You can buy LifeMakeover amzn.to/4aJwEi8 Emmy award winning journalist and author of Life Makeover Dominique Sachse and Safiya discuss how to navigate personal and career challenges to live your most blessed, bold life.
Dominique, I just finished reading your book. Kudos to you on your honesty throughout this process. I also focused on the part of you and your Mom finding new hobbies. After I retired, I needed something new. A passion that would carry me through my next phase of life. So, at age 68, I decided to become a certified yoga instructor. I know you mentioned what yoga did for you and the emotions that surfaced. Have you ever considered becoming a yoga instructor. I think you would be fabulous at teaching. Food for thought. I’m now 72 and still teach. Life is wonderful. Don’t waste even a minute. 🙏
Thank you so much for this inspiring comment. I agree. Sometimes we let ourselves get stuck in the routine of life instead of creating new passions that enliven our days/weeks and months. We can keep creating and renewing ourselves. That was why I started this channel. I was afraid of letting other media content consume me in fear and make me abs us forget that we have our health to actively care for, careers, relationships to manage and most of all a real life to live as beautifully as we can.
At times I catch myself beating myself up over 2 failed marriages and life plans that haven’t happened as I “ dreamed” they would. Through Faith and Prayer, I’ve come to accept I am the person I am now as a result of the bumps along the road of life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Thank you for your comment Peggy. Life always presents us with challenges and its certainly healthier to divorce than stay trapped in a negative and toxic cycle but it's also such a painful process to go through. We all grew up believing in fairy tales, that life is supposed to be a certain way but thank God we have more platforms like this where we can shed the ideas we were fed about how life was supposed to be as we work to create better lives for ourselves and our communities. love Safiya
Have been reflecting on your comment and realise how easy it is to stay stuck on wishing how things turned out but I am consciously rooting out and weeding out all of the thoughts that have kept me stuck. I think the older we get and the more past we accumulate the harder it gets to stay present and in the vision space of the future. It’s Spring and I am dreaming new dreams. ❤
Dear Safiya, 💐 thank you for a truly down to earth and honest interview..with lovely Dominique and you are a very lovely beautiful Lady too! What i loved most you let Dominique speak without interruption which shows how respectful you are...how refreshing..not often the case these days.Hope there is more to come.My Blessing to you and kindest wishes from Germany.💐
Dear Margitta. Thank you for taking the time to write this positive comment. I deeply appreciate it. It is very easy for me to let others talk and listen. A piece of feedback I had early on was to balance it out so that I become more conversational because I was merely listening to guests and asking questions. This channel started with me setting up as an independent journalist wishing for the freedom to choose topics and people that can help us live with less distraction and anxiety. I started to feel like entertainment, news and media simply existed to sell ads. I didn’t mind the commercial but I wanted to respect the time a viewer puts into listening to me and tell them only about products and people I myself buy or would spend time with learning from or being challenged by. Most of the people I have interviewed have benefitted my own life greatly. I do hope you will engage more and tell me the kinds of subjects and people you want to see me explore. I will be launching a weekly series where I speak directly to camera as well as interviewing great guests. Thanks again Margitta.
