Gratitude Is Always The Attitude

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Our episode order might be off, but our Gratitude is always on point. This episode was a pre-Thanksgiving convo where we spoke about how we can incorporate more gratitude into our daily habits. Why it’s important to share openly, and how to share more gratitude together. 

This episode also dives into our #MegaMitzvah benefit for One Warm Coat with some special shout outs along the way. Join the conversation by sharing why you are grateful this season with us by dropping us an email at hello@shesoundslikeme.com

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In Gratitude,

Rachael Laya & Cyla Grace Hoffman

Transcription:
You start it. Sure. Hi, Hi. Hi friends.
Happy day before thanksgiving or thanksgiving eve you may say.

[1:14] I I think thanksgiving Eve would be like in the morning of the thanksgiving because thanksgiving is like it night kind of, I see where your thought processes going there.
Yeah, you're kind of right. Alright. Well, Happy day before thanksgiving Eve.
Yeah, like so we're stoked to be back with this episode and we've got a lot of moving parts today, yep, family in town.
Food to make food to eat.
Yeah, for sure. What's your favorite thing to eat on thanksgiving are green bean casserole or nannies, cheesecake? Okay, that's good.
Yeah, I would agree that that is pretty good if we can get one of those out of her this this holiday.
Yeah, they're hard to come behind these days.
But the green bean casserole has been a favorite because well now we've passed it down to you, I made it last year, Making it again this year.
Make it again this year. So your favorite thing is the green bean casserole, but it's not just any green bean casserole.
How do we make it? We make it by pouring soup and then like green beans and then broccoli and then more soup.

[2:30] And then more soup and then green beans, cauliflower cauliflower and that was the only fried onions.
Yeah, that's one of my favorites. I think I've adapted that recipe over the years so it's not just a green bean casserole. It's like a rain be more shop, it was seven layer.
Yeah. Green bean casserole with tons of veggies. The only part I don't like about it is it has cauliflower but I don't like carl but it almost don't taste it.
Yeah, but still I don't like cauliflower, we'll dial back the cauliflower even more this year since you'll be making it, you're in charge of that dish.
Yeah, no cauliflower to me.
Uh and after this I'm excited to start cooking.
So we're getting our podcast out there today because we have a lot of things to talk about, a lot of things to be grateful for.

[3:20] And if uh you know you've been listening to our show for a while or know us at all, you know that one of the things about our,
kind of driving motivation in life or mantra zoo or things we really try to believe in,
and lean into everyday is gratitude So I so appreciate that this kind of time of year gives more worldly appreciation and gratitude.

[3:47] I'm also very grateful for our practice that it becomes more of a daily gratitude and yeah,
and I think we've come to really embrace that. What do you, what do you like,
best about our gratitude practice are like great Fels, I like how we each get to share what different, our different perspectives of like what is gone good in our days and,
just share with each other. Yeah.
Does it help you reframe a bad day? Yeah, yeah, that's great. So let's talk about that.
We are kicking off another mega mitzvah mega mitzvah fun.

[4:28] And if you've heard our show before, um, or maybe believe in Judaism, you may know that a mitzvah is just an act of kindness and good service towards others.
And um, we try to do mitzvahs on a regular basis. You can do a mitzvah just by thinking of someone and doing something kind for someone else that's unexpected.
Um, or you can do something bigger like you've donated your hair or we've done backpack drives and um, we've raised money for local organizations and you know, done food drives and things like that.
But this year, this time of year we chose uh, to do a warm coat drive.
One warm coat drive and there's an amazing organization called one warm coat That's right and they provide coats to those in need.
Of course there's always a demand for cold weather wear for people that.

[5:26] Are just having a hard time or homeless or kids in need in the foster system,
anyone at all who is in need of staying a little extra cozy this season we hope to benefit from, from this, this opportunity to give back and so we've partnered with?
One warm coat it's very easy. Anyone can do it. You just go on to their website and you register a coat drive. They are a wealth of information, as far as giving you the resources to do it.
And then you can also sign up for both virtual, meaning online cash donations that go directly to the organization, which makes it really easy.
Or you get coats and then you.

