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Meet phenomenal woman Dr. Mamie Parker who lives her passion, her promise, and her gifts to save the planet to save ourselves.
April 25, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes - 46.9 MBNoted Karmic astrologer Dora Jones believes “Each of us comes into life with a promise, a gift, a passion, and a deep heartfelt desire.” The promise is what you have come to life to master. You have promised to overcome, resolve, or heal some aspect of your consciousness. As you face your life experiences, you are allowed to fulfill this promise. Your responses to your experiences determine whether you fulfill or break the promise you have made to yourself. The gift is what you have come t...
Meet phenomenal woman Felicity DiPette who is dedicated to empowering the disenfranchised.
April 18, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes - 47.4 MBIn the words of life coach and award-winning author Iyanla Vanzant in her book Until Today, written in 2000. “Society, with its structures, expectations, and divisions, has fostered certain ideas about women that are not always flattering. Many people believe that strong women are not feminine and that assertive women cannot be trusted. My all-time favorite is that women who exhibit any degree of clarity about who they are and what they want are dangerous. We won’t bother to mention the myt...
Phenomenal women Afrika Bell Kathuria and Michele Sandiford share Zebra Ears, their creative collaboration.
April 12, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes - 46.7 MBThis month we celebrate the Phenomenal Women who walk into this space through many doors. They authentically share their stories, often vulnerably pay forward what they have learned, and celebrate each other. Thank you, ladies! Life is always listening to the silent requests of your heart and mind. Life is always surveying the landscape of your heart, gathering the bits and pieces of the emotions buried there. Life is always monitoring the activity of your tongue, checking for ruins and sac...
Rotarians Meesh Peters and Sam Marigu create family beyond borders from Virginia to villiges in Africa.
April 04, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes - 48.1 MBToday, we are living in an ongoing season of uncertainty and unrest. We have all been touched by a fresh sense of fragility in ourselves and our social systems. This is a testing time. This is a time to accept that empathy is unlimited. This is a time to realize that you are doing better than you think. This is a time to elevate voices of hope. This is the time to reimagine what is essential. This is a time for believers to remember the author of Genesis is also the author of Revelation. He i...
Womens History Month, the origins, and the fight for the right to vote. Let us not go backwards.
March 28, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes - 50.5 MBJoin me in a fascinating, energizing, educational, and empowering discussion about how African American women participated in the battle to the ballot box for all women. Enjoy a personal preamble tribute to the “Notorious” Ruth Bader Ginsburg, including some in her own voice. Women’s History Month in the United States grew out of a weeklong celebration of women’s contributions to culture, history, and society organized by the school district of Sonoma, California, in 1978. Presentations were...
REWIND: You are Never Too Old to Get Rich Featuring Author and Financial Strategist, Kerry Hannon
March 21, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes - 46.9 MB"An entrepreneur herself and leading expert on people 50 years and older, Kerry Hannon draws powerful lessons from the mid-life entrepreneurs she profiles. Her enthusiasm about the opportunities is inspiring, her cautions are practical and refreshing, and her insights into later life entrepreneurship ars spot-on. I love this book." -Chris Farrell, author of Purpose and Paycheck. Beyond being a nationally recognized expert and strategist on career transitions, personal finance, and retirement...
Black History Month Salutes CAF Red Tail Squadron Leader Bill Shepard.
February 21, 2023 11:30 - 58 minutes - 48.7 MBThe mission of the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron is to educate people of all ages about the Tuskegee Airmen so their strength of character and ability to triumph over adversity may serve as a means to inspire others to rise above obstacles in their own lives and achieve their goals. Woven throughout their outreach program, the group's Six Guiding Principles – Aim High, Believe In Yourself, Use Your Brain, Be Ready To Go, Never Quit and Expect to Win – were developed alongside docu...
The blessing of life and legacy featuring Karen and Cheyenne Harris
October 25, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 49.9 MBA legacy may take many forms – children, grandchildren, a business, an ideal, a book, a community, a home, or some piece of ourselves. Our legacy naturally intrigues us. Understandably, we would want to know how the world will remember us after we're gone. How many of us will be surprised? How many of us live so that our legacy reflects all that we genuinely hold most near and dear? How many of us are living with integrity and courage? Leaving a legacy is a human need. It is, in part, selfis...
