Challengers welcome back to Challenge Me 4 U! Did you know that last week, Facebook ‘faced’ a tremendous decline in users ? As a social media giant, it was a platform that aimed to connect users with one another, but over the past years it has transformed into a toxic playground of marketing ads and posts that leave users feeling disconnected, exhausted, and unfulfilled. To elaborate further, I interviewed my former colleague, Mr. Chris Arias, who shares his experience that led to his decrease in using Facebook as a tool to connect. Please join me as we explore this topic further. (Statistical data was obtained by The Guardian: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/06/first-time-history-facebook-decline-has-tech-giant-begun-crumble).

Last year we were healing and this year we are building resilience! Challengers please listen to this episode on cultivating resilience. We have been through the challenges presented by the pandemic and we have learned new skills to survive and thrive so let’s refine our self-care strategies to build resilience and move forward with our goals for the year of 2022!

Today, I had a lovely guest speaker who posses an exuberant spirit, she is a health coach, an amazing wife, a wonderful mother, a daredevil, a cancer thriver/survivor, a runner, a workout guru, and a fashionista, but most importantly a genuine human being who is willing to share with us her journey of how she decided to live her life to the fullest by living in the NOW! Please listen to Mrs. Sukanya Sridhar’s episode and if you are interested in receiving her style of health coaching to transform your health; please visit her website https://trainyourbrain66.wixsite.com/mysite

We have often heard of the phrase “Paying It Forward” where we pass on the act of goodness to others but let’s take a moment to gain insight on how to ‘Pay It Inward ‘by developing the lens of going within ourselves to advocate and address our needs while recognizing our values or identifying what’s important in our lives. In the service fields, we often find ourselves putting the needs of other before ours while minimizing or ignoring what we need. This can lead to stress, burnout, and pose risks in other areas of our lives. When we understand who we are and what we need, then we can understand ourselves and others better and serve wholeheartedly. NVC or non-violent communication is one of the tools of language that allows us to learn how to communicate effectively using empathy. So please join me and my wonderful guest speaker, Danielle Reiff as we share our experience, strength and goals to Pay It Inward as we serve others in our jobs, communities, and relationships.

It’s the season of changes. The fall does bring evident changes. As we are witnessing these changes, we notice that for some changes we welcome them and for others we may not. We may feel uncomfortable so what do we when we experience the uncomfortable or unpleasant changes, please listen to this episode.

Challengers welcome back to Challenge Me 4 U! Are You Privileged and Not Know that you are ? It’s okay, this is not about shaming or guilt tripping anyone. This is about becoming aware of our privileges or the lack of it to advocate for bridging the gaps. The gaps in understanding the barriers experienced by marginalized or disenfranchised groups to help build opportunities and resources while expanding upon diversity and inclusion. Please listen to this episode as I share with you an article on the 5 types of Privileges.

Dear Challengers, Can any of you remember who exactly shaped your lens or definition of success? What did that look like? And..How did that impact your life? Definitely you experienced the results from someone else’s wisdom but how did it feel within, was there a timeline imposed and I invite you to challenge some of those old ideologies as you are listening to this episode.

Welcome to Season 6! Dear listeners please join me today on a wonderful topic of an Immigrant’s perspective of creating home abroad. I’m delighted and honored to have a dear family friend, Dr. Tasmia Ahmed share her and her family’s experience as immigrants integrating their culture, tradition, and values from Bangladesh with American values while also shedding light on cultural awareness and competency.

Dear listeners/challengers, we all may have pondered at some point in our lives about navigating our unique personalities into the mainstream culture. How do we discern and balance between our values and normative social influence to integrate into a community? Please listen as I share my own research about this topic, “Navigating Through Social Norms.”

Listeners, please join me today on the topic of The Healing Power of Laughter! Do you ever find yourself a bit too serious or extremely focused with the mundane, that you often forget to smile or engage in lighthearted activities as a way to decompress. You may have heard the famous saying, Laughter is the The best medicine, so let’s hear it today as I have our guest speaker, Ashaad Hipps share his favorite form of self-care through humor and laughter.