Living Strong: The Flip Side of Adversity

Bridging Generations: Heart-to-Heart About Mental Health

The Bridging Generations: Heart-to-Heart, episode invites you into an intimate discussion that span generations, offering insights that are both timeless and timely. As our co hosts share their journeys, struggles, and triumphs, this episode aims to illuminate the challenges and blessings of navigating life and mental health in an intergenerational flow.
Tune in as we explore topics such as anxiety, resilience, self-care, and the evolution of mental health awareness from one generation to the next, fostering a deeper understanding and connection across ages.
Whether you're a parent, a child, or simply someone interested in the interplay of mental health and familial relationships, this episode offers a heartfelt glimpse into the conversations that can shape our lives.
Join us as we bridge the generational divide with empathy, wisdom, and love, inspiring listeners to foster their own meaningful conversations at home.

A Bold Transformation

Tune in to the Flip Side of Adversity for an empowering conversation on mental wellness and bold transformations for women. Join us as we explore the journeys of resilience, self-discovery, and empowerment. Discover actionable insights and transformative steps that will inspire you to embark on your own journey towards holistic well-being and personal growth. Join Crystal Nelson and I for a bold journey of mental clarity, physical strength, and emotional resilience as we share triumphs, setbacks, and the invaluable lessons learned along the way.

Gratitude Through Grief: A New Journey

Back to back tragedies, created a path that I never wanted to travel. I lost my entire home in 2019. We were displaced for over a year. In 2020 January I lost my mother after a long bought of various illnesses. In October 2020, my husband was in a tragic and fatal motorcycle accident with traumatic brain injury. He never awoke. I brought him home after a long day in the hospital under hospice where I cared for him until he passed in January 2021. We were married for 32 years. My original first love was taken from me on a normal day like so many others. Discovering how I could find gratitude within devastating grief has allowed me to live a life that is full, has happiness, and purpose. Gratitude and happiness absolutely can live together. But gratitude and grief cannot occupy the same space. I choose gratitude every time.

Benchmarks to Keep On Purpose With your Purpose

Join Dr. Veirdre Jackson and Khalilah S. Lyons as they reconnect to explore the transformative power of Life on the B_List by shifting away from the grind of the a-list and instead prioritizing purpose and joy. Tune in to their conversation about mindful practices and reminders on how to maintain tranquility, self-assurance and conviction in our daily lives.

The Purpose of Public Education

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Tre Hadrick thinks about the future of education, his mind immediately goes into game mode— so that he can help all children perform to their full potential. As a former coach, he understands that selecting the best starters to begin the game increases the chances for a positive outcome for the entire team. Choosing the right start is so important as we address the growing demands, needs, and hurdles in education during the post pandemic era. Tre Hadrick is ready to lead educators, parents, and communities into the future so all children can reach their full potential by:
- teaching children how to cope with the challenges of life, rooted in self-confidence, normalizing the mental health conversation
- making sure all children have a fair opportunity to learn
- stressing the importance of completion over correction, encouraging growth over grades, more concerned about mastery over mistakes
- allow families to find out what works best for their child(ren)
This newly appointed Board Member to the PA Board of Education has enthusiasm, insight, innovation, and practical strategies for the field of public education.

HOPE LIVE!

This show offers practical ways for HOPE to come alive in a person’s
life through community, a relationship with God and helping to mitigate
the damage from the world.

Diligence Outweighs Mediocrity

“If you don't manage your wellness, you will be managing your illness. - Mental Health Counselor, Sandtrice Russell
As we enter the month of April as Stress Awareness Month, let’s have a flip side conversation to prevent this from happening, we have to be more proactive and take charge of our life and destiny. We can apply the principles of “ Diligence Outweighs Mediocrity” D.O.M.s on our finances, health, personal ties, and relationship with God so little stresses do not turn out to be vast stresses later.

Becoming a Disruptive Peace-Maker

Becoming a Disruptive Peacemaker has been a long time journey of mine. The interesting part of the Journey is that I didn’t realize how important it was to heal from the past, to help heal the future. As an educator, I have seen trauma, conflict and quick fixes really impact the world of education, supporting teachers and holding space to develop children and communities. Through art, my path has me focused on bringing new life to recycled material. This is reflective of my story, once adopted as infant, coming home to my Native tribe after 45 years of disconnect has my heart and soul feeling repurposed in so many ways. My desire to bring art as a catalyst for healing has also formed as a method of peaceful disruption.
Activism in 2024 looks very different than what it did at the heels of George Floyd’s Murder. In those days, I was marching, posting and writing angrily at a system that had no chance of changing, because most individuals did not know that systematic racism was very active and alive today. Now, four years later, I follow the playbook of my heroes, Bob Marley, Audre Lorde, Dr. Angelou, bell Hooks, MLK Jr. Malcom X, They each were messengers of words that the world needed to hear, but they chose pathways of art, peace, nature and beauty to take up space as a form of resistance. My hope is that I can bring others in the community to peaceful, artistic pause with purpose. Say what you mean, in a way that matters, and creates pause for reflection rather than violence.

Encore Who I Choose to be, is the New Me!

Rick Warren has a quote, “We are the product of our past but we don’t have to be a prisoner to it.” Regardless of what has happened to us we don’t have to be shackled to it and allow it to define us. But let’s be honest life can be overwhelming; and even when we are confident and competent in our abilities and skills to achieve success with joy and gratitude, we can still attest to the reality that sometimes, life still gets hard. And if we don’t stay alert to what we believe to be true, we can become chained to lies, tricks, and skeems designed to distort our value and worth in the middle of our story- sabotaging the potential for our ending.
Letting go of our chains (thoughts/hurts/ lies/ narratives) is essential to becoming everything God has called us to be. Sometimes, letting go is difficult because we don’t physically see the chains, so we deny them or ignore them because they are too difficult to acknowledge or confront.
In the title for our show Zohnette Sligh shares an expression “who I choose to be”...choice denotes that there are alternatives for our paths. Join us for a conversation of how creativity, adventure and vulnerability can unlock chains and open doorways to purpose and true identity.

Spirit-Filled Entrepreneur

As professionals and entrepreneurs, life is radically busy. There’s too much to do and never enough time, money, or energy.
Our natural tendency is to dig in and do MORE…
• More work
• More time
• More energy
which is inevitably followed by more discouragement at the end of each day when the to-do list is longer than when the day started.
We worry about the work, then try to work away the worry.
What if there was one thing that changed everything?
The beautiful truth is that God cares about our joy and fulfillment even more than we do. He’s radically invested in our professional lives, and He wants to fill us with His Spirit to guide and provide for us every step of the way.
With God as our partner, we can navigate the twists and turns of life with confidence, knowing that lasting joy and success really can be ours.