Heroes of New York - #7 Milene Jardine : Chocolate for Healthcare workers

#7 Milene Jardine : Chocolate for Healthcare workers

06/07/20 • 15 min

CHOCOLATE FOR HEALTHCARE HEROES
To thank our healthcare heroes, Milène Jardine Chocolatier have been sending chocolate as a token of love, hope, and support. They have been working around the clock to bring normalcy and safety back to society. MJ Chocolates believe chocolate can bring a dose of happiness and peace to their stressful situations. To reach more heroes, they created a chocolate for healthcare workers gifting program.
Website: https://milenejardine.com/
IG: @milene.jardine.chocolatier

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#6 Part 1 - Haruna and Mark Borg - Toxic Positivity and Conflict Management in relationships

Haruna Borg and Mark Borg are both couple therapists who understand very well the impact of the lockdown on our mental health. Personally, they have lost patients to the COVID, and they also saw couples virtually, even when they came down with the COVID, . And at the same they are parenting their two school going kids. The couple is no stranger to the fact that tempers tend to flare when you are living 24/7 with someone you love locked up in a tiny space that serves as home, office, play area and gym.
In this episode, the Borgs, share openly the negative impacts of toxic positivity, the technique they use to handle conflicts in their personal lives, why apologies never work and how to effectively strike a balance in our every day lives.
00:01:38 Toxic Positivity

00:07:02 Forced Gratitude

00:14:00 How to handle a conflict

00:31:32 Rules of handling a conflict

00:38:01 Deep listening

00:39:31 Apologies versus Amends
How to reach Mark: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/mark-b-borg-jr-new-york-ny/188295

And Haruna: https://lcswharuna.com/

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#8 Part 2-Joshua Spodek - Doing meaningful things - A conversation on change

In this episode, Josh and I talk about change. There is only one way to fight climate change, pandemics and systemic racism. Through change. But to change anything, we need to first change ourselves. Changing our behaviors is how we can influence change in our society. But how hard is it? Tune in to hear Josh share his wisdom as he changed his lifestyle and continues to do so in a bid to save the environment.
Listen to the 1st part of this talk on building Habits that Stick here.
Joshua Spodek PhD MBA is a three-time TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, host of the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, and professor at NYU. He works with individuals and groups to improve their environmental culture and behavior.
Here's the TEDx video that Josh refers to in this episode where he goes into depth doing meaningful things.