Show #4 - February 27, 2012

This week's show was dedicated to Dominican University of California - empowering individuals to be the best they can be personally, professionally, and intellectually with dignity, integrity and respect for self, others, and the planet. Thank you Dominican University for being a wonderful community to belong to and to share with the world through radio.dominican.edu!


This week's Angel Message:
Collaboration - "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller


This week's Power Thought Card:

“I breathe in the fullness and richness of life. I observe with joy as life abundantly supports me and supplies me with more good than I can imagine.”

My guest in the studio on the topic of Collaboration:
Terrie Carpenter, P.T., Founder and President of Allies For Change Physical Therapy and Collaborative Pain Management. http://www.allies4change.com/


Music:
Mardi Gras Mambo/Buckwheat Zydeco
Bridge of Friendship/Gloria Tillotson Erarda
Old Rugged Cross/Keith L. Cooper
The House of Love and Friendship/Stephen Bennett
Zydeco Sont Pas Sale/Keith Frank and the Soileau Zydeco Band


If you happen to miss a favorite show or would like to listen again:

You can access shows on demand at our archived podcasts link at http://radio.dominican.edu/podcasts.htm

Thank you for listening - it is a joy to be here with you!
DJ Noni

Show #3 - February 20, 2012

I am blown away how time has flown and that I already have three shows under my belt.

A big thank you goes out to all my listeners and supporters. Your comments, calls, emails, and letters have been wonderful to receive. It is a delight to have a chance to talk to you through the internet airwaves.

One thing that I am noticing about myself as I go through this process is that I tend to gravitate toward being more of a listener than a talker and so I am finding it to be a challenge to sustain myself in speaking mode throughout each show. I have a very busy internal dialogue - which sounds great inside my head - and now that I am speaking out loud I am called upon to be very solid and confident in my process. This is slightly scary for me. I have issues around memory and recall - from an early childhood trauma - so details and facts often are not available off the top of my head, especially if I am nervous or anxious. Therefore I need a script to keep me on track. Yet, when I am reading a script I tend to sound mechanical. Doh! A double edged sword. But, here I am, doing a show called "Finding Your Voice", so in the spirit of walking the walk and talking the talk - I am not going to give up - I am going to persevere in finding my own voice and get through this even if I fumble, crumble, creak, and croak. This is an amazing process and I am glad we are here in it together. Life? We can do this thing!

Here are some resources from today's show:

Music:
If You're Out There/John Legend
You've Got a Friend/Ronald Isley & Aretha Franklin
Future/Musiq Soulchild
Thank You For Loving Me/Bon Jovi

Four Reasons Why Fear is a Creative's Friend by Cath Duncan
http://lifedev.net/2009/02/four-reason-why-fear-is-a-creatives-friend/

When life has gotten you down and you need a helping hand:
Alcoholics Anonymous  www.aa.org
Overeaters Anonymous www.oa.org
Nicotine Anonymous www.nicotine-anonymous.org

National Suicide Hotline 1-800-273-TALK/1-800-273-8255
http://suicide.com/suicidecrisiscenter/
Marin County Suicide Hotline 415-499-1100
Marin County Grief Counseling 415-499-1195
http://www.fsamarin.org/spcc.html

Angel Card Message: Perseverance
"Look at the stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." Jacob A. Riis

Power Thought Card Message:
"I turn every experience into an opportunity. Each problem has a solution. all experiences are opportunities for me to learn and grow. I am safe." Louise L. Hay

Current Events:

-American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter Hero Award Nominations www.heroesredcrossbayarea.org

-Marin Teen Girl Conference, "Inquire, Imagine, Inspire", March 3, 2012, 8:30am-4pm, Embassy Suites Hotel, San Rafael, http://marinteengirl.org/

Show #2 - February 13, 2012

So great to spend time with you on Finding Your Voice with DJ Noni on radio.dominican.edu!

Life? WE CAN DO THIS THING!

