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Nic Marks is, as one of his clients described him, a “statistician with a soul” due to his love of hard statistical skills and his soft people skills and focus on quantifying variables such as happiness. Well known for his 2010 TED talk, “The Happy Planet Index”, which has been viewed over 2.5 million times, Nic is the founder and CEO of Friday, a company that measures and improves employee happiness in order to help businesses build a positive productive work culture - the result of working with over 1,000 clients creating measures of their employees’ experience of work.

He’s been in the field for over 25 years, tracking people’s quality of life with an emphasis on their emotional experience. In 2011 he was named one of the top ten original thinkers by Director’s magazine and by Forbes Magazine as having one of the Seven Most Powerful Ideas of the year.

Listen as we discuss:

• How Nic became interested in measuring quality of life
• The unexpected, massive success of his TED Talk
• Are we doing better on the Happy Planet Index since his talk in 2010?
• Tracking the dips in UK national mood across the various lockdowns
• Why his company, Friday, takes weekly happiness surveys for their clients
• The importance of assessing happiness at work in group settings
• The Five Ways to Happy Workplaces
• Nic's own weaknesses when it comes to happiness upkeep
• Why does happiness at work matter?

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“MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE THINKING TOO MUCH AND FEELING ENOUGH.”
There is a certain art that I feel had been lost over the years in this country, and you may have noticed it too. It’s the art of seduction.
Let me make one thing clear, when I say seduction I don’t mean unwanted flirting. I don’t mean trying to manipulate someone. True seduction is a lore more than that.
Seduction is about selflessly making other people feel good about themselves. Their bodies, their personalities, and everything about them.
It’s also about being aware of your own body. Owning it, being proud of it, and listening to it.
In America we spend so much time on our phones, we’ve lost that seduction between each other. This is a topic that my guest today, Chen Lizra, is an expert on.
Chen Lizra had a wildly successful Ted Talk on the power of seduction. She’s also an award winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, and a professional dancer.
She learned all about the power of seduction while living in Cuba, where she was deeply inspired by the culture of body confidence there. She was able to see how people were able to really connect with each other, lift each other up, and make a true connection with their bodies.
As a result, she has developed a powerful method of teaching body-awareness called somatic intelligence.
I was fascinated during this conversation as she explained (and demonstrated) these principles and how they impact our relationships, our opportunities, and our self-confidence.
Learn all about the power of seduction in our everyday lives, on Episode 628.
Some Questions I Ask:
In your Ted Talk you mention children are taught in America to be more closed off, is that right? (5:20)
What career were you in before this? (9:10)
How long were you an animator for? (11:12)
When did your vision come together? (21:51)
How long were you in Cuba? (25:03)
What happens when we rediscover our natural sensuality? (26:48)
How do you use seduction without crossing people’s boundaries? (35:16)
How do we know if we’ve disconnected from our body? (45:04)
What’s the difference between sexuality and sensuality? (49:42)
How do we cultivate charm? (51:44)
How do we balance masculinity and femininity? (59:38)
Are you in a relationship now? (1:06:24)
In This Episode You Will Learn:
The common misconception about seduction (7:35)
What Chen decided to do after her awakening (10:24)
How she learned about seduction in Cuba (18:12)
What Cuba has in their culture that allowed her to free herself from trauma (22:41)
When and why we started to lose the connection with our bodies (25:16)
How having elegance calms nerves (30:12)
How men can connect more without crossing boundaries (41:47)
How we can learn to listen to our bodies (45:58)
How a man be more sensual to attract a female partner (50:47)
What Chen has to say to people that feel vulnerability and sensuality is weakness (56:18)
How her arm injury was a result of not opening up emotionally (1:07:42)
Plus much, much more