ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Are you finding it difficult to follow your dreams? Or maybe even figuring out where your happiness lies? Or are others "poking holes" in your plans? Want to find your people?
You've just found them! This is the place for your daily dose of Aggressive Optimism®. Every week day, your host Jenna Edwards will explore all the different ways to get you from point A to point B. Because as she likes to say, "there's a million ways to do anything."
View this as your invitation to come along on this journey of exploration where we talk about getting beyond real issues like PTSD, Body Image, Peer Pressure and finding real optimism. We deal with relationships and all the obstacles that can get in the way of you making your dreams into realities. We believe obstacles can be turned into opportunities if faced with the right mindset so you'll hear advice on how to change your perspective in order to create the life of your dreams.
You'll take the first step toward figuring out what your dream looks like and be provided with options to go after it on a daily basis. And then we'll help you truly believe in it, aggressively optimistically, like 100%!
You'll get the strength to keep anyone from poking holes in it, because the world freakin' needs you to be your true self and live the life of your dreams!
The biggest thing that most people have to overcome is that simple belief.
-- About the Host --
Jenna Edwards is an Actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Malcolm in the Middle), an Award-Winning Film Producer (iTunes, Netflix, Hulu) and a #1 Best- Selling Author who is passionate about spreading the idea of Aggressive Optimism as far and wide as she is able to.
She believes the skill of Aggressive Optimism® is crucial to living a happy life.
Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Jenna was (what she calls) a “walking statistic.” According to the experts, she should have been pregnant at 16, living in poverty with an abusive husband, addicted to some form of drug. Instead, she made the choice to break the cycle and since then she has traveled the world (beginning as an exchange student in Thailand her senior year of high school), been on TV, and in movies, co- authored a #1 best-selling book and currently lives (not in poverty) in Los Angeles with her loving and supportive husband and she has just recently traveled the country for a year.
She attributes her incredible life to being aware that she has a choice, that our circumstances do not have to define us and that if we practice aggressive optimism when the going gets tough, we truly can create the life we dream of living.
But it hasn't all been roses. Jenna has been through more than her fair share of obstacles and is an open book when it comes to sharing the struggles and solutions from her own life.
She's an actor by trade and a story-teller by heart. Using personal anecdotes and her own special blend of empathy and humor, her goal is to make the taboo topics less taboo, provide a safe place to explore your own way of living your best life and have everyone understand that they really can live the life they choose to live no matter the circumstances in front of them.
"I believe with all my heart that you need to find your dream, believe you can get there (that’s the optimism) and be as aggressive as possible in that belief."
