Getting Unstuck – Cultivating Curiosity
345 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsCuriosity sits at the intersection of creativity, effective human interactions, problem-solving and purposeful change. Unfortunately, the pace of life — at home, work, and school — often sidetracks our natural curiosity. So, let’s see the familiar from a different angle or something new as a possibility to consider.
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265: Writing Life's Next Chapter as Innkeepers
July 18, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBGuests Kevin and Sue Harter are the proud innkeepers of Rockwell’s Retreat, the former residence and studio of Norman Rockwell in Arlington, Vermont. Summary Kevin and Sue began their dream and journey of owning an inn more than 25 years ago. Life intervened, and they got busy raising a family, working, and moving around the country. In the summer of 2019, they made an impulsive visit to the Norman Rockwell property in Arlington, VT, and from the moment they drove over the covered bri...
264: Confronting the Remnants of Hate on the Path to Remembrance
July 11, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutes - 16.1 MBThe Takeaway In this episode, I trace the mental and physical journey I took recently in the Netherlands to grasp the murder of more than one hundred thousand Dutch Jews during WWII at the hands of the Nazis. I wanted to move beyond the number and get to the human beings. Physically, the journey took me to several Holocaust-related sites in Amsterdam: the old Jewish Quarter, the Anne Frank House (Annex), the old Dutch Theatre, the Dutch Holocaust Memorial, and of high interest, the sidew...
263: How Can Higher Education Better Prepare Today's Youth for Life?
July 04, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes - 32.9 MBGuest Mike Magee is President of Minerva University since April 2022. Prior to joining Minerva, he was the founding CEO of Chiefs for Change, a non-profit organization supporting leaders of many of the nation’s largest and most innovative K-12 public education systems. Previously, Magee co-founded and was CEO of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies (RIMA). As CEO of RIMA, he built a statewide network of regional, racially, and economically diverse public schools while successfully advocating for...
262: How to Nurture the Antidote to a Fear-based Organizational Culture
June 29, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 23.8 MBMy guest Renée Smith, MSOD (she/her) is the founder and CEO of A Human Workplace, a global movement and consultancy committed to making work more human. She led award-winning culture work as a state executive and served in the Governor’s Office as Director of Workplace Transformation for the State of Washington. Smith is a researcher, writer, and speaker who’s reached hundreds of audiences worldwide, making the business case for a human workplace. Summary In Part 2 of this episode, Re...
261: How and Why Does Fear Show Up in the Workplace?
June 27, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutes - 26.8 MBMy guest Renée Smith, MSOD (she/her) is the founder and CEO of A Human Workplace, a global movement and consultancy committed to making work more human. She led award-winning culture work as a state executive and served in the Governor’s Office as Director of Workplace Transformation for the State of Washington. Smith is a researcher, writer, and speaker who’s reached hundreds of audiences worldwide, making the business case for a human workplace. Summary Renée and I discussed her jou...
260: What I Learned During My Summer Vacation
June 20, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 10.1 MBThe Takeaway In this episode, I share thoughts about a tour I recently took in the Hurtgen Forest World War II battlefield, which sits between Belgium and Germany. The Hurtgen Forest was the site of the longest battle the U.S. Army engaged in during World War II, and it is widely considered an egregious failure of strategy and leadership. I wanted to understand why the battle was fought, what elements challenged the U.S. Army’s progress, and what lessons we could take away from a battle ...
259: How Asking Questions Can Be Your Guiding Light
June 13, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes - 43.6 MBGuest Kirk Wallace Johnson is the author of The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, and To Be a Friend is Fatal: the Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind, which covers his efforts on behalf of Iraqi refugees as the founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies. Summary Our conversations explored several important topics in Kirk’s life: • Why...
258: How to Understand and Benefit from Meaningful Coincidences
June 06, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes - 34.2 MBGuest Bernard Beitman, M.D. is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. A graduate of Yale Medical School, he did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. The former chair of psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia medical school for 17 years, he writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence. He is the author of Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Matter, and the co-author of the award-winning boo...
