Stay ConnectedHas something simple ever changed your life? A lunch box note changed mine. A few years ago, my husband wrote a timely message to our son that said: BE STRONG, PROTECT THE WEAK, LOVE EVERYONE. Those six words ignited our family’s mission to love others well.
Each week on Be Love. Do Good. podcast, we’ll share ideas, encouraging words, and stories that inspire you to love outside your comfort zone.
Today’s guest is one of the lead actors from my favorite hit show from NBC, New Amsterdam. Jocko Sims plays Dr. Floyd Reynolds in this brilliant show. He is a talented actor, (you may have seen him in the show Crash, The Last Ship) he is a producer, incredible cook, hails from Texas, but resides in NYC. I wanted to interview someone from this show, because it is one of those shows that touches your heart. They are using their platform to talk about issues of race, healthcare, and mental health with love and compassion.
Last year I had the opportunity to travel to New York City with the Today Show Parents team and previewed the second season of New Amsterdam. While there I met some of the staff of this NBC hit show. I had previously written a blog post about how one of the phrases Dr. Max Goodwin played by Ryan Eggold asks in each episode, “How can I help?” It impacted me in such a way that I want to live my life with that question always on my lips as I meet people. So after talking with NBC, they reached out to Jocko who was so gracious and kind, you will fall in love with him.
Thank you to Jocko for letting me ask heartfelt questions about how we can be a community that helps each other, no matter what. I hope you are touched by this conversation and it inspires you to help others in your own way.
Thank you to our sponsor RECREATE-SOLUTIONS who assist leaders and organizations get started, unstuck, and get healthy. Check them out at https://www.recreate-solutions.com/
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The reason today’s podcast has this title, is because this is how our new children’s book, which launched this week, came about. About 3 years ago a friend of a friend asked me a very important question on the phone. We chat about how that question produced this book that we could have never dreamed.
My co-author Marianne Booth and I talk about the process of how this story came about. How she was inspired to write a children’s book based on the story of how a lunchbox note changed our life. We talk about our hopes and dreams for this book, and how each family can live out the message of be strong, protect the weak, love everyone.
We talk about the importance of following a prompting, knowing that it could change your life.
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Today I talk with Abbie Mirata, the Co-Founder of live kyndly. She is a joy expert and teaches us how to exercise what she has trademarked as JOY JOINTS. She sees choosing Joy as an exercise, something we have to do daily. When your Joy Joints are strong it allows you to better deal with everyday stress, major life events, (HELLO COVID-19)!
She offers advice from the difference between joy and happiness. She describes happiness as more of a feeling based on circumstances, where Joy is defined as a VALUE to her, something that we don’t compromise even when our circumstances aren’t joyful.
She explains training our JOY JOINTS like we train our physical joints.
She gives us some practical ways of how we can strengthen our JOY by doing certain exercises; like cleansing our social media feed, things that don’t bring joy.
Start small by choosing how we react to small things.
Bring others into our space and ask others for help.
Train ourselves to breathe before we react.
Be empathetic to other’s reactions.
The ability to manage our emotions is a life skill.
How many of us have a hard time asking for help? Abbie helps us reframe this concept. We give others a gift when we give them the opportunity to help us.
More on show notes…..https://www.bestrongstory.com/be-love-podcast
This week we are talking to my friend Bob Cancalosi, author of Four Loop Learning, The Art of Journaling and Reflective Leadership. The premise of Bob’s philosophy is that leaders who are more reflective are truly more effective. He has learned that deliberate reflection helps leaders slow down, think deeper and implement change with enhanced precision which results in greater impact results. During his tenure at GE, Bob served in the role as Chief Learning Officer for the Healthcare Business for 7 years with responsibility for the leadership development of 60,000 global employees. Then the last 8 years of his career he was the Leader of the GE Crotonville Global Customer Education team with responsibility for the leadership development of GE’s global strategic customers and training over 5,000 customer executives annually.
Bob has been journaling for over 20 years and studying the leadership best practices from leaders in all types of industries and organizational structures in over 100 countries throughout the world. He uncovered a recurring observation that the leaders who were deliberately more reflective were more effective in achieving results, and this is why his book centers on leadership journal coaching.
