Encore From Tragedy to Triumph: A Columbine Survivor's Journey
February 6, 2024
Hosted by Jason Hopcus
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Episode Description
Our guest this week, Amy Staley, is a licensed clinical social worker and survivor of the Columbine High School mass shooting. She shares her incredible story of living through unthinkable trauma and how she found meaning, resilience, and purpose in helping others heal. Learn about her path to becoming a social worker, how she practices self-care while supporting others, and the lessons she's learned about the human capacity for recovery. She offers wisdom and perspective to others who seek to heal from trauma. Join us for an uplifting, thoughtful conversation about transforming pain into purpose and moving forward after life-altering tragedy.
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Stuck is a state of being that holds us back from creating the life we truly desire. Regardless of your own blocks or limitations, imagine an easier way to GET UNSTUCK. And, Go Forward With Your Life. On this channel, Jason Hopcus shares his practical NEXT RIGHT STEP approach that will move you toward the life you really want. You too can be steps from getting the abundance, love, support, and fulfillment your heart desires. Jason is a motivator and catalyst for change. He believes connection to one’s self, one’s work, and one’s passion allows individuals to live a wholly authentic and full life. He creates systems of people working to deepen their relationships to work, play, and ultimately our world. Through singular focus on the individual, he creates expansion and a system of ‘next level’ social responsibility.
Jason Hopcus
Jason Hopcus’s personal mission is to advance human connection by embracing the conversation among fighters; the folks whose journeys from black to light give hope to those that deserve a 2nd or even a 3rd chance to be the ambassadors of conversation. Jason - acts as a motivator and catalyst for powerful cultural change within both for-profit and non-profit organizations. - believes connection to one’s self, one’s transparency, and one’s passion allows individuals to live a wholly authentic, full life - creates systems of support for people working to deepen their relationships to their work, their play, and ultimately our world His company, Connection Project takes a fresh approach by focusing on those who have turned their personal struggle around to champion for a community-driven cause. Through raw focus on the individual, Jason nourishes honest conversation to birth a system of ‘next level’ social responsibility. Drawing on personal experience, he fully acknowledges the amount of effort it takes, how necessary it is to share each other’s journeys and why, we as a society, need to move the needle towards unashamed conversation. Jason ignites cultural shift because everyone, directly or indirectly, is affected by mental health.
Episode Directory
February 2024
- 2/13/2024: Transforming Health: Navigating Wellness Beyond Traditional Care Listen Now test
- 2/6/2024: Encore From Tragedy to Triumph: A Columbine Survivor's Journey Listen Now test
