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Positivity Matters
Positivity Matters
38 episodes
5 days ago
Conversations with scholars, organization leaders, and community builders focused on wellbeing, positive psychology, mental health, and human flourishing.
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Conversations with scholars, organization leaders, and community builders focused on wellbeing, positive psychology, mental health, and human flourishing.
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Positivity Matters
Lakesha Green: Speaking Love into Community through the Arts and Vision

Lakesha Green: Speaking Love into Community through the Arts and Vision

Lakesha is the Executive Director of the Union for Contemporary Art

CliftonStrengths: Self-Assurance | Learner | Input | Arranger | Strategic

Recorded: October 30, 2025


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5 days ago
52 minutes

Positivity Matters
Amy Goodburn: Building the Good Life with Husker P.O.W.E.R. 

Amy Goodburn: Building the Good Life with Husker P.O.W.E.R. 

Senior Associate Vice Chancellor & Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

CliftonStrengths: Learner | Achiever | Input | Discipline | Arranger

Recorded: September 10, 2025

P.O.W.E.R. = Purpose, Ownership, Well-being, Engagement, and Relationships

From the Inter-association Wellbeing Collaborative:

We define well-being as an optimal and dynamic state that allows people to achieve their full potential. Our focus is on two interdependent types of well-being: 1) individual and 2) community.


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1 week ago
33 minutes 52 seconds

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Amy Lanham: Creating Wellbeing Through Recreation

Amy Lanham: Creating Wellbeing Through Recreation

Campus Recreation Director, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

CliftonStrengths: Responsibility | Communication | Developer | Relator | Belief

Recorded: September 3, 2025

From the Inter-association Wellbeing Collaborative:

We define well-being as an optimal and dynamic state that allows people to achieve their full potential. Our focus is on two interdependent types of well-being: 1) individual and 2) community.


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1 week ago
51 minutes 46 seconds

Positivity Matters
Daryl Davis: How to be Prohuman with Music and Friendship

Daryl Davis: How to be Prohuman with Music and Friendship


Recorded 8/7/2025

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1 week ago
26 minutes 8 seconds

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Becca Schusler: The Win-Win of Workplace Wellness

Becca Schusler: The Win-Win of Workplace Wellness

VIA Strengths: Gratitude | Learner | Hope | Forgiveness | Self-Regulation

Born in a struggle for justice (Horace Carter Fights the Klan), Atlantic Packaging works to build wellbeing (Atlantic Wellness) and a thriving planet (A New Earth Project)

Core Values: Connection, Nourishment, Purpose, Movement, Nature, Prevention

Vision: To establish health, in all of its dimensions, as the fundamental guiding principle that informs all of our decisions.

Mission: Health & well-being is the throughline connecting our employees, our business community, and the overall vision for our company.

Recorded: July 25, 2025


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1 week ago
39 minutes 40 seconds

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Maital Neta: Positivity in the Brain

Maital Neta: Positivity Matters to Our Brains!

Professor of Psychology at UNL

CliftonStrengths: Empathy, Achiever, Responsibility, Relator, Learner  

Recorded: 7/23/2025


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1 month ago
49 minutes 15 seconds

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Josha Sietsma: The Nebraska Capitol is a Question Mark 

Josha Sietsma: The Nebraska Capitol is a Question Mark 

The Nebraska Capitol asks us to respond to a series of profound questions:

What does it mean to live a good life? 

How best to live a good life to the fullest together and transmit that wisdom to future generations in ways that expand that fullness?

www.21panels.org

Recorded: July 17, 2025

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1 month ago
1 hour 4 minutes 40 seconds

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Meghan Talarowski: Playfully Planning Playgrounds to Prompt the Polis to Play

Meghan Talarowski

Founder and Executive Director, Studio Ludo
A finding a the study that Meghan draws on to inform her playground designs: “Play builds grit, prevents burnout, ignites joy through movement, and helps us become better people together.“ 

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1 month ago
39 minutes 42 seconds

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Carlos Garcia: How to Take Bold Action and Remain Calm Under Pressure

