Why Struggle? Podcast W Barbara J. Faison

All links - linktr.ee/barbarafaison Week 14 -  What New Things Are You Doing? How are you doing? I must say, I was energized and exhausted after last week's VO Atlanta conference where I was in person with over 800 people. That's of a lot of peopling... Yes, I do believe that is a well know made up word. My version of it is... being around people and having to be engaged. In my earlier decades, I loved being out and about so much that I would have changes of clothes in my car and I would be ready for an impromptu salsa dancing outing or meeting up with friends. You might be thinking... Barbara, you are an extrovert. Yes, that can be true and I also have become more of a selectively social extrovert. I found this happening before the pandemic. I enjoy people AND I also enjoy being alone or at home. I call this selective extrovertness, yes, another made up word. we can do that now, it's 2023!  I knew I would need to do something to get myself back into balance after 4 days of some serious peopling.

All Links - Linktr.ee/barbarafaisonLinktr.ee/barbarafaison I am a self-professed, lifelong learner and lifelong sharer.  Last Thursday I went to the 10th Annual VO Atlanta Conference to learn more about my craft.  It was exciting... it was engaging... it was LOUD.  It was my third time going since 2019 and I continue to learn more each time I go. There were over with over 900 attendees and experts and I took many conscious breaths between Thursday and Sunday.  I did take a breath break while I was there.  One of my favorite genres of voiceover is eLearning. If you have ever taken an online course, you have experienced eLearning. You may have taken a class for your job or for starting a new job, that's eLearning.  A few of the voices I've played in eLearning include being a judge, doctor, coaching an employee and sales training.   My friend, fellow content creator and voice talent, Terri Nicole asked me to support her at her vendor table where she was sharing her VO Accelerator eLearning course.  I me

ALL THE LINKS https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison ALL Decades & GENERATIONS Family. The word can bring smiles and feelings of all nature.  At this stage of life  I have one brother, Tony, who has two children, April and Byron, and a grandchild - my great-nephew, Aiden who is 4. We have cousins across the world, including Florida, Pennsylvania and California. I feel very fortunate to have grown up knowing my grandparents on my father's side and even my great grandmother on my mother's side of the family.  Connecting with generations from infants to as high as I can go brings me such joy.  I also really love celebrating the family we call friends. This weekend I had the pleasure of not only celebrating a friend and sister in silence, Susan Kelley- Delaine, I got to meet her parents! What a blessing to have your family and your parents to celebrate with you.  I truly miss mine. Mr. & Mrs. Delaine were gracious hosts and we listened to soul music in the basement surrounded by memories of Susan growi

I hope you enjoyed this grounding practice with affirmations. ... designed to remind you to STOP AND BE PRESENT. Our Breathe with Barbara LIVE Session will be on Wednesday this week - 8 - 9 pm. ALL THE LINKS - https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison My mission is to use my voice to heal, educate and inspire as a professional voice actor and meditation guide. Check out my Patreon Page - https://bit.ly/3hhiJJe Check out my YouTube channel for more break breaks, inspiration and longer meditations - https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison Social Media - find me and follow me! https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison

ALL THE LINKS - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON My father‘s mother, Grandma Honey, taught me to crochet when I was a young girl. I don’t remember the exact age, I imagine I was probably 9 or 10. I would crochet when I visited her in Plant City, Florida and when I returned home.…Did you know that Plant City is the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World? It was a hobby I enjoyed. And I know now that crochet has laid a foundation for calm in my life. No experience in life is wasted! As I got older like other hobbies, I put it to the side. In the 90’s while living in Tampa, FL and working with IBM, I decided I would make baby blankets for gifts for my co-workers. In one year, I made 9 spiderweb baby blankets, it was and is still my signature baby blanket. Once again, I took a hiatus from crochet for many years. I love the library. One day while in the library on Covington Highway in Decatur, GA, I saw a flyer for a crochet group. Creative Expressions Crochet Group met every second Saturday and at their next meeting they

All the links are here - linktr.ee/barbarafaison Greetings! How are you feeling in this moment? I’m feeling energized right now. This podcast/newsletter is reminder of how time truly flies and to make sure you stay connected and see people in person when you can… even if it’s at a basketball game when you have no idea you will see someone you know. This weekend my husband, TD, and I went to support our oldest son, Tyriel, who is an assistant coach for the girls varsity team at Griffin High School, for the state basketball playoffs in Ft. Valley, GA. Backstory alert, for those of you who may not know this, I am one of those unicorns that got married at 52… so yes, it can be done for those who want the marriage experience.

