Re-Quilibrium Podcast

Danielle LeCourt
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Re-Quilibrium Podcast Podcast

Integrating perspectives on the many aspects of a rich human life toward a vision for well-being and flourishing. Originally active 2015-17, re-launched 2021. Hosted by Salt Lake City’s Danielle LeCourt—science writer, research nerd, communication professor, mother of two. IF YOU VALUE THIS WORK, CONSIDER SUPPORTING RE-QUILIBRIUM ON PATREON.

  1. 31/12/2021

    Dr. Fred Luskin on Forgiveness

    Forgiveness is a skill and a practice that we can embody to live more peaceful lives. Yet it’s not one that is often taught, leaving many people confused about the tasks involved with moving forward through unpleasant or even traumatic experiences. To go from being disturbed to being at peace with your life, to transition from an argument with life to an acceptance of life — this is the work of forgiveness. Essentially, forgiveness is making peace with the word no. Dr. Fred Luskin of Stanford University’s Forgiveness Projects joins Re-Quilibrium to discuss his life-long work researching and teaching forgiveness.

    52 min

  2. 19/07/2021

    Time Affluence and Time Poverty

    What if most of your conversations about time are actually conversations about feelings? 80% of working adults feel like they’re “time-poor,” but time is a tricky concept to pin down. What many people really mean when they say “I don’t have enough time” is that they feel stressed or overwhelmed by the demands of work and life. This truth has costly consequences—feeling time-poor can have stronger negative effects on happiness than being unemployed. Dr. Ashley Whillans of Harvard Business School discusses the research linking time and well-being and offers suggestions on how to adopt a healthy time lifestyle.

    55 min

  3. 28/06/2021

    Flourishing, Achievement, and Privilege

    Flourishing provides a framework for how to live well by taking into account individuality, constraints, and systems. Yet what does it look like to apply this framework in education? Classroom-teacher-turned-positive-psychologist Nick Holton has been exploring the concept of flourishing through a performance lens to determine how to help students become the best versions of themselves. Nick; widely versed in various theories in positive psychology, well-being, and flourishing; includes concepts like achievement, mastery, motivation, flow, meaning, and connection in his promotion of flourishing in schools. He also acknowledges the role of privilege in well-being and how to repair system-level concerns to help more people access vital aspects of life.

    48 min

  4. 07/06/2021

    Mental Health and Flourishing in Sports

    Mental health in elite athletes is an elevated topic in 2021. In sports, there’s a fine line between growth and exhaustion, strength and breakdown, health and pathology—and this couldn’t be more true for athletes competing during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Yet sports also provide a unique playground for the development of mental tools, identity, and tolerance for discomfort.  In this conversation with Beth Launiere, storied head coach of the University of Utah Women’s Volleyball team (and my former coach), we discuss the mental and emotional facet of competition and the responsibility of the systems and leaders that support elite athletes. We also discuss the challenges of a season during COVID and social unrest and how tumultuous times can give way to a fresh start.

    47 min

  5. 01/06/2021

    The Skill of Conflict

    In a time of great division, we become positional and put up our walls. So in this episode with the University of Utah’s Dr. Danya Rumore, we talk about how to attack problems instead of people, avoid zero-sum thinking, and manage our needs to come together in a time marked by cancel culture, aggression, and a breakdown of dialogue. We even dive into the mass migration to the rural Mountain West and how income inequality, housing affordability, and water issues necessitate greater skills in conflict and dialogue.

    1h 6m

  6. 24/05/2021

    Love, Spirituality, and Flourishing

    What does it mean to be well? In this conversation with Dr. Matthew Lee, Director of Empirical Research at Harvard's Human Flourishing Program, we run the gamut of subject matter—love, spirituality, inner peace, business—in search of the answer. A sociologist and former criminologist, Lee's research explores the pathways to human flourishing, benevolent service to others, and the integration of social science and the humanities.

    1h 3m

  7. 15/03/2021

    The Rhetoric of Productivity

    Time management, productivity, high-performance—these buzzwords govern the way we view our roles in not only our jobs but society as a whole. But often, notions that center around the idea of “high performance” are just that: performative. In this conversation with Dr. Christine Seifert, we unpack what productivity really means and the assumption of morality that unpins it. A professor of communication and author of a number of books and articles, Dr. Seifert thinks deeply and often about the mechanics and implications of rhetoric and how we can be deliberate in our engagement with metaphor.

    49 min

  8. 25/02/2021

    Individuals and Systems

    Conversations about individuals and systems tend to veer into the realm of either/or. Yet in this episode, Francois Sauer and I explore how complex, dynamic systems can work to serve individuals and create an environment for human flourishing. Initially trained as a physician and having worked at the systems level with healthcare technologies, Francois is a polymath, philosophical thinker, and truly beautiful mind. We wander from topics like creativity and leadership, to how constraints are a real and often fruitful element of organic systems, to how data ecosystems are informing society at an unprecedented level.

    54 min
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Integrating perspectives on the many aspects of a rich human life toward a vision for well-being and flourishing. Originally active 2015-17, re-launched 2021. Hosted by Salt Lake City’s Danielle LeCourt—science writer, research nerd, communication professor, mother of two. IF YOU VALUE THIS WORK, CONSIDER SUPPORTING RE-QUILIBRIUM ON PATREON.

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  • Creator
    Danielle LeCourt
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    30
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    © 2015 - 2021 Re-Quilibrium Podcast
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