Speaking of Compassion with Whitney Reynolds

Episode #1 / Season Three

On this podcast we are speaking about compassion with the Emmy nominated host & executive

producer of the nationally syndicated Whitney Reynolds Show Whitney Reynolds. Whitney is a

mom to twins Marlowe & Acher, host of Whitney’s Women on iHeartRadio, Chief Inspo Officer

of her TV team and her family, and a woman who from a very young age knew exactly what she

wanted to do.

Whitney is on a mission to bring hope through our deepest struggles and uses her own story to

drive compassion forward. Her mission: Your Story Matters. Her mantra: If the door closes find

the window.

I hope you are inspired to use your story to help others after listening. Tune-in to Season 3 of

The Whitney Reynolds Show launching April 4 th .

Quotes from Whitney Reynolds:

Katie Couric was somebody I totally admired as a kid.

For so long these women put this great dream out there and now I’m able to step in my own

starting line.

I lived being the stories that I tell.

Having gone through what I did as a kid it made me run my show, run my life, run my

storytelling completely different.

I know I need to be an advocate.

Part of our show is showing that you can prevail.

I always knew I wanted to be in television.

My story is not just my story.

When I was an intern at Good Morning America they were doing a story very similar (to mine)

and that would be an easy time to pop my hand up. Ironically I worked behind the scenes to

make sure that story was told right without any of them knowing.

I would not be who I am, what I do without God.

As I go bigger and bigger, it’s so important I get more intimate with my belief system.

It’s so crazy I kinda needed to be a mom to be better as a TV host.

The compassion piece of also being a mom has changed the way I interview.

I want to give my kids stability.

I always knew that whenever I was living in chaos, that I would create this for myself.

5-year-old Whitney was mixing tapes with her sister. 8-year-old Whitney really knew she was

going to be a talk show host.

I get a lot of visions in the shower.

I always say the best is yet to come!

You’ll learn:

 Being told no can be a beautiful gift.

 Speaking your dreams works.

 Your story is your superpower.

 Compassion comes from healing our pain.

 Our stories matter.

Resources:

The Whitney Reynolds Show: whitneyreynolds.com

Whitney’s Women: whitneyreynolds.com/radio

Christina Glickman: instagram.com/christinaglickman/

Speaking of Teammates with John Trautwein

Episode #13 / Season Two

On this episode of the lovespeaks series we are speaking teammates. John Trautwein is a dear

friend, author of My Living Will: A Father’s Story of Loss & Hope, and founder of the Will to Live

Foundation – dedicated to preventing teen suicide by improving the lives and the “Will to Live”

of teenagers everywhere through education about mental health and encouraging them to

recognize the love and hope that exists in each other.

John and his wife Susie lost their beautiful son Will 10 ½ years ago to suicide. In those 10 years,

they have built a foundation of hope and love for teenagers through the Will to Live Foundation

and a whole lot of LOVE.

This candid conversation is something every parent should listen to, whether your child is

struggling or not. I have learned so much from John’s message and his work and I can honestly

say it’s been lifesaving. If you are a regular listener, you know as a mental health advocate, this

work means the world to me.

Please pass this along to someone you love who needs to hear this message today.

Quotes from John Trautwein:

Will Trautwein is the oldest of our four kids and he left us 10 ½ years ago to mental illness –

depression which led to suicide.

He truly loved to see his friends succeed. Remember 13 became their cry.

If he told me he was struggling I would have talked him out of it.

What I did wrong? I didn’t know about depression.

Like most parents that are listening, you cannot stand to see your kid not okay. You have to fix

it and you have to fix it now. And that’s really hard. It’s the last thing your kids want you to do.

That’s what I learned the most. These kids are really living in a world that I could not relate to.

I knew I had to do something positive about this awful thing in my life, otherwise I knew I

wouldn’t make it.

My goal was to get people to talk.

I’m going to create a foundation that’s going to encourage kids to talk by understanding the

love and the hope and the understanding that they have for the people sitting right next to

them – in the classroom, in the dugout, in the sidelines, the band, the orchestra, the scouting

group, the church youth. Whatever team they’re on there’s people who love them. (Life

Teammates)

If I can get kids to say, “I love you” maybe I can get kids to say “Hey, I’m struggling.”

