Podcasts about life assessment

It's easy to look at someone's life online and think, “Damn, they've got it all sorted.” The polished posts, the reels, the programs, the podcast—it can look like there's a whole team behind it all.In this episode, I'm sharing what it actually looks like behind the scenes of my business. I've got one team member—my assistant—and the rest? I do myself. I record this podcast from home. I edit it. I upload it. I use AI tools to help with captions. I answer my own DMs. I'm in it, just like so many others out there who are doing big things with lean teams and real lives.I'm sharing this not for sympathy or applause, but because this is the reality for a lot of people—but barely anyone's saying it. And when we don't talk about it, it creates this perception that if you're not doing it all effortlessly with a huge support crew, you're somehow behind.This episode is a reality check. A permission slip. A reminder that what you see online isn't the full picture.Buy my book, Authentic - coming home to your true self - AUS, EUR, USACoach with me 1:1 - Book a 20-minute call nowThe Good Life - sign up nowFree Wheel of Life Assessment - take the test nowSunday Meds - live event by the beach, June 22ndWrite into us - let us know what you want to hearwww.katjohn.com.auSupport the show

In this episode, Steve and I open up about what it really means to be on the same team as parents—especially in the moments where we don't fully agree, tempers are flaring, or it would be easier to throw each other under the bus because it's easier. We talk about:What “same team” actually means to us in real, practical termsHow we handle disagreements behind the scenes so we can show up united in front of the girlsWhy we believe alignment matters more than always being in agreementHow presenting a united front has strengthened our relationship and created more safety and stability at homeThis isn't about being the perfect parenting duo. It's about doing the inner work, respecting each other's perspectives, and choosing the long game—for our partnership and our family.If you've ever found yourself frustrated, disconnected, or unsure how to navigate parenting differences with your partner, this is a conversation we hope brings insight, honesty, and a reminder that you're not alone.Buy my book, Authentic - coming home to your true self - AUS, EUR, USACoach with me 1:1 - Book a 20-minute call nowThe Good Life - sign up nowFree Wheel of Life Assessment - take the test nowSunday Meds - live event by the beach, June 22ndWrite into us - let us know what you want to hearwww.katjohn.com.auSupport the show

If you're waiting for a breakthrough moment, a sign from the universe, or the “perfect” conditions to create change… this episode is your wake-up call.Today I share with you the actual framework I use (and teach) to create meaningful, long-lasting change. No fluff. No hype. Just reality, honesty, and the painfully simple steps we often avoid because they seem too obvious or not enough.Here's what we cover:Why change starts with meeting life exactly as it is.The power of looking back—not to dwell, but to understand how you actually got here.Looking forward—not with fantasy, but clarity on what you'd love life to feel and look like.The unsexy magic of taking the next simple step. Then the next. Then the next.Why playing the long game matters way more than chasing quick wins.If you've been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like change is too hard—get this episode in your earballs. Because the truth is, it's not that complicated. It's just uncomfortable. And most of us would rather stay in a known discomfort than face the unknown of change.But if you're willing to show up, get honest, and take those painfully simple steps, everything shifts.Buy my book, Authentic - coming home to your true self - AUS, EUR, USACoach with me 1:1 - Book a 20-minute call nowThe Good Life - sign up nowFree Wheel of Life Assessment - take the test nowSunday Meds - live event by the beach, June 22ndWrite into us - let us know what you want to hearwww.katjohn.com.auSupport the show

Links in this episode (some may be affiliate links - thanks for supporting the show at no extra cost to you): ⁠Lenora and Her Super Duper Messy Room – Get the book on Amazon⁠ Follow me on Instagram: ⁠⁠@wannabeclutterfree⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Join the ⁠⁠Wannabe Minimalist Family Facebook Group⁠⁠ Full show notes: ⁠⁠⁠wannabeclutterfree.com/259⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ **************** ⁠Feeling like life has become all work and no play? In this episode, Deanna Yates explores how clutter might be the hidden culprit stealing your joy—and how clearing it can help you reclaim fun, freedom, and spontaneity. This week's focus is on the “G: Good Times” pillar in the E.M.P.O.W.E.R.I.N.G. Life Assessment. Deanna breaks down how physical, mental, and emotional clutter drains your energy and blocks the joy you deserve. She shares why fun often disappears in motherhood, and how you can bring it back—no Pinterest-worthy plans required. From playful decluttering strategies to creating a “Fun Bucket List,” this episode is packed with inspiration and practical tips for making fun a non-negotiable part of your life again. What you'll learn in this episode: How clutter sabotages your capacity for joy Why high-achieving moms often feel stuck in “survival mode” Tips for making decluttering fun (yes, really!) How to reclaim your time, energy, and identity through less stuff One small shift to start enjoying life more—today Subscribe & Review: If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave a review on ⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Goodpods⁠⁠, or ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Thank you!! Your feedback helps me create more content to inspire and motivate you to live with less. Timestamps: 00:00 – Welcome and Introduction 00:10 – Understanding the Empowering Life Assessment 01:01 – Why fun matters (and how clutter gets in the way) 05:34 – Why fun disappears: the Parenting Paradox, Perfection Trap & Clutter Tax 10:18 – How to declutter your way to more joy 15:37 – Easy, fun ways to get the whole family involved 30:50 – Final thoughts + sneak peek at the next episode **************** Music: Fresh Lift by Shane Ivers - ⁠⁠https://www.silvermansound.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steve and I sit down and get real about where we're currently at in life—what's working, what's not, and how we're using the Wheel of Life to check in and recalibrate.Our wheels of life are awesome, but they're always changing. It's about being honest with ourselves, having open conversations about what needs attention, and making small, steady shifts toward a life that feels good and grounded.We share:How we each use the Wheel of Life to get clarity on where we're thriving and where we're notThe areas we're currently focused on (yep, we've got imbalances too)Why we both think this tool is one of the most practical, helpful ways to live more consciously and on purposeHow this practice helps us stay on the same page as a couple, without forcing itIf you've been feeling off, stretched, or unsure where to put your energy right now, this is a conversation to tune into. It's not fancy or complicated. It's just real life, reflected back to you in a simple way that helps you move forward with more intention.Buy my book, Authentic - coming home to your true self - AUS, EUR, USACoach with me 1:1 - Book a 20-minute call nowThe Good Life - sign up nowFree Wheel of Life Assessment - take the test nowSunday Meds - live event by the beach, June 22ndWrite into us - let us know what you want to hearwww.katjohn.com.auSupport the show

There's a version of you that came before this one. The one who didn't listen to her intuition. Who stayed in relationships she knew weren't right. Who kept her mouth shut to keep the peace. Who dimmed her light to make others comfortable. Who thought she had to be strong, unbothered, and bulletproof just to survive.That woman? She deserves your love. Not your shame. Not your judgment. Not your silence.She was doing her best with what she knew. With the patterns she hadn't yet seen. With the pain she hadn't yet named. With the wounds she carried like armour.In this week's episode, I speak to the importance of honouring her—not because we want to stay in her story—but because we need to thank her for getting us this far. And then, show her a better way.It's time to stop punishing the woman you used to be. It's time to love her. Forgive her. And let her rest. She doesn't need to run the show anymore. But she does need your compassion. Because without her, you wouldn't be here.And the woman you're becoming? She's watching how you treat the woman you once were. This one's a deep one.Buy my book, Authentic - coming home to your true self - AUS, EUR, USACoach with me 1:1 - Book a 20-minute call nowThe Good Life - sign up nowFree Wheel of Life Assessment - take the test nowSunday Meds - live event by the beach, June 22ndWrite into us - let us know what you want to hearwww.katjohn.com.auSupport the show

It's not always the big ruptures that create distance in a relationship.Sometimes, it's the tiny moments. The micro-misses. The everyday ways we unknowingly make our partner feel unseen, unimportant, or left out.In this episode, Steve and I talk about the slow burn of disconnection—what we call death by a thousand cuts—and how seemingly small behaviours can add up and quietly erode closeness over time.For Steve, it's when we're having a cuddle and the dogs jump in, and I start patting them instead. It might look harmless, but in that moment, he feels like something else just took priority. For me, it's when I'm mid-sentence and he glances at his phone or checks his watch.It sends the message—without words—that what I'm saying doesn't matter as much.We share how these moments land for us, what they actually mean underneath the surface, and how we're learning to own our impact, not just our intention.This isn't about getting it perfect. It's about being conscious of the little ways we disconnect… so we can choose to reconnect, again and again.If you've ever felt brushed off, dismissed, or like you're just not quite landing with your partner—this one will hit home.Big love,Kat & Steve xBuy my book, Authentic - coming home to your true self - AUS, EUR, USACoach with me 1:1 - Book a 20-minute call nowThe Good Life - sign up nowFree Wheel of Life Assessment - take the test nowSunday Meds - live event by the beach, June 22ndWrite into us - let us know what you want to hearwww.katjohn.com.auSupport the show

Links in this episode (some may be affiliate links - thanks for supporting the show at no extra cost to you): Lenora and Her Super Duper Messy Room – Get the book on Amazon Follow me on Instagram: ⁠@wannabeclutterfree ⁠Join the ⁠Wannabe Minimalist Family Facebook Group⁠ Episode about Mom Guilt Full show notes: ⁠wannabeclutterfree.com/256⁠ **************** Is clutter quietly creating stress and disconnection in your home? In this solo episode, we're diving deep into how the stuff in your space might be straining your relationships—and what you can actually do to change it. Whether you're constantly cleaning, trying to get your kids on board, or feeling frustrated with your partner for not pitching in, this episode will give you the tools to start turning things around. You'll get a breakdown of the Clutter F.R.E.E.D.O.M. Method and learn how to apply it to one of the most important areas of your life: Marriage & Family. Plus, we'll walk through the E.M.P.O.W.E.R.I.N.G. Life Assessment so you can figure out where to focus first—and how to get your whole household working together (without nagging!). How clutter silently affects your marriage and family dynamics 3 powerful questions to start a meaningful family conversation A clear breakdown of the F.R.E.E.D.O.M. Method (and why it's not just about stuff) The 10 E.M.P.O.W.E.R.I.N.G. life categories to help you find your focus Three simple, doable actions to create a calmer home environment today Subscribe & Review: If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave a review on ⁠Apple⁠, ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠Goodpods⁠, or ⁠YouTube⁠. Thank you!! Your feedback helps me create more content to inspire and motivate you to live with less. Time Stamps: 00:00 Welcome and Introduction 02:45 Understanding the Clutter Freedom Framework 04:41 Exploring the Empowering Life Assessment 07:29 Clutter's Impact on Marriage and Family 13:52 Three Questions to Ask Your Family 20:06 Three Actionable Steps to Ease Family Clutter 25:39 Conclusion and Final Thoughts **************** Music: Fresh Lift by Shane Ivers - ⁠https://www.silvermansound.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Mindset Monday! Hey friends—TJ Sweet here.If you've been feeling overwhelmed or like you're constantly juggling too much, this episode of Living The Sweet Life is for you.This week, I'm breaking down a powerful shift in how we think about “balance.”Because here's the truth: balance isn't about doing everything perfectly.It's about integrating the things that matter most so you can live with intention and peace.

