10 AUG 2021 · Short Stories that blend creativity and presence. Written and Produced by Helen Grace - a way of thinking, being, and process. This is a bi-weekly conversation: sometimes chuckle-worthy. Always encouraging. The goal is to help you feel good & inspired!

5 AUG 2021 · A short conversation on seeking what you're really seeking - How a conversation about lizards energized Helen to have some fun!

22 JUL 2021 · This episode is dedicated to the overwhelmed. To those who go through the motions and are tired of going through the motions. It’s seeing life in color for the first time in a long time. Full transcript here: https://www.whoyouneeded.com/life-in-color-the-pursuit-of-vintage-eyewear/

6 JUL 2021 · Life. Is. Noisy. But, what can we do about it? Helen challenges herself and the WYN community to go beyond the chant of 'busy culture' & lean into their path. Busy delays. Busy hastens. Busy attempts to forget what it is that we are meant to do. Busy follows culture. Not-busy brings about perspective. Not busy transforms culture.

29 JUN 2021 · Mistakes aren't a take-it-or-leave it narrative. Or, they don't have to be. We lose everyday, when we fiddle with our keys underneath our backpack. The turn we forget to make. Mistakes are good subtractions. A famous beginning...

15 JUN 2021 · The world is noisy! Full of "should" and "should not" ... but our perception doesn't have to be. Helen discusses taking a social media break and finding inspiration in everyday adventures. 

9 MAR 2021 · Many people love to talk, but effective people love to listen.  Seek first to understand the question beneath the question. This episode is Powered by Pod Decks , with unique interview questions and episode starting prompts in the palm of your hand. Use code HELENDECKS for 10% off your first order! Transcript: (Full Show Notes at WhoYouNeeded.com) [00:00:00] We battle with this thought every single day. Am I impressive enough? Are people going to like me? Here's one unimpressive trick to stand out from the crowd, take care of yourself mentally, and still be an effective leader. [00:01:50] As an introvert, I realized that when I enter into a new setting, there are a lot of people who have something to say, but very few people listen to what is being said. What do I mean by that?... When you enter a room, oftentimes one person will ask a question, but there are layers to questions. [00:02:14] There are hidden patterns that are embedded inside a question, but oftentimes. People seek to answer before they seek to listen. And my friend Patrick has a saying that listen and silent are spelled with the same letters. And oftentimes the most unimpressive trick to standing out from a crowd is to listen. [00:02:35] Yeah, Not as impressive as you thought. Huh? That's exactly the point of this title. Oftentimes maintaining our energy and maintaining our mental sustenance and value in a room comes from listening. It comes from not seeking to go after the attention it's to go after the value and heart of other people. [00:02:58] Oftentimes when we think about someone who creates value and inclusivity and open space in a room, they think about someone who can carry a conversation. They think about someone who is charismatic and charming, but often underneath that is the desire to understand. It's the desire to seek first, to get to the heart of a human being before even opening their mouth to answer or providing advice. [00:03:25] There's the question beneath the question. After interacting with several people on clubhouse on Instagram and networking with different podcasters, I realized that so many of us have gotten good at talking. We know exactly what to say. We know the rules. 00:03:48] And so how do you get to the heart of a human being? There are different ways to listen. There are different ways to connect. Someone could ask you, for example, how, how do you make X, Y, and Z amount of money? Well, what type of business do you have? What type of community do you seek to garner? Who is your target audience? [00:04:11] I began to ask those questions before even saying anything. Listening comes with identifying other people's strengths and how they can benefit in the room. My pastor, when I was in high school, used to tell me that the star of any room is not the person who says. Hey, here I am. It's the person who says, Hey, there you are a great leader, an effective leader. [00:04:33] Sometimes the most prominent spiritual teachers are ones that identified the strength, energy, and humanity in people's souls before they even opened their mouths and bragging about themselves. Let other people brag about you, but make it a point to see the gold in other people because the world needs that we're hurting right now. [00:04:53] There's an economic instability going on in America. There are people who have lost their jobs. There are people who are looking to hope and there are people who are looking to dream. And so one of the key tricks to standing out in the crowd now is to actually care, is to actually listen. And that's it. [00:05:10] That's today's episode. If you love these bite-sized episodes, share with a friend, send this to someone who this could help and uplift. Episodes are now coming out three times a week for you. I plan on posting on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the hopes that this could help someone in need. So for all you fellow misfit creatives out there, keep creating, keep going. [00:05:37] This is Helen from whoyouneeded.com signing out, have a gorgeous rest of your day. Talk to you soon.  