ALL THE LINKS - https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison Our Breathe with Barbara LIVE Session will be on Tuesday this week - 8 - 9 pm. ALL THE LINKS - https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison I hope you enjoyed this walking meditation using the SSHTTS practice... designed to help you STOP and BE PRESENT. My mission is to use my voice to heal, educate and inspire as a professional voice actor and meditation guide. NOTE: I've recently set up my account on Patreon, so you can check it out and see if it resonates with you. It is monthly and would be an automated deduction from your account. If you are attending the LIVE sessions monthly, it would definitely be beneficial for you to sign up as a  Dedicated Partner in Practice which would include all of the LIVE Zoom sessions with other perks and behind the scenes videos and meditations. Check out my Patreon Page. Check out my YouTube channel for more break breaks, inspiration and longer meditations - https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison Social Media - find me and follow me! htt

All the links - https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison How are you doing today? Yes, kindness is still the running theme.  I am the CEO of my business, Barbara Faison, LLC,  Chief Everything Officer... it's only me. I realized recently... I can be a little slow at times when I get in this "creative" headspace... that I had been doing a lot and not following through with sharing all of the "things." Last week I released my second course on the Insight Timer APP and I’m so excited to have completed that project. It's called Affirm Your Life: Affirmations for Feeling Grounded, Confident and Energized, it's about using affirmations daily to enhance your life. You can check it out here to listen to the intro and first session. I absolutely love having affirmations as my Go to Phrases to keep me focused and remind me of who I am. Last year I published an hour long audio course on the Insight Timer APP called Five Mindful Ways to Struggle Less and Enjoy Life More where you learn simple practices usin

I hope you enjoyed this Rain stick meditation designed to help you STOP and BE PRESENT. My mission is to use my voice to heal, educate and inspire as a professional voice actor and meditation guide. NOTE: I've recently set up my account on Patreon, so you can check it out and see if it resonates with you. It is monthly and would be an automated deduction from your account. If you are attending the LIVE sessions monthly, it would definitely be beneficial for you to sign up as a  Dedicated Partner in Practice which would include all of the LIVE Zoom sessions with other perks and behind the scenes videos and meditations. Check out my Patreon Page. - https://bit.ly/3hhiJJe Check out my YouTube channel for more break breaks, inspiration and longer meditations - https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison Social Media - find me and follow me! https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison

https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison Greetings! How are you feeling? I'm letting Trigger Protection Mantra by Jhene AIko play in the background to remind me to CALM MYSELF down. lol On Friday I received an email for a voiceover session for Monday and I thought I responded that 1 pm worked for me. After I finished my prayer/God time where I asked if I needed to reach out to my contact, Brian, to get the script, I checked my email and he had reached out to me about if I was available at 1 pm.  Times like these it is easy to let the mind go on a spiral about... "I thought I responded"... "didn't I respond"... on and on. I took a deep breath and I emailed my apologies and confirmed my availability. Fast forward an hour later, the session was rescheduled to Wednesday afternoon. A reminder... all timing is divine. The stress we/I put on ourselves is so unnecessary. I love her song to remind me... to CALM DOWN. The bowls and sounds help me breathe through whatever I have perceived to have stressed me. Jhene al

I hope you enjoyed this walking meditation using the SSHTTS practice... designed to help you STOP and BE PRESENT. My mission is to use my voice to heal, educate and inspire as a professional voice actor and meditation guide. NOTE: I've recently set up my account on Patreon, so you can check it out and see if it resonates with you. It is monthly and would be an automated deduction from your account. If you are attending the LIVE sessions monthly, it would definitely be beneficial for you to sign up as a  Dedicated Partner in Practice which would include all of the LIVE Zoom sessions with other perks and behind the scenes videos and meditations. Check out my Patreon Page. Check out my YouTube channel for more break breaks, inspiration and longer meditations - https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison Social Media - find me and follow me! https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison

https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison Greetings! I mentioned last week that I have been working on my Affirm Your Life audio program on the power of using affirming words in your life. I can be REALLY focused and get pretty intense when I'm creating something. For weeks I've been writing and researching and I was getting frustrated with my progress.  The process is researching, outlining, writing the program/script, reading the script out loud, recording the script, editing the script, testing content and then I submit the program for review or publish it myself. I can get a little antsy while doing this process and last week I was ready to be done. Guess what? After writing about journaling for 37 days last Monday, I forgot to journal the next day. I realized this on Wednesday as I sat down to journal that day. I had to  remind myself to use my tools and practices. I had been so stuck in my head trying to force ideas about the course that I forgot to journal the day before. Changing my environm

My mother and father were both very kind, loving and wise people. Yes, I recognize what a gift I had with both of them and as I got older, and I was sure to let them know how much I appreciated them. My mother, Annie Lorene Jackson, was an elementary school teacher from a Pelham, GA, population of about 3500 now, I imagine it was smaller when she lived there. She was the first person in her family to attend college. She graduated Albany State College/University in1957 and married my father, Moses Cornelius Faison who was working as a librarian in Albany. I have had a love affair with words since the womb I suspect. lol. As you can see, education was a cornerstone in my life and continues to be foundational to who I am as a person. My mother became will in 2011 and she lived with me from 2012 - 2015. I got married in 2014, for the first and only time. :) While my mother lived with me/us for those three years she would encourage me to pat myself on the back...A LOT. Even as a young child I tend