In this episode Ms. Black discusses the definition of wealth and the importance of defining it for yourself. She shared a newsletter on Substack How to be Rich by Andrew Lokenauth including the steps he defined in Building Wealth:Define What Wealth Means to You Declutter Your Life Invest in Relationships, Not ThingsCreate Daily Wealth Rituals Learning the Art of Savoring And provides a frameworks for your wealth journey including the R.I.C.H. Life Assessment below:   The R.I.C.H. Life AssessmentRate yourself from 1-10 in each of these areas:R- Relationships: How strong are your connections with family and friends?I- Inner peace: How often do you feel calm and content?C- Contribution: Are you making a difference in ways that matter to you?H- Health: Do you have the energy and wellness to enjoy each day?Your lowest scores show where to focus first. Set one small goal to improve in that area this week.Ms. Black, the host of Staying in the Black, is a single mom, homeowner, and public-school educator in NYC. She owns two properties and is one mortgage away from being totally debt-free. She loves traveling the world with her family and has over $1M in her retirement accounts beyond her pension.Learn more about Ms. Black:Website: http://www.stayingintheblk.comInstagram:@stayingintheblk

What separates the ultra-wealthy from everyone else?In this episode, Javier Carlin and Joses Ngugi share three powerful lessons from their experience learning from seven, eight, and nine-figure business owners.

It's that time, again, 1/2 birthday is close by and it always gets me thinking for me, for you.. "how's it going?"  and does it all feel right and aligned?There's just no time to waste, in life, parenting and as a human on the planet.Are you feeling good about where things are?Ready to let go of those soul sucking things?Or, shift the things that you can't dump, yet leave you feeling like a raisin by end of day, week, month?Curious?  How might that look?Check Instagram and share your thoughts!  I can't wait to share mine, too.  It's always a combo of "oh geeze, that's still on my list?!" and a little "oh, that's better than I realized!"Support the showJoin Mats' Amazing event, this Spring 2025FOREST INNOVATION SUMMIT in California.___________IMPERFECT PARENTING:*Free parenting meditation*https://mailchi.mp/965b821ebde2/imperfectparentingfreeminimeditation1 Free parent de-stress tips:http://bit.ly/34TmARwInstagram: @Ip_parenting Tik tok @imperfectparentingariel Website:https://imperfectparenting.netWrite me: Ariel@imperfectparenting.net______ WORKING WITH FERTILITY?Join our private Fertility Coaching Circle https://mailchi.mp/6bf27333a04d/eyl88itb3g-fertility-inner-circle-ariel-green-andersson FREE Fertility Meditation: https://mailchi.mp/00ddad27abb2/freefertilitymeditation223Instagram and Tik tok: @arielgreenandersson...

The past couple of weeks we've done a Life Assessment and set goals and intentions to improve specific areas of our life. But statistics show you may begin losing motivation soon and not reach your goal at all! This episode dives deep into understanding motivation not just as a feeling but as a psychological process influenced by thoughts, priorities, and purpose. Discover how your thoughts, choices, and faith shape your motivation and create a life aligned with your God-given purpose. Resources Mentioned:Another Beautiful Life: A Christian's Journey to Finding Peace and Hope in Brokenness by Tricia Zody – Chapter 8: Moving Forward: Now What? Buy it on Amazon HERE!  Scripture References: Ephesians 2:10, Psalm 37:4, Proverbs 16:9, Ephesians 4:26.For more tools, questions for reflection, and resources to help you on your journey, download the Listener's Guide for this episode: https://www.triciazody.com/guideConnect:Website: www.triciazody.comFollow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tricia.zody/  and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciazody/Are you wondering how Life Coaching works? Would you like a free, 30-minute session? Click this link to set up a Consult Call: https://calendly.com/triciazodylifecoach/30minGet the Listener's Guide here: www.triciazody.com/guide

This is part two of the Life Assessment exercise where we take your results from last week and use them to make a plan for making 2025 an extraordinary year.  If you haven't filled out your Life Wheel assessment yet you can grab the Listener's Guide from last week – episode 177 – that has the life wheel printed on it for you to fill out. Then also grab this week's Listener's Guide to work with me through this episode. Doing this exercise and really putting some thought and effort into it  pulls your brain out of its stagnant, and even lazy, state where it's just been creating the same negative results over and over again, year after year. But today, by doing this Life Assessment, your brain is awake and aware and engaged to create a powerful shift in your life and reset for a beautiful 2025.  Are you wondering how Life Coaching works? Would you like a free, 30-minute session? Click this link to set up a Consult Call: https://calendly.com/triciazodylifecoach/30minGet the free, printable Listener's Guide here: https://www.triciazody.com/guideBuy the book Another Beautiful Life: A Christian's Journey to Finding Peace and Hope in Brokenness on Amazon (paperback and Kindle) HERE.

Discover how knowing about your past lives helps you have a deeper understanding of your current life. Watch here: https://youtu.be/rf6WMN3zJUE

Discover how knowing about your past lives helps you have a deeper understanding of your current life. Watch here: https://youtu.be/rf6WMN3zJUE

Discover how knowing about your past lives helps you have a deeper understanding of your current life. Watch here: https://youtu.be/rf6WMN3zJUE

January is when most people regularly take an assessment of their life and reset. A life-assessment is eye-opening for so many. Mainly because most people don't do this each year. They just roll into the next year, carrying in old baggage not realizing they have the power to leave it at the door. Most people also start the year feeling some dread because they don't know that they have so much more power to change their life, and they've just been living at the effect of their default brain all this time. Today I'm going to take you – step by step - through the Life Assessment exercise, assessing 12 specific areas, so you can begin to change your life to live more fully and abundantly in 2025. Are you wondering how Life Coaching works? Would you like a free, 30-minute session? Click this link to set up a Consult Call: https://calendly.com/triciazodylifecoach/30min Get the free, printable Listener's Guide here: https://www.triciazody.com/guideBuy the book Another Beautiful Life: A Christian's Journey to Finding Peace and Hope in Brokenness on Amazon (paperback and Kindle) HERE.

In this unique episode of Remodelers On The Rise, host Kyle Hunt takes a step away from business-focused discussions to explore the 14 Areas of Life Worksheet. Kyle walks listeners through grading themselves on areas like social life, family life, physical health, and more, offering actionable insights to help create a more balanced and fulfilling life. Whether it's improving your time management, nurturing relationships, or prioritizing rest and creativity, this episode is packed with practical takeaways. Click here to download the worksheet or email Bailey@RemodelersOnTheRise.com for a copy of the worksheet and to start your journey toward a more intentional 2025! ----- Explore the vast array of tools, training courses, a podcast, and a supportive community of over 2,000 remodelers. Visit RemodelersOnTheRise.com today and take your remodeling business to new heights! ----- Takeaways Reflect on your social life and its importance. Marriage requires intentional time to thrive. Family connections can be strengthened through regular communication. Spiritual practices can provide grounding and peace. Physical health is crucial for overall well-being. Home maintenance is an ongoing responsibility. Effective time management can enhance productivity. Digital life should be managed to avoid distractions. Serving others can improve personal happiness. Financial integrity is key to long-term security. A positive attitude can transform your experiences. Intellectual growth is essential for personal development. Rest and margin are necessary for a balanced life. Creative pursuits enrich our lives and provide joy.  

In this episode of "Our Reimagined Life," we kick off our mini-series on finding happiness from within by exploring the 12 Areas of Life Assessment. After intuitively receiving the word "Happiness" as the key to helping our listeners, I delve into how assessing various areas of life can reveal where we need more balance and where we can focus to increase our overall happiness. I share my personal journey of living for others' validation and how shifting to living for my own happiness has transformed my life. The 12 Areas of Life Assessment involves rating different aspects of your life on a scale of 1 to 10, then dreaming big about what you want in each area. This exercise aims to bring awareness to parts of your life that may need more attention and to help you start setting goals for improvement. By highlighting the lowest-scoring areas, you can focus on making positive changes over the next 12 weeks. I also discuss the importance of reflecting on high-scoring areas to celebrate and understand what's working well. Download the corresponding worksheets from ourreimaginedlife.com/episode5 By regularly assessing and adjusting your focus, you can cultivate a balanced, fulfilling life. Join us next week as we continue the "Finding Happiness from Within" series by exploring how mastering a hobby can enhance your joy. Please rate and review this podcast to help more people find it. Here's to living a spirit-led life. I love you. - Julie

Real well-being starts with awareness. Today you'll check in with every area of our life and ask some tough questions. You'll then use what you find to realign your goals, giving more to the people and situations that need the most attention.Day 2 Handout: https://cmn.to/whole-life-assessment About the Commune Courses PodcastCommune creates video courses with world-renowned teachers on topics such as integrative medicine, nutrition, spirituality, meditation, personal growth, relationships, and mindful leadership. This podcast offers free audio excerpts of our most popular courses — though be sure to subscribe and listen because lessons won't stay in your feed forever! To get 14 days of free Commune Membership, which includes access to watch or listen to 140+ courses, go to onecommune.com/free.

Wheel of life assessment: How to Determine your next goals. In this solo episode I go over a wheel of life assessment exercise to help you determine where you are out of balance in your life. Learn how what areas of life are strong and what areas are weak and how to take steps to improve them and achieve complete healing in all areas of your life. Website for this podcast My Youtube Channel https://www.facebook.com/groups/1274175526859581- Self Care Facebook Group Free Autoimmune Healing Ebook- http://annalaurabrown.com/ebook Free Webinar- Avoid these 10 common autoimmune healing mistakes. https://expertise.tv/webinar/empowering-women-transform-your-health-journey-by-avoiding-these-10-common-autoimmune-mistakes-2024-02-29/landing/19523

Today's show focus is very near and dear to my heart: hiring A-players. I'll explain what small business owners are getting wrong and why traditional hiring practices will only bring difficulties and heartache. The mis-hiring process is painful because of the time and effort involved in screening applicants and interviewing, and statistics show that 75% of business owners are mis-hiring. Join me in today's episode for a look at what not to do and what will give solid results in attracting A-players to your team. I'll wrap up with simple tips to help you uplevel your team this year for profitable growth.   Because we love to celebrate wins here at Tap the Potential, we have a big win to celebrate with you today. This is the 5th anniversary of the Profit by Design podcast! That means that we have come to you weekly for five years, sharing tips, tools, and strategies to help you design your business to be sustainably profitable. Along with that, we are ranked in the top 5% globally in a field of over three million podcasts, and that is only possible because of our devoted listeners. We appreciate each listener and each piece of feedback we receive!   The truth is that a single A-player can outperform 9-12 average team members and greatly impact your leadership experience in positive ways. Don't you want to leave traditional hiring practices behind and learn how to attract and hire valuable and productive A-players for your team? The first step is to attend our free workshop, Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. It's on February 22. Click the link to sign up today!   Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production.   Show Highlights: What we are getting wrong with traditional hiring practices How we inadvertently set up our A-players to fail by not aligning their role with their strengths Why a training and onboarding plan are essential for a newly hired team member How your immutable laws should be developed out of your core values—and be a determining factor in your hiring process Why you shouldn't expect A-players to stay with you for life Why you need to understand what motivates your A-players, what their career goals are, what opportunities they crave, and what intangible perks they value most Why you do NOT have to offer top salaries and wages to attract A-players How our How to Hire the Best course can help you spend less time dealing with performance issues; start with our free workshop on February 22 Simple tips to uplevel your team for profitable growth this year: Learn how to hire A-players. Hiring soon? Start NOW. Identify your “warm bodies” and make a plan to replace them with A-players in the next 6-12 months.  Links and Resources: Coming soon: Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. This free workshop is on Thursday, February 22, and you do not want to miss it! Sign up today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Sign up today for the Dream Manager Program! Retain, grow, and deeply engage your A-players with one of the most unique and holistic benefits you can provide your team members. The program begins February 21st! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better  Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com.  Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It already began on January 8, but you can still get in on the action and access the program! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group    Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina's Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour    