There is never a better time than the present to reflect on our lives. Quarantine has made us sit back and reflect on our priorities, schedules, and family time. You will love this conversation with Bob, who has so much wisdom when it comes to using the gifts in your life to share with others.
Also on the podcast Bob tells us about his medical journey that has impacted his life in many ways. Cancer of the neck and throat has paralyzed the sides of his face, and yet he is still sharing his gifts and talents with others. He is a true inspiration.
You will be inspired and learn tangible steps on how to reflect, but also how that reflection leads to action.
Learn more about Bob and our show in our show notes: https://www.bestrongstory.com/be-love-podcast
We love stories of optimism, perseverance, overcoming trials. We need those stories to help us overcome our own struggles. Today’s guest will encourage you. My friend Becky Canatsey has been through her fair share of trying circumstances. We talk about how a diagnosis of not one but 2 of her 3 children took them on a path they never thought they would have to walk. She talks about the fear of not being able to have control of the outcomes, how to be positive in the face of adversity, and most of all how she is teaching her girls to trust and have hope even in the hardest of uncertain times.
This podcast is so relevant to what we are facing today. Becky gives us ways to stay positive even when our mind wants to go negative. She teaches us as a mother what it looks like to be an example to our children, when you suffer.
If you have ever been through a trying time, you will want to listen to my conversation with Becky today.
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If you know me, you know I love me a great book. Memoirs and non-fiction are my favorite. I am so giddy to have one of my favorite book authors on the show today. This book, Same Kind of Different As Me, changed my view on the homeless, taught me how to get out of my comfort zone and love others well. This is the book I always recommend to others when they want to open their heart and love others well.
I wanted to bring you a story of hope this week, and this is definitely that story.
The book, and now a movie, is about a true story of how a Successful businessman, Ron Hall and his wife, Deborah, discover a renewed sense of purpose when they begin to volunteer at a local mission in Fort Worth, Texas. Their lives change forever when they develop an unlikely friendship with Denver Moore, a homeless man who inspires them to save their struggling marriage. This synopsis doesn’t even do it justice. You will be in awe of this story. I literally sat with my mouth wide open listening to him tell it over again.
Ron is a very sought after speaker, author, and producer.
I encourage you to get the book, Same Kind of Different As Me, and his follow up book
Workin’ Our Way Home, that details the relationship between Denver and Ron after their encounter.
Or if you need a great movie to watch with your family, you can find the movie on Netflix, with an incredible cast like Renée Zellweger, Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou.
I promise you will want your entire family to listen to Ron recount his incredible journey with someone he would have never thought would be his lifelong friend.
Check out our show notes to get in touch with Ron and links to his books:
Today’s guest is Jeremy Bedenbaugh, who is a long time friend and who also helps leaders recreate. Jeremy is the founder and CEO of Recreate Solutions, a company founded out of personal experience. Jeremy went through a very public and also private recreating of himself. He learned that vulnerability is key when it comes to being who you were created to be. He now helps leaders and companies recreate and transform. Jeremy and I have a very candid conversation about what it looks like when you start over, when you strip off some of your protective layers we have had on us for a long time and live into our true self.
We talk about how to use some of our most trying times to heal ourselves and use what we learned to share with others. And aren’t we all in trying times right now.
Jeremy gives us some tips right now during this pandemic to evaluate who we are and who we want to be. There is no better time to look very honestly at who we are and ask ourselves is this where we need to be; am I living into who I was created to be; are there some things in my life I need to strip away that I am too scared to think about?
Jeremy helps us ask ourselves the tough questions to get us thinking how we can start to be vulnerable with ourselves and others; opening ourselves up to all that we were created to be.
You will also laugh a ton during this conversation. Jeremy and I have the gift of sarcasm and banter and have a great time. Enjoy this light-hearted but deep conversation today.
Tune in today and go to our show notes for all the links to her FREE guides she is making available to us this week.
