How do we thoughtfully approach grief, trauma, and mental health, both within ourselves and with loved ones?

This week’s episode features, J.S. Park.

J.S. Park is a hospital chaplain, a chaplain for the homeless, former atheist/agnostic, sixth degree black belt, suicide survivor, Korean-American, and loves Jesus.

J.S. is a future author with Moody Publishers. The book is titled The Voices We Carry: Finding Your One True Voice in a World of Clamor and Noise.

J.S. currently serves at a 1000+ bed hospital, one of the top-ranked in the nation, and as a chaplain for Metropolitan Ministries, one of the largest nonprofit charities for the homeless on the east coast.

Some duties of a hospital chaplain: grief counseling, attending every death and Code Blue, help with end-of-life decision-making, notifying family members of loved ones in the ER, and advocating for patients and families in crisis.

Some duties of a chaplain for the homeless: trauma-informed care, grief support, church wound recovery, faith-based programs for low income families, and staff care for coworkers.

J.S. completed four units of CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) at Tampa General Hospital, which includes a six month internship and a year long residency. This is an accredited program with a cap of five chaplain residents per year.

In 2012, J.S. gave away half his salary to fight human trafficking, a check for $10,000.
Matching contributions raised another $10k.
[Part of this story was in Eugene Cho’s book Overrated (pp. 164-165), and his blog here.]

J.S. has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of South Florida and a M.Div from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He likes Cuban food, cold brew, tomato juice, and old black and white noir movies. He has a German shepherd named Rosco, and is overly fond of C.S. Lewis. He has two toenails growing out of one toe. Really.

What are The Gifts in Our Experience with Coronavirus?

This week’s episode features, Rob Sullivan.

Here’s his story:

“Rob Sullivan has been a repeat guest on NBC 5 Chicago because he has the ability to transform a 3-minute segment into an inspiring experience for viewers. Any producer looking to motivate, inform, and entertain the audience should have Rob Sullivan as a guest. He’s charismatic, passionate, and he genuinely cares about helping people.”
- Matt Piacente, Executive Producer, NBC 5 Chicago

As an inspirational speaker and trainer, I have given workshops for companies (Merrill Lynch, McDonald's, Motorola, Great Lakes REIT, etc.), schools (Northwestern University, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, DePaul University, Northern Arizona University, etc.), trade associations, and other groups in the U.S. and abroad.

Professional speaking and training. Topics include listening, sales, charisma/energy, storytelling (related to sales and business development), coaching, and presentation skills. The listening workshop is the newest addition and one that can easily be customized for any industry.

In addition to the training, which I love, I spend a lot of time doing ride-along coaching with salespeople and sales managers. With managers, I provide feedback based on meeting and team coaching observation. 

Operating Behind A Mask

This week’s episode features, Michael Brody Waite.

Here’s his story:

As an addict, I spent every waking hour doing whatever it took to stay high, including stealing from my friends and family. Anything that didn’t lead to a buzz was a buzzkill.

Anything that didn’t feed my addiction was the enemy. I had to figure out how to turn every interaction and opportunity into a chance to get what I wanted.

Along the way, I had to lie every minute of every day to the people around me about what I was doing and who I’d become.

—and I lied a lot. I lied about having a problem. I lied about stealing from my friends. I lied about having my drug use under control. I lied about my grades, my work, my relationships, and anything else that could have given me away.

All my energy was focused on trying to look put together on the outside while I knew I was falling apart inside. I was doing the opposite of being true to myself.

I was wearing a mask…

This is my story from drug addiction and homelessness to founding and leading a company on the Inc 500 list. There are 3 principles that saved me from death ...


Embracing the Uncertainties

Recognition expert, Sarah McVanel is passionate about guiding each of us to re-discover our own greatness, and recognize the greatness in others.  She personifies Greatness Magnified!

Allow Sarah to unleash the power of F.R.O.G. Forever Recognize Others' Greatness™.

An experienced and dynamic speaker and coach, Sarah McVanel provides experiences customized to every organization. She offers the business evidence to back up how recognizing greatness in ourselves and others is key to sustained business success through improved morale, increased top talent retention, and generating a positive corporate culture.   Once we rediscover that understanding of our own greatness, we can use it to recognize that greatness all around us and improve ourselves, our workplace and the organization’s bottom line!

Sarah has put her psychology undergrad and MSc in family therapy/dynamics to good use and has excelled the field of Organizational Development, Training and Communications for over 15 years.  She is a lifelong learner and continues to educate herself so she can better serve her clients.

