NPFY Youth Podcast: Making Possibilities: Recent Episodes
Erin Sitz
Join Manny as he discusses the rising levels of loneliness for teens, and tactics to connect with others and make new friends.
Join Manny and Sir'Pierre as they explore considering alternatives and tradeoffs when navigating life's choices. Listen in as they share practical strategies and insights on making choices that empower us to overcome obstacles and achieve our goals.
Join Manny as he discusses the Four Human Domain. Discover how nurturing our mind, body, relationships, and physical surroundings empowers us to navigate life's terrain with resilience and intentionality.
Join Manny and Bryana as they explore what unhealthy expectations are, the impact they have on our lives, and how we can practice creating healthier expectations.
Join Manny and Maurice as they discuss the practice of bestowing self-forgiveness. In forgiving ourselves, we can live a more content, fulfilled life. Discover what self-forgiveness is, how to overcome its obstacles, and the steps you can take to begin self-forgiveness.
Join Manny and Alejandro as they discuss what community and cultural wealth mean to them, the importance of it, and how they tap into it.
Join Manny as he discusses how we can explore our Don't Know Don't Know. As a reminder, this refers to the unimagined and endless possibilities to be uncovered and explored that we don't even know about. When it comes to our goals, Manny suggests having "try on" experience where we try something new to help us reach our goals and create room for new possibilities. Listen as he provides examples on how we can use a "try on" experience to create new possibilities for ourselves.
Join Manny as he discusses visualizing our declaration to allow it to better show up in our everyday actions. As a reminder, declaration refers to three or more adjectives or qualities that we want to bring forward that shape our identity, relationships, promises, and actions. Creating a vision board with images, text, and colors that relate to your declaration can help you to embody the qualities you want to bring forward.
Join Manny and Angel as they discuss the four levels of commitment, and strategies that we can use to step up our commitment to help us reach our goals.
Join Manny as he explores the different stress responses such as fight, flight, freeze and appease. Learn which response you typically have in different situations, and how you can control your responses to respond intentionally rather than have a kneejerk reaction.
Join Manny and Ray as they explore ways that you can harness the power of friction to either build new habits or break unhealthy ones. Ray shares how their mentor is helping them use friction to prepare for their freshman year at NAU. Learn different methods to use friction to your advantage.
Join Manny as he explores the process of self monitoring through observation, data collection, and reflection. Begin to notice any patterns, themes or tensions by slowing down and taking time to observe your five senses in the space around you. Discover how this practice can cultivate self-awareness, support self-accountability, and enhance self-regulation.
In this episode, Manny invites continuous reflection and exploration of What's at Risk (WAR), referring to the opportunities, experiences, and possibilities we stand to lose if we do not participate in the New Pathways program. Manny encourages matches to write a letter to open one year from now, inviting further reflection on WAR today and how that might differ in the future, while also recognizing the many milestones we've achieved today and those we'll achieve in the future. Listen and think back to WAR for you.
In this episode, Manny and Jesus discuss the differences between mental health issues and typical teenage angst. Listen as they share strategies on assessing mental health and wellbeing, the different mental health resources that exist, and how to tell the difference between temporary and persistent emotions to promote healthy growth and development.
Dynamic tension is the tension that exists when we are sitting in the gap between our current reality and what we want to happen. Join Manny as he shares ways to work with dynamic tension, and support forward action to help us reach our goals.
In America, success is viewed in ways that can be limiting. Join Manny and Cyrus as they explore ways to redefine success that invite intention and possibility.
Trust is important to feel safe and vulnerable in relationships. Join Manny as he discusses the five steps to restoring trust when it's been damaged.
Manny discusses how moods can cause us to close off, and the antidote that supports us in staying open to meet life fully.
Manny is discussing ways we cut parts of ourselves off when our unconscious stories show up. Listen as he explores strategies we can use to take a step back, notice when our unconscious story is presenting itself and ways we can overcome it.
Manny is discussing how we can unintentionally amplify our own pain and suffering as human beings. Listen as he shares ways we can embrace pain and suffering and build capacity to be present in life.