Livin' What You're Given
Living our lives at every age and stage with purpose to the fullest by dismissing messages that say we cannot do, be or have our best life. Exploring the complex issues of aging, being artists, finding our gifts, encouraging others to find their gifts and sharing them.
Episodes
89 episodes
Steppin out of the Boat
As I end my podcast for the foreseeable future, I reflect with great gratitude upon what I have learned, the people I have met, the support I have enjoyed and the incredible opportunity to tell and share stories from people all over this world....
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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26:26
Gift to the Soul
I can not imagine a better guest to end this fourth season of Livin' What You're Given Podcast, than Robin Freed. Robin is also my last interview as I end the podcast for the foreseeable future. The reason Robin is such a great fit for th...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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27:56
Why Our Sharing Matters
My guest today holds a special place in my heart. Her name is Suzanne Chimera and she is Co-Founder of Hair We Share, an organization that takes hair donations and make wigs for people who are losing their hair due to a variety of reasons....
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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29:52
Gratitude in All Things
My guest today, Beatrice Bruno, the Drill Sergeant of Life, joins me as we explore the idea of gratitude in all things. She talks about being thankful for each day and the opportunities she has been given by God, including her very life. As the...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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40:44
Gratitude Stories Matter
This month, November, I am bringing on two guests who remind us of the power of gratitude even in these difficult, divided and tumultuous times. The gentleman who is my first guest in November, Stephen Ray Watts, shares with me and my audie...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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49:50
When Relationships Suffer Estrangement
My guest today is Michelle Rohlf, and she is granting me another interview to follow up her interview in May of 2023. In our last session, Michelle and I discussed the pain of having a child estrange themselves from us. She described her ...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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36:50
Courageously Sharing Truth
Karen DeArmond Gardner is a survivor of thirty years in a marriage where she was verbally, emotionally and at times physically abused. She talks about how her own work of writing a book, speaking to others and helping to educate communities aro...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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50:34
We're Not Alone in our Stories
Today, my guest, author and speaker Lori Ann Wood, discusses where her story of a divine detour has taken her and how sharing her story has helped other people. After discovering she had end-stage heart failure, she began to ask the questions o...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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35:24
Numb Tongue Trials
In a rare presentation of a solo episode, I talk about my philosophy that we can indeed learn to love, speak and walk with dignity, even in a world where winning at all costs is everything. Pulling from real-life experience, I share a story fro...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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26:55
Embracing Reason
Please note: This is a rebroadcast of an episode that I ran in 2023. Because we are still in the political chaos, or perhaps worse, I feel it is important for us to remember that we can have a voice, we can turn this tide and we can bring...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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38:24
Dismanteling Toxic Politics
Note: This is a rebroadcast of the episode with Kevin Kuns in July of 2023. Because we seem to be in the same or worse political situation than when this was first recorded, I felt it worth a revisit of the wisdom, strength and ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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38:06
Helping Others Deal with Bullying
In March in 2015, Maya Haynes' daughter Caitlyn completed suicide because of bullying. After her death, Cait's peers came forward and told Maya and her husband that they had witnessed the bullying and did not know what to do. Many had repor...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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41:10
Helping Others Heal
In 1989, Jerry Schemmel survived the airplane crash of United Airlines Flight 232 that landed in a field in Sioux City, Iowa. In 1996, he wrote a book called "Chosen to Live" detailing not only the disastrous incident itself, but also his j...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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37:32
Feeling our Feelings
Gwendolyn Burton is an author, teacher, speaker, and certified grief educator. But mostly she is an authentic voice for those who are experiencing grief and loss, as she has suffered one of the toughest losses known to humans -...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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37:07
Why Stories Matter
We are starting our fourth season of "Livin' What You're Given". The rest of 2024, I want to explore the effects of storytelling. In this episode I talk about why our stories matter. They have been given to us so we can share them...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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18:11
Letting Go of 2023
Today in this solo podcast episode, the last one of 2023 and the last one for a few months, I want to talk about letting go of idolizing the past. We cannot move forward, if we insist on focusing on the past. The tendency to retro ...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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19:55
Turning from Retro-reach
Today, I am joined by Ashley Pyles, a Christian Transformational Faith Coach who has spent decades helping women not only strengthen their faith, but also put it into action. There are many reasons why we can stunt our spiritual growth, and...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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36:51
Turning from Burdens to Blessings
In this week's episode, which is a solo, I want to share the word "burdens" as an acronym. I think this is particularly important as the holidays are here and we can feel overwhelmed by the expectations we place on ourselves and th...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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18:01
Turning From Holiday Stress
Whoa, the holidays are here already and the pressures can be real. In today's episode, my guest Sue Moore Donaldson, and I explore how to drop some of the baggage around what we expect of ourselves and others when it comes to holiday festivitie...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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36:00
Turning From Domestic Abuse Part 2
Please note: This is a re-broadcast of an earlier episode that was taped and aired in 2021. The subject is domestic abuse, and because it is October (National Domestic Violence Awareness Month), I wanted to air this again. The topi...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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43:01
Turning From Domestic Abuse Part 1
Please note: This is a re-broadcast of an earlier episode that was taped and aired in 2021. The subject is domestic abuse, and because it is October (National Domestic Violence Awareness Month), I wanted to air this again. The topic follo...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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39:11
Turning From Bullying Part 2
"Before you hate, think of Cait." This is the statement that began P.E.E.R. Kindness, an organization started by our guest, Maya Haynes, after her teenage daughter Cait completed suicide in 2015.In the second part of this two-part serie...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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39:38
Turning From Bullying Part 1
"Before you hate, think of Cait." This is the statement that began P.E.E.R. Kindness, an organization started by our guest, Maya Haynes, after her teenage daughter Cait completed suicide in 2015.I am joined today by Maya Haynes, the mot...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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32:23