I played in thousands of games. I don’t remember scores. I remember bus rides.

The 1 in 5, the 1 in 6 have now become 1 in 2. Now it doesn’t mean 1 in 2 are contemplating

suicide. But it means 1 in 2 are struggling and so the awareness level has to be higher for

parents whose kids are stuck in a room all day.

The human spirit craves companionship.

What’s really fun about my world and the foundation is I’m just telling kids to love each other.

They say a good coach has the capacity to love his players. And I don’t think that’s enough. I say

a great coach shows it.

I try every single day to go where the love is.

It’s okay not to be okay.

These kids wake up knowing that if they make a mistake everyone they’ve ever known will

know about it before dinner.

I try to become the audience.

What you will learn:

The signs of suicide.

How to encourage kids to talk about their struggle.

How to encourage kids to say “love ya man.”

How to find your life teammates.

It’s okay not to be okay.

Resources:

Will To Live Foundation: will-to-live.org

My Will to Live: A Father’s Story of Loss & Hope: tinyurl.com/trautweinwill

Erika’s Lighthouse: erikaslighthouse.org

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Suicide Hotline:

Speaking of Community with Laura Munson

Episode #12 / Season Two

On this episode we are speaking about community and what happens when we, or someone we love, isolates. New York Times best-selling author Laura Munson says she wants to start a movement - for people to come together outside of their daily lives and gather to tell their stories using the power of the written word, which is her Haven Writing Workshop she offers AND also the theme of her new book Willa’s Grove. Laura Munson writes about community, and how desperately we need it.

The four characters in Willa’s Grove come together to basically save each other, even though some of them are meeting for the first time. The shared experience between these four women was so powerful for me as I read the book while recovering from COVID. I was literally isolating and reading the book. The message hit me hard.

Laura says she had no idea the theme of Willa’s Grove would be so timely. If you are feeling a need for community, I invite you to listen to my conversation with Laura Munson and read Willa’s Grove! Get the tissues because it broke me, in all the right ways!

Quotes from Laura Munson

I think this year is hyper-illuminated!

I’m trying to start a movement.

It’s a clean slate. (Laura’s Haven Writing retreats) And so people will go very deeply because they feel safe and suspended in time.

The characters were born and that’s when I gave them the steering wheel and hung on!

The characters write the book.

I ask people to open up their hearts and minds to the characters that they resist.

When we resist something or somebody that’s often the exact place we need to go to learn our lessons.

She (Willa) isolates like so many of us when we are going through a hard time.

That’s what’s so fun about fiction, you can have your characters go places you haven’t gone almost so that you don’t have to.

We go deeply into a hot button topic that people don’t want to talk about and that is – Money doesn’t buy you happiness.

We say we are fine when we’re not – when we are bleeding inside.

I want people to read it (Willa’s Grove) and say “I want to do this. I know somebody who is isolating, who is saying they’re fine when they’re not, and who desperately needs to come together in a safe circle. I’m going to reach out to them.”

I think a lot of us have lost our social IQ’s.

Those of us who are extroverts and like to express ourselves don’t necessarily have a really strong filter!

Let’s find radical self-love and love and kindness to all people.

The writing life ain’t for sissies!

I think writing should be up there with diet and exercise in the realm of for preventative wellness.

Some people started making bread and others learned how to knit. I just thought – pen & paper.

Never when I wrote this book did I think the theme would be so timely.

Writers mine their lives.

Part of this book was about wanting to reflect the magic that happens when people come together outside of their daily lives and gather to tell their stories using the power of the written word.

I have every single journal I’ve ever written starting in 4th grade in my office closet here in Montana.

I was the friend that really wanted to talk about the big stuff.

That little girl in her treehouse, or her blanket fort, in her closet in Lake Forest, IL is pretty much the same woman who is speaking to you today.

You’ll Learn:

We need community.

Reach out to people you think are isolating.

Writing is a tough business.

Start your own circle … aka Grove.

Writing heals and so does storytelling.

