The HRart of It

In this episode, we continue our conversation about The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen. Join us for conversation as we unpack another 70 pages. Together, we share our valuable takeaways that include lessons from a funeral, marriage, and the power of association. We also couldn't help but chat about the Slight Edge allies of momentum, completion, reflection, and celebration. Then we wrap up with some powerful personal lessons, because once again this book proves undeniably relevant to our current circumstances.

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In this episode, we continue our conversation about The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen. Join us for conversation as we unpack another 70 pages. Together, we share our valuable takeaways from the Chapter, "The Secret of Happiness" as well as the overall theme of simplicity. We also discuss how this book is turning out to be truly relevant to our current circumstances as it identifies tried and true methods that withstand generations.

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Welcome to our first Chapter Chats Book Club episode, we are starting with The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen. This book was the sole inspiration for Chapter Chat with his recommendation to establish a daily habit of reading 10 pages a day. Join us for conversation as we unpack the first 70 pages. You'll hear our first reactions to the book and we dive deep into a discussion about time and the need for simplicity.

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It's now time that I share with you my final Grateful Showcase guest, Wilda Alessi. Wilda serves as the Executive Director for Leadership York. Leadership York’s Mission is to train, connect, and inspire individuals to serve the York community in leadership positions. I met Wilda when I was just starting my business. At the time she worked for the York County Economic Alliance and was a part of a team that helped my business gain its initial momentum. Since then, Wilda and I have built a relationship that I treasure. In this episode, you'll learn a little bit more about this woman that has inspired me with her hard work and personal mission.

This is the final Grateful Showcase before it evolves into a practice of gratitude for our community. Rebecca Hanlon is the President of Our York Media. Our York Media offers businesses and organizations of all sizes the opportunity to share their stories with a local audience that yearns to consume them. Rebecca and her organization have been instrumental in sharing Leadership Arts Associates with the community and helping us define our brand and voice. I am incredibly blessed to call Rebecca a friend. Truth be told, I had no idea the level of impact she would have on my life and business when we first connected. In this episode, join me as I thank her for all she does and take a moment to get to know this incredible person and organization a little bit more. 

When I first started podcasting, my first five episodes ever were titled "The Grateful Showcase." Each episode highlighted an online entrepreneur that I had come to admire and was actively following, I referred to them collectively as my Mental Advisory Board. This started an annual tradition and my annual gratitude practice. When I began this practice, I could have never imagined the significance it would play years later in my life. In this episode, I share with you the lesson that I have learned about the significance of gratitude. Our opportunities to express genuine gratitude should not be taken for granted. As you will hear, I learned the hard way that opportunities for gratitude are never guaranteed.

Our Shen is our Spirit it is essential when we are navigating life to ensure we are connected. But if we aren't careful it can peace out leaving us disconnected and with a desire to disassociate, this is when the Po takes over. In this episode, we'll chat about the Shen and Po from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective and how it could possibly relate to the work we do on a daily basis as an HR Practitioner. Listen to find out why you should hit the pause button, discover your Shen and stay connected.

Qi is energy. Energy is all around us and within us. Qigong is the practice of creating energetic harmony. In this episode, Samm defines Qi and Qigong at a high level. Providing an introduction of what it is, the objective behind the practice and how she believes it relates to her continued work around Employee Engagement.

For the last year, as I have been slowly sharing how Medical Qigong has been changing my life, the one question that keeps coming up is, how exactly did Medical Qigong come into my life? To be honest, it's a fair question. It's not like I've been chatting about an interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine since I was a young girl and my recent sudden immersion into Eastern Philosophy justifies some sort of explanation. In this episode, I'll share my winding path to Medical Qigong. My hope is that my path might inspire or affirm the one you currently are on.  I know that sometimes amidst the uncertainty of how something exactly fits are also the times where we must embrace the belief in something bigger than ourselves. We need to trust to evolve, to grow. 

In this episode, I share one of the biggest lessons I have come to learn on my journey of personal growth. It is also one of the hardest lessons to learn and accept. If you are on the path to raise your vibration then this will be a lesson you will learn as well. It might actually be a lesson that you've already learned but not fully understood the why behind its occurrence. Join me as I share with you what I have to understand when it comes to why people come and go while we are in a growth mindset.