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Dear God, Are we there yet?

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Alicia Sanchez, Dominican founder of the peer to peer volunteer platform making an impact, Shares empowering conversations about social goodness. Weekly insights and inspirations from people adding their magic to make this world a better place. Whether you want to learn more about #volunteertravel, being more socially conscious or you love a good conversation that breaks down barriers while evoking passion and emotion, this is the podcast for you.
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Each month, Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen will chat with local newsmakers about topics of interest to Champaign's residents and visitors. Learn about the activities and programs of the City of Champaign, public events, and other topics that impact the greater Champaign community.
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Dj/Producer/Remixer SEBASTIAN MORXX South America enjoys one of the freshest clubbing party scences anywhere in the world, reknowner for its vibrancy. Colombia is one of the latest places to enjoy this and there is a young talent brewing there - it started in Ontario Canada, where he bacame the resident for ''BOSS'' parties-serving up The best house music and gaining a sizable local following. He is equally at home playing House and more banging electro sounds, and this has lead him all acro ...
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Join Mayor Feinen on the latest episode of the Mayor Feinen Podcast as she sits down with State Senator Paul Faraci and State Representative Carol Ammons to discuss the vital importance of protecting the Mahomet Aquifer, the region’s primary source of clean drinking water. In this episode, Faraci and Ammons share insights into their recent legislat…
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Mayor Feinen sits down with Council Member Kathy Shannon and (CU)rbanism Co-Chair Adani Sanchez and they explore the fascinating world of urban planning. Learn how they promote incremental development and affordable housing; advocate for walkable and bikeable cities; and master the art of policy advocacy before City Council.…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 6 🎙 S6/EP 4: The truth about the God Complex ( we all have it) Primos y Primas, to have a god complex essentially means someone is so fervently self-assured that they actually overestimate themselves, their abilities, and their entitlement. To have a god complex essentially means someone is so fervently self-assured that they a…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 6 🎙 S6/EP 3: Break up with being selfish ( the world needs you) Primos y Primas, everyone is a little selfish sometimes, which isn't always a bad thing. Caring for yourself, focusing on yourself, and meeting your needs are critical for mental well-being. The problem is if you always put your own interests above everything else,…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 6 🎙 S6/EP 2: How well do we know each other? Primos y Primas,we change as people every single day but why doesn't society REALLY understand it? Can we really change as people or is it a fad / season of temporary action? On this episode I talk our journey through our thoughts and feelings as we try to determine how much we reall…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 6 🎙 S6/EP 1: Reflecting on 2022, should I stay or let it go? Primos y Primas,Throughout the year, I reflect. Sometimes it’s through video and other times it’s written in my beautiful journal with my stickers and beautiful pens. ( yes, I am a nerdette) I reflect to provide clarity, to align myself with my vision and to stay grou…
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Mayor Feinen sits down with Jayne DeLuce, President and CEO of Visit Champaign County, and Trail Co-Chairs Angela M. Rivers, and Dr. Barbara Suggs-Mason to talk about the Champaign County African American Heritage Trail. Using Education and Art, the project celebrates the lives and contributions of African Americans in the Champaign County area.The…
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Mayor Feinen talks with Senior Planner Lacey Rains Lowe and Neighborhood Relations Manager John Ruffin about what went into getting the Hedge Pop! Park up and running. The temporary park is the pilot project for the Safe Places, Active Spaces initiative, providing an exciting new neighborhood amenity to our Garden Hills neighbors. At the intersecti…
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The Mayors' Monarch Pledge is a commitment by cities to create habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators. Mayor Feinen talks with Andrew Lamoreux and Leslie Heath from the Public Works Department about the City of Champaign's efforts to incorporate more pollinator-friendly plantings and habitats into City projects. They also talk not on…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 S5/EP 7: life shifts: finding our way forward when everything changes Primos y Primas, At times it can feel like life is beyond your control. And, to be fair, life often is beyond our control. It wasn't until I became a mother that I became more mindful on my behavior towards things or people simply because I didn't want to…
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The Odyssey Project offers free University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign courses in the humanities to income-eligible adults in our East Central Illinois community. Mayor Feinen talks with Michelle Awad and Alaina Pincus about how the program connects key humanities values and practices to the students lived experiences to help develop a rich unders…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 S5/EP 6: Why am I making decisions based on your happiness? Primos y Primas, Shakespeare was wrong. All the world is not a stage; you just think it is. And it is this thought -- the belief that you need to perform for an always-watching and always-critiquing audience -- that creates massive anxiety. If you'd like to reclaim…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 S5/EP 5:Get out of that circle, because you're not growing Primos y Primas, #nonewfriends is not just about making friends it's about ALL of the circles we are in. Whether you realize it or not, your friendships affect your levels of EVERYTHING. The people you spend your focus and energy on influence not only who you are, b…
