What You Can Do To Initiate And Manage Positive Change With Jonas Cain

 

It is often said that change begins with yourself, and rightfully so. If you cannot trust what you can do, manage positive change, and achieve the fulfillment you are longing for, how can you inspire other people to do the same? To present the roadmap for this personal mission, Curtis Lewsey talks with Jonas Cain, the Creator and Owner of Hashtag Positivity. He dissects the three pillars of positivity, goes over the five levels of happiness, and answers seven questions for initiating change. Jonas also looks back on his life full of challenging moments, even a loss of a loved one, which pushed him to chase for bigger things and help others emulate his growth by launching online courses. 

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What You Can Do To Initiate And Manage Positive Change With Jonas Cain 

I’m super excited about this one here with Jonas Cain. He’s the Creator and the Owner of Hashtag Positivity. He’s the author of Are You P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E.?: Rethinking Positive Thinking. We’re going to cover some awesome stuff, so you should probably take some notes. He speaks all over the place. He teaches teams and organizations as well as individuals. We’re going to cover the three pillars of positivity, five levels of happiness and seven questions for initiating change. This is going to be a lot of fun. Thank you and welcome, Jonas. 

It’s a joy to be here. Thank you so much for having me, Curtis. 

Do you mind sharing your story and what led you down this path? 

It has been a long and winding road as the song goes. I never thought I would be here at this point. When I go back to my childhood and what my hopes and dreams were then, I had no idea I would be doing this. When I was a kid, I was into magic. I wanted to be a magician. In a way, I feel like I still am a magician, I’m just facilitating a different kind of magic. Instead of using magic as entertainment to make people go, “Ha-ha,” I‘m using magic to transform people’s lives and go, “A–ha.” 

Tell me a little more about your childhood. You were saying what goals and dreams you have other than you’re a musician. There must have been some defining moment in there, “This is the path I’ve got to take.” 

There absolutely was. My first part-time job in high school was doing magic shows for the local events, parties, festivals and company banquets. I never stopped playing with magic. I’m a lifelong entrepreneur. I’ve worked for other people off and on, but serving others, it’s in my blood. That’s what I did for a number of years. There was a defining moment, and it was several years ago. In 2007, I was engaged to be married to the woman of my dreams, the woman I’d been in love with for eight years. You’ve been in love, Curtis. You know what it’s like. It’s its own magic. 

A week after we got engaged to be married, out of the blue, without any warning, Stephanie died. Talk about defining moment, all of the magic in my life disappeared. I was no longer interested in magic. I was no longer interested in entertaining people because I didn’t even want to live anymore. I didn’t think I was going to live. When you’re in that state, when you’re in this height of being in love, this wild feeling, all of a sudden, the complete opposite, this crushing feeling, talk about heavy disappointments. 

I thought I was going to die from a broken heart, but Curtis, I didn’t die. After three years of depression, grief and substance abuse, I got into some pretty bad stuff, suicidal tendencies because I didn’t want to be around anymore. After three years of that, I had another defining moment, another a–ha moment. It was that I’m still alive, I don’t know why. Life isn’t what I thought it was. I’m no longer who I used to be. The way I defined it then was like falling off the top of a building and splattering onto the ground. You don’t get up from that. 

 

I was not the person that I was before, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t be someone new. That didn’t mean I couldn’t rise from the ashes and dust myself off and figure out, “Who is Jonas?” Talk about defining moments and transformation, I changed my name in honor of that time in my life. I was born Jonas Toutant. To honor that time in my life, I became Jonas Cain. I was already using Jonas Cain often as like a stage name. It wasn’t that big of a leap, but to go through that change, it’s going back to the Biblical stories, Abram became Abraham when he had his covenant with God, Saul became Paul. For me, it was a way to honor that time of my life. My life has been incredibly transformed ever since. 

You got out of this, you picked yourself up and then what was it? You wanted to then teach and help people. You put together systems to help people from whatever stage they are in their life to be more positive. Tell me about that. 

I got goosebumps thinking about it. I became fascinated. I use that word very deliberately. I think of myself as a facilitator of fascination. That goes back to one of the three pillars of positivity, and fascination falls under the mindset pillar. There are a lot of things that go into the mindset pillar, but fascination, instead of getting frustrated with our problems and complaining about things without being interested in doing anything about them, we’ve become fascinated. We explore the different possibilities. We believe in our own self-efficacy. We have confidence that we can learn new things and gain new skills and that we have some control over our lives, which is so true. 

