professor Isaac Prilleltensky, Director of the Community Leadership Doctoral Program at the University of Miami
www.professorisaac.com
Pillars of wellbeing and drivers of change:
www.funforwellness.com
Recorded: 6/7/2024
36 min - Bruce Smith: Summoning Others to the Hero’s Journey
Guest: Bruce Smith, Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of New Mexico
Move from Surviving to Thriving: The Positive Psychology Workbook for Challenging Times
https://shac.unm.edu/resources/counseling-resources/positive-psychology-workbook.html
Prof. Smith’s top VIA strengths: Authenticity, Leadership, Creativity, Love, Spirituality
VIA Inventory of Character Strengths: www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter
Recorded: May 29, 2024
1 hr 9 min
About Positivity Matters
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Conversations with scholars, organization leaders, and community builders focused on wellbeing, positive psychology, mental health, and human flourishing.