The Love, Sophia Project Podcast

Hey friend,Why do you think it's so hard to say "I'm sorry"? Do you struggle with that? Sometimes you know you need to say "I'm sorry" but it just gets stuck in the back of your throat. I want to encourage us today. If there's a situation where you need to say "I'm sorry" because you've hurt someone -- first of all, I want you to know we all hurt people. Whether intentionally or un

Hey friend,Recently I found myself in a place where I needed to forgive someone and I was finding it difficult. We all have circumstances in our lives where people hurt us intentionally or unintentionally and we need to work through forgiveness for those people. You know there's a saying that if we don't offer forgiveness it hurts us more than the person we need to forgive. I do th

Hey friend,Will you do something for me today? Will you write down a few things that make you unique? Think of a few things that make you different than others and write them down. Then, will you celebrate it? Will you write down why those things that make you unique? Or that one thing that you choose that makes you unique. Will you write down why they are good? How they add to you

Hey Friend,When I was in high school I remember getting ready in the morning and I would say something like (in my head) "well, this is as good as it's going to get" and then I would go to school. Now ,that I am an adult, I still look in the mirror and I look at myself and I go "well I am who I am". But I've added some thing else lately. I've added "and who I am is good". I want th

Hey Friend,If you've been here with us every week this week you know we've been talking about influence. Earlier I shared that we all are influencing someone because people are watching us. I think sometimes we have a definition of what a leader is and maybe we don't include ourselves as someone who is a leader. I find that a lot. We think that leaders are loud or charismatic or up

Hey Friend,So, I am a person of faith and in the Bible there is a passage where a religious person asks Jesus what the greatest commandment is. Jesus responds and says the greatest commandment is to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength and the second is like it -- love your neighbor as yourself." Now, there is a

Hey Friend,I want to start by defining influence. The definition of influence is "the power to change or affect someone or something". So, you have influence. This is true -- whether you believe it or not, you do. Your life rubs up against other people. You have influence. You have the power to change or affect someone or something. The question is how are you using your influence?

Hey Friend,Today I want you to think about the places you go everyday. Do you go to school? Do you go to work? Do you go to community places, like church? What friends do you hang out with? Where are you online? Who do you encounter? And then think about the people. Think about the people at those places. The sports teams that you're on, those who are younger than you, those who ar

Hey Friend,Sometimes we can get so caught up in our own lives and in our own stories that we don't realize how much we impact the people that we encounter every day. People watch us. People are aware of us. I know at least for me sometimes I can forget how much influence I actually have in my community and in my world. Influence is something that we talk a lot about our culture tod

There have been a few times in my life where I have really hoped for something and I've worked really hard toward something and it hasn't gone the way that I wanted to go. These times I'm thinking of, you could call it my failure maybe or those things not going the way I thought they were going to go -- this happen publicly. I really felt like I wanted to crawl in a hole and never