Sarah offers individuals, teams and organizations insights and practical strategies to move:

  • from dysfunctional to cooperative,

  • from divided to united,

  • from inefficient to productive, and

  • from disengaged to contributor

Her book "Forever Recognize Others Greatness: Solution Focused Strategies to Satisfied Staff, High Performing Teams and Healthy Bottom Lines" and other practical tools leave audiences with the process and insights needed to take action and make a positive difference. When we find our potential again, our enthusiasm for what we do, we can begin to implement effective growth strategies for ourselves, our employees, and our workplace.

Sarah McVanel has inspired, challenged, and focused her audiences, leaving them with a powerful new understanding of their work, their colleagues and their lives! Join them and invite Sarah to help you and your employees discover your greatness and how to use that knowledge to benefit yourselves and your organization!

What's the Next Question that Will Help You Unfold Your Truth?

This week’s episode features, Christopher R. Delaney, High Performance Intentional Leadership Coach, Founder, Intentional Connector.

“I help clients create relationships full of passion, businesses full of purpose, and a powerful presence.”

Chris knows what it takes to relentlessly pursue purpose in the wake of life changing events. At the age of 21, Chris lost his mom, his only parent, to a 20+ year battle with Stage IV breast cancer in 2007. As a result, he spent most of his 20s focusing on strategies to combat PTSD and failing his way forward.

By 30, Chris had led teams of up to 250+ in the corporate world for Fortune 500s and was an award winning leader, but found no heart in the pursuit. Chris started from absolute zero in 2016 after a divorce and became a six figure insurance producer and built a sales organization that spanned across the US within 2 years. He’s spoken across the US on turning tragedy into triumph, has produced 100s of hours of live content on mindset and high performance behaviors, and now focuses on 1:1 work with men of vision and impact looking to combine material success with inner peace and passion.

Recognizing The Hand of Providence

This week's episode features, Scott Mason.

Here's his story:

I am a growth-focused and passionate motivational and keynote speaker, entrepreneur, executive, and attorney who brings a unique wealth of life, business, and professional experience to inspire young people and leaders of every age to be their best, succeed against the odds, develop mental fortitude, and rise to their fullest potential.

Colleagues have described my speeches as high-energy, thought-provoking, and captivating. As a leadership mentor, I am good at listening, committed to giving my all, and benefitting from a truly diverse professional background. The spirit of entrepreneurialism, truly powerful communication skills, and a history of organizational leadership in private, non-profit, and public sector roles are backed up by measurable results.

Spiritual Healing

This week's episode features, Isabel Hundt.

Here's her story:

That “fairy tale” continued as followed:

As a young girl, I remember telling my parents that sometimes I’d feel as if I can leave my body and experience the world from a bird’s eye perspective. Sometimes I’d feel crazy for feeling other people’s pain and sometimes I had visions that not many took seriously – maybe not even myself. I experienced the world and everything in it in incredible colors.

This is the emotional world of a child that is highly intuitive and over time forgets that any of those gifts ever existed, as it happens with so many of us. We lose the ability to tune in with ourselves on a deep level to experience guidance and direction to living a purposeful and fulfilling life and therefore our calling.

My name is Isabel Hundt and today, I am known as the “The Leader’s Heart Decoder” and Founder of the #ISeeUMovement which is focused on shattering cultural barriers and engaging in cultural transformation globally through emotional awareness. I am a successful Inspirational speaker, sociologist, a certified Transformation Coach who works with Highly Sensitive Visionaries and World Changers aka Empath-Warriors™, published Author of my book The Power of Faith-Driven Success – A Journey toward Living Your Dream by 30 (www.faithdrivensuccess.com), 2x Amazon Best Selling Co-Author and Emotions Clearing Practitioner.

Throughout my journey of re-discovering who I truly am and what God has called me to bring to this world, I learned what it means:

  • to live by faith and operate from a place of trust and surrendering

  • to step into my own inner power and to live fully

  • to use my gifts to serve others yet have a strong and firm relationship within myself and therefore with the Divine who guides and leads me

  • to BE me no matter my circumstances

  • to embrace life

  • to work through depressive phases (emotional overstimulation) successfully

  • to be and live life as an Empath-Warrior™ and World Visionary

  • to access my intuition and yet protect me from over-stimulation and toxins that are being thrown at me from a broken world

  • to live a purpose-driven instead of a profit- and attention-driven life

  • to accept and use my empathic gift confidently

  • to be persistent and succeed

Today, I combine the knowledge of Sociology, Psychology and Neuroscience with aspects of Emotional Intelligence. I have successfully coached and educated individuals from all over the world on finding their unique superpower and speak at universities and conferences throughout the country where I share my inspiring and thought-provoking message on various topics. (Please go HERE to find more details.)

