You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast
Expediter Services is collaborating with the Corporate Chaplains of America (CCA) on a podcast series created exclusively for the ES Community. The You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast is focused on exploring a wide range of topics of interest to the ES Community.
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Financial Peace for Trucking Professionals: Insights from Patrick Harris of Corporate Chaplains of America
During this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Patrick Harris from Corporate Chaplains of America joins us to discuss his background in finance and his role as a finance subject matter expert for CCA. Patrick shares his personal journey from growing up in poverty to achieving financial stability through the principles of Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace program. He emphasizes the importance of creating zero-based budgets, preparing for unexpected expenses, and the psychological benefits of financial discipline.
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Patrick Harris from CCA offers practical advice for trucking professionals on managing both personal and business finances, highlighting the resources available through Corporate Chaplains of America and ES. The episode stresses the importance of having an emergency fund and overcoming the fear associated with financial uncertainty.
Corporate Chaplain Transition: A Fond Farewell And A Warm Welcome
During this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we place a spotlight on Michael Kanai and his time as the initial Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community. You will hear Michael reflect back on his time working with the ES Community and he also shares details on answering a call to become a missionary overseas.
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In addition to the reflections from Michael Kanai, we will also meet Matt McElroy and Correy Taylor. Matt and Correy will be talking to us about their first impressions of ES as they begin their work as Corporate Chaplains for the ES Community.
Understanding And Navigating Adverse Childhood Experiences
During this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we will be discussing the critical issue of adverse childhood experiences. The conversation emphasizes the importance of community support, open communication, and the potential for healing and growth despite past traumas.
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Michael Kanai, a Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, spends a portion of the discussion exploring the definition of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) before looking into how these experiences can have an impact on a child’s mental and physical health. Michael also provides actionable recommendations for parents and caregivers to support children facing these challenges.
Exploring How Families Can Support The Mental Health of Children
During this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we will be highlighting the important role that parents, grandparents and other caregivers in your family can play in communicating and supporting the mental health of the children in your family.
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Michael Kanai, a Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, shares examples and perspective on the importance of parental vigilance, effective communication with children and educators. He also talks about the benefits of seeking professional help, such as a child psychologist or counselor.
Your Mind, Your Thinking & How Your Thoughts Are Impacting You
During this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we will be placing a focus on your mind, specifically looking at how a person’s thoughts impact your perspectives on how you view your everyday life.
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Michael Kanai, a Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, takes a deep look at thinking and how, if needed, we can change our thinking. As you will hear, Michael shares strategies for ways to remove or replace troublesome thoughts.
Understanding The Value Of Rest & Relaxation
During this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we will be discussing the value of making time to ensure that you include rest and relaxation into your schedule, including how a bit of R&R can help improve your life in a number of ways.
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Michael Kanai, a Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, offers some important observations on ways that rest and relaxation can actually make us more productive. We discuss some of the realities of being a professional driver and working R&R into your schedule.
Placing A Spotlight On Mental Health
May is traditionally recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month, and we wanted to extend that effort across the calendar with an episode that offers an in-depth and helpful discussion on the topic of mental health. During this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, you will hear about the concept of “Mental Health First Aid” as well as how we can self-monitor state of our own mental health.
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Michael Kanai, the Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, will discuss a host of topics related to mental health and how we can help ourselves as well as our friends and family members with strategies and resources.
Understanding The Value of Sharing Your Life’s Story
Have you ever taken the time to look back on your life’s story and consider how your experiences have played a role in the path you have taken over your lifetime? During this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we will dedicate time to exploring the value of understanding your life’s story and how sharing it with others can provide you with insights that can lead to personal growth.
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Michael Kanai, the Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, will be discussing the benefits can be found by sharing your life’s story with others and recollecting how you arrived at where you are today.
Working To Understand The Younger Generations
Are you a parent or grandparent who is raising or living with children born between 1996 and 2014? If so, you are living with members of Generation Z, and this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast is focused on discussing some of the challenges that can arise within today’s generation gap.
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Michael Kanai, the Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, will be exploring how we can reach out and connect in meaningful ways with the Generation Z members in our families.
Taking Care of Aging Parents
As we roll through the changes in our lives and the lives of our family members, many of us will find ourselves being called to step up and help our aging parents. This episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast will be examining the various considerations that can help you succeed if you need to answer that call to help your aging parents.
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Michael speaks directly to the changes and challenges faced by aging parents and their children.
Working Through Conflict
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael will discuss the value of learning how to work through times of conflict with the people in your daily life. As you will hear, the ways we choose to work through conflict can offer solutions or potentially do damage to the people we care about.
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With this episode, Michael offers perspective on the types of conflict that can arise and he also shares some helpful tools that can pave the way to resolving conflict.
Discussing The Power of Forgiveness
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael will explore the topic of forgiveness, including the steps for moving through situations where we are being asked to forgive the actions of others as well as those situations where we need to ask for forgiveness ourselves.
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With this episode, Michael addresses how to put situations that call for forgiveness in the rear-view mirror while keeping those circumstances in perspective as you move forward.
Perspectives On Dealing With Feelings Of Grief
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael will be exploring the topic of grief. In addition to walking us through the five stages of grief, Michael will discuss how to approach grief in ways that will help you, your friends or family members move forward in their lives.
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Are you dealing with feelings of grief in your life? Are any of your friends and family experiencing grief in their lives? This edition of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast offers some helpful tips on dealing with grief.
Going Beyond The Financial Considerations of Retirement
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael takes the considerations and conversation about planning for retirement in some new directions that don’t involve the financial aspects of calling it a career. Michael looks at the preparations with relationships and quality of life in later years that should also be considered as we dive into retirement planning.