1 MAR 2021 · Develop a healthy relationship to fear. Can fear be a healthy driver of our lives? Listen to find out more! Full Episode Transcript (With References) [00:00:00] *Who You Needed Soundtrack* The theme of this week is “life's biggest questions”. Today I asked myself: What are you really afraid of? I unpack why I'm afraid of publishing episodes every day and my thought process and publishing it and the vulnerability of it all. [00:00:46] Starting my new segment called Helen's latest Amazon purchases. If there's something that you should know about me, you should know that I love books. I love learning. I love growing and I just love cultivating a good heart culture, which means that I want my inner world to really flourish. I've purchased is “The One Thing by Gary Keller”. It's a book about focus and I've only gotten a few pages in the number. One thing I'm learning is that sometimes when we fail to realize our life's mission, everything becomes important. [00:01:31] So make the main thing, the main thing just as a nerd geeking out moment, I didn't realize how this topic of talking about the books that I'm reading really fed into our conversation about fear. Because it does…a lot of people get this wrong. A lot of people think that not focusing on the fear actually makes us braver, but it's the focus on the fear that actually makes us better. [00:02:00] Let me tell you why there's a book that was written by Jay Shetty called Think Like a Monk. This concept really changed the way that I viewed my fear. In the second chapter of his book, he talks about really sitting with the root of the fear and cultivating a kind relationship to his fear because when we suppress the fear, we subconsciously manifest the future that we're afraid of because we're unwilling to face life's biggest questions. [00:02:29] What are you really afraid of? And that chapter that he wrote on fear profoundly affected me in the most positive way. Because I really dug deep, especially when it comes to this a hundred days of podcast challenge, what am I really afraid of? And in the beginning, I thought not scared of anything. I'm doing this a hundred days of podcasts on my own, but if I'm being vulnerable with you today, which is the whole center crux of this podcast, I have to admit that I was afraid of failure, but an underneath that fear of failure was. [00:03:00] The fear of not being enough and underneath that was being taken back to memories of rejection and feeling like I wasn't enough for me that I could never be enough. And if I didn't. Come to the realization. I wouldn't be speaking with you about it today. I want to give you another analogy on mindfulness and I'll put the links to these resources in the bio as well of the book and the video that I'm about to mention. [00:03:26] But there's this amazing video that I saw. There are these two wolves in our lives. There's the good Wolf, which are our good characteristics. And then there is our anger in our hatred. When we fight with the Bad Wolf. It only makes the bad Wolf bigger, but when we seek to listen and understand the dark shadows of ourselves, we tame our dark shadows and life's biggest questions are ultimately developing a healthy relationship with our darkness. [00:03:54] If anything, fear is a signal. That something is beyond our limits. So, to start developing a better relationship of it, when I was younger, I used to think that anger was a horrible emotion and shouldn't be expressed based on my own life experiences. And then I realized that sometimes there are healthy ways of reacting to anger. [00:04:14] That conflict can also be a healthy way of growing a relationship and communicating honestly with another human being. And I hope this helps you in some way today of serving and cultivating a deeper relationship with their dark shadows. I'm going to be unpacking this concept more in later episodes. [00:04:31] The purpose of this week is really asking those really hard questions. And I'm publishing an episode in a few days with my friend Tom corner, who overcame self-harm and self-hatred and how he got there. And it's ultimately a gradual process. I also spoke to my good friend, Greg Bornstein, who is the host of the open loops podcast. [00:04:54] And he explores hypnotism with me and a cool concept. I haven't heard before called gorilla ontology. He's also into paranormal activity and whether or not he believes that kind of stuff. So, I'm going to be unpacking a lot of very interesting topics within the next few days. And I hope you join me. [00:05:11] Can't wait to talk to you soon. Another day. Another podcast. See you tomorrow.

27 FEB 2021 · "it's SO fun getting to fail because you realize that there's no expectation to be perfect...when you subject yourself to failure over and over, you ultimately get better (if you're willing to self-reflect and learn from those failures). Sometimes I use myself as an experiment of how much can I actually get done?" Episode Notes [00:00:00] Reflecting on deep rest, why it's necessary [00:03:10] "there are plaguing thoughts that come across our minds every day of how much we need to get done. The number of things that are on our to-do lists, the bills that we have to pay, the surmounting debts, the projects that we want to accomplish, the lack of time throughout the day.... And it's also overwhelming." [00:03:30] Unpacking Un-Rest, Getting Back to Rest [00:03:49] Anti-Productivity, Pro-Meaning [00:04:52] 21-Day Reflection: What I've learned from the 100-day Podcast Challenge [00:05:36] New Segment: Nerdy Amazon Purchases  [00:06:54] if you want free tickets to Podfest Global, you can use the code: "WYNCLUB" to receive a free ticket on me. I want you to be there! If you register for Podfest global, you get registered as a possible Guinness Book of World Records holder for the largest virtual  online event [00:07:18] I want you to be there. It starts Monday, March one to March 5th, 2021. And that is it. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to this podcast. My name is Helen from who you need a.com to subscribe. You can go to the who you needed. Dot com website. There are links to Apple, Spotify, and Google podcasts.    

26 FEB 2021 · "When you put yourself in the arena, there's so much doubt that comes out...But there's beauty in that too. One day, you're going to look back and you're going to tell a story about the brave moment that you took..."