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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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92:28

Finance and Business, Talk To Your Kids About Weight

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/25

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business (14:58) Rana Foroohar is the Assistant managing editor at Time and the magazine’s economics columnist. She is the author of Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business.The presidential race has brought to light the country’s frustration with the current economic state. While wages are up and the slow growth of the economy looks promising, many are still feeling left behind. Rana Foroohar tells us

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145:13

Blame Lying on the Brain, Love Your Life, Screen...

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/24

Why you shouldn’t blame lying on the brain (16:26) Dr. Richard Gunderman is Chancellor's Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy, and Medical Humanities and Health Studies at Indiana University. A recent study from the University College of London has resulted in some news outlets claiming ‘You can blame lying on your brain’. These misleading headlines has our next guest concerned. Dr. Richard Gunderman sets the record straight on what role the

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93:36

Smartphones and Teen Weight, Sports Villains

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/23

Smartphones and Teen Weight Control (12:08) Dr. Chad Jensen is a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University, he earned his PhD. From the University of Kansas. Dr. Johnson program of research addresses prevention of and intervention for childhood and adolescent obesity and related disorders. Teens use smartphones successfully to do almost anything: learn new skills, communicate with friends, do research and catch Pokémon. But are smartphones useful for helping teens maintaining weight loss

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94:43

Depression and Gender, Grade-Skipping Kids

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/22

Depression and Gender (18:57) Dr. Shervin Assari is a research investigator of psychiatry and public health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more women are affected by depression than men. This pattern is seen in countries around the world, including the United States. Cross-national and cross-cultural studies have indicated that the prevalence of depression among women is higher at any given time than among men. This pattern does not seem

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94:40

How to Not Be Fooled by Jerks, Antibiotic-Resistant...

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/21

How to Not Be Fooled by Jerks. Or Become One (12:02) Jeremy Sherman, Ph.D., is a founding member of an 18 year old research project founded by Harvard/Berkeley biologist Terrence Deacon. He received his PhD in decision theory he has written over 475 articles for Psychology Today. Do you have a friend who just can’t seem to recognize they’re being duped? They don’t realize that the door-to-door salesman fooled them, or that Facebook is never going to give away free money when they copy and paste a

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94:20

The Beauty of the Unexpected, Smartphones and The Law

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/20

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected (15:58) Marcelo Gleiser, Ph.D., is a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He specializes in cosmology, nonlinear physics, and astrobiology. His main research interests fall into two general areas. The first is the interface between cosmology (which studies the universe as a whole) and particle physics (which studies the smallest material constituents of the universe). Fishing is a sport of leisure. You might go out early in the morning alone,

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93:22

Health Care, Overwhelmed: When No One Has Time

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/18

Where do you go when you suddenly need health care? (17:48) Dr. Keith Kocher is an emergency physician and health services researcher studying the delivery and performance of acute care, and has written extensively on the value of the emergency department as a setting of care within the health system. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan. If you get a runny nose or suddenly don’t feel well where do you go? Do you go to a health

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143:00

Clean Energy Economy, Value of Exercise, Screen Cleaning

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/17

Clean Energy Economy (16:41) Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Ph.D., is an Assistant Research Professor in the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her main area of research is the employment impacts of the transition to a low-carbon economy. Some politicians say that clean energy will generate jobs. Dr. Heidi Garrett-Peltier explains why this may or may not be true. Value of Exercise (1:01:23) Dr. Carson Smith is from the University of Maryland school of Public

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92:54

Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, Making...

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/16

Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human (15:32) Dr. Daniel J. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. His most recent book, titled Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human was released on October 18th. The mind is an interesting subject, but it’s also a hard thing to research. There’s no real, clear cut standard definition of the mind. Wouldn’t it just be nice to take a trip

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94:35

Future Teaching of CyberSecurity, School Start Times

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/15

The Future Teaching of CyberSecurity (11:25) Nasir Memon, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon. His research interests include digital forensics, biometrics, data compression, network security, security, and human behavior. In 2008, Cyber Security Awareness Week, also called (C-SAW), was founded with goal to draw engineering students into cybersecurity. This 13th Annual Conference, over 20,000 students from around the world will participate in

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94:53

The Problem With Antibacterial Soaps, Entrepreneur's...

