Podcast Episodes featuring Susan David

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Raising Emotional Intelligence and Resilience for a Meaningful Life (with Susan David)

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled - May 30, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
In this encore episode (from the height of the Covid pandemic): Psychologist, author, and TED Talk superstar Susan David joins Janet to discuss how parents can nurture their children’s capacity to process difficult emotions, thoughts, and experiences. “Discomfort is the price of admissi...

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard - November 26, 2020 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64.9K ratings
Susan David, Ph.D. is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Susan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the work she does on emotional agility, what it takes for us to be healthy humans, and the dangerous narrative that success equ...

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Susan David

Experts on Expert with Dax Shepard - November 26, 2020 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratings
Susan David, Ph.D. is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Susan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the work she does on emotional agility, what it takes for us to be healthy humans, and the dangerous narrative that success equ...

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How to Go from Emotionally Fragile to Emotionally Agile with Harvard Psychologist Dr. Susan David

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf - August 24, 2020 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
Yes, sometimes our emotions can drive us crazy. But did you know that they are also an incredible source of data, a way to learn how to be in the world? In this podcast, I speak with author, speaker and Harvard-trained psychologist Dr. Susan David about how our emotions are an important source o...

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Own Your Emotions, Change Your Life w/ Dr. Susan David

Heal Squad x Maria Menounos - July 10, 2020 01:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
This episode is of the BEST and most important conversations I’ve EVER HAD on my show!  Your emotions do NOT define you.By changing your language from “I am stressed” to “I FEEL stressed,” Harvard Psychologist Dr. Susan David teaches us how to face life’s very real challenges with courage.  Tu...

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116. Own Your Emotions, Change Your Life w/ Dr. Susan David

Heal Squad x Maria Menounos - July 09, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
This episode is of the BEST and most important conversations I’ve EVER HAD on my show!  Your emotions do NOT define you.By changing your language from “I am stressed” to “I FEEL stressed,” Harvard Psychologist Dr. Susan David teaches us how to face life’s very real challenges with courage.  Tun...

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Emotion Commotion in Trying Times: Showing Up to Pain & Accepting What Is – Susan David, Ph.D., with Dave Asprey : 709

The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey - June 05, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6.2K ratings
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m excited for you to hear from my guest Susan David, Ph.D., who knows all about emotions and what to do with them. Susan challenges the prevailing attitude that we should “fix” our difficult emotions through positive thinking and chasing happiness...

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04. Being Kinder to Yourself with Dr Susan David

Wiser Conversations - June 03, 2020 22:00 - 51 minutes
Dr Susan David's TED talk on dealing with complexity and change has had almost 10 million views. It can all feel a bit out of our control right now among all the unpredictability and it's tough to find some sense of agency while remembering to be kind to ourselves. In this conversation we sit dow...

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297: Susan David, PhD | Learn How to Become Emotionally Agile & Courageous

Social Anxiety Society - May 11, 2020 15:44 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 542 ratings
Susan David, PhD, is a psychologist on faculty at Harvard Medical School, co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, and CEO of Evidence Based Psychology. An in-demand speaker and consultant, David has worked with senior leadership of hundreds of major organizatio...

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Regain control in an unpredictable world | Checking In with Susan David

TED Talks Daily - April 15, 2020 10:00 ★★★★ - 9.8K ratings
Many of us are feeling stuck right now, forced to adapt to a world that we have little control over. But if we focus too much on these uncontrollable aspects of our lives, we greatly increase our suffering. Learn why our routines and habits are so important to our wellbeing -- and how th...

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Introducing Checking In with Susan David

Sincerely, X - April 06, 2020 04:01 ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
We just launched another podcast from TED, called Checking In with Susan David. In each episode, Susan David—a psychologist at Harvard Medical School—offers us a different strategy to help us cope with our heightened emotions during this global pandemic. Here's the first episode: If yo...

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Emotional resilience right now with Susan David

The TED Interview - April 04, 2020 06:50 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings
"Life's beauty is inseparable from its fragility," says psychologist Susan David. In a special virtual conversation, she shares wisdom on how to build resilience, courage and joy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Responding to listeners' questions from across the globe, she offe...

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#157: Susan David - Emotional Agility

Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson - March 31, 2020 06:52 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 428 ratings
You may decide that you are going to change jobs, move to another country to physically disrupt yourself, hoping to improve your lot. But based on Susan David's 20 years of academic and clinical research, it's how you navigate your inner world, your thoughts, your feelings, and self-talk; how yo...

