Embers and Wind

Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Rebecca Biedler shares what she learned from personal experience when she confides those who join this conversation   “It is ok to seek out help. If you’re in the gym, or you’re trying something new, it’s ok to ask for directions. And it’s ok to try something and stumble a little bit. I even have coaches who have helped me including a personal trainer and a sales coach. And I just invite people to, to just try, seek that out, not be ashamed to ask for help, not be ashamed to be new. Realize your autonomy. Your body is adaptable. Your brain is flexible. And you can decide. Be ok with being different than another person. It’s ok to be different. Don’t discount the positive. Learn from your mistakes and don’t wait for a feeling, like ‘Oh, I need to be in the mood.’ Showing up sometimes is the best thing you can do. Sometimes, it takes more than knowing the reasons for exercise to motivate you. So basically, I would try to summarize that is: Don’t be ashamed. Don’t discount the positive, and it’s ok to be new.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, guest Rebecca (Becca) Biedler states that she became passionate about health and fitness when she started exercising and eating a healthy diet. She talks about her journey and overcoming her personal scrutiny of herself. She shares that her passion led her to become a certified personal fitness trainer with experience in coaching, instructional design, and creating training programs. She notes that she is finishing her master’s degree in Instructional Design and Technology at Purdue University.  She shares that she obtained her certification as a personal fitness trainer from ISSA. She confides ISSA stands for the International Sports Sciences Association and ETC, where she obtains her continuing education units, stands for ETC Exercise Inc. She notes both are online platforms that help students build their skills as a personal trainer. Becca talks about the difference between the empowered fitness that she practices and shame-driven fitness. Empowered fitness focuses on the positives, what people are doing right and engages the student in designing their training curriculum. She talks about the impact of this pandemic on her business. She has learned to work with people online in addition to face-to-face. There is a savings in fees to work with Becca because she does not need to lease a venue when working remotely. She notes that she saves in travel time when working remotely. She continues to offer both options to her clients

To connect with Becca, her website is listed as the website for this episode. She has a company Facebook page which can be found at this website address: https://www.facebook.com/IDFitPrograms.

She has a private, complimentary Facebook group, Girls Do Pushups, where Becca shares information on fitness and nutrition.Here is the website address for Girls Do Pushups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3109990012650302. She also has an Instagram account at this website address: https://www.instagram.com/id_fit_by_becca/

To learn from Becca, she recommends that you go to her website and send her a message to arrange a convenient time to chat.

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Felipe Martinez, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Indiana shares about Living in the Tension, “It is important in human relationships, in community work and family life to be ready for some of that tension to be there, that push and pull. And again, from a theological framework, so that we together discern what the right direction is for us to take. Or so that we together can hear through each other what God, what the universe is trying to say to us. I can’t on my own, I would argue, figure life out. And so, if I’m going to live life as a human, I’m going to have to live life in community. If I’m going to live life in community, there’s going to be tension in the ways in which you and I and others will understand our reality. And so, for us to walk together, as let’s say a town, and not listen to each other, is to simplify something that’s very complex.”

I’m your podcast guest host Jason Carr. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Pastor Felipe Martinez asserts that God speaks through each one of us. He explains that the reason there is tension inherent in listening to God is because we must listen to what God is saying through others in addition to what God is saying through us. Pastor shares that his strengths include diving deep to create win-wins and his commitment to learn from parishioners. He differentiates himself from other pastors and congregations with his passion for social justice and social justice issues and through his adherence to the conviction that God speaks through everyone. Felipe asserts that he is not one who strives to simplify, He notes the win-wins often occur to him in the grey areas. Felipe confides that he feels uncomfortable dealing with conflict. He notes some pastors have a gift for resolving conflict. (Even though Felipe does not talk about his skill teaching biblical and life lessons through his sermons from the pulpit, he would welcome you to visit First Presbyterian Church’s YouTube channel.)

To connect with Felipe, his church’s website is listed as the website for this episode. He welcomes you to reach out to him by email. His email address is: [email protected]. To access the YouTube channel for First Presbyterian Church, the web address is:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dodS7voUvbZgpn9tkwNIg.