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/14

The Problem With Antibacterial Soaps (21:08) Dr. Sarah Ades is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Penn State University. Prior to arriving at Penn State, Dr. Ades received her B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and Ph.D. in biology from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recently, research regarding antiseptics found that the chemicals have little benefit but a lot of risk for individuals. An F-D-A ruling in September banned the use

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93:53

Future of Automated Driving, Grit in Kids

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/13

Future of Automated Driving (21:36) Andrew Maynard, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arizona State University Risk Innovation Lab. His current work spans emerging and converging technologies such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology, the internet of things and 3D printing, to innovative approaches to current and emerging risks more generally. More and more Americans are being killed in car crashes every year. New studies also show that 94 percent of the crashes that cause injuries and fatalities are

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94:13

Retirement or Kids College, Academics are Losing Society

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/11

Retirement or Kids College (11:27) Marty Allenbaugh is a financial senior marketer and a certified financial planner for T-Rowe Price Group. The total outstanding student loan debt in the U.S. is $1.2 trillion, which is the second-highest level of consumer debt behind only mortgages. Most of that is loans held by the federal government. About 40 million Americans hold student loans and about 70% of bachelor's degree recipient’s graduate with debt. With these numbers only seeming to increase and

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149:55

Growing Jobs, Longer and Better Life, Screen Cleaning

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/11

The Fastest Growing Job Categories for Flexible Work May Surprise You (16:39) Brie Reynolds, the senior career specialist at FlexJobs, is here with us this morning to talk more about which fields are providing more and more flexibility when it comes to where and when you work. Formula for a Longer and Better Life (1:01:04) Dr. John Day is the Director of Heart Rhythm Services at Intermountain Healthcare. He is board certified in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology and has published more

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95:12

How to Talk to Your Kids About Money, Job Exhaustion

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/09

How to Talk to Your Kids About Money When You Have a Lot of It (14:02) As parents, money can be a difficult topic to discuss with our children. John Christianson, Founder and CEO of Highland is here with us this morning to help all of us parents learn how to talk to our kids about money. Job Exhaustion (1:02:18) America was founded on the principles of industry and the self-made man. It’s the American dream to become successful in whatever field you want. But this requires a lot of hard work-

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93:50

Finance College Dreams, Quality Matters

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/08

How to Plan and Finance Your Family's College Dreams (10:40) John Hupalo is the founder of Invite Education. He is a nationally recognized expert in education loan finance and private credit student loans. His work has secured more than 50 billion dollars of student loans has helped more than 1 million students finance their college education. Whether your child wants to be a doctor, construction manager, engineer, or a teacher they will need a university degree to achieve their goals. But the

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93:05

'Likes' Online, Why You Should Hire an Introvert Now

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/07

When you 'like' a brand on Facebook (13:52) Social media is continuing a trend of personalizing your account with the things that matter most to you. Based off of what you post or what you “like”, each platform can then advertise new pages and new items that are similar to those you’ve already expressed interest in. Dr. Mark Pelletier is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Radford University in Virginia and is here today to talk with us about this subject. Why You Should Hire an Introvert Now

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93:10

Organizations Rise and Fall, Home Schooling

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/06

Organizations Rise and Fall (11:59) John Kotter, Ph.D., is a New York Times best-selling author, award winning business and management thought leader, business entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and Harvard Professor. His ideas and books, as well as the company he founded, Kotter International, have helped mobilize people around the world to better lead organizations and their own lives, in an era of increasingly rapid change. Dr. Kotter shares his book “That’s Not How We Do It Here: A Story

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92:48

Terrorism and a Sense of Belonging, Angry Parents

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/04

Terrorism and a Sense of Belonging (16:32) Robert F. Barsky is a professor of English and French Literature, and a professor of law at Vanderbilt University. He has recently published two books, Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and Plight of People Deemed ‘Illegal and his first novel, Hatched, a fictional story about three friends that illegally stimulate the American economy. Terrorism can in fact be homegrown right here in America. We have the security structures

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140:17

When Strangers Meet, Alcohol Advertising, Screen...

The Matt Townsend Show ·

2018/08/03

When Strangers Meet: How People You Don't Know Can Transform You (13:41) Kio Stark is the author of When Strangers Meet, published this month from TED Books. She is also the author of the novel Follow Me Down and the independent learning handbook Don’t Go Back to School. She writes, teaches, and speaks around the world about stranger interactions, independent learning, and how people relate to technology. The More Alcohol Ads Kids See, the More Alcohol they Consume (1:01:59) Dr. Timothy Naimi is

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