Overcoming Your Limits
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What if the barriers to achieving greater things are the limitations we put on ourselves? In this episode, Rob shares how pushing past his limits allowed him to be part of some extraordinary things. You will be inspired, motivated and hopefully walk away with a renewed energy to push past your own self-imposed limits and reach heights you never thought possible.
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The life we live today is largely a result of the decisions we made three to five years ago. While we can't go back and choose differently, we can make choices today that will set us up for success down the road.
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The Realities of Depression and Despair - Will Hutcherson
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Rob talks with author, speaker and pastor Will Hutcherson about what it looks like to help kids and students through depression and despair. Referencing Will's book Seen, they discuss the healing that comes through the power of connection.
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Getting Unstuck - Trey McKnight
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Rob talks with Trey McKnight about what it looks like to get unstuck in our lives. Trey is a communicator, leader and host of event such as the Global Leadership Summit. This episode is practical, powerful and inspiring, so brace yourself for the impending life change that will follow.
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Standing Out, Nailing the Interview and Landing Your Dream Job - Caitlin Kenyon
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Rob talks with certified HR Professional (SHRM-CP), Recruiter, and Career Coach. Caitlin Kenyon about presenting your best professional self. From the resume and cover letter to the interview, offer and more, Caitlin offers practical tips and insights to help people move forward toward their dream job.
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The Power of Intentional Endings
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This week Rob shares an emotional story of how watching someone die helped him see the importance of endings. He talks about the ways our directional choices can often be made with no reason to think they will get us where we want to go. Sometimes we need endings, even when they are hard.
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The Church, Politics and Critical Thinking - Isom Rigell
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Rob chats with educator Isom Rigell about his wrestling with the Church, the intersection of Donald Trump with evangelicalism, and the need for more critical thinking.
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How Being Present Changes Your Experiences
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Rob talks about his experience at the Field of Dreams game in Iowa and how that experience taught him the power of pausing and what it means to be fully present.
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Changing Your Story - Rob Chagdes
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Each one of us is telling a story with our lives. Some of our stories are full of regret, pain, disappointment and more. During this final episode of season two, and a milestone episode number 20, Rob talks about what he’s been learning the past few years about changing your story.
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The Reality of Spiritual Warfare - Dr. Daniel Green
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Rob chats with pastor and seminary professor Dr. Daniel Green about the realities of spiritual warfare. From Satan to materialism, climbing the corporate ladder and sexual sin, they discuss the schemes of the enemy and how we can stand firm against them.
info_outlineDr. Chinwé Williams ( Twitter @DrCuwilliams, Instagram @dr.chinwewilliams) is the founder and owner of Meaningful Solutions Counseling & Consulting. In addition to clinical work, Dr. Williams is an invited speaker and has presented or co- presented at numerous conferences at the local, state, national, and international levels. Dr. Williams has written several articles and blogs in the areas of mental health, parenting, trauma therapy, wellness, and self-worth.
Show Notes:
What we discuss with Dr. Chinwé Williams
- Chinwé tells us what it’s like to be a therapist during this season in history, talking about the confusion and disorientation people have encountered.
- We discuss what anxiety is and how we can walk through it. Chinwé notes how stress relates to anxiety. Stress is usually linked with stimuli, issues or events that we are worried about. Anxiety is a different category. 1 in 5 people experience anxiety. It’s more persistent, not always linked with an event, occasion, or stimuli.
- We talk about whether anxiety is getting worse among the generations. How have work demands and technology and our lack of slowing down impacted anxiety in this world?
- What does it look like to walk through anxiety? Anxious thinking tends to be toward the future in a “what if this happens / doesn’t happen” sort of way; racing thoughts, overthinking, irritability, anger.
- How should people respond to others who are walking through anxiety? If they haven’t experienced it, they don’t know what it’s like. It can be frustrating. Anxiety doesn’t respond to logic, so we can’t tell our kids and loved ones to just calm down.
- Chinwé explains the importance of breathing when coping with anxiety. When we are anxious we tend to breath in shallow ways which can cause us to feel light headed, dizzy, disoriented, and can cause panic attacks. This changes the nervous system’s response.
- We explore the role of faith in walking through anxiety. Anxiety is not always tied to sin, many people who are exercising their faith deal with anxiety. There is an area of hyper-religious coping that isn’t always helpful when walking through anxiety. Across all faith traditions, the research is clear that having and exercising faith does reduce the stress in your life and helps you put things into proper perspective.
- Chinwé’s book that will be released later in 2021 will be communicated through all The Farther Along social media, website and e-mail list.
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