Find Your Spark

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Nicole invites our last year’s #SparkingChangeInterns Sadie, Zaria and Brandon to share their perspectives and the importance of Black History Month. They each discuss their view on what society says about it, their own personal insights about the month, and how they have learned so much more about this month as a culture, beyond what they learned in...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Ashley and Stephanie reflect upon their recent blockages with working out and doing easy work tasks, they discuss the power of momentum. Momentum is defined as 1) The strength or force that something has when it is moving or 2) the strength or force that allows something to continue or to grow stronger or faster as time passes. It’s that key moment w...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Stephanie Fox shares an important reminder that we are never alone in our feelings. A school counselor recently shared with Stephanie that this was the most profound realization her group of teens had while doing the SPARK Mentoring Program. Simple and profound, this fact allows us to feel empowered, connected and relieved. In order to have this insi...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Brooke, Ashley, Nicole and Jena reflect on the past year and share what they learned in 2021. Jena talks about making her own rules and how that affects the people around her. Nicole shares about seeing her own potential and how we are all meant to shine. Ashley speaks about being her true authentic self and why it is so important to show up as you....

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Ashley and Brooke talk about the ebbs and flows of motivation and inspiration. Brooke shares about how she is usually full of inspiration and often works many hours while it feels inspiring and exciting. However, she has recently been in an ebb of this feeling and started to beat herself up with all of the should’s, “I should be doing this”, “this sh...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, in honor of Veteran’s Day this week, Stephanie reflects upon the concept of service. She discusses how humans are wired to want to serve and help each other. Tune in to hear how opportunities to serve are all around us and in doing so, we change our world!

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Nicole talks with SPARKING Change Intern, Emily Johnson, about what she has seen differently for herself. Emily shares her insight about trying to fix her feelings by reading books, going shopping, doing all the things she loves to try and make herself happy but realized none of it was working. Listen to hear more about what she realized after watchi...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Ashley and Stephanie are excited to talk about the creative potential that resides in each and every one of us. They share their own personal examples of pointing themselves in a direction and taking things step by step without having a clear idea of the "road map" or the end result. Once we can tune into that potential and not concern ourselves with...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Jena shares a little about what she has been seeing differently and how impactful it has been for her. She explains why the way you show up to someone and the way you communicate is so important. Choosing to have conversations and truly listening is where solutions come from. Listen to hear why Jena thinks communication is key and why you attract mor...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Nicole Wilson and Jena Travise discuss their recent experiences in seeing how powerful thought can be. The power of our thinking can really take over and limit us from doing something and we can innocently get trapped in it, but when we understand how thought works, we can actually do the thing we are afraid of! Jena shares her experience with a rece...

In this episode of the Find your SPARK podcast, Brooke and Ashley talk about all the chaos that has happened in and around their lives recently, and how they were able to navigate through the chaos a little more peacefully than others might expect! Listen to hear all about floods, car accidents, and craziness that is their lives at the moment, and what they saw in the mist of the chaos that helped...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Nicole Wilson shares what SPARK has to offer until the end of the year in honor of Suicide Prevention and Awareness and then dives deeper into how to be helpful to those who are suffering. She explains why we at SPARK approach this topic a little differently and why it is important to be heard on a neutral level. Speaking to the SPARK and health insi...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Nicole Wilson shares her brother’s story and the impact of suicide loss from a loved one. Last week, Nicole released a blog sharing her perspective as a young girl, losing her father due to suicide. This week, she shares her brother Seth’s story. Last year in 2020, Seth ended his life by suicide. As this situation is still very fresh to her and tough...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, in honor of suicide awareness month, Nicole Wilson and Kathryn Bonney share their stories and experiences on suicide and why bringing awareness around it is important. Kathryn shares her history with suicide and how learning this simple understanding about the human mind has helped her overcome those strong and overwhelming feelings that used to wash...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Stephanie shares another incident that almost led to a nervous breakdown. In a complete betrayal of her trust, her son charged $1200 in video games to her credit card. While efforts to get the money refunded have failed, something inside her is telling her that it’s ok. Stephanie explores how this could possibly be true when all evidence points to th...

A few weeks ago, Brooke and Ashley shared about their experience working with a group of inspiring women from the Falkenburg County Jail in “The Healing Power of Presence” podcast. In this weeks’ episode, they reflect on their time teaching  SPARK’s Insight to Well-Being Program with this group and how the space created allowed the women to teach themselves and SPARK their own insights.  Brooke an...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Stephanie Fox asked her mom, Shirley, to join her to discuss a recent harrowing experience driving to the top of the Continental Divide in Colorado. While they are happy to have done it and lived to tell the tale, both of their minds convinced them that death was a real possibility. On the other hand, the other passengers in the car were either havin...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Brooke and Ashley share about their experience of presence inside jail.  They share what they have seen about listening while truly being present with someone, and the connection others feel from this. They talk about the different ways many of us are taught to listen and the truths they have seen about listening.

In this episode of the Find your SPARK podcast, Nicole Wilson reintroduces some familiar faces. SPARKING Change Interns, Sadie and Zaria discuss their upcoming group project IGNITE  and what inspired it. They have focused on the impact they wanted their project to have, what each group member wanted to bring to the table, and the population they wanted IGNITE to reach. This group of interns all ha...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Nicole Wilson introduces SPARKING Change Intern, Zaria Jean-Baptiste. Zaria shares her experience with the internship program and what she has seen for herself on a personal level. She explains how prior, she had everything in life planned out on a timeline – from graduating school to getting married and having kids. She learns that the way the mind...

In this episode, Brooke Wheeldon-Reece and Ashley Hunt reflect on their personal experiences with conflict. While Brooke used to run towards conflict, Ashley used to run away from it, and they discuss how they’ve learned to handle confrontation in healthier ways. They also express how important it is for one to be in a clear state of mind when bringing up issues and the significance of responding...

In this episode, Brooke Wheeldon-Reece and Ashley Hunt reflect on their personal experiences with conflict. While Brooke used to run towards conflict, Ashley used to run away from it, and they discuss how they’ve learned to handle confrontation in healthier ways. They also express how important it is for one to be in a clear state of mind when bringing up issues and the significance of responding...

In this episode, Stephanie recounts a recent backpacking experience in which she put her physical limits to the test! In an intensive training prep for a backpacking excursion, Stephanie found herself on the verge of giving up after hours of strenuous hiking and climbing. However, when given just a little hope that she could have a chance to stay at a relaxing lodge if she continued, she was able...

In this episode, Brooke and Ashley talk about a recent webinar they both attended with Kirk Souder, Co-Founder of Enso. On this webinar, Brooke expressed some concern about limiting thoughts to Kirk, and then both she and Ashley had insights into what each of them were doing that may be getting in the way of SPARK growing as large as it can. Listen as they share their insights, and just how sneaky...

In this week’s episode, Stephanie welcomes a special guest from SPARK Australia, Nicole Montgomerie. Nicole has been a teacher for the last 16 years working with kids from ages 4-14 years old. Nicole and Stephanie talk about her experience implementing the SPARK Mentoring program with kids ages 5-7. In particular, Nicole reflects on how much the kids have resonated with the activities, especially...