Carlos Garcia

Co-Founder & CEO, True Progress Lab

VIA Strengths: Honest | Perseverance | Hope | Humility | Spirituality

Recorded on July 11, 2025


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2 months ago
54 minutes 8 seconds

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Tracy Edgerton: Leveraging Our Unique Strengths to Achieve a Shared Vision

Tracy Edgerton: Leveraging Our Unique Strengths to Achieve a Shared Vision

President & CEO, Lincoln Community Foundation

Lincoln Vital Signs | Prosper Lincoln

CliftonStrengths: Learner | Input | Intellection | Developer | Achiever

Recorded: July 1, 2025


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2 months ago
32 minutes 51 seconds

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Zoya Awan: Creating Sparks of Hope

Zoya Awan - Creating Sparks of Hope

Director of Public Affairs, Walmart

Zoya the Explorer!

CliftonStrengths: Positivity | WOO | Includer | Adaptability | Connectedness

Recorded: July 9, 2025


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2 months ago
30 minutes 41 seconds

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Andrew Hanna: Emerging Leadership, Life Design, & More

Andrew Hanna - Emerging Leadership, Life Design, & More

Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

Prof. Hanna spoke at Nebraska's International Day of Hope celebration.

CliftonStrengths: Woo | Relator | Input | Positivity | Futuristic

Recorded: June 25, 2025

Brought to you by Positivity Matters!

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3 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes 43 seconds

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Kathryn Goetzke: How to S.H.I.N.E. Hope

Kathryn Goetzke - How to S.H.I.N.E. Hope

• Stress skills

• Happiness habits

• Inspired actions

• Nourishing networks

• Eliminating challenges

Kathryn's top VIA Strengths: Curiosity | Love of learning | Spirituality | Honesty | Fairness

Recorded 6/19/2025


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4 months ago
40 minutes 21 seconds

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Rebecca Davis: The Power and Joy of Building Community

Rebecca Davis - Dimensions of Connectedness (Social Capital & Social Health)

Director & Producer

Rebecca speaks on the community engagement she has generated around the country with the documentary, Join or Die, and we also explore themes of wellbeing present in the film.  

Recorded 6/5/2025



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5 months ago
26 minutes 11 seconds

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Rob Lion: How to Build a Thriving Workplace

Rob Lion - Black River

C.A.R. from Self-determination Theory:

  • Competence

  • Autonomy

  • Relatedness

Recorded 2/18/2025


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5 months ago
58 minutes 42 seconds

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Joshua Berry: Unleashing the Difference Maker Within

Joshua created Econic to partner with leaders who envision a better world and desire someone to help them build it.

Joshua’s CliftonStrengths: Strategic | Maximizer | Ideation | Futuristic | Individualization

Recorded: 2/15/2025


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5 months ago
33 minutes 59 seconds

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Dan Martin: Fostering Connectedness, Compassion, and the Joy of Learning

Dan Martin

VIA Strengths: Humor | Creativity | Love of Learning | Curiosity | Bravery

Associate Professor of Management at California State University, East Bay.

Director of Corporate Compassion Education at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University.


Recorded 2/4/2025

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5 months ago
47 minutes 30 seconds

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David Feldman: The Playful Birth and Advancement of Hope Science

David B. Feldman, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist and Professor of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University. 

Prof. Feldman's top VIA strengths: Love of learning | Curiosity | Hope | Judgement | Kindness

Hope science developed in a playful laboratory. Hope develops in the playful laboratory of the imagination.

Recorded May 7, 2025

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5 months ago
59 minutes 22 seconds

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Chan Hellman: Working with States to Foster Hopeful Traits

Chan Hellman

Founding Director of the Hope Research CenterHope Rising USA

Recorded 4/29/2025

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6 months ago
27 minutes 45 seconds

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Matthew Gallagher: Hope Science

Matthew W. Gallagher, Ph.D.

Updates in Hope Science

Recorded 4/18/2025


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6 months ago
46 minutes 14 seconds

Positivity Matters
Conversations with scholars, organization leaders, and community builders focused on wellbeing, positive psychology, mental health, and human flourishing.