Live Well. Be Wise
Deepening the well-being conversation---the podcast that finds the Gold in your stories of hardship and the connection to Wise action and lived Wellness!
Hosted by Kari Lyons-Price & Dorrinda Carlson
"Hey Dorrinda, let's do lunch."
"Ok, any special occasion?"
"Nope, just wanna connect and feast in your presence." (oh and I also have an idea for a podcast?!)
I waited until lunch was settling into our bellies before hitting Dorrinda with the idea. She was in! The brainstorm began and while we both work in the field, we quickly ruled out a Wellness podcast because of how overdone they already are. Besides we felt they were only skimming the surface with the repeat loop of ''expert" advice, gimmicks and trends. We wanted to go deeper.
What's the real story I wondered, "how do some people manage to be well amidst all kinds of hardship and others with every resource known to humankind, can't even catch the tail of wellness."
All my life I've been fascinated by thoughts, beliefs, mental states and the general power of the mind (also because I'm a trained therapist)! Especially in its relationship to our health and well-being.
What is that thing within us that motivates us to be well? We're not talking about a health goal or a number, a state that is achieved. We're talking about wellness as a state of mind; contentedness, balance, or an optimal state of being.
And then the vision fully landed...
Here at Live Well. Be Wise, we are on a mission to engage with people beneath the "doing" and the products, to find out how wellness is a living, breathing, personal thing that gets shaped through life itself!
Told directly to you by the individuals who have lived it. No experts, no products, and no judgment. Raw, powerful, real life stories told by everyday people about how they met the challenges and hardships of life and came out the other side.
At Live Well. Be Wise we answer the questions:
- how do we learn and grow through the storms of life?
- what is the wisdom process? how do we cultivate it on purpose?
- And...how does our wisdom process inform our wellness?
Live Well. Be Wise is based in North Central Washington State and is a community-based podcast. This is a place to hear the stories of your neighbors. To celebrate diversity in all ways and to bridge the divide between us; culturally, economically, politically and personally.
Value Driven:
- We feel our most profound learning is from one another and that we are not alone on this human journey. We are fueled by that belief and the deep desire to reconnect the divide within us and between us. Seeds of wisdom are inside every one of us, and when we share that learning out, it expands, sparking inspiration and possibility for us all.
Through the shared human experience called, "story" we hope to connect each of us to one another. To recognize parts of ourselves in our neighbors story. And to allow this shared humanity to be an anchor for building connection, community and goodness, one day at a time.
Reach out, share your story, be inspired to cultivate your own wisdom path through hard things. We are 100% in this together!
Kari & Dorrinda
Live Well. Be Wise
"The Voice of My Emotion:" Part II
Part II of II in this Series! If you've missed Part I, please go back and listen to that in Episode-5 when we first met Juan Pablo Suarez.
Today you will hear us deepen the conversation we began in Part I. Juan Pablo shares with us how part of his journey to Wellness was realizing the dream of becoming a father. He shares his "domino effect" and how it all came into place. Highlighting how mental and emotional health can impact our physical health and beyond, we celebrate this deeply inspiring conversation with a funny and insightful young man in our community.
We discuss how Juan Pablo found freedom in his life by saying "no" and how it allows him more space to know and accept himself more fully.
He unpacks what it means to care for himself and for others and the importance of keeping his agenda and unsolicited advice out of it. His learning around knowing what is his to fix and what is not, is such a powerful lesson for us all!
Beyond and through it all, Juan Pablo has learned in his young 31-years the power of story. He wholeheartedly believes that if he doesn't share his story, then it will be told incorrectly by the world at large. His passion is to share his life so that others will share theirs and through the process, for people to connect & learn from their mistakes. He says, "we don't have a straight way to go through life, but we gotta go!"
Don't forget to connect with Juan Pablo by checking out his resources!
Resources: 1. Book- "Entre los rotos / Among the Broken" by Premio Mauricio Achar 2019. 2. Juan Pablo’s passion project: La Voc de mi Emocion presents, "Al borde del colapso" Find out more & follow on TikTok!
Spanish:
Hoy nos escucharán profundizar en la conversación que iniciamos en la Parte I. Juan Pablo nos cuenta cómo parte de su camino hacia el bienestar fue hacer realidad su sueño de ser padre. Comparte su "efecto dominó" y cómo todo se concretó. Destacando cómo la salud mental y emocional puede impactar nuestra salud física y más allá, celebramos esta conversación profundamente inspiradora con un joven divertido y perspicaz de nuestra comunidad.
Hablamos de cómo Juan Pablo encontró libertad en su vida al decir "no" y cómo esto le permite más espacio para conocerse y aceptarse más plenamente.
Nos explica lo que significa cuidar de sí mismo y de los demás, y la importancia de mantener sus intereses personales y los consejos no solicitados al margen. Su aprendizaje sobre qué debe arreglar y qué no es una lección poderosa para todos nosotros.
Más allá de todo esto, Juan Pablo ha aprendido a sus 31 años el poder de las historias. Cree firmemente que si no comparte su historia, el mundo la contará incorrectamente. Su pasión es compartir su vida para que otros compartan la suya y, a través del proceso, conectar con otros y aprender de sus errores. Dice: «No tenemos un camino recto por la vida, ¡pero tenemos que recorrerlo!».
¡No olvides conectar con Juan Pablo consultando sus recursos!
Recursos:
-Libro que le cambió la vida: Entre los rotos (Premio Mauricio Achar 2019). Disponible en cualquier tienda de libros.
-El proyecto de pasión de Juan Pablo: La Voz de mi Emoción presenta "Al borde del colapso". ¡Descubre más siguiéndolo en TikTok!
