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.
I met Christina at a boxing class, I was visiting NYC for my 40th birthday and per my normal tradition of taking a new fitness class, Christina happened to be my instructor. I fell in love with her energy and passion for teaching and encouraging her class. Afterwards we chatted about all things. I heard her story and knew she had to share it on our podcast. Christina has been a fitness model for Nike, Adidas. She has been featured in Shaun T’s Beach Body videos. She was a professional dancer and spent time as part of the Rockettes.
She is currently a Rumble Boxing Instructor and she is sharing her passion and story to help heal others.
For anyone who has struggled with loving their body, or struggling to talk to themselves with kindness, this podcast is for you. Christina Jensen opens her heart and shares her very vulnerable story of her relationship with her body. For years Christina battled with being comfortable in her own skin. Through constant critique in the dance and fitness model industry she had to learn how to switch the old narrative and make a new one.
I love this interview because she is New Yorker, and you know I love New York, but she tells it to us straight.
She talks about how because of her industry she was constantly critiqued and scrutinized. She now uses her story of healing to help other women love themselves, to switch the narrative of what many have been told about themselves and to see themselves differently as a beautiful masterpiece. The world is so filtered, how do we practice loving ourselves just the way we are.
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Many times we want to “fix” people. And many times we do this from a good place but what if we just met people exactly where they are without the agenda to fix them, but just to love them.
Today’s guest teaches us to do just that.
Growing up in rural Minnesota, Callie Himsl always longed to live for something bigger than herself. Her curiosity took her around the world, landing in Haiti where she met her husband. She has lived in Port-au-Prince for seven years and has had the opportunity to meet some of the world’s most marginalized and most influential people. These encounters have gifted her with wisdom and knowledge about how to change the world.
Wherever we live, we all have people who need to know they belong, right where they are. Be inspired today to see others and serve right where you are!
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Today’s guest is the perfect guest to start the New Year with a bang, obviously we booked Jacki Carr for ALL the goals, intentions, and how to put it all into practice. Jacki is a goal coach, writer, motivational speaker, and the co-founder of Rock Your Bliss. As a leader in transformation, her coaching style includes real talk and true connection to your whole self honoring the successes and the many failures as well as the permission to be a beginner again and again….and again. She believes all of us are a beautiful contribution to this world and have a unique gift to give this world.
Whether you love a good vision board like I do, or goals for the New Year intimidate you, you will love this conversation with Jacki. She gives us some practical steps on how to be who you were created to be with small steps to share our gifts with the world.
Things we talk about:
How to create goals specific to us.
What hinders us from reaching our goals?
There’s room for everyone’s gifts at the table.
How you can get over fear of failure
Specific steps to help us go into the New Year with purpose.
You will want to grab a notebook and take notes for this one.
Check out Jacki and how you can connect with her here: https://www.bestrongstory.com/be-love-podcast
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Merry Christmas to all! Christmas is my very favorite time of year, it’s full of hope, promise, joy, beautiful trees, memorable gifts - all the sparkly things. But many times the holidays aren’t the most joyful season for everyone. Sometimes it can be full of loss, grief, brokenness. In this podcast we talk about some of the losses we have experienced this year and how joy and loss can co-exist. We talk about the hope of Christmas even though a painful season. We hope this podcast brings you peace this season.
Today’s guest is Natalie Silverstein. I met Natalie this year on a trip to NYC. Natalie has given her life to serve others and help other families do this, too. She is a mother of two and has walked the talk. Natalie gives us some tangible ways we can teach our kids to be generous and compassionate to others. She even wrote an entire GUIDE to help us in our own families.
Her book is called Simple Acts: The Busy Family’s Guide to Giving Back. Her book was featured in HuffPost as the TOP 10 books for raising kind kids.