RESOURCES: All the links are here Greetings, It's Barbara J. Faison your meditation ambassador. I've been enjoying my meditation practices for over 25 years and one of the things I love about meditation is how it is all about "returning" to yourself and being in THIS moment. I am a self-professed, LLL, life long learner and LLS, life long sharer. In 2015 as I was researching where to learn more about mindfulness I came across Kay Stewart of Stillwaters Mindfulness Training and I signed up for a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program that was being hosted at a local church counseling center where she was facilitating. Kay's energy and spirit were just right and I really felt I made a great connection and learned so much from her and the program. As an alumni of the program we are invited annually to attend a day of silence retreat on the church campus. It has been a few years since we all convened, due to COVID 19. On Saturday we had our silent retreat from 9:30 - 2 pm. When I go on a retreat, I

Yesterday my husband, TD, and I enjoyed a relaxed birthday brunch at a small restaurant I wanted to try. I  like trying new places to eat and I trusted that it would be just right. We went to  Arize Breakfast Cafe in the Camp Creek Marketplace, in case someone in the Atlanta area is interested. It was just right. I enjoyed my chocolate chip pancakes, scrambled eggs with turkey sausage and delicious coffee. TD had a Jamaican omelette and enjoyed it as well. o :) Last week I mentioned making peace with decisions about what I choose to do in my life. Last year I lost an earring TD bought me for our first anniversary gift and I've wanted to replace it. I really want to find an infinity necklace as the replacement. We stopped by a jewelry store and nothing really spoke to me there. The ladies in the store were starting to get a bit aggressive about me having to find something for my birthday, so we left. I chose to leave and to trust I didn't "need" to get something just because it was my birthday. As

My birthday is coming up on Sunday, January 22nd. I'm grateful for another year to be here. I love that my birthday is around the energy of Dr. Martin Luther King ,Jr... the Peacemaker. My time, your time, our time on this planet is FINITE and my birthday reminds me of that fact  There are only so many rotations around the sun we will make in these bodies. I'm making peace with my decisions and where I am in life. I am in a creative stage and I'm energized with sharing my knowledge and wisdom from a place of gratitude. I share my thoughts on social media and in our meditation sessions on Insight Timer and the LIVE Breathe with Barbara monthly offerings. I share more of my personal musings and practices in my new group on Patreon, a paid membership community, you can find out more here. We are all creators with THE CREATOR... GOD, UNIVERSE, SOURCE, GREAT SPIRIT, LOVE BEAUTY, - whatever you call on when you need clarity and guidance. I am creating and enjoying the process. As I reflected over my 2022,

Enjoy this Loving Myself meditation. Follow me on Social Media - all the links are here - https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel - where you can see the video version of some of the Why Struggle? episodes SUBSCRIBE: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison Let me know what you think of the book excerpt, you can email me at barbarafaisonllc@gmail.com Social Media - find me and follow me! https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison

Enjoy this excerpt from my book, Why Struggle? life is too short to wear tight shoes has been called a mini-reference manual for personal development. You can order copies at http://www.barbarafaison.com/store/ Follow me on Social Media - all the links are here - https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel - where you can see the video version of some of the Why Struggle? episodes SUBSCRIBE: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison Let me know what you think of the book excerpt, you can email me at barbarafaisonllc@gmail.com Social Media - find me and follow me! https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison

I hope you enjoyed this breath break... designed to help you STOP and BE PRESENT. My mission is to use my voice to heal, educate and inspire as a professional voice actor and meditation guide. NOTE: I've recently set up my account on Patreon, so you can check it out and see if it resonates with you. It is monthly and would be  an automated deduction from your account. If you are attending the LIVE sessions monthly, it would definitely be beneficial for you to sign up as a  Dedicated Partner in Practice which would include all of the LIVE Zoom sessions with other perks and behind the scenes videos and meditations. Check out my Patreon Page. Check out my YouTube channel for more break breaks, inspiration and longer meditations - https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison Social Media - find me and follow me! https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison

I hope you enjoyed this walking meditation using the SSHTTS practice... designed to help you STOP and BE PRESENT. My mission is to use my voice to heal, educate and inspire as a professional voice actor and meditation guide. NOTE: I've recently set up my account on Patreon, so you can check it out and see if it resonates with you. It is monthly and would be  an automated deduction from your account. If you are attending the LIVE sessions monthly, it would definitely be beneficial for you to sign up as a  Dedicated Partner in Practice which would include all of the LIVE Zoom sessions with other perks and behind the scenes videos and meditations. Check out my Patreon Page. Check out my YouTube channel for more break breaks, inspiration and longer meditations - https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison Social Media - find me and follow me! https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison