Life Habits
238 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsThis is the series that helps you learn new habits to optimize your life and embrace an enlightened, healthy, and prosperous lifestyle.
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LH126 — Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence with Dr. Robin Hills Part 2
April 17, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes - 80.5 MBIn this engaging episode, Karel and Paige continue their discussion with Dr. Robin Hills, focusing on the application of emotional intelligence in personal contexts. Dr. Hills emphasizes the importance of empathy, active listening, and perspective-taking in fostering meaningful connections. Providing practical insights, he offers guidance on integrating emotional intelligence into daily life, advocating for mindfulness as a cornerstone practice. Dr. Hills also advocates for prioritizing work...
LH125 — Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence with Dr. Robin Hills Part 1
April 10, 2024 09:00 - 49 minutes - 119 MBIn this episode, Karel and Paige delve into the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace with psychologist Dr. Robin Hills. He defines emotional intelligence as the ability to effectively manage emotions to make informed decisions and cultivate meaningful relationships. Dr. Hills highlights the distinction between IQ and EQ, emphasizing that emotional intelligence is a skill that can be honed over time. Additionally, he underscores the critical role emotional intelligence plays ...
LH125— Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence with Dr. Robin Hills Part 1
April 10, 2024 09:00 - 49 minutes - 119 MBIn this episode, Karel and Paige delve into the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace with psychologist Dr. Robin Hills. He defines emotional intelligence as the ability to effectively manage emotions to make informed decisions and cultivate meaningful relationships. Dr. Hills highlights the distinction between IQ and EQ, emphasizing that emotional intelligence is a skill that can be honed over time. Additionally, he underscores the critical role emotional intelligence plays ...
LH124 — Morning Routines to Power Your Day
April 03, 2024 09:00 - 23 minutes - 59.3 MBIn this episode, Karel and Paige delve into the vital role morning routines play in shaping our days and overall success. They highlight the importance of taking control of your mornings and share practical recommendations for crafting an effective routine. Additionally, they explore the significance of circadian rhythms in maintaining a consistent wake-up time. Recommendations for Effective and Productive Mornings: Get Enough Sleep and Wake Up Early: Understanding the role of circadian rh...
LH123 — Personal Freedom with Dr. Dravon James
March 27, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes - 96.8 MBIn this enlightening episode, Karel and Paige chat with Dr. Dravon James, author of 'Freedom Is Your Birthright'. Dr. Dravon delves into the transformative power of freedom, gratitude, and introspection. Drawing from her book and personal experiences, she shares invaluable insights on navigating challenges and embracing opportunities for growth. With a focus on self-love and personal responsibility, Dr. Dravon emphasizes the importance of cultivating a mindset of abundance and harnessing th...
LH122 — Hybrid Work: Doing it Right
March 20, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes - 72.4 MBKarel and Paige delve into the intricacies of hybrid work, sharing insights and best practices to set you up for success in this evolving work landscape. They explore the transition from mandated remote work during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to the current embrace of hybrid work schedules by many companies. Drawing from their personal experiences and inspirational quotes, they emphasize the importance of intentionality and flexibility in navigating hybrid work successfully. Karel an...
LH121 — Be Kind, Age Well Part 2
March 13, 2024 09:00 - 44 minutes - 107 MBKarel and Paige welcome back MJ Shaar for the second half of our conversation about aging well. We conclude this two part episode with MJ Shaar discussing the key role that kindness plays in helping us age well. She explains how simple acts of kindness can boost mood, improve relationships, and contribute to overall health and well-being. MJ provides practical ways to incorporate kindness into daily life and emphasizes the importance of making kindness a choice rather than a goal. She also h...
Be Kind, Age Well Part 1
March 06, 2024 10:00 - 59 minutes - 141 MBKarel and Paige welcome back the esteemed MJ Shaar, a returning guest, to delve into the fascinating realm of healthy aging. With extensive research under her belt, MJ unveils the intricate web of factors contributing to this concept. From genetics to lifestyle choices, she navigates through the realms of nutrition, exercise, sleep, love, relationships, self-perception, and finding purpose in life. While the World Health Organization defines healthy aging in terms of functional ability and ...
