Getting NAKED with HAPPINESS
by Stephen Lew
In this podcast, bring your wellbeing to the next level with happiness experts and resilience champions, as they share their experiences and valuable tips. Join Stephen Lew, the Founder of The School of Positive Psychology, as he distills the secrets to happiness, resilience, and wellbeing from guests around the world.Brought to you by The School of Positive Psychology
Episodes
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#040 | Happiness at no cost | Stephen Lew & Jade Seah
How can we be more satisfied in life? Stephen Lew and Jade Seah return for more insights on HAPPINESS! Social norms may have taught us to believe that a nice house, car, and spending power are necessary for a ‘good’ life. But according to the science of wellbeing, the things we own will not give…
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#039 | You are greater than your thoughts | Jamie Nonis
“Its very easy for us to buy into the idea that we are what we think. But recognise that we have the power to change our thoughts. And then we can change our mindsets and paradigms and change our lives.” Jamie Nonis is an accomplished journalist based in Singapore, and is no stranger to the…
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#038 | How to choose Happiness | Stephen Lew & Jade Seah Live
We need positive emotions. Not just to feel good, but also because of the range of benefits on our wellbeing and health. Join host Stephen Lew, and Media Personality Jade Seah in this live chat on why happiness is so important, how we can measure our happiness, and what intentional steps we can...
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#037 | Is Your Inner Child Wounded? | Sheila Sim
Why are we overly demanding/controlling/needy in relationships? As a child, you may have had unmet emotional and physical needs that become inner wounds during adulthood. These wounds often surface in romantic relationships. For Sheila Sim, the shadows of her childhood losses continued to shape…
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#036 | Transform with Compassionate Leadership | Roslina Chai
Skip the intro to 01:03 "Most change managers attempt to persuade people to change their minds. I'm suggesting just a small step of making it easy for people to change their hearts." In order to change an environment, a leader will need to change mindsets. Roslina offers an overview on building a...
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#035 | How to have compassionate conversations | Roslina Chai
Skip the intro to 01:02 When problems arise at work, honesty and openness from employees are crucial for leadership response to be effective. Roslina goes through a four-step process for compassionate conversations at work, to empower employees with safety and ownership. This series of episodes...
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#034 | Be the best leader you can be | Roslina Chai
Skip the intro to 01:11 As leaders in an organisation, does caring for our employees and wanting optimal performance from them feel like competing goals? Employees work closely with stakeholders, and it is essential for them to have the space to be innovative and engaged. For Roslina, having…
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#033 | Finding Creativity within Hierarchy | Roslina Chai
Often, companies implement a top-down directive to improve creativity and engagement among employees. But employees may find themselves struggling against organisational culture to bring this to effect. How then can we navigate this situation, when the bosses say yes but the culture says no? This...
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#032 | Why we need INCLUSION for powerful teams | Roslina Chai
When it comes to workplace marginalisation, Roslina Chai has plenty of novel approaches to improving how we work together. What we can do to foster inclusivity, and why is it so important anyway? Because if employees are afraid to take risks or speak out at work; if they feel excluded and...
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#031 | Is chasing happiness getting you down? | Sha-En Yeo
"If happiness is a goal you want to attain, then what happens when you reach it? Is there nothing left in your life aside from that?" Sha-En Yeo is a TEDx speaker, best-selling author and is the first Singaporean to attain the prestigious Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the...
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#030 | How I got out of an abusive relationship | Rachel Lim
*TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence, and may be triggering to some people. If you feel an intense physical or emotional reaction while listening, please press pause. Reach out to someone you trust, or a trained counsellor, to process your feelings and…
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#029 | Why I turned my entire company VEGAN | Chris Brennan
Chris Brennan is the founder of a successful luxury-end design and build company based in the UK. He also co-authored multiple vegan cookbooks, and has proudly converted his entire organisation's team to a vegan diet. What does being ethically conscious have to do with his personal and business...
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#028 | How to make good HABITS stick | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
Are there good or bad habits you've developed during lockdown, which you want to keep or break? One crystal clear insight we've gained from our podcast guests so far is that habits are CRUCIAL in helping us create better versions of ourselves. How do we harness the power of habits? In this…
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#027 | Why you're in a toxic relationship | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
In our last live session, we discussed how to spot emotional abuse. This time, we take a look at toxic relationships, where usually, both parties play a part in fuelling the damage to each other. Psychotherapist and Founder of The School of Positive Psychology, Stephen Lew, and Media Personality...
