Small Changes Big Shifts

Happy #WorldKindnessDay friends! Hard to believe it's day 31!

What an amazing journey, and the stories you've sent have touched my heart in so many ways. I want to share this memorable conversation I had recently with Rhonda Turner at Americo on kindness. Her stories resonated in my own heart, and I've been so excited to share it with you today… let's keep spreading this #ripplefromtheheartland and watch our world feel it.

Share which kindness acts you discovered were your "medicine" for this world – I'd love to know.

Half of your happiness depends on conscious choices you make every day. Choices that with time become habits. - Dr. Amit Sood

Dr. Amit Sood is the creator of the Resilient Option program. He is one of the world's leading experts on resilience and wellbeing, and executive director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing. He was also professor of medicine, and Chair for student life and wellness at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Sood has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers and is the author of several books including, The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living, The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness, Mindfulness Redesigned, SMART with Dr. Sood, The Resilience Journal, and Build Your Immune Resilience.

He has received numerous awards including the 2010 Distinguished Service, 2010 Innovator of the Year, 2013 Outstanding Physician Scientist and 2016 Faculty of the Year awards, all from Mayo Clinic. He was selected as one among top 20 intelligent optimists in the world (Ode Magazine). Dr. Sood was also selected by RWJ Foundation as one of the health care pioneers.

Don't let the negative few affect the positive many. - Dr. Michelle Robin

Join Dr. Michelle and Dr. Amit as they talk about:

• Why cultivating kindness in your life is easiest when you share it with someone else.
• How remembering your previous acts of kindness can bring you out of a funk if you're feeling down.
• What we can do to build resilience during the US elections and beyond in 2020.
• How looking forward to future events such as Thanksgiving can help lift your spirits.
• What steps we can do to shift our mindset to our benefit.
• The early signs of fatigue and why we should combat it sooner than later.
• How we can heal as a nation by first focusing on healing ourselves individually.
• What steps you can take to boost your health now at his site, Immune Resilience.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

Learn new tools for transforming your community and own wellbeing including:

• His favorite self-care practices to enhance his own wellbeing and how you can apply them to your life.
• All about his Resilient Option program and their mission to help people thrive.
• His apps, Zizo and MoodCandy, and how they can help us build greater resilience.
• What optional suffering is and why we're wired to have it because of our brain's negativity bias.
• How to become happier every day with conscious choices that will become habits over time.
• The importance of rest and focusing on something during the day to uplift your emotions.

Discover Dr. Amit's Three Steps for Stress Management:

1. Identify
2. Eliminate
3. Reframe

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude. - Viktor Frankl

Mentioned In This Episode

• Amit Sood
• Resilient Option program
• Happy Brain: How to Overcome Our Neural Predispositions to Suffering | Amit Sood, MD | TEDxUNI
• Mayo Clinic
• The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living
• The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness
• Mindfulness Redesigned
• SMART with Dr. Sood
• The Resilience Journal
• Build Your Immune Resilience
• Zizo
• MoodCandy
• Wellness on a Shoestring® by Dr. Michelle Robin
• Kindness Campaign Deck
• SCBS Episode 289 – Rennie McKinney
• 5 minute journal app
• Immune Resilience
• Advent Health
• Community America

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If you wish to understand the Universe think of energy, frequency and vibration. - Nikola Tesla

Dr. Darrell Misak has the unique qualifying training as a naturopathic doctor and registered pharmacist to formulate VI-Telometry. Using his pharmacy background understanding of chemistry along with his naturopathic herbal and nutritional training at National College of Natural Medicine, Dr. Misak's insight and understanding of science and nature come together in VI-Telometry.

Get 10% off your VI-Telometry order with the code ROBIN

Join Dr. Michelle and Dr. Darrell as they talk about:

• How to achieve a higher level of life for yourself by focusing on living a healthy lifestyle you love.
• What inspired him to become a naturopathic doctor.
• His main focus on helping patients improve their body's efficiency so that it's able to self-correct and heal on its own.
• What energy medicine is and how he utilizes it in his professional practice.
• Why we're drawn to comfort food when we're stressed out.
• What telomeres are, where they're located, and why we should know about them.
• The incredible shift we would see in our nation's health if farmed food without the use of pesticides.

