All You

Welcome to the first installment of Everyday Leaders on All You!

Everyday Leaders is a series of interviews with everyday people living with exceptional character. These are people you've never heard of, but they're the ones on the ground making the world a better place through their leadership.

Alejandro (Ali) Castro is a Ventura County firefighter, and just happens to be my boyfriend's brother-in-law. We talk about his journey to becoming a firefighter, from discouraging experiences as a high school student looking to learn more about the job, to sleeping in his car while completing paramedic school, and making it through the grueling interview and training process before finally getting hired into his station.

I have no doubt that you'll be inspired by Ali's dedication and resilience, and I can say without a doubt that he is a powerful and gracious presence in the world.

Do you know someone who shows up with integrity, vision, and commitment in everything they do? Someone who makes you say, "if the world was full of people like them, we'd be in pretty good shape"? Shoot me an email or reach out to me on social to nominate someone in your life who should be featured on Everyday Leaders.

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This episode concludes this first series on the All You podcast, and we cap it off with a short conversation about living life as a service.

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In this episode, I discuss the value and importance of using critical thinking in conversation to help us connect more authentically to one another.

In this episode, I use a simple example to illustrate the complex series of events happening in your mind at all times in response to the world around you, and talk about how mindfulness practices can help us navigate that effectively.

This episode is a short discussion of the concepts of structure and freedom, and when structures become authoritarian in nature.

In this episode, I discuss some of the ways social media works to game our brains and make us more triggered within ourselves, and more divided amongst each other. It's an overview of what we need to remember when engaging with social media so that we can be discerning and maintain our personal power online.

In this episode, I give a brief overview of the upcoming series of episodes, focused on how we as individuals can show up in this historical moment.