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Support for Workforce Training (SWFT) is a short-term workforce training program at Parkland College providing wrap-around academic and career services. In the newest episode, Mayor Feinen talks with SWFT Director Alicia Beck. During their discussion Beck describes the program, gives information on the application process and shares how it has help…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 S5/EP 4:Notice Connections "My soul was telling me to talk to him" Primos y Primas, When was the last time your soul was telling you to speak to a stranger? Connect with a stranger? Inspire that stranger? Learn from that stranger? Join me, Grab that cafecito y vamos hablar! Episode Highlights: 💡 What does social good look l…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 S5/EP 3:The Why versus the What "Ask yourself what am I going to do rather than why am I doing it" Primos y Primas, When the topic of conversation turns to change, life, dreams or goals it’s not uncommon to hear people ask “what's your why"? But when all that inspo is put in the universe whats's next? Join me, Grab that caf…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 S5/EP 2: Doing Nothing Bring Clarity "It's easier to do nothing than to stress" Primos y Primas! Have you ever tried to sit still for five minutes doing absolutely nothing? I think you’ll agree that it’s pretty uncomfortable. Having nothing to do but listen to your own thoughts might feel about as exciting as watching paint…
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 S5/EP 1: Creating Time In Moments v.s Controlling Time "I was dying and didn't even care" Primos y Primas! It's Sansgiving week ( no that is not a typo that's how we say it) this podcast came right on time especially as we add some conversation starters for these moments when that tia says " oh wow, where's your man, where …
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 Bonus Episodes have been uploaded! Bonus Ep1: Speak Your Voice, like telling your boss how you really feel? Bonus Ep2: What's being Trained? "I finally admitted to myself I was the Toxic one" Bonus Ep3: How can I love more? "Stop judging me for having a disability" Primos y Primas! I’m back, and I just uploaded three bonus …
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 Bonus Episodes have been uploaded! Bonus Ep1: Speak Your Voice, like telling your boss how you really feel? Bonus Ep2: What's being Trained? "I finally admitted to myself I was the Toxic one" Bonus Ep3: How can I love more? "Stop judging me for having a disability" Primos y Primas! I’m back, and I just uploaded three bonus …
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🎙 New Podcast Season 5 🎙 Bonus Episodes have been uploaded! Bonus Ep1: Speak Your Voice, like telling your boss how you really feel? Bonus Ep2: What's being Trained? "I finally admitted to myself I was the Toxic one" Bonus Ep3: How can I love more? "Stop judging me for having a disability" Primos y Primas! I’m back, and I just uploaded three bonus …
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Mayor Feinen talks with Terri Reifsteck and Carly McCrory-McKay about the Chambana Welcome Crew, a community ambassador program to recruit and welcome new residents to the Champaign-Urbana area. These ambassadors help make moving to the community less intimidating by providing tips and pointing to resources available to our residents. You can find …
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Welcome! Mayor Feinen talks with Jes DeVries, the Director of Immigrant Family Services at the University YMCA New American Welcome Center to talk about this year's Welcoming Week Events. Welcoming Week is a series of events that hope to bring together the US born and immigrant community members. This year’s theme is “Belonging Begins with US.” It …
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Mayor Feinen talks with Sheldon Turner Sr. about Goal Getters, a program that provides academic and behavioral guidance, mentorship, social emotional learning opportunities, family focused activities and positive community experiences to a select group of Unit 4 high school males. They are joined by one of the student participants, Corey Barnes, an…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀⠀ S4/EP7: 4 ways to use your stimulus for social good 〰️ 🌟 ⠀ ⠀ It was the worst of times, it was the weirdest of times—is there a better way to describe our new world? Life as we know it has shifted in bizarre and challenging ways this past year, we know money talk can always be uncomfortable but as we begin t…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀ S4/EP6: The pursuit of ( fill in the blank) is in the present! Guest Story Feature〰️ 🌟 🙌 “You don’t become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something, says Harold S. Kushner Today, right now, is the best time ever to choose to do something that truly matters. Something…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀ Season 4/EP5: Am I Enabling Toxic Charity? 〰️ 🌟 🙌{sound on to listen} Primos Y Primas, How does the following quote sit with you? Give once and you elicit appreciation; Give twice and you create anticipation; Give three times and you create expectation; Give four times and it becomes entitlement; Give five ti…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀ Season 4/EP4: Why business owners & companies should make social change a priority 〰️ 🌟 🙌{sound on to listen} Primos Y Primas, Profit and purpose are converging. Over 80% of millennials report that making a positive difference in the world is more important to them than professional recognition. They no longe…
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Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen talks with Julie Pryde (Administrator for the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District) about COVID-19 vaccines and how vaccinations are being administered in Champaign County. For the latest information about the status of COVID vaccinations in Champaign County please visit the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District's we…