There was a study a number of years ago, and some people might find this discouraging, but for me, mindset is encouraging, that found that 50% of our lives is out of our control. We have no control over it because it’s our DNA, it’s our heredity. We can’t control who our ancestors are. It’s off our backs. We don’t have to worry about it. That’s why it’s encouraging. Some people who like to control things, they might freak out about that, it’s a shift in perspective. Ten percent of our lives we do have some influence over. It’s our experiences. It’s where we live. It’s who our friends are. It’s what job we have. We have some influence over these things. 

I was born and raised in Massachusetts. It might be harder for me to be best friends with someone living in Japan. In this electronic age, it is much more likely that I could be friends with someone across the world. Especially as we get older and we have agency, we can choose who we interact with. That’s the things that happened to us. The remaining 40%, this is the most encouraging part of all. It’s our choices. It’s how we choose to respond to our heredity and DNA. It’s how we choose to respond to that thing that our friend said to us that makes us want to punch them in the mouth. It’s complete control over our choices. With that said, I’ve been doing some more studies. This is all to get back to your original question. 

I love this fascination part too. That’s one of the pillars you said. 

That’s under the mindset pillar, this fascination. There’s a place for frustration. There’s a place for grief. There’s even a place for anger in the continuum that is life. However, if we want to experience positivity, and if we want to move beyond complaining and festering in a pity party, if we want to move beyond that, instead of frustration, we can choose fascination and explore the possibilities that are available to us. 

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Tell me more about the 40% with the choices. You are going to go down that a little bit more. 

I was having a conversation with someone online talking about how the development of our skills, the development of our talents, there’s a difference between skills and talent. Talent, you might be born with. Skills, you can learn. I’m thinking of someone who is completely naturally talented at something, but they don’t practice it, they don’t hone it. Yet, someone who might not be naturally talented at something through dedication and practice and development, they might even surpass someone with natural talent. The idea is that honing our skills, honing our craft, honing in, and it doesn’t have to be our talents. It could be the things that surround that as well.  

There was a fantastic book, High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard. My favorite part of the whole thing, this is the only thing that I remember from the book, but it’s this idea that the way that he described it was that a Super Bowl winning quarterback doesn’t just know how to throw a ball. That’s important, but they also have to master things that touch that talent. They have to master nutrition, mental toughness, contract negotiation, brand building, all these things that have nothing to do with throwing a ball, but everything to do with winning the Super Bowl. It’s this idea of discovering what you’re excited about, what gets you up every day, which is the second pillar is purpose. 

The mindset is the first pillar. Purpose is the second. 

It’s something to aim for, something that gets you excited. It’s mindset purpose. Something that gets you excited that is also aligned in some way, it could be a talent, it could be a skill, it could be a talent that you’re very skillful at, and to explore all the different things that surround that skill or that talent. The reason that I even bring this up with choices is because expertise develops talents and skills, craftsmanship, virtuosity, there’s a lot of freedom in that. I’ve been watching old clips of Duke Ellington orchestra on YouTube. I love watching masters in their craft, whatever it is. I’m a big jazz buff anyway. I’m a saxophonist as well. I grew up listening to that music because it’s the music that I enjoyed, but I never watched them. I never even knew what these people looked like. 

All of a sudden, I was like, “Let’s check out some Duke Ellington,” and being able to see them perform is a different experience than listening. You don’t know what they’re doing to create this music, but watching them, they are virtuosos. They are masters of their craft. There’s so much freedom. Duke saunters up to the piano and plays. I got goosebumps again. There’s so much freedom. The number of choices that are available to you grow exponentially when you focus in, you hone in and become very skilled and not just talented. You become dedicated to something that excites you and something that you’re good at. There’s so much freedom in there. 

We have mindset and we have purpose, which is amazing. You didn’t touch too much on purpose, but it’s something that makes you feel alive, something you wake up for. That is super important. What’s the third? 

The third one, you already know what it is. Even though you don’t know what these three pillars are, I know you know what it is. In the email that I got from your team at the very bottom, there was a little quote. As soon as I saw that, I was like, “He’s got it.” It’s true wealth is found in relationships, treat yours like goals, and you will never spend a day in poverty. The third pillar of positivity is relationships. It’s the people who we surround ourselves with. A lot of people fall into relationships by default. There’s certainly a place for that. It’s the people you grew up with when you were kids.  

