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Today SarahAnn shares her story of being diagnosed with Hydrocephalus and living with this chronic life-threatening condition for over twenty years. She shares about founding the Chest Wall Injury Society where she works as CEO, and how she has gone through life facing mortality and embracing fear and beauty. SarahAnn is incredibly smart and inspiring and we admire her example of following passions in the face of uncertainty and viewing life as a gift.
SarahAnn is involved in the Hydrocephalus Association, a nonprofit organization with the mission to find a cure for Hydrocephalus and improve the lives of those impacted by the condition. Find the Hydrocephalus Association www.hydroassoc.org and on Instagram @hydroassoc.
Every year SarahAnn, along with Shantil and her family, are involved in the Salt Lake City WALK to End Hydrocephalus, which is coming up Saturday, September 28. Learn more @hawalk_saltlakecity.
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Thank you for listening! We'd like to thank the band We The Lion for giving us permission to use their song Move Along on our podcast. Find us on Instagram @beautifulshifts_podcast and on Facebook here.
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Today we are joined by Nathan Garn, Shantil's husband, who shares the experience of having their oldest son Payton born with a life-threatening condition (spinal meningitis, which led to hydrocephalus, which led to a severe seizure disorder). Nathan and Shantil share the challenges and life lessons they've learned from Payton having grit and finding joy through his chronic health conditions, and the color and depth that can be gained going through hard things.
Thank you to Nathan for coming on the podcast and sharing his down to earth, thoughtful wisdom and perspectives.
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Thank you for listening! We'd like to thank the band We The Lion for giving us permission to use their song Move Along on our podcast. Find us on Instagram @beautifulshifts_podcast and on Facebook here.
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Today we have a guest we've been hoping to have on the podcast since the beginning! Bruce Feiler, a New York Times bestselling author, joins us to share what led to writing his book Life is in the Transitions and discuss its crossover with our podcast. We talk about the types of transitions we go through in life, what Bruce learned from interviewing hundreds of people about their life transitions, and more insights from his book. Bruce is such a wise, genuine person and we're honored he made time to come on our podcast. We can't wait for you to hear this insightful, enjoyable conversation with him.
Bruce's bestselling books include Life is in the Transitions, Secrets of Happy Families, and The Search. Find Bruce and his work at brucefeiler.com, on Facebook here and on Instagram @brucefeiler.
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Thank you for listening! We'd like to thank the band We The Lion for giving us permission to use their song Move Along on our podcast. Find us on Instagram @beautifulshifts_podcast and on Facebook here.
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Today is our first episode of Season Three of the podcast! We share some thoughts going into this new season, some exciting guests we have coming up, and reintroduce ourselves and the theme of the podcast. We can't believe we are starting our third season of doing this and can't wait to dive into more guest stories with you all, gaining new perspectives and finding beauty in our stories together.
Thanks for listening, supporting, and joining us for Season Three!
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Our last re-release of the summer! This was our last episode of Season One and one of our top-listened episodes. Jeffrey and Bryce are a gay couple living in the suburbs of Salt Lake City and share about raising their twins through the gift of surrogacy along with other life experiences and thoughtful perspectives. They are such a great couple and family and we're so grateful they made the time to share their story with us in this vulnerable, important conversation.
Find them on Instagram @growingupwithdads, which they created with the intent to provide hope and inspiration to LGBT youth and be an example they feel was lacking when they were growing up.
Thanks for listening!
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Today's re-release is a conversation from Season One that had such great impact on us and is one of our most listened-to episodes of all seasons.
In 2021, Mason's family was involved in a fatal car accident that took the lives of his wife, daughter, son, brother, and nephew. Sam was born with a rare form of Dwarfism that affects bone growth and development and causes abnormalities. Best friend's since high school, they share more about their stories and how they have used the 10Ninety Principle, the name of their podcast, to share stories so others feel less alone, focusing on how life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent what you make it.
They are both incredibly inspiring and have great sense of humors. We laughed and cried through this unforgettable conversation and are grateful we were able to hear their stories and learned so much from them both.
