United By Stoke is the RAVEN 425 RISE ABOVE Podcast

Some of you may know I don't at all believe in dates on a calendar whether it's May or January I'm all in 100 percent of the time... so all the hugging 🤗 bunnies 🐰 and the high fives and the hoooo raaaa raaaa on the eve of New Years and then again on New Year's Day makes me laugh a little because Talk is Cheap and ACTION is what will make it happen. So how do we make tasks to stick to our goals? We all have habits but we need to make and execute on daily tasks to reach for our New Years goals!! Let's make a difference and make a change for the better ❤️👊🙌

For those of us who have been blessed and fortunate enough to travel on a plane ✈️ we all know the issues of delays- lay overs- wait times - missed connections- Now no matter how prepared we are or how seasoned we are at travel we are still in the hands of the travel gods when it comes to how quick or long travels may take. So for me personally and this is just me - I try to pack snacks and healthy treats or meals for my flights - but today something happened which I had not had ever dealt with prior. So a 3 hour delayed flight.... we all been there done that but the area I went into to wait in had a fruit 🍉 and vegetable 🥒 screening area which once past you could not have either of them in your possession....hummm 🤔so for me I am like 97% plant 🌱 based eater - that meant all my food 🥘 was not allowed on the flight!!!😒 ok 👌 I can deal with that I guess -as I had a bunch of home made rice cakes and pe

Sometimes lesson's come at the weirdest times - and today for me it came in the form of a work out 🏋- I was paired up with 2 massive humans each man being around 6 foot something and weighing in at around 200 and something. I felt in my mind like I was the weak link - smaller and not able to move the weights around as easy as both them could and I also do not have the power to pull the machine we were using as powerfully as they could- however what I do bring to the table is my heart ❤️ but I said to them both I will do my best to not slow the team down. Here is the metaphor for life : in the beginning I was way behind - by the mid point I was catching up- and at the finish I was doing more!! BOOM 💥- the lesson is the tortoise and the hare - if we only look 👀 at the start we may loose - but the long game is where this life game will be won!!👊❤️🙌 let's get it fam

Today I was just taken back by the beauty of it all- and what do I mean by that? Well today was a full day of doing interviews with some amazing 😉 people from the island 🌴 of Maui who are doing just incredible things for themselves and those around them. As you know from my tag line "The Rocky Balboa of the Podcast Game" my plan was to basically do these interviews by myself with a selfie 🤳 stick or some type of half assed set up as I am solo with not very much equipment- yet what happened when we got to planning and executing was just pure universal power 🙏and I mean that - I have to believe that- because what came to me and the interviewers was to perfect. A sound 🔊 guy jumps on board- not 1 not 2 but 3 camera 🎥 guys show up set up and make absolute magic happen- all of a sudden there was kids coming around to watch us speak and also some of the coolest passer by's that were showing crazy 😜 love ❤️

It never gets old - to me at least "what you ask?" The simple fact that everyday is the chance to learn something new and to improve and empower ourself- today I was reminded of that on the smallest scale ... that nano or micro Improvement the ones you almost can't see until at some point ☝️ off in the future we look 👀 back and see how far we have truly come -today's lesson was how the smallest cue which lead to an improved time I had on a movement by .5 of 1 second - for real that doesn't sound like much however if I keep improving that technique and let's say I shave 2 seconds off that time after a few months... then this is a major major victory- but it started with the absolute littlest almost non noticeable improvement- remember everyday we show up to be better counts in the long 🏃 run!!❤️🙌👊

As I watched a bunch of young kids on the beach 🌊 today I learned a valuable lesson- the way I or we think or presume or want something to be had no value or wait to what the universe is going to do with a situation that has nothing and I mean nothing to do with me or us- not our lesson to learn and I or we can not teach that lesson to the situation or people - that is a universal lesson and teaching not at all up to me or us. As I watched a 7 year old boy bully, yell and almost physically harm a 4 year old - all the thoughts that came up in my head as I WATCHED the situation had zero impact- but what happened next when the 12 year old boys came around was all the UNIVERSE teachings- absolutely amazing 😉.... ❤️👊🙌

I continue on about the event that took place and I was a part of on the beach today and what came to me the seconds- as I 👀 looked into the eyes of the man I helped to shore -what I thought was a lesson for him.... was actually a lesson for me and all of us. Life can be taken from us at anytime- ANYTIME 💥🙏so to live a mediocre life or a life we don't want to be living just does not make sense- Easier said than done - but the alternative is a life full of regret and unhappiness- and no one wants that! ❤️🙌👊

Another blessed day at the beach 🌊 and I was so grateful for a day of playing in the water and body surfing 🏄- not to many people around and I was just taken by the beauty the warm crystal blue water 💦 the blue sky and warm breezes - just absolutely blessed.... there was an issue with a man who was caught in a rip tide and I caught him out of the corner of my eye- myself and another man help him into shore .... he looks up at me and says "I just have to DEAL with this life" I was taken back by those words - 🙏🤔- and learned another valuable lesson about my life ❤️👊🙌

I am for real not one that believes in human made calendar events - like I should tell someone I love ❤️ them on this date or buy them a present 🎁 on this date- phuck that. However the universal calendar I fully subscribe to- I personally and this is just me think there is something powerful about major event such as summer /winter solstice and others like that. I had the amazing opportunity to attend an invite only event last night - a sound 🔊 bath 🛀 healing under a grand piano with singing bowls - beyond amazing and the energy and purging that happened during and after are not easily put into words- but pushed me onwards in my journey of betterment in this amazing 😉 game called life. Again with some self awareness and space we can create healing longevity and learning for ourselves ❤️👊🙌

I continue on about how the fact that I did not just reacted and instead just listened allowed the lesson to aid in my growth and evolution of mind body and spirit yes I took a little beat down 😪but it was well worth it - it truly only makes us stronger to know what we are capable of if we truly appreciate and follow what's in our heart ❤️- never let anyone or anything steal your shine or light!! Do u!!👊🙌❤️