Confidence Classic: How Gratitude Will CHANGE Your Life With Chris Schembra USA Today’s “Gratitude Guru” & Rolling Stone Columnist
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What is the power of gratitude?
You can either wake up in the morning and focus too much on what's going wrong and not appreciate all the good things, or you can wake up and you can appreciate all the good things and not really focus on the stuff that's wrong. The difference is gratitude and ingratitude. And what I learned in that dark moment on the phone with my friend Scott is that the choice is was mine to either look at my life through despair or to look at my life through appreciation.
Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow. I'm ready for my closeup.
Tell me, have you been enjoying these new bonus confidence classics episodes we've been dropping on you every week? We've literally hundreds of episodes for you to listen to. So these bonuses are a great way to help you find the ones you may have already missed. I hope you love this one as much as I do. I'm so excited that you're back here with me this week. I cannot wait for the topic we're getting into or for you to meet my guest. Chris Schembra is the bestselling author of Gratitude and Pasta, The Secret Sauce for Human Connection. I love that title. And his new book, which drops today. It's out today. You got to go get it. Gratitude through hard times, and that is an understatement. USA Today calls him their gratitude guru.
He's a founding member of Rolling Stone Magazine's Culture Council, and he sits on the executive board at Fast Company Magazine. Holy cow. He's the founder of the 747 Gratitude Experience, an evidence-based framework used to strengthen client and team relationships in profound ways. He's used the principles of gratitude to spark over 500,000 relationships around the dinner table, serving Fortune 50 CEOs, Olympians, Academy Award winners, Grammy Award winners, number one recording artists, Super Bowl champs, and more. As a viral marketer, his gratitude campaign, giving tribute and thanks to veterans, earned over 36 million views, 1.2 million shares. and two Emmys. Oh my gosh, Chris, I'm so excited to talk to you today. Thanks for being here with us.
Thanks for having me, Heather. A special shout out to Carrie Siggins for the original introduction, a sister from across the country. Just so glad that we got to make this work today.
Oh my gosh, I am so glad too. All right, so I want to start off with I like to keep it real, Chris. I know you do too from your writing. But gratitude is something that is, in my opinion, so over-talked about, so overused. I hear about it from everybody. And the way you approach gratitude is a 180, completely different than any way I've ever seen it.
How can gratitude transform your life?
The way that you're doing it is a real, real way. It's not this kind of BS talk that I see on social media quotes of, Gratitude. So how did you end up on this topic to begin with?
You know, Heather, that's a great question. And I'm so glad that you see it or our work for what it is. You know, oftentimes when we go into an experience or an event with a team and they say, oh, here comes the gratitude guy. You know, you see a lot of rolling eyes. gratitude for so many years has been this fluffy, wuffy, airy, fairy, spiritual, only see the positive. What are you grateful for? I'm grateful for my health. I'm grateful for the sun. Well, here's the thing about gratitude. We think that to be grateful is to be grateful to someone. And this journey is Our counterintuitive approach to gratitude, the science and psychology approach to gratitude, it started about six years ago. I just got done producing this tribute campaign for veterans.
I'd just gotten back from producing a Broadway play in Italy. I had a lot of weird things going on in my life. On the outside, my life looked pretty awesome on paper. But on the inside, I was completely screaming. I was a complete fraud. It happened around July of 2015. I took a fearless and searching moral inventory of myself and realized, probably like a lot of your listeners out there today, I was lonely, unfulfilled, disconnected, insecure, nervous, cautious, overwhelmed, anxious, alone. You know, all my friends on Instagram saw one side of me, but on the inside, I was just broken.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the power of gratitude?
0:00–3:00
2
How can gratitude transform your life?
3:00–6:57
3
What unique approach to gratitude does Chris Schembra offer?
6:57–10:18
4
How do dinner parties foster real connections?
10:18–16:12
5
What challenges did Chris face during the pandemic?
16:12–20:36
6
What is the impact of emotional connections in business?
20:36–24:54
7
How did Chris's journey inspire his work on gratitude?
24:54–31:19
8
What lessons can we learn from Chris's personal struggles?
31:19–41:24
Speakers
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