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If you’re finding yourself reading this and you have questions or you’re just curious please don’t hesitate to respond and I’d love to chat. 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Nota el mundo que te Rodea. Nota la belleza en lo ordinario. Nota lo que puedes aprender en los desfaíos. Tómate tu tiempo” “Take your time. Notice the world around you. Notice the beauty in the ordinary. Notice the learning in the challenges. 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P.s. just a reminder, I am trying to include both Spanish & English…if you see a spanish caption and don’t understand please keep scrolling…or press “translate”. You can figure it out, I believe in you! https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/2024/7/15/uiaaz13t0k6trcpon2nf6dhb5nm8r0 monthly 0.5 2024-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/7029bafc-5144-4f61-98eb-f038664e39d6/THE+GIVING+GIFTS+INSTAGRA-32.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/summerupdate monthly 0.5 2024-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/a53ecfda-83d8-4dd1-9cb4-3e72549629a9/NOs+vemos-60.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/asweetstarttosummer monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/2f645667-2886-4645-a31f-fc0c461d64a9/Untitled+design-61.jpg Weekly Updates - Grief Garden & May’s Cleanup On May 4th, we had 42 people gather for a beach cleanup. This weekend was already emotionally taxing here in Ensenada due to the devastating loss of three young men visiting on a surf trip. Oddly enough, we had already made the underlying theme of the cleanup “learning to share in our grief”—this concept that grief, although an individual experience, doesn't need to be experienced in isolation. People who had never met one another walked the beach together, cleaned together, and took part in an activity we called “Jardín del duelo” or Grief Garden. We safely propagated succulents and, with some cinnamon and honey added to the root, we were able to plant and take home a representation of the new life that comes when loss is shared. We left the beach that day with nearly 400 pounds of trash and recyclables and a restored hope that the suffering we experience in this world matters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/416a0126-00f0-4e79-a072-b24851e5d097/NOs+vemos-41.jpg Weekly Updates - We say “nos vemos” to Hannah & Zoe Hannah from Northern California and Zoe from New Zealand spent four months in Ensenada interning with EMI, Engineer Ministry International. The Garcia family hosted them, and I feel incredibly lucky to have witnessed their contribution to the Giving Gifts community. Hannah and Zoe went above and beyond in every way imaginable, lending their time and ideas to the startup of the cleanups here in Ensenada. Saying “nos vemos” or “see ya later” was tough, but it's encouraging to see how they both get to be part of a much greater vision for The Giving Gifts. I’m excited to continue to witness the exploration and identification of their individual gifts as they seek to use them in this world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/813ff8b8-a016-49db-83cf-218d7d46973f/IMG_6445.jpg Weekly Updates - Our first workshop & collaboration with Colectiva At the end of May, we partnered with Colectiva, an incredibly talented group of artists with a vision to use their art to bring people from all walks of life together. When the idea of doing a workshop that involved a beach cleanup and art was brought up, it was a quick “Yes”. The vision for workshops is slightly different than cleanups, aiming for smaller groups to create space for deeper connections. We began with a cleanup that allowed people to get to know one another and then had a guided art project. We learned a lot collectively and I am stokedddd for the upcoming workshops this summer (p.s. discover:surf may be making its way here in august!!!!!!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/7641e6b7-7cff-4950-89c0-fd2461e1d8e3/street1+29.jpg Weekly Updates - World Ocean Day Finally, that brings us to this past weekend. To be honest, I am still very much processing all of it. There were so many people who made the day possible. The theme for the World Ocean Day cleanup and celebration was unity, a lesson that the ocean exemplifies better than anything else. Like the seas connect the land, we had over 60 amazing individuals come together to clean and celebrate. “juntos puedemos” “together we can” was our theme for the day as we removed over 240 pounds of waste! It was SO sweet to see people of all ages, from little people to older adults, working side by side, UNITED. The event was more than just a cleanup; it was a celebration of community. We enjoyed activities, a raffle filled with incredible and thoughtful gifts, and a space for celebration provided by Wendlant (the coolest brewery across the street from where we clean), complete with drinks and food. The sense of camaraderie was palpable, and the support from everyone involved was overwhelming. This incredible experience is difficult to encapsulate in words, but the unity, effort, and joy shared that day are unforgettable. I am deeply grateful to everyone who participated and helped make this vision a possibility. (of course it wouldn’t have been an event without starting the day dropping a huge water jug on my foot, a fun encounter with port security letting us know we couldn’t be there, and them changing their minds and enjoying some pastries together, and a little rain.) https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/aprilreflection monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/20fe87ef-5f83-4417-b690-f94644b89652/Untitled+design-59.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/mentalhealth-and-cleanups monthly 0.5 2024-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/83efd276-7d6a-4d12-8c44-3a0d42a973ea/31.jpg Weekly Updates - Setting a Perimeter and Breathing Activity As we go through our cleanup, we set a defined perimeter to focus on the area directly in front of us. While the task may seem daunting with the endless amount of debris, the essence lies in taking that first step. This month our perimeter will be marked by signs that walk you through a breathing activity. Breathing is one of the coolest tools we have as humans. Everybody is different, meaning some people respond better to different relaxation skills, some people love breathing activities, some people feel a big impact from guided meditation or prayer - and sometimes, those skills don’t feel as helpful or impactful. this month, the breathing technique we are offering is called "wave breathing." This is a breathing technique that produces a wave-like pattern and can be helpful in stabilizing the breath and mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/bd2f2213-2b88-4fb3-98bc-9fa1c7514dbb/33.png Weekly Updates - Sharing Experiences with Mental Health Towards the end of our time cleaning, we're going to have a few individuals share their personal journeys with mental health. They'll share how various different activities have woven into their daily routines contributing to their mental well-being. The hope is to create a space that feels safe to take down some of barriers surrounding discussions about mental health. 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The hope for this activity will be to take the reminder with you that your experience, your story, your thoughts, feelings, impact matters! https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/thegiftofcollaboration monthly 0.5 2024-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/778295f6-8037-4973-b77f-5cfe19a64837/Untitled+design-58.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/marchandmore monthly 0.5 2024-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/8c744ff3-f083-40bc-9f2c-92aaa6c309cf/IMG_0338.jpg Weekly Updates A significant shift I just want to express and extend an immense amount of gratitude to Nicole for the pivotal role from October to January in the reshaping of The Giving Gifts. Her passion and perspective breathed new life into our mission, vision, and branding. Nicole's unique perspective on the world, specifically the power of environmental advocacy has had an incredible influence on the development of the Hubs, the cleanups, and will continue to have impact on all we do. Not only did Nicole make significant contribution to the organization she has made a very significant impact in my life, she has challenged my perspective on how I view this world and my role in it, she has introduced so many new ideas, and practices, and books, and people, I will be a different person and leader because of Nicole, and for that I am very thankful. As Nicole continues to pursue her vision in Oahu I just want to acknowledge the significant impact she has made and anticipate the ripple effect she will continue to bring to the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/0bfdb01c-5145-4bc0-aa06-a1522ad99f33/Untitled+design-53.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/meetmaddie monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/dd4075f1-e045-45cd-a88a-a20753bfbf9d/THE+GIVING+GIFTS+INSTAGRA-3.png Weekly Updates - MEET MADDIE At the beginning of February I connected with Maddie and she excitedly took on the final part of The Giving Gifts visual rebrand working on a new logo and icon set that I’m sure you’ve seen! From the first conversation I had with Maddie it was very clear that she has a passion for caring for people and a gift of really listening and bring to life the vision others hold and after experiencing Maddie’s gifts first hand I was very excited with her openness to allow me to share a little bit of her story. Meet Maddie, a San Diego-based, Colorado-native, graphic designer whose creative journey is a testament to the transformative power of passion. 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Go for it, I have bigger battles to fight” https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/discoverupdate monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1678932236449-81IQINKCVL7XX78P221E/DISCOVER-4.gif Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/heathergreen monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/ff85a294-ad45-4572-a342-78140a2ed4d9/IMG_9010.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/3f099ed4-0987-4f3d-a79d-4afc26a36d3c/Green_Family_2022_0072.JPEG Weekly Updates - “I think sometimes it’s easier to advocate for other people than it is for yourself. It is easy for me to go to bat and push and risk for kids that I love, because it feels unethical not to.” https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/morethanjustabook monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/fcc74561-64a4-4e05-9108-0c8c83ff4259/IMG_7217.jpg Weekly Updates - SHELLEBRATE SCHOOL Since the launch of the Shellebrate Campaign there has been an option to donate a copy of Shellebrate to a Title 1 school. At the beginning of February I got the opportunity to go to Pomerado Elementary where Heather (my sister) is a teacher and not only deliver a few copies of Shellebrate, I was invited to read as well! I don’t know if there is anything sweeter than getting to hear a group of sweet Kindergartners all say “namaste” and get equally excited as I do about the sting ray page. To date, there have been 64 copies that will have been/or will be given to Title 1 school through out the US. So far I have four readings in March and five in April and have more in the works. Just imagine The Giving Gifts has identified 300 Schools (220 in the US and 80 globally) that are primarily serving refugee kiddos, ESL kiddos, families of all different orientations, backgrounds, Nuerotypical & Neurodivergent kiddos alike. Imagine these 300 schools having a copy of a Shellebrate, a book that will allow students to engage, learn, connect, and be reminded that they are SO important in this world. The cost to fund a book in a classroom, with a curriculum guide & coloring sheet is $15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/de7707bb-635a-49b2-a675-8981e96fd6d3/1.png Weekly Updates - SHELLEBRATE NICU A few weeks ago Emily, a good friend of mine here in Ensenada, reached out and shared “Project Cameron Story” with me. Project Cameron Story is an organization that is focused on getting books to families in the NICU. Emily was quick to fund five copies that have all been given to families. After learning a bit more about Project Cameron Story (you already know I did my research!) and why they are doing what they are doing, I realized that NICU units are a place where families often experience uncertainty…check out one of their reasons on why they believe books are important… “When you have a baby born prematurely at 24 weeks, no one celebrates this….It is a scary and intimidating time. No one sends you flowers or buys you baby gifts. When a baby is so tiny and fragile and on a ventilator or some other breathing apparatus, people don’t send you congratulatory cards. They send you “thinking of you” cards. It’s not their fault…people don’t know what to do. What could a baby that size possibly need? …and …. what if the very worst happens? when a parent walks into the NICU to see their baby (sometimes for the first time), there in the isolette, with the baby is a brand new children’s book. It is a way to say, “regardless of size, gestational age, or prognosis – we celebrate your baby. We celebrate their life.” Just imagine, the book that is referenced is Shellebrate! We are going to try something a little new and exciting for the month of March. You can fund a copy of Shellebrate for a family in the NICU for $15! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/253f482b-ce15-4b2e-b27f-369be4bad859/3.png Weekly Updates - When you support Shellebrate you are supporting young people If there is one thing I have learned over the past year it is to pay attention to dreams, especially the ones that you wake up to and vividly recall. In the works are the plans to engage with different groups of teenagers using Shellebrate as a tool and resource. I am going to be sharing a lot more about what this will look like over the next few months. Discover: Story is an interactive program for teenagers to hear a personal story, to get to interact with Shellebrate, and to begin identifying how they can use their own gifts & story in this world. Just imagine one teenager in the world right now….maybe thats your child, maybe thats one of your students, maybe its a teenager in a different country, maybe you’ve met them, maybe you haven’t. As you imagine this teenager, try to remember what it was like to be this age (maybe that was recently or maybe awhile ago). I personally believe that teenagers are so often misunderstood and undervalued. There are 1.3 billion teenagers in the world right now…thats 16% of the population. The Giving Gifts is focused on creating resources and tools that will support young people in identifying their gifts, navigating how to use their gifts, and sharing their story. Discover: Story is using Shellebrate as a catalyst to do so and will be serving young people in the US as well as globally. After the cost of the book + shipping the revenue from Shellebrate goes directly to the overhead for The Giving Gifts to develop Discover:story. If you want to support Discover:Story you can continue to fund Shellebrate or you can give directly to The Giving Gifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674314485727-WL5RBOK60ZSLI9NVW1ID/IMG_5911+2.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674314505958-RYI6VVABHX9D1P07A8JR/IMG_1698.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674314511682-HJ9M4HN22KIEVXXNTIGZ/IMG_5967+2.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674314512940-L4IGS41EA3SUUWX0OWOR/IMG_5980+2.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674314516876-RY1QO85P6Y9BA8RYBUT4/IMG_6069.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674314520580-20YR9OQDJ1XC6A0EKTI5/IMG_6091.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1677887991536-E4SHO4PO4Y31LE28JC1Y/IMG_7217.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1677888000366-KOEDAM3CMSK949ESO7T2/IMG_6973.