As our choices increase, we are free to consciously and mindfully choose the relationships that we invest in. It might be the people that we decide that we want to help them out. It’s our peers. It’s the mentors who speak value into our lives. It’s the people that we choose to support. It goes back to another one of my favorite quotes which comes from It’s a Wonderful Life, and I’ll have to paraphrase it. I don’t remember exactly what it said but it was, “No man is poor who has friends,” or something like that or, “No man is a failure who has friends.” That is so true. To go back to the original question, the defining moment, I went through that time of being in utter despair. I was at rock bottom and I had started digging. It was an accumulation of several experiences.  

I do know a big factor in this. At the end of 2009, I decided that something had to give. I was either going to die trying or I was going to work through this. I got rid of all of my things, giving things away to my friends. When people do that, oftentimes they think, “He’s going to be checking out soon.” My plan was to get rid of everything. I was going to go on a bicycle ride from my home state of Massachusetts across the country, 3,000 miles to California. People thought I was crazy. Maybe it wasn’t the best plan, but I didn’t think I was crazy. I was like, “Everything that I’m doing right now isn’t working. I need to try something drastically different. I need to do something different.” 

It wasn’t about California. I didn’t care about going to California. It was I needed time away. I couldn’t take care of myself while also supporting myself. It’s like the sad clown. I was still doing magic shows. I would be contemplating suicide one minute, and the next minute I’d be doing a magic show for people. I couldn’t take care of myself while supporting myself. I needed time away to think, to be alone with my thoughts and not have other responsibilities. I thought 3,000 miles on a bicycle will take care of that.  

With that said, I didn’t make it to California. I made it as far as Connecticut, which was only about 40 miles from where I started. It was November when I left. It was a terrible time to start a cross–country bicycle ride from New England. It started to rain, I was cold. I had a tent with me. I don’t want to sleep in a tent. I called up a friend of mine and I said, “Matthew, I want to come back.” Here’s the thing, I had given away all my things, sold my car, got rid of my apartment. I had nothing to come back to. I liked that idea of a clean slate, everything was wiped clean and I could come back. God bless, my friend, Matthew and his dad, Tom. I spent six months sleeping on their floor. They had a whole bedroom with a bed that Chris left. I was like, “No, I’ve been sleeping in a bed my whole life. This is where it’s got me. I’m going to try something different. I’m going to sleep on the floor.” 

For six months, I slept on the floor. I helped out with the family. The dad, Tom, owned a dry-cleaning company. I would help out doing deliveries and pick–ups and doing different things. After that six months, I came out of that time. I wrote a book. My first book was It Just Happened the Other Day: A True Story. This was a book that Stephanie, my fiancée, and I had decided we were going to write together. It was going to be about all of our adventures together. 

Any time she told a story, she would say, “It just happened the other day,” even if it was months or years ago. Whenever I tell a joke, I often say, “It’s a true story. Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? This is a true story,” and then I’ll tell a joke. We were going to call it It Happened the Other Day: A True Story. She ended up dying before we could even start it. During that six–month time, I had all this time now, so I wrote it out. What was amazing about this is there were some difficult moments because then you start getting to a certain point in the story and you know what’s coming. You start reliving experiences. For me, I was able to finally process these things, being sober of mind as well. I had stopped drinking during that time. I was able to sit with it and process it. Getting to the very end of the book, I was able to close it and I was done. It’s therapeutic. That’s a defining moment. 

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At what point did you say what the different five levels of happiness are, if you don’t mind sharing the five levels? 

The first level isn’t even a level. It’s like the ground floor. If we want to think of the ground floor as a level, then maybe it’s six levels. Ground floor is acceptance. We could choose to get mad. We can choose to get glad. We can try and bang our heads against the wall, but there are things that we can’t control, we have to accept it. From acceptance, we have a choice to move up or down this spectrum of happiness. Talking about the three pillars of positivity, the five levels, they all interact with each other. I think about the five levels of happiness as stages that we progress through a process of overcoming challenges or overcoming difficulties. 

Writing this book was me accepting what had happened. I was at that ground floor. I became fascinated, which is related to the mindset pillar, but it’s also the first level of happiness, fascination. I became fascinated about how people manage change and initiate change themselves. I went through a huge change, and that was a heavy change. Some people might be, “My coffee is cold now.” There’s change constantly happening. It might be a change of like, “I lost my job or my wife left me.” There’s a whole bunch of different kinds of changes that we go through. 

