The Kindness Habit: Recent Episodes
Allison Clarke
You hold the power: one look, one smile, one compliment, one gesture! In each episode, we will be interviewing an expert on kindness in different areas of life- from work, home, and in the community. In each episode, we’ll be discussing ways to reduce stress, improve productivity and relationships, and your outlook on life through kindness.
Allison sits down with Monte Wood to talk about how your generosity impacts your life, health, and mood. What can being generous do for you?
https://generositywins.us/
Allison talks about her experience giving $100 out to strangers in a month of kindness. How can you change someone's life with a simple act of kindness?
Allison sits down for a conversation with her daughter, Jamie Ittershagen, about reducing anxiety, the power of volunteering, kindness towards animals, and making time for yourself!
Patrick Galvin explores the ideas of kindness through connection, success and relationships!
Jim Krouskop joins The Kindness Habit to talk about kindness in the workplace, giving the benefit of the doubt, and his thoughts on "quiet quitting".
Who are the most important people in your life? Kindness starts with the people closest to us! I hope you can learn some kindness from Alice's message.
Visit the WIFs website! https://wifsportlandmetro.org
Wentors: A global community of women in technology for women by women
Wentors is a global network of women in technology that support one another. They provide a free mentorship program for women in technology worldwide. They've developed a varied and lively community of 2300+ women in technology across four continents.
You will be reminded of the power of two and your opportunity to use your time to be kind to others.
Listen to how a mother started an organization called The Children's Cancer Association in 1995 after her five-year-old daughter died of cancer to bring more JOY to the world. You will be motivated to ask yourself, What is life asking of you?
The science behind WHY we should be kind. Learn about why we should engage with others and recharge ourselves.
Up and Running helps provide a pathway to lifelong success by training homeless individuals living in rescue missions to complete half marathons. Hard work, discipline, and teamwork in a Gospel-driven context gets them to the finish line of the race, but also to the starting line of a new life filled with confidence, dignity, and hope. Every year, 100+ runners complete half-marathons, and gain the confidence needed to overcome addictions, reconcile relationships, and walk into life forever changed!
https://upandrunningagain.org/
Increase your sales with more kindness to clients. What you plant now will come back to you and your relationships.
Do you have a pet or love animals? Check out this interview with Amy Castro - her stories of animal rescues and reminding us all that we can make a difference will inspire you. Don’t just think about being kind, act today.
In this episode of The Kindness Habit, Benjamin Wagner talks about how his life transformed when he meets the recently retired host of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' Fred Rogers, the king of kindness. Friendship with the PBS icon sets him on a quest to find depth and simplicity amidst a shallow and complex world even twenty years later.
In this episode, we talk about:
-How Benjamin met Mister Rogers and how that influenced his relationship with kindness.
-The importance of making time to do activities that fuel you.
-The ways we can be more present with ourselves and others around us.
-Understanding what Mister Rogers meant by going deep and simple in life.
-How we can show up for each other as human beings with kindness.
Benjamin Wagner made the movie Mister Rogers and Me, and is a consultant, coach, and creative with thirty years of experience as a technology and media executive, award-winning journalist and documentarian, and Punch Sulzberger Fellow at Columbia Journalism School. In long tenures with both MTV News and Facebook, he accrued a strong record leveraging creative, editorial, operational, and team leadership strength to build brands, sustainable platforms, and global programs at scale while accelerating results.