theTYPEAhippie Podcast | ChiCast

10/16/16 // SERVICE // Sunday Morning Meditation

10/9/16 // PERSPECTIVE // Sunday Morning Meditation

10/2/16 // LOVE // Sunday Morning Meditation

3 | theTYPEAhippie Monday Morning Meditation | LEAN INTO PEACE

"Sometimes even though it feels like everything is falling apart, it's really falling together." {Anonymous}

74 | theTYPEAhippie Podcast | ChiCast: One Take on Community Policing (Sgt Trey Gethoefer)

I met Trey Gethoefer on a Sunday at Starbucks when my girlfriends and I used to meet for Sunday afternoon tea/coffee. I had recently made a decision to thank police officers, when it was safe and appropriate to do so, for their service. In my naiveté and/or optimism thought if I show gratitude for their roles in the community, it may be helpful to them and be a positive chain reaction so that if they're faced with the decision to pull the trigger and/or make a split decision, they will know that they do have the support of community.

William (Trey) Gethoefer has been a member of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) for almost eighteen years. He has worked as a patrol officer, Field Training Officer, Gang Detective and Vice Detective. He was promoted to Sergeant in 2009. Trey served as a patrol sergeant for six years and has spent the last three years as a Detective Sergeant in Patrol Investigations. As part of his formal education, Trey obtained an Associate’s degree in Criminal Justice as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. His first six years on this agency were spent in patrol. During his time in patrol, he spent time as both a Field Training Officer and member of the Mobile Crime Saturation Team. After six years in patrol, he became a detective in the Gang Crimes Bureau (GCB). Trey spent almost three years in that detail. After his stint in GCB, he transferred to the Vice Unit. He spent almost a year and a half in Vice before being promoted to the rank of Sergeant in 2009. He has served this agency in several capacities since hiring on in 2000. He has served as a Defensive Tactics Instructor, Taser X-26 Instructor and a peer member of the Use of Force Review Board. Trey is originally from Buffalo, NY and he moved to Las Vegas in 2000 just to become a member of the LVMPD.

2 | theTYPEAhippie Monday Morning Meditation | PERSPECTIVE

"Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life." {Joni Eareckson Tada}

73 | theTYPEAhippie Podcast | ChiCast: Transitioning With Time, Expectations and Faith (Petra Strand)

I met Petra a long time ago when we were both embarking on a 200 hour yoga certification. She's lived a lot of life since then. She's become more authentic and is living a life that is more in alignment with who she is. I stumbled on an older email thread from when we were on that yoga journey and it struck me what can happen in 10-11 years as the email sender was Peter rather than Petra. We have the potential to grow and change and become more vulnerable, authentic, real and add to that the backdrop of space and faith. 

I am Petra Aleah and live in the United States, in northeastern New Jersey. Since childhood, the quest for the Divine has been the exclusive center of my life.

I LOVE BOOKS

One of the Fireside Poets, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), might have spoken for me when he wrote in 1858 in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, chapter 9, “I was born and bred … among books and those who knew what was in them,” and chapter 6, “I like books,—I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling, when I get into their presence, that a stable boy has among horses.”

I too always loved books, especially old books, and the culture of books.

AND THE OUTDOORS

I love nature, and I love wilderness and whenever I can be out where it is wild—and beautiful and vast—and where people are sparse. Nature, as living presence, has always been the healing and nurturing companion of my spiritual life.

I first started backpacking 30 years ago and converted to ultralight backpacking probably over 20 years ago. I am still an avid hiker, backpacker, and canoeist.

Between 2014 and 2017, I worked in retail as a sales specialist at REI in Paramus. I was hired on the basis of my experience as an outdoorswoman.

I am a Woman

I am a woman who is transgender. My transition took place late in life. Outwardly I became to others who I already was to myself.

I have therefore occupied the world of both genders: for most of my life I tried my best to live in the role of a male; in 2015, I finally “came out” to the public and transitioned outwardly to the wonderful creation of the Divine that I have always been.

This is who I am before the Divine, who I have always been, the actual one whom the divine One created and redeemed. In a way, this is not a big deal because I have never been anyone else; it is just that no one else knew my actual gender, and I spent my life confused about it. That confusion and my coming out of it, of course, was a big deal (however little surprise it was to some others). A couple of years ago, I wrote a short reflection on my transition (see My 58th Birthday).

In Admonition XIX, Francis of Assisi said to his brothers,  “What a man is before God, that he is and no more.” I would add, “and no other”: you are no other than what you are before the divine One. Bonaventure, in his Legenda Maior, tells us that Francis “had these words continually in his mouth.” My preaching every week on the Gospel according to Matthew in 2013, and seeing how this recognition by Francis was foundational to Jesus’ own teaching—along with the spiritual reflection I was doing while taking a course at the General Theological Seminary during its Fall semester—compelled me to face the truth about myself, who I was in the presence of my divine Lover. Francis’ words catalyzed my transition and my coming out.

A newspaper story on me: “A Transgender Minister’s ‘Long, Painful, Joyous, Happy and Dizzying’ Road to Acceptance.”

THE CHARISM THAT HOLDS ME

I am a Franciscan, a Franciscan woman, a vowed member of the Order of Ecumenical Franciscans since 2001. I think of myself this way first of all.

To connect with Petra:

* Email: petra.aleah@gmail.com
* Website: https://petraaleah.net and http://mylonging.net

* FB: www.facebook.com/petra.aleah

1 | theTYPEAhippie Monday Morning Meditation | OPEN HEART

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." {Rumi}

 

72 | theTYPEAhippie Podcast | ChiCast: Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment and What Men Can Do About It (Daniel Jacobs, Steven Snead and Shawn Neal)

I went back and forth about doing this episode and thought it's about time men start speaking to men about what they can do to stop sexual assault and sexual harassment.

Bios coming soon.

71 | theTYPEAhippie Podcast | ChiCast: Social Engagement, Returning to UM, Jay-Z and More (Marcus Collins)

Marcus Collins and I went to the same amazing undergraduate institution - we are proud Wolverines. We both left Ann Arbor, MI for adventures and recently returned. He's a thought leader, has parlayed his brilliance, determination and faith into a remarkable career that is riveting and inspiring.

Marcus Collins is a culturally curious thinker with an academic insight into the cognitive drivers that impact consumer behavior. He serves as the SVP of Social Engagement at Doner Advertising, a full-serve advertising agency, and is a recipient of Advertising Age's 40 Under 40 (2016) and Crain's Business Detroit's 40 Under 40 (2016). Previously, he led the Social Engagement practice across the New York advertising agency, Translation, leveraging the psychological motivators that drive what we do, say, and share in an effort to create contagious marketing programs that extend across both the online and offline world of “social.” His strategies and creative contributions have led to the success of Budweiser’s “Made In America” music festival, the launch of Bud Light Platinum, the launch of the Brooklyn Nets (Hello Brooklyn!), and State Farm’s “Cliff Paul” campaign – to name a few.

 

Prior to joining Translation, Marcus led iTunes + Nike sport music initiatives at Apple (iTunes Partner Marketing) and ran digital strategy for Beyoncé.

 

Beyond his professional endeavors, Marcus is an extremely passionate educator and an AACSB certified clinical instructor. He is among the roster of instructors at Hyper Island and a member of the faculty at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, as a Golden Apple Award nominated lecturer of marketing.

 

Marcus holds an MBA with an emphasis on Strategic Brand Marketing from the University of Michigan, where he also earned his undergraduate degree in Material Science Engineering. He is a proud Detroit native, a devoted husband, and loving father.

 

To connect with Marcus:

 

* Website: www.marctothec.com