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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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94:13

Minority Suicides Undercounted, Childhood Emotional...

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/06/16

Minority Suicides Undercounted (11:23)(../../../episode/a3797ab3-76de-4aa7-9986-77a4fd249528?playhead=683&autoplay=true link) Kimya N. Dennis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal studies. She does multidisciplinary community outreach, teaching, research, and consulting to reach underserved populations and to address demographic and cultural variance in a range of social issues. How we approach mental health, we need to evaluate how we treat people from different ethnicities,

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147:59

Dying for a Paycheck, Sugar Wars, Screen Cleaning

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2018/06/15

Dying for a Paycheck (12:09) Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ph.D., is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has authored or coauthored fourteen books and is a highly sought-after expert on the subject of power and leadership. He is widely considered one of the leading management experts in the world. In the United States, workers work among the longest, most extreme, and most irregular hours; have no guarantee to paid sick days, paid vacation,

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103:29

Ways to Teach Your Kids About Work, Unsafe Thinking

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2018/06/14

Ways to Teach Your Kids About Work (18:01) Sabina Nawaz is a global CEO coach, leadership keynote speaker, and writer working in over 26 countries. She advises C-level executives in Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and academic organizations. Balancing work and family responsibilities is a juggling act that can be very stressful. How do you spend more time with your children, but still finish all your work obligations? Sabina Nawaz shares her ideas about teaching work

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98:27

Why We're Wrong About the World, Principles of...

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2018/06/13

Why We're Wrong About the World (14:36) Anna Rosling Rönnlund is the co-founder of Gapminder, a program designed to promote a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. She also developed Dollar Street. She spoke on Dollar Street in her TED talk in 2017. Anna is the co-writer of "Factfulness" and a mom of three. When asked simple questions about global trends like, ‘what percentage of the world’s population lives in poverty,’ ‘why is the world’s population increasing,’ or ‘how many girls finish

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102:21

US Child Care & Maternity Leave, How to Get Americans...

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2018/06/12

US Child Care and Maternity Leave (17:06) Joya Misra, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts. Her research and teaching primarily focus on social inequality, including inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and educational level. Nearly 1 in 4 children in the U.S. are in single-parent households, and in the majority of two-parent households both parents are working, yet childcare is generally unaffordable and paid leave is not available

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98:51

Benefits of Daydreaming, Leadership at Home

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2018/06/11

Benefits of Daydreaming (9:26) Josh Davis, Ph.D., is Director of Research and Lead Professor for the, a coach, and member of the training staff of the NLP Center of New York. Do you have favorite daydreams? As a kid it may have been your pirating adventures on the high seas. Today you might just daydream about taking a family vacation. Or maybe just a nap. Usually daydreaming is discouraged, but our guest today, Dr. Josh Davis, argues that daydreaming has its benefits. Dr. Davis is the author of

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101:21

What the Flu Does to Your Body, Game Theorist's Guide...

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2018/06/09

What the Flu Does to Your Body (16:39) Laura Haynes, Ph.D., is a professor of Immunology at the University of Connecticut Health. The flu season is coming to an end, a pretty nasty one. But, what exactly is the flu and how does it affect our bodies? Laura Haynes explains why the flu makes you feel horrible and how that is a good thing. The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting (1:07:27) Kevin Zollman, Ph.D., is an associate professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and co-author (along

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141:19

Learning a New Language Improves Tolerance, Ask For Help

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2018/06/08

How Learning a New Language Improves Tolerance (15:16) Amy Thompson, Ph.D., is the Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Florida. Less than 1% of American adults today are proficient in a foreign language that they studied in a U.S. classroom. With that in mind, Professor Amy Thompson sees that there are benefits that make learning a second language worthwhile when it comes to improving tolerance. Why You Don't Ask For Help (1:02:17) Mark Bolino, Ph.D., is a professor of

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97:54

Online Shopping Traffic, Why Can't You Accept a...