Life Assessment WheelLast episode we released was Episode 40 and this is the Life Assessment that goes with the episode!I´ve collected the links to the Podcast and us here: https://linktr.ee/ldsandmediumPlease follow us on all our Social Media and share if you like our content!Here you can also download our Meditations as MP3´s:Morning Meditation Prayer: https://payhip.com/b/IJt0Evening Meditation Prayer: https://payhip.com/b/80bfChakra Opening Meditation: https://payhip.com/b/yQAKEarthstar Chakra Meditation: https://payhip.com/b/H0hgAffirmations I AM (part 1): https://payhip.com/b/p6JjHeart Chakra Activation: https://payhip.com/b/uc2bLove Yourself Meditation: https://payhip.com/b/Hi4GConnect to the Divine Meditation: https://payhip.com/b/HFm9Connect to the Christ Light: https://payhip.com/b/dlh8Be the LightShare the LightSpread the LightShine! Support the show

EPISODE 40: February 2nd + Life Assessment WheelJanuary went by really fast and I have been looking back at this past year to see where I am at right now! And where do I want to go? I got plans, to step out of my comfort zone yet again, and start teaching intuition! Listen to my plans and tell me what you think! Our next episode will be on the  2024-03-03. Be the Light. Share the Light. Spread the Light. Shine!LDS AND MEDIUM PODCAST BACKGROUND:I was born into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or LDS for short. All my life I felt awkward and out of place, not because of my religion, but because of my spiritual gifts. It was hard to combine the idea of what first seemed like two separate worlds. So my whole life I have tried. I have learnt more about my gifts, and stayed faithful to my faith. But then I heard people left the church because it seems impossible to combine the two. So I am here, to try and mend the rift. To show that it is possible to be both LDS and to have, and use, our spiritual gifts. I am not alone on this journey, but my sister, who just is waking up to her spiritual gifts is by my side and she will also share her story.Jesus Christ, our older brother, was a healer. He asked us to love one another. So let´s follow in his footsteps. Please join me on this journey, let´s make a community of strong spiritual LDS, or whatever religion you belong to, and all work together to make this world a better place.If you like what I do, then you can find me here:https://linktr.ee/ldsandmediumIf you have words of support or stories that you anonymously want me to share please write me at ldsandmedium@gmail.com. I will try and answer all your emails BUT I am very busy with my life and I hope you can have some patience with me.If you would like access to the Podcast before it is released, all the bonuses and extra trainings and the meditation prayers as an mp3 you can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ldsandmedium or send a Donation through Paypal. It will also be available as an archive that you can subscribe to on https://payhip.com/LDSandMediumDISCLAIMER: This Podcast is not official LDS doctrine, nor is it in any way financially supported by the LDS church. All the content is either our own personal thoughts and reflections or stories from our lives or the lives of others. Any quotes included will come from the Bible, The Book of Mormon or other scriptures, Church publications, hymns, General Conference or spiritual sites.LINKS:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: www.lds.orgGet your free copy of the Book of Mormon: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/uk/forms/order-book-of-mormonLight the World https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochristSupport the show

In this episode on Grad School Femtoring podcast, I discuss methods for end-of-year reflection and planning for the new year. I share my tradition of selecting a “word of the year” that helps to guide my decisions. I also share the practice of creating a vision board while cautioning anyone who chooses to create one to set encouraging goals. And, I acknowledge that this time of year can be hard on many of us and it's okay to prioritize survival and rest, instead of planning or reflecting, if that's what feels right for you. I also share the following additional resources: 1) the Year Compass, a free resource helping to reflect and plan the year with its various exercises, 2) my Growth Journal for personal writing and reflection, 3) my Life Assessment exercise to get a bird's eye view of how well you are tending to different areas of your life, and 4) my episode (#146) on journaling questions to dream again.  Preorder my forthcoming book by going to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠isgradschoolforme.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for my group coaching program to start working on your personal growth and gain sustainable productivity skills.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Book me⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to speak at your upcoming professional development event.  Follow me on your favorite social media platforms: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get my free 15-page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grad School Femtoring Resource Kit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, which includes essential information to prepare for and navigate grad school Click the links to support the show with a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠one-time donation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠monthly donation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  And to learn more about our sponsorship packages, email us at gradschoolfemtoring@gmail.com.  To download episode transcripts and access more resources, go to my website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/podcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   *The Grad School Femtoring Podcast is for educational purposes only and not intended to be a substitute for therapy or other professional services.* --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gradschoolfemtoring/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gradschoolfemtoring/support

