S09 | E06 The Power of Collective Hope with Charmaine Hammond

In 2016, the community of Fort McMurray, Canada was torn through by a wildfire, forcing over 88,000 people from their homes. This traumatic experience, shared by an entire community, is now being shared with the rest of the world with the movie Back Home Again as an example of collective hope.Charmaine Hammond joins me today to talk about Back Home Again, and how the making of this movie and the story it shares was able to help her in her healing process. During challenging times, Charmaine believes that hopeful thoughts can give us physical strength to keep moving forward. Her message couldn’t be any more timely as we continue to experience the effects of the pandemic throughout the world. We don’t always know how things will turn out, but when we work together we know they will be better than they are today. Tune in to our conversation as we discuss collective hope and people coming together to make a difference where and how they can.About Charmaine Hammond:Charmaine Hammond, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) is a highly sought-after business keynote and workshop speaker, entrepreneur, author and educator who teaches and advocates the importance of collaboration, mental health, and healthy relationships. She has helped clients in many industries build resilient and engaged workplaces, develop high trust/high accountability relationships, and solve workplace issues and conflict that gets in the way of success and profitability. She is also Executive Producer of the Back Home Again movie.  Responsible for heading up the collaborations, partnerships and sponsorship for the project, she is passionate about this film because Fort McMurray was her home for 15 years. She didn’t live there at the time of the fires however returned on contacts with the social profit organizations and school boards to work with the community on the recovery and resilience initiatives.You can find Charmaine on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.Mentioned in This Episode:Back Home Again movieMental Health In MinutesBack Home Again movie on YouTubeBetter Than TodayFind more Hope resources