Some people survive a hard childhood and spend the rest of their life quietly grateful. Chason Forehand survived his and decided that was not enough.

Chason is the founder of HR-4U, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in New York's Hudson Valley. Through a program called Transformation Kitchen, he takes people who have been pushed to the margins and gives them culinary training, community, and a reason to believe their life is not over. The 12-week program does not just teach people how to cook. It wraps around them. Wellness checks. Family atmosphere. Support that does not disappear when the program ends.

What Chason built is impressive. What makes it worth talking about here, on a show rooted in conscious parenting and bullying prevention, is the story behind it.

Hurt People Hurt People. Healed People Change the World.

We talk about bullying as if it starts and ends on a school playground. It does not. Bullying is a cycle, and like most cycles, it traces back to pain that was never...

There is a version of bullying that does not happen on a playground. It happens in meeting rooms, on performance reviews, and in the quiet moment after you raise your hand and watch the room decide how to receive you.

For millions of women in the workforce, especially Black women and women of color, this experience is not an exception. It is a pattern. And it carries real consequences, not just professionally, but in the relationship a woman has with her own voice.

This week on the DaliTalks Podcast, I sat down with London Reid, transformational coach and founder of Her Law of Growth, and she described something that stopped me in my tracks. She was sitting in her director's office. She was four months pregnant. She had just returned from losing her father. She was in tears. And she was being told that agreeing to cooperate with her supervisor was somehow combative.

That moment is not unusual. That is the problem.

What Workplace Bullying Actually Looks Like for Women

Most anti-bul...

The One Skill Nobody Taught Us (That Changes Everything)

Most of us grew up learning how to speak. How to argue. How to present. How to debate.

Nobody taught us how to listen.

And that gap, quiet as it is, costs us more than we realize. In our relationships. In our parenting. In our workplaces. In the moments that matter most.

I sat down recently with Deb Porter, founder of Hold Hearing Out Life Drama and a professional listener, and what she shared stayed with me long after we stopped recording.

Listening Is a Profession. And There's a Reason for That.

Deb did not set out to become a professional listener. She studied divinity, worked at a funeral home, and one ordinary afternoon while folding towels, a thought landed: what if it's just about listening?

She built an entire business from that moment.

Not therapy. Not coaching. Listening.

The distinction matters. There is a massive group of people, and you probably know some of them, who are not in crisis. They are not looking ...

Okay, friend. Pull up a chair. I need to talk to you about something.

Every March, we celebrate Women's History Month. We post the quotes, share the throwback photos, maybe catch a documentary or two. And then April rolls around and we move on.

But here is what keeps me up at night: the women who changed this world never stopped being relevant just because the calendar flipped. Their stories are not a once-a-year moment. They are a daily reminder of what is possible when we stop deciding in advance who gets to dream big.

And right now? We still have a lot of deciding to undo.

These Women Existed. The World Just Did Not Amplify Them.

When I was writing my 2017 book "Embracing Differences: 21st Century Women Debunking Stereotypes," I kept running into the same gut punch over and over again. Women who had done absolutely extraordinary things, quietly, without the fanfare that their male counterparts received for doing far less.

Olga Custodio became the first Latina to complete U.S. ...

Her husband was flying Air Force One. She was drowning.

From the outside, Brittany Anderson's life looked like something worth celebrating. Accomplished husband. Growing career. Kids. A life most people would envy.

But behind closed doors, she and her husband were barely speaking. They were going through the motions as parents and living as strangers as partners. In 2019, they were weeks away from ending their marriage.

What saved them was not what anyone expected. It was not a weekend retreat or a heart-to-heart on the couch. It was play. Specifically, building things with their hands, disrupting the stories they had been telling themselves, and choosing to build a shared vision for their family instead of walking away from it.

That decision did not just save their marriage. It became a movement.

Today Brittany is the founder of Renala Families and the author of Living Room Leadership. She joined Dali on the DaliTalks Podcast for one of the most honest and hopeful conversations t...