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Shaun Maslyk
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YouPotential explores what it truly means to live a life well lived — through the lens of psychology, money, and meaning. Hosted by Shaun Maslyk—Certified Financial Planner®, Financial Behaviour Specialist®, and Positive Psychology Practitioner—the podcast delivers science-backed insights, candid conversations, and real stories that help people live with more intention.

  1. Aug 6

    Why You Think About Money the Way You Do | Deep Cuts with Shaun Maslyk

    You’ve watched two people receive identical news about money and react like they heard different sentences. One of them was you, once. Episode Summary Most financial advice starts at the behaviour — spend less, save more, invest consistently. All of it is good, and almost none of it survives contact with a belief you’ve never examined. This episode goes underneath the behaviour, to where it comes from. Shaun opens with a story he didn’t understand until adulthood: seven years old, a family reunion, seventy-five dollars’ worth of painted rocks, and a feeling he mistook for being about money for the next thirty years. It wasn’t about the money. It was about being noticed. That misreading shaped a career, and it took a long time to see. From there the conversation moves into the work of financial psychologists Brad Klontz, Charles Chaffin and Ted Klontz — specifically the idea of financial flashpoints. A flashpoint isn’t a belief; it’s an experience. The belief is what your brain made of it, usually before you had any context to judge it with. Those beliefs become money scripts, money scripts drive behaviour, and behaviour produces outcomes. The chain runs in one direction, and most of us only ever try to intervene at the last link. The centre of the episode is a client’s family: grandparents who came to Alberta from Ukraine expecting good farmland, got land that was nearly impossible to work, and concluded that financial institutions couldn’t be trusted. They kept their money on the farm. More than a hundred years and three generations later, that conclusion is still shaping how the family handles money — and nobody in it could tell you where it came from. It’s the clearest illustration in the episode of what makes these beliefs so durable: once you stop examining them, you stop experiencing them as beliefs at all. Key Topics Covered • Why the same raise produces relief in one person and anxiety in another • What a seven-year-old actually learns from an afternoon of unexpected success • The difference between an experience and the meaning you gave it • How a belief that protected your grandparents can quietly cost you • Why recognizing yourself in more than one money pattern is the point, not a failure of the test • What a strength looks like when it’s taken past its usefulness • The gap between “Do I have enough?” and “Do I feel like I have enough?” • Why almost nobody is actually chasing money Memorable Quotes [1:49] The math isn’t different. Their relationship with money is [3:44] I wasn’t really chasing money. I was chasing what money represented. [7:15] Not because of what happened. But because of what you believed it meant. [15:05] Not because they doubted the math. They doubted the feeling. [17:40] The event isn’t the script. The meaning you gave the event… became the script. About Shaun Maslyk Shaun is a Certified Financial Planner and Financial Behaviour Specialist who went and got a master’s in positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, largely because the financial planning tools kept answering the wrong question. He’s spent more than fifteen years across the table from business owners, professionals and families making money decisions, and four hundred episodes of YouPotential asking people what they were actually building. Resources Mentioned • Psychology of Financial Planning — Klontz, Chaffin & Klontz (Wiley, 2022). Where the financial flashpoints framework comes from. • Klontz Money Script Inventory — free assessment. About YouPotential YouPotential explores what it means to build a life that feels right from the inside — through conversations about money, purpose, relationships, and meaning. Hosted by Shaun Maslyk. “Sometimes it’s not the answers we learn from — but the questions.”

