Hope IS a Strategy

There is a best-selling business book called “Hope is Not a Strategy.” Yet It is not based on hope science, it is based on hope as a 'wish'. As you can imagine, it has made our work even more challenging, so I want to set the record straight.

Why is hope a strategy for the workplace? Especially as it relates to mental health? I’ll take a play from one of my favorite comedians David Letterman, and give it to you in a Top 10 List.

What do you think? Is hope a strategy?! If you are convinced, reach out, as we need your creativity and brilliance to activate hope in your workplace and community. We need all hands on deck for hope, including yours.

Interestingly enough, I started this through my company, The Mood Factory, and have since put that company to the side (I will get back someday!) because to me, there is nothing more important than teaching everyone ‘how’ to hope. Hopelessness predicts suicide. Hope is teachable. Suicide is preventable.?

And it’s funny how life comes full circle, as my guest this week on The Hope Matrix Podcast is someone who cast me in the 'Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Show' where I pitched and won money for my company, The Mood Factory. I reconnected with him recently, shared what I am doing with The Shine Hope Company, and wow.

As he has had quite a journey since we last worked together. He had a HEART TRANSPLANT!!! I can’t even believe it. So I’d like to introduce you to Jon (same spelling as my dad), who shares how he has applied the Shine Hope framework to recover on his journey. It’s pretty extraordinary—Jon is Shine Hope in action. He is a film producer, entrepreneur, and managing partner of Level 2 Partners LLC, and living testament to why we must teach all hope.

So take a listen, and let me know what you think. If all goes well, maybe we will even work together on a show for hope. What do you think?!

Keep Shining!

xoxoxo,

Kathryn

Kathryn Goetzke, MBA

CEO & Chief Hope Officer, The Shine Hope Company

Author of The Biggest Little Book About Hope

Founder of International Foundation for Research and Education on Hope (iFred)

Creator of Hopeful Cities, and Hopeful Minds

Creator of Hopeful Mindsets Overview, Hopeful Mindsets in the Workplace Overview,? and Hopeful Mindsets on the College Campus Course

Podcast host of The Hope Matrix

Chief Mood Officer, The Mood Factory (taking a break, for hope!)

www.kathryngoetzke.com

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Events and Engagements

We are thrilled to announce that our Chief Hope Officer and CEO, Kathryn Goetzke, will be speaking at the GlobalMindEd 10th Anniversary Conference in Denver this June 17-19! She will be sharing that all we are doing to activate hope on campuses and in schools around the world. GlobalMindED’s Global Classroom Sessions gather leaders from across the country and world to address challenges and opportunities concerning learning and earning, mentoring and global skills. Find out more.

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Thoughts from our Program Users

"I really enjoyed my Hopeful Mindset on the College Campus class experience, it gave me a new way to look at things in addition to helping me recognize my emotions and deal with them in a healthy way without letting them take over my life. Learning about your upstairs and downstairs brain really helped me put things into perspective on anxiety and I'm really grateful I got to take it with me"– Kyrie

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