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Season 4/EP3: Where do I find the gaps in my culture? (Finding Truth Where Lies Have Been Told) 〰️ 🌟 🙌{sound on to listen} Primos Y Primas, If we are to learn from the past, does the account of it have to be true? One would like to think so. Otherwise, you might be preparing for the wrong battle. There you are, geared up for mountains, and instead,…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀ Season 4/EP2: Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌{sound on to listen} 🎙⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀—⠀ Dear God, How am I hurting people in need while in the process of helping them??! 〰️ 🌟 Primos Y Primas, You’re at a stoplight, running late for an appointment, when a woman dressed in ragged clothes approaches your window. The sign i…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀ Season 4/EP1: Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌{sound on to listen} 🎙⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀—⠀ Dear God, What's 2021 Brainwash?! 〰️ 🌟 ⠀⠀ Primos Y Primas, These are uncertain times as the world navigates through what most would consider unthinkable in their lifetimes. The COVID-19 virus has upended life. With the amount of info…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀ Last Episode of Season 3: Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙 Season 4 Launching 2021!! ⠀ ⠀—⠀ Dear God, 3 reasons to learn a foreign language and help the world! 〰️ 🌟 ⠀ Primos Y Primas, Did you know that half of the world population is bilingual, but only 25% of Americans can hold a convers…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀ Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙 ⠀—⠀ How do we live life without feeling like a hypocrite to the world in need? 〰️ 🌟 Primos Y Primas, So many of us at times feel guilty of having nice things knowing that in some parts of the world people are in need. Why do we feel guilty? Should we not l…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀ New Season of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙 ⠀—⠀ Why you should start a passion project! 〰️ 🌟 Primos Y Primas, Is there something you yearn to do? Maybe you haven't told anyone else... but still, you keep thinking about it. Maybe you dream of helping people publish their life storie…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀ New Season of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙 ⠀—⠀ Dear God, What is Toxic Positivity? 〰️ 🌟 Primos Y Primas, It's rare to see these words together but we see this every day and perhaps we are guilty of doing this( including myself) The famous quote of Toxic Positivity tells us “ you d…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀ New Season of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙 ⠀—⠀ Dear God, Why don't promises work? 〰️ 🌟 Primos Y Primas, our new normal is getting more real every day. We start our daily mantras with "I promise after COVID I will...."God, I promise if you get me out of this one I will..." and we'v…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀ New Season of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙 ⠀—⠀ Dear God, What do I do with these emotions? 〰️ 🌟 Primos Y Primas, the air has been thick these days and cloudy no matter where you turn, and in correlation our emotions follow right behind what we read, see, hear and then ultimately l…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀ New Season of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙 ⠀—⠀ Dear God, How do I my teach kids about Alzheimer's? Guest: Thea Kvamme 〰️ 🌟 Primos Y Primas, We all know someone that has Alzheimer but how do you explain Alzheimer's to children? I remember my then 6-year old nephew, asking me Tia, w…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀⠀ New Episode of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen}⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀—Dear God Why do we need to connect with self? with Natalia Tabilo @yogaforallbodies Ya tu sabe. You, know when I have another latina on my podcast I get SUPER HYPED! Maybe it's the arroz y habichuelas connection or just an embo…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀⠀ New Episode of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{video on youtube}⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀—Dear God Is this happening? with @foxpointepublishing In this episode, I am sharing BIG news but giving you all the details to a new opportunity and extension of the Dear God are we there yet community. Especially for my voluntee…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀⠀ New Episode of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen}⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀—Dear God How do I make transformational changes? ( for good) with Ashley Nicole @msgradeamuscle⠀ I’m amazed at how people can subtly change our life, sometimes without us even knowing it. Six years ago because of an unexpected …
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀⠀ New Episode of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀—Dear God If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I? with Itzel Calderon @dualitynourishment 〰️ 🌟⠀⠀⠀ "Everything you eat becomes a part of not only your inner being but the outer fabric of your body as well. The healthier the fo…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀⠀ New Episode of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀—⠀Dear God, Let's Go on a Virtual Road Trip with Kalina @MakeBigTalk? 〰️ 🌟⠀⠀ It was so much fun speaking with Kalina on her virtual Roadtrip series MAKE BIG TALK!! She will airing the full documentary but I had to share our aweso…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀ New Episode of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙⠀ ⠀ ⠀—⠀Dear God, Where is my inner child? 〰️ 🌟⠀ Primos Y Primas, the “inner child” is one of those concepts that is used regularly yet is a little confusing to think about. It’s referred to in different ways, ranging from “the child arch…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀⠀ New Episode of the Dear God Podcast STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙⠀ ⠀ ⠀—⠀Dear God, How do I subscribe to myself before I subscribe to others? 〰️ 🌟⠀ Primos Y Primas, we live in a world that we forget how important it is for us to put ourselves first. Many moms might disagree when I say you must put your…
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Primos y Primas, Grab that cafecito☕⠀ New Season giving you 3 episodes for our LAUNCH of the Dear God Podcast Season 3 STREAMING NOW 🙌⠀{sound on to listen} 🎙⠀—⠀ Dear God, Let me check my energy! 〰️ 🌟 Primos Y Primas, What does "check your energy" mean to you? In this solo episode, I am talking about how "checking " your energy is a result of what h…
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