    Why You Think About Money the Way You Do | Deep Cuts with Shaun Maslyk

  2. Jul 30

    A Calling Is Built, Not Discovered | Dr. Bryan Dik

    He got down on his knees and begged God for a sign. What he got instead was a letter from the registrar. Episode Summary Dr. Bryan Dik is a vocational psychologist at Colorado State University who has spent more than twenty years studying one old question with new tools: what is a calling, and why does it matter? His answer starts with his own story — a bright college sophomore so paralyzed by choosing one path over another that he pleaded for a burning-bush moment that never came. He picked psychology because he had the most credits in it. Two decades later, that path of least resistance became the defining insight of his career: a calling is built, not discovered. Bryan breaks a calling into three dimensions: a transcendent summons (something beyond yourself drawing you in), purposeful work (your days align with what matters most to you), and a pro-social orientation (the work benefits someone besides you). Then he makes it concrete: the road construction flagger who is genuinely grateful to flip his sign all day, because for him the job is about keeping people safe. If a flagger can find that, Bryan asks, what excuse do the rest of us have? But this isn’t a pep talk. Bryan is honest about the dark side — how people with a strong sense of calling are vulnerable to workaholism, burnout, and exploitation, and about the season he dreaded going to work in a role he calls toxic. And he’s honest about money: the startup he co-founded and sold after eleven years, the payout that “was not life-changing” but was satisfying, and how four sons approaching college quietly changed the math on what he says yes to. The conversation lands where most of Shaun’s guests eventually do: the tension between meaning and money isn’t a problem to solve. It’s a reality to manage — and it is not all or nothing. Key topics Covered Why the “lightning strike” model of calling fails most people The three dimensions: transcendent summons, purposeful work, pro-social orientation The flagger, the hospital custodian, and meaning in unexpected placesJob crafting: the conversation with your boss most people never haveOrganizations’ responsibility for decent, dignified workBurnout, workaholism, and the oxygen-mask problem for the deeply committedMoney after the exit: how a payout and four sons changed his calculationsThe artist’s compensation strategy: a stable job that funds the real work Memorable quotes “And so for the rest of us a calling is built. It’s not something that’s discovered.” Timestamp [08:15] “He’s like grateful for the opportunity to flip that sign.” Timestamp [16:28] “The more focused we tend to be on contributing to other people’s well being, the happier we tend to be as well.” Timestamp [10:07] “Sometimes you can be so committed to the purpose of what you’re doing, that you’re not paying attention to the toll that it’s taking on you.” Timestamp [43:35] “Should I choose my passion or should I choose an income? No. That’s too simplistic. There’s always compromise. I mean, there’s always compromise. That is true, but it is not all or nothing.” Timestamp[56:35] About Bryan Dik: Bryan Dik is a professor of psychology at Colorado State University and one of the world’s leading researchers on calling and meaning at work. He co-founded jobZology and co-invented PathwayU, a career assessment platform now used at more than 200 colleges and universities, and today leads The LIVE Project — the largest longitudinal study of vocational exploration ever attempted. He’s the author of Make Your Job a Calling and Redeeming Work. He’s also a long-suffering Michigan sports fan and a father of four sons, which — as you’ll hear — changed his relationship with money more than the startup exit did. Connect with Bryan Dik: Bryan Dik: https://bryandik.comThe Live Project: https://theliveproject.org Resources mentioned: The Fabric of This World by Lee Hardy · Adam Grant’s call-center scholarship study · Make Your Job a Calling (Dik & Duffy, 2012) · The LIVE Project (Lilly Endowment) About YouPotential: Conversations with researchers, builders, and thinkers about money, meaning, and a life well lived. Sometimes it’s not the answers we learn from — but the questions. Hosted by Shaun Maslyk.

    A Calling Is Built, Not Discovered | Dr. Bryan Dik

  3. Jul 16

    How the Happiest People Spend Money | Deep Cuts with Shaun Maslyk

    The happiest people don’t spend more than everyone else, some spend a lot, some spend a little. What sets them apart is where the money goes. In this solo episode, Shaun Maslyk — a Certified Financial Planner who also studied positive psychology, lays out the five research-backed moves that turn the same dollars into a genuinely better life. It starts with an honest look at the money-and-happiness research: the famous ‘$75,000 and happiness plateaus’ finding has been updated, and it turns out how you spend matters far more than how much you earn. From there, five moves: buy experiences over things, make the good stuff rare again, buy back your time, pay now and enjoy later, and spend on others. Along the way Shaun gets personal, the boat that became his family’s ‘memory machine,’ and the housekeeper he hired that taught him buying time only works if you protect it. Underneath all five is one idea: you’re never really buying the object. You’re buying a feeling you’re hoping it delivers and usually it doesn’t, so you buy the next thing. The episode closes on the biggest proof of all: the world’s longest-lived, happiest communities, across every income level, share one thing that isn’t money — the people around them. If you’ve done well and quietly wondered why the money doesn’t add up to more, this one’s a clear, practical hour and a different way to think about every purchase you make.