Resources:

Haven Writing Retreat: https://lauramunson.com/haven-writing-programs/

LauraMunson.com

Instagram: /lauramunsonauthor

Willa’s Grove: https://lauramunson.com/books/

Modern Love Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/style/modern-love-those-arent-fighting-words-dear.html

Haven Nest:https://lauramunson.com/haven-nest/

Speaking of Depression with Amy B. Scher

Episode #11 / Season Two

On this podcast we are speaking about healing from depression with award winning author Amy B. Scher. Amy is an energy therapist and teaches people how to release emotional baggage so they can become their happiest and healthiest selves. In her book How to Heal Yourself From Depression When No One Else Can: A Self-Guided Program to Stop Felling Like Sh*t, Amy offers self-application techniques to help us heal ourselves. If you or someone you love suffers from depression and you’ve tried everything, take a listen to my conversation with Amy and see if something she offers could work for you. The Alternative Tapping Technique works for me!

Quotes from Amy B. Scher:

I truly believe love speaks to us in so many ways, but really when we are together. Sometimes we echo it for each other.

What I see more is people missing connections to themselves.

Even though medications and therapies are getting better, depression is getting worse.

There is this unseen aspect of ourselves which is the core of who we are and that is the part that I see people sort of lose their tether to – the core of who they are.

All of my techniques are not done by me. I am not a healer. I am somebody who teaches people how to use techniques to heal themselves.

One of the techniques that I use are various types of tapping.

The reason we want to move energy out of the body is because we all have an energy system or an energy body that is interlinked or intertwined to our physical body. And so when we are feeling symptoms in our physical body, research has shown that energy imbalances can be

detected in the energy body long before physical symptoms come up. Which means they could be the root of the issue.

When we clear energy blockages from various parts of the body we are clearing energy, that if left there, may eventually or may already be, affecting the organs, muscles and glands in the area.

I had my own very long decade long healing journey from Lyme disease & auto immune disease. I had all kinds of things. That’s what brought me energy work.

I think there has been this huge shift in the past decade from “We don’t know what that is, it sounds too crazy” to “Wait we’re really now understanding that when something goes wrong in the immune system and the nervous system and the digestive system that stress has an impact.

I came to this work as a last resort.

We come to ourselves as a cure last.

I did run all over the world chasing a cure only to find out that I carried it all along.

You can’t exclude yourself from the healing.

The reason you’re feeling good is tapping can actually lower cortisol levels so it can actually lower that stress hormone by a significant amount.

When I was going through my own experience with depression and anxiety and chronic illness and just feeling so overwhelmed, you know what freaks me out more than anything? That when I was freaking out I would have to wait for my doctor to call me back.

Just knowing you have the tools and techniques to help yourself is hugely supportive to the physical body and to the mind because you don’t feel alone.

46:15: Amy teaches Alternative Tapping Technique

I think some of us are just born healers.

You’ll learn:

• How to have a deeper connection with yourself

• How to release stuck emotional baggage

• Why you can’t exclude yourself from healing

•Alternative Tapping Technique

• Why it’s important to try one tiny thing

Resources:

Amy’s website: amybscher.com

Amy’s YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCuhzQzrr9fgnT8AcrsQATPw

Amy’s Books: amazon.com/Amy-B-Scher/e/B00AFM86BS%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Amy’s Instagram: instagram.com/amybscher/

Season 2 Episode #10:

Speaking of Napkin Thoughts with Scott Freres

On this podcast we are speaking napkin thoughts. What are napkin thoughts you might ask? Napkin thoughts are where great ideas, dreams and plans begin. My guest on this episode of the lovespeaks series podcast has built a career on this philosophy. Scott Freres is the principal at Red Spade Environments, a landscape design, construction management, design-build firm that makes exterior dreams come true. And most of those dreams begin with a sketch Scott makes on a napkin when sitting down to listen to a client over coffee. We all have dreams. Scott’s story reminds us to go after our own dreams, because our napkin is waiting!

Quotes from Scott Freres:

Love for me is the ability and blessing I have to do what I want every day.

I learned an appreciation of nature that you really can’t see unless you spend time in it.

I love fall. I love the change. I love the way the world seems to slow down, the days get shorter, lighting looks different.

I used to sit at a coffee shop every day and before I would go in to work, and collect my thoughts and collect my ideas and sketch on napkins.

