Better Together Podcast

We hear from Executive Director of Someone Cares Soup Kitchen, Shannon Santos, to learn more about her mission and role, and how she encourages her community to work better together.

We discuss the difference between short-term and long-term endeavors and discover useful insight and tools to better approach our commitments, so that we work better together.

We can all struggle with asking for forgiveness or forgiving others, and sometimes don't even realize our habits or faults that could offend others. Understanding and practicing forgiveness through grace is a two-way street that helps us maintain healthy relationships to work better together.

Our first 10 Minute Tune Up encourages listeners in how to be better together by implementing the qualities of “focus” (vision/direction), “adjust” (relationally), and “persevere” (practically). We are reminded to focus on our vision in the midst of frustrations, communicate with others to know how to adjust and compromise, and keep moving towards our goals to work better together.

Pastor Ian and Pastor Daniel dive into the importance of Empathy in Being Better Together.

Sometimes, Endings are necessary.  We work better together in the long run when we know which things to say Yes to and which to say No to.  Daniel and Ian discuss how we can know when to say No.

Exploring the importance of creating a culture that includes freedom to fail, and how this model benefits the team that is working better together.

Pastor Ian and Pastor Daniel encourage us to be intentional about working better together with young people, building legacies through kids, and the strength of working with kids.

We are especially inspired by young people who lead others in working better together.  16-year-old Rebekah has lived in another country and now attends Costa Mesa Highschool, where she runs letsbekind.org .  You can also find the organization on Instagram:letsbekindday .  She has already learned how to work better together and wants to share this with you.  Enjoy this interview!

There will usually be someone on your team who is capable of driving you nuts... it might even be you.  Here's a ten-minute tune up on working better together when someone drives you nuts.