Choose Your Attitude

Podcast Episode 023: Coloring Today Pretty with Stephanie Feger!

Send us a textIn this episode we're interviewing Stephanie Feger, an author who blends her passion for helping others, with her communication and marketing skills. Stephanie uses her amazing skillsets as a way to provide unique coaching and consulting for both authors and entrepreneurs.Stephanie's coachings are customized to meet the needs of the specific group she's working with, leaving attendees with meaningful and tangible ways to live a life guided by perspective.Feger dives into how things truly do happen at the right place, right time, and most importantly, for the right purpose. Here's our chat.StephanieFeger.comSupport the show

022 : Marcie Keithley & the Shoebox of Purpose

Send us a textWe all have secrets. Truths that are too painful to face.Marcie J. Keithley, Author of "The Shoebox Effect: Transforming Pain into Fortitude and Purpose," knows this all too well as she, herself, attempted to put all of her past worries into a proverbial (and literal!) shoebox. Just waiting for the time when she would have the strength to examine and process them.The reality, though, is that the only way to move forward in life is to face your past head on.Her book chronicles her journey of opening her "shoebox" and learning how to navigate loss, grief, divorce, death, adoption, and all of life's adversities, and transform them into fortitude and purpose.An accomplished professional, speaker, writer, and emotional resilience coach, Marcie is amazing guest to have on any podcast. Full of hope, even in the face of challenge.She has made it her life's mission to be open and honest with her personal story, in hoping to give others the permission release their own pain that they carry, and move forward with purpose.Here's our chat. Marcie Keithlyhttps://marciejkeithley.com/ @TheShoeBoxEffectPoem Referenced in Podcast:ChoicesBy Marcie J. KeithleyIf you were given a second chanceTo step back into timeAnd change a wrong and make it rightI wonder what you’d find.For God has chosen a special pathFor all of us you see.Would you correct the mistakes you made?Or would you let them lbe?As I look back on my own lifeThe choices that I madeWere ones that help me grow up strongNone were made in vain.Regardless whether wrong or rightEach one helped me to seeThat only when we fail to chooseOur lives can never be.You have a choice to start each dayWith happiness and joy.Or you could choose to stay in bedDepressed, removed and void.You have a choice to share your lifeWith friends and family.Or hide away within yourselfAnd miss your destiny.You have a choice to take a chanceOr let it walk on by.But you will never  taste successUnless you reach and try.For failures teach us many thingsAnd are not meant to be.A way to give up on a dreamAnd hand away the key.So when you choose, choose carefullyAnd look within your heart..For only when we fail to chooseOur lives can never start.Support the show

021 : Kevin Briggs & the Power of Perspective

Send us a textPart 2 of 3: In the second episode of our three part series, (the continuation of episode 20) we speak to Kevin Briggs, the police officer from Kevin Berthia's Golden Gate Bridge story. Trigger Warning: This episode speaks on suicide. Support the show

Podcast Episode 020: Step Out of the Darkness and Into the Light with Kevin Berthia

Send us a textEpisode Trigger Warning: Suicide. If you or someone you know needs direct help, please reach out to:  National Suicide Prevention Hotline800-273-8255 (TALK)SuicidePreventionLifeLine.org---------------------------------------In 2005, Kevin Berthia was challenged to his core mentally, physically and emotionally.His entire life buckled into one moment, and thought there was no other choice but to head to the Golden Gate Bridge...and jump. He was desperately looking for someone to ask him what he was doing, someone to listen, acknowledge, anything. Kevin made it all the way to the bridge, walked to the middle, climbed over the railing and just as he made the decision to release, he heard a voice that saved his life. It was Kevin Briggs, a police officer.Briggs listened to Berthia for 90 minutes. Unwinding and unloading his entire life to the first person who gave him a real moment to speak and share, for the first time in a long time.Those 90 minutes of shared time and perspective saved Kevin Berthia's life, and changed it for the better. Literally. Here's our chat.  Video Resources: Kevin Berthia Ted TalkKevin Berthia - GoalCast VideoChoose Your Attitude Podcast - YouTube ChannelYouTube Link of this EpisodeKevin Berthia@_gratefulKevin Berthia Foundationhttps://kevinberthiafoundation.orgThis podcast is made possible by the support of viewers like you! If you are feeling generous, and love what you are hearing, we encourage you to share, comment, like us. And if you feel encouraged, support us at https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourAttitudePodcast Support the show

Podcast Episode 019: GMadison Brings Power to Perspective in "Invincible"

Send us a textGMadison is a world renowned dancer, choreographer, and instructor.His work has been seen on some of the largest stages in the world and he just finished up touring with Mariah Carey this last year.Most recently, GMadison and his wife, singer & songwriter Chenelle, put together a beautiful and inspiring music video for Chenelle's song "Invincible," which focuses on how society has grown accustomed to labeling individuals before anyone even understands someone's true perspective.We all have different journeys of course, and throughout our lives, certain experiences and events can unfortunately become triggers for us. It could be anything from racial divides, sexual harassment, or a myriad of other experiences and traumas.GMadison and Chenelle encourage others to stop and listen, understand before judging, and only then can we truly uncover and comprehend someone's perspective.Here's our chat.GUEST INFO:INVINCIBLE Music Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Uo2tF9-4o@GMadison4 | www.GMadisonIV.com@ChenelleWorld | www.ChenelleWorld.comSupport the show