It starts with a napkin. It moves to paper. It takes in the voice of a client or a community and it starts to fashion ideas not a final plan, but ideas. And then from those ideas you hone in on a plan direction.

The other thing a napkin speaks to that is a big philosophy in our companies was the idea that the best designs and the best conversations always happen around food or beverage.

There’s two pens that I always use, and one is a Pentel rolling writer and the other is a Paper Mate flair.

The hallmark for our firm is community engagement.

You have to talk to people and listen. And not only do you have to talk and listen, that’s great. But you gotta show them that you heard them by your actions.

When you’re in that dirt it feels so good. I don’t know what it is, people say it’s gross but I just love it.

Nature is truly the best medicine and your garden costs you nothing, but it can do wonders for your health.

Sustainability is really a philosophy that you need to live by, meaning that it’s a respect for the environment first and foremost.

You’ll learn:

♥ How to use the talents you were born with and the environments that spoke to you as a young person and make a career out of it.

♥ Listening is a skill that is essential to understanding your clients.

♥ An appreciation of nature.

♥ Big plans begin on small napkins.

♥ The best conversations happen around food and beverage.

♥ Forward thinking is a gift.

♥ Community engagement is key to a project’s success.

♥ Nature is the best medicine.

Resources:

Scott Freres LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-freres-53653230/

Red Spade Environments: http://redspadeenvironments.com/

Red Spade on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redspadeenvironments/

The Lakota Group: https://www.thelakotagroup.com/

Episode # 9 Season 2

Speaking of Transformation

Guest: Edie Allen – Speaker, Artist, Advocate & Breakthrough Specialist

On this episode we are speaking transformation with speaker and healer Edie Allen. Edie’s start

to her story is what I would simply call a nightmare. As a victim of sexual abuse in her

childhood, Edie was just trying to survive. Today, as a survivor, her story is a lifeline for others

to survive.

I have never seen anything more powerful than Edie’s story. I suggest you watch this 7-minute

clip on the Janie’s Fund stage, Steven Tyler’s philanthropic initiative created in partnership with

Youth Villages to bring hope and healing to girls who have suffered the trauma of abuse and

neglect, before you listen to this episode. You will be transformed by Edie’s transformation.

SHOW NOTES:

00:51 It’s March!

1:08 Edie Allen

1:33 Red Spade message (my sponsor!)

3:25 Transformation

4:21 Janie’s Fund

4:58 How is love speaking to you today?

6:00 Edie’s story

8:53 A survivor of sexual abuse

9:38 What was your life like when you left home at 15?

13:00 Edie’s mom

13:43 Bill

14:15 How did Steven Tyler happen?

15:12 Hearing “Janie’s Got a Gun.”

15:56 “If this band is singing about this topic that means they know.”

18:44 A Joy Journey

20:41 On the 10th day a voice spoke

20:55 A-Fest & Bo Eason

22:05 “The first time I told my story.”

22:28 One True Sentence

23:12 “The hardest day of my life ....”

25:02 “If I could say the hardest thing that has ever happened to me, then maybe I

can tell my story (and help people).”

26:00 Steven Tyler called – a 3 hour & 20 minute conversation

26:42 “3:20 has always been significant.”

27:13 Edie’s son

27:30 Edie’s creative writing teacher Miss Barksdale

28:08 Edie’s guidance counselor moment

29:00 The rape

30:55 The birth

32:53 “When I gave birth - when they first put him in my arms I had no idea what to

do.”

33:38 “When women say I didn’t have a voice, I know what that feels like.”

34:10 “Had I had a girl I would have fled and no one would have ever seen us again.”

34:33 Where did you go?

36:14 A family from Edie’s church took her in

38;35 Do you have a relationship with your son?

40:11 “He is a wonderful father.”

40:43 “I had to make a decision. Do I protect a family of five or do I help thousands

and thousands of people and prevent this from continuing?”

41:50 “When Bill came into our lives he was someone who gave us a childhood as crazy

as this sounds.”

43:44 How does your work serve you?

44:00 Edie’s transformation story

44:19 “I fell in love with Reiki.”

45:19 “Love, white light, Mary, Christ & God.”

45:36 “Transformation started with me through Reiki.”

45:40 Look for these signals!