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1677888006000-UJ8I6S0S7XNBR4IH4A8P/IMG_6968.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1677888010985-HT6NC3LVJOPLOSLEXPI4/IMG_6949.JPG Weekly Updates https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/aminhostil monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/0c0362f6-9af9-4810-bdcf-5351bd788a23/22023.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/cb6a0b98-be86-48aa-b34f-aea2742b2816/PHOTO-2023-02-12-17-39-21.jpg Weekly Updates - “You have to learn how to do what you love because you love it.” https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/dottieoleson monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/d40cc158-1f23-4fbc-a379-3e35fa8ce2ad/IMG_7271.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/e92ef5f8-395a-49b2-81de-c9156be66cd2/IMG_7269.jpg Weekly Updates - “It is so important to see a mutual dignity for one another. As much as I want to give it is SO important that I learn to receive.” https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/steadygrowth monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/5056e78d-03b4-4378-b57a-703c57bb76a8/Screen+Shot+2023-01-26+at+9.03.52+PM.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/genevagarcia monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/94f5719d-541e-4c94-8bc5-a870bd70408b/IMG_6823.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/23667cf7-ac37-499c-9e59-47d796fd190b/IMG_6562.JPG Weekly Updates - FUN FACTS ABOUT GENEVA * “When I am in Mexico, I don’t look Mexican, and when I’m in the states, I don’t feel like I fit in there either” - Geneva spent the first 18 years of her life in Ensenada, MX, and currently resides in Chicago, IL. * When Geneva isn’t changing lives through film, you can find her roaming the world, making friends anywhere she goes, exploring coffee shops (although she isn’t drinking coffee anymore), and climbing rocks and things. * I’ve known Geneva for more than ten years. When I moved to Mexico, she was also home visiting her family at the same time, and she did not like me, and I honestly thought it was hilarious because she didn’t even try to pretend. I wrote her name down on my “one-day podcast list” because I valued her honesty and transparency. (P.S. the conversation we had right before this one you’re about to hear was about how Geneva changed her mind about me…turns out she thinks I’m okay!) https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/anewyearvision monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/88ef4991-ea54-458c-b286-c1b012105de2/IMG_6746.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/221fa494-2c28-4f75-bd4e-2072b2971333/F4F0CFE1-15D0-446A-9CFC-C01FB4EE43EE.JPG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/64ffecd2-d96e-4006-9432-f0c21a2cd831/DSC00418.JPG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/d0e62447-3f50-48de-b9e9-078efa3c5c3d/IMG_6219+2.JPG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/8ab0fc30-8d58-4e67-8b01-86597e94c241/IMG_6749.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/acarridekindaconversation monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1672036291086-C402ZKSZ35B0WNSEIBQ5/IMG_6495.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/ae8276c6-5f35-4c1a-9127-416cc143547d/IMG_6248.JPG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1671752692121-W5JM1K0IRPUMXDOT2RJB/IMG_6357.PNG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1671752684906-0UY844BX337OEICUAUV8/IMG_6356.PNG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1671752643092-UC6R83PEIJOTP14YTE3B/IMG_6358.PNG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/29f362d0-e1bf-46a6-8f07-f070477df3b2/Natural+Pastel+Happy+Holidays+Christmas+Photo+Collage+Card.png Weekly Updates https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/seasontoshellebrate monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/29f362d0-e1bf-46a6-8f07-f070477df3b2/Natural+Pastel+Happy+Holidays+Christmas+Photo+Collage+Card.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1671755164056-JSXE6O5MQ73QE1F19S7S/IMG_6425.PNG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1671752684906-0UY844BX337OEICUAUV8/IMG_6356.PNG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1671752692121-W5JM1K0IRPUMXDOT2RJB/IMG_6357.PNG Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1671752643092-UC6R83PEIJOTP14YTE3B/IMG_6358.PNG Weekly Updates https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/kellismith monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/33c755ca-d8a5-4563-a767-b6f111b018ff/IMG_5762.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/f7c0d4ad-c2de-43c4-901a-99c4bb0f95f0/SHELLEBRATE-2.gif Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/givingthanksaroundtheworld monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/d7c06ddb-966a-4153-b6e0-2d813f2f8921/IMG_5177.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/8d739a9f-1b5f-4e0e-b7e8-bc9b04519f11/paddletude.jpg Weekly Updates - THE PADDLETUDE OF GRATITUDE ACTIVITY The Giving Gifts put together a free gratitude & connection activity for people all over the world to participate in this week! Check it out and put your location on the map so you know who else is participating! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/c030d4e0-7247-48f6-a909-22f8ef418f99/DSC_0023.jpeg Weekly Updates - EXAMEN ACTIVITY Debbie has put together a great resource that walks you through the Examen Activity that is mentioned in the podcast! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/f7c0d4ad-c2de-43c4-901a-99c4bb0f95f0/SHELLEBRATE-2.gif Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674188032843-OT5WVV8JAIGNO3LEYP4V/1.png Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674188033015-DHAY5RHBNOGR735JMQZI/2.png Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674188034327-C3IRG72KIGINFSBYI4VX/3.png Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674188034980-WGV7Y9T90A5PD1N4TGD4/4.png Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674188035468-4SJ2A40S3RPLAX8ROER9/5.png Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1674188036413-IEEKWR6J38EKL26W1KX5/6.png Weekly Updates https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/paddletude monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/2c638b07-4bd0-4438-8dbc-80c79ee9f286/Paddletude+Cover-2.gif Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1667356045541-R343AJFLETZA81VZ8H6W/paddletude-4.gif Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/8d739a9f-1b5f-4e0e-b7e8-bc9b04519f11/paddletude.jpg Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/7f563e26-8752-43c3-811f-0cddb54eee39/paddletude-3.gif Weekly Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1667438676954-5B5Z3F66KC36B9DGG1NY/IMG_4815.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/d70448c8-c459-4e2d-a20f-bef214dcdb92/Beige+Business+Card+Design+Mockup+Instagram+Post+copy.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/03d04cda-2994-4d65-a6f5-5c0a16a933b0/Insidemockup.png Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/lifewithjulia monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/755c50a9-8e09-4eb1-84f9-b1e0360e5e6d/IMG_4922.PNG Weekly Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/34313be3-ebcc-454f-9392-4b77e6f051d0/IMG_4728.jpg Weekly Updates - what started out as a podcast for Julia to share her story really transpired into a conversation on just life and I had this realization that sometimes sharing our stories may seem intimidating because our story is always in motion. It hit me as I was editing this episode that we do not need to wait until we arrive at some point in our lives to be qualified or able to share. 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There was and honestly still is this voice in my head that is telling me I need to communicate all of the future plans and try to get you excited and believe in what The Giving Gifts is going to do over the next three months with the desired outcome that you would help or give or at least get it. This episode is not going to really be either of those things because this podcast was never created to be a show and tell of what we can do. This podcast was created to be the why behind what we do. A conversation that digs in deeper to the core of how and why we are here right now on this earth. A process of identifying our gift that is so deeply rooted in who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. What started as a full-circle conversation has actually transformed into a spiral. An upward spiral, an onward process of growing and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1653872672413-U2B7H0GRAT5FZ3RJ19RM/IMG_9578.jpg Weekly Updates The Giving Gifts podcast was created to be a space for people to get to share honestly, without an agenda or a desired outcome, just a space where your experience is important and needed. I wanted this podcast to be an exploration of who a person is, their story, and maybe what they do but more importantly why they do what they do….this episode is a reflection of just that!!! Dan & Gabby Jimmerson are both mental health professionals, parents to their sweet daughter and their sweet pup, a friend to many and best friends to each other. This conversation is one that I have been hoping to have for quite some time and with all of the challenging dynamics of life right now I think it is a very timely and needed conversation. The Giving Gifts podcast hopes that through these conversations we (as a collective of human beings) can see the need and value in our own stories and the stories of others. We know that all stories include suffering and challenges as well as celebration and joy. The Giving Gifts as an organization is committed to creating resources to come alongside people to identify their gift…and when I talk about a gift I am talking about more than just your strengths or what you’re good at. Your gift is a combination of all your strengths and struggles. It is the hope and vision that through conversations like this one we can continue to challenge the conversation around struggling from shame to possibility. You’ll hear how Gabby, Dan, and even my own struggles have to lead to opportunities to acknowledge what we really care about and how we can do that daily. Please please please consider that if you find yourself in a place where you feel alone or isolated and this podcast brings up anything for you that you would like to process that you take in account these extra resources! Cassidy Feder - Cassidy@thegivinggifts.org - 562-618-6364 Gabby Jimmerson - Gabbycounseling@gmail.com - 657-204-5188 - Gabbyjimmerson.com Dan Jimmerson - https://theteenproject.com/veras-sanctuary-2/ - Acoupleofshirnks.com National Crisis (Suicide) Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255) OC WarmLine 714-991-6412 (The OC WarmLine is a free and confidential telephone service providing emotional support and resources to Orange County residents, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.) The book we were talking about is this called: Happier:learning the secret to daily joy, if you want to check it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1652668845664-F3HQPVM8UNR1X0N2IQK1/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates Do you ever find yourself kinda stuck? Maybe you're stuck with some thoughts you can't seem to shake a story you keep telling yourself? Maybe you are holding on to some ideas or beliefs so tightly that it is difficult for you to see or hear anyone who may have different ideas than you. It is so easy to become fixated on something and not even notice. J Steele is a person I gravitate towards when I find myself "stuck". Often guiding me back to curiosity by remaining curious himself. I am pretty excited about how much he shares in this episode because J often asks more questions than he does. I am not saying that curiosity is always easy...you will hear how I was struggling with staying curious leading up to this conversation. May this episode be an invitation to consider curiosity. What the heck does that even mean though? Great question...listen for yourself & let me know what you think...I really am curious P.S. I think this is the funniest cover art yet…like, I was actually laughing out loud by myself spacing his name around his head (The Steele family is a bunch of steel giants in case you didn't know). I hope you enjoy how truly awkward we are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1651464726239-4CYUOQYG3SJ4L279895U/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates In the process of planning Discover:surf I reached out to Vanessa Yeager. Vanessa is life long surfer who has such an incredible heart for inclusivity in the surf community, she is the founder of the Latinx surf community - a group of 2000+ Latin surfers and The Women Who Surf, the biggest surf community for women with over 20,000 women! Vanessa is a wife, a mom, a PE teacher with a heart for special needs, and is to the core everything you would imagine a surfer to embody. Vanessa and I connected over a shared passion for the water and a greater appreciation for everything the water represents. 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Listen to the things spoken and listen for the things unspoken. Consider what you're hearing and notice what your experience is like being the third person in this conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1649050971758-VS8LW3UVXX4SGQ0TDEBR/image.jpg Weekly Updates Do you have a person in your life who is just refreshing to be with? A human who allows you to show up in whatever form you're in and leave a little more whole. A friend who meets you in the darker moments with a soft light…not one of those obnoxious lights that blinds you, more like a night light, guiding you with just enough light to see what's right ahead of you. Heidi Ochoa is kinda like that kind of light and I am confident that this episode of The Giving Gifts Podcast will be illuminate a little hope in whatever it is you're going through right now. Heidi can be found being a light in her home with her husband Lucas (who actually may be in the top ten funniest people I've met), with her bright and just as funny daughter Lily, and of course with the king himself, Dublin. It is because of Dublin I had the gift of connecting with the Ochoa family and it is through Dublin that Heidi found a light in autism. On the side, you can catch Heidi being a bad ass professor at Saddleback College and always an advocate for voices who aren't always being heard. Check out her blog https://www.theautismcollection.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1647848713155-3CBKV97H98QYGC8MW7JT/IMG-7135.jpg Weekly Updates The Giving Gifts Podcast was created to be a place where real people can share real stories as they are navigating how to use their gifts in this world. Rafik Wahbi delivers a very honest, open, raw view into life as an abolitionist and the reality of what it looks like to live a life learning to stand for something. To learn more or connect with Rafik Wahbi follow him on Instagram @rafreaking_wahbi to support him directly he accepts homemade dinners or cash app @Rafik-Wahbi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1646630667482-MBP684WHMCGWC3WA4BEL/IMG_6873.jpg Weekly Updates Kimmy has an autoimmune illness that impacts her day to day, relationships, work, really her whole life. The way that she has allowed her physical health and mental health to be a source a discovering her gift of connection is admirable and it is definitely not at all easy. One thing I really respect about Kimmy is her commitment to show up in celebration and grief sometimes coexisting with one another. Follow her on Instagram @createwithkimmy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1645418896004-FVKMEGUVSVWG6WFLQS46/IMG_6388.jpg Weekly Updates Brad is a writer and poet, the author of "The Art Of Relating", and really just an incredible human with a gift of words and vulnerability. When I think about a person who is committed to digging in deeper to vulnerability for the sake of relating, Brad always comes to mind. I think you'll hear that for yourself right now... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1644256475179-OLA4DC7C254DWJM89Y8D/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates It is so often that we immediately share what a person does rather than who a person is. When I met Deb I knew within minutes that this woman was not simply an owner of a coffee shop. I would come to learn that Deb had a story, deeply rooted in a commitment to connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643586145488-8AWVGR62GQFP5JAYFUZ5/IMG_5264.jpg Weekly Updates I want you to imagine that you're sitting down with two good friends to chat about life...that's really all this episode is and I believe if you really listen there will be something you connect with! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415756755-XDMS9SWGNW08J076ZUCD/IMG_4769.jpg Weekly Updates Julia Rockowitz host the first episode of 2022 as we dive into the new year and the vision for The Giving Gifts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415753271-9WCXK2075COKAJA39SEQ/IMG_4262.jpg Weekly Updates Here’s the thing about Aleena. Aleena is young, wise, and so courageous. Aleena has these gifts rooted in a life that is filled with both hardship and celebration. Aleena has perspective and insight that when the world hears, when people begin to consider, when we slow down enough to understand, we will be transformed. This really is The Giving Gifts. It’s creating a space for Aleena’s story to be shared. Its being transformed into people who care deeply, listen actively, and respond with our actions. Aleena, you are a gift, and this gift you shared will continue to give. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141298-TDX1H81882JRA4T789PG/6.jpg Weekly Updates "Diversity is about being able to recognize that we are different and that there is beauty is in that difference." Regina & Nyasha live and raise their family in Zimbabwe & this conversation is truly so rich with truth and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141089-N76MJV8JMAB2RA42E6UO/5.jpg Weekly Updates An episode that was needed after 4 and before 5, meeting you right in the middle to talk about giving & generosity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140546-0IDANUDIWQJH0725FB7Z/4.jpg Weekly Updates In a world that feels so disconnected, connection is a gift that may be more needed now than perhaps ever before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140590-NFFGP63CPZDR10EAL4MD/3.jpg Weekly Updates Let's talk relationship, a core value of The Giving Gifts, and the very essence of why we all exist! Special episode with Doah Lynd as The Giving Gifts Podcast FIRST guest! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141618-N4FT4NG2PPX7KZ63E9RL/2.jpg Weekly Updates Giving some context to what led to The Giving Gifts with the hopes that if I share my story, you will share yours as well… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080136488-M2VKXIS4CQT5BT4CM5ZU/ep+1.jpg Weekly Updates It is kinda like a pre podcast, the trailer if you will, to what is to come. Ready, excited, and a little scared to begin sharing the vision of The Giving Gifts with you! https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/2022/9/20/virtual-vision-night monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/b91194fc-658a-45f3-85d1-b2deafcc0671/IMG_2862.PNG Weekly Updates - THE GIVING GIFTS VIRTUAL VISION NIGHT This is a VIRTUAL vision night, a short, engaging time, to come together as I share about The Giving Gifts this past year & where we are going from here. I'd be stoked to have you join us! 6:15 PM The zoom room will open 6:30 PM Conversation begins 7:00 PM I’ll wrap up & you can head out 7:00-7:15PM I’ll be on zoom if you have any questions! 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There was and honestly still is this voice in my head that is telling me I need to communicate all of the future plans and try to get you excited and believe in what The Giving Gifts is going to do over the next three months with the desired outcome that you would help or give or at least get it. This episode is not going to really be either of those things because this podcast was never created to be a show and tell of what we can do. This podcast was created to be the why behind what we do. A conversation that digs in deeper to the core of how and why we are here right now on this earth. A process of identifying our gift that is so deeply rooted in who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. What started as a full-circle conversation has actually transformed into a spiral. An upward spiral, an onward process of growing and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1653872672413-U2B7H0GRAT5FZ3RJ19RM/IMG_9578.jpg Weekly Updates The Giving Gifts podcast was created to be a space for people to get to share honestly, without an agenda or a desired outcome, just a space where your experience is important and needed. I wanted this podcast to be an exploration of who a person is, their story, and maybe what they do but more importantly why they do what they do….this episode is a reflection of just that!!! Dan & Gabby Jimmerson are both mental health professionals, parents to their sweet daughter and their sweet pup, a friend to many and best friends to each other. This conversation is one that I have been hoping to have for quite some time and with all of the challenging dynamics of life right now I think it is a very timely and needed conversation. The Giving Gifts podcast hopes that through these conversations we (as a collective of human beings) can see the need and value in our own stories and the stories of others. We know that all stories include suffering and challenges as well as celebration and joy. The Giving Gifts as an organization is committed to creating resources to come alongside people to identify their gift…and when I talk about a gift I am talking about more than just your strengths or what you’re good at. Your gift is a combination of all your strengths and struggles. It is the hope and vision that through conversations like this one we can continue to challenge the conversation around struggling from shame to possibility. You’ll hear how Gabby, Dan, and even my own struggles have to lead to opportunities to acknowledge what we really care about and how we can do that daily. Please please please consider that if you find yourself in a place where you feel alone or isolated and this podcast brings up anything for you that you would like to process that you take in account these extra resources! Cassidy Feder - Cassidy@thegivinggifts.org - 562-618-6364 Gabby Jimmerson - Gabbycounseling@gmail.com - 657-204-5188 - Gabbyjimmerson.com Dan Jimmerson - https://theteenproject.com/veras-sanctuary-2/ - Acoupleofshirnks.com National Crisis (Suicide) Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255) OC WarmLine 714-991-6412 (The OC WarmLine is a free and confidential telephone service providing emotional support and resources to Orange County residents, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.) The book we were talking about is this called: Happier:learning the secret to daily joy, if you want to check it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1652668845664-F3HQPVM8UNR1X0N2IQK1/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates Do you ever find yourself kinda stuck? Maybe you're stuck with some thoughts you can't seem to shake a story you keep telling yourself? Maybe you are holding on to some ideas or beliefs so tightly that it is difficult for you to see or hear anyone who may have different ideas than you. It is so easy to become fixated on something and not even notice. J Steele is a person I gravitate towards when I find myself "stuck". Often guiding me back to curiosity by remaining curious himself. I am pretty excited about how much he shares in this episode because J often asks more questions than he does. I am not saying that curiosity is always easy...you will hear how I was struggling with staying curious leading up to this conversation. May this episode be an invitation to consider curiosity. What the heck does that even mean though? Great question...listen for yourself & let me know what you think...I really am curious P.S. I think this is the funniest cover art yet…like, I was actually laughing out loud by myself spacing his name around his head (The Steele family is a bunch of steel giants in case you didn't know). I hope you enjoy how truly awkward we are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1651464726239-4CYUOQYG3SJ4L279895U/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates In the process of planning Discover:surf I reached out to Vanessa Yeager. Vanessa is life long surfer who has such an incredible heart for inclusivity in the surf community, she is the founder of the Latinx surf community - a group of 2000+ Latin surfers and The Women Who Surf, the biggest surf community for women with over 20,000 women! Vanessa is a wife, a mom, a PE teacher with a heart for special needs, and is to the core everything you would imagine a surfer to embody. Vanessa and I connected over a shared passion for the water and a greater appreciation for everything the water represents. The ocean is a connecting force. Connecting land, connecting people, connecting stories, connecting body soul mind… After talking for a few days on Instagram Vanessa told me just call her and we talked for an hour, connecting over how surfing has impacted us individually, how we both have a desire to create space for others who may not always be included. At the end of the conversation, I told Vanessa I was bummed I didn’t record the call because it really was one of the sweetest chats I have had with a pretty much complete stranger so she invited me to join her at the beach that weekend and record our conversation in her van. I love this because you’re going to hear motorcycles and people waiting at the van to say hi. If you listen closely you’ll hear the waves and if you put on your imagination cap you can just imagine that you’re right there with us! @vanessayeager @womenwhosurf_ @latinxsurfclub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1650871444657-7PWEMPZ0KNNBJPY910SN/IMG_8168.jpg Weekly Updates Do you ever find it difficult to listen? Like to really listen…not just to hear something but to actually listen to something or someone? Oksana has been committed to learning to listen pretty much her whole life. With English not being her first language, Oksana was not only learning to listen for herself but also for those in this world who could not always understand what they were hearing. What if learning to listen could actually change how we relate, how we connect?! If you take the 34 minutes to listen to this episode, which I really really hope you do, I encourage you to not only listen to the words…continue to listen in the moments where there is a pause. Listen to the things spoken and listen for the things unspoken. Consider what you're hearing and notice what your experience is like being the third person in this conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1649050971758-VS8LW3UVXX4SGQ0TDEBR/image.jpg Weekly Updates Do you have a person in your life who is just refreshing to be with? A human who allows you to show up in whatever form you're in and leave a little more whole. A friend who meets you in the darker moments with a soft light…not one of those obnoxious lights that blinds you, more like a night light, guiding you with just enough light to see what's right ahead of you. Heidi Ochoa is kinda like that kind of light and I am confident that this episode of The Giving Gifts Podcast will be illuminate a little hope in whatever it is you're going through right now. Heidi can be found being a light in her home with her husband Lucas (who actually may be in the top ten funniest people I've met), with her bright and just as funny daughter Lily, and of course with the king himself, Dublin. It is because of Dublin I had the gift of connecting with the Ochoa family and it is through Dublin that Heidi found a light in autism. On the side, you can catch Heidi being a bad ass professor at Saddleback College and always an advocate for voices who aren't always being heard. Check out her blog https://www.theautismcollection.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1647848713155-3CBKV97H98QYGC8MW7JT/IMG-7135.jpg Weekly Updates The Giving Gifts Podcast was created to be a place where real people can share real stories as they are navigating how to use their gifts in this world. Rafik Wahbi delivers a very honest, open, raw view into life as an abolitionist and the reality of what it looks like to live a life learning to stand for something. To learn more or connect with Rafik Wahbi follow him on Instagram @rafreaking_wahbi to support him directly he accepts homemade dinners or cash app @Rafik-Wahbi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1646630667482-MBP684WHMCGWC3WA4BEL/IMG_6873.jpg Weekly Updates Kimmy has an autoimmune illness that impacts her day to day, relationships, work, really her whole life. The way that she has allowed her physical health and mental health to be a source a discovering her gift of connection is admirable and it is definitely not at all easy. One thing I really respect about Kimmy is her commitment to show up in celebration and grief sometimes coexisting with one another. Follow her on Instagram @createwithkimmy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1645418896004-FVKMEGUVSVWG6WFLQS46/IMG_6388.jpg Weekly Updates Brad is a writer and poet, the author of "The Art Of Relating", and really just an incredible human with a gift of words and vulnerability. When I think about a person who is committed to digging in deeper to vulnerability for the sake of relating, Brad always comes to mind. I think you'll hear that for yourself right now... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1644256475179-OLA4DC7C254DWJM89Y8D/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates It is so often that we immediately share what a person does rather than who a person is. When I met Deb I knew within minutes that this woman was not simply an owner of a coffee shop. I would come to learn that Deb had a story, deeply rooted in a commitment to connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643586145488-8AWVGR62GQFP5JAYFUZ5/IMG_5264.jpg Weekly Updates I want you to imagine that you're sitting down with two good friends to chat about life...that's really all this episode is and I believe if you really listen there will be something you connect with! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415756755-XDMS9SWGNW08J076ZUCD/IMG_4769.jpg Weekly Updates Julia Rockowitz host the first episode of 2022 as we dive into the new year and the vision for The Giving Gifts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415753271-9WCXK2075COKAJA39SEQ/IMG_4262.jpg Weekly Updates Here’s the thing about Aleena. Aleena is young, wise, and so courageous. Aleena has these gifts rooted in a life that is filled with both hardship and celebration. Aleena has perspective and insight that when the world hears, when people begin to consider, when we slow down enough to understand, we will be transformed. This really is The Giving Gifts. It’s creating a space for Aleena’s story to be shared. Its being transformed into people who care deeply, listen actively, and respond with our actions. Aleena, you are a gift, and this gift you shared will continue to give. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141298-TDX1H81882JRA4T789PG/6.jpg Weekly Updates "Diversity is about being able to recognize that we are different and that there is beauty is in that difference." Regina & Nyasha live and raise their family in Zimbabwe & this conversation is truly so rich with truth and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141089-N76MJV8JMAB2RA42E6UO/5.jpg Weekly Updates An episode that was needed after 4 and before 5, meeting you right in the middle to talk about giving & generosity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140546-0IDANUDIWQJH0725FB7Z/4.jpg Weekly Updates In a world that feels so disconnected, connection is a gift that may be more needed now than perhaps ever before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140590-NFFGP63CPZDR10EAL4MD/3.jpg Weekly Updates Let's talk relationship, a core value of The Giving Gifts, and the very essence of why we all exist! Special episode with Doah Lynd as The Giving Gifts Podcast FIRST guest! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141618-N4FT4NG2PPX7KZ63E9RL/2.jpg Weekly Updates Giving some context to what led to The Giving Gifts with the hopes that if I share my story, you will share yours as well… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080136488-M2VKXIS4CQT5BT4CM5ZU/ep+1.jpg Weekly Updates It is kinda like a pre podcast, the trailer if you will, to what is to come. 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To wrap up season 2 I thought about just sharing all of the things The Giving Gifts as an organization has accomplished, all the ways the organization and myself have failed, learned, and what has been done because there is actually quite a bit. There was and honestly still is this voice in my head that is telling me I need to communicate all of the future plans and try to get you excited and believe in what The Giving Gifts is going to do over the next three months with the desired outcome that you would help or give or at least get it. This episode is not going to really be either of those things because this podcast was never created to be a show and tell of what we can do. This podcast was created to be the why behind what we do. A conversation that digs in deeper to the core of how and why we are here right now on this earth. A process of identifying our gift that is so deeply rooted in who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. What started as a full-circle conversation has actually transformed into a spiral. An upward spiral, an onward process of growing and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1653872672413-U2B7H0GRAT5FZ3RJ19RM/IMG_9578.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... The Giving Gifts podcast was created to be a space for people to get to share honestly, without an agenda or a desired outcome, just a space where your experience is important and needed. I wanted this podcast to be an exploration of who a person is, their story, and maybe what they do but more importantly why they do what they do….this episode is a reflection of just that!!! Dan & Gabby Jimmerson are both mental health professionals, parents to their sweet daughter and their sweet pup, a friend to many and best friends to each other. This conversation is one that I have been hoping to have for quite some time and with all of the challenging dynamics of life right now I think it is a very timely and needed conversation. The Giving Gifts podcast hopes that through these conversations we (as a collective of human beings) can see the need and value in our own stories and the stories of others. We know that all stories include suffering and challenges as well as celebration and joy. The Giving Gifts as an organization is committed to creating resources to come alongside people to identify their gift…and when I talk about a gift I am talking about more than just your strengths or what you’re good at. Your gift is a combination of all your strengths and struggles. It is the hope and vision that through conversations like this one we can continue to challenge the conversation around struggling from shame to possibility. You’ll hear how Gabby, Dan, and even my own struggles have to lead to opportunities to acknowledge what we really care about and how we can do that daily. Please please please consider that if you find yourself in a place where you feel alone or isolated and this podcast brings up anything for you that you would like to process that you take in account these extra resources! Cassidy Feder - Cassidy@thegivinggifts.org - 562-618-6364 Gabby Jimmerson - Gabbycounseling@gmail.com - 657-204-5188 - Gabbyjimmerson.com Dan Jimmerson - https://theteenproject.com/veras-sanctuary-2/ - Acoupleofshirnks.com National Crisis (Suicide) Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255) OC WarmLine 714-991-6412 (The OC WarmLine is a free and confidential telephone service providing emotional support and resources to Orange County residents, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.) The book we were talking about is this called: Happier:learning the secret to daily joy, if you want to check it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1652668845664-F3HQPVM8UNR1X0N2IQK1/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Do you ever find yourself kinda stuck? Maybe you're stuck with some thoughts you can't seem to shake a story you keep telling yourself? Maybe you are holding on to some ideas or beliefs so tightly that it is difficult for you to see or hear anyone who may have different ideas than you. It is so easy to become fixated on something and not even notice. J Steele is a person I gravitate towards when I find myself "stuck". Often guiding me back to curiosity by remaining curious himself. I am pretty excited about how much he shares in this episode because J often asks more questions than he does. I am not saying that curiosity is always easy...you will hear how I was struggling with staying curious leading up to this conversation. May this episode be an invitation to consider curiosity. What the heck does that even mean though? Great question...listen for yourself & let me know what you think...I really am curious P.S. I think this is the funniest cover art yet…like, I was actually laughing out loud by myself spacing his name around his head (The Steele family is a bunch of steel giants in case you didn't know). I hope you enjoy how truly awkward we are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1651464726239-4CYUOQYG3SJ4L279895U/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... In the process of planning Discover:surf I reached out to Vanessa Yeager. Vanessa is life long surfer who has such an incredible heart for inclusivity in the surf community, she is the founder of the Latinx surf community - a group of 2000+ Latin surfers and The Women Who Surf, the biggest surf community for women with over 20,000 women! Vanessa is a wife, a mom, a PE teacher with a heart for special needs, and is to the core everything you would imagine a surfer to embody. Vanessa and I connected over a shared passion for the water and a greater appreciation for everything the water represents. The ocean is a connecting force. Connecting land, connecting people, connecting stories, connecting body soul mind… After talking for a few days on Instagram Vanessa told me just call her and we talked for an hour, connecting over how surfing has impacted us individually, how we both have a desire to create space for others who may not always be included. At the end of the conversation, I told Vanessa I was bummed I didn’t record the call because it really was one of the sweetest chats I have had with a pretty much complete stranger so she invited me to join her at the beach that weekend and record our conversation in her van. I love this because you’re going to hear motorcycles and people waiting at the van to say hi. If you listen closely you’ll hear the waves and if you put on your imagination cap you can just imagine that you’re right there with us! @vanessayeager @womenwhosurf_ @latinxsurfclub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1650871444657-7PWEMPZ0KNNBJPY910SN/IMG_8168.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Do you ever find it difficult to listen? Like to really listen…not just to hear something but to actually listen to something or someone? Oksana has been committed to learning to listen pretty much her whole life. With English not being her first language, Oksana was not only learning to listen for herself but also for those in this world who could not always understand what they were hearing. What if learning to listen could actually change how we relate, how we connect?! If you take the 34 minutes to listen to this episode, which I really really hope you do, I encourage you to not only listen to the words…continue to listen in the moments where there is a pause. Listen to the things spoken and listen for the things unspoken. Consider what you're hearing and notice what your experience is like being the third person in this conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1649050971758-VS8LW3UVXX4SGQ0TDEBR/image.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Do you have a person in your life who is just refreshing to be with? A human who allows you to show up in whatever form you're in and leave a little more whole. A friend who meets you in the darker moments with a soft light…not one of those obnoxious lights that blinds you, more like a night light, guiding you with just enough light to see what's right ahead of you. Heidi Ochoa is kinda like that kind of light and I am confident that this episode of The Giving Gifts Podcast will be illuminate a little hope in whatever it is you're going through right now. Heidi can be found being a light in her home with her husband Lucas (who actually may be in the top ten funniest people I've met), with her bright and just as funny daughter Lily, and of course with the king himself, Dublin. It is because of Dublin I had the gift of connecting with the Ochoa family and it is through Dublin that Heidi found a light in autism. On the side, you can catch Heidi being a bad ass professor at Saddleback College and always an advocate for voices who aren't always being heard. Check out her blog https://www.theautismcollection.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1647848713155-3CBKV97H98QYGC8MW7JT/IMG-7135.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... The Giving Gifts Podcast was created to be a place where real people can share real stories as they are navigating how to use their gifts in this world. Rafik Wahbi delivers a very honest, open, raw view into life as an abolitionist and the reality of what it looks like to live a life learning to stand for something. To learn more or connect with Rafik Wahbi follow him on Instagram @rafreaking_wahbi to support him directly he accepts homemade dinners or cash app @Rafik-Wahbi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1646630667482-MBP684WHMCGWC3WA4BEL/IMG_6873.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Kimmy has an autoimmune illness that impacts her day to day, relationships, work, really her whole life. The way that she has allowed her physical health and mental health to be a source a discovering her gift of connection is admirable and it is definitely not at all easy. One thing I really respect about Kimmy is her commitment to show up in celebration and grief sometimes coexisting with one another. Follow her on Instagram @createwithkimmy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1645418896004-FVKMEGUVSVWG6WFLQS46/IMG_6388.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Brad is a writer and poet, the author of "The Art Of Relating", and really just an incredible human with a gift of words and vulnerability. When I think about a person who is committed to digging in deeper to vulnerability for the sake of relating, Brad always comes to mind. I think you'll hear that for yourself right now... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1644256475179-OLA4DC7C254DWJM89Y8D/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... It is so often that we immediately share what a person does rather than who a person is. When I met Deb I knew within minutes that this woman was not simply an owner of a coffee shop. I would come to learn that Deb had a story, deeply rooted in a commitment to connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643586145488-8AWVGR62GQFP5JAYFUZ5/IMG_5264.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... I want you to imagine that you're sitting down with two good friends to chat about life...that's really all this episode is and I believe if you really listen there will be something you connect with! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415756755-XDMS9SWGNW08J076ZUCD/IMG_4769.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Julia Rockowitz host the first episode of 2022 as we dive into the new year and the vision for The Giving Gifts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415753271-9WCXK2075COKAJA39SEQ/IMG_4262.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Here’s the thing about Aleena. Aleena is young, wise, and so courageous. Aleena has these gifts rooted in a life that is filled with both hardship and celebration. Aleena has perspective and insight that when the world hears, when people begin to consider, when we slow down enough to understand, we will be transformed. This really is The Giving Gifts. It’s creating a space for Aleena’s story to be shared. Its being transformed into people who care deeply, listen actively, and respond with our actions. Aleena, you are a gift, and this gift you shared will continue to give. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141298-TDX1H81882JRA4T789PG/6.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... "Diversity is about being able to recognize that we are different and that there is beauty is in that difference." Regina & Nyasha live and raise their family in Zimbabwe & this conversation is truly so rich with truth and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141089-N76MJV8JMAB2RA42E6UO/5.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... An episode that was needed after 4 and before 5, meeting you right in the middle to talk about giving & generosity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140546-0IDANUDIWQJH0725FB7Z/4.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... In a world that feels so disconnected, connection is a gift that may be more needed now than perhaps ever before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140590-NFFGP63CPZDR10EAL4MD/3.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Let's talk relationship, a core value of The Giving Gifts, and the very essence of why we all exist! Special episode with Doah Lynd as The Giving Gifts Podcast FIRST guest! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141618-N4FT4NG2PPX7KZ63E9RL/2.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... Giving some context to what led to The Giving Gifts with the hopes that if I share my story, you will share yours as well… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080136488-M2VKXIS4CQT5BT4CM5ZU/ep+1.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... It is kinda like a pre podcast, the trailer if you will, to what is to come. Ready, excited, and a little scared to begin sharing the vision of The Giving Gifts with you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1662422905754-OVI2MGSZZTWWXLVKO2HA/IMG_2725.PNG Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1662422921126-W03P97A0I7GVM2VR5ZKK/IMG_2062.jpg Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1662420889911-9AVI013ZGQZ1C795XQ9N/logo.png Weekly Updates - Quality AND Accessibility... - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thegivinggifts.org/weeklyupdates/makingtheconnection monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1661214814094-ZVBYNJLKNUMC9S3EHBGB/Connection.png Weekly Updates - Making the connection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1661214814876-RUPQ09OZEHLU8RQZC4UP/Diversity.png Weekly Updates - Making the connection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1661214815888-P767WCL8RNGZAJ49W6SM/Relationships.png Weekly Updates - Making the connection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1661214817151-GPOPGFOSN6NATYPHC6GA/Sustainability.png Weekly Updates - Making the connection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1661214817150-4RLLKL95IPW682OF3Q7Z/Transformation.png Weekly Updates - Making the connection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/8fb8b9ce-6ffa-48f1-9c89-6b8a47851eb3/IMG-1383.PNG Weekly Updates - Making the connection - The Giving Gifts Podcast Season Three is currently in process of being recorded right now! This season is a deep dive into some incredibly impactful stories that I could not be more excited to get to share with you! The Impact: 12 people are going to get to explore and share their diverse stories. 