LH120 — Be Kind, Age Well Part 1
March 06, 2024 10:00 - 59 minutes - 141 MBKarel and Paige welcome back the esteemed MJ Shaar, a returning guest, to delve into the fascinating realm of healthy aging. With extensive research under her belt, MJ unveils the intricate web of factors contributing to this concept. From genetics to lifestyle choices, she navigates through the realms of nutrition, exercise, sleep, love, relationships, self-perception, and finding purpose in life. While the World Health Organization defines healthy aging in terms of functional ability and ...
LH119 — Lifelong Learning
February 28, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes - 88.7 MBKarel and Paige devote this episode to discussing the importance of lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is defined as on-going, voluntary, self-motivated learning in the pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. In last week’s episode LH118 — Landing the Job, one of the recommendations was to further improve your skills. This episode expands on that recommendation and explores lifelong learning that is outside of career advancement and opportunities. Karel and Paige ...
LH118 — Landing the Job
February 21, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes - 94.5 MBMany people are out of work right now, especially in the tech sector. Paige and Karel devote this episode to providing strategies on the entire journey of finding and then Landing the Job. This episode is an expansion of LH55 — Getting the Job where Karel mostly talked about the job interview. You can listen to that episode here. Recommendations: 1. Read the job post and job requirements carefully. 2. Make sure you satisfy the basic requirements of the job. 3. Make sure your application...
LH117 — Passion Struck: John R. Miles
February 14, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes - 103 MBIn this episode Karel and Paige chat with John R. Miles about his brand new book ‘Passion Struck’. The book outlines his 12 step framework to live a life that truly matters in three sections: Mindset Shifts, Behavior Shifts, and The Psychology of Progress. The steps involved in Mindset Shifts are summarized with some of these wonderfully memorable names: the Mission Angler, Mosquito Auditor, Fear Confronter, and Action Creator. The second section of the book goes through Behavior Shifts incl...
LH116 — Resilience with Mandy Kloppers
February 07, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes - 95.1 MBIn this episode Karel and Paige welcome back, by popular demand, Mandy Kloppers. Mandy has been on the podcast 7 times sharing her insight as a psychologist and cognitive behavioral therapist. In previous episodes Mandy talked with Karel about self-confidence, relationships and mindfulness to name a few of the topics (Please see the bottom of the show notes to listen to past episodes with Mandy). In those episodes Mandy spoke with Karel through the lens of a psychologist and therapist. But i...
LH115 — Life Habits 2.0
January 31, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutes - 17.5 MBKarel is thrilled to welcome Paige Heron to the Life Habits podcast as the executive producer and co-host. We discuss the need for the change, how the idea for Version 2.0 came about, and the rationale for the changes we’re making. We also detail what those changes are. Changes include our brand new website www.lifehabitspodcast.com where you can find all of the Life Habits Podcast episodes and show notes, our updated purpose and tagline, a place to sign up for our newsletter, a brief intr...
LH114 — Coping with Adversity
January 24, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes - 79.4 MBMy guest for this episode is Paige Heron. I’ve tried to get her on this podcast for a long time to discuss a number of different topics but we landed on a topic that has been and continues to be central to her life, chronic illness, and it’s something that many people don’t understand, especially what is essentially an invisible illness. I too knew very little about the experience of dealing with a chronic illness initially but accompanying Paige to various medical appointments, reading abou...
LH113 — Career Transitions: Part 3
January 21, 2024 01:27 - 33 minutes - 25.8 MBKarel continues on with his leveling up series focussing on career transitions. He is again joined by Renee Albert and Herman Colquhoun. In Part 1 of the interview in the LH111, Renee and Herman describe their early lives and their educational journeys together with the pivots each took and the insights they gleaned from the experience. This Part 2 gets into their actual career trajectories and also their involvement in the IBM Racial Equity in Design movement. In this Part 3 we get into wha...
LH112 — Career Transitions: Part 2
January 21, 2024 01:26 - 36 minutes - 20.7 MBKarel continues on with his leveling up series focussing on career transitions. He is again joined by Renee Albert and Herman Colquhoun. In Part 1 of the interview in the LH111, Renee and Herman describe their early lives and their educational journeys together with the pivots each took and the insights they gleaned from the experience. This Part 2 gets into their actual career trajectories and also their involvement in the IBM Racial Equity in Design movement. We’re planning a Part 3 which ...
LH111 — Career Transitions: Part 1
January 21, 2024 01:25 - 28 minutes - 17 MBKarel continues on with his leveling up series and this time focusses on career transitions. He is joined by Renee Albert and Herman Colquhoun discussing their fascinating and successful careers. We had so much to talk about so this episode, Part 1, focusses on the education journey. Part 2 will dig into the working journey and additional topics too.
