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

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

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 7, Episode 129

  • May 30, 2018 6:00 am
  • 1:32:49 mins
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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 Have Taught Us About Leadership", is with us to help us understand how leadership is changing and how to deal with society becoming more and more polarized. Loneliness Can Be Damaging to Your Body (58:46) Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University. Her research is focused on the long-term health effects of social connection. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time Magazine.  Whether it be as a child, a senior, or even a middle-aged adult, everyone feels lonely at some point or another. For some of us it may only be a temporary blip before we make new friends, but for other people, it may be as serious as social isolation. Whatever its form, loneliness is very unhealthy, both mentally and physically. Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad shares her research into the dangers of loneliness.

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