1000’s are going to get to hear these stories. The Giving Gifts Podcast has currently been listened to in over 34 Countries. The impact here is honestly endless!!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1227b000-2fc9-48cf-8441-a2c080fdfe74/logo.png Weekly Updates - Making the connection - Creative Tides Relaunch This September Creative Tides, a social impact events business, will relaunch! Creative Tides is a dynamic company with a unique model that is centered around impact and will directly impact The Giving Gifts, all the while bringing forth The Giving Gifts vision in the event industry! Impact: 7 people will be part of Creative Tides team and are committed to a year of exploring their unique gifts as they connect with individuals through events. Creative Tides planning process has potential to impact 1000’s of people all over the world through a planning process that challenges consumerism and supports mental, emotional, spiritual, relational wellness. Creative Tides is a global brand and is bringing on an incredibly talented coordinator right here in Mexico, bringing together local vendors and businesses, and sharing that with the rest of the world! Creative Tides has ENDLESS amount of growth opportunity & the more Creative Tides grows…the more impact The Giving Gifts will continue to have! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/ecc26153-d304-4dfd-a08c-d5a886c90a34/IMG_2062.jpg Weekly Updates - Making the connection - Shellebrate Shellebrate is well on its way to going to print this fall! Guadalupe Alonso is an incredibly talented artist who grew up here in Ensenada, MX. Guadalupe took the time to listen to the vision I had for Shellebrate and has gone above and beyond to make those ideas come to life. I CAN NOT WAIT TO SHARE THIS BOOK WITH THE WORLD! Impact: This story holds so many dynamics. Kiddos & families everywhere will have the opportunity to engage with a story about “shellebrating” diversity and each other. Guadalupes story and gift will be shared through the book! Each and every book will continue to create impact as a portion of the profits will go directly back into The Giving Gifts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/92cb58cb-3072-4ba0-ad69-00e7bd568aff/GoDaddyStudioPage-0+%284%29.png Weekly Updates - Making the connection - DISCOVER:Ensenada As you all know Discover:Surf was The Giving Gifts first program that launched this past May. It was an incredible opportunity to really learn and develop the foundation to some much needed research when it comes to creating tools, that are rooted in trauma care, for young people who are seeking to identify their gifts. There has been an incredible opportunity to partner with some local organizations RIGHT HERE in Ensenada to share this program and continue our research. Impact: The goal is to create 3-4 Discover Programs, serving 60-80 young people here in Ensenada! 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There was and honestly still is this voice in my head that is telling me I need to communicate all of the future plans and try to get you excited and believe in what The Giving Gifts is going to do over the next three months with the desired outcome that you would help or give or at least get it. This episode is not going to really be either of those things because this podcast was never created to be a show and tell of what we can do. This podcast was created to be the why behind what we do. A conversation that digs in deeper to the core of how and why we are here right now on this earth. A process of identifying our gift that is so deeply rooted in who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. What started as a full-circle conversation has actually transformed into a spiral. An upward spiral, an onward process of growing and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1653872672413-U2B7H0GRAT5FZ3RJ19RM/IMG_9578.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship The Giving Gifts podcast was created to be a space for people to get to share honestly, without an agenda or a desired outcome, just a space where your experience is important and needed. I wanted this podcast to be an exploration of who a person is, their story, and maybe what they do but more importantly why they do what they do….this episode is a reflection of just that!!! Dan & Gabby Jimmerson are both mental health professionals, parents to their sweet daughter and their sweet pup, a friend to many and best friends to each other. This conversation is one that I have been hoping to have for quite some time and with all of the challenging dynamics of life right now I think it is a very timely and needed conversation. The Giving Gifts podcast hopes that through these conversations we (as a collective of human beings) can see the need and value in our own stories and the stories of others. We know that all stories include suffering and challenges as well as celebration and joy. The Giving Gifts as an organization is committed to creating resources to come alongside people to identify their gift…and when I talk about a gift I am talking about more than just your strengths or what you’re good at. Your gift is a combination of all your strengths and struggles. It is the hope and vision that through conversations like this one we can continue to challenge the conversation around struggling from shame to possibility. You’ll hear how Gabby, Dan, and even my own struggles have to lead to opportunities to acknowledge what we really care about and how we can do that daily. Please please please consider that if you find yourself in a place where you feel alone or isolated and this podcast brings up anything for you that you would like to process that you take in account these extra resources! Cassidy Feder - Cassidy@thegivinggifts.org - 562-618-6364 Gabby Jimmerson - Gabbycounseling@gmail.com - 657-204-5188 - Gabbyjimmerson.com Dan Jimmerson - https://theteenproject.com/veras-sanctuary-2/ - Acoupleofshirnks.com National Crisis (Suicide) Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255) OC WarmLine 714-991-6412 (The OC WarmLine is a free and confidential telephone service providing emotional support and resources to Orange County residents, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.) The book we were talking about is this called: Happier:learning the secret to daily joy, if you want to check it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1652668845664-F3HQPVM8UNR1X0N2IQK1/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates - Relationship Do you ever find yourself kinda stuck? Maybe you're stuck with some thoughts you can't seem to shake a story you keep telling yourself? Maybe you are holding on to some ideas or beliefs so tightly that it is difficult for you to see or hear anyone who may have different ideas than you. It is so easy to become fixated on something and not even notice. J Steele is a person I gravitate towards when I find myself "stuck". Often guiding me back to curiosity by remaining curious himself. I am pretty excited about how much he shares in this episode because J often asks more questions than he does. I am not saying that curiosity is always easy...you will hear how I was struggling with staying curious leading up to this conversation. May this episode be an invitation to consider curiosity. What the heck does that even mean though? Great question...listen for yourself & let me know what you think...I really am curious P.S. I think this is the funniest cover art yet…like, I was actually laughing out loud by myself spacing his name around his head (The Steele family is a bunch of steel giants in case you didn't know). I hope you enjoy how truly awkward we are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1651464726239-4CYUOQYG3SJ4L279895U/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates - Relationship In the process of planning Discover:surf I reached out to Vanessa Yeager. 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A friend who meets you in the darker moments with a soft light…not one of those obnoxious lights that blinds you, more like a night light, guiding you with just enough light to see what's right ahead of you. Heidi Ochoa is kinda like that kind of light and I am confident that this episode of The Giving Gifts Podcast will be illuminate a little hope in whatever it is you're going through right now. Heidi can be found being a light in her home with her husband Lucas (who actually may be in the top ten funniest people I've met), with her bright and just as funny daughter Lily, and of course with the king himself, Dublin. It is because of Dublin I had the gift of connecting with the Ochoa family and it is through Dublin that Heidi found a light in autism. On the side, you can catch Heidi being a bad ass professor at Saddleback College and always an advocate for voices who aren't always being heard. Check out her blog https://www.theautismcollection.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1647848713155-3CBKV97H98QYGC8MW7JT/IMG-7135.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship The Giving Gifts Podcast was created to be a place where real people can share real stories as they are navigating how to use their gifts in this world. Rafik Wahbi delivers a very honest, open, raw view into life as an abolitionist and the reality of what it looks like to live a life learning to stand for something. To learn more or connect with Rafik Wahbi follow him on Instagram @rafreaking_wahbi to support him directly he accepts homemade dinners or cash app @Rafik-Wahbi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1646630667482-MBP684WHMCGWC3WA4BEL/IMG_6873.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship Kimmy has an autoimmune illness that impacts her day to day, relationships, work, really her whole life. 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I think you'll hear that for yourself right now... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1644256475179-OLA4DC7C254DWJM89Y8D/image-asset.jpeg Weekly Updates - Relationship It is so often that we immediately share what a person does rather than who a person is. When I met Deb I knew within minutes that this woman was not simply an owner of a coffee shop. I would come to learn that Deb had a story, deeply rooted in a commitment to connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643586145488-8AWVGR62GQFP5JAYFUZ5/IMG_5264.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship I want you to imagine that you're sitting down with two good friends to chat about life...that's really all this episode is and I believe if you really listen there will be something you connect with! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415756755-XDMS9SWGNW08J076ZUCD/IMG_4769.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship Julia Rockowitz host the first episode of 2022 as we dive into the new year and the vision for The Giving Gifts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415753271-9WCXK2075COKAJA39SEQ/IMG_4262.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship Here’s the thing about Aleena. Aleena is young, wise, and so courageous. Aleena has these gifts rooted in a life that is filled with both hardship and celebration. Aleena has perspective and insight that when the world hears, when people begin to consider, when we slow down enough to understand, we will be transformed. This really is The Giving Gifts. It’s creating a space for Aleena’s story to be shared. Its being transformed into people who care deeply, listen actively, and respond with our actions. Aleena, you are a gift, and this gift you shared will continue to give. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141298-TDX1H81882JRA4T789PG/6.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship "Diversity is about being able to recognize that we are different and that there is beauty is in that difference." Regina & Nyasha live and raise their family in Zimbabwe & this conversation is truly so rich with truth and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141089-N76MJV8JMAB2RA42E6UO/5.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship An episode that was needed after 4 and before 5, meeting you right in the middle to talk about giving & generosity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140546-0IDANUDIWQJH0725FB7Z/4.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship In a world that feels so disconnected, connection is a gift that may be more needed now than perhaps ever before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140590-NFFGP63CPZDR10EAL4MD/3.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship Let's talk relationship, a core value of The Giving Gifts, and the very essence of why we all exist! Special episode with Doah Lynd as The Giving Gifts Podcast FIRST guest! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141618-N4FT4NG2PPX7KZ63E9RL/2.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship Giving some context to what led to The Giving Gifts with the hopes that if I share my story, you will share yours as well… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080136488-M2VKXIS4CQT5BT4CM5ZU/ep+1.jpg Weekly Updates - Relationship It is kinda like a pre podcast, the trailer if you will, to what is to come. 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There was and honestly still is this voice in my head that is telling me I need to communicate all of the future plans and try to get you excited and believe in what The Giving Gifts is going to do over the next three months with the desired outcome that you would help or give or at least get it. This episode is not going to really be either of those things because this podcast was never created to be a show and tell of what we can do. This podcast was created to be the why behind what we do. A conversation that digs in deeper to the core of how and why we are here right now on this earth. A process of identifying our gift that is so deeply rooted in who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. What started as a full-circle conversation has actually transformed into a spiral. An upward spiral, an onward process of growing and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1653872672413-U2B7H0GRAT5FZ3RJ19RM/IMG_9578.jpg Talk To Us The Giving Gifts podcast was created to be a space for people to get to share honestly, without an agenda or a desired outcome, just a space where your experience is important and needed. I wanted this podcast to be an exploration of who a person is, their story, and maybe what they do but more importantly why they do what they do….this episode is a reflection of just that!!! Dan & Gabby Jimmerson are both mental health professionals, parents to their sweet daughter and their sweet pup, a friend to many and best friends to each other. This conversation is one that I have been hoping to have for quite some time and with all of the challenging dynamics of life right now I think it is a very timely and needed conversation. The Giving Gifts podcast hopes that through these conversations we (as a collective of human beings) can see the need and value in our own stories and the stories of others. We know that all stories include suffering and challenges as well as celebration and joy. The Giving Gifts as an organization is committed to creating resources to come alongside people to identify their gift…and when I talk about a gift I am talking about more than just your strengths or what you’re good at. Your gift is a combination of all your strengths and struggles. It is the hope and vision that through conversations like this one we can continue to challenge the conversation around struggling from shame to possibility. You’ll hear how Gabby, Dan, and even my own struggles have to lead to opportunities to acknowledge what we really care about and how we can do that daily. Please please please consider that if you find yourself in a place where you feel alone or isolated and this podcast brings up anything for you that you would like to process that you take in account these extra resources! Cassidy Feder - Cassidy@thegivinggifts.org - 562-618-6364 Gabby Jimmerson - Gabbycounseling@gmail.com - 657-204-5188 - Gabbyjimmerson.com Dan Jimmerson - https://theteenproject.com/veras-sanctuary-2/ - Acoupleofshirnks.com National Crisis (Suicide) Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255) OC WarmLine 714-991-6412 (The OC WarmLine is a free and confidential telephone service providing emotional support and resources to Orange County residents, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.) The book we were talking about is this called: Happier:learning the secret to daily joy, if you want to check it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1652668845664-F3HQPVM8UNR1X0N2IQK1/image-asset.jpeg Talk To Us Do you ever find yourself kinda stuck? Maybe you're stuck with some thoughts you can't seem to shake a story you keep telling yourself? Maybe you are holding on to some ideas or beliefs so tightly that it is difficult for you to see or hear anyone who may have different ideas than you. It is so easy to become fixated on something and not even notice. J Steele is a person I gravitate towards when I find myself "stuck". Often guiding me back to curiosity by remaining curious himself. I am pretty excited about how much he shares in this episode because J often asks more questions than he does. I am not saying that curiosity is always easy...you will hear how I was struggling with staying curious leading up to this conversation. May this episode be an invitation to consider curiosity. What the heck does that even mean though? Great question...listen for yourself & let me know what you think...I really am curious P.S. I think this is the funniest cover art yet…like, I was actually laughing out loud by myself spacing his name around his head (The Steele family is a bunch of steel giants in case you didn't know). I hope you enjoy how truly awkward we are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1651464726239-4CYUOQYG3SJ4L279895U/image-asset.jpeg Talk To Us In the process of planning Discover:surf I reached out to Vanessa Yeager. Vanessa is life long surfer who has such an incredible heart for inclusivity in the surf community, she is the founder of the Latinx surf community - a group of 2000+ Latin surfers and The Women Who Surf, the biggest surf community for women with over 20,000 women! Vanessa is a wife, a mom, a PE teacher with a heart for special needs, and is to the core everything you would imagine a surfer to embody. Vanessa and I connected over a shared passion for the water and a greater appreciation for everything the water represents. The ocean is a connecting force. Connecting land, connecting people, connecting stories, connecting body soul mind… After talking for a few days on Instagram Vanessa told me just call her and we talked for an hour, connecting over how surfing has impacted us individually, how we both have a desire to create space for others who may not always be included. At the end of the conversation, I told Vanessa I was bummed I didn’t record the call because it really was one of the sweetest chats I have had with a pretty much complete stranger so she invited me to join her at the beach that weekend and record our conversation in her van. I love this because you’re going to hear motorcycles and people waiting at the van to say hi. If you listen closely you’ll hear the waves and if you put on your imagination cap you can just imagine that you’re right there with us! @vanessayeager @womenwhosurf_ @latinxsurfclub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1650871444657-7PWEMPZ0KNNBJPY910SN/IMG_8168.jpg Talk To Us Do you ever find it difficult to listen? Like to really listen…not just to hear something but to actually listen to something or someone? Oksana has been committed to learning to listen pretty much her whole life. With English not being her first language, Oksana was not only learning to listen for herself but also for those in this world who could not always understand what they were hearing. What if learning to listen could actually change how we relate, how we connect?! If you take the 34 minutes to listen to this episode, which I really really hope you do, I encourage you to not only listen to the words…continue to listen in the moments where there is a pause. Listen to the things spoken and listen for the things unspoken. Consider what you're hearing and notice what your experience is like being the third person in this conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1649050971758-VS8LW3UVXX4SGQ0TDEBR/image.jpg Talk To Us Do you have a person in your life who is just refreshing to be with? A human who allows you to show up in whatever form you're in and leave a little more whole. A friend who meets you in the darker moments with a soft light…not one of those obnoxious lights that blinds you, more like a night light, guiding you with just enough light to see what's right ahead of you. Heidi Ochoa is kinda like that kind of light and I am confident that this episode of The Giving Gifts Podcast will be illuminate a little hope in whatever it is you're going through right now. Heidi can be found being a light in her home with her husband Lucas (who actually may be in the top ten funniest people I've met), with her bright and just as funny daughter Lily, and of course with the king himself, Dublin. It is because of Dublin I had the gift of connecting with the Ochoa family and it is through Dublin that Heidi found a light in autism. On the side, you can catch Heidi being a bad ass professor at Saddleback College and always an advocate for voices who aren't always being heard. Check out her blog https://www.theautismcollection.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1647848713155-3CBKV97H98QYGC8MW7JT/IMG-7135.jpg Talk To Us The Giving Gifts Podcast was created to be a place where real people can share real stories as they are navigating how to use their gifts in this world. Rafik Wahbi delivers a very honest, open, raw view into life as an abolitionist and the reality of what it looks like to live a life learning to stand for something. To learn more or connect with Rafik Wahbi follow him on Instagram @rafreaking_wahbi to support him directly he accepts homemade dinners or cash app @Rafik-Wahbi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1646630667482-MBP684WHMCGWC3WA4BEL/IMG_6873.jpg Talk To Us Kimmy has an autoimmune illness that impacts her day to day, relationships, work, really her whole life. The way that she has allowed her physical health and mental health to be a source a discovering her gift of connection is admirable and it is definitely not at all easy. One thing I really respect about Kimmy is her commitment to show up in celebration and grief sometimes coexisting with one another. Follow her on Instagram @createwithkimmy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1645418896004-FVKMEGUVSVWG6WFLQS46/IMG_6388.jpg Talk To Us Brad is a writer and poet, the author of "The Art Of Relating", and really just an incredible human with a gift of words and vulnerability. When I think about a person who is committed to digging in deeper to vulnerability for the sake of relating, Brad always comes to mind. I think you'll hear that for yourself right now... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1644256475179-OLA4DC7C254DWJM89Y8D/image-asset.jpeg Talk To Us It is so often that we immediately share what a person does rather than who a person is. When I met Deb I knew within minutes that this woman was not simply an owner of a coffee shop. I would come to learn that Deb had a story, deeply rooted in a commitment to connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643586145488-8AWVGR62GQFP5JAYFUZ5/IMG_5264.jpg Talk To Us I want you to imagine that you're sitting down with two good friends to chat about life...that's really all this episode is and I believe if you really listen there will be something you connect with! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415756755-XDMS9SWGNW08J076ZUCD/IMG_4769.jpg Talk To Us Julia Rockowitz host the first episode of 2022 as we dive into the new year and the vision for The Giving Gifts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415753271-9WCXK2075COKAJA39SEQ/IMG_4262.jpg Talk To Us Here’s the thing about Aleena. Aleena is young, wise, and so courageous. Aleena has these gifts rooted in a life that is filled with both hardship and celebration. Aleena has perspective and insight that when the world hears, when people begin to consider, when we slow down enough to understand, we will be transformed. This really is The Giving Gifts. It’s creating a space for Aleena’s story to be shared. Its being transformed into people who care deeply, listen actively, and respond with our actions. Aleena, you are a gift, and this gift you shared will continue to give. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141298-TDX1H81882JRA4T789PG/6.jpg Talk To Us "Diversity is about being able to recognize that we are different and that there is beauty is in that difference." Regina & Nyasha live and raise their family in Zimbabwe & this conversation is truly so rich with truth and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141089-N76MJV8JMAB2RA42E6UO/5.jpg Talk To Us An episode that was needed after 4 and before 5, meeting you right in the middle to talk about giving & generosity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140546-0IDANUDIWQJH0725FB7Z/4.jpg Talk To Us In a world that feels so disconnected, connection is a gift that may be more needed now than perhaps ever before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140590-NFFGP63CPZDR10EAL4MD/3.jpg Talk To Us Let's talk relationship, a core value of The Giving Gifts, and the very essence of why we all exist! 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May we celebrate the diversity in this world and seek to sustain the positive changes we have seen, all the while acting on the change that still needs to happen! May relationships, new and old, be central to everything while we wait for all that is ahead… Everyday over the next 24 days you will be able to reveal a new box…kinda like unwrapping a gift! Each day will have a new consideration and idea to try out. Invite your friends, your family, your kiddos, your co-workers, your neighbor, your favorite barista to join you! Do not worry if you miss a day, you can always catch up to the current day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/d69c178c-461e-4d8d-8117-9f571eac1550/IMG_3295.jpeg WHILE WE WAIT - May connection be the priority this Holiday Season… May we recognize stress and unmet expectations and be transformed in the way we think and respond, together! May we celebrate the diversity in this world and seek to sustain the positive changes we have seen, all the while acting on the change that still needs to happen! May relationships, new and old, be central to everything while we wait for all that is ahead… Everyday over the next 24 days you will be able to reveal a new box…kinda like unwrapping a gift! Each day will have a new consideration and idea to try out. Invite your friends, your family, your kiddos, your co-workers, your neighbor, your favorite barista to join you! Do not worry if you miss a day, you can always catch up to the current day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1679285692237-F457FWLAZLIJL85VJV02/IMG_9651.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1678080578835-Y62CWJVMHJTVQD19J9QQ/IMG_9010.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1676861151573-81VYBAQXAEGRMKEZRJ06/22023.png WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1675269766908-1OA08YJ4SB9IDON1B4Z4/IMG_7271.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1673854355924-7NWKO33MUMQ1A62KJV2O/IMG_6823.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1672036291086-C402ZKSZ35B0WNSEIBQ5/IMG_6495.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1670218067256-VL2JQ7355A1GZQPLVFV5/IMG_5761.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1670218152785-WBCPBHG4G6LP1URHP6SB/IMG_5177.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/755c50a9-8e09-4eb1-84f9-b1e0360e5e6d/IMG_4922.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1666595743236-9UMXUHO8G3MDVJU2EE0K/IMG_4566.PNG WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/5f635ded-dcd8-47a8-bcc3-de34f68e66fb/IMG_4029.jpeg WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/ddeae259-bc18-4060-8f81-e832836836e8/51973b63-93c5-4b84-b276-d198201f1aff.jpg WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1662958647974-YIISBPKBNOCDPM7HMLB5/image-asset.png WHILE WE WAIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1655152871643-4UVVH42B91DETSHGFVCB/image-asset.jpeg WHILE WE WAIT To wrap up season 2 I thought about just sharing all of the things The Giving Gifts as an organization has accomplished, all the ways the organization and myself have failed, learned, and what has been done because there is actually quite a bit. There was and honestly still is this voice in my head that is telling me I need to communicate all of the future plans and try to get you excited and believe in what The Giving Gifts is going to do over the next three months with the desired outcome that you would help or give or at least get it. This episode is not going to really be either of those things because this podcast was never created to be a show and tell of what we can do. This podcast was created to be the why behind what we do. A conversation that digs in deeper to the core of how and why we are here right now on this earth. A process of identifying our gift that is so deeply rooted in who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. What started as a full-circle conversation has actually transformed into a spiral. An upward spiral, an onward process of growing and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1653872672413-U2B7H0GRAT5FZ3RJ19RM/IMG_9578.jpg WHILE WE WAIT The Giving Gifts podcast was created to be a space for people to get to share honestly, without an agenda or a desired outcome, just a space where your experience is important and needed. I wanted this podcast to be an exploration of who a person is, their story, and maybe what they do but more importantly why they do what they do….this episode is a reflection of just that!!! Dan & Gabby Jimmerson are both mental health professionals, parents to their sweet daughter and their sweet pup, a friend to many and best friends to each other. This conversation is one that I have been hoping to have for quite some time and with all of the challenging dynamics of life right now I think it is a very timely and needed conversation. The Giving Gifts podcast hopes that through these conversations we (as a collective of human beings) can see the need and value in our own stories and the stories of others. We know that all stories include suffering and challenges as well as celebration and joy. The Giving Gifts as an organization is committed to creating resources to come alongside people to identify their gift…and when I talk about a gift I am talking about more than just your strengths or what you’re good at. Your gift is a combination of all your strengths and struggles. It is the hope and vision that through conversations like this one we can continue to challenge the conversation around struggling from shame to possibility. You’ll hear how Gabby, Dan, and even my own struggles have to lead to opportunities to acknowledge what we really care about and how we can do that daily. Please please please consider that if you find yourself in a place where you feel alone or isolated and this podcast brings up anything for you that you would like to process that you take in account these extra resources! Cassidy Feder - Cassidy@thegivinggifts.org - 562-618-6364 Gabby Jimmerson - Gabbycounseling@gmail.com - 657-204-5188 - Gabbyjimmerson.com Dan Jimmerson - https://theteenproject.com/veras-sanctuary-2/ - Acoupleofshirnks.com National Crisis (Suicide) Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255) OC WarmLine 714-991-6412 (The OC WarmLine is a free and confidential telephone service providing emotional support and resources to Orange County residents, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.) The book we were talking about is this called: Happier:learning the secret to daily joy, if you want to check it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1652668845664-F3HQPVM8UNR1X0N2IQK1/image-asset.jpeg WHILE WE WAIT Do you ever find yourself kinda