How do we manage those changes? Instead of experiencing despair, which is the last level of unhappiness, instead experience joy, which is the highest level of happiness. How do we do that? I became fascinated by that. I started doing research, reading, a lot of writing. This was where another book came out. It wasn’t long after writing It Just Happened the Other Day: A True Story, I wrote Journey of Discovery: Awaken Your Inner Power. This was poignant stories. This is taking out the lessons that were learned from it. This was my first good faith effort to do this. I wrote this specifically with teenagers in mind, young adults. I wrote this book and still every year for the past several years now, I facilitate a workshop on this material. It’s evolved over the years, but I still use those core principles from that book. 

The reason I’m passionate specifically about young adults, young professionals is schools gloss over this stuff. They teach the academics because they have to. God bless them, it’s important. They largely leave the social, emotional skills to chance. They’re going to be adults soon or they are adults and they don’t have this stuff. Even though I do a lot of work with young people, I find myself also working with a lot of older professionals because they never got it either. They’re just as hungry. They’re just as thirsty for this as well. There could be a lot of reasons for why schools don’t teach this stuff. They might think their parents are going to teach it to them, but if their parents never learned it, they’re not going to teach it to them.  

I became fascinated about understanding how people manage change. Once we’re fascinated and we explore the possibilities, that’s when we start moving up into the next level of happiness, which is inspiration. We have this world of possibilities that we’re fascinated by. Instead of frustrated by them and complaining, we’re fascinated by them. We’re checking out all these different possibilities, but then we start noticing patterns where like, “I’m interested in that. That’s interesting. I wonder how those connect,” and you start gaining meaningful goals. Now this starts to move into the purpose pillar as well. You start to see how these things connect and you start to get excited about them. Inspiration is about developing goals or developing intentions, getting excited about something.  

Once you’re excited about something, some people can get stuck there. I have friends who have gotten stuck there before. I’ve been stuck there before. It’s a great place to be inspired, at least it’s on the spectrum of happiness, but unless we move into the third level, nothing is going to happen. That third level is important. This is where we get motivated. This is motivation. Looking at the specific definitions of inspiration, motivation in the dictionaries and what other people talk about them, they sometimes equate them to be similar. Some might have them in reverse. In this model, inspiration comes before motivation. Once you’re inspired, you gain intrinsic motivation to accomplish something. 

A couple of parallels of what you’re talking about is I remember being at a Tony Robbins seminar and he talked about how he needed a drastic change. He put a Walkman with the headphones on and ran on the beach in California. He was 40 pounds overweight. He’s like, “My life has got to change now.” I equate that to you doing that bike ride. You’ve got rid of things and you said, “This is my moment. I’ve got to do a drastic change.” Then you came back and that’s when you were inspired. You accepted the fact that you needed to change and something inspired you to change, like Tony Robbins did, and then motivated to get out the door and go. I feel like everybody that’s had some awakening has gone through this. Tell me what is the second before we get to joy? 

Once we were inspired or motivated, those are perfect parallels. Once we get to motivation and we start applying these principles and these practices, then we start doing the work. We’ve gotten excited about the work. We’ve planned our work because now we have this guiding light. I use the metaphor of a sailboat. I’ve only been sailing once. The guy who owned the boat did all the sailing. I sat there and watched, but I like to use this metaphor of a sailboat. The mindset in fascination in this case also is the boat itself. Having a positive mindset, having this fascinated mindset, it keeps us afloat. It keeps us from drowning. 

Moving into inspiration, motivation, but also moving into the second pillar of positivity of purpose, it’s like the rudder or maybe it’s the sale that you positioned in the right way, so that provides the direction. The last pillar is relationships, which provides the winds for our sail. In the case with the five levels of happiness, once we start applying these things, we can never achieve anything of huge significance all by ourselves. We can get started and have some small wins along the way, but it takes other people. 

I have this background in magic, and there’s this joke that someone asked the mirror, “How is the magic done?” and the mirror said, “It’s all done with people.” It goes along the way of when someone asks, “How is the magic done? It’s all done with mirrors,” but the mirror says, “No, it’s all done with people.” That is so true. It’s all done with people. We’re applying all these things. We’re doing all these things. We start having successes along the way. There are going to be setbacks and things that we didn’t plan for. However, once we do begin and we start having these small successes, those are positive affirmations that let us know that we’re on the right track. That fourth level is positive affirmation.  

