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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.
- Our Mission:
Sharing stories that reconnect the divide within us and between us through the shared human experience. Sparking connection, inspiration and possibility that helps our community be a place where we can connect, learn and grow—together!
Here's how it all began...
"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?!)
The brainstorm began and even though we both work in the mental health & wellness field, we quickly ruled out a Wellness podcast because of how overdone they already are. We felt they primarily skim the surface with a repeat loop of ''expert" advice, gimmicks and trends. We wanted to go deeper--much 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 what it means to be well."
What is that thing within us that motivates us to be well--to find our wellness? 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...
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 explicitly 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.
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
Episodes
16 episodes
"It's Never Too Late"
Meet Naomie Peasley. She is a Survivor. A Teacher. And a beacon for Hope. She shows us how it’s possible to move from victimhood to accountability one day at a time. In today’s episode we sit down with Naomie Peasley, a Colvi...
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Celebrating Year One--A Wisdom Round Up & Reflection!
Today Dorrinda and I sit down to give our thanks to each other, our listeners, and this community of incredible storytellers! To celebrate the first year of Live Well Be Wise.We reflect back on the year, and share what we're learning thr...
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"What if Burnout Isn't Your Fault?"
We sat down today with Jamie Johnson, a new friend and neighbor in the Upper Valley. She shared with us about how she came to leave the vocation that she loved, teaching. Suffering from overwhelm and demoralization, Jamie says she was no longer...
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"Rise Up-- A Cancer Warriors Journey"
Welcome back friends for Season 2! Dorrinda and I are profoundly grateful for your support (listening & sharing) and are thrilled to be back with a full year worth of episodes that aim to inspire hope, connect us across t...
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"Cultivando Mis Raíces" "Cultivating My Roots"
In episode-11 Briseldy Hernandez - Ramos tells us how growing up Latina in a white world had her constantly wondering what it meant to belong. Facing the challenges of growing up in a migrant farm-working family, moving from school ...
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"We Will Know a Tree by its Fruits"
In episode 10, we sit down with community member Zoe Jaspers to talk about the very real intersection in his life between Christian faith and being transgender (someone whose gender is different than the gender they were assumed to be at birth)...
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"This Is Your Day!"
Join us today for Episode-8 as we sit down with Jaime Donegan, a neighbor and creator in the Wenatchee Valley! His story begins and ends with this statement, "this is your day...""How do we get off the hamster wheel of life, motivated...
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"Life is Happening For Me"
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to heal at the deepest layers possible, question everything, leave integral parts of yourself behind, and come out the other side with a smile on your face, you must meet Blake Suzelis.His sto...
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"Learning to Relax into Discomfort" with Kelly Condefer
In episode #7 we are honored to sit down with community member and healthcare provider, Kelly Condefer. You may never get this much authenticity from your own doctor, but you will in this episode!She tells about her experience of seeking...
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"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 w...
"The Voice of My Emotion" Part I
This interview takes place in 2 parts: Part I is here & Part II coming soon!Today we hear from community member Juan Pablo Suarez. He shares about learning to live in the present moment and how living in the past or in t...
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“Planted by Love- One Woman’s Journey to Find her Birth Mother”
"My heart believed I was a mistake." Join us as we sit down with Linda Congdon, longtime Wenatchee resident, to learn about the inspiration for her first book, "Planted by Love." We hear first-hand, how she tra...
“Scott Kreiter–Local Man Who Killed His Wife, Oh I Mean Killed His Mother!”
In today’s episode we sit down with friend and neighbor Scott Kreiter. He shares his story about helping his mom remain independent to the last moment--to choose death with dignity. (And no he didn’t kill anyone!) Scott calls...
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Ana Gonzalez--Transforming Wounds to Wisdom
Dorrinda and I sat down with community member, Ana Gonzalez, who tells about living with severe childhood mental health issues and how she came out the other side. Ana was raised in a Mexican household, facing significant barriers ...
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