Everyone is short on time. You ask someone you haven’t seen in a while how they are and the odds are that they’ll tell you that they’re so busy. But running around feeling rushed and pressed for time all the time is no way to live our happiest life, so what can we do about it?

My special guest today is the perfect person to speak to this. Valorie Burton is a bestselling author and founder of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute (CaPP), has served clients in over 40 states and ten countries and written twelve books on personal development, is a frequent guest expert for the TODAY Show, CNN, Dr. Oz, Oprah Magazine, NPR, Essence and many others, has spoken to hundreds of organizations, and has a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in journalism from Florida A&M University, and a BA from Florida State University.

Val says that because there is more information coming at us than at any time in history, we’re being flooding and we’re being faced with false urgencies, where we feel that because something is in front of us it must be very urgent. We feel heightened expectations on us because in our society today, we can do so much more in less time, and we feel that pressure. Val struggled with these issues herself and now teaches others how to control their time instead of letting time control them.

Val explores the relationship between time and money and how that’s changed over the years, discusses experiments she’s been conducting with her own use of time, both professionally and personally, and speaks to the importance of living your life in a way that holds meaning and is not just about addressing all the false urgencies.

To learn more about Valorie Burton, you can sign up for her inspiring weekly e-newsletter at http://www.valorieburton.com, and follow her at http://www.facebook.com/valorieburton, http://www.instagram.com/valorieburton, and http://www.twitter.com/valorieburton.

You can find Valorie’s books at Amazon, including Successful Women Think Differently (https://amzn.to/2He1p2R), What’s Really Holding You Back (https://amzn.to/2YjQqdR), and her latest book, It’s About Time (https://amzn.to/2E1Dh1s).

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Shit happens to everyone. We’re not getting through life without facing our share of challenges, setbacks, disappointments, and tragedies. However, it’s important to understand that our happiness is actually our choice. This isn’t just a pretty platitude — it’s a research-backed fact –- and in today’s episode I share with you some of the science from the field of positive psychology that supports this. I go into an explanation of the basic structure of the brain and what evolutionary biology has to teach us about why it’s so easy to go to the negative instead of the positive, I share current research, and I offer concrete strategies for what we can do to choose happiness every day.

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Today I’m joined by Andie Kramer, a partner in the international law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Andie has mentored thousands of women and written hundreds of articles and blog posts on gender biases, and is co-author of the ABA guide, “What You Need to Know About Negotiating Compensation.” According to Andie, even the most well-intentioned workplace is biased, because the leadership is almost always men, and usually white men, and they (like most people) have affinity bias, which is an affinity for people who look and act like them and come from the same background. Add to that gender bias and you get an environment in which women are put into a very difficult position. Andie also addresses the interesting dynamic of women having gender-biased expectations of other women — this isn’t only bias on the part of men – and why this is too often a reality. Andie discusses the fact that when men receive feedback at work it tends to be about things they can improve, but a majority of the feedback that women receive at work is about their personality, as if there’s something wrong with her. Andie talks about some of the things that women can do, that men can do, and that organizations can do to combat bias in the workplace.

To learn more about Andie Kramer, go to https://andieandal.com. You can get Andie’s first book, Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work (https://amzn.to/2VqJ3DJ), and pre-order her second book, It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias that Built It (https://amzn.to/2Dygc6i), at Amazon. Also, Andie recommended the book Fly Girls, which you can get at Amazon (https://amzn.to/2GFTYRN) as well.

In this episode I’ve asked you to leave me voicemail at http://purposegirl.com/voicemail, and tell me your name, where you’re from, what you love about The PurposeGirl Podcast, and what topics you’d love to hear on this show.

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