REWIND: What About the Children? Dr. Roz, Child and Family Therapist, Considers Their LandscapeToday
October 18, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 48.1 MBThe challenge for us today is to be a lighthouse in the next generation's lives. Be on the lookout for lost souls in this season of intense uncertainty and unrest. Be alert to those who may be in need and have nowhere to go or no way to get there. Be sensitive to children who are left out, leftover, or left behind. Be a lighthouse to a child. Show children protection and guidance. You don't have to say much; just let the child know you are there should the need arise. Roselyn V. Baker-Black...
Legacy is about life and living featuring Col. Arthur R. Nicholson Ret.
October 03, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 46.9 MBA legacy may take many forms – children, grandchildren, a business, an ideal, a book, a community, a home, or some piece of ourselves. How many of us live so that our legacy reflects all that we genuinely hold most near and dear? How many of us are living with integrity and courage? The world isn't connected by molecules. It's joined by stories, traditions, memories, hopes, and dreams. We are bound by the legacies passed down from those who came before us and the gifts we pass down to those ...
Reflect, Restore, and Reposition with Brandon Cosby of OAR
October 01, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 51.2 MBJAIL is event-driven, choice involved, power stripping, and a visible shift. However, inside each inmate's jail cell is the power of transformation. Transformation is process-driven, choice involved, and resides internally. Opportunities, Alternatives & Resources (OAR) is missioned to rebuild lives and create a safer community with options, alternatives, and resources for justice-involved individuals and their families. OAR is a local non-profit restorative justice organization providing h...
There is always more: featuring award-winning playwright, author, and singer-songwriter Lezlie Revelle Zucker.
September 23, 2022 22:00 - 57 minutes - 46.9 MBThere is always more. "If by chance no one has told you that they love you today, I would be honored to be the first t say, I love you today. I love you because you are and have been so willing to grow. And my how you have grown. You have grown from struggling to searching. From trying to do something to learning how to do it. You have grown from fear to having faith, to demonstrating your courage. You have grown in many ways, consistently demonstrating your willingness and courage to take t...
The Face of Homelessness With Tom Barnett, Director of Fairfax County Office To Prevent And End Homelessness
September 13, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 47.8 MBAccording to one estimate, nearly 570,000 people nationwide were homeless on a night in 2019. It is estimated that over 3,000 people sleep outside every night in Seattle. By Associated Press, Wire Service Content April 10, 2021, at 9:30 a.m. Man Sentenced 4 Years for Poisoning 8 California Homeless People, By Associated Press, Wire Service Content April 9, 2021, at 9:48 p.m. No Address, No ID, and Struggling to Get Their Stimulus Checks. LOS ANGELES (AP) — It is easy to walk past the hom...
Meet phenomenal woman and physician, Dr. Tiffany Simpson.
September 06, 2022 10:22 - 58 minutes - 46.8 MBThis month Frankly Speaking is focusing once again on phenomenal women and how we embrace and manage our universal experiences, our rainbows and clouds, and our courage and resolve. We are a journey, not a destination, a process, not an event. Even when we are still, we are motion, loving, serving, nurturing, encouraging, and empowering. We are love and love does. But sometimes, sometimes we get stuck between our no longer the familiar, the habits and our not yet, who we were created to be,...
Stories you tell yourself when the White House calls with Ashwani Jain
August 30, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 48 MBThis month’s theme, “Stories We Grew up with”, expands our appreciation of who we have become as a result of the stories we have been told and the ones we have told ourselves growing up. We look at how these stories have impacted our behavior, our thoughts, our dreams, Ultimately, I believe everyone not only has a story but also is a story. Author David Denborough, Ph.D. writes “Who we are and what we do are influenced by the stories that we tell ourselves…There are many different events i...