Find the 10Ninety Rule Podcast on Instagram @10ninetyrule
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In today's re-release, Carrie shares her powerful story of surviving and overcoming a deep addiction to prescription drugs. Carrie exemplifies incredible strength and resillience, turning weaknesses into strengths, and that through our flaws we can connect and heal together. A survivor of the opioid epidemic, she aims to help others gain hope, healing, and understanding for themselves, friends, and loved ones.
Carrie is a mother of four and a grandmother. She is a licensed realtor and Director of Growth at Keller Williams Home Hub.
Find Carrie on Facebook (Carrie Butler) and on Instagram @carrie.butler.76. You can also reach out to her over email - [email protected]. She would love to help others connect with support and resources for addiction and recovery.
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Our second re-release of the summer! Ryan shares his story of leaving corporate America to start his interior design firm, Smart Studio Designs, even when he felt it was risky and too late. Ryan has lived in various places, introducing him to people and cultures that have shaped who he is today. His story is sprinkled with interesting and important life lessons he has learned along the way, including seeking help for anxiety when needed.
Ryan helps us see the reward is in the journey, that we can look back and find beauty in our individual paths, and that fear is normal, but not to miss out on what the other side of fear has to offer.
Find Ryan and his work on Instagram @smartstudiodesigns
Find Ryan's design firm: www.smartstudiodesigns.com
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Today we have our first re-release of the summer, our episode with Shantil's sister Kari, which was also our very first episode! Kari shares about being a survivor of a suicide attempt as a teen, being a birth mother, an entrepreneur, and the healing and hope she has experienced as she has learned mental health tools and grown into adulthood. Kari shares how the theme "think twice" relates to her life in this uplifting and inspiring story.
Learn more about Kari's story on her blog here.
Find Kari on Instagram @kari.w.montgomery
Book recommendations from Kari:
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Miracle Morning, Hal Elrod
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Our last episode of Season Two! Today we have a fun conversation highlighting episodes and topics we've had this season, talk about plans for the podcast over the summer, and what we have in the works for Season Three. We also share the top five listened-to episodes of the season and touch on our purpose for the podcast.
We're so grateful to our guests who were on this Season! We had so many great conversation and are so appreciative of their willingness and vulnerability in sharing their stories.
We also want to thank our listeners for your support! We are so grateful for each of you and that you continue to find beauty with us through these open, connecting conversation's on life's transitions and shifts.
We're already looking forward to upcoming guests we have for Season Three and are excited to share them with you! We hope you have a wonderful summer and look forward to resuming in August.
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Today we are joined by Tamara Jacobs, one of Lindsay's closest lifelong friends! In this thoughtful conversation Tamara shares about her LDS faith transition including her experience growing up in the church, what led to her faith transition, and how she has reframed and rebuilt values and spirituality. Tamara shares aspects of deconstructing that were pivotal for her personally as well as in raising her children, and helpful perspectives on reframing values and spirituality after such a big life shift.
Tamara has a beautiful way with words in this heartfelt, vulnerable conversation. We know her insights will help many people going through similar transitions, and in bridging understanding. Thank you, Tamara, for coming on Beautiful Shifts and sharing your story!
Tamara is a wife, mother of four, and is an intervention aide at an elementary school. She loves to read, write, go on walks, and enjoys music and creativity.
Find Tamara on Instagram @tammykae84 where she shares fun tidbits of her life, books she's reading, and creative inspiration.
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Today we have such a fun, meaningful conversation with Heather as she shares how tulips, cake, and basketball shoes relate to her story and the theme of living the unexpected life and learning from failures. Heather shares about her son who has down syndrome and autism, is tube fed, non-verbal, and medically complex, and how each of us will have times we're living the unexpected and what that can lead to. She shares her perspective on failure and taking risks and how these work into different parts of her experiences.
Heather is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Relationship Coach and has been counceling clients since 2004. Her passion is to help others reprogram their mindset to reach their potential. She currently lives with her family in Salt Lake City, Utah, and considers herself a cake baking nerd, loves to karaoke with her family, and loves basketball.
We thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and are excited for you to hear from Heather and learn from her perspectives!
Find Heather on Instagram @heather_coach. Find her therapy practice www.skylightcounseling.com and her coaching business www.alignthesoul.com.
