What I Meant to Say

🎧 In this episode, we cover: * Athlete redemption stories that inspire * Mental health, mindset, and personal growth insights * The truth about prison, purpose, and rising again * The mission behind the 'Choose Yourself Community'   🔗 Connect with Hakeem Bourne McFarlane: 🌐 Website: https://chooseyourself.info 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdreamhakeem/ ▶️ YouTube Channel: https://w...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes -  “Am I living my life in fear of dying or am I living my life because I want to live?” 4:49 “The goal is to change our culture and how we view ourselves, how we view life, how we view our reality, essentially consciousness.” 8:46 “You feel it.  The consciousness of the planet is rising.” - Wendy @ 9:03 “There needs to be a way for us to have some type of signaling s...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes -  “It is the primal force.  Scalar energy, scalar light is the light of the sun, the light of the stars.” 1:36 “Some people just can't grasp that there’s something beyond and above that physical domain.” 5:08 “The light influences the chemical level.” - Wendy @ 10:37 “I have God on my side, and that’s all I need.” 15:25 “This is a new branch of science where we work...

Episode Summary: What a gift to be able to bookend the joy of taking in boys and men’s volleyball through Luke’s career with Pace Bootlegger Volleyball Club and Pepperdine Alum and Stanford Assistant Men’s Volleyball Coach Spencer Wickens, one of the great up and coming coaches in the Collegiate game. Grateful to capture his joy of coaching and wisdom on how to rise through the challenges of when...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points, Top Takeaways and Memorable Quotes  “So much of that relates with my mom is because I had watched her grow with me as I was growing up doing everything.  I didn’t know there were options of asking for help, you know, asking other people to, it just didn’t occur to me because I had never seen that.  My mom was like, ‘you figure...

Show Notes -  0:00 - Welcome to What I Meant to Say with Guest, Marcus Aurelius Higgs 1:10 - The Love for Conversation 2:26 - Is There An Anti-Resilience Message Out There to Kids? 6:56 - Journey from English Teacher to Preteen Presence Coach 12:02 - The Road to Independence and Interdependence  16:32 - Kids Need A Community of Parents 22:06 - ‘SHOW UP’ Framework 35:30 - The Relationship Between C...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points, Top Takeaways and Memorable Quotes   “I just wanted to keep playing and get better for me.” 12:46 “It’s more than a game, it’s beyond the game and what you’re learning in sport applies to everything in your life.” 16:51 “How you do one thing is how you do everything.” 17:04 “Sports exposes who you are and allows you the chance...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes -  “How much can we teach them and how much do they have to learn through experience?” - Wendy @ 0:48 “None of this journey we’re on is linear.” 3:25 “When we feel good, are we recognizing what we are doing to feel good? 7:39 “You are going to feel every feeling and that’s a good thing because that means you are alive.” 13:04 “Your intuition, arguably, builds off of e...

Key Points, Top Takeaways and Memorable Quotes -  “I think journaling is an incredibly healing thing that we can undertake.” 4:57 “Deal with things as they are, not as we’d like them to be.” -Ann @ 7:54 “Addiction is really just a disconnection with ourself.” 8:57 “People are doing the best they can with what they know, but it’s our responsibility to know more so you have to keep learning.” 10:51...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes -  “Unlearning everything that you think you know about how you function and what society’s told you because the mind isn’t the dominant operating system, the heart is.”  “Your body is not gonna lie to you.” “We’re so afraid of feeling.” “Don’t tell a man how he’s feeling.”  “I think that we don’t take enough time to just contemplate at the end of the day or maybe we...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes   “Self talk is huge, replacing should with could is huge.” 3:12 “Free Will is an illusion.  We’re all conditioned to make decisions.” 4:56 “The moments of clarity that happen, if you’re aware of them, are staggering.” 19:16 “Surround yourself with the right people.” 25:00  “The loneliness out there is tragic....

