Holly Swenson is a registered nurse, an award winning author, a wellness blogger, mother to four incredible sons, and a perpetual student of life. She's on a mission to raise the bar for parents and infuse more joy, intention, balance, and wellness into parenting and beyond.

Holly joins the show today to discuss her book, “Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow: Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children.” She breaks down each easy-to-remember step: Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow. She also explains her “5 Rights of Parenting” based on her nurse training of “5 Rights of Medication Administration.”

Holly packs a lot of wisdom and practical advice into this episode. Even if you aren’t a parent, you’ll learn a lot about creating deeper, more joyful connections in your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Activate your unique gifts and then share them with the world. I wrote “Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow” to be of service to parents everywhere. And what I found is that in being of service to others, it has really changed my life from the ground up. And, you know, for me, one of my gifts is promoting wellness and intentional living for parents and children alike and, you know, becoming an author has open doors that never would have opened had I not been brave enough to put pen to paper, you know? And so I think to share with your listeners that, you know, The world needs more people to turn on their individual light and to live their truth in a way that makes a difference for humanity. And that's your gift. They're going to vary. Everyone has different gifts. And so, you know, don't blindly follow in the footsteps of others, but be brave enough to leave your own mark. You know, I think that we can change the world one person at a time. And I believe the biggest way to start making an impact is to activate your own wellness and your own internal knowing and then start sharing your heartfelt wisdom with others.

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Resources:

• Read “Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow: Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children”
• Learn more at liveyourglow.live
• Follow Holly Swenson on Instagram: @HollySwenson_LiveYourGlow

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Have you ever noticed how some people are great storytellers and some aren’t? Matthew Dicks joins the show today to explain how storytelling is a skill anyone can learn and improve upon. He also shares his newest book with us, “Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand.”

Matthew is an international best-selling novelist, comic book writer, and humor columnist. He is a 61-time Moth StorySLAM winner and acts as a consultant for major businesses to help them tell their stories.

He shares the secret sauce with us: Figure out what the story is, pick an excellent beginning, focus on actions and thoughts, and know when to stop talking. Above all, lean into the listener’s imagination.

And yes, he tells us some good stories during the episode. Don’t miss it!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

I think the most important thing is that people see stories as big sort of momentous occasions in their lives. They watch movies and they see plane crashes and people jumping from building to building and bank robberies and epic romances. And I think what they fail to see is that tiny moments like the one I just described to you, where your son says something to you and it just reframes your thinking, I actually think those are the most important stories to tell. I'm a person who has died twice and been brought back to life via CPR both times. And those are not my favorite stories to tell. I would much rather tell you the story about Charlie reminding me that ice cream on a shirt is called childhood. Because I think those are the stories that relate to people the most, they're the stories people understand the most. And they're the ones that if we don't pay attention to and hold onto, it's like sand through our fingers. They just, they disappear forever. And then suddenly our son is 27 years old and we don't know where the time went. But if we recognize those moments, we hold onto them and we tell those stories, like the one I just told you, then they become permanent markers in the life of me and my son, Charlie. And suddenly it's not sand through my fingers anymore, but it's something I get to share with other human beings and remember myself. So be paying attention to the tiniest of moments because they can have the biggest meaning.

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Read “Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand” by Matthew Dix
• Listen to Episode 269. Making Someday Today with Matthew Dicks

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Rusty Rueff has built an incredibly successful career in tech, and today he invests in and advises startups. That is why it is no surprise that he thinks about life in tech terms, even spirituality. Rusty joins the show today to tell us about his new book, “The Faith Code: A Future-Proof Framework for a Life of Meaning and Impact.”

He explains that Biblical teachings can act as the source code on which you build your life. You and your circumstances might change– your apps may update– but your source code can continue to be your foundation for an intentional life.

Tune in to hear Rusty’s incredible career journey and his perspective on modern spiritual living.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

We pay a lot of attention in our jobs and the world around us on mind and body. Right? The corporations now for the last 45 years have helped us with our body. That's why we have corporate gyms and memberships. And all those things to take care of our body. And in the last 15 to 20 years, we've started to talk about our mind. You know, with mental health. And now you can, it's a wonderful thing. You can be expressive about your mental health that you couldn't when, you know, when I was going into the workplace. Which is fantastic. And now we have tools and things, enablers to help us. But what we haven't done is we're not paying enough attention to the spirit. And in a healthy life. In my estimation. It is an isosceles triangle. It is balanced. Mind, body, and spirit. So whatever and however you define spirit. Pursue it. Pursue it. It's the one thing actually in our lives that can get stronger while we age. Our minds will go. And our bodies will go. We can fight it. As much as we want to. But they will go. But our spirit can increase and increase and increase. And we may well be the strongest point in our spirit in the last days of our lives. So find it. Pursue it. And hold on to it. And life will be better.

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Read “The Faith Code: A Future-Proof Framework for a Life of Meaning and Impact”
• Learn more at RustyRueff.com

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