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What is deliberative democracy, and can it help your community involve more people in creating a better future for all? SCCAN Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, explores the idea in this story from the People's Assembly in Torry, as the community stand up against becoming a sacrificial zone yet again. The Assembly took place at St Fittick's Park over the weekend of 28 and 29 of May this year, and it was facilitated by Open Source. It was a part of the multi-partner Just Transition Communities pilot project, coordinated by North-East Climate Action Network (NESCAN) Hub and funded by the Scottish Government from their Just Transition Fund. Interviews, recording and edits: Kaska Hempel With special thanks to NESCAN for the use of recording of Alison Stewart's speech, from the North  East Communities Just Transition project partner Knowledge Exchange event 31 May, 2023. Resources: NESCAN https://www.nescan.org/ Grassroots to Global/Open Source https://www.grassroots2global.org/open-source Assembly Catalyst training with Open Source in Aberdeen, apply by 4th of October https://www.grassroots2global.org/training Declaration of Torry People's Assembly May 2023 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LVnCe8YBD4PV1uThl411Ahzfbu1gejtA0LHoro-9eBg/edit Scottish Government's Just Transition Fund https://www.gov.scot/publications/just-transition-fund/pages/overview/ Lesley Riddoch's column on Torry People's Assembly in The National, May 2023 https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23514047.torry-one-deprived-areas-lose-park-just-transition/ XR Scotland statement on reasons for leaving Scottish Climate Assembly Stewarding Group in 2020 https://xrscotland.org/2020/11/xr-scotland-can-no-longer-endorse-scotlands-climate-citizens-assembly/ First Torry People's Assembly 2021 report by Scott Herrett and Susan Smith https://www.grassroots2global.org/thinkinghome/torry-assembly People's Torry Assembly Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesAssemblyTorry People's Torry Assembly Twitter https://twitter.com/Torry_PA Grampian Community Law Centre, Robert Gordon University https://www.rgu.ac.uk/news/news-2022/5411-grampian-community-law-centre-prepares-for-torry-launch-in-scotland-first A mini-doco by ReelNews "They're killing our kids!" Save St Fitticks Park, including Climate Camp visit to St Fittick's https://youtu.be/jtvfbc-2GT8, Friends of St Fittick's Park https://saintfittickstorry.com/ Greyhope Bay Café in a doco by Sara Stroud https://vimeo.com/639311933 Transcript [00:00:00] Kaska Hempel: Hello. You look interesting. Why don't you tell me what you're doing here? [00:00:09] Speaker 1: What we're doing here, right at this moment in time, is directing people to where the actual assembly really is. But, on the greater scheme of things, I think there's... [00:00:20] Kaska Hempel: Oh, there's a sign! [00:00:21] Speaker 1: I think the... how can Torry reclaim the power to make this a healthy community to live and grow up in? That's the main thing that it's all about. [00:00:31] Liam: Yeah, I'm Liam. I'm just a volunteer for the weekend. So I've not been involved in any organisation. I was like, it's good to help out, but yeah, learning a lot and it's a great community event to meet people that are quite active in activism circles around Aberdeen. It's a little melting pot. I'm from just south of Aberdeen and I live in the north. I got involved with Friends Of St Fittick's Park, who are one of the main activist groups organising the event today. The green space we're in, St Fittick's. It is earmarked for demolition company called Energy Transition Zone. My degree was in Conservation Biology, so I'm really interested in the biodiversity here. It's won awards. There was £300, 000 of spending from the council to enhance biodiversity at this site. It's done incredible. Yeah. It's not a very clear cut issue. It involves a lot of discussion around the power that oil and gas has in Aberdeen, who the council is serving. There's vast amounts of money changing hands. Yeah. It's got a lot of interesting climate and community justice aspects where you go, who is this for? who's it going to benefit? who's suffering? [00:01:56] Alastair: Sup, my name's Alastair. Well, you can have a badge with it. [00:02:01] Kaska Hempel: Yeah, unfortunately we can't see it. [00:02:03] Alastair: Yeah, so I'm just helping out too. I've come up to Aberdeen for a couple of days to do whatever. Put tables up, or move chairs around, or anything like that, just to help the People's Assembly to run as smoothly as possible. It's also, you know, to try and help with... Yeah, if we live in a democracy, then we ought to be able to ensure that what goes on is actually for the best for all people, not for a small minority who are going to make a lot of money. And, you know, got to exploit the poorest even more, if I've understood correctly. That's what I think is happening. Yeah, if you... basically, if you go over there, it's by the old folks home, by the Balnagask. [00:02:50] Kaska Hempel: Hello, it's Kaska, one of your Story Weavers. That was me making my way to the day one of Torry People's Assembly at St Fittick's Park in Aberdeen on Saturday 27th of May, earlier this year. We'll hear more from the gathering later, but first let me ask you... do you know what People's Assembly is? Or deliberative democracy? Well, before I embarked on this journey, I was not quite sure myself. So let me share with you what I've learned as I've dipped my toe into the Nescan's Just Transition Communities project. The project that was conceived last November and with support from the Scottish Government's Just Transition Fund, Nescan, or North East Scotland Climate Action Network, along with several partners, embarked on a pilot year. Here is Alison Stewart, Nescan's Hub Manager. Explaining the transformative thinking behind it at the Knowledge Exchange Get Together for the Project Partners in June this year. [00:03:55] Alison Stewart: When we talk about getting to net zero, there is a tendency to limit ourselves and our imaginations. We need to think bigger, we need to think holistically, we need to think collaboratively and inclusively, and we need to think of systems change. When we discuss what a just transition means, the main barriers to change, to transition, It's that our current decision making processes are flawed. They allow for vested interests to dominate the conversation and create an elite few who determine the process and the pathways to net zero and the changes that we have to make. The people are not generally represented in this, but if we want a just transition, all sectors of our society, workers and communities need to be involved on an equal basis in our decision making processes. We have an opportunity, while getting to net zero, to create the society that we want. A fair, just, equal, biodiverse, healthy and thriving one. And we need to seize this opportunity with both hands. So Nescan Hub is playing our part to ultimately create, over a few years, a toolkit for communities and decision makers. So by the end of this process, we really hope that communities can run these processes themselves. The ideas, plans, and outcomes can then be fed into wider and bigger decision making processes. [00:05:19] Kaska Hempel: While we wait for the recordings from this gathering to be published by Nescan on their website, along with their reflections on the pilot, let's immerse ourselves in the Assembly process itself. In this episode, I take you along for a visit with People's Assembly in Torry, which was facilitated by Open Source. Before I headed out to experience the Assembly itself, I spoke to Eva, one of the people who helped facilitate the Assembly with the community. I wanted to get to grips with the concepts and the process in theory. To start, I asked her to introduce herself and share her own journey into this work. [00:05:59] Eva Schonveld: I'm Eva Schonveld. I live in Portobello in Edinburgh, and I work for an organisation called Heart Politics. Particularly on facilitation of deliberative democratic processes through a group called Open Source. It's been quite a long journey. There are a few key moments. The ecologist did a supplement on climate change, probably at the end of the 90s, that hit me like a ton of bricks. And I really wanted to do something about it and wasn't sure what. And then I read another article, probably four or five years later, in Permaculture News. That Rob Hopkins had written about the work that he did at Kinsale and suddenly I kind of thought oh, this is great, It's so positive and you know, we can work and make our communities better places as well as doing something about climate change. So I managed to shift my work to be working mostly in that for quite a few years and then burnt out and came back slowly into climate action in different ways, but particularly with Extinction Rebellion, which is where, you know, I first came across this idea that we could use democracy really differently. I think I'd already started thinking about politics and about how toxic the political system that we have is now and how it doesn't do anybody any good, including the people who are in it. And, you know, we get very bad decisions out of it. And I'm really interested in the kind of emotional and cultural underpinnings of that. And I think that came together with the Assembly work that the Extinction Rebellion really highlighted. And our group was forming, and via Extinction Rebellion we had two representatives on the stewarding group of the Scottish Climate Assembly that the Scottish Government put together and, you know, had quite a lot of input into that, I think making it quite a lot better than it would have been. But eventually our two representatives decided to leave because they felt that basically the people who were going to be Assembly members weren't going to be allowed to deliberate properly. The thing was increasingly being skewed towards existing government policy. Which is kind of understandable, but not very democratic. And so we have set out to explore how Assemblies might be part of a different way of doing democracy. And that's what I'm working on at the moment. [00:08:38] Kaska Hempel: That's really interesting. I'm already sort of spotting a bit of jargon that I think it will be quite useful to explain to people. So, if you could explain what deliberative democracy means? [00:08:50] Eva Schonveld: Yeah, it is one of those kind of catch all phrases that sort of means, you know, if you deliberate, you mean you think really deeply and carefully, and I think there is something about slowing down and moving away from the kind of party political Punch and Judy kind of politics, you know, it's the top layer of what we see in government because it's not the only thing that happens in government to something, you know, and here's where it gets a bit vague. For me, it means much more inclusive, and it means being open to a much wider range of how people understand things and process ideas. So, you know, a lot of what happens in mainstream politics is very verbal, is very written, but that's not necessarily the best way for us to process information, or certainly not all of us. So for me, deliberative democracy then broadens out into a... really interesting, rich exploration of how can we be really inclusive in the decisions that we make? How can we make sure that we set them up so that people don't get reactive, but actually are listening to one another and to the information they're hearing, and have time and space to really think about and come to shared understandings of what's really going on, and then move towards kind of good better decisions. So yes, it's a bit of a catch all phrase. [00:10:15] Kaska Hempel: So you already mentioned the Citizens Assembly on Climate that Scottish Government put together a few years back, a couple of years back now. Can you explain what that involves and how is it different to People's Assemblies or more grassroots driven Assemblies work that you've been involved in? [00:10:34] Eva Schonveld: Yeah, so Citizens Assemblies are one of the more popular forms of alternatives to mainstream democracy. And they're one of the most sort of clearly... delineated. So with a Citizens Assembly, people turn up because they've been, well, A, invited, and then B, they've been sortitioned. So the sortition process, I don't exactly know how it happens, but the intention is to try to get a representative sample of the population of whoever's being consulted here. So you'll select for different demographics, for age and education and race and gender. And you'll try and say, ok, so we have got, I don't know, 56 percent of women in Scotland, so we'll want to make sure that 56 out of 100 people in this Citizens Assembly end up being women. So we're trying to sort of build a mini picture of all of us within the group who become members of the Assembly. And no one else joins. It's a closed group that normally lasts over several weeks. It's normally around a hundred people. And there's a kind of phasing of it where there's input from across a spectrum, which is also really important. So you'll have an input of people with different views, but who have some kind of expertise, some reason to be the people who you'd go and ask about this particular subject that we're looking at. So that people can compare. And the idea is that, you know, people are presented with these different ideas, and then they deliberate. They talk in small groups and talk in big groups and have different, you know, there's different methods of helping people work through the material that they've got to come to some kind of shared opinion. And obviously it's rarely 100%, but it can often be quite high. Just because this process of filtering and boiling down and taking time and throwing ideas around together tends to move people towards more common ground, tends to move away from the polarisation that we're used to in politics at the moment. [00:12:47] Kaska Hempel: So that's the Citizens Assembly and that's usually put on by the government and feeds into government policy in some way. [00:12:55] Eva Schonveld: That is partly because they're quite expensive to put on, just the sortition process itself can be pretty expensive. So, and it has tended to be governments who've done that or local authorities. We're very interested in the idea of Citizen led Citizens Assemblies because we felt that the government was not able to put its own agenda to one side when it hosted a Citizens Assembly. And then People's Assemblies are, again, a kind of catch all phrase for like a big meeting. For us to try to bring that together into something that feels like it's a contribution towards something that's really democratic. The outreach phase is as important as the actual Assembly itself. Letting people know that it's happening. Giving people an opportunity to feed in, to have views on what it is that we should be focusing on. And trying to make the process itself as accessible as we can. It's all part of trying to make this feel like it's legitimate. And in some ways it can't be. Because there'll always be people who get left out. And so what we see with People's Assemblies is that they're particularly good at generating policy ideas. There may be places where people want to take decisions, and you wouldn't say, well, you know, you guys can't decide to start a community garden even though you found a bunch of other people who really want to do it at the People's Assembly. Of course, decisions may be made there, and may lead to action in communities. But, in the bigger picture, It may be that, you know, communities can come up with ideas for how their local economies could be transformed. Or what changes of National Policy would be needed in order to make community life be more meaningful and fulfilling, and be less damaging to the environment. So that's how we're seeing those. So People's Assemblies really good at generating ideas, and if you connect them up across different communities, then become quite a powerful voice which is part of our kind of theory of change. And then you could have potentially Citizen led Citizens Assemblies to make decisions around the kind of policies that have been generated by local People's Assemblies. So within our movement, we're relatively well practiced in these kind of processes of helping people to think creatively, to listen to one another, to make decisions that lead on to action. But in terms of interacting with democratic systems as they stand, we're... right at the beginning of that. And I think the work that we're doing in Torry is, it's our first step into seeing how this community could get more of a voice that feels like it genuinely comes from an informed position of what people in this community feel about particular issues and that could potentially lead to change. Torry is just south of the river in Aberdeen and is a community that has been in the news quite a lot recently and it's quite an extraordinary place to go to because it does feel like it has ended up at the sharp end of some very bad decisions over the last 30, 40 years. [00:16:21] Lynne Restrup: I bought my own two comfy chairs. They're much comfier. [00:16:26] Kaska Hempel: Oh, yes. Lynn, who I found at the welcome desk once I got to the Assembly site, filled me in on what it's been like to live in a place treated like a sacrificial zone for decades. Wind was picking up at this point, so there's some noise from the tent flapping around in the background. [00:16:48] Lynne Restrup: I'm Lynne Restrup. I'm a long time Torry resident. I've lived in Torry for nearly 50 years. I live in Balnagask Road and my extended family lives in Torry. My mum lives in Torry. My sister lives in Torry. My oldest son still lives in Torry. And I really love the community, but I've seen a huge change in it in the last 50 years. It used to be... It always had its problems but it's kind of seems to have lost its heart a bit. I think people have got a bit demoralized with having all the good things in Torry taken away from us and having all the rubbish things sort of put in our community, things that other communities really wouldn't want to have. And It's after a period of time, I think people just get a bit demoralized about the fights. So some of the things that historically have happened in Torry, like we've lost access to the sea on one side of us. Back when they demolished old Torry, the tanks were built for the oil and gas companies down there. This was a huge part of Torry heritage from being an old fishing village, so we lost that connection with the sea then. In more recent times, we've lost one Primary School, our only Secondary School, we've lost our outdoor Sports Centre, we've lost our indoor Sports Centre. We used to have more Medical Practices in Torry. We've lost a lot of our retail in Torry. We've lost a lot of our community in Torry because people have moved out of Torry due to a lot of the changes that have been happening. We had a huge thriving Polish population for a while, but due to Brexit and Covid, a lot of them moved away, so we lost a lot of our new Torry folk, which was a bit of a shame. And I think once you lose a Primary School and once you lose a Secondary School, it stops young families wanting to move into Torry. And unfortunately, since they've put some of the less desirable things in Torry, like the water treatment plant, the incinerator, and we've lost our access to the sea on the other side of Torry, which with the harbour development which nobody in Torry wanted. We all fought against that but the Harbour Board got its way. So, to lose your part of your history with the connection with the sea, to lose a Primary School and a Secondary School, have an incinerator built right beside one of our two remaining Primary Schools. Basically, if you were in the school playground and could kick a ball hard enough, you could hit the incinerator. So, Torry's community, we're an aging population. I'm 60 now, so the fight that I'm doing is not necessarily for my benefit. It's for our younger community members. Because it's going to be a dying community, because nobody with young families is going to want to move here. So, instead of having a thriving population of people who lived for generations in Torry, loved living in Torry, and even when they moved away had really fond memories of being in Torry, we're just going to be seen as a place that people only live in Torry if they have to. And as soon as they get the opportunity to move, that's what they're gonna do, because to be honest, if I was younger, and I'm raising my family now, I don't know if I would want to stay in Torry, and that really breaks my heart to say that. I personally don't see how you can create anything green, truly green, by destroying the only green space that a community has. So I think the loss of St Fittick's Park is the last straw for a lot of people, and it's galvanized a lot of people. They've thought, well, we've put up with this, we've put up with that, but actually, you know... It's not, it's not alright. We're not just going to say, okay, well, just lose our park as well, because at some point the community has to say, enough is enough. And I think that's where we are. [00:21:10] Eva Schonveld: And one of the main things that people say when you go and ask them, shall we do an assembly in Torry? is don't bother, it won't work, and the council never listens to us. So, that is life in