REWIND: A courageous conversation about the opioid crisis with Lucy Caldwell
August 23, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 48.8 MBI want to open the door to a common thought space with some quotes from people who have walked into dark places and come up with dark solutions or who have loved others who have done so. I don’t know anyone who wakes up and say, “I want to be a criminal, I want to be homeless, or I want to be an addict. And yet sometimes the unlikely happens… Anonymous from Birmingham Alabama says: “I'm a good person. I'm a contributing member of society. I'm educated. I have a good job, make good money, ha...
Some stories need telling. Join Melissa Juarez Ehlers from The Center for Enriched Living, Deerfield Illinois.
August 16, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBMeet Patrick. "Patrick has autism and an intellectual disability. Until 2008, Patrick lived with his biological mother in Texas. She worked hard to ensure that Patrick had every opportunity to achieve his fullest potential. She socialized Patrick, taught him manners, and gave him basic skills. Sadly, after so many years of her life dedicated to the care and growth of her son, Patrick's mother was tragically killed in an automobile accident. Patrick's grandparents brought him to West Virginia...
REWIND: A Voice From the Future with Tommi Crump and Tommi’s Tales
August 02, 2022 10:19 - 58 minutes - 49.5 MBHow do YOU spell Legacy? Ray Bradbury believes, “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built, or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way, so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you are there. It does not matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you tou...
REWIND:Were it not for those who care with Second Story’s Abigail Brougher
July 26, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBFrom an outsider’s perspective, it looked like “Santiago” was simply a rebellious kid. At Second Story for Teens in Crisis, however, counselors worked on getting to know him and learning why he was acting out. He opened up and the counselors were there for him, helping him rewrite the narrative for his future. When Timothy began attending Second Story's Safe Youth Project he was struggling in school. The program coordinator worked to tutor him in the subjects he found especially challenging,...
Service is about you. Ask Asa and Naomi Nero
July 24, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 47 MBRadio Guest Asa Nero " Service is about you. Service is about giving what you have to offer without expecting recognition or reward. It is about doing what needs to be done. It means giving 100 percent of your attention to what you are doing as long as you are able to do it without causing yourself harm. Give what you have to offer without expectation. Give with love. Give in Joy. More you cannot do. Less you must not do if it is your intention to be of service." some words borrowed from lif...
Discover a secret pearl: Meet Ms. Lauren Pittman
July 19, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 46.5 MBIylanla Vanzant says in her, Until today, published in 2000, " When you are the light, you cannot complain about the darkness. The only thing you can do is shine. You must shine brightly in everything you do, and everywhere you go. That is your job. When you are light, you must realize that without the darkness, you would have no meaning. Until today you may have believed that the light must come to you. You may have complained about the darkness around you and how it seems that you are the...
A Voice From our Future: BECOMING NAOMI NERO
July 05, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes - 47.7 MBNo one told her she couldn't, so she lives in a world of possibilities. Student extraordinaire, musician, dancer, competitive athlete, and faith-based servant leader, Gen Z Naomi Nero decided to become a game-changer. Using her Master’s Honor thesis as her launch pad, she leaves the University of Chicago to continue her research in a five-year Doctorate Program at Georgetown University in Northern Virginia. In this episode, Naomi unpacks her thesis Title: Psychopathy, Borderline Personality ...
REWINDING Courageous Conversations: Surviving Human Trafficking Featuring Susan Young.
June 28, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 49.6 MBOur theme these two months is Courageous Conversations. It's Big! And sometimes uncomfortable. To get a return on our investment, we must invest in our authenticity and vulnerability. We will have to be perfectly imperfect and receive, in love, information about issues that may be uncomfortable to think about, deal with, anticipate, and forgive. We will contemplate, evaluate, learn about, be surprised by, and celebrate. We discovered during previous shows that the ability to have a courageo...
This is Us featuring Linda Mann, artist extraordinaire, and resilience influencer.
June 07, 2022 22:30 - 57 minutes - 47.2 MBLife coach Iyanla Vanzant says in her 2000 book Until Today, "Listen Carefully as if someone were whispering into your soul. There is something you must know. It is very important, no, it is imperative that you receive these words into the deepest core of your being. These words are essential to your very existence. They will feed, nurture, and nourish you. They will support, assist, and guide you. When all else fails, these words will give you the strength and courage you need to weather the...
