HeyJaredHappy You Asked: The Podcast That Explores Joy, One Awkward Conversation at a Time
Hosted by Dr. Erin Clair, an academic dean and professor whose research area is happiness studies. Join her as she chats about happiness with a diverse range of individuals, including psychologists, scientists, teachers, religious leaders, and more.If you like the podcast, be…
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51. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: Thinking Beyond the Moment (opens the original)
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In this episode, I talk with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. She is the Fahmy and Donna Attallah Professor of Humanistic Psychology at the University of Southern California, where she is a professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience and the founding director of the Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education, or CANDLE. A former public school science teacher, she studies how emotion, social experience, and the stories we build about what happens to us shape lea
50. Sharon Horesh Bergquist: A Little Stress Can Do You a World of Good (opens the original)
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Today’s guest is Dr. Sharon Horesh Bergquist, the Pam R. Rollins Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Emory Executive Health. She is a board-certified internal-medicine physician whose clinical and research work focuses on healthy aging, prevention, lifestyle medicine, and the ways daily behavior interacts with resilience. Her book, The Stress Paradox, asks whether we have treated all stress as the same problem. Living well, she argues, requires no
49. Kimberly Malone: Happiness in a Prison Classroom (opens the original)
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My guest in this episode is Kimberly Malone, Assistant Director of Prison Education at Northeastern University in New York. For more than a decade, she has taught incarcerated students and helped lead college programs in men's and women's prisons across medium- and maximum-security settings. She is also president of Rising Hope, a nonprofit providing postsecondary education in New York prisons. Join us as we discuss the connection between happiness, hope, and education, especially for people who
48. Peggy Kern: Toward a Better Measurement of a Good Life (opens the original)
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What changes when wellbeing is treated as a dynamic system rather than a personal checklist? How can we measure flourishing without flattening out how a human life actually works? My guest in this episode, Dr. Peggy Kern, is a professor at the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education in Australia. Her research focuses on questions like these and draws on a variety of methodologies to examine who thrives in life and why, and what we can do about it.
47. Matthew Zawadzki: Let's Ruminate on Your Ruminations (opens the original)
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In this episode I talk with Dr. Matthew Zawadzki, a health psychologist and professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Merced. His work examines how everyday experiences shape our health and well-being. That includes stress, loneliness, and even the ways we spend our free time. One of the central questions in his research is why a stressful event can be over while our minds and bodies remain caught in it. He studies worry and rumination--the thoughts that keep stress ac
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