Torry. And basically it's not okay. It's not okay in Torry and it's not okay anywhere else. And so our Assembly is an attempt to encourage people, encourage people who live in Torry to come together and give it another try. And it's not like we're the first thing to come along, but we hope that it may be a way to bring people together across a wide range of different interests and focuses and say, what is it that we can do together? [00:21:55] Kaska Hempel: Let's just talk about logistics. How does one actually organise an Assembly the way that you're helping people? Is there a set format? [00:22:07] Eva Schonveld: There's not a set format. It has to be tailor made to the particular community, but that doesn't mean that there aren't phases and areas of work that you can expect to come up. And the first ones is outreach. I think it's almost impossible to do too much outreach. And we've come up with a completely spurious statistic which is like 90 percent of the work of an Assembly happens before the Assembly. At 10%, well, maybe 5 percent is in the Assembly and then there's a whole bunch of follow up as well which probably is another 90 percent actually. But I think because we're talking about Assemblies, we can get caught up in thinking about, so what are we actually going to do in that meeting? And obviously that's really important. But finding out where people are in the community, finding out what's important to them, finding out what would make it possible, or even desirable for them to come along to an Assembly. Speaking to people who are not like me, who are not, you know, who's not like oneself and finding out where they're at and taking all of that information on board to develop something which is going to be as accessible and meaningful to local people as possible is massively important. [00:23:28] Kaska Hempel: You've been involved in organising this assembly today. Why did you get involved? What prompted you to spend your precious time, no doubt, because it was a long, long process, wasn't it? [00:23:46] Speaker 3: It is. I mean, I'm full time work. I have a mum, an elderly mum, who I look after. I have grandchildren as well that I look after. So I don't have a lot of free time. You know, we've been doing this for months. Every Saturday, all day, Saturday evenings, different events, going and talking to people. It is a big commitment. But I feel it's worth it for me. Because Torry really suffers a lot from social issues. It's a really poor economic area. It's people with ill health. People rely on food banks. People are really struggling with the cost of living right now. There's a lot of unemployment, people are balancing huge, huge pressures in their personal life and not everybody has the mental strength to actually devote time to this as well because if I was a young single mum struggling to feed my kids, put food on the table, or pay my rent. You know, I don't know if I really would be that bothered about constantly fighting with the council, getting involved with an assembly in a way to try and bring those voices together. And I feel that I kind of have to do it for maybe people who would like to do it as well. [00:25:03] Kaska Hempel: How did you find the whole process of going through preparation? Do you think that in any way helped the community at all? [00:25:12] Speaker 3: As I said, I've lived in Torry a long time, but even I wasn't aware of all the pockets of really good things that are happening in Torry. I've met some amazing people in the preparation and the running up to this. People who really are community minded, that are really looking at problems in the local area, really trying to improve things. They're small voices working on small projects, so I would like to think that the Assembly is going to give them a platform for us to find out about more about what they're doing and for them to tap more into the community support. I love the idea of an Assembly because we all feel like what we have to say is not being listened to. And so maybe it takes folks coming in from the outside to shine a light. And for us to feel that bit more empowered than we were before. So I would like to see this as a jumping off point. [00:26:15] Kaska Hempel: And you're talking about people coming from the outside to facilitate it. And also to, you know, report on it. How do you feel about that? [00:26:27] Speaker 3: To be honest, to start with, I was a bit like, hmm, is this somebody else that's coming in and trying to take power away from people in Torry and tell us what should be good for us and what we should be doing and what we shouldn't be doing? And actually it's not been like that at all. It's been the real education. For folk from the outside to go into a community and actually ask them what they think the issues are and try and sort of say, well, you know, if you did have more help, what could we do? You know, you tell us what we could be doing to help. And actually having anybody coming into a community and offering that level of support is quite unusual, I think. And I think that they've brought, sort of, expertise as well in terms that we didn't have before. And also just somebody really actually taking an interest in Torry and people from the outside thinking actually it's not okay what's happening, not just in Torry, but in some of our other communities that are under threat. No, I think it's easy for the council or whatever to dismiss it as just people in Torry just complaining, but when other people are seeing that same thing happening. It almost like validates what we're feeling. We're not just making a fuss over nothing. I met a few people today and talked about some of the issues, and people are actually quite astounded about the really bad things that have happened in Torry, and about the accumulative effect of one thing after the other sort of being placed in Torry. I think a lot of people came along thinking it was just about the loss of St Fittick's Park, but there's a whole history behind it. [00:28:18] Kaska Hempel: So that's the work you've been helping with in Torry, is that right? [00:28:21] Eva Schonveld: Yeah, that's a lot of what we've been doing. So we've got a comms group and a logistics group and a outreach group and we have a programme group. So the programme is, you know, what you actually do once people, you've got people through the door, what is it we're going to do together? And it's helpful if that focuses around a question. So you use all that information, all those conversations that you've had when you've been listening to people in the community to go, okay, so what are they saying the really important issues in this community are? And is there a way that we can focus this assembly, so we touch on most of those. I think certainly with Torry, we've tried to create quite a wide question. So our question is, how can people in Torry reclaim the power to make this a good place to grow up and live in? So the question is around reclaiming power, but it's also around health. It's also around young people. And these were things that came out from the conversations that we had. This is kind of like, there's no point. The council never listens to us. Those are issues of power. So once you have your question, you can focus your assembly. So how are we going to help people to look at that? How do we reclaim the power? How are we going to help people to look at what is it like to grow up healthy in Torry? What would that vision of a healthy community be? And so you may want to have an input phase. You may want to have people speaking at the beginning about maybe possibly a range of views. It kind of depends. That's where the Citizens Assembly and the People's Assembly may be most different. You may not need a range of views. You may just want to give people different opportunities to think about different parts and in Torry we've decided to hang the whole of the outputs of the Assembly around a declaration. The declaration has different parts to it and one of them states the situation in Torry. What has happened and where we are just now. Another part states what do we want to change and who's responsible for that because I think there's a lot, you know, something that as a transition person I'm all about what can the community do together? And this just has not washed in Torry. I think people do things and they have done things for the community and will continue to. But they're furious with the council and there's a social contract that has been broken and people aren't just going to let that go. So it has to be dealt with. What is it the people in Torry want from the council? On their own terms, reasonably, you know, with a timeline that has been thought through and is reasonable. So we're not saying you have to change everything tomorrow, but within this reasonable point of view, we want you to have addressed this. So that's the declaration would encompass all of those things. And then there's another piece of work which is more kind of inward facing, which is what is the community going to do about this? So both what kind of tasks and projects might we want to happen in Torry? But also if the council don't do what we said, what's our next step? You know, are we going to move into petitions or going and standing outside the council? Or are we going to go and put our bodies on the line and block roads? You know, these are the kinds of things that people in the community might want to think about. And these are ways of reclaiming power. And so it's important that we explore them. And not everybody in the community is going to want to do everything, and that's another, you know, that's another plus, because we can potentially imagine different people doing different things. [00:31:56] Kaska Hempel: As you might have figured out by now, I turned up on day one of two of the Assembly, which was all about, according to the programme, looking at the issues we face in Torry and creating a declaration of what needs to change, and then celebrating. By the time I arrived at the assembly tents, the morning session was wrapping up and people already shared thoughts on problems and on things they would like to see in Torry. Each thought carefully written down on a large paper leaf to contribute to the Torry Assembly declaration tree on display. Now, focus was shifting towards the most imminent issue, the situation with St Fittick's Park. I was just in time to catch a walking tour of the place, led by Richard Caie, a member of Friends of St Fittick's Park and the Community Council. [00:32:50] Speaker 2: Look at these tours, and we haven't lost too many people. Okay. So is this bit staying here, or is it being developed? This bit of stage here. Yeah. [00:33:00] Speaker 1: And is the proposal then to move the, like they're saying they're gonna move the wetland or something? Yeah, that's the wetlands. Yeah. [00:33:08] Speaker 2: These are the wetlands. Swamp reeds look. [00:33:15] Kaska Hempel: Wow. Yeah. [00:33:16] Speaker 2: Bone rockes could be in Florida. That one that was up around. Yep. Right. The East Tullos Burn starts its life up in the Tullos Estate. It's all the waste from just water waste. The infrastructure there is 50, 60 years old, so nobody really knows what goes into it. That's a typical colour. It actually runs alongside the railway in a culvert. And this is where it certainly comes out. And between 2010 and 2014, there was a lot of discussion about this area, a lot of good consultation, and this is the end result. All the wetlands there are artificial. They're all being ploughed out by JCBs. And there's about 200 yards of reed beds till we get up to the next bridge. And the reed beds filter everything out. And every now and again people come and remove the mud and the excess plants. It does work. If you look at the colour of the water and then our next stop up in the bridge. Compare the colour. If you want to taste it, carry on, but I would not recommend it. Right, hurry up at the back there, come on. Right, if you come back here in a couple of years time, unfortunately, this might be fenced off and from here all the way, that big triangle there, that's all going to be an industrial estate. The factory's going to be here, somewhere, and all those trees are going to get zapped. So it's sort of from here to the white state, it's all going to be industrial, up to the railway. So, this is a very popular area, people come here with barbecues, we've got facilities for children there, baskets, ball, court, nets, that's all going to get zapped as well. So we'll next stop at the bridge. Next lot of the burn goes under the bridge and we're going to have a look at the quality of the water, see if all this, all the weeds here have improved the quality of the water. [00:35:39] Kaska Hempel: Hiya, would you mind if I ask you a couple of questions? No, okay. Are you from Torry? [00:35:44] Annie Munro: Yes, I'm Annie Munro, 1978. I came up from Fife. No, I like this, I'm down here a lot, with Rosie a lot. I had another dog as well. So quiet and they want to take it away. They took the bay away, they've taken dunnies away. As you could walk up and around. There's a path that comes from here, right up to dunnies. Kaska Hempel That's really upsetting, isn't it? Do you think this Assembly today is going to make a difference? [00:36:15] Annie Munro: Do you know something? I hope so. Community Council, I'm on that. I've been on different ones. But it's apathy. It's because when we didn't have a Community Council when they said about the incinerator. But people go, they're going to build it anyway. And they do. So, what can you do? But I think this is a really good thing. It's bringing different views, sort of thing. Because before you just sit there in the Community Council and you'll go, Oh la la, the community councillors are there and you'll say to them, but... look, see the ducks? [00:36:53] Kaska Hempel: Oh yes, that's the best thing, it's right in the path. Beautiful, look at all the beautiful flowers in there. [00:36:58] Annie Munro.: I know, I know, the gorse. They'll come, look. They think they're getting fed. Oh, the water looks so much cleaner here. Yeah, cleaner, doesn't it? [00:37:08] Kaska Hempel: So you said you're feeling hopeful about this process? [00:37:12] Annie Munro.: Well, we need to get into people's houses. Yeah, we need to get people involved. It's okay saying you're here, but you don't stay here. You know what I mean? We need the people that stays here. [00:37:26] Kaska Hempel: How do you think you can do that? [00:37:28] Annie Munro.: I don't know. I stay on the block and not one of them know anything about it and they're not interested. [00:37:33] Kaska Hempel: Why do you think that is? [00:37:34] Annie Munro.: Well, they don't come down here. They don't see this. A lot of folk don't even know it exists. My daughter didn't even know this existed until I brought her down.  I used to come down here most days with her. [00:37:46] Kaska Hempel: Is it because you've got dogs? You've had dogs that this is a space you can use? [00:37:50] Annie Munro.: There's a lot of people come down with their kids. I've seen them in here with their push chairs and everything. Yep. Summer holidays it's used a lot more than it is now. This is all going to go.  Yeah, it's frustrating, isn't it, Richard? [00:38:04] Richard: Nobody listens. We've got all the lovely consultations. We've had three master planning sessions. Absolutely everybody there said, no, we don't want it. But, tick in the box, they've held a consultation. I was saying in BBC Scotland a couple of days ago, if they can take this away from a community, then no green space in Scotland is safe. A lot of people live on, sort of, the other side of down nearer to the city so they don't naturally sort of walk this way And, I don't know. We can't really get a lot of engagement going. We've got a wonderful Assembly, been well publicised, but yet, we haven't got all that many people. So, I think it's a universal problem. [00:38:50] Kaska Hempel: Oh, look at that! That's so amazing! The flowers over there as well, willow... [00:38:55] Richard: Marsh, what do you call it, marsh, marigold. And if we look at St Fittick's Church over there, I've got relatives buried there. So it is local to me. Do you have any idea how old it is? Oh, I think 1809 it stopped. But it goes way, way back. I'll tell you the story of St Fitticks. Right folks. St Fittick's, Bay St fittick's. He was an Irish French monk that washed ashore. Up to 1906, they used to have a well on the beach and in the preceding hundreds of years it was very, very popular with the locals because it was a holy well and the church clamping down on all this nonsense and there was real trouble, real antipathy towards that because this was our well and they couldn't stop the locals from drinking the well. As you see, what I'm saying now, even though we're way up, we can't see the sea. So if you're down in the park, you can't see the sea, you're hemmed in. And then, roughly where that big lump of earth is, that's where the new factories are going to go. So that's going to be even more hemmed in. So far as we know, they haven't done an Environmental Impact assessment, health, Quality of Life Assessment, Health Inequality Assessment. But even if all those are negative, you sort of know we're just going to be ignored. Nobody's going to stop the massive project like this just because you get a few negative reports. And the bottom half of that community wood, which was planted in 2010, 2014, is going to get chopped off. And that's where the new wetlands will go. They will abut directly onto the new factories. So it just doesn't make any sense at all. The good news is the rich people who are doing this don't live here, so it won't affect them at all. Oh, we need to be thankful for that . But it's been a great community fight and I think the community will just keep on fighting. This is our land. Right, lunch onward. [00:41:13] Kaska Hempel: So what are you guys doing? [00:41:18] Speaker 1: We're kind of just volunteering to... I think it's general help out. Specifically, we were gonna, if there were kids that were like, 18 to 16, that weren't wanting to sit through that, we were gonna like, take them to do physical activities and stuff. But, because there's not a huge demand for that at the moment, we're just helping out with whatever odd jobs is available. Which is? Which is soup! We're gonna refill the soup with just the red roll. [00:41:53] Kaska Hempel: I wanted to go back to the processes of talking to each other. You mentioned emotions and difference, maybe difference of opinion. How do you tackle these? In a meeting that's obviously going to have that kind of diversity of voices and strong emotions in it. Is there techniques or approaches that you use or you recommend people use? [00:42:16] Eva Schonveld: Well, there's a whole range of different things. And I guess one of the most fundamental ones is having people in the room who've thought about this stuff before. Because cultures... spread a little bit like yogurt cultures. We infect people with how we're feeling. And if there's enough of us who are feeling this is important, we're taking this seriously and we really, really want to listen to one another. We want this to be the kind of meeting where everybody's voice gets heard. Then that kind of transmits itself in some weird magical way. And so not to say that, well, you use magic, of course. So having enough people who are taking responsibility for and holding the space, who've got a sense of this is how we want to do things. Creating processes where people get to listen, but not too much, and where they get to speak, but not too much. So using facilitation. So that it's not just the people who are confident, or the loudest voices who get to speak, but where quiet people get space too. And also, creating different ways for people to express themselves. So again, like I was saying before, you know, some of us are really, really comfortable going on at length with chat. Whereas others might actually prefer to draw, or might prefer to do interpretive dance. And I think we're away, we're away from that. But actually, there is something about using the arts, you know, and that happens loads in other cultures. When my husband works in Kenya, when they take a break in the meeting, everybody sings. Everybody gets up and sings and dances. That's how you take a break. And the kind of dropping of petty issues and of tiredness. And of distraction and the bringing of everybody into the same space in the same moment feeling like we're together. That something like that does is like we have so much to learn from other cultures. And again, I think it's a while before that will be the way that we're expecting to do things in our communities. But I bloody well want to work towards it because it's important. It's really important. You know, if you ask somebody, would you change your job next week? You're going to be an MSP, you know most people were going no way because they know how toxic and stressful that kind of work is, but making our collective decisions should be something that we all feel like being involved in, and obviously sometimes it's going to be boring, but it is something about ways to make these processes feel more approachable, feel more fun, feel more engaging. [00:44:51] Speaker 3: We are doing some leaf printing to make a big banner for the park. This is a fern. They've all, it's just a bunch of stuff that I've collected up and pressed and dried out. And then if we pop it onto