Season 4 Episode #19 Craig Mattson is Connecting People with Stories of Gift and Grace!
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Season 4 Episode #19 Craig Mattson is coming from Grand Rapids, Michigan (inform, inspire, & transform)
You can find Craig via his website: themodeswitch.com or via his podcast The Mode/Switch
About our guest: Craig is an organizational researcher, author and professor (Calvin University), who recently published his third book Digital Overwhelm. Craig’s areas of expertise are numerous including his original research on the disconnection and intensity many American workers feel in their organizational communities.
Craig’s spiritual wisdom to build a practical framework called "mode-switching" has helped thousands of people transform the stresses of modern work, like email overload, Zoom fatigue, and technological breakdowns – into “gifting opportunities.”
Craig is a deep thinker who loves to explore people’s perspectives in the hopes of transforming his life and the lives of the people he serves. Craig, thanks for sharing your many gifts with the world, for educating and empowering thousands of students, for having the courage to lean into difficult subject matter and conversations, and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the Show!
TOTD – “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Gandhi
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In this episode:
What was life like growing up?
What are your life’s essential ingredients?
What attracted you to the teaching world and your inspirational work as a professor for the past 20 + years.
Communication in Social Business (2018), Why Spiritual Capital Matters (2021), and your latest book Digital Overwhelm (2024)… congrats
6 modes of communication – dialogic mode of communication – characterized by usually two-way conversation and shaped by the values of equity and authenticity…
Mode of Dissemination
“Good Talk”
John Durham Peters – uses the phrase “caringly served”… what does that mean to you?
Mode Switching to create awe and gratitude
Force, Pitch, Quality, and Rate… how to write an email like you talk…
Stanovich’s The Reflective Mind
Tell the story about Jon Berbaum…bleeding out (digital marketing business) during the pandemic…mode switching and asking how can we give here? To infuse his staff with energy…
Chicago Half-Marathon… “again”
Communicating with different generations…creating space for all people to be seen heard and loved….
The importance of family…
I know you love being out in nature… what do you love and how have you incorporated that space into what you do to help people play to their strengths?
What got you into coaching, leadership, podcasting…
Being where your hands are… the importance of being in the moment
The importance of self-awareness and self-love…
Finding fulfillment in life? How do you define fulfillment?
Great coaches and mentors…
Last book or books you recommend?
Values that define you?
Legacy
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