Common Humanity

Nichole, like most humans, despises writing bios. How does one tell the world that they secured a world record for deadlift without sounding braggadocious? Well, now that the bandaid has been ripped off--Nichole is neuro-divergent, so she has deep interests and several hobbies including powerlifting, jiu jitsu, and contrast therapy. She's an entrepreneur that works in digital marketing. Curiosity and energy are her superpowers and boredom is a stranger. Constantly on the move, she's an adventure seeker traveling through the world full speed with awe and wander.

This conversation was so fun to have. From recalling the kids who bullied her in school to becoming a world-record holder in powerlifting, Nichole tells a story of the people she is grateful for, the journey she has walked, and the challenges that made her who she is today. A champion for endometriosis treatment and research, as well as medical self-advocacy.

You can follow Nichole on IG @nicholeholzum or on TikTok @curlsandsquats to continue venturing into her world.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me on IG @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems from the book on Spotify.

Join us on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Leyla is a senior at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point with a major in early childhood education and minors in early childhood special education and environmental education.  She has competed on the swim team at UWSP throughout her 4 years in college and has been powerlifting for 2 years. Through her short life she has learned many important lessons that have guided her on her path; practice gratitude and be kind. She hopes to instill these lessons into the next generation of students as a teacher, while continuing to practice her own personal development and enjoying nature.

You can follow Leyla on IG @Leyla.Ninmer and on TikTok @LeylaLu22.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me on IG @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems from the book on Spotify.

Join us on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Sophie is a wise young woman who brings her spirit to every conversation we have. In this particular exchange of thoughts we decided that we finally found the meaning of life and we are eager to tell you about it. We also discuss her mentality as a Gen-Z person trying to make her belief systems coincide with being a productive human and how the look of that is changing with her generation. 

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems from the book on Spotify.

Join us on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Scott is a somatic therapist and coach who joined me for a conversation about highly sensitive people or HSPs, artificial intelligence, how, if used well, could open up our time as people to actually find and share our passions with one another. Not to mention all of the lovely tangents into how sports are a collaboration between opposing players/teams, how we faired and changed through the pandemic, and so much more.

If you want to follow more of Scott and the ways he can help uplift you, check him out on IG @inspiredlivinglab or sign up for a free call with him at scottlillestoncoaching.com where you can also sign-up for newsletter or read his blog.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems from the book on Spotify.

Join us on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Emily is a compassion fatigue coach who has taken her journey from growing up in a fundamentalist religion where she experienced trauma, to being a pastor herself, to helping people overcome religious trauma and compassion fatigue. We talk the poetry of religion, the science or trauma, and the beauty of being human through it all.

If you need help healing form religious trauma or a toxic work environment, visit https://emilyhedrickcoachingandconsulting.com and be sure to follow Emily on IG @emilyhedrickcc.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems form the book on Spotify.

Join us on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Do the questions at the end of the segment get you thinking? Questions are an easy way to get your friends, family, coworkers, and more, to have real human conversations. I use the cards from How Game Are You? as prompts at the end of the show. Get yours here!

Jasmine is a new mother who has spent her life facing the unending identity crisis of being a mixed race woman in the United States. Being the combination of black and white but being treated like she had to be one or the other. And she tells us that the most push back about her race comes from a place most wouldn't expect. So how is she going to continue to face these daily challenges and instill the same strength in her new daughter to do the same? 

Be sure to follow her journey further on her blog www.moplusco.com and her IG @kindafit_mo to see how she persists from here on.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems form the book on Spotify.

Join us on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Do the questions at the end of the segment get you thinking? Questions are an easy way to get your friends, family, coworkers, and more, to have real human conversations. I use the cards from How Game Are You? as prompts at the end of the show. Get yours here!

Eva is an independent business woman who took her love for the environment and mixed it with her love for art to create @thenewold.llc, a handmade jewelry business using environmentally conscience materials. She has spent her life as a go-getter, taking pride in her independence, intelligence, and the ability to think on her feet. Having faced many different trials in her life, she found a way to find peace in self-care and wants to find a way to help others do the same. 

Be sure to check out her most recent collection at www.thenew-old.com and support the work of someone who is hell bent on bringing good into the world.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems form the book on Spotify.

Join us on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Do the questions at the end of the segment get you thinking? Questions are an easy way to get your friends, family, coworkers, and more, to have real human conversations. I use the cards from How Game Are You? as prompts at the end of the show. Get yours here!

Victor and I discuss a broad spectrum of things that we have faced on our journey through life. As an actor from a young age, Victor has spent time in in Hollywood, where many dream to be, but has found more peace taking care of his elderly grandfather and moving to Wyoming where he enjoys the simplicity and easy to find parking. Life can be simple, and when it is, you can find great joy in your small role the the happiness of those around you.

You can follow Victor on IG @victorzotstein and check out the cafe that is part of his newer, simpler life @parmountcafe.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems form the book on Spotify.

Join us for our next live recording on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Do the questions at the end of the segment get you thinking? Questions are an easy way to get your friends, family, coworkers, and more, to have real human conversations. I use the cards from How Game Are You? as prompts at the end of the show. Get yours here!

Dominick is an IT guy by day and an entrepreneur, youth sports coach, outdoor enthusiast, and an integral part of the community by night. He is a prime example of an entrepreneur, someone who sees a problem in the world around him and creates a solution. From his own IT business, to a martial arts and childcare center, to his newest venture bringing together those in need of services with those in need of work. You can follow him @dominick.espinoza.1

To check out his latest venture to help his home town of Cheyenne, WY visit oddjobr.com find work and services.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems form the book on Spotify.

Join us for our next live recording on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Do the questions at the end of the segment get you thinking? Questions are an easy way to get your friends, family, coworkers, and more, to have real human conversations. I use the cards from How Game Are You? as prompts at the end of the show. Get yours here!

Today we have a great discussion about healthy relationships with parents, kids, exes, and yourself. And we talk a lot about failure and how it molds us into who we are meant to be, for better or worse. Life takes us on an amazing journey of ups and downs. Through this journey we stumble, fall, and get back up, hopefully wiser. We use those experiences to build ourselves into the person we want to become. Fail as often as you need to.

Joni is a healthy relationship and positive co-parenting coach at joniwoods.com and @joniwoods on IG.

I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human conversation. You can follow me @C.S.Phoenix or visit my website at www.csphoenix.com. You can also pick up my new book, the first in a poetry collection about trauma and healing, on Amazon and listen to choice poems form the book on Spotify.

Join us for our next live recording on @CommonHumanityPodcast, so you can listen in, ask questions, and join our conversation about all the things that make us human and connect us with one another.

Do the questions at the end of the segment get you thinking? Questions are an easy way to get your friends, family, coworkers, and more, to have real human conversations. I use the cards from How Game Are You? as prompts at the end of the show. Get yours here!