    How the Happiest People Spend Money | Deep Cuts with Shaun Maslyk

  4. Jul 9

    No Regrets: The Man Who Discovered The Hip | Jake Gold

    Some people build a life they want to escape. Jake Gold built one he never wanted out of and that turns out to be its own kind of question. Episode Summary Jake Gold has spent forty-five years as an artist manager. He spotted The Tragically Hip in a Toronto club in 1986 and signed them that same night, managed them through their rise, parted ways in 2003, and returned to the fold in 2020. He’s a Canadian Music Hall of Famer, a six-season Canadian Idol judge, and at 68 he’ll tell you plainly that he’s busier than he’s been in two decades. Ask him when he plans to retire and you get a genuinely puzzled question back: from what? Underneath the band stories, and they’re great ones, this is a conversation about what happens when the work was never the thing you needed relief from. Jake describes getting fired from a stereo store at 23 and deciding on the spot that no one would ever control his future again. He describes being fired by The Hip in 2003 and feeling, to his own surprise, the stress lift off his shoulders rather than grief set in. Two moments that should have been losses, and weren’t. The turn in the conversation is quiet. Jake doesn’t separate his work from his life because, for him, there’s no seam to find — “it’s a lifestyle,” he says, and then admits in the same breath that the balance was never quite right, that there were two divorces, that he doesn’t have kids partly because he couldn’t do both. He doesn’t dress this up. He says he doesn’t live with regret, and when someone once called that his fatal flaw, he decided that was a dumb thing to say. He’s only learned to worry about what he can do something about. For anyone who has built something real and wondered what they’d be without it, Jake is a useful mirror — not because he solved it, but because he never needed to. He found the work that was the thing itself, and he’s honest about both halves of that bargain. Key Topics Covered What “retirement” even means when you’ve never received a check you didn’t writeThe day getting fired stopped feeling like a loss and started feeling like freedomHow you know in thirty seconds and why most people in the room didn’tWhy he works only with people who already have a sense of selfKnowing when not to get involved: ambition turning into wisdomWhat it costs to make the work your whole life, said without flinchingLuck as “knowing when to seize opportunity,” not something that happens to you Memorable Quotes “Someone said to me the other day, when are you going to retire? And I said, from what?” Timestamp [01:07:21] “I’ve never received a check in this business that I didn’t write.” Timestamp [01:07:52] “The moment you stopped being curious is the moment you’re not any good in this business.” Timestamp [00:12:45] “My job is to get them at bats. They still got to hit the ball." Timestamp [01:01:02] “I’ve learned how to only worry about the stuff I can actually do something about, and not worry about the stuff that I can’t.” Timestamp[01:10:30] About Jake Gold Jake Gold is one of the most respected artist managers in Canadian music history. He discovered The Tragically Hip in 1986, signed them the night he first saw them open for a Rolling Stones cover band, and built a four-decade career around acts with a strong sense of who they are. Beyond The Hip, he spent six seasons as a judge on Canadian Idol, manages a roster that now includes Broken Social Scene, and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. He executive-produced the documentary No Dress Rehearsal and helped recover thirty-five unmarked reels of lost Road Apples session tapes, finding them on his second day back with the band after twenty years away. He’s also disarmingly honest about himself: a curious kid who drove his parents crazy asking “why,” a man who goes to therapy and credits it for making him better at his job, and someone who, by his own account, doesn’t think of any of this as work. Connect with Jake Gold Jake Gold: linkedin.com/in/jake-gold-92046030No Dress Rehearsal (documentary, Prime Video) — the Tragically Hip film Jake executive-produced About YouPotential YouPotential explores what it means to build a life that feels right from the inside: through conversations about money, purpose, relationships, and meaning. Hosted by Shaun Maslyk. “Sometimes it’s not the answers we learn from — but the questions.”

    No Regrets: The Man Who Discovered The Hip | Jake Gold

  5. Jun 25

    The Key to Happiness Isn’t What You Think | Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky

    After 36 years of studying what makes people happy, Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky landed somewhere she didn’t expect: the key isn’t success or achievement — it’s feeling loved. And feeling loved, it turns out, is something you can build. Episode Summary Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky has spent her career running what she calls happiness interventions — essentially clinical trials, but instead of testing a medication, her lab tests practices like writing gratitude letters or doing acts of kindness. After nearly three decades of this work, she noticed something: almost every practice that reliably makes people happier works for the same underlying reason. It makes them feel more connected to and loved by others. That insight became her new book, How to Feel Loved, co-written with relationship scientist Harry Reis. The central, quietly radical idea is that you can be surrounded by love and still not feel it — and that the fix isn’t to change yourself or to persuade anyone to love you more. It’s to change the conversation. A relationship, as Sonja frames it, is just a series of conversations, which means the next one is always within your control. The conversation moves from the science to the deeply practical: why “going first” with genuine curiosity disarms the walls we build, how a parent breaks through to a kid over a video game, what makes us reach for the impressive story instead of the connecting one, and the five mindsets that help people feel more loved. Shaun and Sonja also get into money — specifically why the spending that actually buys happiness tends to be spending on connection — and close on the vulnerability paradox: showing more of ourselves, at the right time, usually makes us feel more loved, not less. For an audience of people who have built successful lives and are quietly asking what it’s all for, this one lands on the answer that tends to matter most at the end. Key Topics Covered — The 36-year conclusion: feeling loved is the key to happiness — Why nearly every happiness intervention works through connection — The difference between being loved and feeling loved — “Change the conversation” — control you actually have — Going first: leading with genuine curiosity — The five mindsets of feeling loved — Multiplicity: holding people as more than one trait — Listening to learn vs. listening to respond — Spending money on connection, growth, and generosity — The vulnerability paradox MEMORABLE QUOTES “Really the key to happiness is feeling loved.” Timestamp: [03:54] “You can have love in your life, you can be loved and not feel loved.” Timestamp: [17:23] “You don’t actually have to change yourself. You don’t actually have to change the other person. All you have to do is change the conversation.” Timestamp: [18:32] “A relationship is just a series of conversations.” Timestamp: [18:38] “If you want to feel more loved, the first step is actually to make the other person feel more loved. So you go first.” Timestamp: [18:50] ABOUT DR. SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky is a professor of psychology at UC Riverside and one of the most widely cited happiness researchers in the world. For nearly thirty years, her lab has run happiness interventions — rigorous trials testing which practices actually move well-being. Born in Russia and raised partly in the United States, she brings a cross-cultural eye to questions of happiness, connection, and what it means to feel at home with other people. She teaches an undergraduate happiness course of 300 students — complete with a song playlist for every lecture. Her new book, How to Feel Loved, co-authored with relationship scientist Harry Reis, is, in her words, the most important thing she’s done in her career — because it distills decades of research into the one thing that turned out to matter most. CONNECT & RESOURCES Connect with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky — Website: howtofeelloved.com — Book: How to Feel Loved — howtofeelloved.com (take the mindset quiz)

    The Key to Happiness Isn’t What You Think | Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky

  6. Jun 18

    Train Your Mind Like Your Body | Andy Riise

    Andy Riise has spent his life around pressure. Twenty years in the U.S. Army, including West Point, Iraq, and Afghanistan. A first post-military job in Major League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds. Mental performance coaching in the NFL with the Chicago Bears. But the thread running through all of it isn’t toughness in the way we usually picture it. It’s the opposite of the “suck it up and drive on” culture he grew up in. In this conversation, Andy lays out his core idea: mental fitness is trainable. He uses the image of an arena — a structure with character as its foundation, the four C’s as its pillars, connection as the frame, and culture as the dome. Around that image he draws a sharper distinction: most people are either lost between arenas, watching from the spectator seats, or actually in the arena, willing to try and fail in public. The invitation of the episode is to step in. The turn comes when Andy talks about his own hardest battles — not combat, but the eight inches between his ears. He’s candid about imposter syndrome at West Point, the voice that attacked him daily, and the mentor (Captain Carl Olsen) who first taught him that confidence and focus are skills, not gifts. From there he gives the listener something practical: a thirty-second daily check-in (surviving, resilient, or thriving), the question “what can you do to fight to the right,” and the Four C’s framework for navigating change. He also pushes back on the cult of grit. There’s a glass ceiling, he says — a time to grit, a time to quit, and a time to pivot — and he tells the story of a minor-league ballplayer hanging on to a dream at the cost of everything else. The conversation closes where YouPotential always returns: identity, money, and what happens when your whole sense of self is tied to the scorecard. Key Topics Covered The Arena as operating system: A visual model for character, mental fitness, connection, and culture.Three kinds of people: The lost, the spectators (and critics), and the performers in the arena.Identity in transition: Leaving a twenty-year military identity and asking “who am I?” not just “what’s next?”The real battlefield: Why the hardest fights are internal, not external.Mental fitness is trainable: Treating the mind like the body — reps, recovery, repeat.The daily check-in: Surviving, resilient, or thriving — and “what can I do to fight to the right?”The Four C’s: Confidence, control, commitment, challenge — with control as the entry point.Grit’s glass ceiling: When to grit, when to quit, when to pivot.Money and identity: What happens when self-worth is tied to being the breadwinner. Memorable Quotes “The hardest battles you fought weren’t in Iraq or Afghanistan. They were in the eight inches between your ears.” Timestamp: [17:33] (host frame, Andy affirms) “I thought that it made me automatically mentally tough and I was wrong.” Timestamp: [18:25] “Everybody’s fighting this war for mental fitness.” Timestamp: [22:14] “The credit belongs to the performers who are in the arena.” Timestamp: [06:33] “To develop black belt skills you have to have a white belt mindset.” Timestamp: [01:04:04] About Andy Riise Andy Riise is a mental performance coach who works at the intersection of behavioral science and lived experience. Before coaching, he served twenty years in the U.S. Army, beginning at West Point and including combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, along with work supporting elite special operations units. After the military, Andy moved into performance coaching — first in Major League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds, then in the NFL with the Chicago Bears. His philosophy is built around the idea that mental fitness can be trained like the body, using assessments, skills, and repetition rather than slogans or hacks. He’s the host of the Skull Sessions Podcast, the founder of Design to Perform, and is writing a book with the working title Step Into the Arena. He lives with his wife and four children, and names service as his principal core value. Connect With Andy Riise Website: andyriise.comPodcast: Skull Sessions PodcastCoaching: Design to Perform Resources Mentioned Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” (from the “Citizenship in a Republic” speech)The Four C’s model of mental toughness (confidence, control, commitment, challenge)Ford v Ferrari (referenced on the mind–body / man–machine relationship)The Pantheon in Rome (the architectural metaphor for Andy’s model)“The measure of a life is in its service” — motto of Sam Houston State University About YouPotential YouPotential explores what it means to live a meaningful life — through conversations about money, purpose, relationships, and becoming. Hosted by Shaun Maslyk. “Sometimes it’s not the answers we learn from — but the questions.”