47:00 Edie’s first sign – “Go upstairs” and the 27th psalm

50:30 Are you working on a memoir?

50:50 Practicing Transcendental Meditation, found sobriety and Bob Roth of The David

Lynch Foundation

52:56 “Bring this (TM) to Janie’s Fund.”

53:45 “That is the greatest thing I have ever done, connecting all of that.”

54:18 Connection

55:38 Your memoir is going to be a film.

56:06 Paint the picture of your life today.

57:45 “What I would say to people struggling is to let go. Listen. Listen to the signs.

Listen to the voice inside. Get quiet.”

58:51 “Whatever your problems are, give them space.”

59:18 “The greatest transformations is when we meet them with grace.”

59:46 Where can we find you?

PS – if you didn’t watch the clip, Bill, Edie’s abuser, later took his life as well as his girlfriend’s

RESOURCES:

Janie’s Fund Speech

Janie’s Fund

A-Fest

Bo Eason

The 27th psalm

The David Lynch Foundation

CONNECT WITH EDIE:

Edieallen.com

Instagram

Episode #8 Season Two

Speaking of Love Wins

Guest: Itika Oldwine Grimble – founder of Oldvine Florals

On this episode we are speaking love wins. Itika Oldwine Grimble, founder and owner of Oldvine Florals in downtown LA, proved that love was not cancelled in 2020. As a black women business owner, Itika boarded up her shop to march for racial justice, pivoted her business in a pandemic with success, was proposed to and married her love Brian and in April their baby girl arrives! If you think love doesn’t win, please listen to Itika’s story! It may sound like a fairy tale, but we all have a shot at one!

Listening Notes:

1:08 RED SPADE message – my new sponsor!

2:50 Itika Oldwine Grimble is proof Love Wins!

3:30 The Love Wins House Party – get your tickets now!

5:00 How is love speaking to you today?

6:10 Itika and I worked together at The Oprah Winfrey Show

7:00 Oldvine Florals

7:52 A black woman business owner’s perspective

8:53 Pivot

9:18 The universe

10:00 Do you need help?

12;00 The “We deliver” pivot

12:50 Love was not cancelled!

13:15 Small business owner

13:52 COVID lessons & meeting challenges

14:43 Air filtering plants

16:40 RED SPADE – we are spending more time at home

17:52 Business, love, baby

18:18 Did you ever think you would be a mom?

21:30 The blessing of birth

22:22 The Instagram post that says it all

24:38 Claim it!

24:43 Grateful

24:56 “I feel like I’m being rewarded.”

25:50 Being a mom

26:30 How has Brian (Itika’s husband) helped you?

27:11 “I always wanted to succeed professionally but it never necessarily included me owning my own business or being an entrepreneur.”

28:15 “He (Brian) saw an opportunity for me to branch out and have my own business.

29:48 You only need one person to say yes.

31:01 How do you think Brian is going to be as a daddy to baby girl Grimble?

32:40 Itika’s Big Mama’s advice

34:28 Do you have a daily prayer?

36L15 How does love define you or speak to you?

37:09 “To truly love a friend, a spouse, a partner you have to love them through the hard stuff.”

38:08 “Love embodies me.”

38:36 “Love always wins.”

40:16 Was there ever a time during this time of racial injustice where you said you were done?

41:46 “I’m a black woman, I have a lot of African American friends and family obviously. We are black business owners. How can I best serve my community?”

43:06 What is the first thing you will say to your baby girl?

44:38 The wedding

47:32 “I don’t lack for anything.”

49:15 Anyone struggling to find love, what would you say?

49:48 “You have to put yourself out there!”

50:45 “The business of finding love is important.”

50:52 Itika is the Spotlight on Love winner at The Love Wins House Party

52:40 Follow Itika @oldvineflorals @itikagrimble

Resources:

Oldvine Florals

Connect with Itika

Instagram @itikagrimble @oldvineflorals

Facebook @itikagrimble @oldvineflorals

Episode #7 Season 2

Speaking of Dreams

Guest: Paolo Presta – host of the web-series A Spoonful of Paolo

Sponsor Alert! I am thrilled to announce Red Spade Environments as my sponsor for the lovespeaks series podcast! Red Spade is the premier residential landscape architecture and design build firm based in Winnetka and Chicago. I hope you will visit their site to see how Red Spade can bring your dream to life!