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We're so excited to have David Kozlowski from the OG Therapy Podcast and Light the Fight Podcast with us! Today David begins by sharing his personal story of growing up with family members with Borderline Personality Disorder, how he experienced multiple concussions and a suicide attempt while playing football at the University of Utah, and facing his own mental health struggles which led to pursuing a master's in counseling psychology and a desire to help others. David has become an expert in his field and has worked with kids, teens, and families in mental health for over 25 years, specializing in working with teens. He shares how the youth he worked with helped come up with the term Social Health, how he created the first Social Health Curriculum for Herriman High School (Utah), and how strengthening social health is key to strengthening mental health for our youth. He shares about his new book Youth of the Nation, how it focuses on Social Health and can help parents, educators, and anyone who has interest in supporting the mental health of young people.
Find David's book here on Amazon.
Find David & his podcast on Instagram @david_kozlowski_
Find David's website here.
David was born and raised in Carlsbad, California. He has been a crisis counselor, behavioral specialist, and has a private practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in helping families, kids, teens and young adults. He is the host of OG Therapy Podcast and has a Ted Talk on parent-teen relationships. He is the creator and one of the teachers at Herriman High School of the first Social Health Curriculum. David gives social health presentations and trainings to schools, communities and businesses and teaches them social health tools to improve their mental health.
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Today it's just us, chatting about parenting! We start by talking about some parenting transitions in our own lives. Then we chat about Dr. Becky Kennedy and her book Good Inside, why we love this parenting method, and some helpful tips we've taken away from her book and the ideas she shares. We wrap up by highlighting guests we've had on this season who have talked about different parenting transitions and give highlights from their episodes.
We loved talking about parenting and kids and some of the helpful things we've learned along the way, and from our awesome guests!
Thanks for listening!
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Today we are joined by Margaret who shares her story of parenting her son who is neurodiverse and on the autism spectrum. She shares lessons she learned that changed the way she was experiencing parenting and her relationships with her son, husband, and herself. We discuss letting go of judgment in parenting, following our intuition, helpful strategies, and finding peace, growth, and joy in the parenting journey.
We really loved and valued this conversation and feel so lucky we were able to connect with Margaret and hear her story and expertise! She is a wonderful person and we loved getting to know her.
Margaret is a former elementary school teacher and has been a parent coach for 12 years with many certifications and trainings. She recently released her first book "A Hero's Journey in Parenting" (available on Amazon) and has a telecourse "Parenting the Child You Didn't Expect While You Were Expecting" that has helped hundreds of parents. She is also the lead parent coach for the "Differently Wired" club since its inception. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, 20 year old son, and three Jack Russell Terriers.
Thank you again, Margaret, for coming on Beautiful Shifts!
Find Margaret on Instagram @margaretwebbparentcoach
Facebook: Margaret Webb (personal) & Margaret Webb Life Coach (business)
Margaret's book on Amazon: A Hero's Journey In Parenting
In the intro of this episode we talk about Shantil's son Payton's Instagram page where he shares fun and creative reviews of Crumbl cookies from the perspective of his bike, the Zebra Cruiser.
Find Payton's account @zebra_striper22 for Crumbl reviews and other fun content!
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Rachel is a wife of 30 years, mother of five children, and has two beautiful grandchildren. Today Rachel shares the touching story of adopting her son Noah, who is now 13, and what it has been like raising a Black son in Utah. She shares about the gift of adoption, the delightful person Noah is, and is honest and vulnerable about some of the challenges that have come with racism they have experienced. Rachel does a wonderful job addressing the delicate topic as she shares her experiences and perspectives.
Rachel has been a motivational speaker for over 20 years using experience she's gained in the nutrition industry and obstacles in life, and considers her life's work using her voice for good and encouraging others to do the same. Rachel created an annual non-profit formal event called The Galentine's Gala where women from all over Utah gather to honor carefully selected recipient as well as celebrating each other.
Find Rachel on Instagram @dear.rach where you can follow her fun, uplifting content.
Thank you again, Rachel, for sharing your story with us!
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Kari is a wife, mother of two young children, and an adjunct instructor in the department of Filmmaking, Art & Design at Southern Utah University. Today Kari shares about her husband's recent deployment to Africa where he will serve for the next nine months and how she and her kids are adjusting to him being away. She then shares about the tragic passing of her twin sister Kristi to a heroine overdose eight years ago. She shares how she has coped with this heartbreaking loss, lessons she's learned, advice for listeners, and how the major life transitions she's been through have come together in her life today.