the fabric over here. [00:45:07] Kaska Hempel: So, how come you're involved in this? [00:45:10] Speaker 3: I live in Torry. And, like, the park, we walked around here loads during lockdown and everything so quite familiar with the place and enjoyed spending time here. So I've been sort of involved with the campaign to save the park and I knew somebody who was part of organising this thing and she asked if I want to come down and do like some, I'm also an artist, a textile artist so... [00:45:32] Kaska Hempel: Oh wonderful, hence the banner. [00:45:33] Speaker 3: Hence the banner. Are you coming? Are you coming? Right, I'll show, I'll show. You can have a go at that. My hands are messy. Yeah, I'm not very good at keeping clean with this. There we go. Should we have a look? Oh, that's lovely. You can see all the nice little veins from the leaf in there. That's very cool. Did you want to help me? We carry on colouring in all the letters using the leaves. Does that sound good? [00:46:10] Speaker 2: If you just arrived in this morning, we were looking at all the problems that Torry faces. And what do we want? On the tree there, you can see the problems. They came out in small groups. And on the second tree, you've got what we need. So that's what you miss, young lady. But instead of that, you're gathering all that to just go with it. And we're going to go into a session now. [00:46:31] Kaska Hempel: After lunch, people gathered again to hear more on St Fittick's Park situation, this time staying in the assembly tent to hear from a number of speakers with relevant experience. I've selected the most powerful excerpts from their presentations here. Despite being invited, neither the Energy Transition Zone company nor the council representatives turned up to contribute. Instead, Eva kicked off the session on behalf of ETZ, drawing on their contributions elsewhere. She donned a hard hat to better get into the role. There's a little bit of generator noise in the background, which was used to power the laptop with her presentation. [00:47:14] Eva Schonveld: Maggie McGinlay, ETZ Chief Executive, said on Radio Scotland yesterday that a small part of St Fittick's Park is needed by ETZ because of its location next to Aberdeen South Harbour. ETZ will work closely with the community to minimise the development of St Fittick's Park But maximize the impact in terms of jobs in a way that ensures ETZ are protecting and enhancing biodiversity and looking at other facilities that will enhance the park overall. My hat is off, I'm not ETZ anymore. [00:47:50] Kaska Hempel: Next up was Hannah from Grampian Community Law Centre. A part of Robert Gordon University's Law School. She's been working with the community on challenging the rezoning of St Fittick's. [00:48:02] Hannah: So, obviously the planning process, as many people who have become involved with St Fittick's Park have found out, is not particularly user friendly. It is very tricky to use and understand. And it is not made for the lone person. So we have this process, which is designed to be democratic, where we have a new local development plan comes into play every once in a while. And around about 2019, 2020, we had the emerging local development plan for Aberdeen. But as the new plan emerged, there was very quickly decided amongst decision makers that the park would have a different use. Obviously, things had developed with the port so we had the port taking over the Bay of Nigg and starting to creep, and then the powers that be decided, actually, that park looks just fine for a load of industrial units, so we'll have a bit of that as well. And obviously there's some money behind it. So, I guess it feels a wee bit like a fait accompli. You know, it must feel like that to the community. It feels that there's no hope. We're done here. It's, you know, the decisions made. But actually, you know, we've been working for months now with the Friends of St Fittick's group to understand what legal avenues there are to challenge this. And we have got avenues that we're investigating. So, this is not the end. This is very much the beginning. And it's going to be a long road ahead. That's a big process. I've just been through it with another community campaign and it's stressful. And it's time consuming. But if we don't stand up to these things, then no land in Scotland is safe, as Richard very wisely said on Radio Scotland yesterday. [00:50:04] Speaker 1: Do you want to just turn to the person next to you, just because you've heard two quite different presentations. Just take a moment to think, to share what that feels like, having listened to the person with the hat, and then to Hannah, yeah? What did you get out of that? What were the differences in what was being said? What were the different feelings with that? Just turn to the person next to you, just for a moment. Yeah. [00:50:27] Scott Herritt: So my name is Scott Herritt. So I'm here representing Defence Sympathetics, which is this sort of campaign group, what got set up to protect the park. So, I moved to Torry about two and a half years ago, and I can remember going down into the park, and it was just before the, obviously the harbour's been getting built. But I can remember going down into the park one day, a bit like today, walking down, and it's a really sunny day, walking down the hill, and there's just this natural amphitheater bowl looking out to the bayonet, and I just thought this is amazing. Like, this is an amazing place. And I basically ended up living here. And so now, if you go down there, that is gone. That is all gone. Even though it's in the water, it's affected the park. And that's what's gonna happen if they take a third of that park and stick a long, big factory in which no one knows what it's for. So, I'm really, really, really angry. And I'm really angry because of obviously what's happening. But I'm also angry because ETZ Limited decided not to come and look people in the eye. So I actually helped put another Assembly on which was more focused on basically looking at this idea of a community asset transfer of the park. And two years ago we asked them to come and present their plans. And they said that the plans weren't ready so they didn't want to come. Since that time, it's been two years, and they've said exactly the same thing. So, I'm going to leave that up to your own conclusions, like what that actually means. It's not about any transition, it's about a private land grab of our land, of public land. We all own this land, collectively, in common. That is what it's about. And that happens, not just in Aberdeen, that happens across the world. And we need to stop that, and the only people who are going to stop that is people like you. And I appreciate there's people, there's a mixture of people in from Torry and from outside of Torry. This is happening in your communities as well. But the only way to change that is... likes of you getting together, wherever your communities are, and trying to sort of do something about it, and not relying on people in suits, in big offices to try and do something about it. It's only going to change if we do something about it. As you probably can recognise from my voice, I'm not from Aberdeen, I'm from Grimsby. And so Grimsby's a place where it's like transitioned, and it's transitioned from fishing to basically nothing. And so it's had a big impact on parts of town which I grew up in. And so I think I just wanted to sort of highlight is that the Friends of St Fitticks support the real need for an energy transition and this idea of a just transition. And Aberdeen itself has gone through lots of different transitions. So, you've had like, obviously you had the granite industries, the ship building industries, the mills, the fishing, and then obviously you went into oil. And so all those transitions have been imposed on the people, and the people have been in control of those transitions, essentially the same people who want to control this transition now. We have to find a way to control that and direct it so it's actually to the benefits and to the needs of people. So whatever comes next, we need to try to find a way that we're sort of part and parcel of what happens. And I think, why not start that in here, in Torry? This, what we're doing today. That's what should happen. It should happen everywhere. So that's what I'm going to say. I'm just wondering, do you want to say anything? [00:54:18] Speaker 1: It really angers me that we've been selected yet again to sacrifice our space and our heritage and our nature for money, and I'm really pissed off about it. Sorry, I get a bit emotional. If you all know me, you know I do cry a bit. So to say we are now responsible for Aberdeen's thriving economy if this zone goes ahead, and that's a hell of a responsibility to put on the community. If you don't give us this, Aberdeen won't fall. That is the message that we've been getting. [00:54:57] Adrian Croft: My name is Adrian Croft and I'm a GP. I am the Clinical Lead at Torry Medical Practice. I'm the director of the Ribbidy Medical Group, which owns the practice. So, a couple of years ago, me and my colleagues decided we needed to write an open letter. Addressed essentially to the council and to the Scottish Government. To explain why we were astounded and shocked at the decision to change the planning regulations and to plan for industrialization of the park. We have, sadly a life expectancy that's like 13 years less than the West End in this area of Banagas. You have a healthy life expectancy, more than 20, 25 years even, compared with the rest of the city, second to the West End. I mean, those are massive, massive differences. But the evidence internationally shows that the benefits of green space are most marked in communities that have the worst health. The Scottish Government has polished hugely on green space, on the benefits of green space. We urgently need massive investment for the energy and industrial transition. But this is not the technology to do it. This is not the place to do it. And this is definitely not the way to do it. I mean, we'd love to see our money going into technologies that are proven. Things that can deliver immediate, tangible benefits to our local communities. Like insulating our houses. The houses here are frequently very small, very cold, very damp. So... they could quickly do something there that would massively improve insulation, for instance, in the community. And how cheap compared to the money they're pouring into this. [00:56:50] Kaska Hempel: This is, of course, just a very short snapshot of the process, and only some of the issues that we're focused on. The afternoon continued to explore questions about why these problems keep happening, and how can Torry reclaim the power to make this a healthy community to grow up in? Amongst all of the presentations, there was a lot of conversation and contribution from the audience. The format was varied across the day, and many voices were heard and recorded, just like Eva promised. The proceedings were also beautifully summarised in visual notes by Graphic Artist Rosie Bailuzzi. You can see some of that record on the Torry People's Assembly social media channels which I linked in the show notes. At the end of the day, I asked a couple of others what they thought about the process. [00:57:45] David McCubbin: My name is David McCubbin. I work for Third Sector Interface. Moray. Just started last month. I'm a Project Coordinator with a Just Transition project in Moray, which is part of the wider Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City. A project that's been coordinated by Nescan. I've come here today to volunteer just to help set up and man the welcome desk but also just to see how an Assembly works and learn because although we're not doing Assemblies, we are doing deliberative events with the different communities in Moray that want to engage and have those conversations about whatever it might be and it isn't this top down, you know, whether it's government or councils or an organisation, so it's trying to get people involved so that they feel part of the process and the decision making. It's very easy for people to not want to engage or say, well there's no point in being involved because I'm not going to make a difference but if we can show that you can make a difference it will inspire people and I think communities are looking at other communities to see what are they doing and then that spurs them on it's that kind of snowball effect. [00:58:52] Kaska Hempel: What's the most useful thing you saw today and during the day? [00:58:55] David McCubbin: What I really like about it is it feels very friendly and informal. There's no barriers. It's open to all. There's the entertainment for the children. There's nobody suited and booted. It just feels accessible to everybody. And you could see some people were coming on their own and people would go up and speak to them. So you were given the opportunity to mingle. But nothing's forced and nobody's being made to say or do anything they don't want to. I know sometimes when I go to things and you think I just want to listen. I don't necessarily want the spotlight shining down on me or to be, you know, given a mic to go up in front of everybody because there's the opportunity to write stuff down, you know, the trees they're doing and the leaves and it's sort of open to all because this isn't everybody's cup of tea. And this is really nice as well, outdoors. And, you know, they're in the place that one of the biggest challenges being faced at the minute and it's not just sort of in a community hall somewhere, it's here and the fact they did the tour earlier and that was really well attended so you could see this is where the proposals are. I like the fact as well it's drop in and out so you can come for the whole day and I know ideally that's what you want. Actually some people might come and think oh I'll just, I'll drop in briefly and then oh this is all right actually and I'm gonna stay and then they stay and then they might come back tomorrow. [01:00:10] Sarah Stroud: My name is Sarah Stroud and I'm a filmmaker. Yeah, so my feeling was like sometimes it felt like I was in group therapy. So it was really interesting like I loved when the chap speaking about psychotherapy and like for me I was really aware of the layers of the connections we have with the past and how we relive the cycles of things. I was just really aware of it being quite a therapeutic space. And how, you know, you're being given time so that you can speak and then people listen. Like that's something that you do quite often in 12 step programmes. It felt like really quite safe and a really nice nurturing space. [01:00:47] Fiona McIntyre: Yeah, and you were allowed to be angry you know, I was saying that I felt like I was picking up on people's emotions and feeling things that I didn't think I expected to feel but through that process probably have healed a little bit as well, like kind of, or at least there's a sense that there's people to share with. Kind of thing, like, yeah. My name's Fiona McIntyre. I run Greyhawk Bay, which is a local charity in Torry that aims to connect communities with our coast and heritage. We have a cafe up in Torry Battery, which has the best view of bottlenose dolphins. Because this is the community we serve, it's really important to us that maybe we can share what we have been able to do, but also just to kind of really get to know what are the issues and really... Yeah, I kind of support the community in that, and even just in listening. And again, seeing the children and the old men, like, seeing the cross section of, like, so many different people, and also people that have travelled up for the event. [01:01:49] Kaska Hempel: Right, we're interfering with serving of dinner, so we probably should back out. But thank you for chatting. That was the Assembly gathering. Lots and lots of going on in it. The second day was... It's equally busy with its focus on hearing input on how from local experience and then discussing strategies, next steps, and drafting an action plan. According to Rosie's graphic record, by the end of the assembly, a few ideas for practical action started emerging. From community litter picks, basketball tournaments and nature activities at the park to raise awareness and make it an irresistible place for all in Torry, to door knocking campaigns to reach people in their own homes, discussing heating costs and time banking ideas, to a vision for a community led Torry Retrofit Project, creating local jobs alongside warmer homes. Of course, the Assembly was just one point in the journey for this community. As someone said on the day, it's a long journey, and this is only the beginning, and there's been many beginnings. But it'd be interesting to see how this beginning may go forward. I asked Eva to comment on what needs to happen next for such people led Assemblies to turn into productive beginnings. [01:03:15] Eva Schonveld: We talk about there being three main pathways. So, pathway one is what the community could do for itself. Pathway two is like stuff that we want to happen that needs to interact with current power holders. That might be the council, that might be national government, that might be funders. But these are things that are going to take more work and more preparation. Pathway three is a really interesting pathway that's sort of imaginary at the moment, which is to do with the kind of things that I've been saying is like, what could communities achieve? If they decided to step into responsibility for decision making. What could we achieve together if we connected our Assemblies and used deliberation to have really, really juicy, generative conversations about how we could do things really differently. How we could change our communities and change our way of life in a way that means everybody gets their basic needs met. Which they currently don't, and also where we're not polluting the planet that we rely on to survive. These are kind of absolutely crucial questions of the moment, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be us in the places that we live who come up with the responses to that. Because fundamentally... that's what humans are for. Humans are for living in a place, having families and friends, and cooperating and collaborating with the natural world. We've given our power away to this kind of system, which feels impenetrable, and it also feels inevitable, because it's all we've ever known. But it's not how humans have always lived. We cannot continue to live like this. And we all know that. There's got to be changes. And to be kind of creative and collaborative and cooperative in how we make those changes so that people don't get hurt in the process. Feels like, well, this is the window that we've got to do it that way. And it's much better than the alternatives. [01:05:19] Kaska Hempel: Great. Yes, great call to action. So, organising something like this, it sounds really involved as a process. Is there help available, or funding? [01:05:31] Eva Schonveld: I think this is one of the really big stumbling blocks with this whole thing, is that it takes a lot to organise and there isn't currently money around for people to do Assemblies. It may be that as a result of this... Scottish Government will extend, because this is coming from Just Transition funding, which is being piloted in the North East and may be rolled out across the whole country. They may decide that Assemblies are a good thing, community run Assemblies, are a good thing, so there may be money coming from that. And there may be money coming through the climate hubs. If communities are saying, we want to have Assemblies, and this is what we're applying for grants to do, if the hubs think that those are important, then they would be able to put funds that way. And the last thing I would say is that we've got a training and we're planning to run a training up in the North East. Basically, it's an assembly catalysts training. It's for people who might then go off and set up a steering group and do all this kind of outreach. And we're going to develop, hopefully, if we get the funding, next year, a facilitators training, which we would work with Go Deep, who's another one of the partners in the NESCAN process. [01:06:41] Kaska Hempel: How do you take... the ideas forward. Do you have any feeling for that and what would be the most powerful thing that people can do or an outcome from an Assembly that can happen? [01:06:53] Eva Schonveld: Well, this Assembly in Torry will have this declaration that will include a plan. Or at least the beginnings of a plan for how we're going to move forward. And that might include small local initiatives that local people have, you know, discovered that there's other people who are keen on whatever it is. And also requests or slash demands to the council of things that need to be taken up in Torry. And all of that requires following up. And so for a big chunk of the money that we're putting forward for years two and three is for somebody to work in Torry basically to drive forward the outcomes of the Assembly. Because before we went to Torry, we just had no sense of how little capacity there is in some communities who just had the stuffing knocked out of them. And while there might be, there might be a group of people who could just carry on, just kind of integrate this with the work that they're already doing for nothing on behalf of the community. And I expect that is what will happen to begin