Learn new tools for transforming your community and own wellbeing including:

• How breathwork and meditation can help you let go of stress and anxiety in the moment.
• The power of pausing and being aware of what you're eating, feeling, and how your energy levels are.
• How natural products like Dr. Darrell's VI-Telometry products with telomeres can help reverse aging, improve your energy, and help strengthen your memory.

Learn all about and apply Dr. Darrell's Five Phases to your life for better health:

• Phase 1: Clean up your environment i.e. Focus on pure air, food, and water as well as EMF protection
• Phase 2: Identify through testing what your body's specific stressors are
• Phase 3: Support - Understand what your body needs in order to heal it rather than focusing on what you need to fix it
• Phase 4: Detoxification carried out by the first three phases
• Phase 5: Self-awareness and recognizing what your symptoms are telling you about your body

Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best. - Unknown

Mentioned In This Episode

• Darrell Misak
• VI-Telometry
• Advent Health
• Community America

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Rennie Shuler-McKinney, MS, LCP, has dedicated her professional career to serving others and focusing on those struggling with depression and suicidal behavior. In her current role as Clinical Director of Behavioral Health Services at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, she leads multiple teams on the inpatient acute care psychiatric unit, the Intensive Outpatient Program and the 24-hour Behavioral Health Assessment Center.

She has also spent more than 20 years in private practice, providing therapy to adolescents and their families. Rennie is a Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist, receiving her Master of Science Degree in Psychology and her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Sociology from Pittsburg State University.

Rennie currently serves as the Chair of the Johnson County Suicide Prevention Coalition, is on the Board of Heartland Regional Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center and is the past chair of the Kansas Hospital Association's Behavioral Health Task Force.

Join Dr. Michelle and Rennie as they talk about:

• What help and therapeutic treatments are available in Kansas City if you are anxious, depressed, or have suicidal thoughts.
• Why some people struggle with being kind more than others and how we can better understand why.
• Why we're more likely to be kind when we witness others doing it too.
• Mental health statistics from June 2020 and the fatigue people are now feeling into the end of the year.
• Why it's so important for people to receive the support they need so that they do not become hopeless.
• Which lessons of kindness she learned from her father from a very young age.

Learn new tools for transforming your community and own wellbeing including:

• Approaching our relationships and interactions with a soft heart.
• The science behind the three feel good hormones that are released when you give or receive kindness.
• What people are doing in the Kansas City community to spread kindness and how you can join.
• The importance of being kind to everyone no matter their job role or background.

Mentioned In This Episode

• Rennie Shuler-McKinney, MS, LCP
• AdventHealth Shawnee Mission
• Johnson County Suicide Prevention Coalition
• Heartland Regional Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center
• Lockton

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. - Helen Keller

Quinton Lucas, "Mayor Q," has prioritized making Kansas City's neighborhoods safer, creating more accessible and affordable housing and public transportation, fostering a healthier community and improving basic services. Quinton created and chairs the City's Special Committee on Housing Policy.

Born and raised in Kansas City, Quinton has spent most of his life in the city's urban core. As a child, he moved often and experienced homelessness, sometimes staying with family or friends, or residing in a motel. Despite these challenges, Quinton remained focused on his schoolwork, earning academic scholarships to high school, college and Cornell Law School before returning home to Kansas City.

Join Dr. Michelle and Mayor Quinton as they talk about:

• The positive shift we can create in someone's life when we show them kindness.
• Stories of how other people have shown him kindness during his lifetime and how that has lifted his spirits.
• The fact that everyone in 2020 is experiencing some kind of trauma this year.
• Examples of how the local Kansas City business community has rallied around him.
• Why social media is wonderful but we have to be wary of what we read/see/hear on it and what the truth out there actually is.
• How to be more considerate of what we share and write on social media.
• What steps we can take to show up and support one another.

Learn new tools for transforming your community including:

• Why you should never get too fed up to try and make a difference.
• The power of not giving up on our community especially our younger generations.
• Why it's so important to listen to one another especially with the Black Lives Matter movement.
• Understanding people of different backgrounds and why we're all so similar in our experiences, emotions, and struggles.
• Why it matters so much to people when we make time for them.

