The Talent Development Hot Seat podcast - The Top podcast for L&D Professionals Sharing Gratitude with Teddy Droseros
Teddy Droseros joins Andy Storch as a guest on the 382nd episode of the Talent Development Think Tank Podcast. Teddy is the founder of Grateful Peoples and he created a Gratitude Journal that is being used for a few social initiatives. Thousands of kids and schools around the country are starting their day with one of these journals and writing down something they’re grateful for every day.
In 2018, Teddy, along with a few local businesses, A’Pizza Regionale, Original Grain, and O Yoga (now Sky Yoga Studios), came up with an idea to raise money through various promotions to donate gratitude journals to all the students at a local elementary school in Syracuse. Today, those journals have amassed tens of thousands of entries, some of which are part of a new book called "Today I Am Grateful For…
In this episode, you will hear:
- How the story of Teddy Droseros started and the difficulties he braved prior to the launch of the Gratitude Journals
- How gratitude helped Teddy in coping with what he was going through.
- The story behind the creation of the Gratitude Journal and leaving them in coffee shops.
- Some of the life-changing entries Teddy read and the most common things people are grateful for, as mentioned in the journals
- What Teddy’s next steps were after to further the gratitude journal movement
- How Grateful Peoples accumulate resources and funding to power the production and operations of the movement
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