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How to be your best self in times of crisis | Susan David

TED Talks Daily - March 25, 2020 03:46 ★★★★ - 9.8K ratings
"Life's beauty is inseparable from its fragility," says psychologist Susan David. In a special virtual conversation, she shares wisdom on how to build resilience, courage and joy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Responding to listeners' questions from across the globe, she offer...

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How to Develop Emotional Agility, with Dr. Susan David

Afford Anything - December 09, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratings
#230: Dr. Susan David, a psychologist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, joins us to talk about emotional agility. Dr. David has researched emotional agility for around 20 years. A few years ago, she summarized her work on this concept for the Harvard Business Review. Her article became o...

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#147: Susan David—How to Harness Your Emotions to Make Wiser Business Decisions

Business Made Simple with Donald Miller - May 06, 2019 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Do you want a team that’s collaborative and innovative? That means you’ll also have conflict and failure -- and all the messy emotions that come with them. On today’s podcast, Dr. Susan David shares how we can welcome emotions at work while also using them to grow in powerful ways outside of the...

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Episode #45 Susan David

FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller - April 09, 2019 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 859 ratings
Becoming Emotionally Agile Join Susan David, Harvard Medical School psychologist and #1 bestselling author, to learn how to deal with emotions to become productive, thriving, and adaptable. She’ll also discuss how leaders can help their teams bring the best of themselves to work using ...

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SPOS #643 - Emotional Agility With Susan David

Six Pixels of Separation Podcast - November 04, 2018 08:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 86 ratings
Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #643 - Host: Mitch Joel. I'm just a superfan nerd for all things Susan David. I thought that her 2016 book, Emotional Agility, was one of the smartest (and most relevant) books for individuals and leaders. I had the pleasure of connecting with Susan...

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SPOTLIGHT:How Emotional Agility Drives Corporate Agility with Susan David, Ph.D.

The Gartner Talent Angle - October 18, 2018 20:49 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 131 ratings
* This interview was excerpted from our one hour interview with Susan in season 1.  Do emotions belong in organizations? In a cultural dialogue focused on happiness and productivity, Dr. Susan David looks at the reality of avoiding emotions in our every day life, and how people who engage in h...

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Judging Our Feelings - TED Talk Speaker Dr. Susan David

Mental Illness Happy Hour - April 06, 2018 07:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5.7K ratings
The Harvard Medical School research psychologist's recent TED Talk "The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage" went viral a month or so ago and here she sits down with Paul to talk about the human habit of judging ourselves for our feelings, how it affects us, the science behind it and how we can ...

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Judging Our Feelings - TED Talk speaker Dr. Susan David

Mental Illness Happy Hour - April 06, 2018 07:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5.7K ratings
The Harvard Medical School research psychologist's recent TED Talk "The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage" went viral a month or so ago and here she sits down with Paul to talk about the human habit of judging ourselves for our feelings, how it affects us, the science behind it and how...

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Susan David, Ph.D.: Cultivating Resilience and Emotional Agility

Good Life Project - June 19, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratings
Guest: Susan David, Ph.D. is a Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School; resilience expert, co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, and author of Emotional Agility.Story: Growing up in South Africa, Susan lost her ...

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297: Four Steps to Get Unstuck and Embrace Change, with Susan David

Coaching for Leaders - May 15, 2017 03:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Susan David: Emotional Agility Susan David is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School; cofounder and codirector of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital; and CEO of Evidence Based Psychology. She is the author of the bestselling book Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace ...

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60: How Emotionally Agile Are You? Strategies for Setbacks with Susan David

Pivot with Jenny Blake - May 14, 2017 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 188 ratings
There's good news about bad moods—contrary to what it may seem in the moment, they can actually facilitate more creative, out-of-the-box thinking than when we're sailing along on autopilot during happier times, according to researcher Susan David. This is just one of the tidbits that leaped off t...

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Podcast 622: Emotional Agility with Susan David

Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen - April 24, 2017 19:24 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Podcast 622: Emotional Agility with Susan David by Greg Voisen

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Emotional Agility and Leadership: Susan David

The Gartner Talent Angle - December 06, 2016 07:27 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 131 ratings
Do emotions belong in organizations? In a cultural dialogue focused on happiness and productivity, Dr. Susan David looks at the reality of avoiding emotions in our every day life, and how people who engage in high levels of fake emotions have lower engagement, higher burnout, and lower levels of...