I specify positive affirmation because if we go backwards to where there’s fascination for happiness, unhappiness, frustration, where there’s inspiration, confusion, where there‘s motivation, discouragement. There are also these levels of unhappiness. The fourth level of unhappiness is negative affirmation. You’ve been complaining. You have these people who you like to surround yourself with. They provide you sympathy and they’re like, “Yeah, that sucks.” These pity parties you receive, “I’m right to be angry. I’m right to be discouraged. I shouldn’t do anything because the world is out to get me.” There are positive affirmations, and there are also negative affirmations. 

Stay on the course. There are going to be bumps along the way. There are going to be some setbacks and you might have to move back into the inspiration space from time to time as you manage different things that come up. As the result of the pandemic, people had to change their whole models of the way they manage things and do things. Once we keep going though, that’s when we start to experience the true deep–seated level of happiness that is hard for anyone to take it away from you. I call it being the who’s down in Whoville, even after the Grinch stole Christmas, it’s joy. It’s hard work being happy, but it beats the alternative. 

It made me think of having an organization and the companies that you talk to and the organizations that you lead facilitate a workshop. I could imagine seeing people say, “He’s talking about me or is that Sarah?” I could see an awakening happening with people on teams and stuff. Do you facilitate virtual as well as in-person? 

That’s something that I’ve shifted to. In the summer of 2019, I had no idea the pandemic was going to be coming. We’ve talked about positive affirmations. I knew that people are enjoying this, so what’s next? For example, I binged the Queen’s Gambit. My favorite part from the whole series, and it’s the only thing I remember. I always take away this one thing. That’s why I watched it or that’s why he read this book. This chess master is playing this young Russian kid, who’s also a prodigy. She ends up beating him, but he says to her, “In three years, I’m going to be the world champion.” He was 13 or something at the time. She said, “That’s great. I believe you will.” I’m paraphrasing here, but then she says, “What are you going to do after that? What are you going to do next?” He didn’t understand the question. 

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He was so focused on that second pillar of this purpose. He was so motivated by that purpose, but you get everything you’ve ever wanted at sixteen, what’s next? What else is going to be guiding your life? I got to that point in 2019, I was thinking, “This is going great. Doing these workshops, flying around the country and I get to experience all these fascinating things.” I thought, “What’s next? I’m just Jonas. How can I make this sustainable?” I thought, “I’ll create online courses. I’ll do virtual workshops.” 

A part of my motivating factor here, a part of the thing that drives me, Curtis, is I think a lot about death. It used to be that I would think about death because I wanted to die. Now, I think about death because I know I have so much work that I want to do before I die. I have this profound sense of urgency to get the stuff out there, to talk to as many people as I can, to help as many people as I can. I thought, “This would be perfect. I get all these courses created. I get all this stuff online. If I happen to die by accident, who knows, it could be a blood clot, I could get hit by a bus.” Actually, I came inches away from getting hit by a car. I was out on my daily run, I had to leap out of the way. I give them the benefit of the doubt that they weren’t paying attention, but that could have been the end of Jonas Cain. For me, I need a profound sense of urgency here to get this stuff out there.  

In 2019, I don’t know how to make online courses. I started a graduate program at Purdue University, getting my Master’s in Learning Design and Technology, learning how to create a curriculum, put it online, create online courses. Within months, I started creating these courses and putting them out in the world. Little did I know that come March 2020, that is a requirement. I had all these clients who they were like, “We’re canceling the workshop,” because they’re close too now. Once they started to open back up, I was thankful that I had done the work before I needed to, to be ready for them. I’m a few months away from graduating from the other program. That’s kept me busy throughout the pandemic as well. 

I imagine we all find this in your book, Are you P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E.? You have the purpose, the pillars and the happiness levels. 

No. This book touches on those things. Are you P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E.? outlines in eight step process for thinking, being and staying positive. It does touch on those. I’m in the process of writing the next book, which goes into the stages of change. Be on the lookout for 2022. In the meantime, if you want to check out my blog, I’m writing on this. My vlog, I’m creating videos on this. If you go to my website, HashtagPositivity.com, you can check those out. I have a slew of free resources there as well as a page where you can check out all of the books that are available. 