    Train Your Mind Like Your Body | Andy Riise

  7. Jun 11

    I Built a Business That Doesn't Need Me | Jodie Cook

    EPISODE SUMMARY Jodie Cook has lived several lives most people would be happy with just one of: founder of a social media agency she scaled and sold, author, Forbes columnist, competitive powerlifter for Great Britain, and now the founder of an AI company, Coachbox. But this conversation isn't a highlight reel. It's an excavation of the mental operating system underneath the wins — the framings and beliefs that let her keep moving when most people would freeze. We start with Charlie Cole, the alter ego she invented to catch herself in the act of “good girl conditioning” — the inherited training to be polite, agreeable, and small. From there the conversation moves through the stories that shaped her: a self-employed mother who taught her what work looked like, fifteen jobs before she was twenty-one, and an early decision that the words you use to describe yourself are the words you eventually become. The emotional center is March 2020. Jodie had built an agency that ran without her — she traveled four months a year, and her team pulled rocks out of her backpack rather than putting them in. Then COVID took a quarter of her clients in a week, and she had to decide who she was when the thing she'd built was on fire. What she did next, and what it taught her about when to hold on and when to let go, is the heart of this episode. For anyone who has built something successful and quietly wondered “is this it?” — or who suspects the story running their life was written by someone else — this is a conversation about taking the pen back. KEY TOPICS COVERED Good girl conditioning & the alter ego: why Jodie invented Charlie Cole, and how an alter ego is permission to be more yourself.The power of self-naming: calling it “my business” when it was just her — the label comes before the identity.Money as freedom: how a purple Kia Picanto at 17 wired a belief that money equals freedom and travel.A business that doesn't need you: rewarding self-sufficiency and getting your ego out of the team's way.Reframing fear as “go time”: a childhood framing of nerves as excitement that became a lifelong advantage.Adlerian psychology: why she believes you chose your problems — and why that's liberating.“Living in the end”: the nightly visualization practice she uses before competitions and big decisions.The personal success system: why everyone has a repeatable recipe for their wins.Playing your ace cards: the things that come easy to you that you've been taught to hide. MEMORABLE QUOTES “I think that everyone's alter ego is just them. It's just who they would be if they weren't afraid of something or if they didn't need permission.” 📍 03:24 “take your power back. Who are you waiting for? Like no one cares, they're all doing their own stuff.” 📍 07:01 “my job is to never put out the same fire twice.” 📍 16:42 “I love the idea that nothing in my past had any power at all over who I am now. I chose it. Because you do take your power back.” 📍 34:36 “trying is a confession of absence. So as soon as you're trying to get something, you're like basically saying, I don't have it.” 📍 35:32 ABOUT JODIE COOK Jodie Cook is a British entrepreneur, author, and athlete. She founded a social media agency at 22 and sold it ten years later, then spent time helping other agency owners navigate their own exits. She is a Forbes columnist, the author of several books including Ten Year Career, and competes for Great Britain in bench press. Her latest venture is Coachbox AI, a platform that lets coaches, consultants, and founder-led businesses build their own AI version of themselves — a company that grew, fittingly, out of people simply asking her to make one for them. A committed digital nomad, she travels the world with a single suitcase and a clear philosophy: that the words you use to describe yourself shape who you become, and that almost everything you need to succeed, you already have. RESOURCES MENTIONED The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga — the Adlerian book Jodie travels withAlfred Adler / individual psychology — goal-based vs. cause-and-effect thinkingNeville Goddard — the “living in the end” philosophyAkira the Don & “Meaning Wave” — introduced her to Goddard (album: Stop Trying)Dr. Wayne Dyer — “see someone's highest potential and treat them like that's all you see”Coachbox AI — Jodie's current company ABOUT YOUPOTENTIAL YouPotential explores what it means to live a meaningful life — through conversations about money, purpose, relationships, and becoming. Hosted by Shaun Maslyk. “Sometimes it's not the answers we learn from — but the questions.”

