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November 25, 2019 • 20 mins

Finding my way back after some sinus issues which affected my throat but I really wanted to do this show because I get to share an inspiring story of a teacher who is helping her students to shed their baggage off their young shoulders and finding ways to hold space for each other, by doing an exercise that helps them to find a way to have empathy, kindness and so many other qualities that will last them a lifetime and of course I share the word of the week and sneak peek. I also mention in the show how to get my free infographic that shares other ways to use and implement the word of week.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, welcome to the dynamic life show, inspiring
change and transformation, wordstories and conversations so
that you may live your mostdynamic life.
Why?
Because you are dynamic.
I am your host, GeorgetteTaylor.
Welcome to the show.

(00:26):
Hello everybody, and welcome toanother episode of the dynamic
life show.
I'm your host Georgette Taylorand as always, I am honored and
humbled to be here with you andI want to say thank you again
for sharing your moments andyour minutes listening to the
show.
I also want to apologize for notdoing show last week.
I know you spend your timedownloading the app, listening

(00:47):
to these shows, and I wanted tobe able to, uh, to get one out
to you this week, even though asyou can possibly hear, my voice
is really not up to par.
I have been fighting a sinusinfection for quite a week now.
a week and and a half now andI'm actually getting better,

(01:07):
believe it or not, but with allthe coughing and things that
that produces, my throat isreally not been, in the best,
uh, the best way.
So, um, but I did want to beable to come and share something
with you this week.
A little inspiring story that I,that I found while I was playing

(01:28):
up a bed, doing all my readingas well as to be able to share
with you the word of the week.
Um, so yeah, but even though,um, I have had some people say
my voice sound kind of sultry.
I think you can be the judge ofthat.
I'm not sure about that, but,uh, I am going to March on, uh,

(01:51):
and I hope I can get throughthis.
I really honestly startedrecording at least three times
before and I just startedcoughing uncontrollably.
So I'm hoping I can go ahead and, um, and, and conquer this and
uh, and record this, uh, beforethings get out of control here.
So again, so I love doinginspirational stories and so I'm

(02:13):
just going to go ahead and startwith that today.
Um, and this inspirational storyis about a teacher or her name
is Karen Wunderlich Lowe and shewanted to, um, uh, she wanted to
implement a new classroomactivity designed to help her
teacher, I mean designed toteach her students compassion.

(02:35):
And she's been a middle schoolteacher in Oklahoma for 22 years
and this year she tried out aclassroom icebreaker called the
baggage activity and she saysshe was taken aback when it
ended up being one of the mostimpactful days she's ever had as
a teacher.
So she shares some details onher Facebook page and she said

(02:57):
that when she asked the kidswhat it to have baggage, we know
what it means to have baggage,don't we?
Um, and most of them said it washurtful stuff that you carry
around on your shoulders.
She then asked them to writedown on a piece of paper what
was bothering them, what washeavy on their heart and what

(03:18):
was hurting them, et cetera.
She told them not to include anynames and to throw their baggage
across the room, once theyfinished writing, wouldn't we we
all l ove to do that, I justwant to throw my baggage across
the room and leave it there.
That's pretty much what I'mwould like to do.
So, u m, I know there's ways wecan do that and maybe we'll talk

(03:39):
about them on another show.
But uh, for the kids, you askthem to throw their baggage
across the room.
Once they finish writing a, shethen asked each student to pick
up a slip of paper at random andread it aloud.
And if the person who wrote thenote was comfortable coming
forward, they could otherwisethey could remain silent.
So the kids responded, she saidin a powerful way.

(04:02):
She said she has never been somoved to tears as what these
kids opened up about and sharewith the class.
She explained things likesuicide, parents in prison,
drugs in their family, beingleft by their parents, death,
cancer and losing pets and onand on.
Wow.

(04:23):
Just, wow.
I'm just thinking about all thethings that these, these are
young kids in middle school andall the things that they're
going through and if they'rewalking around with baggage from
such an early age, I mean why?
It's just, it just touches myheart is so sad.
Okay.
Um, so she say nearly everyonepresent was touched, feeling

(04:46):
empathy, compassion, sadness,fear and joy for there fellow
students and the kids who readthe papers would cry because
what they were reading wastough.
The person who shared, if theychoose to tell it, would cry
sometimes as well.
She said it was an emotionallydraining day, but she believed

(05:08):
that her kids w ill judge alittle less, love a little more
and forgive a little faster.
Wow.
And at the end of the activity,she got all the crumpled notes
and place them in a plastic bag,the garbage, plastic, garbage
bag that hangs on their door ofthe classroom.