LH110 — Leveling Up: The Connections Cure
January 21, 2024 01:25 - 27 minutes - 18.4 MBKarel is again joined by popular guest Marie-Josėe Shaar (MJ) for this the second instalment in the Leveling Up series with this episode focusing on The Connections Cure.
LH109 — Leveling Up
January 21, 2024 01:25 - 6 minutes - 3.36 MBKarel’s back with more episodes! In fact, he has a whole new series called Leveling Up. The series takes the topics you’ve learned to date to a whole new level and a set of new topics too.
LH108 — Checking-in to Stay the Course
January 21, 2024 01:24 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBThis is the third episode in the “Checking-in” series focused on coping during the pandemic. Karel devotes this episode on providing ideas to help you stay the course during this long-running pandemic.
LH107 — Checking-in on Mental Health
January 21, 2024 01:24 - 36 minutes - 24.4 MBKarel is joined by UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers to discuss mental health during this difficult period of a pandemic and social unrest and to discuss a variety of approaches to coping given different situations and circumstances.
LH106 — Check-in - Working from Home
January 21, 2024 01:24 - 19 minutes - 16.3 MBWith the overall series tagline for all these years being “staying sane in a crazy world”, Karel was inspired to start record episodes again with a collection of Check-in episodes to help listeners deal with and cope during the Coronavirus pandemic. This, the first in the collection, provides advice on working from home.
LH105 — Exploring the World
January 21, 2024 01:24 - 21 minutes - 17.4 MBKarel continues his occasional series of episodes on major life changes, this time focusing on exploring the world. His guest is Kate Paddison who is currently in Melbourne, Australia. She describes her decision to buy a one-way ticket and explore the world.
LH104 — Innovation by Design
January 21, 2024 01:23 - 20 minutes - 16.1 MBKarel devotes this episode to the design methods and tools now available to everyone in order to innovate on products, services, and really anything anyone wants to improve. He summarizes his seven habits of highly effective design thinkers.
LH103 — Career Pivots
January 21, 2024 01:23 - 31 minutes - 24.4 MBHere’s another in the occasional series of episodes on major life changes. This episode focusses on career pivots, that is major career changes, and discusses insights, lessons learned, and advice from someone who has recently gone through this. Karel is joined by Lendy Krantz who is currently Director of Operations and Strategy at WeWork in New York City.
LH102 — All You Need is Love
January 21, 2024 01:23 - 42 minutes - 32.7 MBKarel is again joined by Marie-Josée Shaar as they both explore an extension to Marie-Josée's Sleep, Food, Mood, and Exercise theme by focusing on mood and the quality of relationships yielding love, caring, and connectedness.
LH101 — Creating Your Own Job
January 21, 2024 01:22 - 39 minutes - 28.9 MBThis is the first of an occasional series of episodes on major life changes. This episode Karel deals with the topic of creating your own job and he's joined by Chui Chui Tan from Bristol, England who details her story of quitting her job of many years to start her own company.
LH100 — Celebration & Review
January 21, 2024 01:22 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBKarel celebrates the 100th episode of the podcast series by thanking his listeners and his guests and then reviewing briefly each of the episodes in the series.
LH99 — Diversity & Inclusion
January 21, 2024 01:22 - 28 minutes - 24.2 MBKarel's back with a podcast episode dealing with the important topic of diversity and inclusion. In addition to reviewing previous episodes related to the topic and providing some inspirational quotes, Karel focuses on three habits: Recognizing and eliminating bias, understanding and empathizing, and championing and celebrating. He finishes up the episode talking about the episodes to come which will focus on insights from people who have gone through significant life changes.
LH98 — Career Workouts
January 21, 2024 01:21 - 19 minutes - 16.2 MBKarel expands on his previous episodes dealing with career advice to make the case for approaching career health much like we know how to deal with physical health by doing workouts, journals, and checkups.
LH97 — Having Personal Impact
January 21, 2024 01:21 - 22 minutes - 19 MBMany parts of the world are experiencing unprecedented levels of uncertainty due to political, economic, and religious types of instability. This episode will give you ways of dealing with uncertainty, becoming an agent of change, and having personal impact.