Today's Angel Card Messages:
Tenderness, Willingness, Courage

Today's Power Thought Card Messages:
“Life Supports Me” – “Life created me to be fulfilled. I trust life, and life is always there at every turn. I am safe", and “I am Worth Loving” – “I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.”

"How To Be Alone" video poem by Tracy Davis and Andrea Dorfman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs

(Thank you to Finding Your Voice with DJ Noni listener M.C. for helping us explore the usefulness of being alone and figuring out how to balance being secure about one's self - alone or in a crowd!)

Current Events:

American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter - Hero Award Nominations now being accepted - www.heroesredcrossbayarea.org

Dominican University Leadership Event Series - Eve Ensler with Isabel Allende - Feb 24 - ilsevents@dominican.edu

Farewell and Rest in Peace:

Whitney Houston, singer and pop icon, Sunday, February 12, 2012

Quote from http://www.tinybuddha.com/

"It's only when we're fully comfortable being alone that we're able to be comfortable with other people."

Show #1 - February 6, 2012

Thank you all for tuning in to
Finding Your Voice with DJ Noni, Mondays, 4-5pm on http://radio.dominican.edu!

It was great to receive and respond to your letters and messages, share some encouragement, current events, and music. Today's show will hit the archives in a few days and you'll be able to listen to it through the archive link if there was something that caught your interest: http://radio.dominican.edu/podcasts.htm

Here are a few highlights and resource links from today's show:

Our "Angel Card Message":
"Grace"-also known as kindness, mercy, elegance, charm, and blessings.
If you would like your own set of Angel Cards you can visit http://www.starmagic.com/Angel-Cards.html

Our "Power Thought Card":
"I open new doors to life"

“I rejoice in what I have, and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead.”

“I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful.”

 For your own set of Power Thought Cards go to http://www.hayhouse.com/details.php?id=290

Transition is always part of life, we are constantly growing, changing, learning, resting, and starting all over again. Balance comes with not holding on too tight and letting a few things go so we are not completely overloaded. You get to choose what to let go of and then relax and let the rest of the journey guide you.

Listening Techniques: “Do you want me to be a sponge or a boomerang?”

Being a sponge would be purely an active listening role, taking it in, and not commenting, criticizing or advising.  Just letting the person vent and get whatever issue it is off their chest.

Being a boomerang is also active listening but with the addition of giving objective feedback andasking clarifying questions to get to the heart of the matter by helping the person flesh outideas, feelings, thoughts, and maybe even make a plan of action.

Whether you are the listener or the talker, these techniques help your thinking, clarity and compassion for yourself and whoever you are talking with.

If you have a question that you would like me to respond to on air you can email me at findingyourvoicewithdjnoni@gmail.com

Tune in next week 4-5pm on Finding Your Voice with DJ Noni on http://radio.dominican.edu

Prepared, Relaxed, Confident and Ready for Action

As I look forward to starting my radio show "Finding Your Voice" on radio.dominican.edu I am reminded of my own mantra for the coming year, "I am prepared, relaxed, confident and ready for action". I love this mantra. But it has not always been this way for me. While I am what looks like a very put together person, and have my successful moments and relationships, I still have doubtfulness, depression, and uncertainty that crop up from time to time. I've worked diligently over the years to peel away the layers of gunk that stop me from reaching my highest potential and I am most certainly grateful for my life and all that I have, yet, I still have some work to do to morph into the person I am to become while traversing this journey of life. Hence, my radio show is titled "Finding Your Voice".

With "Finding Your Voice" I am putting out there for you what I also need: Encouragement, life skills, connection, discovery, gratefulness and inspiration. And, speaking of gratefulness, I'd like to give a shout out to my fellow radio colleague, DJ Misty, of "The Scoop" which airs on Thursday nights from 7pm-8pm, for letting me sit in with her to learn the ropes of the radio station - fun and elucidating all at once.

It is a delight to be blogging with you and soon to be on the radio, chatting with you all, starting this coming Monday, February 6th, 4pm-5pm, on "Finding Your Voice" at radio.dominican.edu. And, I will be prepared, relaxed, confident, and ready for action. Talk to you soon!