257: One Woman's Journey From Trauma to Gratitude
May 30, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MBGuest A veteran San Francisco radio broadcaster, Joanne Greene currently hosts two podcasts - “All the F Words”, in which two writer friends nearly 30 years apart explore issues that begin with the letter “F” and “In This Story….” Joanne’s 3-minute essays, set to music. In June 2023 she publishes By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go, her inspiring and growth-filled memoir through and emergence from life-threatening calamities. Summary In this episode, Joanne shares her life befor...
256: How to Bring Some Zen into Your Life
May 23, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes - 28.6 MBGuest Mark Reid is host of the “Zen Sammich” podcast and a maker of traditional handmade Japanese paper, called washi, where he lives in Yamaguchi, Japan. Before that he was an attorney, beginning his career as an Assistant District Attorney in New York. He’s also been a professor of English at three universities in Japan and a graduate teaching assistant at Florida State University in Religious Studies. Summary In this episode, we discuss • Why Mark left the practice of law and ...
255: How and Why to Lead with Intuition
May 16, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes - 32 MBGuest Jennifer Jane Young is an Intuitive Business & Leadership Advisor and Founder of The School of Intuitive Leadership. She helps entrepreneurs and leaders find the path of least resistance, make the biggest impact and create sustainable, aligned success through intuitive leadership. Jennifer is also the author of the forthcoming book, Say Yes to Your Yes – How to trust your gut and take the leap in business (and life) Summary The conversation explored the concept of intuitive leade...
254: Why Should We Invest in Space Exploration?
May 09, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes - 29.3 MBDr. Alan Stern is an aerospace executive and planetary scientist with experience on 29 space mission teams, 14 of which he played a principal investigator role. Among those, he is the leader of NASA’s New Horizons, the first mission to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt—making the farthest exploration of worlds in history. Summary Our conversation explored a number of questions: Why was the exploration of Pluto important? How does it remain so? What are the leadership lessons associa...
253: How Can You Reframe Your Inner Story to Create a Healthier Reality?
May 02, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes - 34.4 MBGuest Valerie Gordon is a 10-time Emmy-winning television producer with over 20 years of producing and overseeing award-winning content for HBO, ESPN, CBS, and the Olympic Games. She knows what makes a story meaningful and memorable and the incredible power of stories to engage, educate and entertain. An engaging speaker with innovative programming, Valerie offers audiences and individuals the storytelling strategies to stand out, whether they want to land a job, secure a promotion, nail...
252: Who Owns the Land and Water and Access to Them?
April 25, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 43 MBGuest Hal Herring is an award-winning journalist and contributing editor at Field and Stream magazine. He is also the host of the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast. Summary The debate over public and private land and water in the United States has raised concerns over public access to natural resources. While large tracts of land are being bought up in the West, the major consequence is not raising real estate prices but rather a growing indifference to conservation and...
251: How Do Film Composers Help Tell a Movie's Story?
April 18, 2023 04:00 - 31 minutes - 25.3 MBGuest Jeanine Cowen is an active media composer and educator. She is the chair and professor of practice of the Screen Scoring department at the University of Southern California. Formerly the Vice President for Curriculum and Program Innovation at Berklee, she is an experienced and skilled educator and innovator. She is an active freelance composer, music producer, and sound designer focusing primarily on the intersection of audio and visual medias, with particular interest in the burgeon...
250: A Life-Altering Event Can Still Mean a Rich, Fulfilling Life
April 11, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MBGuest Rick Locke was born and raised in Erie, PA. He earned a BS in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in finance from Rutgers University. Rick’s professional career in information technology spanned 39 years. He completed his career as Chief Information Officer at his last two companies and retired in 2014.Rick became interested in photography around 1980. He learned the craft through photo magazines and adult education classes. Initially, family and career de...