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2018/06/07

Online Shopping Traffic (13:43) Anne Goodchild, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Director at the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center for the University of Washington. Her research interests lie in the analysis of logistics systems, with an emphasis on freight transportation. Zappos, Etsy, eBay, and Amazon are some of the largest online retailers in the world. Online shopping continues to grow, but what does this mean for delivery trucks? Cities, like Seattle, that were built long

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100:28

Food Scholarships, Lack of Authority

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2018/06/06

Food scholarships could help more students finish college (15:47) Daphne Hernandez, Ph.D., earned her PhPh.D.in Applied Developmental & Educational Psychology at Boston College. She is currently an assistant professor in the department of health and human performance at the University of Houston. Her research is centered around family-related factors, such as poverty and family structure, and their influence on food insecurity/food assistance program participation (i.e. indicators of poverty) and

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99:01

Social Media Regulation, What You Pay Attention To

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2018/06/05

Government Regulation of Social Media (14:51) Paul Levinson, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. Social media is something we cannot avoid; it is part of our world. Last week, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg, testified in front of Congress for its part in the Cambridge Analytics leak of information. Would government regulation solve these problems? Paul Levinson explains how regulation of social media would be a bad idea. Control What You Pay

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97:18

Amazon Health Care, Engaged Employees are at Risk of...

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2018/06/04

Amazon Health Care (14:00) J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., is the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance and professor of banking and finance at Weatherhead School of Management with a joint appointment in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Earlier this year, Amazon announced they would be patterning up with different companies to improve healthcare for employees and to lower health care cost. Is this something we should pay attention to? J.B. Silvers

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89:20

Professional Leadership, Power of Your Identity

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2018/06/02

Professional Leadership (13:43) Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the Founding Executive Director of the school’s Center for Public Leadership. She is the author of "Professionalizing Leadership", published at the beginning of this year. Barbara Kellerman tells us how leadership needs to become a profession, with specialized education. Power of Your Identity (1:02:44) From humble beginnings, Certified NLP

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140:14

Internet Rudeness, Habits of Successful Parents,...

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2018/06/01

Internet Rudeness (12:44) Mariana Plata is a licensed psychologist from Panama, currently finishing her Master's degree in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology. She is also a play therapist in training from the Association for Play Therapy (APT), mental health writer and public speaker. We are in the digital era. For information we turn to Google, for communication, we turn to email, and for friends, we turn to social media. Also in this digital era, we have internet trolls, and between Twitter

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95:29

Could AI Compromise Better Than humans?, Adult...

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2018/05/31

Could AI compromise better than humans? (15:56) Jacob Crandall, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on developing machines and algorithms that learn from and collaborate with people to solve challenging problems. We all get into fights. We seek a therapist, friends, and anyone we can get on our side of the fight. However, when we seek compromise, are we doing it well? Can computers compromise better than humans can? Jacob Crandall shares his

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92:50

Post-9/11 Leadership, Loneliness Can Be Damaging to...

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2018/05/30

Post-9/11 Leadership (11:47) Ori Brafman is a multiple New York Times bestselling author. He specializes in organizational culture, employee engagement, business transformation, leadership, and emerging technologies. Brafman is founder and president of Starfish Leadership and co-founder of the Fully Charged Institute. How is it that as our access to information dramatically increases, our views appear to become narrower? Ori Brafman, author of "Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should

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95:13

Schools and Student Mental Health, Successful People...

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2018/05/29

Schools and Student Mental Health (13:53) Nathaniel von der Embse, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of school psychology at the University of South Florida and co-chair of the National Association of School Psychologists Government and Professional Relations Workgroup (NASP GPR). Dr. von der Embse utilizes a social justice framework to examine the intersection of education policy and school mental health. One out of every 4 or 5 students will display a significant mental health problem over the

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97:56

Students and Perfectionism, Hermits Can Teach Us...

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2018/05/28

More College Students Seem to Be Majoring in Perfectionism (11:10) Thomas Curran, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on perfectionism in young people. “Good won’t get me into med school.” That is what you might be hearing from your high school or college student. Today, social media is creating a world where students might have unrealistic educational and professional ideals---replacing good, with

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143:51

Get Stuff Done, How to Talk to Your Spouse,...

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2018/05/26

How to Get Stuff Done (16:06) Jason Zook is best known for being the guy that made over $1,000,000 wearing t-shirts for a living and selling his last name (twice). For a lot of us, getting back up once we have already fallen is not always an easy task, and getting over the wall of incomplete projects can become vastly overwhelming. We are joined here this morning with Jason Zook, creator of Jasondoesstuff.com, to talk about some things that can help us get over that wall and back into the groove of

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141:23

Millennials in the Workplace, An Organized Life,...

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/05/25

Millennial Mindsets in the Workplace (14:22) J.T. O'Donnell is founder and CEO of CareerHMO, a career improvement platform that uses smart technology to help people solve their career problems better and faster than they can on their own. The company is also the creator of the Career Decoder, which unlocks career potential and has helped one million people and counting on their path to greater career satisfaction. J.T. O'Donnell shares her insight into millennials and how they function in the

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