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Sanna Kettunen tells what she means when she says that The Best Is Yet to Come: “I mean the words I’m saying that no matter where we find ourselves in life, what situation may occur outside of ourselves that is either challenging or it’s like just good or it’s amazing. But everything is still in front of us. We are constantly evolving, and the future is for us to look forward to with hope and anticipation like I wonder what’s next to come. And that’s for each one of us, but it’s a mindset thing that we have to train ourselves to switch like from the negative hopelessness to seeing the good in it, and it’s there.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Sanna Kettunen shares how lonely she felt healing from unhealthy relationships. She talks about her healing journey to regain her sense of self and the people who helped her heal. She announces that she has dedicated her life to help women and men heal from unhealthy relationships. She talks about her book, The Best Is Yet to Come, a integral piece of the “You Got This” movement that she began in 2019. She shares many ideas from her book that is scheduled to be published in July. She talks about three foundational affirmations that she believes everyone wants to hear growing up: 1) I’m proud of you; 2) I believe in you; and 3) I love you. She stresses the importance of self-awareness, self-love, and self-expression. She describes self-love as essential to be able to love others. She talks about fear as a resource to help you instead of as an obstacle to stop you. She describes how she counters negative self-talk with positive affirmations and how she reads these positive affirmations at the start of each day as she looks at herself in the mirror.  She shares She states that she lives in southern Finland with her three sons. She acknowledges that English is the third language she speaks. She shares her passion and purpose is to raise awareness of the importance of self-awareness, self-love, and self-expression. She intends to be there as a resource to help people heal from unhealthy relationships which is why she wrote her book and became a mindset coach because she understands how scarey and lonely the journey back to authenticity can be. She reminds you that the best is your best.

Sanna invites you to connect with her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yougotthis.sanna/, on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sannasofia.kettunen, or join her Facebook group for her book launch::https://www.facebook.com/groups/599562477960634.

Her YouTube channel is listed as the website for this episode. To learn from Sanna, she intends to publish her book in July, and she wants you to know that she is working on a course. She would love to reply to your email. Here is Sanna’s email address: [email protected].

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Special guest Keith Weedman shares how getting a dangerous person to accept his constructive feedback changed two people’s lives with guest host Jason Carr: “The other thing I knew was that he had a felony conviction on his record. He had once attacked a detective from behind with a knife….  Some people perceive the world in a way that brings the worst out of them, frequently, and Mike was somebody that perceived the world, that perceived himself and his situation in a way that brought the worst out of him, typically. And when you interact with somebody, you can help them change their perception. When you help them change their perception, you can elevate their engagement and performance. You could say that Mike was a great role model for what I do today because what I do today is I help leaders learn how to effect change that elevates engagement and performance…. Ten years went by. I was commuting to a job in Bartholomew County, Columbus, Indiana, and it was a one hour and 45-minute drive one way… I stopped at 6 a.m. to get a cup of coffee at a gas station. I bumped into Mike for the first time in ten years. He was dressed like a workaday Joe. I asked him where he was going. He was on his way to work at a different local factory. Mike had changed his life. He had also changed my life because I went to graduate school because of my encounter with Mike.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

 In this episode, Keith talks about how being bullied growing up stimulated his interest in how to get someone to receive constructive feedback in a helpful way. He shares that he learned to give people positive and constructive feedback as a volunteer trainer at the Lafayette Crisis Center. He talks about how active listening as he was trained how to do has a healing effect. He shares a success story from his work as a volunteer trainer. Then Keith tells a story about how he learned that the skills he had acquired were insufficient when an employee reacted to his constructive feedback by calling him the worst supervisor she has ever had. He acknowledges how in looking back that he failed by surrendering being the person with the stronger conviction. He shares how constructivism epistemology that he learned in graduate school is like applying the mindset of a true scientist outside of the field of science by recognizing that nothing can be proven, only disproven.  He talks about shifting selection criteria for the perception and for knowledge you choose to which perception or knowledge is more useful instead of more accurate. Keith talks about perceiving as a creative act and that you are responsible for how people perceive your constructive feedback. He notes in Toastmasters, that Toastmasters give and receive constructive feedback in a helpful way. He states while it can be more difficult for constructive feedback to be received in a helpful way in the workplace that this is still possible.

If you are interested in learning from Keith, he invites you to reach out by email: [email protected] or by cell phone: 812-343-2697. Keith notes that he strives to respond within 24 hours, excluding weekends.