On this podcast we are speaking dreams! I happened to have a front row seat to my guest’s big dream as it exploded on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and I have to say – it was a privilege. Now you can have a front row seat as you listen to Paolo Presta, host of A Spoonful of Paolo, tell you how his dream of becoming a talk show host, coming out and finding the husband of his dreams all happened. This listen will open up your heart in ways you won’t even expect.

Listening Notes:

1:00 Bye Bye 2020!

1:26 The Love Wins House Party!

1:45 Red Spade Environments announcement

3:55 Speaking of Dreams – Paolo Presta

5:20 How is love speaking to you today?

6:52 How old were you when you had your first knowledge of what your dream would be?

9:20 Paolo’s Oprah story

13:52 The Presta family

14:40 Paolo’s coming out story

19:40 Blazing a trail

20:02 Do you feel that you’re changing lives?

20:50 How did A Spoonful of Paolo come about?

22:00 We all have a platform

22:58 Patrick!

23:47 Celebrities

26:26 Make it bigger

27:06 Persistence

27:58 What no launched you?

29:28 Magic

30:33 Meeting Patrick

32:20 Paolo’s wedding

34:04 Ed Bacon!

35:33 Vows

36:45 Paolo’s parents

37:27 My Henry

38:26 Truth

39:34 Acceptance

40:44 Using your story to help others

41:07 Do you have a daily prayer?

42:41 Paolo’s Instagram content

43:45 Nutella

45:43 Improv

46:35 What’s next?

46:53 Vulnerability

47:25 Accomplishments

47:57 Momentum

49:28 Paolo’s Green Room

50:08 What made you come back to Chicago?

51:00 Secrets are exhausting

52:05 Lightening round of love questions

53:45 Patrick’s smile

54:09 What do you love about yourself the most?

54:45 My book launch

55:24 The Love Wins House Party

56:16 Full circle!

56:41 Red Spade Environment

CONNECT WITH PAOLO:

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

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

Twitter https://twitter.com/PaoloPresta

https://www.aspoonfulofpaolo.com/

RESOURCES:

Paolo’s Oprah Show Moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhBjNZ6EMHQ&t=337s

Episode #6 Season 2

Speaking of Holiday 2020

Guests: A sampling of some of my favorite people who are creative givers and lovers of holiday traditions.

On this episode we are looking for the bright side of Holiday 2020! I asked some friends what tradition they will have to go without this year, and what new tradition they are replacing the old one with. I hope you get some good ideas for your own holiday celebrations! Stay healthy and stay in touch with the people you love. Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa! And with a big sigh of relief …. Happy 2021!

Listening notes:

00:56 Holiday 2020 is here!

2:28 Barri Leiner Grant – founder of The Memory Circle: The new tradition Barri is

bringing to Holiday 2020 is exchanging letters with her family.

10:29 Maleesa Xiong – a self-described creative doer & explorer: The new tradition

Maleesa is bringing to Holiday 2020 is supporting small and local businesses, as

well as artists, by exclusively shopping with them for the people she loves.

14:27 Whitney Reynolds – host of The Whitney Reynolds Show: The new tradition

Whitney is bringing to Holiday 2020 is staying home with her family of four!

21:34 Cheryl Jackson – founder of Minnie’s Food Pantry: The new tradition Cheryl

is bringing to Holiday 2020 is hand writing letters to her family who are normally

at her house playing games and laughing at family jokes.

30:21 Cindy Linville – My sister & Chief Holiday Officer: The new tradition Cindy is bringing to Holiday 2020 is keeping her annual Christmas Caroling party tradition alive and well, but only with her immediate family.

39:34 Paolo Presta – Host of A Spoonful of Paolo: The new tradition Paolo is bringing

to Holiday 2020 is hosting Christmas Eve at his home with his husband and

parents as well as a socially distanced holiday card!

46:38 Laura Munson – New York Times Best-Selling author, founder of

Haven Writing Retreat and author of her new book Willa’s Grove. The new tradition Laura is bringing to Holiday 2020 is refurbishing her grandmother’s piano so she can have a sing-a-long with her children.

