Beautiful Shifts

Molly is a wife, mother, and woman of many talents including singer/dancer/actress, emcee, copywriter, author, founder of the nationally recognized non-profit "A Good Grief," and keynote speaker on the Commodity of Connection. Today Molly shares about the journey she's been on since the loss of her firstborn daughter 15 years ago, thoughts on various life experiences and shifts, and how connection...

Thanks to Whitney herself for helping us out with this title! Whitney is a 19-year-old college student, plays soccer for Salt Lake Community College, and is Shantil's daughter! Today Whitney shares several big life shifts she's been through in the past year including adjusting to a challenging first semester of college, deciding to play soccer at the collegiate level leading to a school transfer,...

Today is a special episode with our friends Tasha and Stephanie on living into our values. First, we chat about the Beautiful Shifts Bookclub we are starting for 2024 (listen in for more details). Then we are joined by Tasha and Stephanie and, using Brene Brown's exercise/worksheet on identifying values, we each discuss which values stand out to us and how we can refocus on them for the New Year....

Today we share some thoughts on the New Year and fun things we have coming this year for the podcast. We then explain a few meaningful words to consider going into the New Year shared by Holly Wever in our conversation with her last year, which we are resharing today.   Holly shares what she learned through the major life transition of losing her sister to an accidental overdose including acceptan...

This week we asked for listener submissions of holiday traditions and stories of kindness/giving during this time of year to share. We read these and share some of our own, and about guests we've had on the podcast with charities to support. It was fun hearing what people had to share and chatting about holiday things! We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas week and a Happy New Year!    Previo...

Today we get to talk with the amazing Don Ward, a lifelong teacher who is now 82-years-old and has been serving the refugee community in Utah for over 15 years. Mr. Ward is everyone's favorite teacher! He taught AP U.S. History and Student Government at Jordan and Alta High Schools in Sandy, Utah, for 35 years (and was a teacher of Lindsay's!). He shares some background growing up in Texas, moving...

Gentry Rose is currently Miss Utah Volunteer, working toward her nursing degree, and involved in the non-profit charity her mom Sheena founded, The Giving Grinch, which gives to those in need at Christmastime and year-round. Gentry shares what led to becoming Miss Utah Volunteer, choosing to become a nurse, how a love for service was fostered in her life, and the heartwarming story of how Sheena s...

Today we have a very special episode with Jorge Nunez. Jorge's story is unique, eye opening and incredibly inspiring. Jorge shares how he emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. at age two, was raised on the streets of L.A., fell into the gang life at a young age and what that was like. He wrote his first poem while serving time in a probation camp for boys. Poetry, and Street Poets, the non-profit orga...

Today we don't have a guest, it's just us sharing a few thoughts on gratitude! We also chat about some of our recent guests who have brough gratitude into their stories and some simple ideas of ways to incorporate gratitude into our lives.    We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving week! Thank you for listening!   Find Beautiful Shifts on Instagram @beautifulshifts_podcast and on Facebook he...

TeriLyn joins us to share about her fertility journey as well as several other pivotal life transitions she's been through including faith transition and her career move from the corporate financial industry to blogging about running to becoming a fashion influencer. TeriLyn shares details about her journey with fertility that are helpful for anyone considering growing their family, for those who...

Ashlee is a speaker, teacher, victim advocate, writer and mother of seven. In today's episode Ashlee shares her story of the infidelity and murder of her husband in 2011, just months after giving birth to their fifth baby. She shares her healing journey, finding her voice, knowing her worth, and helping others. Ashlee has grown to love sharing her story and is an advocate for those who have experi...

Brenda Smart is a mother of four adult children, a grandmother, a social worker, and has been married to her husband for 44 years. In today's episode Brenda shares about living around the world and the challenges and benefits of experiencing diverse cultures while raising their family, as well as serving as a mission president couple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) in Pue...