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Do you have retirement plan in place? Have you considered what will be important to you in the later years of your life? Michael addresses a number of key questions related to retirement planning in this episode.
The Value Of Finding A Mentor
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael will explore the various considerations when it comes to using a mentor, including tips on how to find a mentor who can help in meeting the challenges you encounter. Michael also shares his experiences with mentors and how they can make a difference in your life.
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Do you have a mentor? Would you like to find a mentor? Has someone asked you to serve as their mentor? Michael covers a range of questions related to mentors in this episode.
Addressing Anger & Managing Frustration
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael will be discussing how to deal with those times in our lives when anger and frustration rise to the surface. Michael shares valuable insights on the importance of stepping back in those tense moments, taking a breath and not allowing anger and frustration to get the best of us.
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With this episode, Michael discusses approaches that we can all take to help us manage anger and frustration.
Exploring Support Groups & How They Can Help
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael will be taking a look at the topic of support groups as we continue to explore resources available for mental health. Michael will discuss how support groups typically work and how you can find the support group that can help you as well as family members or friends.
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With this episode, Michael takes our listeners inside support groups and how we can access those resources.
Discussing Mental Health & The Value of Counseling
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we will be taking a look at the topic of mental health, including dealing with anxiety and stress as well as other conditions that can impact individuals and families. In addition to discussing various aspects of mental health and the efforts society has made in recent years to remove the scrutiny people sometimes receive when pursuing care, Michael spends some time talking about the value and importance of counseling.
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With this episode, Michael discusses mental health for individuals, families and the importance of addressing situations that need care.
Strategies For Addressing The Emotional Challenges of Winter
With our first episode of 2023, the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast explores a collection of the unique challenges that we can face during the Winter, including Seasonal Affect Disorder. Michael will be providing tips on how we can find a positive path and the light that is ahead of us during a season where the daylight is short and the temperatures can be very cold.
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In this episode, Michael helps us as we work to work our way through what can sometimes be the Winter Blues.
Taking A Deeper Look At Comeback Stories & Overcoming Past Failures
In the eighth episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael and Greg will continue a discussion of comeback stories that we started in Episode 7 of our series. For this edition of the podcast, we will explore the topic of making a comeback in greater detail as well as look at strategies for leaving past failures behind us.
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In this episode, Michael Kanai leads us on further exploration of making a comeback and overcoming failure points that we have experienced in our lives.
Exploring Comeback Stories & Making Positive Changes
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we will be looking at comeback stories and how people can take the steps toward making positive change in their lives. Michael will be sharing a few comeback stories with Greg and how those can take shape. Michael will also be examining some of the hurdles that can get in the way of the effort to author our own comeback story.
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Through this episode, we place the spotlight on comeback stories and what it takes to write your own comeback story. Michael Kanai, the Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, leads us through a discussion of the topic.
Building & Maintaining Family Relationships While On The Road
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael and Greg will be exploring some of the challenges that trucking professionals can face when it comes to building and maintaining strong family relationships, especially when we consider the time so many professional drivers have to spend away from home. Michael notes a few key areas of focus, including good communication with family members, that can help in both building and maintaining relationships with your family.
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During this episode, you will hear Michael Kanai, the Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, review a number proven approaches that can help trucking professionals with their family relationships.
The Benefits Of Making & Having Friends
In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we will be focusing on friendship. We’ll be exploring the benefits of having friends, particularly for professional drivers as you spend a great deal of time away from home. We will also talk about the challenges that can be found when making friends and maintaining those relationships. In addition, we will look at how you can rekindle old friendships and maintain those going forward. As a reminder, the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast is a series that has been developed exclusively for the ES Community.
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In this episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael and Greg will be exploring the benefits of having friends, particularly for professional drivers as you spend a great deal of time away from home.
Meeting the Challenges of Being on the Road
In the fourth episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael is joined once again by Greg Thompson, the Executive Producer of the PodWheels Network. Michael and Greg will be exploring the keys to maintaining relationships within an industry where the career demands call us to spend a considerable amount of time on the road.
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In this episode, we’ll be talking about relationships and meeting the challenges that are unique to the trucking industry.
Strategies For Information Overload
In the third episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, Michael is joined once again by Greg Thompson, the Executive Producer of the PodWheels Network. Michael will be talking with Greg about the information overload that exists in today’s world with the variety of news outlets and social media platforms. Michael shares strategies on how to stay informed without getting consumed by the information.
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In this segment, we will be talking about the information overload that exists in today’s world with the variety of news outlets and social media platforms. Michael shares strategies on how to stay informed without getting consumed by the information.
Strategies For Maintaining Strong Mental Health
In the second episode of the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast, we examine some of the main pressure points that can have an impact on your mental health and outlook – especially when you are out on the road. As a reminder, the You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast is a series that has been developed exclusively for the ES Community. In the this episode, Michael will be talking with Greg about some of the main emotional stress challenges that professional drivers can face while you are out on the road. Michael discusses the importance of developing approaches in our daily activities that can help to make life a little smoother when you are on and off the road.
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In this segment, Michael Kanai, the Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community, talks about five of the main challenges that can impact our mental health – both on the road and at home. Michael also discusses approaches that can ease the stress when you encounter these challenges.
Introducing The You Don’t Have To Stand Alone Podcast
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In the debut episode of the series, we spend some time getting to know Michael Kanai, the Corporate Chaplain for the ES Community. You’ll hear Michael talk about his background and his work as part of Corporate Chaplains of America. Michael also discusses his connections with the trucking industry and what he’s learned since becoming part of the ES Community.