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Deslynn Jaquias shares this about her podcast “Healing with Aloha, I launched it in 2019, and then I put it on pause for a little bit to take care of my grandmother. She was in hospice care and that was her last year was this. And then in 2020 during the pandemic, I realized that initially I was going to do it solo, and then I said, you know, I’m going to start inviting other people on to my platform because I felt that I wasn’t the only one who had an urge to share, that I wasn’t the only one who was dealing with grief, mental health, and desires healing. And I thought well let me open it up so that I can have people and it’s open to anyone to come on and so it’s not limited to just to the Hawaiian Islands but it’s open to people from all walks of life to be able to share what they’ve done to work on their healing or what are the passions they have so that they can be able to embrace life to the fullest.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Deslynn Jaquias shares her journey healing from the death of her sister, Keala, in a one-car accident in 2001 at the age of 23. Deslynn talks about missing Keala so much that she started a journal writing letters to Keala to help Deslynn heal. Her overarching message is that healing is possible, that the road to healing is difficult and worth it. She talks about her first book that she is currently writing. She has already included the letters that she wrote to Keala from Deslynn’s journal. Deslynn shares that she sought psychotherapy to help her heal from her Keala’s death. She talks about her Healing with Aloha podcast whose mission is to help people heal from their loss and work on their mental wellness. She shares inspiring stories from her podcast about helping people heal. Deslynn acknowledges that her passion includes helping her podcast guests heal too. She describes healing as a process that involves making progress over time. Her podcast guests include people who have never before shared their story to help others heal. “I just want people to understand that it does take work to heal,and it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.”

To connect with Deslynn, she recommend watching her YouTube channel and listening to her Healing with Aloha podcasts. Her YouTube channel is listed as the website for this episode. Her podcast can be found on Spotify here: https://spoti.fi/3vAFnAs. Deslynn welcomes listeners who resonate with her message to reach out by email. Her email address is:  [email protected]. Her Facebook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008176180737. Here is her LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/deslynnjaquias. Deslynn notes that she is always looking for guests for Healing with Aloha. Deslynn closes this episode with this benevolent Call-to-Action: 1) Follow Healing with Aloha; 2) Let Deslynn know if there is anything she can do to give back.

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Lisa David Olson talks about her book “It’s called Laughs on Wry, and it’s an improvisor’s memoir finding humor through childhood abuse, failed marriages and other hurdles. And the tagline that I have on there that really defines my life is ‘a life made of choices instead of excuses’. I grew up in a traumatic childhood setting where my mother was a functioning alcoholic who would have fits of rage. And I know now as an adult that she was self-medicating herself. And I wouldn’t have known that then as a kid.” Lisa then shares “My book talks about the severity of the horrid parts of my life. It also talks about the joy that my mother brought me. It was a hell of a roller coaster ride. She’s the one that made me believe I could sing and that I could act and that I was funny. You know, it was the weirdest up and down.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Lisa David Olson shares how finding humor changed her life. She talks about her work as a business humorist which she launched in 2019 to help her clients find joy through humor. Lisa states humor brings joy to the workplace. She asserts that she considers herself to be a prankster. She shares that she only practices harmless pranks. Lisa notes before becoming a business humorist that she spent 20 years writing, running, performing, organizing and producing a sketch comedy troop which prepared her to become a business humorist. She notes that she is different than other business humorists because she likes to interact with the audience and does not stand behind a podium. She talks about her two TEDx Talks, Can Humor Save Your Life is about how she learned to use humor to cope with her traumatic life . Her second TEDx Talk is about her passion for harmless pranks. Lisa shares In addition to working with companies to help them learn how to use humor to bring joy into the workplace that she loves coaching people to prepare them to deliver a TEDx Talk and to bring humor into their speeches

To connect with Lisa, she recommends connecting on Facebook or visiting her company’s website, which is the website listed for this episode.  You can find her on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/lisa.olson.improv.buddy. You can also connect with Lisa on Instagram and LinkedIn. To learn from Lisa, she invites you to send her an email at [email protected]. She closes this episode by inviting you to accept this benevolent Call-to-Action: Be bold.  Be brave! Dare yourself daily and stay weird!

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

In describing how this episode will be different, podcast host Keith Weedman states “I will share some of the best ideas from four recent guests with the intent of bringing more value to you. I will blend in my expertise 1) that knowledge, like beliefs can be limiting; 2) thatyou can change your selection criteria for the knowledge that you choose to apply from accuracy to useful, which knowledge, that fits reality, is the most useful; and 3) that people often confuse acquiring knowledge with applying knowledge to build skills. I am going to focus this episode on key ideas from Episode #49, Eric Feinendegen is a Distinguished Toastmaster, TEDx Speaker, skilled keynote speaker, and certified leadership coach. His message is ‘Strategies to Lead an Inspired Life’. Episode #48, Ant Blair is a skilled Toastmaster, TEDx Speaker, skilled keynote speaker. His message is ‘Keep Your Eyes on the Prize’. Episode #47 Sonja Martinovic is a certified high-performance coach.  Her message is ‘Pursue Your True Self’. Episode #44, Noelle Turner is a retired professor of musical theater. She lives in Essen, Germany. Her message is ‘Without Rotary… I Wouldn’t Be Here’.