(05:34):
She said because she wanted itto be there so that way it can
remind them and she wanted themto be able to see that.
Then everybody has a story andthat nobody, that they're not

(05:54):
alone, but they're all loved andthat each one of them has each
other's back.
That really is powerful.
How many times, how many timesdo we know that somebody has our
back?
How many times did we wish weknew somebody had our back?

(06:19):
If we shared something, if weshared something that was
heartbreaking or painful foreach one of us, wouldn't you
want to know that there wassomebody out there who had some
kindness and some empathy andsome compassion for your story

(06:41):
or for you just like, wouldn'tyou want to be there for
somebody else to give themcompassion, empathy, love
because of their story orkindness.
So I think that's an amazing wayto let the students know that

(07:02):
they're not alone, that they allshare something.
They all carry differentbaggage, different weights of
different sizes, but now theyall have each other to be able
to bond with each other, to beable to know that when somebody

(07:22):
is having a bad day and they maybe yelling at you or they may
not act right that they havesome stuff going on and that you
can be there for them and helpthem find a safe space for each
other.
I think that's so important forthem to know that there's
somebody there because not, I'msure for a lot of those

(07:43):
children, even for a lot of us,we know that we may not feel
safe as far as sharing what itis that we're going through and
they may not have that personthat they are allowed to open up

(08:04):
in front of.
So I think what she's doing ispowerful and so it's so needed.
It's always needed for someoneto provide a space for you to
hold space for you to let youknow that you don't have to
carry that baggage alone.

(08:26):
Although times it feels like itis alone.
And that's not saying you don'thave to do the work alone.
It has to do with any work youdo.
But to also know that there'ssomebody out there that when you
need to hold a hand, when youneed to just grab onto somebody

(08:48):
else, there's somebody outthere.
So I, I really admire what she'sdone and I'm excited for the
children in her class becausenow they're looking at things
differently.
And now they'll know, they'lllearn to be, like she said,

(09:11):
empathetic or learn to havekindness.
She's changed how they saw theirlives and she's changed how they
seen their, their, you know,their friends lives.
So that makes me so excited.
You know, it's so funny.

(09:31):
It's reminds me when I do my,um, when I do my I AM-YOU ARE
card sessions with women andthey sit there and they have
these amazing positive words tosay to each other and I find it
always fascinating that nomatter what station that t

(09:52):
hey're on, no matter what alevel of income they're at, that
we all have fears and we allhave baggage and we all have
things that we don't feel goodabout ourselves.
But to be able to look intosomebody else's eyes and say
those words to them and for themas well as for yourself i s so

(10:16):
powerful because it allows youand the other p erson's to hold
space for each other,to let eachother know that even though you
may not see that you're worthyright now and even though you're
speaking that word and you maynot feel that, you are that and
I'm here to look at you and letyou know that you are t hat, and

(10:43):
I'm here to speak those wordsback to you so that you can hear
that you are, that's what just,it just fills my heart, you know
that because I, I think that'sso important and so needed.
And I think that's why whenpeople do podcasting, I think

(11:04):
it's so powerful because nomatter what space you're in, no
matter what niche you're in, nomatter what, what thing that you
love, there's somebody out therethat's pouring out their passion
about that.
That's pouring out there theirknowledge about that.

(11:26):
It's giving you opportunity tolisten in, to know that you're
part of something and to knowthat you belong.
And I think that's a great storycause that's what she did for
those kids.
And that's what she's, that'swhat she did for me.
Just listening to that becausenow I can share that with you.

(11:48):
Maybe we need to find our ownbaggage activity, even if it's
in your own house.
The holidays are coming.
You know, there's ways we cansit down with each other and
just talk.

(12:09):
That's one of the things that Imiss so much about not being,
having my children with usbecause we live in Georgia now
and my oldest son lives inDallas.
I and my other son is in Japanand he'll be coming home yay, I
am so excited.
He'll be coming home afterChristmas.
And, um, I missed those momentsbecause we always would have

(12:30):
dinner together and we'd alwaystalk and share things.
You know, one thing I had alwayssaid about when I was growing,
when I was a single mom with myoldest son was I always sat down
with him and we always talkedand we have these great
conversations and you went today, uh, so much so that, um, I
have a show that I did with himcoming up.

(12:52):
I think I'm going to be sharingthat show next week, uh, for the
holiday.
Um, cause it's about family and,uh, and because I'm proud of
him, but, but, but because wealso had the opportunity to be
able to talk to each other.
And that's one of the things Iwant it to be as a mom.
Somebody that could, you know,be there for you when you needed

(13:14):
to talk.
And I know as children, even asadults, we don't share
everything, but when we need toshare, he knows that I'm here.
He knows he can come and talk tome about anything.
And, um, you know, what she didfor those kids was allowed them
to share and to get those thingsoff their back.

