Team Picks – Treats for Yourself and Your Furry Friends
Our insidewink team shares some products we love from treats for your dog to music for your ears to was to make you feel beautiful.
Tips for Hitting the Road with Your Furry Friends
Part 1 of Kathlene McGovern’s 2 part series on the best and safest ways to travel with your furry friends!
A Friend is a Mirror to Our Soul
Our wonderful Cheryl Farrell uses iconic characters from the TV series CHEERS to personify actual friends of hers and shows how each friend reflects something about Cheryl herself.
Befriending Yourself
We all know how to be a good friend to others, but how do we create a warm and loving relationship with ourselves? Dove Rose has great ideas and answers.
What I Learned From the Friends Next Door
Kate Fuglei learned a lot from the six McGoogan sisters that lived next door to her growing up, especially the importance of friendship.
Letter from the Editors to our Friends
With the theme of friendship, Jean and Alison set out to write something really special…instead what they discover is shared in this monthly letter.
Vulnerability: The Key to Meaningful & Enduring Friendships
As Amy Margolis finds out after the birth of her daughter, being real, open and vulnerable is the true foundation of meaningful relationships… something we all need right now!
Self Care Takes Priority: How to be Your Own Best Friend
Our self-care is important. In Cheryl Farrell article we learn to say no thank you, to be true to ourselves and to be our own best friends.
Friend Family
In our small Studio City living room, we have two Thanksgiving tables set up. It is crowded. It is fun. It is loud. You have to suck in your stomach to squeeze around a corner to get to the kitchen for more sweet potatoes. And it is full of …
I have a friend…
I have a friend… … who gives me gardenias as a surprise … who makes me laugh till I cry … who always reaches for the check first … who calls me because she knows I have a doctor appointment … who I tell everything to because she never judges … who doesn’t gossip … who...
Podcast Episode 55: Jean Trebek & Alison Martin interviewed on This Is My Silver Lining
insidewink co-hosts, Jean Trebek & Alison Martin, were thrilled to be interviewed by Ingrid Busson-Hall and Kathleen Merrigan on the “This Is My Silver Lining” Podcast. So, get to know our hosts – Jean and Alison – a little better as they talk about their friendship, their experiences and their passion to Share The Good. Also, please check out “This is My Silver Lining” Podcast https://thisismysilverlining.com/
Podcast Episode 54: Alexa Fischer
Alexa Fischer, creator of the goal-setting, wish-granting jewelry company Wishbeads, and author of the book Wishwork is an entrepreneur, retreat leader, online course creator, speaker, and dreamer. After working with everyone from CEOs to non-profit organizations, Alexa finds (most often) that people’s greatest untapped resource is their own light. Her teaching centers on how to access that light practically and daily, so you can create real change from within.
Podcast Episode 53: Eric Zimmer
A behavior coach, Certified Interfaith Spiritual Director, writer and podcast host of “The One You Feed”, Eric Zimmer is endlessly inspired by the quest for a greater understanding of how our minds work and how to intentionally create the lives we want to live.
Podcast Episode 52: Georges Tomb
Georges Tomb is an award-winning composer and concert pianist of international fame that has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious stages, such as “Carnegie Hall” in New York, “Le Petit Palais” of Paris, the “Royal Cultural Center” in the Middle East and “Teatro La Fenice” in Italy. Georges won the “Crystal Pine Award” from the International Sound and Film Music Festival – one of the 3 most important music festivals in the world. His compositions span classical music, ballet, and cinema, earning him accolades and comparisons to legendary figures such as Ennio Morricone.
Podcast Episode 51: Mike Robbins
Mike Robbins is an author, thought leader and sought-after speaker who teaches people, leaders, and teams to infuse their lives and businesses with authenticity and appreciation. As a leadership expert, he partners with some of the top organizations in the world helping enhance culture, performance, trust, and belonging. Today we discuss his newest book – WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
Podcast Episode 49: Scarlett Lewis – insidewink Classics!
This month, Alison & Jean pick a favorite insidewink podcast. We begin with Alison’s pick – Scarlett Lewis. Scarlett founded the Choose Love Movement after her son, Jesse, was murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in December 2012 which remains as one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.Upon returning home, Scarlett discovered a message Jesse had written on their kitchen chalkboard that became the catalyst of the movement. It read, “Norturting Helinn Love”. After hours of research and consultation with numerous experts, these words became our call to action and formula for uplifting lives. Scarlett came to realize that if the shooter had received more nurturing in his life, the tragedy might never have happened and the Choose Love Movement was launched.
Podcast Episode 48: Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins is a clinical psychologist, spiritual intuitive, and Director of Mental Health at BIÂN. As a leading expert on conscious living, Dr. Amy Robbins uses death as the lens to awaken us to life. She hosts – Life, Death and The Space Between – a podcast focused on expanding consciousness and opening listeners to the miraculous universe we live in. Through interviews with fascinating professionals, leading experts, and researchers in the fields of brain science, mediumship, psychology, near death experiences, consciousness, grief, transitions to death, and alternative forms of healing, she explores life and death from the psychological, spiritual and scientific perspectives.
Podcast Episode 47: Cheryl Farrell
Cheryl Farrell is an award-winning performance storyteller and corporate communications consultant. She is founder of Cheryl Farrell Communications LLC that coaches corporate clients in diverse industries. Her trademarked Pop-Up Storytelling for Organizations helps business leaders and employees collaborate better by sharing personal stories in a strategic and structured way. Cheryl’s eclectic career for more than 30 years includes roles as vice president of communications for a major U.S. bank as well as recurring television personality on the popular quiz show Jeopardy! As a public speaker, she often examines how Black women excel at the intersections of race, gender, and age.
Podcast Episode 46: Chaz Ebert
Chaz Ebert, beloved wife of Pulitzer Prize-winner Roger Ebert, is the CEO of Ebert Digital LLC, publisher of the preeminent movie review site RogerEbert.com. Her book, “IT’S TIME TO GIVE A FECK” is a call for the elevation of unity among humanity and a movement to transform empathy into action by choosing to become a part of the conversation surrounding the philosophical principles that matter for the betterment of our local and global societies.
Podcast Episode 45: Henry Shukman – Original Love
Besides being an award-winning poet and author, Henry Shukman is an authorized Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, and is spiritual director emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His book Original Love is “a manifesto, a map, and a manual, an essential guide for spirituality in the twenty-first century replacing the concept of original sin with original love as the true foundation of our life.”