Building a legacy through The High Tea Society featuring Mariessa Terrell, Esq.
May 31, 2022 14:45 - 57 minutes - 46.4 MB"Little girls learn a lot from the women they grow up around, whether they are related or not. Older women are like midwives who assist in the birth of a young woman's consciousness. It is not just what they do. It's who they are and how they demonstrate who they are that provides young women with "womanhood training." Young women and girls learn about themselves and what it means to be a woman by watching older women in their lives. They watch how and what (and if) they cook. They care what ...
A Tradition of Service Above Self Featuring Stephen Carattini, President and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington VA
May 24, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 46.5 MBWHAT IF your family has fallen out of balance as you were navigating life and crisis was your new rhythm? WHAT IF you and your family are experiencing food insecurity or a lack of clothing and shelter? WHAT IF you are an expectant mother considering adoption for your baby and need both medical care and guidance in the decision-making process and placement? WHAT IF you are a New American or a refugee in need of assistance to learn English, apply for citizenship, or housing? WHERE CAN YOU GO...
This Is Us featuring author, coach, and entrepreneur Sharon Kelly discussing blended families.
May 10, 2022 10:30 - 57 minutes - 45.9 MBPer the U.S. Bureau of Census, 1300 new stepfamilies are formed each day. Forty percent of families in the U.S. are blended with at least one partner having a child from a previous relationship before marriage. The number of kids living in blended families has been stable for nearly thirty years. Children of Hispanic, Black, and white backgrounds are equally likely to live in this type of family. A little over a generation. You will increase your chances of successfully bonding with your new...
Were it not for those who care, featuring Ron Riggins, Chairman of the Board, Catholic Charities of Arlington.
April 26, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 45.8 MBThere is a saying I read somewhere that stated, "if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." This journey called life seems necessarily codependent. What if you believed the most outstanding service you could offer in life is to be a light on the path? Your affirmation might say, "Today, I am devoted to shining the light of compassionate support and service on those who may be in need." Since 1947, when it first opened its doors as an adoption and children's serv...
For the eight-year-old in you featuring award winning author Kate DiCamillo with Krista Tippett.
April 19, 2022 10:16 - 58 minutes - 52.7 MBThe ideas that many parents want their children to embrace - ideas such as cooperation, kindness, or honesty - may be the most challenging concepts for parents to get across. In a flicker, youngsters spot a lecture coming and are quick to mentally retreat, leaving behind a black expression that nearly every parent recognizes with a sigh. Fortunately, "in their own back yard," parents already have a strategy that is fully capable of effectively delivering these messages to ready and open ears...
Womens History Month, the origins, and the fight for the right to vote.
March 08, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes - 50.5 MBWomen’s History Month in the United States grew out of a weeklong celebration of women’s contributions to culture, history, and the society organized by the school district of Sonoma, California, in 1978. Presentations were given at dozens of schools, hundreds of students participated in a “Real Woman” essay contest and a parade was held in downtown Santa Rosa. Did you know? To coincide with Women's History Month 2011, the White House issued a 50-year progress report on the status of women i...
Black History Month: More than a Memoir with Liza Price
February 28, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes - 100 MBBeauty products entrepreneur Lisa Price was born on May 18, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder of Carol's Daughter, one of the first African American-owned product lines with a flagship store. During her childhood, she remembers the smell of the soap her grandmother made at their Brooklyn brownstone. In 1990, Price began making creams and lotions based on natural materials in her kitchen. Encouraged by family members and friends, she began Carol’s Daughter from her home in 1993....
Black History Month salutes “Love in Action” with the late Congressman John Lewis and NPR’s Krista Tippett
February 21, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 50.6 MBFirst Corinthians 13: 4-8 says “Love is patient and kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. ... Love never ends”. Wikipedia says, "Love is considered to be a positive and negative: with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another"; and its vice represe...
Black History Month Celebrates a Kaleidoscope of African Americans
February 08, 2022 11:30 - 58 minutes - 50.8 MBDid you know? The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, the centennial anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln? In the decades that followed, mayors of cities across the country began issuing yearly proclamations recognizing Negro History Week. By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the civil rights movement and a growing awareness of black identity, Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses. President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black Hist...
“THIS IS US” featuring Cape Cod Entrepreneur Sandy Wycoff.
February 01, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 47.8 MBLife will accommodate you in any way that you choose. Life is always listening to the silent requests of your heart and mind. Life is always surveying the landscape of your heart, gathering the bits and pieces of the emotions buried there. Life can be an open book through which you can learn about great mysteries and wonders. Or life can be a mysterious and frightening pit through which you fear to tread. Or life can be a basket into which you can place your treasures, in which you carry abun...
Trauma that does not go away: the loss of a child and a brother featuring the David Owens family.
January 18, 2022 11:30 - 57 minutes - 46.8 MBHere in the United States, we began to see evidence of the unprecedented challenge to our health care systems and economy and wonder if our democracy would be strong enough to withstand the attacks on our constitution. Globally our world has been challenged in a way it had not been for over 100 years. An invisible enemy has invaded our privacy, routines, expectations, and hopes. Some of you, like me, have felt mental and emotional uncertainty and unrest. Everything that could be shaken is no...
Were it not for those who care featuring Ambreen Rizvi, CEO and Founder of Brigade of Mercy
January 11, 2022 11:04 - 57 minutes - 46.6 MBTo create our common thought space for this show, I ask one of my favorite questions, “What if?” Those two words are pregnant with possibilities. So, what if you believed the most outstanding service you could offer in life is to be a light on the path? What if your life becomes a shining symbol for others. What if you let everything you do be of service to someone. What if you stand tall in the knowledge of who you are. What if you stand proudly during tough times. Your affirmation might s...
Unwrapping your Gift: The Gift of Music featuring vocalist Mr. Everett Greene.
December 24, 2021 15:59 - 57 minutes - 46.4 MBA 2018 blog written by musicians who declare they believe in music says, “Music is simply a very special language that everyone understands. There is no feeling that cannot be described and transported through music. It preserves memories for eternity, turns dreams into reality. It caresses the soul or screams unmistakably. Music conquers fear, dries tears, gives courage and strength. It is the safe and expressive home of our emotions – with all facets between joy and pain, irrepressible lus...
Unwrapping your Gifts: Daddy Jay Little and Daughter Gia build a gift of legacy together.
December 18, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes - 47.4 MBAuthor Kahlil Gibran in his 1962 book The Prophet says, "And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which y...
Tapping into Joy featuring Deb Baroset, award-winning journalist, speaker, and seasoned PR expert.
December 15, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBAuthor and coach Iyanla Vanzant, in her 2000 book, Until Today, suggests, "If you are waiting for something to happen that will make you happy, you are killing off your joy. Joy comes through you. Happiness comes to you. If you seek your joy within, you will be happy, no matter what happens. It is easy to believe in more than what you can see when you know you will be protected, guided, and blessed. If you only believe what you can see around you, you may miss the blessings right under your ...
Were it not for those who care, featuring Jaleh Moslehi, Chairperson of the Board, of the Center for Improving Women’s Lives
December 07, 2021 11:30 - 58 minutes - 47.2 MBSusan Taylor, Essence Magazine Editor-in-Chief said in her 1993 book, In the Spirit: "There is a wisdom that is as much a part of our being as our flesh and blood and bones. Intuition, the deepest knowing. It is alive in us as children as simple faith in our feelings. But as we grow up and the outer world begins to matter more, the channel to intuition narrows. Western culture stifles intuition, dismissing what can’t be explained logically and scientifically, and discouraging reflection and ...
“She Believes in Me” featuring Rene Gorman and Michelle Galliano
November 23, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes - 49.6 MBEver stop to think about the lighthouses in your life? You know the ones… folks who especially encouraged you to keep on going when you had decided to stop; who gave when you couldn’t ask, who dried the track of your tears… and who said, “Yes you can!” They have magical timing…some stay for a season, or some stay many seasons. Some live in a surprising comment they left behind. Memories of them are tattooed on your heart. And sometimes, that memory of them feels like a do-over of their impac...
Were it not for those who cared, featuring Courtney Pierce of Samaritan House.
