Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff with Kristine Carlson

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Kindness Matters: Lead With Kindness with Robin Sharma Mar 20, 2017

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New York Times Best Selling Author, Kristine Carlson invites you to practice Don't Sweat wisdom to achieve greater mental health, and better communication with your family, friends, and co-workers. Learn how to live with more peace and happiness and rediscover your joy, passion, and self-compassion, to awaken your most vibrant life.

Robin Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.

For nearly 20 years, many of the most well-known organizations on the planet, ranging from Nike, GE, Microsoft, FedEx, PwC, HP and Oracle to NASA, Yale University and YPO have chosen Robin Sharma for their most important events, when nothing less than a world-class speaker will do.

Sharma's books such as The Leader Who Had No Title have topped bestseller lists internationally and his social media posts reach over six hundred million people a year, making him a true global phenomenon for helping people do brilliant work, thrive amid change and realize their highest leadership capacities within the organization so that personal responsibility, productivity, ingenuity and mastery soars.

In this episode, Kris and Robin share moments of deep wisdom and how to practice kindness. In a conversation that celebrates kindness, these two friends share how kindness is essential to the mastery of life and to aspire to success in all areas of leadership.

Kindness Matters: Give Unto Others with Stephen G. Post, Ph.D Mar 13, 2017

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Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. is a researcher and public speaker on how helping others benefits those who give, how empathic care contributes to patient outcomes and professional well-being, how youth who follow the Golden Rule live happier and more resilient lives, how caregivers find meaning and hope in caring for the deeply forgetful, and how positive psychology and spirituality enhance health. He is a best-selling author who has taught at the University of Chicago Medical School, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Stony Brook University School of Medicine, where he is Founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics (designated as a special strength of the Stony Brook School of Medicine by the LCME visiting committee. He is an elected member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Character Strengths and Virtues, the handbook and classification of Positive Psychology.

In this episode, listen to the incredible journey of a true Scholar and Philosopher and man of heart as he shares the soul-warming stories that impacted his incredibly rich journey and show how kindness truly matters. He shares how volunteerism and altruism is at the heart of resiliency and happiness. You can hear the kindness in Dr. Stephen G. Post’s voice.

Kindness Matters: Mama's Truth About Kindness with Amy Ahlers Mar 06, 2017

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Amy Ahlers is the bestselling author of Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves and Reform Your Inner Mean Girl: 7 Steps to Stop Bullying Yourself & Start Loving Yourself. Amy is on a mission to stop women and moms from being so darn hard on themselves. She's been a Certified Life Coach for over 17 years and is the co-creator of transformational programs such as Inner Mean Girl Reform School, Find Your Calling & Visionary Ignition Switch. Amy's been featured on lots of TV and radio shows and leads virtual and in person retreats for women around the world so they cultivate the courage to follow their Inner Wisdom.

Amy is passionate about helping soulful mamas embrace the messiness and magic of motherhood in her truth telling sanctuary and facilitated mom's support group, Mama Truth Circle, and new and notable podcast, Mama Truth Show.

In this episode, Kris and Amy talk about how being kind is paramount to great parenting and fostering long term connection between spouses and partners. You will enjoy the light hearted sunny conversation here about mama's truth about kindness.

Kindness Matters: First, Be Kind to Yourself with Dr. Cole Feb 27, 2017

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Dr. Cole has worked in both in-patient and out-patient settings with adolescents, adults, couples and families. For the past 15 years, she has developed an extensive private practice, working with insight-oriented adults and couples interested in improving the quality of their lives. Her orientation is integrative – merging traditional and holistic modalities of treatment. Dr. Cole views the treatment process as one which embodies the creation of a safe space for personal reflection, re-evaluation, healing, transformation, and manifestation. The goal is to assist each individual to come to know and value themselves, releasing that which does not serve them and focusing on that which promotes a healthy sense of mind/body/spirit vitality and well-being.

In this episode, Kris and Marcy talk about the kind of advice that Marcy gives her clients on how to manage negative self-talk as the first step to being kind to yourself. Listen to her best counseling about supreme self-care and how taking care of yourself first positively impacts everyone else in your life.

Kindness Matters: The Language of Kindness with Michael Chase Feb 20, 2017

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In this episode, Kris kicks off this wonderfully rich and inspiring series with a heart to heart conversation with Michael Chase in how to create and foster kindness as a way of life. Michael is a bestselling author, inspirational speaker and one of today’s most powerful voices for creating a kinder world. In 2007 he founded The Kindness Center and is now considered an expert on the subjects of kindness and positive behavior. As a world-renowned leader in personal and spiritual development, Michael reveals how living from the heart plays a critical role in healing our lives and our planet.

Kindness Matters Series Introduction Feb 13, 2017

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In this episode, Kris introduces you to her new series: Kindness Matters.

This week is the perfect time to kick-off this new series during National Awareness of Kindness week challenging us all to random acts of kindness.

The Dalai Lama says, "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

Listen in as Kris shares an overview of each speaker and her favorite points from each speaker in the series. All speakers are bestselling authors; you will be inspired and given practical tips on how to make kindness a way of life and what's in it for you to make kindness a way of life.

In honor of this week, as a random act of kindness, please share this series with your friends and families.

A Healing Letter to His Wife with Joe DiNardo Feb 06, 2017

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This is a poignant and heartwarming episode as a man shares his special letter that he writes to his wife as she ends her battle with cancer and makes her transition to the other side. Writing a heartfelt letter is so healing and you will love Joe DiNardo's courage as he shares his with you here. You may want to consider: What would you say to your loved one on their death bed?

If you'd enjoy a copy, Joe has published his letter in a book: A Letter to his Wife by Joe DiNardo.

Supreme Self-Care: Do you take care of yourself with the same care you give to others? Jan 30, 2017

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What if you answered "Yes" to the question of: Do you take care of yourself with the same care that you take care of others? In this episode, Kris shares her top practices of Supreme Self Care and what's in it for you to practice them too.

The Power of Intention and Attention Jan 23, 2017

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In this episode Kris shares, the power of living with intentional integrity and where you place your attention will make you grow stronger.

What Now? The Launching Power of 2017 Jan 16, 2017

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In this episode, Kris shares five key questions she asks herself to use the new year as a launching pad to motivate her passion and drive in the coming twelve months.