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Compassion is the guiding force that bridges the gaps between individuals and fosters understanding in a world often fraught with discord. It is the profound ability to empathize with the joys and sorrows of others, to recognize their struggles as our own, and to extend a helping hand without judgment or expectation. Through compassion, we acknowledge the shared human experience, embracing diversi...

Any realizations before we wrap of the year and toss it in the books to welcome 2024? Please join me as I share my realizations as you reflection on yours to move into the new year!

Please listen to today’s episode on the “Savior Complex” that leads to burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma among the helping professions. In this episode, I will reference an article that shares information about the “Savior Complex” while exploring some of the common behaviors that serve as precursors in developing the “Savior Complex” to mitigate and instigate changes to those beha...

May this new year, you keep it real by keeping it simple silly and not getting caught in cycles of accomplishing those realistic goals and expectations

This is the time to “Take it all off” and take a look into the mirror to understand who you really are and where do you wan to go!

Challengers welcome back! May is Mental Health Awareness and Military Appreciation month, so to honor these two events, I decided to do a topic on Mindfulness and mindset by interviewing two wonderful speakers who are advocates of health and wellness. Please join me as I converse with Bridget & Eric Siscko on implementing the mindset of mindful living.

Challengers welcome back to Challenge Me 4 U! Did you know that last week, Facebook ‘faced’ a tremendous decline in users ? As a social media giant, it was a platform that aimed to connect users with one another, but over the past years it has transformed into a toxic playground of marketing ads and posts that leave users feeling disconnected, exhausted, and unfulfilled. To elaborate further, I in...

Last year we were healing and this year we are building resilience! Challengers please listen to this episode on cultivating resilience. We have been through the challenges presented by the pandemic and we have learned new skills to survive and thrive so let’s refine our self-care strategies to build resilience and move forward with our goals for the year of 2022!

Today, I had a lovely guest speaker who posses an exuberant spirit, she is a health coach, an amazing wife, a wonderful mother, a daredevil, a cancer thriver/survivor, a runner, a workout guru, and a fashionista, but most importantly a genuine human being who is willing to share with us her journey of how she decided to live her life to the fullest by living in the NOW! Please listen to Mrs. Sukan...

It’s the season of changes. The fall does bring evident changes. As we are witnessing these changes, we notice that for some changes we welcome them and for others we may not. We may feel uncomfortable so what do we when we experience the uncomfortable or unpleasant changes, please listen to this episode.

Dear Challengers, Can any of you remember who exactly shaped your lens or definition of success? What did that look like? And..How did that impact your life? Definitely you experienced the results from someone else’s wisdom but how did it feel within, was there a timeline imposed and I invite you to challenge some of those old ideologies as you are listening to this episode.

Welcome to Season 6! Dear listeners please join me today on a wonderful topic of an Immigrant’s perspective of creating home abroad. I’m delighted and honored to have a dear family friend, Dr. Tasmia Ahmed share her and her family’s experience as immigrants integrating their culture, tradition, and values from Bangladesh with American values while also shedding light on cultural awareness and comp...

Listeners, please join me today on the topic of The Healing Power of Laughter! Do you ever find yourself a bit too serious or extremely focused with the mundane, that you often forget to smile or engage in lighthearted activities as a way to decompress. You may have heard the famous saying, Laughter is the The best medicine, so let’s hear it today as I have our guest speaker, Ashaad Hipps share hi...

Never leave home without it because if you do, you won’t know what is right for you! That’s right, dear listeners, I shamelessly speak about this word in my episode so please listen and hone on your ‘B’ Word skills!

Less is More? How?! You might be thinking in what sense? Dear Challengers, I want to share with you the most essential and profound notion that doing less is actually more when it comes to productivity. We have all been raised on this belief that hard work or constantly accomplishing things in order to be valued, so let’s challenge this point that doing less allows us to bring more to the table of...

Please join me today on a lovely topic Transformation or “Change Begins at a Home.” An article written by LCSW, Geralyn Ryan. She is our guest speaker today so I’m honored to have her join me as she shares her journey and reflections with us to give us an opportunity on how we can begin changing within and within our homes.

Challengers! Welcome again to season 5 episode 2. Today I would like to share the topic or address this question on how social workers facilitate social change ? I’d like to share my insight about the profession as well as answering my wHy, I chose this line of work. Also tune into my self-care activity in the end.

Today, I’m delighted to share an episode dedicated to Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication process. A process in the form of language that allows us to connect deeply with ourselves and with others. To elaborate further, I had the pleasure of interviewing a seasoned non-violent instructor, Eze Sanchez who shares his experience through his personal lens and perspective as an instructor...

Please join me today on the topic of conscious choices in self-care. We all talk about self care but find ourselves not having the time or resources to do so. So what’s getting in the way. Dear challengers, ask yourself today, what choices am I making to live the life I want? Am I conscious that I even have a choice to choose. Stay tuned and listen to this episode to discover.

Please join me today as I share with you this topic on friendships which are conscious connections that nourish us during our challenges or success and how can we appreciate these connections that serve our growth. An article presents 7 traits that are crucial in developing friendships from the heart.

Please join me today on welcoming this new year of 2021! May we heal in this year, to persevere without fear, so we can rehabilitate and elevate. As I list my 20 takeaways from 2020, that gave us an unprecedented opportunity to cultivate resilience.

Please join me today in a delightful conversation on The Barefoot Path to Authenticity. I have a wonderful guest speaker, Mr. Justin Dreyer, who will share his experience, journey, strength, and wisdom that has paved an authentic path to fulfill his sole purpose. He fulfills his purpose by implementing the Wim Hof method to allow himself to reconnect with his body, mind, and earth. Changing and he...

Please join me today on a very important subject of embodying resilience as we face challenges. I have a wonderful guest speaker, Mrs. Marvene Edwards who will share her experience and her resilience that inspires many of us to continue to get up and face the world again. She is dedicated in serving the vulnerable population with her support to her stars and peers at Positively U.

Excited for the holidays in hopes to spend time with loved ones? Let’s do it all safely and effectively as we celebrate this season by taking effective measures during COVID-19. Please join me today as I offer some suggestions and precautions to ensure your holiday season is filled with health, wellness, and joy!

Challengers! Please join me today on this topic for the need of advocacy in our education system in United States. This pandemic of COVID-19 is giving us an opportunity to identify the barriers in our education, health, and government systems that are correlated due to lack of awareness and proactive civic engagement. To elaborate more, I have a wonderful guest speaker, Mrs. Noorain Ahmed who will...