Community for the Soul

In this interview, we talk about a favorite topic and an important one – volunteering with our children.

Many parents have a strong desire to incorporate volunteer activities into their children’s lives, but finding places and opportunities can often be a challenge, especially for younger children. In this episode, I talk with Raising Kindness co-founders on the unique and creative organization they founded to help kids and parents give back in a fun, easy, inspiring way.

Meghann Conter is one of those people who inspires others to be their best self, to live their best life, and to go for their dreams. She’s not a coach or a counselor by trade, but how she shows up and what she has created, has formed a safe and supportive space that allows women business owners to flourish.

In this episode, we talk about the key components to creating communities that work, what makes some groups fall apart, and one crucial ingredient we all need to succeed.

My guest this week is the type of person who isn’t afraid to start a conversation with any person she comes across, someone who risks it all to put herself out there, and teaches us that we can learn a lot about ourselves and others just by staying curious.

Tune in to this weeks episode with Carlyn Shaw, founder of Strangers to Friends, to discover how we can all benefit from increasing our vulnerability, showing up where we are uncomfortable, and for finding connection in the most unlikely places.

This conversation with Lydia Dean, Founder of GoPhilanthropic, was not only about philanthropic travel and giving, but her pathway to listening to the calling of doing this important work, her own reflection on what it took to create something like this, and to do in the most responsible and effective way.

Tara Emrick is like sitting down with your best friend you never knew existed. She’s the exact person who can make you feel like you belong and that’s exactly the work she is doing in the world.

In this episode, we talk with author of Thirteen Reasons Why You Belong, a conversation and guidebook written for teenagers to inspire more connection in our youth.

We also discuss her new program with the HIP ME Project and how schools are using mindfulness as a way to support their students.

I love this episode for so many reasons, and I especially love the work that is being done with Extreme Community Makeover.

But what I really love is how Angela was part of an original idea of people who were willing to collaborate and make something happen. In their first year they had over 2000 volunteers, now ten years later they are serving over eight different neighborhoods throughout Denver and creating significant impact with both volunteers and the recipients of their work.

In this episode, we talk with Patricia and Craig about the art of convening. Convening is a mindful approach to how we gather.

In this episode, you'll discover tools and resources on how to more effectively gather people in your work, life, and world.

In this episode, Diana shares an uncommon four-letter-word: rest. We unpack why rest is so challenging, why it’s important for our well-being and communities, and how we can get more of it.

I loved when Diana said, "We have lost the art of what it means to rest." 

Tune in to discover what rest means for you and how you can also design an extended period of rest, with what Diana calls a sabbatical.

In this episode, Bruce shares what authentic, bold leadership looks like in our lives and at work, and what we can do to cultivate more of it in our lives.

Tune in to hear why authenticity, curiosity, and presence are leadership practices that can shift an organization.

In this episode, Jess shares tools and strategies we can use for self-care and how we can move away from stress, burnout, and overwhelm.

In our conversation, we discussed:

Radical self growth and why it’s crucial to your growth

Assessing what areas of your life are out of balance

And what it means when resistance shows up in your body