249: How to Become Mentally "All in" as a Solopreneur
April 04, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes - 34.1 MBGuest April Vokey is a fly fishing writer, fly-tyer, and speaker. After guiding in British Columbia for ten years, she now splits her year between camp in northern BC and Australia. She is an FFF certified casting instructor, forager, bowhunter, and mother. Summary April Vokey can’t help but look at life differently. From a very early age, April loved fishing and hunting. She’s decided to shun quote-unquote more traditional work and instead start a business where she would be “all in” ...
248: Encouraging Student Curiosity Part 3
March 28, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 45.8 MBSummary In this podcast episode, my cohost, Steve Miletto, of the “Teaching, Learning, Leading K12” podcast, and I talk with Elizabethton, TN High School teachers Daniel Proffitt, Jason Clevinger, and Patrick Roberts. Elizabethton is an XQ Super School with a mission to build a culture for learners to think and act as changemakers. This episode discusses how the school actualizes this mission at the individual student level through its curriculum, school activities, and professional deve...
247: Author Cindy House on Serendipity: Creating Her Own Smart Luck
March 21, 2023 04:00 - 10 minutes - 8.65 MBSummary Cindy House is the author of Mother Noise, a memoir in essays, and is a regular opener for author/humorist David Sedaris on his tours across the country. She teaches in the MFA program at Lesley University. In this brief episode, we follow Dr. Christian Busch’s 3-part process to showcase a beautiful example of personal serendipity — the act of creating personal smart luck. Social Media >Website: https://cindy-house.webflow.io/ >Memoir: Mother Noise Referenced For more ...
246: Dr. Christian Busch on Connecting Life's Dots Going Forward
March 14, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBSummary Steve Jobs famously said, “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Today’s guest would respectfully disagree. As guest Dr. Christian Busch writes, “serendipity is not just about a coincidence that happens to us, but it is actually through the process of spotting and connecting the dots do we start to see bridges where others see gaps.” This episode will explore that process. Thus, Serendipity is “unexpected good luck resulting from...
245: The Jewish Deli—Where Everyone Knew Your Name
March 07, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes - 41 MBGuest Ted Merwin, Ph.D. is a Senior Writer for the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). Before coming to JFNA, he worked as AIPAC’s Synagogue Initiative Director for the Mid-Atlantic Region. For many years, Ted taught Judaic studies at Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa), where he was the founding director of the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life. Summary Look between the slices of rye bread of a traditional Jewish deli sandwich, and a time capsule of Jewish life in America e...
244: A Vietnam Veteran on Leading Self and Others
February 28, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBGuest Lee Ellis is a nationally-recognized leadership coach, award-winning author, certified speaking professional* (CSP), a Vietnam Veteran and former POW, and USAF Colonel (Ret) | President, Leading with Honor Summary Some of the most interesting writing on leadership has come from active and former military personnel, but Lee Ellis has the added dimension of learning leadership lessons the hard way as a five and half year Prisoner of War in the infamous Hanoi Hilton during the Vie...
243: Decluttering to Create Healthy Connections
February 21, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 34.6 MBGuest Founder of “Cherish Your World,” Laura Staley facilitates healthier connections to home, others, and self through decluttering, Feng Shui, and emotional intelligence. She’s the author of Abundant Heart, Live Inspired, Let Go Courageously and Live with Love: Transform Your Life with Feng Shui, & the Cherish Your World Gift Book. Summary For good reasons and bad, we surround ourselves with things. In this episode, we look at how "things" occupy our space — not just in terms of t...
242: Planning for Our Exit — Now
February 14, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes - 39 MBGuest In 2011, coach and author Jane Duncan Rogers was devastated when her husband died. However, six years later, with two books and a TedX talk to her credit, she now runs her not-for-profit, “Before I Go Solutions.” Its mission is to create a world where people are at ease talking about and planning ahead for death. It helps accomplish this by providing products and programs so people can create a good end-of-life plan and benefit from the peace of mind this brings. Summary Gener...