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This podcast episode explores the unique challenges and joys of older people living on their own. Hosted by Margo Rose with our special guest Carol Marak, this podcast delves into the practical aspects of independent living, from staying active and engaged in the community. We share inspiring stories and candid conversations as well as insights that provide support for seniors living on their own. This podcast offers a wealth of information and inspiration to help you thrive in your golden years. Episode "Chapters" 1:00 Introduction 1:03 Carol Marak telling what she do (Solo Aging) 1:31 What is a life plan assessment? 1:32 Top 10 Domains 4:00 The importance of a proactive approach to aging. 5:25 Percentage of people aging alone. 6:12 How do people make use of this information? 6:45 The Life Plan Assessment 7:35 How Carol Marak started getting inspiration on helping people who are aging alone. 8:19 What scared me to death about dying. - Carol Marak 10:54 How to reduce depression in seniors. 12:00 How to overcome depression in life 12:44 How to get out of your own way? 15:15 How to connect with Carol Marak 16:55 Coaching sessions with Carol Marak to know more about Life Assessment and Solo Aging 18:54 How to connect with the community. 19:35 Elder Orphans Facebook Group 21:52 Connect with Margo Rose Guest Bio/contact info: Carol Marak, Author, SOLO AND SMART Author, Speaker, Coach Founder, Elder Orphans Facebook Group https://carolmarak.com/ Join a Facebook Group called Elder Orphans and have all the support that you need. https://www.facebook.com/groups/elderorphans Subscribe to my Solo and Smart YouTube channel and receive tips on how to live the best for the rest of your life! Margo Bio/contact info: Would you like more practical wellness ideas? Margo Rose has been a personal trainer for over 20 years specializing in functional fitness. She has also written a book called Body Aware Grieving; A Fitness Trainer's Guide To Caring For Your Health During Sad Times. Body Aware Living is a new blend of these two systems of healing and self-care. On this website you will find: the Body Aware Living podcast, articles and videos about wellness in Margo Media section and description of her coaching services Website: www.BodyAwareLiving.com Body Aware Grieving has been created to help you, or someone you care about, adjust to a loss or big life change. This link is one way to get the book quickly: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Aware-Grieving-Fitness-Trainers/dp/0692459189 Also available from other vendors including this independent Bookshop organization: https://bookshop.org/books/body-aware-grieving-a-fitness-trainer-s-guide-to-caring-for-your-health-during-sad-times/9780692459188 Follow Body Aware Living on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/BodyAwareLiving

