Lean In 29: Be your best. Serve the greater good. Rock out wherever you are with Sara Agah Franti
Release Date: 04/26/2020
Lean In 42: Consciousness Rising; Stepping boldly into the full expression of yourself with Nadine McNeil
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. “We are all in the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat” this quote struck me from my conversation with todays guest Nadine McNeil as we were talking about the current global climate - pandemic, racial protests, war, refugee’s and everything...
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Your Space Episode 41: Releasing Overwhelm
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Lean In 40: Authenticity; Finding your own way and reaching your fullest potential with Chris Dufey
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. Authenticity is a word that gets thrown around the self developing world like a hot potato. But what does it mean to truly live an authentic life? What does it take to live true to your core values, your heart centered intentions and your own personal goals?...
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Lean In 39: Survival. One brave man's unbelievable story of survival with Abdi Aden
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. Today I have the extreme pleasure of introducing you to someone who has experienced the unbelievable and conquered the impossible; Abdi Aden. Abdi’s world completely changed when he was only a very young teenager and Somalia’s vicious civil war hit...
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Lean In 38: Acceptance; It is perfectly ok to not be ok with Clare Boyd
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Your Space Episode 38: Acceptance
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Your Space Episode 37: Expression
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Lean In 37: Expression; Exploring the depths of personal truth through creativity, art, and relationships with Christina Zipperlen
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. In its most expansive definition, Art contains all forms of creative expression. Creative expression can be seen as one of the most potent forces in the world and throughout all aspects of our lives. It can point us to new paths, new ways of seeing and...
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Lean In 36: Your Space Special Edition: Opening our capacity to feel, heal and grow
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Lean In 35: Nourish; Finding nourishment through activism, yoga, internal healing and taking action with Bex Tyrer
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. When we arrive in this world as children our early years are shaped for us. And yet occasionally certain traits of our individual personalities buck the status quo and reveal deep parts of what our soul is here to do in this lifetime. Activism and the desire...
info_outlineWelcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing.
If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together.
I am always so deeply inspired by people who use their skills, talents and voice to serve the greater good. Someone who embodies this deeply is Sara Agah Franti. As an emergency room nurse, Sara Agah Franti, has witnessed patients in their most vulnerable moments. She has seen the demands that terminal illness asks of family members and close friends and has pledged her life to taking care of people when they are in times of greatest medical need. Sara says, “In my work and in my own family I’ve seen firsthand the toll that living with life-threatening medical conditions takes on both patients and their loved ones. I’ve also seen how families rally together and grow stronger in these times”.
Sara has traveled and has done relief nursing work all over the world, including Haiti, Philippines and Indonesia. Sara is dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of others. Her passion has driven her to pursue her Masters in Public Health, which she hopes to use as a platform to concentrate on health promotion and policy change.
Alongside her husband, Musician Michael Franti, Sara co-founded the “Do it for the love” foundation
Her work, life, and play are influenced by her mantra "Be your best. Serve the greater good. Rock out wherever you are."
In this episode we talk about Sara’s beliefs, work, cultural background and why she feels it’s so important to always serve the greater good.
We dive into;
- Sara’s family background in Iran and how they moved to Canada (where she was born and raised)
- Her first trip to Iran with her Mum when she was 15 and the ways that impacted her
- Why she got into nursing and the jobs and places she has worked as a nurse
- Meeting her husband Michael Franti and their ongoing journey of love and devotion
- How important it is for women to use our voices and express our ideas and thoughts with the world
- Traveling the world with her rockstar husband and baby Taj and the implications that moving around has on a young family
- Her passionate work for her foundation “Do it for the Love” and how that started and continues to grow
- The juggle of life as a working mama
- Self care and what that looks like
- How Motherhood started off not as she expected it would
- The ups, downs, in and out parts that motherhood is and what it takes to show up to that
- Leadership in this day and age and what are the responsibilities now
- What it means to be an “influencer” and how you can channel all the energy on social media to make a massive impact
- How important it is to stay connected to your truth and find your voice continually throughout your journey
You can find out more about Sara and her incredible work;
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If you are feeling as though you need a little extra support, nourishment, guidance and understanding in your own healing journey right now then please join me and jump on a FREE 15 min nourish and support call with my extraordinary team of wholistic health practitioners. This is time to focus solely on you, your personal experiences right now and how you can move forward with your own health, wellness and healing.
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An offering my heart to yours to get us through this challenging and uncertain time.
Stay safe friends,
Love Kate