With a ratio of 1-to-3, THE SWT LIFE CONVO Coaches support a group in identifying their passions, articulating purpose statements, and creating 30-day plans.
Daniel Silber-Baker’s SWT Life: Wake up in the morning, SWAG. Participate in collective, meaningful work, SWAG. Process the individual and collective experiences of our community, SWAG! Celebrate the wondrous and get lost in the funk, SWAG! Re-imagine, Re-create, Re-celebrate our world(s), SWAG-SWAG!
Venessa Pieri’s SWT Life: La Dolce Vita…one of my favorite sayings and one I try to live by. Life is a process and quite a ride….highs, lows, twists, turns but through it all it can be sweet based on perspective. The sweet life to me is in the little things and all these are ways I can have fun, communicate and spend my day ….spending time with my son and watching him laugh, learn and grow, being given the opportunity to know what it is like to love someone unconditionally, being able to look at a challenging situation and seeing it as learning/growth opportunity, cooking, baking and drinking wine, reading a great book, walking around my neighborhood, observing people, listening to music, going to church, getting to know someone, wearing a sexy pair of shoes or outfit, finding a bargain, being scared to do something and doing it anyway, kissing, touching, taking a bubble bath, spending time with family and often, seeing friends, traveling to different parts of the world to learn how different yet how similar we all are, having the ability to positively affect another, working and interacting with people, being in the company of someone I care about, a good prayer, spending time each day with God, fresh flowers, being grateful, going to the movies, waking up and getting my son out of his crib in the morning, being true to myself, being surprised, drinking coffee, being of service to others and the realization that every moment is our own choice. I don’t do all of these every day but I can draw from any one of these. Recently, someone said to me, “One of the keys to life is not being attached to the outcome”. Simple yet so true.
Stella Santana’s SWT Life: Living the SWT Life means creating an environment for your success. It means being honest with yourself about what you truly want and why you truly want it. It means being conscious of the energy around you and taking action to make sure that energy promotes your achieving your goals and dreams. You would do the work that fulfills your spirit. You would be in regular communication with people who are two steps ahead of you in the game. You would create a routine that keeps you on track and aware of the things (inward and outward) that distract you or have you thinking that you can’t do what it is you want.
Raeven Western’s SWT Life: We all dream, while some of us believe and even few of us achieve, each of us hold something special, powerful and meaningful within us that breeds something magical. In the sweet life, we are all achievers. In the sweet life we are all inspired to live life to it’s fullest, enjoy and encourage those that surround us to find what is magical within them. My name is Raeven Western and I am a Dream Pusher. I help make it easier for people discover what they are passionate about, build plans and set examples of how to fill your life with the inspiration, motivation and encouragement that is needed to make a dream come true. The best way to enjoy life is to fill it with dreams, magic and you.
Nicole Reyes’ SWT Life: For me, The Sweet Life means identifying what you want and going to get it. Specific to me the Sweet life has two core components. Work & Career: The sweet life in the work context means 1) successfully identifying the things that I am passionate about through interest exploration and work experience and 2) strategically aligning those passions with the line of work in which I am involved. In short, The Sweet life is loving each job as I evolve through them. Currently, this means further exploring my interests in international economic development while continuing to involve myself in mentoring programs with the rest of my time. Personal Life: This is where friends and family come into my version of the sweet life. As I’ve attempted to write down my reflections and as I’ve grown I’ve found that the incredible humans being be which I am surrounded are my very own living journals. The conversations shared and topics discussed are the single most influential source of my growth. Living the sweet life would ensure that I continue to consciously surround myself with people I can learn from and people who help me grown. This would mean ensuring constant lines of communication with members of my friends and family that push me. Additionally it requires maintaining relationships with senior people I’ve come across in previous jobs that diversify the way I think. Creative expression would come in any and all forms. Writing has been most freeing lately but I’m liable to do just about any random creative thing I’m exposed to. Random new activities are the most fun.
Monique Leyden’s SWT Life: I would live the sweet life by pursuing my passion to help younger people achieve their dreams. I will spend my day by ensuring that young adults are getting the necessary resources to take care of themselves and their future. I would express myself creatively by establishing and creating many different programs that will be designed to empower, motivate, and encourage adolescents.
Jullien “PurposeFinder” Gordon’s SWT Life: My perfect average day would involve waking up at 6am next to the love of my life, reading and meditating together and then exercising and eating. Then I would go into a creative space for two hours and let Spirit speak to and through me. From there I would handle the seemingly mundane day-to-day stuff like emails and phone calls, but use them as opportunities to inspire and motivate others. Lunch and then meaningful meetings with people I respect as human beings and for their skills relevant to my business or our partnership. Followed by a space to share the messages I have with world—some people call it marketing or lead generation. Dinner with my love and loved ones. Some activity or experience that will make us grow or laugh. And then sleep after D.R.E.A.M.ing awake all day.
Jamilah Seifullah’s SWT Life: In the ‘sweet life’ everyone that I interact with for all of my professional and personal needs are a part of my community-medical experts, architects, educators,planners, artists,farmers,seamstress etc. I would be spend my time cultivating the land and the minds of our community. I would do this through landscaping, interior decorating, building homes, art spaces and schools. Cultivating minds would be through teaching everything I know to anyone willing to learn. In classrooms, homes, universities, seminars, teleconferencing, all vehicles are welcomed. My work would be fun so I wouldn’t be able to distinguish between work and play. I would showcase my newly learned talents quarterly through dance, drama,music and art. I would have monthly dinners with my closest comrades to debate, laugh and cry. Any opportunity for me to flex my culinary and hosting skills. In the ‘sweet life’ I would always be fly because I would reduce my possessions to my favorite, dope things that all coordinate well together.
Dominque Howse’s SWT Life: The sweet life is lived without guilt and no regret, in appreciation for every single cheer, challenge and chapter. We give, we share, we build and we enhance the productivity of we. We move (for)ward with meaning, with care, yet with a selfless attitude that places community before individual. In the sweet life, we write, we sing and we celebrate the Love that shadows and leads our becoming. Everyday of our lives, we show appreciation for the spark, that the Creator has given us. We are free in the sweet life. Thankful. Happy. Satisfied because we live what we dream, leaving a taste in the atmosphere that can only be described as a sweet sugar, that carries us into a world of absolute fulfillment.
Dionne Monsanto’s SWT Life: In every aspect of my life I am surrounded by brilliant fun people. Talking to, listening to and working with each one of them is inspirational as well as enjoyable. At work, I find solutions to data questions and use those answers in surveys where my company wins awards. Recently, I created a PowerPoint presentation that explained the global diversity spend by demographic and region; we hadn’t looked at the information in this manner before. It was exciting to take a lot of intricate details and create graphs to tell the story simply and easily. I love knowing that my work is used to advance Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace. My weekends and evenings are spent with family, in dance classes, meditating, coaching or mentoring. My target audiences are women and youth. I lead meditation groups, teach and perform West African Dance, coach or mentor various people of all ages. Traveling, playing games or watching TV with my 3 teenagers is fun as well as relaxing. My life is SWT!