Thank you to our sponsor Project Helping for helping families serve others well. Check out their amazing Kind Kits to do with families here: https://kyndkit.com
and their services for businesses to get all their employees volunteering https://projecthelping.org
Did you know we wrote a children’s book. It is all about the lunchbox note that changed our family’s life. You can pre-order your copy now. https://www.bestrongstory.com/book
I wanted to have a wellness expert on here this week to help us breathe, to help us focus on the things we can control during a time that seems OUT of control.
If you have felt frazzled and all the emotions these past weeks during the Covid-19 this podcast is for you. Dr. Michelle helps us focus on the non-negotiable things we can focus on.
Sleeping, eating, breathing, gratitude.
Today I am talking with Dr. Michelle Robin, an international speaker, best-selling author, radio host, and practicing chiropractor. She is the founder of Your Wellness Connection, P.A., one of the nation’s most successful integrative healing centers focusing on disciplines such as chiropractic, Chinese medicine, massage therapy, energy medicine, counseling, nutritional and wellness coaching, and movement arts. She is the Chairman of the Board of Small Changes Big Shifts®, an organization that exists to empower people to whole health through balanced daily practices and wellness providers who guide them and founder of Big Shifts Foundation®. Dr. Robin also consults with businesses and non-profit organizations developing wellness programs based on her philosophy of the Quadrants of Wellbeing. She has spoken on improving individual wellbeing as well as creating a culture of wellness, to a wide variety of groups and organizations across North America.
She guides us in a breathing exercise that we can practice daily, and she helps us recenter and focus on the things that matter. She helps us get back into a rhythm when things seem so unorderly. One of my favorite things she says, “Rhythm builds Resilience”.
She asks us questions like, “Are you ok, today?” Helping us take one moment at a time.
Tune in today and go to our show notes for all the links to her FREE guides she is making available to us this week.
Thank you to our sponsor Project Helping for helping families serve others well. Check out their amazing Kind Kits to do with families here: https://kyndkit.com
and their services for businesses to get all their employees volunteering https://projecthelping.org
Family Coaching is happening. Teaching and topics to strengthen your family.
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Today my friend Jennifer, CEO of Togather Moments, a company helping families make the most out of their time together is on the podcast today. We talk about how since Covid-19 and how quarantine has forced us as families to be together, and what that has looked like for all of us. We answer questions like:
How can we be intentional in these moments so that we can take some of these times into the future?
What can we learn as families what is a priority and what isn’t?
How can we strengthen our family during this uncertain time?
What are some tangible ideas we can do together?
Jennifer gives us some great ideas if you have small to older age kiddos. She is a mom of 4 in a range of kids ages 3-12.
Take a listen today to see how we can all make the most of this time together.
Check out Jennifer’s company https://www.togathermoments.com and order one of their games to do with your family during this time!
Thank you to our sponsor Project Helping for helping families serve others well. Check out their amazing Kind Kits to do with families here: https://kyndkit.com
And their services for businesses to get all their employees volunteering https://projecthelping.org
Family Coaching is happening. Teaching and topics to strengthen your family.
Sign up here: www.bestrongstory.com
This week I am sharing my heart with you as we go through Covid-19 together. Most of us have been in our houses away from others for the past 2-3 weeks. We are helping protect ourselves and others by staying home. However, one thing that has been fresh on my mind, is how do we help others when we can’t be with them? How do I talk to my kids about staying safe but also serving others in this time?
It feels like we are all in a bubble and all of us are being affected differently. Some have been affected by sickness, loss of job, uncertainty of how to make it to the next week without a paycheck, or just how to survive being in confined spaces with our kids who we are now homeschooling on the fly.
No matter how all of us are being affected, all of us have questions and lots of emotions.
In this podcast I want to share my heart on how we are talking to our kids about the Corona Virus as well as creative ways we can love others while we are in quarantine.
Can’t wait for your feedback, know that each of you are loved and we will get through this together.
Thank you to our sponsor:
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The perfect time to read a book, keep motivated, and be thinking of how to reach your goals even when many have had to pivot. Kate Crocco is the perfect person to help you do just that.
A therapist and a mindset coach, she is the perfect person to help reset us in this hard time.
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Check out more on our episode notes here: https://www.bestrongstory.com/be-love-podcast
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