stuck? Maybe you're stuck with some thoughts you can't seem to shake a story you keep telling yourself? Maybe you are holding on to some ideas or beliefs so tightly that it is difficult for you to see or hear anyone who may have different ideas than you. It is so easy to become fixated on something and not even notice. J Steele is a person I gravitate towards when I find myself "stuck". Often guiding me back to curiosity by remaining curious himself. I am pretty excited about how much he shares in this episode because J often asks more questions than he does. I am not saying that curiosity is always easy...you will hear how I was struggling with staying curious leading up to this conversation. May this episode be an invitation to consider curiosity. What the heck does that even mean though? Great question...listen for yourself & let me know what you think...I really am curious P.S. I think this is the funniest cover art yet…like, I was actually laughing out loud by myself spacing his name around his head (The Steele family is a bunch of steel giants in case you didn't know). I hope you enjoy how truly awkward we are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1651464726239-4CYUOQYG3SJ4L279895U/image-asset.jpeg WHILE WE WAIT In the process of planning Discover:surf I reached out to Vanessa Yeager. Vanessa is life long surfer who has such an incredible heart for inclusivity in the surf community, she is the founder of the Latinx surf community - a group of 2000+ Latin surfers and The Women Who Surf, the biggest surf community for women with over 20,000 women! Vanessa is a wife, a mom, a PE teacher with a heart for special needs, and is to the core everything you would imagine a surfer to embody. Vanessa and I connected over a shared passion for the water and a greater appreciation for everything the water represents. The ocean is a connecting force. Connecting land, connecting people, connecting stories, connecting body soul mind… After talking for a few days on Instagram Vanessa told me just call her and we talked for an hour, connecting over how surfing has impacted us individually, how we both have a desire to create space for others who may not always be included. At the end of the conversation, I told Vanessa I was bummed I didn’t record the call because it really was one of the sweetest chats I have had with a pretty much complete stranger so she invited me to join her at the beach that weekend and record our conversation in her van. I love this because you’re going to hear motorcycles and people waiting at the van to say hi. If you listen closely you’ll hear the waves and if you put on your imagination cap you can just imagine that you’re right there with us! @vanessayeager @womenwhosurf_ @latinxsurfclub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1650871444657-7PWEMPZ0KNNBJPY910SN/IMG_8168.jpg WHILE WE WAIT Do you ever find it difficult to listen? Like to really listen…not just to hear something but to actually listen to something or someone? Oksana has been committed to learning to listen pretty much her whole life. With English not being her first language, Oksana was not only learning to listen for herself but also for those in this world who could not always understand what they were hearing. What if learning to listen could actually change how we relate, how we connect?! If you take the 34 minutes to listen to this episode, which I really really hope you do, I encourage you to not only listen to the words…continue to listen in the moments where there is a pause. Listen to the things spoken and listen for the things unspoken. Consider what you're hearing and notice what your experience is like being the third person in this conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1649050971758-VS8LW3UVXX4SGQ0TDEBR/image.jpg WHILE WE WAIT Do you have a person in your life who is just refreshing to be with? A human who allows you to show up in whatever form you're in and leave a little more whole. A friend who meets you in the darker moments with a soft light…not one of those obnoxious lights that blinds you, more like a night light, guiding you with just enough light to see what's right ahead of you. Heidi Ochoa is kinda like that kind of light and I am confident that this episode of The Giving Gifts Podcast will be illuminate a little hope in whatever it is you're going through right now. Heidi can be found being a light in her home with her husband Lucas (who actually may be in the top ten funniest people I've met), with her bright and just as funny daughter Lily, and of course with the king himself, Dublin. It is because of Dublin I had the gift of connecting with the Ochoa family and it is through Dublin that Heidi found a light in autism. On the side, you can catch Heidi being a bad ass professor at Saddleback College and always an advocate for voices who aren't always being heard. Check out her blog https://www.theautismcollection.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1647848713155-3CBKV97H98QYGC8MW7JT/IMG-7135.jpg WHILE WE WAIT The Giving Gifts Podcast was created to be a place where real people can share real stories as they are navigating how to use their gifts in this world. Rafik Wahbi delivers a very honest, open, raw view into life as an abolitionist and the reality of what it looks like to live a life learning to stand for something. To learn more or connect with Rafik Wahbi follow him on Instagram @rafreaking_wahbi to support him directly he accepts homemade dinners or cash app @Rafik-Wahbi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1646630667482-MBP684WHMCGWC3WA4BEL/IMG_6873.jpg WHILE WE WAIT Kimmy has an autoimmune illness that impacts her day to day, relationships, work, really her whole life. The way that she has allowed her physical health and mental health to be a source a discovering her gift of connection is admirable and it is definitely not at all easy. One thing I really respect about Kimmy is her commitment to show up in celebration and grief sometimes coexisting with one another. Follow her on Instagram @createwithkimmy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1645418896004-FVKMEGUVSVWG6WFLQS46/IMG_6388.jpg WHILE WE WAIT Brad is a writer and poet, the author of "The Art Of Relating", and really just an incredible human with a gift of words and vulnerability. When I think about a person who is committed to digging in deeper to vulnerability for the sake of relating, Brad always comes to mind. I think you'll hear that for yourself right now... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1644256475179-OLA4DC7C254DWJM89Y8D/image-asset.jpeg WHILE WE WAIT It is so often that we immediately share what a person does rather than who a person is. When I met Deb I knew within minutes that this woman was not simply an owner of a coffee shop. I would come to learn that Deb had a story, deeply rooted in a commitment to connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643586145488-8AWVGR62GQFP5JAYFUZ5/IMG_5264.jpg WHILE WE WAIT I want you to imagine that you're sitting down with two good friends to chat about life...that's really all this episode is and I believe if you really listen there will be something you connect with! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415756755-XDMS9SWGNW08J076ZUCD/IMG_4769.jpg WHILE WE WAIT Julia Rockowitz host the first episode of 2022 as we dive into the new year and the vision for The Giving Gifts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643415753271-9WCXK2075COKAJA39SEQ/IMG_4262.jpg WHILE WE WAIT Here’s the thing about Aleena. Aleena is young, wise, and so courageous. Aleena has these gifts rooted in a life that is filled with both hardship and celebration. Aleena has perspective and insight that when the world hears, when people begin to consider, when we slow down enough to understand, we will be transformed. This really is The Giving Gifts. It’s creating a space for Aleena’s story to be shared. Its being transformed into people who care deeply, listen actively, and respond with our actions. Aleena, you are a gift, and this gift you shared will continue to give. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141298-TDX1H81882JRA4T789PG/6.jpg WHILE WE WAIT "Diversity is about being able to recognize that we are different and that there is beauty is in that difference." Regina & Nyasha live and raise their family in Zimbabwe & this conversation is truly so rich with truth and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141089-N76MJV8JMAB2RA42E6UO/5.jpg WHILE WE WAIT An episode that was needed after 4 and before 5, meeting you right in the middle to talk about giving & generosity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140546-0IDANUDIWQJH0725FB7Z/4.jpg WHILE WE WAIT In a world that feels so disconnected, connection is a gift that may be more needed now than perhaps ever before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140590-NFFGP63CPZDR10EAL4MD/3.jpg WHILE WE WAIT Let's talk relationship, a core value of The Giving Gifts, and the very essence of why we all exist! Special episode with Doah Lynd as The Giving Gifts Podcast FIRST guest! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141618-N4FT4NG2PPX7KZ63E9RL/2.jpg WHILE WE WAIT Giving some context to what led to The Giving Gifts with the hopes that if I share my story, you will share yours as well… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080136488-M2VKXIS4CQT5BT4CM5ZU/ep+1.jpg WHILE WE WAIT It is kinda like a pre podcast, the trailer if you will, to what is to come. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/45c8858f-f2dd-4c79-8610-808574869b29/IMG_5419.jpg Creating resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/520efe88-2d33-41ce-a64d-89d6306cd421/IMG_5420.jpg Creating resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1648838521683-MRQP2PPJQA9FF27BTDGG/Discover-surf.gif Creating resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643589762574-57UK0SDSVVY6JTRFZOH3/IMG_4838-2.jpg Creating resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1648838434091-AUL5493BCL1017H6TAYA/IMG_6899.jpg Creating resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643589800246-CJM3Y9XH9ICA4XFEE5LI/IMG_3272-1.jpeg Creating resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643589810497-0QMC3UAW0XT76D0WWFGE/IMG_4539.jpg Creating resources https://www.thegivinggifts.org/accountability daily 0.75 2022-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643596603627-R68F37QFKGDHPG8XYUXU/IMG_4539.jpg Accountability The Giving Gifts Accountability crew aka The Executive Board Of Directors is composed of members Steve Yang, J Stele, and Cassidy Feder. If there is at any point you would like to discuss the integrity of The Giving Gifts please reach out and we will get you in contact with a one of the three of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643596608169-68Y2HIHFFT7V216NCQQU/IMG_4531.jpg Accountability 6 Individuals, representing communities around the world, committed to giving honest feedback as the sounding board in the creation of The Giving Gifts resources. Created for marginalized youth, grounded in trauma care, and specific to the culture and community, these resources will be used as a tool for youth to identify their gifts, share their story, and spur on the use of these gifts in their own community! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1643596668582-O6RCKI5QLKSUK1D5QIH4/IMG_4532.jpg Accountability 6 Women, all over the world, from different backgrounds, stories, life experiences. Committed to the growth & developments of The Giving Gifts this year. 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There was and honestly still is this voice in my head that is telling me I need to communicate all of the future plans and try to get you excited and believe in what The Giving Gifts is going to do over the next three months with the desired outcome that you would help or give or at least get it. This episode is not going to really be either of those things because this podcast was never created to be a show and tell of what we can do. This podcast was created to be the why behind what we do. A conversation that digs in deeper to the core of how and why we are here right now on this earth. A process of identifying our gift that is so deeply rooted in who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. What started as a full-circle conversation has actually transformed into a spiral. An upward spiral, an onward process of growing and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1653872672413-U2B7H0GRAT5FZ3RJ19RM/IMG_9578.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast The Giving Gifts podcast was created to be a space for people to get to share honestly, without an agenda or a desired outcome, just a space where your experience is important and needed. I wanted this podcast to be an exploration of who a person is, their story, and maybe what they do but more importantly why they do what they do….this episode is a reflection of just that!!! Dan & Gabby Jimmerson are both mental health professionals, parents to their sweet daughter and their sweet pup, a friend to many and best friends to each other. This conversation is one that I have been hoping to have for quite some time and with all of the challenging dynamics of life right now I think it is a very timely and needed conversation. The Giving Gifts podcast hopes that through these conversations we (as a collective of human beings) can see the need and value in our own stories and the stories of others. We know that all stories include suffering and challenges as well as celebration and joy. The Giving Gifts as an organization is committed to creating resources to come alongside people to identify their gift…and when I talk about a gift I am talking about more than just your strengths or what you’re good at. Your gift is a combination of all your strengths and struggles. It is the hope and vision that through conversations like this one we can continue to challenge the conversation around struggling from shame to possibility. You’ll hear how Gabby, Dan, and even my own struggles have to lead to opportunities to acknowledge what we really care about and how we can do that daily. Please please please consider that if you find yourself in a place where you feel alone or isolated and this podcast brings up anything for you that you would like to process that you take in account these extra resources! Cassidy Feder - Cassidy@thegivinggifts.org - 562-618-6364 Gabby Jimmerson - Gabbycounseling@gmail.com - 657-204-5188 - Gabbyjimmerson.com Dan Jimmerson - https://theteenproject.com/veras-sanctuary-2/ - Acoupleofshirnks.com National Crisis (Suicide) Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255) OC WarmLine 714-991-6412 (The OC WarmLine is a free and confidential telephone service providing emotional support and resources to Orange County residents, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.) The book we were talking about is this called: Happier:learning the secret to daily joy, if you want to check it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1652668845664-F3HQPVM8UNR1X0N2IQK1/image-asset.jpeg The Giving Gifts Podcast Do you ever find yourself kinda stuck? Maybe you're stuck with some thoughts you can't seem to shake a story you keep telling yourself? Maybe you are holding on to some ideas or beliefs so tightly that it is difficult for you to see or hear anyone who may have different ideas than you. It is so easy to become fixated on something and not even notice. J Steele is a person I gravitate towards when I find myself "stuck". Often guiding me back to curiosity by remaining curious himself. I am pretty excited about how much he shares in this episode because J often asks more questions than he does. I am not saying that curiosity is always easy...you will hear how I was struggling with staying curious leading up to this conversation. May this episode be an invitation to consider curiosity. What the heck does that even mean though? Great question...listen for yourself & let me know what you think...I really am curious P.S. I think this is the funniest cover art yet…like, I was actually laughing out loud by myself spacing his name around his head (The Steele family is a bunch of steel giants in case you didn't know). I hope you enjoy how truly awkward we are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1651464726239-4CYUOQYG3SJ4L279895U/image-asset.jpeg The Giving Gifts Podcast In the process of planning Discover:surf I reached out to Vanessa Yeager. 