262 Lori Adams-Brown : How Inclusion is the Key to Solving Our World’s Most Complex Challenges

05/21/22 • 89 min

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Lori Adams-Brown is a Business Leader, Podcast Host & Executive Producer of the A World of Difference podcast. Lori is a woman on a mission to bring systemic changes on a global scale by creating belonging and increasing inclusion where she pulls up a chair for new voices at the table.
She worked in Indonesian tsunami relief in 2004, and learned that making a difference means listening, empathizing and rolling up our sleeves to make a significant impact together. She believes our stories are powerful to help us heal from trauma, and that our challenges are what motivate us to bring a much-needed change in our societies around the globe.
Lori Adams-Brown works in Client Relations in a Silicon Valley startup. She grew up in Valencia, Venezuela where she learned to love city life, island life and merengue and salsa music. She worked for 20 years in international relief and development in Singapore and Indonesia. She has been a pastor at a large multi-site church in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Development Director of a nonprofit in the Silicon Valley. Lori speaks 6 languages. She holds an M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and has B.A.s in Sociology and Spanish from Samford University. Her happy place is sipping a flat white coffee while having a deep conversation and enjoying either a beach or mountain vacation with the love of her life, Jason, their urbanite Third Culture Kids, and their Singaporean rescue dog.

In Lori's words:
Our world is polarized, sorted, and siloed in evho chambers that pit us against each other. The war in Eastern Europe is the culmination of what happens when we fail to listen, to see, and to include each other in solving our world’s problems together. Learning to listen, crossing the street, crossing the aisle, and linking arms together in celebration of our differences will help us change the broken systems in our world. We need each other.

3 Top Tips
1. Listen to understand, and listen some more
2. Pro-actively seek out diverse voices to teach you
3. Link arms with people different from you to solve issues in your community, nation and world

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261 Kristy Kilcup: How to move past your distorted narrative. It’s all bullshit anyway!

Kristy Kilcup, Founder and CEO of Version of YOU - 2.0 INC.,TM is known for her rapid transformational results and ‘disruptor attitude’ within the weight loss industry, bestowed upon her by the New York City Journal.

As an Rapid Transformational Therapy® Certified Hypnotherapist, Personal Trainer, Health, Life and Mastery Level Transformation Coach, Advanced Nutrition and Personalized Health Coach, she leverages her personal story, 28 years of professional experience and education to help her clients move past fear and anxiety. She also specializes in Weight Loss for Women, helping them understand their unique hormone blueprint while clearing underlying emotional issues.

In Kristy's words:
We spend most of our life avoiding our truth.
We numb it with food, alcohol, sex, drugs and pain.
We avoid it with work, volunteering, or isolation.
And while we rely on these coping mechanisms to get by, we have this little voice fighting to be heard, saying, "we deserve more." Or this chronic feeling of unhappiness, often not really knowing why we are so unhappy.
And what if you could uncover the origin of your distorted truths? Tap into your body in time to recognize when you have been triggered, so you can take back control? Would you dive in?
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Pay very close attention to your physiology. How you feel will help you realize if you have been emotionally triggered so you can take control of your responses
2. Step back and assess where these feelings originated along your timeline. Understand that your feelings (aka emotional triggers) are not the result of that particular moment. You have an attachment to an event that occurred in your past, and it's that past event that you need to link to your current emotional state. In doing so, you can recognize that the reason why you are so sad, frustrated, or angry is not because of the present moment but because of how you felt in the past. That awareness gives you the power to diffuse the intensity of your feelings felt in the present moment.
3. Identify that you get to control your emotions' "intensity volume," thereby controlling your emotional response. Now that you recognize you have been triggered and why your feelings are so intense, you can focus on breathing, calming down and taking rational action rather than an irrational reaction to the situation at hand.

Social Media
https://www.versionofyou2.com
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Articles that may be of interest:
https://nyweekly.com/education/kristy-kilcup-to-help-you-master-the-intuitive-connection-with-your-body/
https://www.netnewsledger.com/2022/02/22/how-kristy-kilcup-is-bringing-the-new-wave-of-transformation-in-holistic-coaching/
https://thenycjournal.com/top-30-women-disruptors-to-look-out-for-in-2021/

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263 Brenda Miller: From Chaos to Calmness - Instant Evolution Out of Stress

Brenda Miller’s expertise is in dissolving stress before it detonates. She loves to make the bold statement that stress is optional, and then help people prove it to themselves with her simple strategies for getting ‘right now relief’ in an upset—in 30 seconds! She says that joy is natural—and then helps people rediscover theirs by meeting each upset with one of the strategies that take us out of distress and deliver us back to our playful, compassionate nature. Brenda is devoted to helping us hear the long-forgotten whisper of wellbeing.
Brenda taught conscious conflict resolution in six countries and is the author and founder of The Kid Code, 30 Second Parenting Strategies, endorsed by Jack Canfield who says, “Everyone needs this book,” and lauded by Readers Views as “...the latest and greatest parenting book!” She’s written four other self-help books, speaks internationally and loves gardening, photography, playing with her kids and grandkids, and watching the wildlife that frequents her and her husband’s little plot of land within view of the great Canadian Rockies.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. To take the stress out of making mistakes, when someone makes one, say and feel the truth of the statement, “You matter more than the mistake.” When you make a mistake, say and feel the truth of the statement, “I matter more than the mistake,” and then make the mistake right by making amends however you can.
2. To tame a tantrum (yes, we all still have them), put a note in your pocket that says, I don’t need my raging story anymore and pull it out and read it every time anger tries to take you over.
3. Become a ‘Gratitude Practitioner’ and see if you can be grateful for everything your eyes land on, every day. This diverts the mind away from negativity and into coherence.

Social media and contact info.
www.thekidcode.ca
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