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KOPE Life
by Charlson Gaines
This podcast is about living a KOPE Life. A KOPE Life is one in which you bring Kindness, Optimism, Positivity and Empathy to every aspect of your life. This is made possible through the integration of emotional intelligence, positive psychology, the mind-body connection and effort. You can grow from trauma, misery and hopelessness to living a KOPE Life by replacing misery with happiness. Listen in and let me teach you how.
Episodes
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It's Just You and Me Kid | Life as a 7th Grade Dropout Homeless Teenager
How does a homeless 7th grade dropout go on to achieve remarkable success? Find out in this inspiring interview with Christopher Rausch on the KOPE Life podcast. Despite facing incredibly difficult circumstances, Christopher persevered. He shares his poignant story of hardship and homelessness as…
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A Legacy Driven Marriage
🎙️ Join us on the KOPE Life Nation Show for an incredibly insightful and engaging episode featuring Walt and Stephanie McKinley, the dynamic duo behind the Legacy Driven Marriage Podcast! 🌟 Walt and Stephanie are not just any couple; they've been happily married for an impressive 24 years, and...
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Unveiling the Shadows: Escaping Sex Cults
Welcome to our thought-provoking podcast episode featuring a remarkable author and survivor, Daniella Young, as she courageously opens up about her harrowing experiences with cults and sexual assault. In this emotionally charged conversation, Daniella shares her captivating journey of escape and...
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Women's Safety in a Violent World
In this riveting episode we delve into the extraordinary life of Lina Abirafeh, an indomitable force on a relentless mission to shield women and girls from the clutches of gender-based violence. From war-torn combat zones to the aftermath of devastating natural disasters, Lina fearlessly ventures...
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Bullying, Suicide, and What Parents Can Do About It
In this episode, we address the serious issue of bullying, suicide, and hate against children. We will discuss the devastating impact these problems can have on young lives, as well as steps we can all take to help prevent them. It's important to remember that every child deserves to feel safe…
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Ask Me Anything | Mental Health and Emotional Intelligence Q&A
How do you find the right therapist? What should you do if you think you have depression? These questions are answered in this episode for you. The AMA series is geared to serve you and provide the value that you're looking for. If you have specific questions you'd like answered, email them to me...
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Don't Be Your Own Bully! You Deserve Better
The most powerful voice to ever influence your life is your own. You will never talk to or listen to a voice as often as you do your own. So don't be your own bully. Don't be so mean. If you wouldn't say it to your best friend, don't say it to yourself. Choose to use the power of your voice to...
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Yoga, Healing and You | Understand the Mind-Body Connection and Your Power Over You
The mind-body connection is a powerful pathway to inner peace, healing, and happiness. Katie Moridor, a yogi with over 20+ years of practice and teaching, shares her expert insights on using yoga to heal, including her personal stories of overcoming her own struggles using yoga.
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Proactive Suicide Prevention
Suicide warning checklists and all the mandatory training are reactive. They have no value unless the person is suicidal. Wouldn't it better if we could actually help prevent people from becoming suicidal in the first place? And by people, I mean YOU, and everyone you love and care about. Listen…
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You DON'T Need Closure
You don't need closure. You don't need to ask her one last question. You don't need to clarify something, or get him to admit something. When you become focused on closure, you're setting yourself up to be dependent on someone else to direct your perspective and emotions about what you came up…
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Advice for Myself in 2017
If you could give advice to yourself of five years ago, what would you say? Would you be encouraging and optimistic, or judgmental and shameful. How we speak to ourselves is critical in helping us develop into our best selves. Listen and watch me do exactly that. #emotionalintelligence...
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It's NOT Your Fault They Died By Suicide
Suicide is a tough subject to talk about and nearly all of us have been impacted by suicide. One impact that we should not have to endure is guilt. When someone decides to take their own life, it is not your fault. Listen to me explain why in this episode. Learn to forgive yourself, and use your...
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Why It's Hard to Accept Compliments
You are the reason why it is hard for you to accept compliments. Listen to this episode to dive deeper into how your own self-doubt and hyper self-criticism create a barrier to accepting genuine, heart-felt compliments from people who truly want to encourage and support you, and possibly draw...
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It's Not Your Fault They Died By Suicide
Show yourself compassion and empathy. It is not your fault when someone you love dies by suicide. Watch this episode to learn to take the blame off, and make sure you don't poison your memories with guilt and shame, and then live your life to the fullest to fully honor their life....
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You Can't Stay Where You Feel Unsafe
Listen in as I discuss in detail the impacts of unsafe spaces. This includes teachers who are bullies, leaders who are toxic, and parents who belittle and humiliate their children. If you've ever been called stupid, worthless, dumb, or simply in the way by someone you trust who is supposed to...
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I don't make sacrifices, I make decisions.
This episode is all about perspective and taking accountability. Listen intently if you understand that how you perceive the world is the foundation of your overall quality of life. Taking responsibility and holding yourself accountable are ways you can build the life you desire and deserve.
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Are you living well?
This episode is about you recognizing that you decide if you are living well. You are the creator of your life, and you decide the overall quality of your life. This is based on your standards, your values, and your relationships. This episode teaches you how to make the decisions and manage your...
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Getting to I AM ENOUGH
Let's discuss hwo to go from guilt, shame and feelings of worthlessness to actually knowing that you are enough - You are strong enough, smart enough, beautiful enough - YOU ARE ENOUGH! And in this episode, I outline the process of how to get there.
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Becoming Dr. Gaines
This episode is the longest one so far and it is a candid, very real account of my life from failing the 9th grade to earning my Ph.D. and becoming Dr. Gaines. All of my podcast episodes are recorded and broadcast live on Facebook, IG, and LinkedIn. Follow me on those platforms to watch me…
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Series 2022, Ep 1. The process of forgiving yourself.
This episode is for you to learn to forgive yourself. It’s a process. It takes effort. But forgiving yourself now positions you to transition into the healthier, happier life that you’ve been wanting and deserve.
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Mental Health and EQ Ask me Anything
This is the latest episode of the weekly Mental Health and Emotional Intelligence Ask Me Anything Series. I answer questions submitted to me by listeners, and it's live, so I also answer questions submitted by the audience. If you'd like to attend a session, follow Charlson Gaines, me, on…
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KOPE Life Podcast Interview Series with Valerie Acosta-Gonzalez
In this episode, I interview one of my best friends who has endured trauma that I couldn't even fathom. She details the story of seeing her uncle's lifeless body in the car after he took his own life. This was just days after finding out her parents were divorced. She grew up in a volatile home…
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Mental Health and Emotional Intelligence Ask Me Anything March 8, 2022
In this episode, I address several questions, including questions asked during the recording of the episode. I answer questions about EI and alcohol abuse, EI and controlling behaviors, the possibility of healing from depression and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Listen to it all and if you have...
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KOPE Life Interview Series with Donni Martelle.
In this episode, I interview Donni Martelle. She details so much trauma and tragedy including child abuse, racism, alcoholism and losing her son. But through it all, she finds a way to input positivity and an opportunity to learn in every story. She is phenomenal and truly fascinating.
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Emotional Intelligence Ask Me Anything
Do you have questions about emotional intelligence or mental health? Do you want to get simple answers without having to spend a lot of time on internet searches or trying to find a therapist or professor? Every Tuesday at 2pm EST, I go live on LinkedIn and Facebook for a weekly Ask Me Anything...
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KOPE Life Podcast Interview Series with Heather Gatti
Welcome to the KOPE Life Podcast. In this episode, I interview Technical Sergeant Heath Gatti of the US Air Force. She is a true warrior. Listen to her describe the journey to go from feeling worthless, depressed, and defeated to the shining light that everyone needs. Pay attention as this route...
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KOPE LIfe Interview Series focused on sexual harassment in the military
This episode features Carol Hink, US Coast Guard veteran, discussing her experiences with sexual harassment while serving. She details the impact of the harassment on her career, including how it impacted her decision to leave the US Coast Guard. Sexual harassment has been an issue in the US...
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KOPE Life Podcast Interview Series with Chrissy Marie
Welcome to the KOPE Life Podcast Interview Series. This interview series is an opportunity for us to hear stories of survival, inspiration and overcoming in a way that will move us all. Today's guest is Chrissy Marie. She is a powerful woman who's combination of strength, love, vulnerability and...
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Yes, You Deserve It.
This episode is all about you recognizing that you should be living the life that you desire and deserve. You may question your worth and what you deserve. I’m here to tell you that you deserve all the happiness, and all the good in life that you desire. Don’t settle for less. Begin to build that...
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Accepting Imperfections
This episode is focused on accepting imperfections within yourself to move forward and become unstoppable in 2022. You decide your fate, your purpose and your results. It’s easier when you can accept who you are. If you’d like to have a deeper conversation about it, contact me at...
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2022: The Year of Happiness
I challenge you to commit to elevating your happiness in 2022. 2022 is the year when your resolutions are focused on your mental and emotional health. Choose you. Choose Happiness. You deserve to be happy.
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Happier by Christmas
This episode breaks down simple steps you can do today, even right now, to be happier. You deserve to be happy, and when you elevate your happiness, others around you will be happier as well.
