Food deserts, food swamps and food insecurity are ravaging urban and rural areas across the United States. Food insecurity is when you don’t have enough money to buy the healthy foods you need or if you have to skip meals because you don’t have enough money to buy more food. In New York City alone, before COIVID-19, 1.4 million people living in NYC were food insecure. Now, it’s close to 2 million and one in every four is a child. What’s even more concerning, food deserts generally exist in urban areas— predominantly inhabited by nonwhite people— which is why Black people are disproportionately affected by diet related health conditions. During this episode we discuss how food deserts are created, it’s devastating impacts to brown communities and what can we do to help ensure no one goes hungry. “Many kids my age and younger do not know where their next meal is coming from, this is something no one should have to worry about. I know that with your help we can fight to end childhood hunger near us and all around America.” – Jocelyn Quinn (Generation No Kid Hungry – Hunger Hero)
EP 15 is all about relationships. Join Yvette and Ericka as they chat about how they learned how to keep healthy relationships with their friends, partners and family. No one is perfect and neither is every relationship but there is a balance between imperfection and unhealthy. During this episode, Yvette and Ericka describe the “definition” of a healthy relationship, what that means to them and how they maintain healthy relationships today. Check out the video here. “Your relationships can only be as healthy are you are. – Neil Warren”
We are mid-year so it’s time to see where we are with our 2021 professional/career goals and how we can tracking from a progress standpoint in our current positions. This episode is all about assessing where we are, identifying any outstanding gaps, recapping and highlighting our wins to date and prepping for our mid-year review meeting with our people manager. In episode 16, Yvette and Ericka share their process on how they prepare for their mid-year reviews and share tips and tricks on how you can get started and/or enhance your preparation process. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca
There's a lot of talk about the power of Yes. Yes supports risk-taking, courage, and an open-hearted approach to life whose grace cannot be minimized. But No…no is a metal grate that slams shut the window between one's self and the influence of others and is rarely celebrated. It's a hidden power because it is both easily misunderstood and difficult to engage. Many of us are unaware of the surge of strength we draw from No because, in part, it is easily confused with negativity. In this episode Yvette and Ericka talk about gaining perspective on what “no” really means to your life and its power to improving your life. “The power of NO is so much more than the power of saying YES.” – Julianna Margulies
Continuing the important topic of food injustice, food deserts and food swamps, in this episode Yvette and Ericka are on location at East New York Farms! located in East New York Brooklyn. The community surrounding Pink Houses refused to wait for help as they watched the systematic reduction of green spaces and the health index of the community steadily decline. While on location, Yvette and Ericka interview the farmer and her team of dedicated volunteers who operate the farm and distribute its bounty to the neighborhood weekly for free. Check out the video here. “Help the life of one person and you can help the community.” – Steven Sawalich
Gratitude. The pandemic forced people to take stock of their life, who and what brings them joy and what/who is important. But it’s also super important to reflect on all that you have to be grateful for and all you have. Expressing gratitude isn’t just left for the 4th Thursday in November, weddings or funerals. It’s an everyday activity. In this episode, Yvette and Ericka share how having gratitude changed their lives. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
Do you know what it means to “unlock your potential?” Better yet, do you even how to do it? In this episode, Yvette and Ericka share tips and actions you can take to unlock your potential by finding your WHY and resources to help you live it. “First, it is essential to determine precisely what you want
to achieve. Just wanting to be “successful” is too general.” ― Derric Yuh Ndim
Helping others achieve their success is most possibly the main key to your success. Sounds confusing right? It’s not and during this episode Yvette and Ericka will share how helping others achieve success has impacted and propelled their own careers. Using their experiences, they will show you how you can start to help others reach their goals and how that effort brings you closer to your own. “Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.” Les Brown
It’s a first for most of us of living through a pandemic. From restricted travel, social distancing to being completely sequestered in one’s home; some people have a lot of anxiety of entering back to the new “normal.” In this episode, Yvette and Ericka talk about how they are handling going back to work, traveling, taking public transportation and if they are going to make any changes to their social life and activities.
Preparing for the holidays…are you going to be zooming Thanksgiving and Christmas like last year? During this episode, Yvette and Ericka discuss how they are approaching and preparing for the holidays. “Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you are home. – Carol Nelson
Many find talking about mental health needs extremely difficult, for a host of reasons, but supporting your mental health is critical to one’s overall health. Just like we workout to maintain our physical well-being, we need to do the same for our emotional aspect as well. The purpose of this episode is to shine a light on the importance of mental health and help to remove the stigma and shame for asking for help. We’ve invited Dr. Maia Dr. Maia Mamamtavrishvili, MD., Ph.D., a board certified Psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience, help us unpack mental health and the importance of maintaining it. “Some of the most comforting words in the universe are ‘me too.’ That moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else’s struggle, that you’re not alone, and that others have been down the same road.” – Unknown
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