(13:37):
And that's so important.
So anyway, that's my inspiringstory for the day and for the
week and I just wanted to beable to, like I said, bring that
to you even though my voice hasbeen a little bit challenging.
So, um, uh, yeah, I just wantedto be able to speak with you
guys and connect with you again.

(13:58):
So thank you again forlistening, but to the dynamic
life show and before we go, youknow, I have your word of the
week, so let me see what thatword is.
Okay.
The word of the week is, let'ssee.
Okay.
So how you get my drum rollgoing on?

(14:23):
It is encouraging.
Woo.
oh Boy, that's a great word,right?
That's a great word for our, uh,for this episode, encouraging.
I am encouraging you.
You beautiful people out therelistening.
Yes.
You, I'm talking to you.
You can nod, Yes, it's you.
You can smile.

(14:43):
Yes, it's you, you areencouraging.
I know you are.
I know you encourage somebodyevery single, but I want you to
always remember to encourageyourself as well, that is so
important.
Sometimes we forget that.
I mean, it's beautiful to dothings for so many other people,

(15:04):
but it's so important to dothings for you because if you
don't do those things for you,then you don't, then you're not
able to really authentically dothings for other people without
expecting something in return.
You know?
Just just to be able to give toother people.
You have to encourage yourselfand be loving to yourself, but I

(15:28):
know you're encouraging.
I know you encourage peopleevery day, your children,
somebody that you run into, afamily member or friend who
needs to have some encouragementalong their journey as well.
So, I w ant t o thank you forthat.
J ust want to say thank you forbeing the encouraging person

(15:48):
that you are and for some peopleout ther who may may not feel
that they are encouraging.
I want you to know that that'sokay, but I want you to take the
word in and I want you to saythat about yourself.
I just want you to hear yourselfsay that you are encouraging.

(16:09):
Hey, as a matter of fact, I wanteverybody who's listening right
now to stop whatever you'redoing.
I want you to repeat after me.
I am encouraging.
I am encouraging.
Yes, you are.

(16:31):
You guys encourage me everysingle week to do this show
because definitely at times whenI have to encourage myself,
especially with my voice likethis, but uh, but you encouraged
me to want to be able to shareinspiring stories with you and
words of the week and just, youknow, things that are going on

(16:53):
in my life.
That's what makes me sopassionate about doing this.
It's because I'm encouraged byyou.
So thank you everybody forlistening to me.
I hope everybody has abeautiful, beautiful
Thanksgiving coming up and abeautiful holiday with your

(17:17):
families.
And if you don't have familieshere, maybe go visit a family.
Go take a family some dinner.
Or just treat yourself to abeautiful meal.
I want you to do that.

(17:37):
So also at the end of the, wellin the show notes, I'm going to
include a link for you todownload a affirmation
infographic that I created.
So you know, if you're not quitesure how to use some of these
words or, or um, you know, youwant to do something else

(18:00):
besides l ook in the mirror anduse them?
I got a couple, about five waysyou can use affirmations and so
hopefully t hat'll help you aswell to encourage you to use
these affirming words morefrequently.
U m, also if y ou're looking fora beautiful stocking stuffer,
you know, empowerment andenhancing self worth and self
esteem and being inspiring toother people never goes out of

(18:23):
style and never goes out of season.
So now if you need a littlestocking stuffer with some
affirming words to help maybesomebody you're thinking about,
please visit mewww.dynamiclifeenterprise.com
and pick up your deck for theholiday.
So, um, yeah, just encouragesomebody to, to speak more

(18:47):
positively about who they are.
And until next week.
Again, I want you to make sureyou guys check me out next week
because I will be having thatconversation in conversation
segment with my son Adam, and Ithink you would really enjoy
listening to that.
So thank you again everybody andhappy holidays.
Talk to you soon.

(19:09):
Until next time, want you tohave a beautiful, encouraging,
blessed, blissful and dynamicweek.
INamaste! Hey everyone, this isGeorgette.

(19:34):
Thank you again for joining meon the dynamic life show.
If you'd like to continue tocheck us out every Sunday, don't
forget to download us on iTunesor visit us@ buzzsprout.com Hey,
you can also listen to this showwww.dynamiclifeenterprise.com
where you can also check out myblog about my journey into this
crazy and amazing podcast lifeas well as checkout and purchase

(19:56):
the I AM-YOU ARE,card deck whereall of your empowering IAM words
of the week come from.
So until next week, I wish youall out there and inspired,
empowered, and of course dynamiclife.
And don't forget to aspire toinspire someone out there in the
word who is w world who waitingto hear from you.

(20:16):
Why?
Because your voice matters.
Now mistake.
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