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Abby El-Asmar is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the digital entrepreneurship and marketing space – including serving as a marketing consultant to local & online businesses. Tune in to hear more about:

Overcoming his own fears and insecurities to show up powerfully

* Validating that You are who you think you are

* Taking Risk: Freeing up to yourself as a second career

* Redefining expertise and professional experience

What really matters in business is your belief in yourself.

In 2015, he founded an online media company that he later sold for a massive profit in 2018. That same year, he founded "PracticeFuel.io" a digital marketing agency aimed at the health and wellness industry, which he still operates presently. In 2019, seeking to give back to the Muslim community, he founded a social enterprise, "Ummahpreneur", where he mentors fellow entrepreneurs to help them succeed in their business ventures and become leaders in their respective fields.

Leading social scientists tell us that growing up we are a product of our environment. How we were treated and spoke to by our parents, siblings, teachers, classmates, etc. formed our personality and often our sense of self-value or lack of self-value. Laura Staley has faced those struggles for many years before discovering she could take control and live life on her terms. Listen to this intriguing story.

Ilene combines more than 50 years in nursing and 25 years in vibration healing to create a holistic approach to clearing energy blocks and promoting healing. She helps an international clientele of heart-centered individuals and entrepreneurs who struggle with fear,self-sabotaging negative thoughts or behaviors, and self-worth issues to experience inner peace self-confidence, empowerment, and clarity about their soul's purpose.

Key Points:

All of us have challenges, and how we perceive them and choose to heal them determines our path on this amazing, human journey called life.

Ilene Gottlieb identifies herself as the Heart Healer, and as such, she seeks to remind us to BE a loving presence in our relationship with ourselves first, for who we are BEing in this relationship IS the key that unlocks everything that we perceive as limiting us.

In this interview, Ilene shares how consciously connecting to our hearts, from the holistic perspective, is an amazing tool for creating balance on all levels and for relieving stress and its effects on the body, regardless of the cause.

The Dan Smolen Podcast is the best at covering the future of work and meaningful work topics and trends. On the podcast, Dan Smolen provides interesting guests and actionable career insight to help you “real-time reimagine” a future of work doing meaningful work.

As organizations reintroduce their people to the workplace, they must also reckon with social responsibility. It is one thing for management to express a desire for positive social change. It is quite another to “walk the talk” to create a civil work environment.

Sejal Thakkar understands the sting of incivility like few others. During her teenage years in the Chicago suburbs, she suffered from near-daily racial prejudice and bullying. Now, as a self-described Chief Civility Officer; Sejal uses her personal experience to provide effective workplace training that fosters civility.

In this episode, Sejal:

* Describes her role as Chief Civility Officer for TrainXtra. Starts at 2:57

* Relives growing up as a bullied “other” in the Chicago suburbs. Starts at 4:26

* Relates the experience of representing clients accused of workplace incivility, bias, and discrimination. Starts at 7:52

* Defines the term microagression. Starts at 21:58

* Pairs the civility narrative with the return to the workplace. Starts at 29:39

* Explains how fostering a civil workplace provides positive ROI benefits. Starts at 32:12

In the wake of Covid, remote work, and civil unrest, Sejal believes that we have hit an inflection point for fostering a civil workplace:

[There have been] so many things happening in such a short period of time that people are not putting up with B.S. at work, anymore.

Step out of your comfort zone and embrace your magical personal growth journey.

Today’s returning award-winning international bestselling author is mom & fiction ghostwriter, Kathrin Hutson. Kathrin and I have another fun on a bun conversation about her personal growth journey as a writer, what authors should invest in as they publish their work, and more!!!

Key Thing’s You’ll Learn:

The 2 skills that Kat has been learning during the pandemic.

Why she decided to try her hand at an urban fantasy book under her name.

What Kat would do differently if she started her publishing journey all over again.

What authors should invest in when it comes to publishing their books.

Award-winning writer, filmmaker, travel guide, and storyteller Phil Cousineau talks about the joys and challenges of homecoming — the oldest tale in the world, repeated from The Odyssey to The Wizard of Oz.

Phil’s fascination with other cultures has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, from Iceland to the Amazon.  He’s written more than 35 books, including The Hero’s Journey, Stoking the Creative Fires, The Art of Pilgrimage, and The Book of Roads.  He’s also the host of Global Spirit, the first “internal travel series” on PBS.