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#026 | Why do you hate yourself so much? | Lisa Edwards
Lisa Edwards was emotionally abused and manipulated during a 6 year relationship. The man she loved had even created fake Facebook accounts of non-existent ‘colleagues’, using one of these accounts to verbally abuse her. She was ready to marry him when she found out that the entire relationship…
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#025 | Is your relationship bad for you? | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
Jade Seah and Stephen Lew look at how relationships can be emotionally abusive, even if we feel love from and for the person. Relationships play a big part in our happiness, but they could also be causing a lot of our unhappiness. How can we identify unhealthy relationship behaviours, and what…
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#025 | Stop bullying yourself | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
Often, we unknowingly set thinking traps for ourselves, which trip us into a cycle of negative thoughts. These thinking traps, otherwise known as COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS, are like our inner bullies, convincing us that we are not good enough, and not worthy of happiness or love. In this episode, we...
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#024 | Fighting Depression | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
1 in 7 people in Singapore have or will experience a mental disorder in their life. This also means there is a high chance that either ourselves or someone we know will at some point need support through the struggle of a mental disorder. In this episode, we take a look at DEPRESSION. How can we...
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#023 | Get Comfortable with being Uncomfortable | Chris Brennan
"Within us is a person who can endure so much more than we currently can. By endlessly striving for comfort, all we’re doing is turning ourselves into a most feeble version of a human being. And then of course people are struggling. They start becoming scared of everything." Our next episode with...
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#022 | Defeat Boredom | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
Why do we feel bored? Two possible explanations: your skills are not being challenged, or you feel a lack of meaning in an aspect (or aspects) of your life. Our solution? PLAY! Playing - engaging in an activity for fun rather than for a serious or practical purpose - increases endorphin (happy...
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#021 | Optimism is a SKILL | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
Optimism is a skill that we have to develop over time, and it is not simply about thinking positive, or being blind to the negative. How then do we 'train' our optimism? Here is one exercise we covered in the episode, which you can try for yourself! When you go through something bad, ask yourself...
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#020 | How to DO Resilience | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
What is resilience, and what does it do for us? What are some different types of resilience? We take a close look at the latest buzzword - RESILIENCE. It has never been more important to build the skills to stay adaptable and in control, as we see unprecedented levels of change and hardships in...
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#019 | What to do with feelings | Coping with Covid with Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
"All emotions are good, whether negative or positive. But we should not spend too much time preoccupied with one set of emotions - aside from things that make us feel negative, we should make space for more positive events too." How do we stay emotionally healthy when we are unable to do many of...
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#018 | Coping with Covid | Stephen Lew and Jade Seah
"It's not about thinking positive. It's about focusing on healthy habits." In this special series of episodes, we explore psychological tools you can use to navigate a world struck by the Covid-19 pandemic. Hear from Stephen and local media personality Jade Seah on dealing with fear, building...
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#017 | I survived SARS | Ashraf Khan
"It was painful to have SARS - the difficulty breathing, the fever that goes up and down..." What was it like to be diagnosed with SARS? Our guest Ashraf Khan managed to survive the ordeal, and is here today to recount the distressing experience. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), is a…
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#016 | The healing power of mental reframing | Deirdre Maguire
What is the most powerful tool for healing? For Deirdre Maguire, it's the mind. When cancer came knocking at her door, Deirdre realised that her life had been DRIVEN by STRESS. She set out to HEAL her body THROUGH HER MIND, by releasing the thought patterns that create illness in our bodies. For...
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#015 | How to move on after a loved one's suicide | Deirdre Maguire
“I don’t know why my father made that decision. But I've learnt that sometimes, the answer is that there is no answer.” When Dierdre’s father committed suicide, she saw herself as a failure for not having been able to save him. Her journey of healing inspired her to support others facing suicide...
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#014 | How to BECOME LIMITLESS | Barney Wee
“If you want to handle more, you need to be more mature." Psychological maturity is something that needs constant development. As Barney Wee shares his expert insights into life transformation, learn how YOU can evolve your mind to become limitless! Barney Wee is a master neurolinguistic...
