She Sounds Like Me

🎙️ Welcome back, wonderful listeners, to a heartwarming episode of "She Sounds Like Me"! Join hosts, rachael Laya Hoffman & Cyla Grace Hoffman (now age 10!) as they candidly share their journey through a year filled with unexpected challenges and joyous victories. 🌟  Dive deep into an emotional update where one host reveals her brave battle with early-stage breast cancer, her triumphant recovery,...

This week we celebrate a season of gratitude with a deep discussion on what it means to truly be grateful. We share our families daily gratitude practice and what it means to lead with a grateful heart when it comes to communicating with those you love. Cyla speaks on how to create a ripple effect of love and appreciation, and how to pick yourself up and feel more grateful when things feel low.  L...

We are BACK with Season 4 of the She Sounds Like Me Podcast , after a few months off enjoying the summer and organizing our  lives. Normalizing rest and reconnection, while reflecting on all this past year has taught us, and BOY has it taught us A LOT. Today we are also celebrating the right to VOTE, as we mark the Midterm Elections in 2022 with a kid driven chatcast about what it means to rock yo...

Season 3 comes to a close with a light-hearted conversation about confidence. What is confidence anyways? How do we channel it, get more of it, feel it in our bodies and replenish it when we are feeling low? With an excerpt from Cyla’s interview with Joy Cho, on A Kid’s Book About Confidence, we hear another perspective on the subject and what happens to our confidence when we compare ourselves to...

This episode may be sensitive for some listeners as we discuss the events of the senseless school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas as well as school preparedness at the grade school level. There are no words to describe how we are all feeling on the heels of another school shooting, but no one's pain is worse than the parents that have lost their own. Our hearts go out to all th...

And so it begins. Name calling, teasing, whispers, dirty looks. Tricks of the bully business as old as the ages, and it is still as shocking and sad for all involved the day it begins for our kids. Bully behavior is happening earlier and earlier these days, with the help of the internet and social media, so how can we teach our kids how to prepare and handle this hurtful behavior from the start? ...

Do you believe anything is possible? What if we told you it might just be? How do we keep those doors open for our kids? This is just the start of how to explain what manifestation means and there's no better person to help explain it than the "Queen Of Manifestation" herself, Jen Mazer. Join us as Jen shares practical ways to encourage big dreams and help the whole family visualize greater possib...

Do you believe anything is possible? What if we told you it might just be? How do we keep those doors open for our kids? This is just the start of how to explain what manifestation means and there's no better person to help explain it than the "Queen Of Manifestation" herself, Jen Mazer. Join us as Jen shares practical ways to encourage big dreams and help the whole family visualize greater possib...

How do you choose to push through when it comes to what you’ve committed to? Whether you do sports, art, dance, music, gymnastics or all of the above - making a commitment takes practice, patience and perseverance. Not only to yourself, but to your teammates, coaches, teachers and parents. In this episode, Rachael and Cyla talk about what it takes to stick to those commitments, why it’s important...

Coronavirus, Covid-19, the Rona, whatever you call it, wherever you live, the global pandemic that started in 2019 still trudges on along with all the worries, fears and concerns that comes with it.  What does a virus actually mean? What is an Epidemiologist? What have we learned and how can we move forward?  With help from A Kids Book About Covid-19, written by Social Epidemiologist, Malia Jones...

How do we process all of these big feelings when someone we love passes on?   This one is a bit on the heavy side, friends as we talk candidly about death, the process of dying and grieving those we love when they pass on. Listen in on our secular (non-religious) conversation about it all, in a podcast recorded soon after the sudden loss of a family member. As always, this is a made for kids episo...

Ahh.. the beginning of a new year, filled with opportunities, new goals and… more screen time?!? YUP.  Thanks to the uptick in the new Omicron variant and the rise of Covid-19 cases in our region, school kicked off with a virtual start to the new year. After months of in-person classes, Cyla and Rachael talk about the pows and wows of learning in this way, and the major setbacks of online school f...

Welp, it was 21 months in the making but the Hoff House finally got hit with the Coronavirus just a few days before Christmas. Rachael tests positive, while Cyla and her Dad remain negative and the whole house quarantines over the holiday break, cancelling plans with friends and family. The Covid "Bully" came knocking, but didn't blow our whole house down. Not exactly the outcome we were hoping fo...

Our episode order might be off, but our Gratitude is always on point. This episode was a pre-Thanksgiving convo where we spoke about how we can incorporate more gratitude into our daily habits. Why it’s important to share openly, and how to share more gratitude together.  This episode also dives into our #MegaMitzvah benefit for One Warm Coat with some special shout outs along the way. Join the co...

Happy Hanukkah friends! Sharing loads of love, light and levity around this wonderful celebration. As Jew"ish" people, Cyla and Rachael have found fun resources like JewBelong.org and DaysUnited.org (click the link to get $10 off!) to help explain these stories and recall them over these important holidays.  This episode shares some of those stories! While this season can lead to a lot of receivin...

This week's episode is all about gamification, and how to add fun and value to the more mundane tasks of an ordinary day.  We talk about some varied methods of interactive point systems and how to apply them to incentivise each other to achieve greatness and be rewarded. On the flip side, gamification can create bad habits as well, especially when it comes to technology. Listen in!   _____________...

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If you like what you hear, we'd love to connect directly with you! Subscribe to this show on your chosen platform + join our tribe online at www.shesoundslikeme.com . Connect with us on social @shesoundslikeme on Instagram , Twitter , LinkedIn ,  Youtube and and our Facebook Page ++ contribute to the community conversation in the She Sounds Like Me Group on Facebook ! Massive thanks to the awesome...

If you like what you hear, we'd love to connect directly with you! Subscribe to this show on your chosen platform + join our tribe online at www.shesoundslikeme.com . Connect with us on social @shesoundslikeme on Instagram , Twitter , LinkedIn ,  Youtube and and our Facebook Page ++ contribute to the community conversation in the She Sounds Like Me Group on Facebook ! Massive thanks to the awesome...

It's it’s VERY important to prepare your child properly, especially after 16 months of stressful pandemic restrictions. Therefore, we have provided you a link from one of the nation’s top psychologists & camp advisers.   In this video, Dr. Chris Thurber provides tips for parents to work with their children BEFORE camp to ensure a smooth transition, and reduce the intensity of first-year campers’ h...

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If you like what you hear, we'd love to connect directly with you! Subscribe to this show on your chosen platform + join our tribe online at www.shesoundslikeme.com . Connect with us on social @shesoundslikeme on Instagram , Twitter , LinkedIn ,  Youtube and and our Facebook Page ++ contribute to the community conversation in the She Sounds Like Me Group on Facebook ! Massive thanks to the awesome...