Mentioned In This Episode

• Quinton Lucas, "Mayor Q,"
• Simon Sinek
• Brené Brown
• Kindness Campaign
• Kindness Campaign Deck

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Whenever you make room for kindness your heart turns into poetry. - Dr. Michelle Robin

Linda Cohen has been a Kindness Catalyst for over 10 years. She is a professional speaker, presentation consultant and the author of 1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire and Change Your Life published in 2011 by Seal Press.

Linda presents to organizations and businesses on the Economy of Kindness. She is the past president of the National Speakers Association Oregon Chapter.

She loves practicing yoga and meditation and will never pass up a good cup of Earl Grey tea.

The sooner we become less impressed with our life, our accomplishments, our career, our relationships, the prospects in front of us and the more involved we are with these things, the sooner we get better at them. We must be more than just happy to be here. - Linda Cohen

Join Dr. Michelle and Linda as they talk about:

• How both the giver and the receiver benefit from acts of kindness.
• What inspired Linda to start her project, 1,000 Mitzvahs.
• The shift she's seeing in giving and receiving and why it's been easier for people to be the receiver during COVID-19 than before.
• Why acts of kindness first have to start with yourself before you are fully able to give to others.
• What lessons about kindness and life she has learned from her children.
• Why it's so important to ask for help when you need it and in return offer support to those around you.
• How to be more empathetic towards people and their behavior because you never know what they're going through.

Discover the three lessons of kindness Lind learned from 1,000 Mitzvahs:

1. The size of the kindness act doesn't necessarily matter.
2. Giving and receiving: It's easy to be the giver and sometimes harder to be the receiver.
3. The ripple effect: A simple act of kindness can create a ripple effect in the community.

Learn about Linda's 10 Ways To Cultivate Kindness including these specifically for 2020:

1. Attend to your heart
2. Voice your love
3. Display your thanks
4. Don't let you imagination get hijacked
5. Take only sips of social media

Mentioned In This Episode

• Linda Cohen
• 1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire and Change Your Life
• 10 Ways To Cultivate Kindness
• Loving Kindness Meditation
• Giving and Receiving
• Kindness Campaign
• Kindness Campaign Deck
• SCBS Ep. 241 – Mindy Corporon
• The Rabbit Effect by Kelli Harding MD MPH
• The War of Kindness by Jamil Zaki
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• Advent Health
• Ekchart Tolle
• SCBS Episode 258 – Sonia Choquette-Tully
• Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community by Lady Gaga

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia

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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

David Fryburg, M.D., is a physician (internist and endocrinologist), a scientist, and a self-proclaimed nerd who wants to help people achieve a better and more meaningful life. He has been an academic journeyman educated and trained at a lot of great institutions.

Following a terrific experience as faculty at the University of Virginia, Dr. Fryburg moved to the pharmaceutical industry to eventually lead translational medicine for cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine diseases at Pfizer. For the last 9 years he has led teams of scientists from academia, government, and industry to solve problems in how we measure or diagnose disease for the Foundation for the NIH Biomarkers Consortium.

In 2014, with his son Jesse, David co-founded Envision Kindness, a novel non-profit that promotes kindness, compassion, joy, and love through images crowd sourced from around the world. As he dug deeper, the science behind why kindness is so important made itself known. It is through this blog that his alter ego, Prof K, shares these learnings and puts a scientific face on the ancient wisdom "it is better to give than receive."

Join Dr. Michelle and David Fryburg M.D. as they talk about:

• What inspired him to co-found Envision Kindness to show the beauty of positive human interaction and relationships that he knows to be true.
• The science of kindness and why it's so necessary for our survival as humans.
• Why we are naturally built for kindness and how just witnessing it can uplift our wellbeing.
• The fact that kindness is the default state of most living beings.
• How we're wired for empathy and compassion.
• Why we're more attracted to people who are generous and caring through acts such as volunteering.
• How Envision Kindness is passively inspiring people to be more kind, compassionate, and loving.