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#013 | Mr/Mrs Right does not exist | Winifred Ling
What are the secrets to relationship success? Winifred Ling is back to divulge her expert relationship knowledge and tips. Having been a couples therapist and psychologist for more than a decade, Wini in well-versed in helping couples out of breaking point. Is your relationship heading towards...
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#012 | Glad I was Kidnapped | Gloria Goldberg
"I am grateful for this kidnapping experience, because now I'm going to help a lot of people." Gloria Goldberg was kidnapped for ransom when she was 25, and mother of a young daughter. But her family didn't want to pay for her release. Having made it out alive, Gloria still suffers episodes of...
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#011 | How can we GO FAR? | Karen Temple
"At the end of the day, people can solve problems. But it's the RELATIONSHIPS that can make magic." Karen Temple experienced clinical depression as a young teenager. If not for the perceptiveness of her mother, she would not have known about it, or been able to get herself out of that situation....
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#009 | Adjust the lights to be at our best | Raimar Geffken
"A lot of people who struggle with sleep because of light exposure." How does light affect our health and wellbeing? Holistic health expert Raimar Geffken ignites insight into how we can function better through light. Raimar is a lighting professional and founder of the company Ralum, an...
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#010 | How to find meaning after losing everything | Ammar Ahmad
"When I was a child, I woke up in fright to the sound of the bombs; there was a lot of confusion, uncertainty and and fear, after a while, we got used to it... these events marked a place in my heart and my soul" “However empty your glass, if you keep adding to it, it will eventually overflow.”...
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#008 | Overcoming depression to become a better, smarter, more powerful being | Jeremy Tan
"I realised that if you feed the soul internally first, you'll be better able to feed other people's souls externally." Jeremy Tan, is the founder of AT Asia, an expert headhunter who goes the extra mile in defining human capital performance. Before his breakthrough, he often blamed others and...
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#007 | Surviving 9/11 with Judith Francis-Wertenbroch
"If do not face your fears in life, I guarantee you, you will be haunted for the rest of your life." Hear the incredible story of how Judith survived the September 11th World Trade Center attacks, and how she coped with the trauma that came after. As she recounts her experience with PTSD, learn…
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#006 | Breaking through affluenza, and the fear of vulnerability | Jade Seah
"There is this chase to earn money, to be better than your neighbour, but it's a mindless chase." In part two of our conversation with Jade Seah, hear how a setback on TV taught her to be stronger, and get through the pressure of having to be perfect. She shares how happiness and meaning is more...
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#005 | Getting through grief | Jade Seah
"You never get over grief, you just move forward." In the first of this two-parter, Jade Seah shares her happiest childhood memories, why her mother is her hero, and how she came to terms with the loss of a loved one. She speaks about awkward condolences at funerals, discusses the importance of...
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#004 | Rebuilding life after loss with Richard Wickes
"People say the stupidest things when you are grieving." After the suicide of his daughter, Richard Wickes shares his personal experience of owning up to depression. Richard is a Taichi grandmaster, Kungfu expert, psychology practitioner and the creator of Wickes Way - a healing method that…
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#003 | Develop strength to do bold things, not strength to suffer with Davey Mars
"I spent 15 years in a hole after losing my career and loved ones" "I got really good at suffering..." Davey Mars is the founder of the "The UNDIG project". In this episode, he shares about his personal experience of "digging a bottomless hole", and how he finally decided to put his shovel down…
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#002 | Surviving strokes, brain surgeries, and saving marriages with Winifred Ling
"Suffering taught me compassion and empathy." Winifred Ling is the Director at W3ave Ptd Ltd and a Couples Therapist /Relationship Coach at Promises Winslow Clinic. Winifred Ling embarked on a transformation journey to become a relationship therapist; firstly, to fix her marriage, and secondly…
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#001 | Are you ready to get NAKED with happiness with Stephen Lew?
"The longest journey you will ever take in life is from your heart to your mind." After a family tragedy that happened on his birthday, Stephen Lew wrestled with depression and anxiety for more than 20 years. He embarked on a personal healing journey and encountered many life-changing…
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About this show
In this podcast, bring your wellbeing to the next level with happiness experts and resilience champions, as they share their experiences and valuable tips. Join Stephen Lew, the Founder of The School of Positive Psychology, as he distills the secrets to happiness, resilience, and wellbeing from guests around the world.Brought to you by The School of Positive Psychology
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