Hey listeners, it's Paula Phelps. I want to share something special with you this week.

It's an episode of a podcast I'm enjoying called Need a Lift, hosted by Tim Schrever.

Tim has years of experience working as an educator and with the athletes and leaders of the Special Olympics movement around the world.

And through his work, he has found that the best way to build community to connect people

is at the sole level.

And that's why his podcast, Need a Lift, features guests who have transformed painful

moments in their lives into purpose through spiritual rituals and practices.

Guests like best-selling novelist Min Jin Lee talking about why she creates complicated

characters who hold a secret to our transformation, where writer Simon Sinek on why

idealism belongs in the workplace, an Olympic athlete Michael Phelps and his wife Nicole,

talking about the importance of cultivating an inner life in competition, mental health, and in their marriage.

Need a Lift is truly the antidote to the hatred and despair we're all exhausted of hearing, giving us hope that change is possible.

In this episode, the office's Rain Wilson explains how we can quiet the world's chaos

and deal with our collective sense of overwhelm by believing in something bigger than us.

Okay, here comes a preview.

You can hear more Need a Lift episodes wherever you get your podcasts.

I'll never forget a kind of a mystical, transcendent experience I had when I

was maybe 12, where we were at a Baha'i youth gathering, we'd been doing like some service work,

and we were all sleeping outside, and it was a clear night, just all of these stars and thinking about them how distant

they were and how beautiful they are and feeling the presence of the divine in my life through the

stars. I'm Tim Schreiber and this is Need a Lift, a show where each week I get the privilege of talking to people who give me reasons to believe in us.

I need a lift for my worries and my woes, they weigh me down.

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