Dear Safiya💐, i thank 🙏 you so very much for spending your valuable time to respond to me so promptly in such a meaningful way.I really appreciate it because in our challenging times people find it very hard to listen to one another as we focus soo much on our lives which is of course important but to interact with other people and to listen..one can learn so much.Your Interview with the very inspiring beautiful Dominique impressed me very much...because of you! You have a very respectful way how you interview your guests.I too think the human soul gets constanty bombarded with advertising everywhere we are reachable by the media and everthing gets faster and faster and we get more lonelier in many ways.A very big problem today..not only the Elderly but more and more the young as well.A very important topic these days as i noticed.Your Channel is something SO SPECIAL that shines through immediately the RU-vid WORLD!! And you answer to every single Comment...that i find very special because every " voice" is listend to.Even not so nice comments get answered in a very respectful way.I often think that very important Topics of Life for example..Lonelyness..Worries for the future etc.need to be adressed more...because there is such a need for it..i think.Thank 🙏you dear Safiya ❤ for your wonderful work and Channel.I suppose you are based in the UK.? I send you my warmest wishes from Southern Germany.⚘💐🌺
@@margittapreston4958 I appreciate that a lot Margitta. I am based in London UK. It is very meaningful to engage deeply with others in real life or online. I also think it’s important that we engage with difficult people and comments. I actually feel that it is something our media should continue to do. In the last few years I have been alarmed that people are becoming tribal. Once humans organise into tribes they relate to a label/name and not a real human or group of humans. We must not lose the ability to feel that the other person is a real human being. Regardless of the comment they make. Even if they are being hateful, I know it can be hard but as Dominique said people must be going through some sort of difficulty to post hurtful comments. I think we all need to take actions to counter the things we see that alarm us. To leave an imprint digitally or otherwise to make us feel connected. I think if we find ways to connect better digitally and realise that the salacious click bait media is making us all cynical about our future, it will go some way to restoring our hope that things aren’t quite as bad as we have been led to believe. That we do have so much in common despite what we are being led to believe. I believe so much that we are all hungering for faith in humanity. The online world is hostile because people are rewarded for click bait content but I felt a deep need to start something so I can I counter the left/right political divide. I wanted to go beyond this group and that group. And what better way I thought than you feature people who do great work and don’t get attention for the months and years they make into writing books, doing research, creating products, that actually help solve problems so we live more alive, healthfully. Where in Germany do you live? I have been to several places in Germany and love it there.
Dear Safiya,⚘ thank🙏 you for sharing your thoughts with me and i totally agree with you.I live near the famous Castle that looks a little bit like the "Cinderella Castle Walt Disney" called NEUSCHWANSTEIN on the border to Austria.I lived many years in England and have an english husband.❤❤
I love this video! Dominique, I completely related to you discussing the your years at the gym. I too was a “gym rat” as we used to call ourselves. 28 years of weight lifting was such an empowering thing to do and I loved it. Now…I’m 64 and for the last 12 years I’ve realized that I overdid it. My body is telling me that stretching, walking, riding my bike, yoga, Pilates are what I need to do in this season of my life. Also it only took me 60 years to figure out that Gluten and sugar are not my friends! God bless you always lady. I love watching you.
Thank you so for your comment. I feel the same way about weights and HIIT. I too have turned to yoga and Pilates with a little HIIT now and then. I bet you reaped a lot of benefits too from the discipline of weight lifting 💪🏽
Dominique,I got your book and I love it and I’m thinking of having a woman’s group on women issues and using your book as a guidebook. Same here Dominique really got me through tuff times , a marriage ended for me after 40 years and she helped so much
Thanks for sharing that Marielee. She is a very rare voice. Someone that shares herself openly and with such vulnerability. I have created an IDEOLOGY Book Club featuring many of the guests books. Would love to include you!
Such a great conversation! It's hard to believe that you haven't been friends for years! One of the ongoing and most unexpected gifts to come out of Dominique Sachse's new book is all the lovely people taking the time to interview her. I'm finding so many wonderful channels and people to follow as a result! Thank you, Safiya!
Hi Sally. Thank you for your comment. We definitely need more conversations. Our families have gone through so much the last couple of years and these conversations help us process the important issues so that we can rise above fear and respond with intelligence and love ❤️
This was such a down to earth interview, which I got quite a lot of enlightenment from. My head, heart and soul, really needed this. Thank you so very much!!!🥰
You just brought a tear to my eye! Thank you so much for sharing that. I feel deeply that we need better connections and content and I am committed to improving this platform. 🙏🏽
The upside of Covid is the convenience of book promotion with zoom? Did you really just say that? Did you really just spin a deadly pandemic into your book promo? Tell me I am fking hallucinating.
Dear Vanderpol I appreciate your comment but we definitely don't mean it in the way that you express here. Neither of us are making light of the pandemic. The Covid pandemic affected us all equally. We all know people who have died of Covid or are suffering with it. Not to mention the fact that many of us also caught this dreaded virus which has wreaked untold suffering on all of us. Dominique and I are simply referring to and appreciating the use of Zoom that become more widely used during the pandemic. She recently did her first in person book signing. Nothing can replace in person conversations but we can appreciate the virtual while hoping that life will orchestrate in person conversations for us. We do go on to say that at the end of the interview. This pandemic has frayed our relationships so much but we have to find ways to forge better connections and really try to understand what the other is saying without jumping to conclusions about them.
