Latest Optimist drinks Podcast Episodes
Talking with a frontline optimist - Michael Lehrer, AIA
OPTIMIST In Progress - June 29, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe American Institute of Architects Los Angeles awarded Michael Lehrer the gold medal, their highest award, describing him as "an architect fully engaged with architecture as a means to contribute to society as a whole." Michael has worked for clients across the social spectrum, but a great de...
Burned out?
OPTIMIST In Progress - June 22, 2021 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThere's a lot of talk of burn out right now; swathes of people are quitting their jobs (or seriously thinking about it) in what's being referred to as 'The Great Resignation'. Companies are struggling to fill roles, and it feels that something transformational is happening in society. Are we o...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Michelle Lhooq
OPTIMIST In Progress - June 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAfter a 'hyper-accelerated' existence as the NY-based music editor for Vice, covering the underground music and recreational drug scene all over the world, author and journalist Michelle Lhooq moved to LA and a 'California Sober' lifestyle (the now zeitgeist phrase she originally coined in jest)...
Collective Liberation Pt 2
OPTIMIST In Progress - June 08, 2021 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode we return to the concept of 'collective liberation' introduced last week in our conversation with Charlotte James and Undrea Wright of The Ancestor Project. How can this idea help us to create a more equitable future for all? For many of us this concept might be unfamiliar, and t...
Talking with frontline Optimists - The Ancestor Project
OPTIMIST In Progress - June 01, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCharlotte James and Undrea Wright came together to create - or channel - a radical and transformative path to healing through 'sacred plant medicine'. Through their ground-breaking work with The Ancestor Project, the Baltimore-based pair seek to integrate the ancient practice of legal psychedeli...
Mindful in the Mundane
OPTIMIST In Progress - May 25, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMost of us rush through the endless ‘to do’ list of daily chores feeling distracted and impatient. How often do we really pay attention to the thing that's right in front of us, to the task at hand? In this episode of Optimist in Progress, Dr Drea Letamendi shares her insights on how to create m...
Talking with a frontline Optimist - Lizzie King
OPTIMIST In Progress - May 18, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhilst she may not recognize herself as an optimist (“rainbows and ponies?”), the work that UK based food writer and nutritional coach Lizzie King is doing to educate people about how to 'eat well' in every sense certainly demonstrates an inherent commitment to building a better future for peopl...
Connecting with your authentic self
OPTIMIST In Progress - May 11, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt sounds a little like therapy-speak, but finding your authentic self, living authentically is just another way to say we’re ‘keeping it real’. Authenticity has always been highly valued in our societies, particularly for artists and creatives, but what about the rest of us? How do we live an a...
Talking with a frontline Optimist - Alice Smith
OPTIMIST In Progress - May 04, 2021 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSinger/songwriter Alice Smith was nominated for a Grammy for best newcomer when she hit the scene with her highly original sound and powerful stage presence. Record label politics though went on to have profound consequences for her on both a professional and a very personal level. She explains ...
(Re)connection
OPTIMIST In Progress - April 27, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMuch of the past year has been spent in isolation; we've been existing in small 'social bubbles', and relying heavily on technology to feel connected. Though quarantine helped our society to survive this virus, as Dr Drea explains to Tom in this episode, isolation is the opposite of what we need...
Talking with a frontline Optimist - Cameron Hughes
OPTIMIST In Progress - April 20, 2021 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCameron Hughes is a professional cheer guy. He whips crowds of all sizes into a frenzy of excitement, abandoning self-consciousness to create a shared high - moments of pure elation and connection. In conversation with Drea and Tom, he explains how loss in his childhood led to this unlikely call...
Lockdown love hacks
OPTIMIST In Progress - April 13, 2021 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsFor most of us living with partners or lovers, the past year of lockdown has been testing from a relationship perspective. The intensity of existing in the same space, in such close proximity, has led to a spike in divorce rates, and at the very least, stifled the romance and made our relationsh...
