The Matt Townsend Show

Matt Townsend specializes in energizing and involving audiences with his unique approach to building and maintaining successful relationships. Known as one of America’s top presenters in the field of Human Relations and Development, Matt blends humor and story telling with interactive, real-life solutions that motivate and inspire his listeners.

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Be Healthy and Happy Dec 04, 2018

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Today we have a full episode for you guys! We first hear from Dr. Thomas Faylin and he teaches matt about how we can have better relationships with our teens. We learn about helpful topics like the difference between discussing things with our children and lecturing them and much more! Later on we hear from a regular here on the Matt Townsend Show, Ron Hager. Ron helps us learn how we can integrate exercise into our daily lives so we can be more healthy overall. We learn about healthy habits that can be the secret to longevity! All this and more on this episode of the Matt Townsend Show!

Some Parenting Advice Dec 03, 2018

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Today is all about parenting advice. We first hear from Dr. Say-lin Ghoul-goze who teaches us all about how children understand authority and instinctivly know who is in charge. We also hear from Dr. Karrinna Reega about childrens sleep cycles. Apparently a child's sleep is affected by the confidence and knowledge of the prents putting them to bed! All this and more on this Monday's edition of the Matt Townsend Show!

Forgiveness Nov 30, 2018

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Hello everyone! Today Matt is talking about forgiveness a topic that can hit close to home this time of year when you have to spend so much time with relatives that may have offended you before or are likely to offend you soon. Matt gets some excellent help from Dr. Jim Dincalci who is a psychotherapist and university instructor. Jim talks all about how we need to cultivate the ability to forgive and nurture that precious skill. We finish up with a special coaching corner from Matt about how we can avoid self-destructive behaviors by having better emotional management.

Healthy Holidays Nov 29, 2018

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Happy Holidays everyone! Today Matt is talking all about how this time of year can be especially hard for us to stay healthy and fit. Luckily Matt has assembled a team of experts to help us defeat that dreaded holiday weight gain! First he talks with expert Jenny Grothe who will give us some helpful tips for us to keep in mind when we sit down to eat and feast this time of year. Matt also hosts Dr. Ron Hager who is always trying to get Matt a little fitter mainly because he is a professor of exercise science at BYU. He gives us some of his useful health rules to follow and also remember when it is time to work off all that weight we gained during the holidays! Hope everyone has a healthy day from the Matt Townsend Show!

Holiday Finances Nov 28, 2018

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Happy Holidays everyone! We hope your holiday shopping is going well! Today Matt is focused on our holiday finances and how we can safely navigate the biggest spending season of the whole year. First we hear from Author financial expert Diane Tegarden. Diane shares some tips from her recent book about how we can prevent the financial pressure of the holidays from ruining our relationships and our lives. Later on we get to hear from another personal finance expert Helaine Olen and her advice about broader financial topics and best principles of personal finance. All this and more today from the Matt Townsend Show!

Giving Tuesday Nov 27, 2018

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Happy Giving Tuesday listeners. On this special themed episode of the Matt Townsend show we focus all about giving and service! Matt first hosts Becky Lockhart, the first ever women to become speaker of the Utah state house. She talks to us all about service in the public sector and how we can better give back to our communities to make them a better place. Matt then has on Doctor and Professor Hank Smith from BYU. Hank teaches Matt how we can teach our children the value of service and how we can instill in them a love of serving others. Finally, we hear from one of BYU Radio’s producers, Shawn O’Neil, as he shares with us some touching stories about service. Hope you all have a good one from your friends here on the Matt Townsend Show!

Holiday Cyber Security Nov 26, 2018

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Happy Cyber Monday listeners! Today is focused on how to keep you safe while your shopping away on your computers for those Cyber Monday deals! Matt first interviews Supervisory Special Agent, Jim LaMadrid, who is an FBI agent and has experience while leading the Salt Lake City Cyber Task Force. We learn from Jim all of the ways people will try to scam you online during your holiday shopping season; he teaches us what to look for and stay away from. In addition, Agent LaMadrid tells us how we can get help from the FBI of we have been the victim of one of these fraudulant scams. Later on in the show Matt interviews Neil Wyler who is a computer security and anylist specialist about the ins and outs of cyber security. Neil shares with us some helpful tips so that we can change our behavior online so we can be safer all around. Relax and enjoy this special episode of the Matt Townsend Show!

Black Friday Consumerism Nov 23, 2018

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Happy black friday listeners! Today we have a special themed episode for you all about our consumption and habbits and what we buy. What better thank black friday to hear about this? We learn first from Meg Conley, a regular on the show and a popular blogger about how somtimes buying certain things can make us happy. Latter on we take a more measured and clinical view of consumerism with Doctor Ian Zimmerman a psychologyst and professor at the University of Missouri. From Ian we learn all about spending habits and how they can both help and harm us and how to be careful when dealing with money. All that and tons more on this the biggest shopping day of the year! Happy Balck friday from your friends here on the Matt Townsend Show!!

Thanksgiving Nov 22, 2018

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Happt Turkey Day from the Matt Townsend Show! Today we have full lineup of guests to give us the tips and tricks to getting through this haliday and how to make it the best one yet. We start off with Karen Mangum, mother of BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum, and a fantastic dietician and healt coach in her own right! Karen shares with us some tips on how we can stay healthy during this day of feasting so it doesn't come back to gett us in the butt later. Next Matt has the one and only Mardi Townsend (Matt's Wife) on the air to discuss a strange tradition that they share every Thanksgiving! After we say goodbye to Mardi we say hello again to Proffesor Jeff Thompson from BYU as he teaches us all about how we can stregnthen our relationships with our extended family members today during our festivites rather than just muddle through. Finally, we have reknown blogger and writer Jenny Laton on the show to wrap things up by telling us how we can better teach our childern the meaning of service through our own example. This is jam packed specail Thanksgiving episode for you today on the Matt Townsend Show!

Our American Heritage Nov 21, 2018

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We have a real special episode today! Matt has Stan Ellsworth the host of the BYUtv show American Ride on the show to talk about Stan's favorite topic; American History. In honor of the thanksgiving holiday coming up we are reviewing all the great things that we have to be thankful for. Stan and Matt discuss the events and characters that make up our uniquely American story and we learn who we need to know in american history for Stan himself. All this and a coaching corner on this episode of the Matt Townsend Show!

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