I thought it would be fun or maybe it's more vulnerable, to share my own lessons learned from 2022. How well do I feel like I did balancing and being balanced in 2022? Where do I feel like I went right? Where do I feel like I went wrong? What were some wins, and where can I see some...well lessons in areas that didn't feel like wins. As I am going through this I invite you to reflect on your 2022 as well. What did you love? Where were your wins and your lessons? Let's reflect and prepare for 2023. This will help: 

Episode 477 - In today's podcast I am walking you through the importance of creating clarity in your life. Where do you feel stuck? What isn't working? I invite you to take the free Life Assessment to learn more. https://www.heatherhakes.com/life-assessment ✅

In this solo episode, I share a powerful life assessment exercise you can try out to help you get out of a place of feeling stuck in your life. This episode is for you if you've been feeling down and in a funk lately. This episode is for you if you want to reflect, assess, and make some changes in your life. This episode is also for you if you are willing to give yourself a moment of pause, a moment to do some journaling and to prioritize your personal healing and growth. Here are some resources referenced in the episode: Episode 146 on journaling questions to help you dream again: https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/episodes/146/ Brene Brown's list of values: https://brenebrown.com/resources/dare-to-lead-list-of-values/ Liked what you heard? Then join my exclusive Grad School Femtee community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gradschoolfemtoring Sign up for my newsletter to learn more about grad school, sustainable productivity, and personal development: https://creative-trailblazer-5062.ck.page/gradschoolfemtoring Get my free 15-page Grad School Femtoring Resource Kit here: https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/kit/ Want to learn how to work with me? Get started here: https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/services/ For this and more, go to: https://gradschoolfemtoring.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gradschoolfemtoring/message

Ready to achieve your goals in life? Struggling to stay on track to make those goals a reality? In today's episode, we cover:The first step in goal setting that most miss,How to assess where you are versus where you want to be,The proven framework to big goal achievementPlus, a live walk-through of an ancient proven practice to reduce stress, fuel your body with energy and visualize your ideal futureLinks & Resources mentioned on this podcast, show notes & transcript can all be found at: https://livefitignitechange.com/goals Episode timestamps:[01:45] Impact of assessment on how to spend time[02:50] The two things you must know when using a map[04:07] Happiness levels declining & how to overcome that[05:26] How to have accountability with goals 76% more likely to achieve [08:07] Live meditation practice to fuel energy & visualize ideal future[14:37] The eight Fs of living fully in all aspects of life [17:02] Importance of having a round ‘wheel of life' [18:43] Applying goal designing in your life[22:43] The Elite Journal as a framework to big goals [29:20] The next book, Building an Elite Career - - - Igniting change + helping others live fit through Inrive Performance Nutrition & the Live Fit, Ignite Change podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want to do an assessment of where you are in life? This video will explain to you the seven areas that make up your life. Join me - Dr. Angel Storm - as I answer your questions on narcissism, recovery, court prep and wholistic health approaches to thriving in the middle of chaos. I'm taking your questions live every episode! Call in every Wednesday at 12:30pm CST to ask your questions/discuss your situations live with me! (512) 677-9322‬ *Please note that this information is meant for educational purposes only and does not consist of medical or legal advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/angel-j-storm-phd/message

In this powerful episode, we share how each year we complete a life assessment audit on the Core Four Areas of our lives. I am sure most high-level achievers or business professionals check monthly reports within their companies, have personal trainers or coaches that check your weight, and doctors that complete yearly health assessments.   However, how many times have you ever completed a total life audit? This is crucial for us to see where we are in the areas of life that are most important to us and pinpoint where we can adjust or improve. To know where we want to go in life, we first must recognize where we currently are!    A few takeaways in this episode are:  Identify your Core Four Areas of Life and what are the most important tires on your vehicle of life.  Think of your life like a high-performance race car and be proactive with making “pit stops” to fill air in the tires before you have a blowout.  Practice and discipline to check “your score” at the end of each quarter or at half time to finish the race strong.   Have measurable goals for each area of life and specific scheduled action steps that support those goals.  Enjoy this episode and we hope that it inspires you to check to see what is most important to you, where you have been putting focus towards and what you could do to increase your results to create multidimensional success. For questions or comments on this podcast, please visit any of the Empowered Mastery social media platforms or email us at info@empoweredmastery.com. If anything resonated with you in this episode, and you feel like you received a value bomb… the biggest compliment we can ever receive is an introduction to this podcast and share our show with someone that is on your heart.

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In this episode, we will go into the concept of the wheel of life, explore the areas of life and talk through about what we can do to make meaningful changes in our health, relationships, learning, career, finances, adventure, and spiritual contributions. Tune in today to get more value from the wheel of life! VALUABLE INSIGHTS AND KEY TOPICS: The concept of the wheel of life. (02:00) The guide to making adjustments in your life. (05:27) What we can do to make meaningful changes in our life. (08:43) The value of learning from other people's lives. (10:17) The areas of life to focus on. (14:41) The great analogy about life's purpose of Ed Mylett. (16:04) How to apply the principles that we've mastered in the areas of our life.(17:35) NOTABLE QUOTES: “ Life is a constant journey of learning.” (03:09) “ There's always adjustments that we can make that we're comfortable with at the moment.” (13:25) “ You are your own teacher ” (17:49) “ Remember to celebrate your success and your progress.” (18:37) Resources & Links Learn more about Billy Samoa  Billy's Website: https://insightoutshow.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BillySamoa Social Media:  http://linkedin.com/in/billysamoa https://www.instagram.com/                                                                    https://twitter.com/BillySamoa                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Learn more about Brenden Kumarasamy Brenden's Website: https://www.mastertalk.ca/about YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MasterTalks Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/masteryourtalk/ https://www.facebook.com/mastertalkyt/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendenkumarasamy/ https://twitter.com/masteryourtalks Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=23010497 ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is a huge sorrow when we get to the end of our lives with regrets. Today I talk about one way to avoid regret.

Welcome Magical Human to a BONUS Podcast Episode

Ashley introduces the More Life Workbook and digs deeper into the first section, the Life Assessment Wheel. To download the Workbook or accept the Workbook challenge, visit: https://www.ashleyvonschulman.com/more-life-workbook-challenge

Lesson 351: Work On Your Life Assessment Checklist   This checklist is on Jonny Webber's blog and it makes you sit back and take stock of your life. It can be found https://johnnywebber.com/life-assessment-checklist/ (here). What we need to do is keep working till we can check as many things on that list as possible off. Remember it's a work in progress. Keep at it.   PROMPT: Complete The Life Assessment Checklist    #LessonsWithAKing   https://www.instagram.com/israeliekanem/ (@israeliekanem)   https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=QN68BLL5D4552 (Support LWAK)   Audio only: Support this podcast

Brandon Bell shares how his time as a professional football player taught him to overcome adversity mentally, physically, and emotionally. Listen in as Jennifer and Brandon discuss managing adversity in all situations, what to do when the pressure is on you, and how to stay focused on the goals you want most.  Brandon Bell is a retired American football linebacker who played college football at Penn State where during his college career he played in 37 games, with 203 tackles, 9.5 sacks, 4 forced fumbles, and 3 interceptions. In 2017, Brandon signed with the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent. You can connect with Brandon in the following ways: Instagram: @__bbell Twitter: @__bbell What does greatness look like for you? Get off the sideline and take the next step towards achieving your goals by downloading the exclusive Life Assessment and Goal Worksheet Jen uses with her clients to help them identify what they want and the most direct path for moving forward. Click here to download it now: bit.ly/crossthegoalline See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CJ Worton shares how professional athletes are raising the bar in traditional business roles. Listen in as Jen and CJ discuss the mental wear and tear of professional sports, how to pick yourself up in low moments, and why athletes make good employees. CJ Worton is a wide receiver who started off his college football career with The University of Florida and then transferred to Florida International University (FIU). Post-college, CJ signed an undrafted free agent with the Atlanta Falcons. CJ has signed with the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers and will be suiting up with the Blue Bombers for the 2021 CFL season.   You can connect with CJ in the following ways: Instagram: @cjworton11 Twitter: @kiss_a_baby9   What does greatness look like for you? Get off the sideline and take the next step towards achieving your goals by downloading the exclusive Life Assessment and Goal Worksheet Jen uses with her clients to help them identify what they want and the most direct path for moving forward. Click here to download it now: bit.ly/crossthegoalline See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode Yo Murphy shares the importance of having the right team to support in you both on and off the field. Listen in as Jennifer and Yo discuss dealing with competition, the impact of achieving greatness, and the three key elements of being a good teammate. They also discuss Yo's journey from the NFL to finding his passion for serving athletes through performance therapy and coaching.   Yo Murphy is a former football player, who played college football at the University of Idaho. Yo has played in multiple professional football leagues, starting off his professional football career playing for the BC Lions in the CFL where he won a Grey Cup. He then played overseas for the Scottish Claymore and throughout his career has played for a number of CFL teams, the XFL, and also in the NFL for multiple teams such as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Minnesota Vikings, and the St. Louis Rams. Yo is the only player to ever play in the regular seasons of the CFL, NFL, XFL and NFL Europe, as well as the only player to suit up for the Super Bowl, Grey Cup, and World Bowl championship games. Currently Yo is the owner of Yo Murphy Performance where he provides expert coaching amd training for high school, college, and pro athletes. Yo has trained elite athletes such as Tre McKitty, Christian Barmore, and 2020 Heisman Trophy Winner, Davonte Smith. You can connect with Yo in the following ways: Website: https://yomurphy.com/ Instagram: @yo.murph Twitter: @yoperform What does greatness look like for you? Get off the sideline and take the next step towards achieving your goals by downloading the exclusive Life Assessment and Goal Worksheet Jen uses with her clients to help them identify what they want and the most direct path for moving forward. Click here to download it now: bit.ly/crossthegoalline See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Man, this was a gut punch.  This is similar to the Wheel of Life, but normally with the Wheel of Life, I feel like I'm consistently on cloud 9. However, with this assessment, I realized that there are particular areas that I can be SO MUCH better in. This format will substitute the original Wheel of Life beginning next month, too!Welcome to the second episode of transformation week!

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While there's nothing magical about January 1st, there's something marvelous about brushing out the proverbial cobwebs of 2020 and starting the new year with a fresh slate. Whether or not you're doing much housekeeping this time of year, today's episode has just the exercise you need to prepare for a fresh start in 2021. In this interactive episode, we'll quickly tour 14 areas of your life and reveal good goal ideas for the year ahead ; )

Though a strange year, there's much to take with you into your business in 2021. Let's discuss how to assess for your success with tips, strategies and advice for a rich new year.Host, Bernadette Boas and her guests, discuss the top of mind topics, questions and issues women have in their everyday career, business and life. If you are looking for straight talk, laughs, and action-based tips, advice and tough love, then this is the show for you.Bernadette Boas is known as a ‘ball of fire' mindset leadership coach, keynote speaker and business consultant, who inspires, motivates and equips women with the mindset and skill set needed to achieve success and prosperity in their life and business. Her popular radio program is inspired by her book, Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Shifting from Bitch to Rich in Life and Business.Support the Show.

Though a strange year, there's much to take with you into your business in 2021. Let's discuss how to assess for your success with tips, strategies and advice for a rich new year. Host, Bernadette Boas and her guests, discuss the top of mind topics, questions and issues women have in their everyday career, business and life. If you are looking for straight talk, laughs, and action-based tips, advice and tough love, then this is the show for you. Bernadette Boas is known as a ‘ball of fire' mindset leadership coach, keynote speaker and business consultant, who inspires, motivates and equips women with the mindset and skill set needed to achieve success and prosperity in their life and business. Her popular radio program is inspired by her book, Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Shifting from Bitch to Rich in Life and Business.