Check out Natalies book and how to connect with her here:
https://www.bestrongstory.com/be-love-podcast
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to meet Oprah Winfrey, or to work for her? Today’s guest is Christine Mulhearne who has worked for O, The Oprah Magazine for the past 13 years. She shares some incredible wisdom from the years she has been a part of O, The Oprah Magazine. This is one of the most interesting conversations. Christine is energetic and confident in who she is. She lives in NYC, but is a southern girl at heart. She is unapologetically herself and gives us some great advice on how to be exactly who we are! We talk about what it means to dive into our best lives and what that means for each one of us. You will laugh and have a skip in your step after listening to Christine.
For more show notes and how to get in touch with Christine, check out our show notes here.
It’s our first ever Gift Guide on the podcast. We are so excited for this episode because we have everything for ALL your Christmas gifts. Each company is featured because our family has not only been enriched by what they have created, but they are all companies that build on behalf of others and love others well, and you know that is what we are all about at be.love podcast.
On the show today we feature 6 companies that offer gifts from beautiful home goods, leather goods and shoes, serving kits to do with your family monthly, comfy tees and sweatshirts, and so much more…..
Check out our show notes here https://www.bestrongstory.com/be-love-podcast
for all the links of each incredible business and discount codes.
This week’s “be love quick tip,” is about gratefulness. We are rolling into Thanksgiving and many of us are reminded at this time to really focus on gratitude, but how do we carry that gratitude the entire year? How do we teach our kids to be grateful? How do we model this on a daily basis?
Join us as we dive into these topics today!
Don’t forget we have an apparel company www.bestrongstory.com and this weekend is our BIGGEST sale of the year. Shop all apparel for adults, kids, lunchbox notes, which are the perfect stocking stuffers. Everything is printed at our partner Sox Place, which is a homeless shelter that helps provide jobs to former homeless.
Happy Thanksgiving! We are so grateful for each and everyone of you!
Today’s guest is Cassandra Curtis. Cassandra Curtis, co-founder and chief innovation officer at Once Upon a Farm. Cassandra brings extensive knowledge of product development, childhood nutrition and parenting experience to her position at Once Upon a Farm. When Cassandra had her first child she could not find an organic, whole foods baby food to feed her child. Cassandra has a background in nutrition and health and was making her own baby food in her kitchen. She decided that even though she might have the time to do this, many other mothers did not, so she started a company to solve a problem.
I wanted to talk to Cassandra today because we both believe that mothers deserve to give their kids the very best nutrition, although not all mothers have access. Cassandra and her team at Once Upon a Farm will be the first organic baby food to be WIC certified. Her baby food will be accessible to mothers who are in the Women, Infants, and Children program who may not have been able to afford organic food in the past.
We talk about what it was like to start a business from scratch, why she is so passionate about providing access to all, and how she stays present with her family as she builds a growing company.
I loved chatting with Cassandra. She has a calming nature that I immediately felt just conversing with her for an hour.
For more on Cassandra and Once upon a Farm click here for show notes.
Today’s interview is a powerful one. There are not many times when I have no words, and this interview was one that was hard to find the words to say. Our guest today is author, Lora Jones.
Lora Jones’s world shattered on Nov. 23, 2004, the night she survived but lost her husband and two children in a head-on collision. She secretly, desperately wished for death to claim her, too—how could she go on alone?—but a soft, faint voice sang to her in the midst of her deepest pain that night, the voice of God.
In her new book, Song of a Wounded Heart: Regaining Hope and Trust After Personal Tragedy: The Incredible True Life Story of a Woman Who Lost Everything (Morgan James Publishing, June 25, 2019), Jones shares her remarkable journey from death to hope and encourages readers to believe in the goodness of God, despite their circumstances.
We talk about grief, the will to continue when you world is taken from you, when you doubt your purpose and how to sit with those in grief.
I loved talking with Lora, the way she even soothed my soul as I personally am experiencing grief in my life.
If you have ever lost someone you loved or wondered why awful things happen, or if you are in a time of grief and confusion I know this interview will encourage you. Lora lost everything and yet she found the strength to take the next step every single day.
For more show notes and how to contact Laura please check out our show notes.
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