[6:11] Drives them to the, your nearest like one warm coat person.
Yeah, the donation sites. Right. And those actually partnered with some great retailers, I think Eddie Bauer and J crew are accepting coats on their behalf.
Um, another local places that are hosting the actual pickup location for the drive, so we're serving as a pickup location and we're collecting Actual coats as well as monetary donations.
Our goal was $250 and we are past that.
We were in the 300's now. Yeah, and that was just with a week's worth of work and putting it out there among our friends.
And so, you know, I know everyone is looking for opportunities this time of year, but it's really important to remember these types of things all year around.
Um, but what I love about this is this is something that you spearheaded Cyla and that, you know, it means a lot to you. So what, what does that feel like to you as a kid to be able to do opportunities and find ways to give back.

[7:16] It makes me feel proud of myself and happy that I'm given back and it feels really good. It feels, I don't know like a ball of happiness, that's great.

[7:29] Do you ever think about being in a place where you wouldn't have something like a warm jacket?
No, I could never imagine that, but when I hear people or see people,
that are like that, it makes me feel like it makes me feel bad for myself and them at the same time because I have so much and they have so little, it does not feel good when I see people like that.
Well, if I could suggest that you reframe and maybe feel grateful.

[8:00] Right, grateful for the opportunities and the abundance that you have for your family and your health and your well being or even some of those things that you take for granted.
Exactly. And then also grateful to be proud of yourself to see those opportunities and figure out a way to help.
So if you can take that bad icky feeling that gets to be a weird ball of yak in your belly and flip it to be something grateful and take action.
That's the best thing you can do. Yes. It truly is.
You don't want to feel iffy, you want to feel grateful and you want to feel like not happy, but like grateful. Happy, proud. Yes, proud and um empowered.
I want you to feel empowered to be able to take action and do something about it.
If you see something that makes you feel that way, then do something about it. Never turn the other way.
That's the best thing that we can do. I think as humans, it's the compassionate thing to do.
It's the right thing to do. That's right because not everyone will have a thanksgiving dinner to mind.
Not everyone will have a warm coat or a home or a family.

[9:28] And so if we have extra to give, is it all right, That's right. It's our duty to give. It's not just a mitzvah, it's the right thing to do as humans. Yeah.
So even when it breaks your heart, it makes you feel sad know that there is something that you can do.
Yes. There's always something you can do, even if it's little like,
donating some money or like giving them something that you don't,
need right, or just raising awareness that there is a need for something like that, telling someone or talking to your grown ups and say, you know, maybe figure out a way,
to do something or give back or just being kind,
right to someone that you see, that it might be struggling, right?
You know, the worst thing you can do is ignore it or ignore them and not acknowledge where they're at or acknowledge where you're at.
I know we we you you are a privileged child. We are we come from a privileged place that doesn't go without saying that, let's help those that are having bigger struggles than our own.
So that talks about gratitude and while I know we've mentioned it before.

[10:46] That we're not religious or very um you know, we we don't adhere to,
the textbook styles of religion like in Judaism, even though we are jewish and daddy is not, but we do talk a lot about spirituality and connection to the earth,
and to nature,
and to humankind and one of the best ways to stay grounded in that way and remember all that we have is to be grateful.
And so our daily gratitude practice is our spirituality and I'd love you to share to our listeners how we do that.
Um when we do our grateful every day, so when we do our great Fels, we, we think about things that we are grateful for and.

[11:38] Whether there are small things or big things.

[11:42] And we say them to the group that we're in.

[11:45] And every person gets to share their own great Fels.

[11:50] And at the end we had this little bun in and that like a handshake, Yeah, handshake that closes off and bundles up all those great Fels and like sends it out to the universe, right?
Yeah, and we mostly do these at dinner time, right?
But sometimes we can do them in the middle of the day, like dad has a gratitude check in,
that goes off every two hours with three hours and I'm not sure but when I'm on his phone or maybe like playing the game on his phone and that little bump pops up. I'm like,
I'm grateful for you. I'm grateful for you and I'm grateful for you.

