Jodi Reynosa: Finding My Hero's Journey When Detours Derail

Stories of Hope in Hard Times

Jodi Reynosa's life didn't go as planned. She experienced multiple detours and struggles in her life—including finding a tumor in her brain.

Episode Discussion Points

• Jodi compares her life to being in a car, ready to go and then then feeling like she is driving with the brakes on. Then, when she finally figures out how to go full speed a roadblock is thrown up in her path and she wonders “why?”
• Jodi had a lot of “firsts” in her family
• How she made the varsity basketball team as a sophomore, which got derailed by her eating disorder—and what that looked like—from negative mental thoughts to eating challenges.
• When she was cut from the team she felt like she lost her identity, and after counseling and getting some help God helped her to pivot and turned toward the arts.
• How she found joy along her new path.
• How challenges can be blessings
• How losing her academic scholarship steered her in a different direction AGAIN!
• Don’t ask disempowering questions—that doesn’t help us, figure out which direction God wants you to go.
• Her decision to serve a church mission to help people.
• “Loving God allows you to see the divinity within yourself, and He helps you to love yourself. And then you can see the divinity in other people.”
• As you love God, yourself and others, love can flow through you and to you like the infinity sign.
• The chicken soup syndrome Jodi learned from her mom which applies to life.
• How a professor tried to warn her about how hard it was to juggle family and a media career.
• You can do everything you want to do in life at the right season and the right time.
• What her early career in media looked like—life happens and we learn from it.
• The diagnosis of a tumor in her brain which led to another life detour.
• This shifted her to working on her YouTube show Guided.
• God sees the whole picture and we don’t. We see the little threads, so we need to trust Him.
• Sometimes you need to pause and “reset” and “be still.”
• Often it takes time for us to process a new idea, or a change. Our knee jerk-reaction is to say “no.” But once an idea of change has been planted it takes a while for us to realize it wasn’t a bad suggestion after all. So approach change with a creative mind, and be willing to welcome new ideas.
• Figuring life out is a process we experience day to day.

Empowering Questions

The concept of empowering questions was originally introduced to Jodi by Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of the Agape Center.

• Ask God what is trying to emerge from me right now that can help me serve my fellow man?
• How can I be of service where I am right now?
• If I had to be in this situation for a long time, what qualities would I need? (Example: I would need strength and empathy and trust in God). Then pray those traits down from heaven to help you as you pass through hard times.

Other Empowering Questions

These 4 questions come from from Byron Katie, who developed The Work. These are especially helpful if you deal with negative self-talk.

1. Is it true? (Ex: That guy just passed me on the sidewalk scowling. He probably hates me. Is this true? Maybe, but maybe not.)
2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? (No, he could have just lost his job or maybe his dog died).
3. What happens when you believe that thought? (I feel anxious, stressed and that thought doesn’t feel good.)
4. Who or what would you be without that thought? (Without that thought I would feel at peace. I’d feel free. Whatever that scowl was—that was there’s not mine. I can go on my merry way now.)

Jodi’s Favorite Bible Verse

Isaiah 40:31

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Matthew 6:28

“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.”

Resources Jodi Recommends

• The scriptures
• Jodi’s show, “Guided” features guests from around the world, exploring topics on consciousness, healing, disclosure, ufology, spiritual alchemy, divine counterparts, and quantum healing hypnosis therapy. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp_skMgULzY00wH9QLm9lkq3KjNWZLElT
• Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead--by Brene Brown
• Dare Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead-- by Brene Brown
• The Obstacle Is the Way, by Ryan Holliday

Connect with Jodi

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodireynosa/
• Listen to her show/podcast Guided: https://www.spreaker.com/cms/shows/5244225/dashboard?filter=NETWORK&network=15594185

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Transcription

You can find the transcription of today's episode here: https://www.tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/jodi-reynosa-finding-my-heros-journey-when-detours-derail