What happens when people commit to a trauma-informed lifestyle? Perspectives and responses shift, behaviors and actions change. Multi-ethnic groups are woven together, cleaving to each other with resilience and a healthy sense of being and belonging. Join Dr. Sanghoon Yoo, founder of The Faithful City and leader of the AZ Trauma-Informed Faith Coalition, and co-host Michelle Stiffler, writer and owner of Sincerity Method, as they discuss all things faith, science, and resilience.
Living the Mission of Movement & Sobriety: An Interview with Ashlynn Howe
Ashlynn describes herself as someone with an "inner restlessness". This inner restlessness kept her moving, achieving, and functioning throughout years of alcohol addiction. From the outside, she appeared to be managing her life well, but her inner life said otherwise. Debt and turmoil were mounting. Everything felt chaotic. She knew her relationship with alcohol was different than it was for others, but she simply wasn't ready to get help.
Eventually, with the support of family and friends, Ashlynn did seek help. Her long list of reasons why she wouldn't fit in a recovery group evaporated in the first few meetings. Listening to the stories of others in a similar experience, she felt seen and understood. She felt like she belonged.
This sense of belonging was happening elsewhere, too - in a fitness studio. In her recovery process, Ashlynn had been taking fitness class. It wasn't long before she was teaching fitness classes. She quickly saw the need for recovery programs in the fitness space and fitness classes in the recovery space, and COVID gave her the perfect opportunity to pioneer the fusion. She began livestreaming The Recovery Barre classes once a week. The premise was simple: brief recovery meeting followed by a simplified barre class. Anyone was welcome. Last November, on her 8 year anniversary of sobriety, Ashlynn launched The Recovery Barre as a nonprofit. Less than a year later, The Recovery Barre has classes in 19 different states and in Canada.
Ashlynn shares about her faith, her sobriety, the signals that tell her to slow down, and the practices that keep her living on mission. This episode is for the sober curious, those in recovery, and anyone impacted by substance use. Listen in and be encouraged.
Find out more about The Recovery Barre: https://www.therecoverybarre.org/ (https://www.therecoverybarre.org/)
Follow The Recovery Barre on social media @therecoverybarre
Follow Ashlynn on social media @ashlynnhowemovement
30 Sept 2026
Building Brain Health & Brain Capitol: An Interview with Genein Letford
Genein grew up with the adversity of a stutter, but the challenge to solidify her voice pushed her to find other mediums to express herself. She found music and the arts. She found resilience and the beauty of building brain skills. She didn't know it at the time, but all of these experiences would fuel her future work.
Genein went on to get her Masters in Education. Today, she is an author, global speaker, Executive Director at the Arizona Brain Capital Alliance, and podcast host of the Create and Grow Your Brain Capital Podcast. She's on a mission to promote the message of brain health and brain capitol development for the entire lifespan. (She was a speaker at the 2026 Weave & Cleave conference, too!)
Genein is a wealth of knowledge, and this episode is filled with information to help you protect your greatest resource: your mind. This episode covers intriguing topics such as social justice and brain health, creativity's role in breath health, and ways to build brain skills from infancy well into maturity. You don't want to miss this one!
To learn more about Genein's nonprofit: https://www.brainolicious.org/ (https://www.brainolicious.org/)
Resources To Grow Your Intercultural Creativity: https://caffestrategies.com/store/ (https://caffestrategies.com/store/)
To connect with Genein: https://caffestrategies.com/speakers/ (https://caffestrategies.com/speakers/)
16 Sept 2026
Opening the Heart to Healing: An Interview with Nora Poling
Nora had a unique childhood. The child of physicists, she and her siblings were raised in a home where knowledge was priority and feelings weren't tolerated. Still, Nora is grateful to have acquired a zeal for knowledge, and even from an early age, the one thing she wanted to know most about was God. She sought Him on her own and found Him, but her faith in the years to come would be tested in many ways.
Nora's faith journey includes stories as unique as her childhood - leaving a cult, family abuse, plane crashes and tragic deaths, just to name a few. As Nora shares, she handled some of this pain by closing her heart to it and "going inside of herself". But ultimately, her desire to know God led her back to scripture. She discovered that Christ died for her sins AND for the wounds of her heart, that when she wept, He wept, too. Healing took awhile, but she finally opened her heart to it.
Over the previous 19 years, Nora has taught men, women and children in ten countries and four continents about the effects of trauma and abuse, and the hope and healing that only comes from Jesus. She calls her lesson 'The 6 Hearts', and it's brought many the hope and healing of salvation.
Nora is the mother of 3, grandmother of 7, great grandmother of 3, and she's “Mama Nora” to countless others to whom she has ministered. Her faithfulness is powerful. Listen to her story and be encouraged.
Connect with Nora by email: nbpoling@gmail.com.
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