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Learn new tools for transforming your life including:

• Exploring the warm feeling you feel after you have helped someone in your inner circle or even out in the community.
• Why we naturally tap into the 'Helper's High' for high vibrations compared to low ones.
• Why being altruistic can be good for our wellbeing.
• Why volunteering and helping others can lengthen your lifespan.
• How seeing pictures or kindness or positivity can boost your mind and mood.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mentioned In This Episode

• David Fryburg, M.D
• Envision Kindness
• Psychology Today | David Fryburg, M.D - The Science of Kindness
• Kindness Campaign
• Kindness Campaign Deck

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Why does kindness matter in a business – especially in leadership? Dr. Michelle Robin sits down to talk about that very thing with three of Lockton's leadership members in Kansas City – Joe Agnello, Brooke Runnion, and Said Taiym. They reflect on how kindness has shaped who they are, why kindness matters to them in the world today, and how they bring it into their roles at Lockton for their associates.

Join us on today's show as we talk about the 31-Day Kindness Campaign in partnership with Lockton Companies.

Where flowers bloom so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson

Aaron Fulk has a strong entrepreneur heart with a passion for social media. She has taken what many would have seen as tough circumstances and turned them into living her dream. She is running a very successful marketing agency, Lillian James Creative.

Join Dr. Michelle and Aaron as they talk about:

• Where Aaron is at in her self-care journey and looking after her health.
• Lessons she's learned over the last months during this 75 Day Hardcore self-care plan.
• Why her business grows greater the more time she spends on herself and her wellness.
• About our Small Changes Big Shifts Kindness Campaign in October and November.
• Mindset and behavior changes for Aaron during lockdown and on her wellness journey.
• Various struggles that Dr. Michelle has been through and why she's empowered to just keep moving.
• What people don't realize about single mothers such as Aaron that she wants them to know about.

When you heal the heart, you will heal the body. - Dr. Michelle Robin

Learn new tools for transforming your life including:

• How to cultivate greater awareness of what you're eating as well as thinking or saying about yourself.
• Why working on yourself will ripple and help your kids focus on themselves and ultimately grow too.
• Finding gratitude in who's showing up for you compared to who isn't there.
• Paying attention to behavior patterns and how to break the cycle.

You can do hard things. - Aaron Fulk

Mentioned In This Episode

• Aaron Fulk
• Lillian James Creative.
• Small Changes Big Shifts Kindness Campaign
• Living in Vitality | AdventHealth Shawnee Mission
• Living in Vitality Virtual Conference
• The Hoffman Institute Foundation
• A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood - Official Trailer

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What creates more joy, more happiness, more contentment than a simple sense of fun? - Rev Wendy Craig-Purcell in Ask Yourself This!

Affectionately called "The Rev" by her spiritual community, Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell has been a force in the effort toward global change for nearly 40 years. Her personal mission to "teach everyday spiritual wisdom for conscious living and global transformation" inspires and informs all her work.

A graduate of the Unity School of Christianity, Wendy was ordained as a Unity minister in 1980. Just a few years later, she founded The Unity Center, a 500-member spiritual community located in San Diego, California where she currently serves as CEO and Spiritual Leader.

With a strong interest in spiritually motivated social action, Wendy and The Unity Center community were instrumental in the formation of the San Diego Department of Peace. It has since become Americans for the Department of Peace (AFDOP) and now encompasses all of Southern California.

Be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Join Dr. Michelle and Rev. Wendy as they talk about:

• How her grandmother introduced her to Unity and what inspired her to become a minister.
• Why we're seeing more people search out for a spiritual community in 2020.
• How our priorities have shifted during COVID-19.
• Unpacking the New Thought Movement and Virtual White Allies Gatherings to help combat racism.
• The relationship they have with their parents and what lessons they have learned from them.

Learn new tools for transforming your life including:

• How we can be more mindful while communicating with the people in our lives each day.
• Principles we can practice if our inner peace has been challenged including C.A.L.M. - Compassionate, Awake, Loving, and Mindful.
• What we can do to help our communities heal by listening to our black members.
• Small acts of kindness that go a long way to bring joy to others.

Businesses is the murder of compassion. - Dr. Joan Borsinco

Mentioned In This Episode

• Wendy Craig-Purcell
• Unity School of Christianity
• The Unity Center
• Ask Yourself This: Questions to Open the Heart, Expand the Mind and Awaken the Soul by Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell
• Living in Vitality | AdventHealth Shawnee Mission
• Tom Hill
• Jack Canfield
• The Hoffman Process
• David W. Campt
• Joan Borysenko

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