241: Encouraging Student Curiosity Part 2
February 07, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBGuests Jeff Carver is an English teacher who has been working in New Orleans charter schools for the last nine years. Before teaching, he spent the good part of a decade working in music and advertising. Nia DeCoux is a writer, educator, and activist who believes that when done well, storytelling and teaching become the same practice. Her work has been honored by both the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and the National Black Arts Festival. Summary While many educat...
240: Teaching—The River That Runs Through A Life
January 31, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBGuest —John Dietsch is an award-winning author and writer/producer best known for supervising the fly fishing scenes and doubling for Brad Pitt in the classic OSCAR-winning film A River Runs Through It. John’s latest book, Graced by Waters, explores our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigates its transformative and healing power in the face of loss. John currently teaches English literature, guides fly fishing, and facilitates wellness river retreats when...
239: What is the Purpose of School?
January 24, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutes - 40.3 MBGuest — Rhonda Broussard is an author, entrepreneur, and futurist. One Good Question: How Countries Prepare Youth to Lead is her first book. Broussard is an award-winning education entrepreneur and sought-after public speaker. She is the founder and CEO of Beloved Community, a national nonprofit committed to sustainable economic equity in schools, the workforce, and housing. She is a 28-year educator and researcher who founded and led a network of language immersion and international schools...
238: Want to Increase Your Self Confidence?
January 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBGuest Dr. Nate Zinsser is an expert in the psychology of human performance who consults with individuals and organizations seeking a competitive edge. He has been at the forefront of applied sport psychology for over thirty years. From 1992 to 2022 Dr Zinsser directed a cutting-edge applied sport psychology program at the United States Military Academy’s Center for Enhanced Performance. He is the author of The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance. Summary Con...
237: Cassoulet — Complex, Delicious, and a Metaphor for Life
January 10, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBSummary — Award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar found herself in 2008 “writing more about food than travel and had turned into a stroller-pushing Upper West Side Mama.” Needing to “escape,” as she admitted, ”she decided to head to France to research cassoulet, that “slow-cooked carnivorous orgy of pork, lamb, duck, beans, and herbs stewed together in an earthenware tureen.” A quick, fun story, she thought. “I couldn’t have been more wrong,” she discovered. Guest — Sylvie Bigar ...
236: What's Your Recipe for Writing Success?
January 03, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes - 37.5 MBGuest Bill Whiteside is a sales and marketing executive turned software salesman turned writer of narrative non-fiction, specifically a forthcoming book about an incident in Winston Churchill’s tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister during World War II. Summary In this episode of “Getting Unstuck—Cultivating Curiosity,” I talk with Bill about the process of writing, which he’s detailed in a new book, Everybody Knows a Salesman Can’t Write a Book. As Bill has written, “My book is for an...
235: Regret a Past Decision?
December 27, 2022 05:00 - 11 minutes - 9.13 MBSummary Reflecting on past decisions, actions, and accomplishments can be a springboard to future action or a recurring regret for what we didn’t do, impacting our ability to focus on the present. Takeaways √ Western society has slowly eliminated or reduced physical challenges to find food, build and take shelter, flee from predators, and avoid overly risky decisions. But that has resulted in us being more out of shape, overweight, anxious, burned out, materially focused, and generally...
234: The Exquisite Beauty of the Thing
December 20, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 10.2 MBSummary Debbie Danielpour, an award-winning screenwriter writer, and I examine how screenwriters and speakers use objects to grab their audiences' attention at a particular moment and for a particular reason. This is an abridged — and enhanced — version of episode 219. Takeaways √ Objects can be used by screenwriters or speakers to focus an audience’s attention the way dialogue can’t. √ Objects can be physical elements, a name, or something ethereal. √ Objects can play at least fou...
233: Answering the Other Powerful Question
December 13, 2022 05:00 - 10 minutes - 8.75 MBSummary Like the powerful question organizations need to ask — “Why do we exist?” — “Why do I do what I do?” is a powerful question we should all ask ourselves periodically. Takeaways √ “Why does our organization exist?” is a powerful question that everyone in an organization should be able to answer uniformly. If they can’t, the organization’s purpose and people are likely out of alignment. √ Misalignment can have a significant impact on staff morale, productivity, and achieving des...
