Find Your Spark

In this episode of the Find your SPARK Podcast, Stephanie is inspired by something she read in Glennon Doyle’s Untamed and shares a very personal letter that she wrote to her “unwell” self from the perspective of her well or True Self. She talks about how the things she worries about in her unwell state like health insurance, money, retirement and her son not having a yard or a pool, look totally...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Brooke and Ashley along with James Hird, the principal of Horizons Academy Alternative School, are guest speakers on an episode of Michael Neill's "Might Help, Can't Hurt!" They talk about how educating students and teachers about how the mind works not only allows them to study and learn more effectively but creates a solid foundation for having "di...

In this episode of the Find your SPARK Podcast, Jena shares about her past experiences of feeling lost, stuck and not living life to the fullest. She talks about how she used to look for outside things and people to fix her and make her feel happy. Once Jena learned about how the mind works, she is now able to see life through a whole new lens and navigate with so much more love for herself and ot...

  In this episode of the Find your SPARK Podcast, Stephanie shares a couple recent experiences which clearly indicated to her that she was living from her Spark. She first speaks about her experience of feeling jealousy and resentment to then feeling love and excitement after not being told about a good friends’ wedding. Stephanie also shares about how she found it easy to have a difficult convers...

In this episode, Brooke and Ashley discuss why they feel that youth are the answer to the division in the world today. They share how they have seen others, as well as themselves, get caught up in being “right” and how much of a disservice it is to only see one side of things. They reflect on conversations they have had with youth, and the common factor they have seen is that the youth today are s...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Brooke speaks with Adam Gross, a 22 year old counseling major who lives in North London. Adam speaks about how understanding his inner critic instead of trying to change it, has helped him see his world and life differently. Listen as they shares, Finding Peace with my Inner Critic

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Stephanie talks about some very useful insights she had while training some of the Rebels for Peace members, a youth-led group working to end violence in Chicago. Her insights were around a problem she presented to them regarding the dilemma of balancing online schooling and work. Who would have thought her most useful parenting advice to date would...

In this episode of the Find Your SPARK Podcast, Nicole talks about the support group she facilitates with an organization that SPARK partners with called, Selah Freedom. Their mission is to put an end to sex trafficking and bring light into the darkness of survivors. Nicole shares her experience when meeting with the survivors weekly, and how she watches them uncover and transform their lives to b...

In this weeks episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Brooke and Nicole talk about a profound post they came across that reminded them both, when coming from a place of love, answers will always arise. They reflect on recent times that they lost sight of this and “got off track” when focusing on all the chaos going on in the world. When we do this, we are trying to find solutions from the world, r...

  In this week’s episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Ashley and Nicole share what they have noticed about parenting before understanding how the mind works vs. after understanding. They talk about moments of parenting when situations feel really tough but how great it is to understand that they don’t have to sit in that feeling and it will pass eventually. Ashley also shares about the Online P...

In this week’s episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Ashley and Nicole share what they have noticed about parenting before understanding how the mind works vs. after understanding. They talk about moments of parenting when situations feel really tough but how great it is to understand that they don’t have to sit in that feeling and it will pass eventually. Ashley also shares about the Online Par...

In this week’s episode of the Find Your SPARK podcast, Nicole and Jena share their insights on finding motivation to be healthier, after allowing insecurities to take a toll on them, they rediscovered their confidence and motivation to feel better and do better. They will be sharing more with you on how new thought always brings new feelings and experiences, when we learn to let go of the ones tha...

  In this episode, Brooke and Ashley talk about the upcoming school year. Local schools here are set to reopen in the next couple of weeks, and we have heard very strong opinions on the decision of sending kids back or not. Brooke and Ashley discuss their decisions and how they came to the decision for themselves, as well as share what they have heard on social media, and even with close friends t...

In this episode, Stephanie reflects on a couple examples of how knowing about her SPARK has recently helped her and her 6 year-old son deal with kitchen disasters and Minecraft moments! Listen as she shares their experiences. As always, if you have a topic you would like us to talk about or if there something you would like to hear more on, please let us know! Email us at  info@thesparkinitiative....

In this episode, Ashley and Jena share their recent events about how they have each experienced feeling left out. They speak about how this feeling can lead them to making assumptions and becoming even more disconnected, but allowing for time, space and understanding, a whole new perspective can be gained. They talk about how these feelings can feel really big at times, but they will all settle ev...

In this episode, Ashley and Nicole share about resent insights they have had about the importance and appreciation for their state of mind. Ashley shares about getting caught up in her thinking, and then the unhelpful "should's" that unfolded for her. She talks about how she recognized this, and how it was helpful moving forward. Her problems suddenly didn't seem as big as she had thought, and ans...

In this episode, Nicole Wilson and Jena Travise talk about personal resentment and how this understanding of the mind has helped them let go of past experiences that weighed them down and live life a lot lighter.

In this episode, Brooke and Ashley share about what they are seeing new about separate realities, and appreciating diversity within us all. They share what they have seen about both, everyone being one, and also recognizes and appreciating the differences in us all. The both listened to a recent talk at a conference and saw many things from it in regards to parenting, but then, as the week has gon...

  In this episode, Nicole Wilson and Jena Travise talk about insights they have had and things they have seen this past week after attending a recent Conference called "Life 2.0". They share how beautiful it was to see people gather from across the world via Zoom, all connecting, sharing and learning more about themselves and each other, especially during this current time in the world. Listen as...

In this episode, Ashley Hunt and Nicole Wilson talk about their perspective of connection, human to human, and how so many solutions can be uncovered from that place. Diving deeper beneath the surface, we can see that humans are all connected through love.

  In this episode, Nicole Wilson and Jena Travise talk about their perspective on returning back to the old/new “normal” way of life, as things are starting to fall back into place from COVID-19. Listen as they reflect on how we, as human beings, adapt to change without trying. Our SPARK will always be there no matter what circumstances we face in the world.  

This episode was recorded live on Facebook for our first ever live podcast! We had lots of fun seeing all of our listeners! In this episode, Brooke and Ashley talk about the new CDC guidelines that were just issued on how schools should resume post COVID-19. This has been a HOT Topic this week and we thought a podcast on this topic may be beneficial to many.

  In this episode, Brooke and Ashley are joined by former teacher and Children’s book author, Stephanie Fox. Stephanie was on last week to talk about her books with Curious the Dragonfly and we teased that we would have her back on this week for an exciting announcement! Listen as we talk about how we are joining forces to bring Curious and SPARK to more children all around the world! We are so ex...

In this episode, Ashley interviews former teacher and Children’s book author, Stephanie Fox. Stephanie shares what lead her to writing children’s books, and where the idea of her characters came from. She also shares the process of knowing deeply her vision for this new character, and how she followed the next step even when she was not sure “how” it would work. Listen as Stephanie shared stories...

In this episode, Brooke and Ashley talk about the impact that unknown exceptions has on us, especially during the current Pandemic!