Positivity Matters
Conversations with scholars, organization leaders, and community builders focused on wellbeing, positive psychology, mental health, and human flourishing.
Episodes
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
Guest: Professor Isaac Prilleltensky, Director of the Community Leadership Doctoral Program at the University of Miami
Pillars of wellbeing and drivers of change:
Recorded: 6/7/2024
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/tes...
Guest: Cormac Russell, Co-Author of The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
Recorded: May 23, 2024
Guest: Kimberly Rath, Chairman and Co-Founder of Talent Plus and Co-Author of Near, Now, Next
VIA Strengths:
Fairness | Honesty | Kindness | Teamwork | Forgiveness
Core Values:
Integrity | Kindness | Positivity | Love | Belonging
Vision:
“My goal is to inspire and empower individuals and unlock their potentiality and achieve personal and professional collective joy to create a better world.”
Recorded: May 1, 2024
Guest: Dr. Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley, Senior Lecturer in Education at Bath Spa University.
Eri's strengths: Humor | Creativity | Fairness | Curiosity | Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence
Recorded: 4/24/2024
Forthcoming Book - Human Flourishing: A Conceptual Analysis
Guest: Ryan Wieber, Director, Lincoln City Libraries
Ryan’s strengths: Arranger | Futuristic | Learner | Responsibility | Strategic
Recorded: 3/29/2024
Guest: Dr. Gustavo Carlo, Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine.
Recorded: 1/22/2024
Gus’s Strengths: Curiosity | Teamwork | Love | Judgment | Perspective
Discover your strengths and use them for kindness: www.viacharacter.org
Guest: Stephen G. Post, Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics
Recorded: 07/07/2014
https://stephengpost.com/the-hidden-gifts-of-helping/
Guest: Corey Keyes, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Emory University
Recorded: 1/12/2024
Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
By Dr. Corey Keyes
Publication date: February 20, 2024
Adam Grant’s article from the NY Times discussed in this episode:
There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
https://tiny.cc/languishing
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