232: Explore Your 'One More'
December 06, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 28.1 MBSummary In this episode, my friend and fellow podcaster, Steve Miletto, and I discuss the “next big thing,” the next chapter in our lives, the “one more” challenge we want to tackle. My guest Steve Miletto is the Executive Director of North Georgia Regional Educational Services Agency, which provides professional development services and support for 5 school systems in North Georgia. Steve is in his 36th year in public education in Georgia. He is also a professional leadership coac...
231: Be True to Your Authentic Self
November 29, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 32.1 MBSummary Central to any focus on change are some looming questions: why change, how to change, and how to overcome obstacles. Looking broadly at change across many fields, what intrigues me about change is the engine that drives it, and that’s curiosity. And curiosity is not just a point in time; it’s a process: helping people to pause, reflect, ask questions, gain clarity and then change. My guest Andy Vargo is no stranger to change! If you ever feel awkward about yourself, then ...
230: Exploring the Roots of Creativity
November 22, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes - 37.2 MBSummary Research has shown that curiosity can make us happier, increase academic achievement, and increase our emotional intelligence. And of equal importance, as today’s guest explains, curiosity is a divining rod in our search for creativity — a key ingredient of long-term business and personal success. My guest My guest in this episode is Dr. Caroline Brookfield, a veterinarian, stand-up comic, and passionate believer that we can courageously welcome creativity into our lives. S...
229: Looking Differently at How to Confront an Obstacle
November 15, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutes - 10.5 MBSummary Obstacles standing in the way of progress often seem insurmountable. Leaders who remain adaptable, flexible, and pause to give themselves time to assess options increase their likelihood of breakthroughs. And very often, the solution to the problem sits within the problem itself. Takeaways √ The seeds of a problem’s solution are usually contained in the problem itself. √ Effectively problem solvers work within the constraints of limited time and budget and ask a question o...
228: Encouraging Student Curiosity Part 1
November 08, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 36.4 MBSummary Much of the teaching profession is in turmoil. Thousands of teachers are leaving the field for a variety of reasons. Among them are: • Teachers exhausted and dispirited after pivoting to remote instruction during the pandemic — and now having to quickly make up for “lost learning.” • Teaching has been increasingly politicized through limitations on the content teachers can cover and how teachers can teach. • Teachers feel unqualified to work effectively with students in criti...
228: Unleashing Student Curiosity and Responsibility
November 08, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 36.4 MBSummary Much of the teaching profession is in turmoil. Thousands of teachers are leaving the field for a variety of reasons. Among them are: • Teachers exhausted and dispirited after pivoting to remote instruction during the pandemic — and now having to quickly make up for “lost learning.” • Teaching has been increasingly politicized through limitations on the content teachers can cover and how teachers can teach. • Teachers feel unqualified to work effectively with students in criti...
227: How and Why to Be Your True Self as a Leader
November 01, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 36.9 MBAs leaders, we can often fall into the trap of focusing most of our attention on the work of achieving desired outcomes. While achieving outcomes is critical for organizational success, authentic leaders also focus on how they are showing up to lead the people doing the day-to-day work to achieve those desired results. Focusing their attention there forces the leader to be vulnerable, to think more in terms of “we” than “I.” Focusing their attention on the staff doing the work engages the le...
226: Why Does Your Organization Exist?
October 25, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 36.6 MBSummary There’s a lot of talk about why organizations need to have a purpose — why they do what they do on behalf of those they seek to serve — and to have that purpose go beyond being a mere marketing tagline. What’s equally challenging to get at is how an organization defines its why, how they get staff buy-in — or better yet, staff input — and then has the discipline to choose activities that work towards fulfilling it. My guest My guest to help walk us through this topic is B...