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Choose Gratitude
We all have so many things to be grateful for. But gratitude is more than thank yous. Choose to look at life through the lens of gratitude. Choose to look at life with appreciation for your journey, the love you’ve received, the people who have enjoyed the love you’ve given, and even the...
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Values and goals for our children
This episode is all about parenting in a way that empowers our children to develop their own values and goals. When they can define success for themselves, and then go be successful on their own terms, you know you’ve done something right.
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Veterans Mental Health
On this Veterans Day in the US, this episode is about veterans mental health. More specially, the focus is dealing with the transition from the military to civilian life. If that’s been a struggle for you, this episode is also for you. Contact me if you need some help with this...
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Toxicity in your relationships.
We’ve heard the term toxic relationship so often. We look at other people who are miserable in their relationships and we use their pain as the measuring stick of what a toxic relationship is. But deep down, there is toxicity in your own relationship, and it hurts. Maybe you don’t need a divorce....
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You deserve to be happy
This episode requires you to acknowledge you deserve to be happy. Then four simple ideas are discussed about what you can do to elevate your happiness.
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It’s Unnatural
Nowhere in nature can you find an animal giving less than its best effort. It’s unnatural to give less than your all. So when you really want something, and you’re not going all in, why not? Why can’t you commit? What is the issue? Let’s talk about it.
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You are worthy
This episode is focused on you recognizing that you are worthy. You matter. You deserve to be happy.
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Get off your ass and go do it.
This episode is about taking ownership of your life, stop complaining, and take action to elevate your life.
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Grateful and UN-Fulfilled
This episode is all about how you can be grateful for what you have, yet you know something is missing. You’re unfulfilled. There’s stagnation, boredom and even hints of misery. Because of what you have, you feel guilty for wanting more. The truth is that you deserve more. You deserve to live a...
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Emotional Clarity and Accountability
This episode is all about you elevating your self-awareness to understand why you feel certain emotions, including how you feel and communicate those emotions. And then this episode is about being accountable for your thoughts, beliefs, actions and behaviors surrounding those emotions.
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Joy and Gratitude
This episode is about using daily gratitude practices and setting joy triggers to enhance your day right now, and to also prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for what may come in the future.
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Healing and Self-Confidence
People want to elevate their self-confidence. They are trying to build their confidence on a shaky foundation. Before you begin to build confidence, take action to elevate your self-awareness, heal what hurt you, and break down the barriers you’ve set for yourself. Then you’ll be in a position to...
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Social Comparison and Self-Doubt
Social comparison can be like poison. This episode explains how to leverage self-awareness to turn away from social comparison and turn towards joy, positivity and optimism. When you do that, when you embark on that journey, there will be little room left for self-doubt. You deserve to be happy.
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Getting Over Trauma with Self-Love
This episode is all about the process of getting over past trauma, and the negative beliefs you’ve developed about yourself because of it. You do so through the process of elevating your love of self.
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Be Your Own Cheerleader
Choose to cheer for yourself. Choose positivity and optimism. Stop waiting for others. They aren’t there for you because they have there own lives, but you are still loved so much more than you know. The problem is you’re waiting for others to show you love first, when you should be choosing you....
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Proactive Suicide Prevention
Suicide prevention is more than recognizing warning signs and taking action. Proactive suicide prevention is about building real relationships with kindness, optimism, positivity and empathy. Loneliness and worthlessness can be countered simply by being empathetic, vulnerable, authentic and...
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Three Emotion Regulation Strategies You Need to Know
This episode explores what emotions are, what their purpose is, how you can learn to manage your emotions. Emotion regulation can elevate your happiness and enhance your life today.
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Self-Acceptance is the Key to Belonging
You have to learn to accept yourself before you can truly feel like you belong in any social circle. Learn to accept yourself by learning to love your values, hold yourself accountable, and stop judging yourself. This episode helps you to do that so you can stop being lonely.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is about living a KOPE Life. A KOPE Life is one in which you bring Kindness, Optimism, Positivity and Empathy to every aspect of your life. This is made possible through the integration of emotional intelligence, positive psychology, the mind-body connection and effort. You can grow from trauma, misery and hopelessness to living a KOPE Life by replacing misery with happiness. Listen in and let me teach you how.
HOSTED BY
Charlson Gaines
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This podcast is about living a KOPE Life. A KOPE Life is one in which you bring Kindness, Optimism, Positivity and Empathy to every aspect of your life. This is made possible through the integration of emotional intelligence, positive psychology, the mind-body connection and effort. You can grow...
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KOPE Life is created and hosted by Charlson Gaines.
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