    I Built a Business That Doesn't Need Me | Jodie Cook

  8. Jun 4

    Deep Cuts: Parent From Principles, Not Rules

    Most of us are making rules. Todd Kashdan is making principles. The difference shapes the kid. In this Deep Cuts, I pull the parenting threads out of my YouPotential conversation with Dr. Todd Kashdan — Professor of Psychology at George Mason University and one of the most cited researchers in the world on curiosity, psychological flexibility, and well-being. Todd grew up without a father. His mom died when he was twelve. He had almost no model for what an engaged dad looked like. So he built one — three principles his kids could recite by age five. We get into post-traumatic growth, the cult of high-achieving kids, the financial cost of the optimized childhood, the 10% retirement concept, psychological flexibility as a unified theory, and a practice called strengths-spotting that changed how I show up with my own son. It's not a how-to. It's a re-frame of what the job actually is. Key Topics Todd's three principles — what to stand for instead of what to forbidPost-traumatic growth and the name tag we don't have to wearBeach Week — intel over interrogationThe cult of high-achieving kids and what we're really buyingPath A vs Path B — Todd's framework for teenagersWhy relationships predict happiness more than credentialsThe 10% retirement — quietly stepping off the achievement treadmillPsychological flexibility — meeting the moment instead of repeating yourselfPrincipled rebellion — how kids become adults who change institutionsStrengths-spotting — bolding and italicizing who your kid is becoming Memorable Quotes "Since my kids were five years old, they could recite the three principles of Todd as their dad. One, I'm going to make you laugh. Two, I'm gonna teach you stuff. Three, I'm always gonna be there." 📍 00:54 "I think all of us should basically try not to be enslaved by our past, but use it as a comparator of — this will not take place again on my watch." 📍 14:25 "We do know that this is the number one predictor cross-culturally of what predicts happiness — lasting, significant, meaningful interactions and relationships." 📍 40:39 "Everyone has this jagged profile of skills, abilities, personality traits. You have to figure out what dimension is going to work best in the situation that I'm in right now." 📍 1:21:06 "Consistency doesn't mean saying the same thing over and over — a lot of activists get this wrong." 📍 1:04:02 About Todd Kashdan Dr. Todd Kashdan is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University and director of the Well-Being Laboratory. He's one of the world's leading researchers on curiosity, psychological flexibility, and well-being — over 225 peer-reviewed articles, cited more than 35,000 times. He's the author of The Art of Insubordination, Curious?, The Upside of Your Dark Side, and Designing Positive Psychology. He writes the popular Substack Provoked. He's a father of twin daughters (plus one more). Connect With Todd 🌐 Website: toddkashdan.com 📚 Substack: toddkashdan.substack.com 📖 Books: The Art of Insubordination · Curious? · The Upside of Your Dark Side Resources Mentioned VIA Character Strengths Survey — viacharacter.org (Peterson & Seligman) Post-traumatic growth research — Tedeschi & Calhoun The 10% Retirement — Jay Van Bavel

    Deep Cuts: Parent From Principles, Not Rules
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YouPotential explores what it truly means to live a life well lived — through the lens of psychology, money, and meaning. Hosted by Shaun Maslyk—Certified Financial Planner®, Financial Behaviour Specialist®, and Positive Psychology Practitioner—the podcast delivers science-backed insights, candid conversations, and real stories that help people live with more intention.

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  • Creator
    Shaun Maslyk
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    61
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