Today we are joined by Levi Culley and his mom Jackie Culley as Levi shares his perspective of what it was like having his older brother Riley diagnosed with cancer when he was a young teen. Levi shares his experience including spending time with his brother through his last days, lessons he learned, and valuable advice on what we can do to support others in similar situations.   Jackie was one of...

In August of 2022 Dan sustained a critical injury to his spine resulting in becoming paraplegic. In today's interview we have the opportunity to talk with Dan and his wife Michelle, who are also our close neighbors and friends, about what this experience has been like. Dan and Michelle share their experience from the day of the accident through recovery and adapting to this new normal from both of...

Rachel Garrett is a former high school teacher, licensed foster parent, certified CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate), and founder and Executive Director of Common Thread - a nonprofit dedicated to building community and strengthening teens who are experiencing adversity in their lives. Today we get to talk with Rachel about what led her to becoming a foster parent, what that experience has be...

Cindy Chia is a prominent therapist in Utah and the founder of Aspire Psychological. In today's episode she shares what led to pursuing a degree in psychology and becoming a trauma therapist with a "non-BS approach to healing." We discuss recognizing trauma and the process toward healing, understanding gaslighting, and the power of cycle-breaking. Cindy shares how her personal experience and traum...

Today we have our first guest interview of the season with Brooke Romney! We're so excited to have Brooke with us to help kick of Season Two. Brooke shares what led her to writing about parenting and her books to where she is today running a large online community of support and connection for parents of teens and tweens that is valuable to so many. Brooke shares some insightful and doable things...

Season Two is here! This week we chat about what we've been up to since wrapping up Season One, our goals and direction for the podcast, upcoming guests, and more. We're so excited for our upcoming guests conversations as they share stories of Beautiful Shifts, and to discuss what we can learn from each other through sharing life transitions and experiences.  Thanks so much for listening and for a...

Our last episode of the season! Today we have fun chatting about what the experience of starting this podcast has been like and recapping the season. We talk about the different life transition categories we had throughout the season and give some thoughts on each of our amazing guests and their stories.   We're so grateful for all our guests who took the time to come on our podcast this season -...

Jeffrey and Bryce are a gay couple living in the suburbs of Salt Lake City raising their four-year-old twins, Ridge and Rue. They run the Instagram account @growingupwithdads and are the cutest family, and we're so excited to share their episode with you as we are about to enter Pride month!    In today's episode Jeffrey and Bryce share about growing up, how they met, coming out, and becoming pare...

Marina joins us today to share about multiple transitions in her life including living abroad at various times, going to law school, finding herself without both parents at the age of 40, working many years for the ACLU and recently moving to Equality Utah. She shares about advocating for legislation and policy in Utah working to build bridges across party lines, and explains about a recent bill s...

In the summer of 2014, Terry's life was forever changed when her only son Dane passed away from an accidental drug overdose. Terry shares about Dane's serious injury that led to him being prescribed pain meds, and how this led to his eventual addiction. We hear Terry's perspective as a parent trying to help her adult child through addiction, giving him love and support, and what she has learned th...

Natalies shares about growing up with her autistic sister, Angie. When she was young, Natalie experienced sadness and frustration not being able to understand and connect with Angie until one day a speech therapist changed everything. From there Natalie became passionate about learning all she could about autism and helping Angie and others. Natalies shares where this led, how she has helped over...

Today Nelson joins us to share about how he overcame a decade-long struggle with anxiety and OCD by learning to embrace uncertainty and live a life centered on values rather than fear. Nelson is passionate about all he has learned and has dedicated himself to helping others heal through obtaining a Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree, which he completes this fall.    In our conversation today...

In 2017, Nicolle lost hearing in her right ear overnight and began her journey of living and coping with Meniere's disease, hearing loss, tinnitus, migraines, and many more symptoms that come with inner ear/vestibular disorders. Nicolle shares the struggles of living with an invisible disorder and how she was inspired to use her art and voice to spread awareness about hearing loss and vestibular h...