My passion is to support especially young adults (and young-at-heart adults) create, live and transform their lives by understanding the scientific and spiritual connections between their heart and brain and by discovering their unique and magical gifts hidden within. I teach tools to protect themselves emotionally and energetically and to be able to set the foundation to feel guided from within and to hear the whisper of their Soul no matter their circumstances.

My journey is unique, just like yours, yet we all have one thing in common: We are intuitive, spiritual human beings who can change the world to the better by understanding our emotions and learning how to use whatever we feel effective to move forward empowered, to experience success and to live the dream God has put on our hearts since the time each one of us was born.

But the most important about my life is that I am a proud and devoted Christ follower, community leader, wife, and mother to our son, Jonah.

Oh, and my magic power is that I can read your heart. Everything your heart is communicating with your outside world, my brain translates into color, also known as a neurological condition called synesthesia,  and each color has a specific meaning which I can translate into a unique message for you. No worries, I don’t do it unless asked but it sure is magical.

"How do I create 100,000 millionaires?"

This week's episode features, Antonio T. Smith.

Antonio T. Smith, Jr., is recognized as 101 Top Global Training and Developmental Minds by the World HRD Congress, a Forbes Coaches Council Member, a Celebrity Business Advisor who has delivered over 2000 keynotes at events such as the University of Houston, University of Wisconsin, Wiley College, which you can listen to on his podcast. Antonio is an internationally recognized trainer and speaker, and best-selling author in self-help and religious categories.

He specializes in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Business and Strength Training, Leadership, Teleconference Presentations, Personal Breakthroughs, Prosperity Consciousness, Mindset Training, and all levels of effective marketing, as well as scholarship in the Old Testament and Jewish Covenants, and he owns one of the most successful technology companies in Texas.

He holds a bachelor’s in Christianity and a Master’s in Theological Studies. Antonio is a best-selling author and a popular podcast host, with a show that reaches 70 countries and 60 different languages. Antonio T. Smith, Jr. has been coaching people around the world on personal transformation for the last 9 years and reaches over hundreds of thousands of listeners across the globe.

Antonio overcame abandonment, homelessness and brokenness, Antonio had to learn at age six how to use his mind to climb out of sleeping in a dumpster. He would spend his entire childhood homeless, was adopted when he was 14, and aged out of CPS custody at 18 years old. This Galveston, TX native has been through more in his 30+ years than most will ever experience. He has developed a "plant better” attitude, in which he teaches people to plant better seeds in order to have a better life, and has developed coaching tools, programs, courses and books designed to help the world succeed.

Today he is a certified Les Brown Partner, a world renowned public speaker, and leadership coach.

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What does it look like to reconnect to self in a world so disconnected?

This week's episode features Jared Schuster.

Here's his story:

I strive to align myself with companies and small businesses who are committed to the positive growth of our world. If you, or your organizations' purpose is to spread light, I would love to connect. I have extensively travelled the world learning about many different cultures and ancient religions.

I aim to be a steward of what I have learned, incorporate them into my daily life, and share those teachings with those whom I come in contact with.

Ama La Vida

Reach me on: LinkedIn Message

Phone: 224.392.1063

Email: Jaredschuster1@gmail.com

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Balance

This week's episode features, Joe Scola.

Here's his story:

It’s possible for your greatest challenges in life to become the ultimate catalyst for personal evolution. Wise Ape Tea was birthed from one of those challenges. In 2014 my father was diagnosed with GBM brain cancer. I placed everything in my life on pause to move back home, stand by my father’s side, and help him fight. The disease moved quickly, transitioning my role to become his caretaker.

We shared pain, laughter, and some beautiful moments together. I became obsessed with the potential of alternative and complementary treatments, along with the formulation of teas and herbal blends to help provide a better quality of life for my father. It was during this time the spirit of Wise Ape was born.

My father passed in 2015, leaving me with beautiful memories, years of wisdom, and a new life mission. Our purpose at Wise Ape is to serve and inspire wellness, knowledge, and altruism. Our products are designed to inspire healthy living and through our nonprofit partnerships, support some incredibly impactful causes.

Wise Ape has come to represent the balance between strength and wisdom, body and mind, with a goal of empowering others to reach towards their human potential and improve themselves, continuously.

I appreciate you joining us on this journey, welcome to the tribe.

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