Episode 08 concludes Season One of STRETCH. In this episode I share my own story. I knew my story would be part of those shared this season since it was through the changes that I…
Laura and I live in the same small town and only got the opportunity to meet once STRETCH was released. She contacted me through a mutual friend, Annette, and we met for coffee. During our…
My friend Becca is the ultimate optimist and her boundless energy allows her to give time to important efforts in her community. Becca volunteered her story immediately after hearing about STRETCH. She knew that her…
Making changes in our lives is not easy – even when it is a life or death decision. In Episode 02, Jacqueline shares her story of addiction and her path towards a healthy life and…
As with everything, I don’t think I could have predicted my desire to launch a podcast. Especially one that talks about change and how looking at something in a new way can help that change go easier. One thing that does make sense to me is the broadcasting of my voice over the airwaves for others to hear. This desire had a simple beginning.
I learned in junior high that I loved to talk into a microphone – or at least something I could pretend was a microphone. Each night I sat at my desk to do homework. I can recall sitting in my room completing math problems, studying vocabulary lists and diagraming sentences. I didn’t enjoy doing homework until it came time for the reading assignments. When the time came I would crack open the book and turn to the start of the passage we were to read. I would then swivel, twist and turn my desk lamp so that it would mimic a microphone, pulling the shade close to my face to pick up every sound my voice would emit.
I’m currently in graduate school at Gonzaga University, studying Organizational Leadership. This past spring, I took a class on Transformational Leadership. The class explored the lives of Malcolm X, Gandhi, and others. I set a hypothesis at the beginning of the class – to be a great leader, you must undergo some sort of transformation. Believing that transformation leads us to understanding ourselves better, opens our minds to other experiences and thoughts and allows us to interact with others without judgment. And that those who see life in that light are the type of people who make good leaders. This melded perfectly with my purpose in life which to help others achieve their goals. From that the message for the podcast started taking shape.