Positivity Matters
Conversations with scholars, organization leaders, and community builders focused on wellbeing, positive psychology, mental health, and human flourishing.
Episodes
Tracy Edgerton: Leveraging Our Unique Strengths to Achieve a Shared Vision
President & CEO, Lincoln Community Foundation
Lincoln Vital Signs | Prosper Lincoln
CliftonStrengths: Learner | Input | Intellection | Developer | Achiever
Recorded: July 1, 2025
Zoya Awan - Creating Sparks of Hope
Director of Public Affairs, Walmart
CliftonStrengths: Positivity | WOO | Includer | Adaptability | Connectedness
Recorded: July 9, 2025
Andrew Hanna - Emerging Leadership, Life Design, & More
Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Prof. Hanna spoke at Nebraska's International Day of Hope celebration.
CliftonStrengths: Woo | Relator | Input | Positivity | Futuristic
Recorded: June 25, 2025
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Kathryn Goetzke - How to S.H.I.N.E. Hope
• Stress skills
• Happiness habits
• Inspired actions
• Nourishing networks
• Eliminating challenges
Kathryn's top VIA Strengths: Curiosity | Love of learning | Spirituality | Honesty | Fairness
Recorded 6/19/2025
Rebecca Davis - Dimensions of Connectedness (Social Capital & Social Health)
Director & Producer
Rebecca speaks on the community engagement she has generated around the country with the documentary, Join or Die, and we also explore themes of wellbeing present in the film.
Recorded 6/5/2025
Rob Lion - Black River
C.A.R. from Self-determination Theory:
Competence
Autonomy
Relatedness
Recorded 2/18/2025
Dan Martin
VIA Strengths: Humor | Creativity | Love of Learning | Curiosity | Bravery
Associate Professor of Management at California State University, East Bay.
Recorded 2/4/2025
David B. Feldman, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist and Professor of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University.
Prof. Feldman's top VIA strengths: Love of learning | Curiosity | Hope | Judgement | Kindness
Hope science developed in a playful laboratory. Hope develops in the playful laboratory of the imagination.
Recorded May 7, 2025
Matthew W. Gallagher, Ph.D.Updates in Hope Science
Recorded 4/18/2025
Omani is the founder of Carson Group and Omya. Omani shares about purpose, kindness, strengths, community, and more!
Recorded 1/22/2025
Prof. Steger is the director of the Center for Meaning and Purpose at Colorado State University.
Recorded 12/2/2024
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
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
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
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 ...
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
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