November 16, 2021 11:12 - 58 minutes - 46.9 MBSo, what if you believed the greatest service you could offer in life is to be a light on the path? Samaritan House fosters personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking, and homelessness. Since 1984, Samaritan House has provided emergency and permanent housing, support services, and community outreach to victims of violence and homeless families in the Hampton Roads region. Clients receive sup...
Leadership training expert Jay Little discusses where leadership and sustainability intersect.
November 09, 2021 11:33 - 58 minutes - 46.8 MBBrene Brown defines a leader as someone who “takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who dares to develop that potential.” She invites leadership to dare to be brave leaders by leading with wholehearted leadership and self-awareness by embracing vulnerability and courage cultures. (Oct 30, 2018) To build courage in teams and organizations, daring leaders must cultivate a culture in which brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts exist. In other wo...
Generation Z Voices from the Future Featuring Young Authors Aiden Hayes, Paige Jackson, Tyler Webber, and Michelle Jackson.
November 02, 2021 10:42 - 52 minutes - 45.1 MBThis week we visit the land of Generation Z also known as iGen, also known as Centennials, also known as Nexters featuring Aiden Hayes, Paige Jackson, and Michelle Jackson. This conversation expands our appreciation of who young people are becoming as a result of the stories they have been told and the ones they are telling themselves. We listen to how stories impact their behavior, their thoughts, and their dreams, DJ KHALED, music industry megaproducer and recording artist reminds Gen Z a...
SECOND STORY, a sanctuary for youth who have been left out, left over, and left behind featuring Cathy Benn, Vice President of Residential Services.
October 26, 2021 10:08 - 58 minutes - 47.1 MBConsider this: “On any given night, approximately 41,000 unaccompanied youth ages 13-25 experience homelessness. The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the US is 12 to 14 years old. Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children. Many "latchkey" children experience stressful and even dangerous situations without ready access to adult guidance and support. It is estimated that as many as 10 million American children care for themselves before or after school. Ma...
How often do you as a woman consider: How Climate Anxiety Is Shaping Family Planning?
September 21, 2021 10:31 - 57 minutes - 48.8 MBIn recent months, the notion of family planning as a means of fighting climate change has emerged from the eco-warrior fringe and entered the mainstream public conversation. Last winter, on the Facebook page, BirthStrike, a group of about 650 people based in Britain, have pledged to forgo having children because of “the severity of the ecological crisis.” One post BirthStrike post shared the following: “For several months after her daughter was born in 1991, Lori Day had terrifying anxiety...
From convict to star citizen, a courageous conversation with Helenia Bragg.
September 08, 2021 22:09 - 58 minutes - 48.3 MBThis story deserved a rewind. We all have times or seasons when it requires courage to make it from one moment to the next; to take the next step or to say the next word. And sometimes we let fear, shame, and guilt demonize our potential to overcome. What we discovered is that the ability to have a courageous conversation is often a process, a journey, not an event. It doesn’t always happen when it logically should; sometimes you have to grow into it. And sometimes courageous conversations...
What story do you tell yourself when the White House calls?
September 07, 2021 10:31 - 58 minutes - 48 MBThis month’s theme, "Stories We Grew up with," expands our appreciation of who we have become due to the stories we have been told and the ones we have told ourselves growing up. We look at how these stories have impacted our thoughts, our dreams; ultimately, I believe everyone has a story and is a story. Author Richard Kearney says in his book On Stories, "telling stories is as basic to human beings as eating. More so, in fact, for a while, food makes us live; stories are what make our live...
The blessings of legacy with Karen and Cheyenne Harris
August 28, 2021 10:37 - 58 minutes - 49.9 MBLegacy is about life and living. It's about learning from the past, living in the present, and building for the future. The world isn't connected only by molecules. It's connected by stories, traditions, memories, hopes, and dreams. We are connected by the legacies passed down from those who came before us and the legacies we will pass down to those who come after us. English writer Dorothy Sayers, "Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward, we mus...
Legacy is for the living with father and son Courtney and Asa Nero
August 21, 2021 10:30 - 58 minutes - 50.6 MBRay Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 says, “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built, or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way, so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. Dara Horn says. “Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you c...