225: Being Curious About the Power of Language
October 18, 2022 04:00 - 20 minutes - 16.4 MBSummary In this episode, I talk with Megan Miller, who, at an early age, discovered the power of learning a foreign language and now works to empower others who want or need to have a bilingual voice. Megan is the founder of Aprovechar Language Solutions, LLC, whose mission is to empower anyone needing a bilingual voice. She offers a personalized, habit-based approach to teaching Spanish and English language and culture to adults worldwide. Megan has over 20 years of experience in Span...
224: Leading for Impact
October 11, 2022 04:00 - 38 minutes - 30.8 MBMy pulse quickens whenever we leap into the unknown of space, be it with the 2015 New Horizons flyby of Pluto, or the launch of the new James Webb telescope on December 25, 2021. And so, I experienced that rush on September 26 when the D.A.R.T. spacecraft designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA was intentionally slammed into a tiny asteroid at some 14,000 miles per hour after traveling for more than 10 months and 7 million miles. "Intentionally slammed...
223: Leading from Grief to Life
October 04, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MBOne part of life that I’ve become really curious about in the past few years is dying. I didn’t think about it at all when I was in college and played racquetball on a Saturday morning following a little too much end-of-the-week celebration the night before. There were moments in the four decades that followed when death reared its head — close friends from my college years passed away, and I lost both my parents — but aside from the immediate grief, I continued to live life like most of u...
222: Want to Simplify Your Money Management?
September 27, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 36.8 MB“As it turns out, personal finance is like touching an electric fence that you didn’t know what electric. Managing our money is not a math problem; it’s a behavioral problem.” Carl Richards is a Certified Financial Planner™ and creator of the Sketch Guy column that appeared weekly in The New York Times (2010-2021). There, he used simple illustrations to introduce calming financial advice and counsel. He is also the author of The One-Page Financial Plan and The Behavior Gap resources — a bo...
221: Being Curious About What Informs Our Beliefs
September 20, 2022 04:00 - 19 minutes - 15.5 MBMy guest in this episode is Charlotte Wittenkamp. Her own experience relocating from Denmark to California led to her ongoing fascination with global differences in value systems and communication patterns. In short, why do we believe what we believe?
220: Helping Make the Dead Live Again
September 13, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 39.7 MBMany people mistakenly equate obituaries with death notices, but, as we’ll hear in this episode, obituaries are not tales of death; they are tales of life. They are the CliffsNotes of someone’s identity and relevance. And as much as we know we shouldn’t, we are drawn to them as mirrors, which we figuratively stand in front of and ask, “How does my life compare to this individual’s?” My guest today is Richard Goldstein. Since joining the New York Times in 1980, Richard worked as an editor a...
219: The Leader as Storyteller
September 06, 2022 04:00 - 44 minutes - 35.7 MBI’ve written four screenplays as a hobby, one of which received an honorable mention at the 9th Annual Nantucket Film Festival. If I were thanking the Academy, it would be because I had an exceptional teacher who just happens to be my guest in this episode. I’ve asked her to clarify what and how screenwriters work to help inform your storytelling ability as a communicating leader. Debbie Danielpour writes award-winning screenplays, libretti, fiction, and nonfiction. She has been an award-w...
218: Being Curious About Being in Someone Else's Shoes
August 30, 2022 04:00 - 16 minutes - 12.9 MBI’ve asked several people to come on the show in this series to talk very briefly about an aspect of their life that makes them tilt their heads in curiosity and want to figure out how to satisfy it. My guest in this episode is a master at looking at the familiar from a different angle. Dr. Christine Mason is a university professor, prolific author, workshop facilitator, yoga instructor, and painter.
217: Being Curious About Curiosity
August 23, 2022 04:00 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBMy guests in this episode are Melissa Hughes Ph.D., a neuroscience researcher, educator, keynote speaker, and author of Happier Hour with Einstein — Another Round, and Michael Appelgren PsyD, a licensed psychologist, private practice owner, and executive functioning and parent management coach. Together, we explore the roots of curiosity, some of the obstacles that stand in the way of actualizing it, and the benefits of increasing and leveraging it.