In this episode, host Keith Weedman highlights the best ideas he’s learned from these four guests that he believes will be most helpful to you. He acknowledges Eric Feinendegen has reached the finals twice in Toastmasters International’s annual World Championship of Public Speaking. He acknowledges Eric is a certified leadership coach trained by John Maxwell. Keith explains that a certified coach is trained to not give answers, ask open-ended, probing questions, help people solve their own problems, own their solutions, and learn how to solve future problems. Keith recognizes Ant Blair as a skilled Toastmaster with expertise in diversity and inclusion who inspires his African American brothers and sisters to gain access and encourages Caucasians to provide access. Keith talks about certified coach Sonja Martinovic and her dual niche helping entrepreneurs become high performers and helping coaches grow their coaching business. Her expertise includes quantum physics, NLP, mindset, and intuition. Keith shares that Noelle Turner’s message is different because her focus is to give back to Rotary for helping her study the opera in Germany in 1976 after obtaining her master’s degree at Indiana University. She notes Rotary’s motto, Service Above Self is also for self because serving others helps Rotarians succeed. Keith shares about himself and his business acknowledging he will never pursue certification as a coach because his passion is to share the knowledge and skills he has acquired over decades to help leaders solve their employee engagement problem by learning how to effect change that elevates both engagement and performance through brief interactions.

Keith’s company’s website is listed as the website for this episode. Contact information for the four highlighted guest is listed when their episode was recently published. Keith can be reached by email, [email protected] or by phone, 812-343-2697. To learn from Keith, he will be leading a complimentary 30-minute training on Zoom this Friday at 1 p.m. EDS. Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89849467529?pwd=RTFqeW0zRkpsZEJsMytyRXZkQjg4dz09.  

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Eric Feinendegen shares this about his new book, The FEIN-er Things: “The strategies and the philosophies, they’re for everybody, doesn’t matter race, creed, gender, identity, whatever it is. But, here’s where the rubber meets the road. It is not written for someone who wants a quick fix. It’ is not written for someone who wants to take a pill and wake up the next morning and ‘Ahhh , life is wonderful!’ I’m no superman or superwoman! Uh-uh! It is written for people that are willing to get their hands dirty, who are willing to do the mental work, the physical work, people that are willing to be committed, to stay consistent and that are willing to be dreamers. Because, you know, if you look at some of the people who are high achievers, it comes down to desire.

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, guest Eric Feinendegen talks about how playing college basketball at St. Joseph prepared him to lead an inspired life. He notes playing college basketball required accountability, a game plan, a vision, constant practice, rehearsals and everything that goes into winning and competing. He shares that growing up, he envisioned himself as a professional basketball player. He states that he gave up on that vision when he realized that he lacked the height and athleticism to succeed as a pro. He shares that his vision of himself as a keynote speaker started when he was growing up admiring how top motivational speakers could inspire an audience. He shares his 18-year journey in Toastmasters from not being very good at public speaking to finishing twice as one of the finalists from more than 35,000 Toastmasters on the world stage in Toastmasters International’s annual World Championship of Public Speaking. While he is still competing for the World Championship, he has become a skilled keynote speaker through Toastmasters. He talks about the importance of practice, repetition, and learning from failure. He shares stories to inspire listeners including the story of how he met his wife Maggie, one of the many stories in Eric’s book The FEIN-er Things. He shares that his book is intended to benefit everyone provided you understand that this approach requires hard work

For those interested in connecting with Eric, he offers his company’s website which is the website listed for this episode. Eric also recommends connecting with him on Facebook and on LinkedIn. Here is the website address for Eric’s Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/eric.feinendegen. Here is the website address for Eric’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-feinendegen-dtm-05100b1/. Eric closes with this benevolent Call-to-Action inviting listeners to consider this first question very seriously: 1) Where will I be in 5, 10, and 15 years? (Where do you want to be?) (Eric notes that most people cannot answer this first question.) Then ask yourself this second question each morning: 2) How far can I go? (Eric asserts people underestimate what they are capable of achieving.)

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