LH96 — Mindful Meditation
January 21, 2024 01:21 - 21 minutes - 17.1 MBThe results of a listener poll led to a request for an episode on Mindful Meditation and Karel delivered on that request in this episode. Karel talks about the research evidence for the benefits and then provides guidance of practicing mindfulness and meditation.
LH95 — Escaping Average
January 21, 2024 01:20 - 36 minutes - 34.8 MBKarel is joined by Cynthia Tripathi to talk about her first book "Escaping Average". Karel and Cynthia discuss ways of upping your game in the areas of mental state, health, career, finance, and social life.
LH94 — Fixing Unhelpful Thinking Habits
January 21, 2024 01:20 - 30 minutes - 28.7 MBKarel is again joined by UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers to discuss recognizing and then fixing common errors in thinking.
LH93 — Social Intelligence for Success
January 21, 2024 01:20 - 27 minutes - 26 MBIn response to listener suggestions, Karel devotes this episode to three themes for developing and applying social intelligence to entrepreneurial, intrepreneurial, and self-improvement initiatives.
LH92 — Optimizing Happiness
January 21, 2024 01:20 - 19 minutes - 18.6 MBAfter conducting a poll with listeners via social media as to what topic to focus on next, Karel determined that Optimizing Happiness was far and away the most asked for. Karel builds on the foundation that was built in LH84 - Being Happier to provide additional advice in this episode to further hone particular habits to achieve even greater levels of happiness in life.
LH91 — Optimizing Travel
January 21, 2024 01:19 - 33 minutes - 31.7 MBKarel hasn't recorded episodes lately because he's been traveling a lot so he thought he'd dedicate his first new episode to the topic of providing advice to optimize travel.
LH90 — Gender Equality
January 21, 2024 01:19 - 25 minutes - 24.6 MBInspired by Emma Watson's UN speech, Karel devotes this episode to providing advice for woman and men to promote gender equality.
LH89 — Developing Empathy
January 21, 2024 01:19 - 23 minutes - 22.5 MBKarel devotes this episode to the critically important habit of developing empathy.
LH88 — Life as a Sport
January 21, 2024 01:19 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBKarel is back after a hiatus and devotes this episode to understanding what insights and lessons sports can provide in improving our life skills.
LH87 — Thinking Errors that Hurt Your Health
January 21, 2024 01:18 - 28 minutes - 27.3 MBKarel is joined again by Marie-Josée Shaar this time to address the errors in thinking that can hurt your health and what you can do to prevent them from doing so.
LH86 — Profit from the Positive
January 21, 2024 01:18 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MBWant to apply the power of Positive Psychology to business and to your working life? Karel is joined by Margaret Greenberg for this episode discussing the book she wrote with Senia Maymin, "Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business".
LH85 — Affirmations & Mindfulness
January 21, 2024 01:18 - 28 minutes - 27 MBKarel addresses listener questions and introduces affirmations and mindfulness together with guest UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers.
LH84 — Being Happier
January 21, 2024 01:17 - 23 minutes - 22.7 MBKarel devotes this episode to the topic of being happier and summarizes a list of ten items from Positive Psychology that you can start to do right away to be happier. He also recommends a new social network focused on increasing happiness in the world, called Happier.com.
LH83 — Communication Challenges
January 21, 2024 01:17 - 25 minutes - 24.2 MBKarel devotes this episode to listener questions on the topic of communication challenges.
LH82 — Dealing with Change
January 21, 2024 01:17 - 27 minutes - 26.1 MBKarel is again joined by UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers as they address a listener question asking for advice on dealing with change.
LH81 — Becoming More Productive
January 21, 2024 01:17 - 23 minutes - 22.1 MBKarel devotes this episode to a listener suggestion to address becoming more productive using technology. Karel discusses four major themes 1) doing things more efficiently, doing more things at once sensibly, doing fewer things at once sensibly, and doing nothing.
LH80 — Cultures of Wellness
January 21, 2024 01:16 - 29 minutes - 28.2 MBKarel is again joined by Marie-Josée Shaar this time to discuss four approaches to creating cultures of wellness. Make sure to visit Marie-Josée's website smartsandstamina.com which also includes a link to her book. For further information on this topic, make sure to visit positivepychologynews.com.
LH79 — Impression Management
January 21, 2024 01:16 - 28 minutes - 26 MBIn response to a listener suggestion, Karel devotes this episode to various ways of improving your personal impression management using the techniques and approaches from product marketing.