The Kindness Podcast Episode 20: Shaunti Feldhahn
I am SOOOO excited to share this week’s kindness podcast with you. Can you tell by the amount of “Os” I just used? Seriously, if you only listen to one podcast in your entire life, listen to this episode. I talk with Shaunti Feldhahn, a best-selling author and social researcher who has spent years looking
About that award…
I got a cryptic email from someone in the Women’s Center at Ohio University. It was an invitation to come to the OU Women’s basketball game on February 17th. She didn’t want to say much, only that several women would be acknowledged and she wanted me to be there by the half-time presentation. There are
Kind kids help a hurting teacher
“It’s not a person, it’s just a dog.” I remember thinking those words when I had to put my beloved Robby Dog to sleep several years ago. It didn’t seem right to have such intense grief, and yet there it was. Anyone who has lost a pet understands in an instant the immense loneliness that
The Kindness Podcast Episode 19: Depression
I know when the dark clouds are going to roll in… it happens at the beginning of every basketball season and it happens again at the end. I used to really fear it. I would feel the heaviness creep in on my body and I would wonder if this was the time it would get
Anger Olympics
Want a little good news? How about this: You can let go of the anger. Right here and right now — or whenever it next pops into your body and threatens to explode. You can let go of the anger. It won’t grow in strength and come back to haunt you later if you refuse
Hold on to Kindness
In the beginning of January, Rebecca Somers boarded a plane in State College, Pennsylvania, heading for Detroit, Michigan. She had no idea that what she was about to witness on that airplane would give her a voice reaching hundreds of thousands of people, reminding them to hold onto kindness. Here’s her story. “True story: As
The Kindness Podcast Episode 18: A Coach’s Wife’s View on Kindness
Alicia Henderson was living in Fargo, North Dakota in the high heat of basketball season when her young son began having seizures – as many as 100 seizures a day. Alicia was holding onto hope that a treatment would be found and holding down the fort while her husband, an assistant men’s basketball coach, was