Do you mind, you don’t have to go in depth, but at least the questions for initiating change? 

These are important. When I’m talking to a client for the first time, these are the questions that I ask them. It’s a combination of my research on change, happiness and positivity, but also these are the questions that I need answered in order to know how I can help. Here are the questions. I’ll do them in order. The first one is the mission question. Who are you? What’s your role? What’s your inner purpose? This goes back to the difference between outer purpose and inner purpose. When we’re thinking about someone, not in an organization, but thinking, “What’s my life’s purpose?” For me, it’s helping people. It’s helping to make people smile, helping people to realize that they matter and people are thinking about them. 

When thinking about someone at an organization, that might be what’s their job title? What role do they fulfill? The next question is the desire question. What do you want to do? In other words, what’s your plan for fulfilling that mission that you have? This goes to the outer purpose. The third question is the value question. Why is this important? This goes back also to the motivation level. Why is this important? Are you intrinsically motivated by this because it’s something that matters to you? Are you externally motivated by it because of the fame and fortune you’re going to get because of it, or maybe someone is threatening you if you don’t follow through? Understanding why is this important? 

 

The fourth one is the ability question. The question is, what can you do? This speaks to your behaviors and what you’re capable of. This is an important question too because it also can highlight a gap in ability. Maybe you know what you want to do, but maybe you don’t have the right training or you don’t have the right skills or you don’t have the right opportunities. It might even mean doing a shift in someone’s role within an organization. 

The next one is the responsibility question. What must you do? What I like about this question is that it highlights that we will never be required to do something if we’re not capable of it. Asking this responsibility question can help us identify our capabilities, but it also puts in some constraints. It’s like, “These are the things I want to do, but these are the things I’m responsible for now.” It might mean you have to work around those responsibilities, or it might mean doing the work to phase out those responsibilities, delegating them to other people. 

The next one is the commitment question. It’s all about what will you do? A huge part of this is your attitude. If you don’t enjoy something, if something is a drain to do, you’re not going to commit to it. It’s one thing to know what you want to do, know what you’re capable of, know what you must do, but if someone keeps having to be on top of you to get it done, clearly there needs to be a change here. The final question, which is one that I added. Before, it was six questions. I had an a–ha moment and I realized why hadn’t I been asking this question all along? It’s the requirement question. What do you need? Maybe it’s support, a mentor, a peer, a job aid. Maybe you need to have your coffee every morning. What do you need in order to be successful? It’s one thing to know what you want to do, be able to do it, be willing to do it. If you don’t have the support in place, the best intentions aren’t going to make it happen. 

Thank you so much. There was so much valuable content here. I want to thank you once again for sharing all of your wisdom. This is one of the most important conversations you can ever have because it inspires everything. We talk about referral secrets. You don’t just get a referral. You earn referrals by who you are and how you show up in people’s lives. Being a better version of yourself and being more positive is what you attract. This is right up the alley of everybody in our audience. I can’t thank you enough for taking the time and sharing. 

It is an absolute joy. Thank you for this opportunity to share these good things with your people. 

Thank you so much. Have a great day. 

Important Links:

• Are You P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E.?: Rethinking Positive Thinking 
• It Just Happened the Other Day: A True Story 
• Journey of Discovery: Awaken Your Inner Power 
• https://www.HashtagPositivity.com/  
• https://www.Facebook.com/hashtagpositivity  
• https://www.Instagram.com/theofficialhashtagpositivity/  
• https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/jonascain/  

About Jonas Cain

As the leader of the social entrepreneurship Hashtag Positivity, Jonas helps emerging leaders (16-20 year olds) and their influencers (parents, teachers, counselors, social workers, etc.) to experience greater clarity, confidence, courage, and joy in their life, work, and relationships.

Jonas brings his three-decade career as a professional entertainer to the educational industry, the online courses, professional development workshops, and keynote presentations to equally perform, inform, and transform.

As a student of learning design and technology at Purdue University earning of Masters of Education, Jonas synthesizes research in positive psychology into accurate, accessible, and actionable principles and practices that are directly applicable to the everyday life of young people, incorporating a variety of practical learning theories to make the social-emotional skills memorable and meaningful for all participants, including:
* Engaging Storytelling
* Team Building Activities
* Group Discussions
* Interactive Comedy Magic
* And More!