In this podcast, Phil explains why it’s so hard for the hero — or the heroine — to get back home again; why Americans feel so rootless; how rituals help us celebrate our travels, and why we need to share our stories and reconnect with loved ones around the hearth. Here are some excerpts with the audio and full transcript below.

On Homecoming and Detroit

I just came back from the city where I grew up, and there are so many people walking around with sweatshirts for the Detroit Tigers, but also shirts that say DIA for the Detroit Institute of Arts. The people in Detroit who are essentially rebuilding the city are identifying not just with sports, but with culture.

Detroit has had the most precipitous decline in population in urban history. And so this is a huge moment. A rebirth, a renaissance. It’s very hard to begin to rebuild without this sense of pride. It’s an axiom now that if people don’t love, not just like or identify with, if they don’t love where they live, they will burn the place down.

Reading The Odyssey Today

This story is about the awakening of a man who has not quite appreciated his wife, Penelope, and who has upset the gods who are wreaking havoc on his effort to get home again.  After his time with Circe, Odysseus goes down into the underworld to find Tiresias, the sage, who tells him: You can get home again but you will have to suffer.  The gods will make it difficult for you to do this. You will have to curb your desires and the desires of the men in your crew. This is the psychological insight:  It’s your desires that have kept you from getting home again.  What does that mean for us today?

The Wizard of Oz

In the last scene the Good Witch turns to Dorothy and says, “If you just wake up, you will see that you have always been at home.”  The Buddha said this, too, along with other great spiritual teachers.  Wake up!  In some way,  we all go to sleep. And then philosophy, religion, travel, art,  wake us up again. When all five senses are alive,

Sara Finkelstein is a Registered Social Security Analyst and in this Wiser Women in the Spotlight Interview Series, Sarah answers two very important questions. Questions that people are often confused about, hence make decisions that may not serve them well -

When is the best time to collect your Social Security?

Where will your income come from in retirement?

At the heart of civility is respect. Respect and dignity are essential for psychological safety, especially when others have diverse experiences and viewpoints. Civility is not about complacency or placating. It’s not about denying or pushing away strong feelings that can emerge when conflict emerges. It’s about temporarily suspending our alarm bells for a period of time so we can do the hard work of “climbing the empathy wall” to better understand the deep stories behind those we see as “the other.”

Thank you Sally Spencer-Thomas for the opportunity to share my story and insights with you and your listeners on the Hope Illuminated Podcast. Listen here ︎

When you turn your face to the past, you same turning your back to the future. When you are too much into the future, always unsatisfied, you are losing what you have. You have a lot, acknowledge that.

Podcast Host Emily Melious believes that every child is perfectly capable, but sadly, the world doesn’t always see it that way. As an Accredited Youth Specialist, Emily works with families to discover and harness their kids’ superpowers. Join her as she leads weekly conversations about how to advocate for your child in a one-size-fits-all world. Learn more about Mothers of Misfits and visit Emily's Website. I was honored to be her guest recently, as we discussed a number of important topics.

Summary:

Sejal Thakkar dubs herself “Chief Civility Officer” and “Legal Training Ninja.” In her 17 years as an employment law attorney, Sejal encountered plenty of incivility in the workplace. She shares simple, approachable strategies to foster civility in our kids and set them up for success in life.

Quotes:

“The reason why I go about the civility angle is because that’s something that’s a common language that we all speak and that we all want.” – Sejal Thakkar

“When I say diversity, it’s basically differences. Not any specific kinds of differences, but we all have a different way of looking at the world.” – Sejal Thakkar

“To achieve civility, we all need to make sure that we make that time to get to know each other.” – Sejal Thakkar

“Bias, the way I define it is just, it’s another word for preference.” – Sejal Thakkar

“I honestly will tell you this last year of being at home and homeschooling my son has been the best year of my life. I wish I could homeschool him for the rest of my life, because of the opportunity that we have as parents to be able to instill this wonderful information, to help prepare them for their futures, we can easily do that if we just give them our time and attention.” – Sejal Thakkar

“We have to make time to do this work with our kids so they can be set up for their future.” – Sejal Thakkar