56:52 Margo Lightburn: A yoga teacher & lulu lemon ambassador: The new tradition

Margo is bringing to holiday 2020 is reading with her children and Face Timing

with her parents.

1:07:07 Danielle Porte: A children’s picture book author: The new tradition Danielle is

bringing to Holiday 2020 is using the money her family would have spent on their big family Christmas Eve pajama dinner to buy care packages for families at

local shelters.

1:12:26 I am hoping to hear the sirens – a tradition I never want to let go of.

Connect with:

Sally Lou Loveman

https://www.instagram.com/livelovespeaks/

Barri Leiner Grant

https://www.instagram.com/blg/

Maleesa Xiong

https://www.instagram.com/maleesa_/

Whitney Reynolds

https://www.instagram.com/whitney_reynolds/

Cheryl Jackson

https://www.instagram.com/cherylaction/

Cindy Linville

https://www.instagram.com/cindylinville5/

Paolo Presta

https://www.instagram.com/paolopresta/

Laura Munson

https://www.instagram.com/lauramunsonauthor/

Danielle Porte

https://www.instagram.com/danielleporte_author/

Resources:

Barri’s book recommendation

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Maleesa’s Gift Giving List:

The Nile List

Wolf and Badger

Etsy

Faire

Amazon Handmade

Cindy’s Event Goddesses:

Little Sister Creative

Amanda Savory Events

Speaking of COVID & Health Inequities

Guest: Dr. Renee Matthews

On this episode we are speaking about the health inequities facing the black community during this time of pandemic. Dr. Renee Matthews is the host of Ask Dr. Renee and can be seen in over 45,000 doctor’s offices in her Out of Office with Dr. Renee video spots. Dr. Renee uses her medical degree to help people live healthier lives and on this episode, she offers specific things we can all do to protect ourselves and others from COVID. Stay healthy and I hope you will listen.

Listening notes:

1:00 Dr. Renee Matthews

1:19 Health inequities in the black community

2:39 Renee’s dad’s health

4:28 How is love speaking to you today?

5:20 Staying busy

6:00 As a black man, Renee says her dad was not treated well

6:45 Renee’s platform

7:00 Why did you decide to use your medical degree in this way?

8:08 Two pandemics

8:35 86 people

9:56 “There was a rumor that black people can’t get this.”

10:36 “The numbers were ridiculous for black people.”

11:11 Underlying conditions

12:18 No primary care doctors

12:45 Essential workers

13:43 Wear a mask!

14:40 “Wear it correctly & leave it alone!”

17:55 “Bandanas are the worst!”

18:00 “Things are passing under the face shield.”

19:08 “Surgeons wear masks for 12 hour surgeries!”

19:43 I’m no longer a candidate for wine.

20:49 Besides wearing a mask, what is the best thing we should be doing?

20:56 How to be prepared

22:40 “Food is medicine.”

22:59 Watch your stress

24:33 COVID in eyes

27:09 “Wash your hands and remove your clothing.”

28:39 When do you sleep?

29:08 How many steps should we get a day?

32:18 “I ran next to my bed the other night!”

32:44 What’s exciting you right now?”

34:50 The Girl Scouts

35:05 “I’m an official YouTuber!”

35:55 The purpose of this podcast

36:06 What reminds you of your purpose?

37:27 “We are now going to focus on asthma.”

38:36 COVID vaccine

40:04 “Antibodies is a treatment.”

41:29 Does it have to do with blood type?

43:00 “We don’t listen!”

43:26 “Look at other countries!”

44:33 Do you have a daily prayer?

45:45 Renee’s prayer

46:12 The prayer of Jabez

46:40 Devotional for teen girls

47:27 Did you have a “no” that launched you?

47:58 “There was a counselor at my college who told me I wasn’t college

material.”

48:15 Renee stops at nothing!

48:59 Renee’s Oprah story

51:50 Emergencies at The Oprah Winfrey Show

54:49 20,000 people

56:15 Speaking to the black community

57:44 Thank you!

Connect with Dr. Renee:

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/askdrrenee/

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrenee/

Resources:

Ask Dr. Renee

https://www.facebook.com/AskDrRenee

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/user/AskDrRenee

Prayer of Jabez

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prayer_of_Jabez