Living a Good Story Podcast

Shauna Jones the mother of 3 has had anything but a free ride when it comes to mothering. Her son Spencer had cancer at age 2, her daughter Sophie has had health issues most of her 18 years of life, and her transgender son Beckett came out as gay at age 13 and transgender at age 18. Through all of it, she has handled it with grace and love. In fact, her mantra is to always "Choose Love". We hope you enjoy this heart warming and inspiring episode as we explore Shauna's good story of mothering with love. 

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand to decompress after seeing the horrors and trauma that trafficking causes. 

Just as in all stories, there are hardships and trials that must be endured. We have seen this as we lost our oldest son, Reece, to suicide on August 15, 2020. It is our ultimate goal to continue to move forward and live a good story amidst the nightmare of losing a child. 

 We are glad you are here with on our journey!

Former NFL player Hans Olsen began playing football at the young age of 9. He lettered in track, wrestling, and football for four years at Weiser High School. Hans comes from a long line of football players and is the nephew of Hall of Fame lineman, Merlin Olsen. Hans was recruited by Nebraska, Washington St., Utah St., Boise St., Oregon, Arizona, Montana, Washington, Arizona St., and UCLA, and BYU. He accepted a full ride scholarship at BYU and played football for the Courgars for 5 years as a defensive lineman. He went on to play professionally in the NFL for the Colts then played for the AFL. He is a loving husband and father and currently delights listeners on radio, you can find him on 1280 AM the zone.  

https://1280thezone.com/author/hans-olsen1280thezone-com/

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!

As a survivor from the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, Williamson takes advantage of every moment, experience, and opportunity he is given in life. He moved to the U.S. to study in 2015 but also met the love of his life. He has shared his near death experience in many schools and functions all over Utah and Haiti. His passion is to empower youth all over the world to believe in themselves. Through lots of hard work he now owns his own small business and is also the founder of a non-profit organization that empowers youth in Haïti and in the US called ARISE Project For Humanity. He continues to take trips back to his home country with his organization. He is a husband and father and lives with his family in Salt Lake City. In all of life's challenges he searches for a way to remain positive and hopeful.

Arise website: https://www.ariseprojectforhumanity.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ariseprojectforhumanity/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arise_projectforhumanity/

Rising From the Rubble Documentary: https://youtu.be/NiSV9r1pGZ0 

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!

Meg Johnson accidentally jumped off a 40-foot cliff in St. George, breaking both her femurs, arms, collar bone, and neck in the landing. She went from being a dancer and professional party planner to a C-7 quadriplegic.  Find out how sweet her good story is in this episode and how she continues to keep smiling. 

Website: https://megjohnsonspeaks.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megjohnsonspeaks/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/megjohnsonspeak/

https://ourturtlehouse.com/

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!

Create the life you love using bucket lists, vision boards, and goals. 

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!

Celeste Mergens shares her good story of going from the founder of a writers conference to running a global non-profit. Learn why she excitedly gets out of bed at 4:30am each morning and how having a passion can help you sail through life. Find out why we aren't defined by our circumstances and instead defined by the path we choose. 

Celeste is the inspiring Founder & CEO of the global award-winning nonprofit, Days for Girls International (DfG). Since 2008, Days for Girls has restored days of education and opportunity to more than 1.5 million women and girls in over 140 countries, by providing access to sustainable feminine hygiene solutions and health education. Celeste founded Days for Girls at a time when virtually no other organizations were speaking about the global need for menstrual health management solutions and the potential for those solutions to help break the cycle of poverty for women. Celeste has led Days for Girls to develop a global movement around a taboo subject, and her leadership has helped create a network of almost 1000 volunteer Chapters, Teams, Clubs, and social enterprise programs in 27 countries. 

Days for Girls is a two-time Girl Effect Champion, winner of the UN Africa SEED Award, and was named by the Huffington Post as a ‘Next Ten’ organization poised to change the world in the next decade. Celeste has been featured in Oprah's O Magazine, Forbes, Stanford Social Responsibility, and more. She won the Purpose Prize Award for 2017, was named American Mother of the Year for Washington State for 2015, Conscious Company Global Impact Entrepreneur in 2018, and most recently was named Global Washington’s 2019 Global Hero, and Women’s Economic Forum’s, Woman of the Decade.

You can find more information about Days for Girls: https://www.daysforgirls.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daysforgirls/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DaysforGirls/?ref=br_rs

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!

Joy has more to do with our focus rather than our circumstances. Reclaim your power and end the blame game. 

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!

There is SO much power in creating a morning routine. Marisa goes over the why and how to create one that really works for you and helps you start living with greater purpose and intention. 

Get the free Morning Routine Checklist Printable: https://www.livingagoodstory.com/start-here

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!

Special Guest Cassandra Wilder shares her good story. Learn what her tipping point was that helped her shift from the corporate world into her true passion of helping and empowering women. 

Cassandra Wilder is the CEO of GoddessCeremony, a global brand that focuses on women's empowerment, and she is a Naturopathic Doctor with a specialization in women's cycles and menstruation. She's passionate about teaching women how to work WITH their bodies, rather than against them to avoid the burnout cycle and find fulfillment. She is also the host of the GoddessCeremony Podcast and teaches women how to rise up and step into their power.

You can find her at www.goddessceremony.com 

You can learn how to launch your podcast at SpiritualPodcasting.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goddessceremony/

and https://www.instagram.com/menstruationqueen/

| LIVING A GOOD STORY |

You can download our free E-book at https://www.livingagoodstory.com 

Find us on YouTube living our real life story at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcohozqsuxDKWHFwfxbF0qA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_a_good_story/

Collaborations: [email protected] 

| ABOUT US |

We love adventure and living our lives to the fullest! At the end of our lives, we would love to have a life worth reading about. We started our "Good Story" by selling most everything and traveling the U.S. in our "tiny house" RV for a year. After our RV trip we lived in the Dominican Republic doing humanitarian work for a year. We pledged a year of our life to serve human trafficking survivors. It was an amazing experience and we learned so much. We took an amazing three month trip to Thailand. We then came home and felt a little lost and didn't know how to move forward in meaningful ways....we took a year and a half hiatus from really being intention about our story. Now we are back, we are dreaming and we are creating again! We are glad you are here with on our journey!