Talking with a frontline Optimist - Karen David
OPTIMIST In Progress - April 06, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSome people are born with a proclivity for optimism. Actor and performer Karen David is one of those fortunate individuals, but as she acknowledges, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have to work constantly at honing her skill. As the daughter of immigrants, she was often treated like an interloper...
Broaden-and-Build
OPTIMIST In Progress - March 30, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWondering why so many of us were nurturing sourdough starter, planting seeds and signing up for an online language course this past year? Dr Drea mines the field of positive psychology and introduces the theory of 'broaden-and-build', something as humans we are hardwired for. Regardless of our c...
Talking with a frontline Optimist - Krista Simmons
OPTIMIST In Progress - March 23, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTravel & food writer, and Los Angeles native, Krista Simmons spent her pre-COVID career exploring food cultures around the world. She talks candidly to Tom and Dr Drea about the impact of lockdown on her mental health, her work, and the food & hospitality industries across the globe. Despite the...
Processing 2020 and thriving (surviving?!) in 2021
OPTIMIST In Progress - March 16, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe have just passed the year mark, things are beginning to open up after an extraordinary, challenging and for some, tragic twelve months. Dr Drea Letamendi talks to Tom about ways to process the past year in order to move forwards and thrive. More information on the Kubler-Ross model (5 stage...
The Importance of Play
OPTIMIST In Progress - March 09, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsPlay seems like the last thing any of us are prioritizing right now, but a conversation between Dr Drea and Tom highlights the importance of play for all of us - as a way of coping, connecting, surviving and even thriving through these late pandemic days. What actually constitutes play though is...
Talking with a frontline Optimist - Todd Stashwick
OPTIMIST In Progress - March 02, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsActor and improv artist Todd Stashwick, self confessed purveyor of all things geeky, and Tiki aficionado, firmly believes that practical optimism, or as he refers to it, intentional positivity, can solve most of the problems we face in our lives. In this episode Todd discusses his 'optimism oper...
Radical Rest
OPTIMIST In Progress - February 23, 2021 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt can be hard to recognise when you need to stop what you're doing and take rest, especially when people are relying on you; and particularly during these times. Ours is a society which celebrates overt displays of productivity; 'doing nothing' is seen as being lazy, work-shy or anti-social. D...
Talking with a frontline Optimist - Christine Adams
OPTIMIST In Progress - February 16, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsChristine Adams is an actor, currently playing a lead role in CW's television series 'Black Lightning'. It's clear that working as an actor takes resilience, but it's her other life, that of a political activist and founder of a non-profit, set up to get the vote out in Georgia, that best demons...
Celebrating the small wins
OPTIMIST In Progress - February 09, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt is easy to lose sight of the progress we are making as we work towards goals, whatever they may be; to lose heart because aren’t happening as quickly or as radically as we might have hoped. In this microcast, Dr Drea suggests that we pay more attention to what we are actually achieving, taki...
Rethinking resolutions
OPTIMIST In Progress - February 04, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMost of us make resolutions for the year ahead, and this year many of us doubled down, only to be find that by the end of January they lay in tatters by the empty pizza boxes and bottles; meditation apps floating untouched in the Cloud. In this practical micro-cast, Dr Drea Letamendi ask us to c...
We are all Optimists in Progress
OPTIMIST In Progress - February 02, 2021 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this first episode of Optimist in Progress, host, and co-founder of Optimist Drinks, Tom Johnstone, interviews his co-host, Dr Drea Letamendi, clinical psychologist and superhero fan, about her mission to bring conversations around mental health to a broader audience. The shared intentions o...
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OPTIMIST In Progress - January 28, 2021 22:47 - 38 seconds ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOptimism isn’t something most of us are born with. It takes practice to truly be an optimist. We aren’t talking the rose-tinted, 'it will all be fine’ kind of optimism. True optimists are those who envision a better future, and who fight to make it happen. In this podcast, co-hosts Tom Johnstone...
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