Kari is fun, wise and thoughtful and we're so grateful she was so open and vulnerable in sharing her touching story. She shares so much we can all learn from.
Find Kari on Instagram @karibethheaps
Second Chance 5k is the nonprofit founded in memory of Kari's twin sister Kristi, created by their older sister Holly Wever (Holly was also on our podcast!). This year's event is coming up April 20th in Las Vegas. Its purpose is to connect communities affected by substance use disorders and celebrate second chances for those in recovery. Visit their Instagram page @secondchance5k or website secondchance5k.org to register, for ways to donate, and get involved.
Make sure to check out Kari's amazing older sister Holly Wever's episode on our podcast last year, as well as their incredible mother Karen Cushenberry. Both share their powerful perspectives and stories.
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Today we are joined by the amazing and wise Susie Augenstein! Susie shares her experiences and lessons learned on some recent significant life transitions she's been through including the empty nest phase and how to find peace through life's storms. She then shares about her faith evolution as a member of the LDS church, as a former bishop's wife and lifelong active and devoted member. Susie's story, perspectives and advice to listeners are so well thought out and we know you'll find value in what she shares.
Susie is a nurse, mom, traveler, wife, questioner, and advocate for all of her close friends who identify as LGFTQ+. She and her husband, Paul, raised five kids who are now figuring out young adulthood with all of its ups and downs.
Thank you again to Susie for coming on Beautiful Shifts!
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It's our Spring Break week, so today we are re-releasing an episode we had last spring with the incredibly inspiring Jorge Font. At 19-years-old Jorge was in a waterskiing accident and became a paraplegic. In this conversation Jorge shares his journey since then including challenges, lessons learned, and how ultimately his life has expanded in ways he is grateful for.
This is a such an uplifting conversation and we're so grateful Jorge took the time to talk with us and share his experiences and perspectives! We're so happy we can reshare this so our newer listeners have a chance to hear Jorge's story and the rest of us can have a chance to listen again.
Jorge is a husband, father, author, speaker, the Director of Institutional Philosophy at the Telethon Foundation, and the Director of Meaning and Human Development in Nice. He has given a TedX talk Life In Earthquake Mode and published a book Ensanchar la vida (Expanded Life) found here on Amazon.
Thank you again, Jorge, for coming on Beautiful Shifts and sharing with us!
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Today we are joined by Deborah Tobola and Elizabeth Buckner who have been friends for close to 25 years, brought together by being teachers at the same prison and a shared love of poetry. Both from California with unique backgrounds including living during the hippie era, they share their individual stories and traumas they've endured through the years, sharing poems they've written along the way, and how writing and sharing poetry with each other has been a catalyst for healing.
We loved this soulful conversation and know you'll be fascinated, touched, and inspired by Deborah and Elizabeth's poems, stories, passion for serving others, social justice, and friendship, as we were.
More about Deborah and Elizabeth and where to find their work (with links):
Deborah Tobola is a poet, memoirist, playwright and co-author of a children’s book. Her work has earned four Pushcart Prize nominations, three Academy of American Poets awards and a Children’s Choice Book Award. Her memoir, Hummingbird in Underworld:Teaching in a Men’s Prison (She Writes Press, 2019), received positive reviews in the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books. It also won several awards in the categories of social justice, social issues, creative nonfiction and heroic journeys. Tobola spent 30 years working as prison arts instructor, teaching creative writing and theatre. Tobola founded Poetic Justice Project, the country’s first theatre company for formerly incarcerated people, in Santa Maria, California in 2009.
Before dedicating herself to poetry, Elizabeth Buckner was a welfare worker in Los Angeles and San Francisco for four years and a prison educator in San Luis Obispo County for thirty years, with a stint in San Francisco as a substitute school bus driver in between. Her poems are her life stories written in shorthand, distilled to their essences. She has self-published two books of poetry, Naked Lady in 2012, and Spirits in 2016. She recently re-published an expanded version of, Naked Lady, A Poetic Memoir of Rape and Recovery. Both books are available on Amazon Kindle and Apple Books.
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