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes   “Is it me in this relationship that is causing this problem?” 7:43 “If they ask for advice, I can offer advice, but they have to ask or I have to be given permission.” 15:59 “Whatever you send out, eventually is going to come right back to you.” 18:44 “Instead of having something to be angry about, and holdi...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes   “If you’re under a lot of stress, you can really wreck your gut health.” 12:09 “If I can’t find them organic, let’s say we’re traveling, I just buy something else that I can find organic.” 18:39  “I’m going to, you know, be teaching her from an early age, about health, about how things, how the food becomes us.”56:18 “Health takes time to augment or to change.” 1:01...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes   “I’m attracting this, like, I am intentionally creating these scenarios in order to relive this childhood trauma because that’s what I know.” 4:07 “Step forward, create your own reality, and leave this stuff in the past.” 4:47 “They dedicate their time and energy to some many other things, other than themselves, without realizing that those other things are not goin...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes   “You really do have to take stock in the relationships you’ve built, but also why you’ve built them.” - Wendy @ 2:32 “Everything you go through is not everybody’s business.” - Wendy @ 6:12 “How else are they going to respect and trust you in other situations, if you don’t follow through?” - Ashley @ 10:59 “Whatever thing they’ve gotten tangled up in, that is not who...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes   “You can’t teach having a competitive nature.” 1:28 “There’s not one way of doing anything.” 4:16 “Is this about my child or is this about what I think is best or what I think should happen?” 15:20 “Be who you are and give them what they need at that moment.” 19:41 “If you really want to make a difference, y...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes  “I knew somehow that it could be better.” 4:59 “The tools I used to get good at volleyball were not healthy, and they were not sustainable.” 9:01  “A coach that has the ability to really sit back and evaluate what they’re dealing with and know that there’s more than one way in is a gift.” - Wendy @ 15:06 “Who...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes “There’s something to be said for two different people with different perspectives and different ways that they would do it to be there to help rear a child.” 8:25 “Eyeball to eyeball.” 14:01 “They’re watching your every move, and even how we speak to them.” 16:35 “My job is to love them and be the best exampl...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes  “We radiate light like the sun.” 7:41 “What the GHK copper peptide does by activating your stem cells is it calls on your stem cells to start repairing you again as if you were young.”  11:22 “I am just so happy to be alive and to be of service.” 16:20 “The product just does what you want it to do.” 19:32 “Th...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes  “That bridge between academia and regular life is so beautiful, and it’s so important.” - Wendy @ 4:19  “Grow older, not get older.” - Wendy @ 7:17 “My parents were very loving and they really emphasized on paying attention to other people, paying attention to their feelings, not being obsessed with yourself...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes  “I continue to try to build the man I get to become.” 5:42 “SAVERS: Sleep, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, Scribing.” 7:01 “My self care was getting rid of the things that were hurting me.” 9:01 “Affirmations are affirming who you are and becoming that person.” 10:41  “Sometimes you have to do...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv Key Points & Memorable Quotes  “Life is constantly changing.” 4:36 “Life has been nothing of what I expected, but everything that I needed.” 5:45 “It’s the reframe from I’m afraid of what might happen to the possibility of the greatness that could be.” -Wendy @ 9:41 “Coaching is such a rewarding profession because being able to pull human...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes -  “Holding that athletic identity very tightly and then holding the expectations around it loosely.” 6:42 “Your hundred percent kinda looks different on different days.” - Wendy @ 10:07 “If how we are engaged in our athletic pursuits or our athletic identity isn’t adding value to our lives on a daily basis, then we have to reassess.” 11:25 “Performance at all costs a...

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv   Key Points & Memorable Quotes  “You play out the unresolved trauma in your relationship.” - Wendy @ 0:40 “I don’t have to respond the same way they respond.” - Ashley @ 6:49 “If I want to take it slow, now I’m okay with it.” - Wendy @ 11:31 “Learning that creativity can be an artistic expression.” - Wendy @ 13:12 “I look for the kids who...

Key Points & Memorable Quotes -  “In 1895 was the first chiropractic adjustment.” 5:28 “Healing comes from inside out.” 6:00 “There is a universal intelligence.” 6:19 “There’s not money in root cause, there’s money in keeping people sick.” 12:33 “Your body becomes efficient at what you give it over time.” 14:11 “Symptoms are a sign something’s wrong.” 17:30 “When you are unhealthy, you’re not seek...