[12:30] Yeah. Or whatever else is going on. Right. So I think what's awesome about that practice on so many levels, but is that it gives us an opportunity to kind of stop and check ourselves, right?

[12:44] Because it's really easy to get caught up in the day or um how we're feeling or also for having a bad day, you know, tell me something you're grateful for.
Yes. Right. It's something we say to each other often to kind of put ourselves back on track. Yeah, get our mind right?
And our heart. Right? Because with gratitude, that's when we can attract an abundance of more things to be grateful for a magnet.
Love Exactly. And so I love that gratitude practice for so many reasons.
And so so let's do it for our listeners because we do it when we have guests over, we do it when it's just us just, we just do it to ourselves sometimes and usually when someone is over, they get a little uncomfortable at first.
But yeah, like we're actually saying these things out loud, it's a very vulnerable exercise, but at the end it actually, I think really feels fills people's hearts and then they leave something with us.
Like our dear friend Carrie who came up with the like hit your head, correct pound and put our hands and kind of close the thing and everyone tends to have like their own call, right?
I make them up. I've made up like 1000 maybe calls do my call.

[14:08] Who I'm grateful for you, Cyla I'm grateful for this podcast for our ability to use our voices for good.
I'm grateful for our listeners who tune in from all over the world and hear our conversations and share their thoughts and stories with us.

[14:27] I'm grateful for the opportunities we've had in personal and professional ways.

[14:32] I'm grateful for our health that somehow we've all managed to escape Or Dodge COVID 19 Yeah.
Which is a big deal. And I'm so grateful for our health, our home, our happiness, our animals, our family and the opportunity to have a ton of good food together tomorrow, every day.
But especially this time of year.
And let me do your call.

[15:03] Yeah, that was should have been seven snaps. A clap and a snapping a point.
That silence call. I wish you could see it. Go ahead.
I'm grateful for you. I'm grateful for dad.
I'm grateful that our family is in town. I'm grateful. That is thanksgiving day before Eve.
I'm grateful for our pets and that we might be getting the leopard gecko. Maybe I'm grateful that we are doing the coat drive.
I'm grateful for manifesting and gratitude itself.
I'm grateful for all the things there should be grateful for bring it in for great great Fels.

[15:46] Great grateful. I think I hit my head too hard.
Well speaking of being grateful in our coat drive, I want to give a shout out to the friends who have donated.
Yes. And you definitely have a solid circle.
But here is some of the Friends that have contributed to our coat drive and like you mentioned silo well over $300 now. I think there's someone like 45 or 50 coats upstairs and we're still going strong throughout the weekend.
And even our friends, kelly bar Quinn at her store, her local kids shop ruth and Naomi has offered to partner with us and they were actually giving a discount if you dropped off a code at their awesome shop.
So it's so nice to kind of make the ripple effect happen when so many people are willing to contribute, you know, just makes your imprint even bigger. Yeah.
So who's some of the people that helped us out? So Gail and L Courtney hutchins julie would Shannon and lily, granite kelly Maureen and Dylan Whatley.

[16:51] Kristen mason and Maddox Mullikin, Shannon Aldridge, Cassie and Sabrina glow.
Yes, what up Glow girls and gosh, so many more.
I think that we've seen actual coats from Natalie nightingale, I think your family is donated quite a bit.
Um, and yeah, the list goes on so well tally up the rest of the names and those great people that have contributed and give him a shout out on the next episode if she sounds like me,
So wherever you're celebrating this week and throughout the holidays.

[17:28] We're grateful for you, yeah, we're grateful for all of you and we're so proud to have this opportunity to be with you for a few minutes in your day,
and I hope you can reflect on the gratitude that you're feeling right now with your family.
Yeah, share your holiday traditions, your favorite dish or what you're grateful for with us on our social platforms.
Or drop us a line at hello at she sounds like me dot com and have a happy thanksgiving. Friends have a happy thanksgiving eve and a happy thanksgiving and we'll see you next week.
See you next week. Bye bye bye.