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At the end of the conversation, I told Vanessa I was bummed I didn’t record the call because it really was one of the sweetest chats I have had with a pretty much complete stranger so she invited me to join her at the beach that weekend and record our conversation in her van. I love this because you’re going to hear motorcycles and people waiting at the van to say hi. If you listen closely you’ll hear the waves and if you put on your imagination cap you can just imagine that you’re right there with us! @vanessayeager @womenwhosurf_ @latinxsurfclub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1650871444657-7PWEMPZ0KNNBJPY910SN/IMG_8168.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast Do you ever find it difficult to listen? Like to really listen…not just to hear something but to actually listen to something or someone? Oksana has been committed to learning to listen pretty much her whole life. With English not being her first language, Oksana was not only learning to listen for herself but also for those in this world who could not always understand what they were hearing. What if learning to listen could actually change how we relate, how we connect?! If you take the 34 minutes to listen to this episode, which I really really hope you do, I encourage you to not only listen to the words…continue to listen in the moments where there is a pause. Listen to the things spoken and listen for the things unspoken. Consider what you're hearing and notice what your experience is like being the third person in this conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1649050971758-VS8LW3UVXX4SGQ0TDEBR/image.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast Do you have a person in your life who is just refreshing to be with? A human who allows you to show up in whatever form you're in and leave a little more whole. A friend who meets you in the darker moments with a soft light…not one of those obnoxious lights that blinds you, more like a night light, guiding you with just enough light to see what's right ahead of you. Heidi Ochoa is kinda like that kind of light and I am confident that this episode of The Giving Gifts Podcast will be illuminate a little hope in whatever it is you're going through right now. Heidi can be found being a light in her home with her husband Lucas (who actually may be in the top ten funniest people I've met), with her bright and just as funny daughter Lily, and of course with the king himself, Dublin. It is because of Dublin I had the gift of connecting with the Ochoa family and it is through Dublin that Heidi found a light in autism. On the side, you can catch Heidi being a bad ass professor at Saddleback College and always an advocate for voices who aren't always being heard. Check out her blog https://www.theautismcollection.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1647848713155-3CBKV97H98QYGC8MW7JT/IMG-7135.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast The Giving Gifts Podcast was created to be a place where real people can share real stories as they are navigating how to use their gifts in this world. Rafik Wahbi delivers a very honest, open, raw view into life as an abolitionist and the reality of what it looks like to live a life learning to stand for something. To learn more or connect with Rafik Wahbi follow him on Instagram @rafreaking_wahbi to support him directly he accepts homemade dinners or cash app @Rafik-Wahbi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1646630667482-MBP684WHMCGWC3WA4BEL/IMG_6873.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast Kimmy has an autoimmune illness that impacts her day to day, relationships, work, really her whole life. The way that she has allowed her physical health and mental health to be a source a discovering her gift of connection is admirable and it is definitely not at all easy. One thing I really respect about Kimmy is her commitment to show up in celebration and grief sometimes coexisting with one another. Follow her on Instagram @createwithkimmy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1645418896004-FVKMEGUVSVWG6WFLQS46/IMG_6388.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast Brad is a writer and poet, the author of "The Art Of Relating", and really just an incredible human with a gift of words and vulnerability. When I think about a person who is committed to digging in deeper to vulnerability for the sake of relating, Brad always comes to mind. I think you'll hear that for yourself right now... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1644256475179-OLA4DC7C254DWJM89Y8D/image-asset.jpeg The Giving Gifts Podcast It is so often that we immediately share what a person does rather than who a person is. When I met Deb I knew within minutes that this woman was not simply an owner of a coffee shop. 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Aleena has perspective and insight that when the world hears, when people begin to consider, when we slow down enough to understand, we will be transformed. This really is The Giving Gifts. It’s creating a space for Aleena’s story to be shared. Its being transformed into people who care deeply, listen actively, and respond with our actions. Aleena, you are a gift, and this gift you shared will continue to give. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141298-TDX1H81882JRA4T789PG/6.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast "Diversity is about being able to recognize that we are different and that there is beauty is in that difference." Regina & Nyasha live and raise their family in Zimbabwe & this conversation is truly so rich with truth and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141089-N76MJV8JMAB2RA42E6UO/5.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast An episode that was needed after 4 and before 5, meeting you right in the middle to talk about giving & generosity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140546-0IDANUDIWQJH0725FB7Z/4.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast In a world that feels so disconnected, connection is a gift that may be more needed now than perhaps ever before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140590-NFFGP63CPZDR10EAL4MD/3.jpg The Giving Gifts Podcast Let's talk relationship, a core value of The Giving Gifts, and the very essence of why we all exist! 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There was and honestly still is this voice in my head that is telling me I need to communicate all of the future plans and try to get you excited and believe in what The Giving Gifts is going to do over the next three months with the desired outcome that you would help or give or at least get it. This episode is not going to really be either of those things because this podcast was never created to be a show and tell of what we can do. This podcast was created to be the why behind what we do. A conversation that digs in deeper to the core of how and why we are here right now on this earth. A process of identifying our gift that is so deeply rooted in who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. What started as a full-circle conversation has actually transformed into a spiral. An upward spiral, an onward process of growing and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1653872672413-U2B7H0GRAT5FZ3RJ19RM/IMG_9578.jpg Podcast The Giving Gifts podcast was created to be a space for people to get to share honestly, without an agenda or a desired outcome, just a space where your experience is important and needed. I wanted this podcast to be an exploration of who a person is, their story, and maybe what they do but more importantly why they do what they do….this episode is a reflection of just that!!! Dan & Gabby Jimmerson are both mental health professionals, parents to their sweet daughter and their sweet pup, a friend to many and best friends to each other. This conversation is one that I have been hoping to have for quite some time and with all of the challenging dynamics of life right now I think it is a very timely and needed conversation. The Giving Gifts podcast hopes that through these conversations we (as a collective of human beings) can see the need and value in our own stories and the stories of others. We know that all stories include suffering and challenges as well as celebration and joy. The Giving Gifts as an organization is committed to creating resources to come alongside people to identify their gift…and when I talk about a gift I am talking about more than just your strengths or what you’re good at. Your gift is a combination of all your strengths and struggles. It is the hope and vision that through conversations like this one we can continue to challenge the conversation around struggling from shame to possibility. You’ll hear how Gabby, Dan, and even my own struggles have to lead to opportunities to acknowledge what we really care about and how we can do that daily. Please please please consider that if you find yourself in a place where you feel alone or isolated and this podcast brings up anything for you that you would like to process that you take in account these extra resources! Cassidy Feder - Cassidy@thegivinggifts.org - 562-618-6364 Gabby Jimmerson - Gabbycounseling@gmail.com - 657-204-5188 - Gabbyjimmerson.com Dan Jimmerson - https://theteenproject.com/veras-sanctuary-2/ - Acoupleofshirnks.com National Crisis (Suicide) Hotline: 800-273-TALK (8255) OC WarmLine 714-991-6412 (The OC WarmLine is a free and confidential telephone service providing emotional support and resources to Orange County residents, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.) The book we were talking about is this called: Happier:learning the secret to daily joy, if you want to check it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1652668845664-F3HQPVM8UNR1X0N2IQK1/image-asset.jpeg Podcast Do you ever find yourself kinda stuck? Maybe you're stuck with some thoughts you can't seem to shake a story you keep telling yourself? Maybe you are holding on to some ideas or beliefs so tightly that it is difficult for you to see or hear anyone who may have different ideas than you. It is so easy to become fixated on something and not even notice. J Steele is a person I gravitate towards when I find myself "stuck". Often guiding me back to curiosity by remaining curious himself. I am pretty excited about how much he shares in this episode because J often asks more questions than he does. I am not saying that curiosity is always easy...you will hear how I was struggling with staying curious leading up to this conversation. May this episode be an invitation to consider curiosity. What the heck does that even mean though? Great question...listen for yourself & let me know what you think...I really am curious P.S. I think this is the funniest cover art yet…like, I was actually laughing out loud by myself spacing his name around his head (The Steele family is a bunch of steel giants in case you didn't know). I hope you enjoy how truly awkward we are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1651464726239-4CYUOQYG3SJ4L279895U/image-asset.jpeg Podcast In the process of planning Discover:surf I reached out to Vanessa Yeager. Vanessa is life long surfer who has such an incredible heart for inclusivity in the surf community, she is the founder of the Latinx surf community - a group of 2000+ Latin surfers and The Women Who Surf, the biggest surf community for women with over 20,000 women! Vanessa is a wife, a mom, a PE teacher with a heart for special needs, and is to the core everything you would imagine a surfer to embody. Vanessa and I connected over a shared passion for the water and a greater appreciation for everything the water represents. The ocean is a connecting force. Connecting land, connecting people, connecting stories, connecting body soul mind… After talking for a few days on Instagram Vanessa told me just call her and we talked for an hour, connecting over how surfing has impacted us individually, how we both have a desire to create space for others who may not always be included. At the end of the conversation, I told Vanessa I was bummed I didn’t record the call because it really was one of the sweetest chats I have had with a pretty much complete stranger so she invited me to join her at the beach that weekend and record our conversation in her van. I love this because you’re going to hear motorcycles and people waiting at the van to say hi. If you listen closely you’ll hear the waves and if you put on your imagination cap you can just imagine that you’re right there with us! @vanessayeager @womenwhosurf_ @latinxsurfclub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1650871444657-7PWEMPZ0KNNBJPY910SN/IMG_8168.jpg Podcast Do you ever find it difficult to listen? Like to really listen…not just to hear something but to actually listen to something or someone? Oksana has been committed to learning to listen pretty much her whole life. With English not being her first language, Oksana was not only learning to listen for herself but also for those in this world who could not always understand what they were hearing. What if learning to listen could actually change how we relate, how we connect?! If you take the 34 minutes to listen to this episode, which I really really hope you do, I encourage you to not only listen to the words…continue to listen in the moments where there is a pause. Listen to the things spoken and listen for the things unspoken. Consider what you're hearing and notice what your experience is like being the third person in this conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1649050971758-VS8LW3UVXX4SGQ0TDEBR/image.jpg Podcast Do you have a person in your life who is just refreshing to be with? A human who allows you to show up in whatever form you're in and leave a little more whole. A friend who meets you in the darker moments with a soft light…not one of those obnoxious lights that blinds you, more like a night light, guiding you with just enough light to see what's right ahead of you. Heidi Ochoa is kinda like that kind of light and I am confident that this episode of The Giving Gifts Podcast will be illuminate a little hope in whatever it is you're going through right now. 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Rafik Wahbi delivers a very honest, open, raw view into life as an abolitionist and the reality of what it looks like to live a life learning to stand for something. To learn more or connect with Rafik Wahbi follow him on Instagram @rafreaking_wahbi to support him directly he accepts homemade dinners or cash app @Rafik-Wahbi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1646630667482-MBP684WHMCGWC3WA4BEL/IMG_6873.jpg Podcast Kimmy has an autoimmune illness that impacts her day to day, relationships, work, really her whole life. The way that she has allowed her physical health and mental health to be a source a discovering her gift of connection is admirable and it is definitely not at all easy. One thing I really respect about Kimmy is her commitment to show up in celebration and grief sometimes coexisting with one another. 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Regina & Nyasha live and raise their family in Zimbabwe & this conversation is truly so rich with truth and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080141089-N76MJV8JMAB2RA42E6UO/5.jpg Podcast An episode that was needed after 4 and before 5, meeting you right in the middle to talk about giving & generosity! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140546-0IDANUDIWQJH0725FB7Z/4.jpg Podcast In a world that feels so disconnected, connection is a gift that may be more needed now than perhaps ever before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5740b71086db4391ba6c2f1f/1639080140590-NFFGP63CPZDR10EAL4MD/3.jpg Podcast Let's talk relationship, a core value of The Giving Gifts, and the very essence of why we all exist! 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