234: A Soldier’s Hands with Trish Shallenberger

Today on the show I share my friend Trish Shallenberger. Trish is amazing and I think you are going to love her story of caring and action! Trish Shallenberger, Founder of A Soldier’s Hands, has integrated youth education, volunteer support, fundraising, and leadership into an organization that cares for our deployed military in a uniquely touching way For 13 years, all sprouting out of one conversation with a sunburned soldier on an overbooked flight from Dallas to Philadelphia – a flight she shouldn’t even have been on, and a seat next to her that shouldn’t even have been empty. – she has brought tears of joy and a new sense of belonging to over 10 thousand deployed military personnel around the planet. This is accomplished by individually wrapped gifts, packaged by grade school age children through retirees. Trish has brought thousands of smiles and education about commitment, follow-through, and giving back, all the while ensuring that every member of every deployed unit she touches receives a personal, handwritten note, along with skin care, and goodles, all packaged with love from the home front. The recognition and gratitude pour in continuously from all ranks and branches of the armed services. The 131st Cavalry/Team Vandal recognized her efforts with their Minuteman Statue award; she has been a guest speaker for Prospera Financial Services, Church & Dwight, as well numerous local and veterans clubs; and most importantly with many school assemblies and organizations such as the Girl Scouts. Trish’s efforts have been highlighted in local papers, on NBC10 and 6ABC in Philadelphia, and in multiple magazine publications. In addition, her work and charity will be featured in the Old Dominion University Alumni magazine this Fall. Transcription: Welcome to The Art of Living big. I’m your host, Betsy Pake. I’m an author, speaker, Master hypnotherapist and NLP coach, and I help high achievers rewire for success. If you’re ready for the next level, you’re in the right place. Over the next 30 minutes, I hope to help you redefine what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. Hey, everyone, welcome to today’s show. I have an interview today, a special guest, a woman that I met through a coaching program that I’m in if you’ve ever been in a coaching program, where you know there’s a community piece to it, you find that you get to know people and just get it is such a great container for finding like like minded people and people that really want to expand and do new things. When I started talking with Trish, and you hear me in it today, in the interview, I mentioned that I’m curious about her identity, like how she actually thinks and the reason is because what we’re talking about is an experience that she had that led her to start a nonprofit. And you know, when we start this conversation, she talks about the experience on an airplane. And there is a deep integrity piece that I almost pointed out and then I didn’t. But I want to point it out now because I think it’s important that she had a like a god wink. I think she even might call it that in the interview. But she had this God wink rate this, this moment where her intuition told her to do something. And she said she was going to do it. And then she did it, which are two very different things. And I bring that up only because I love like listening to how people tick and what makes them tick, right? Like the words that they use, and the things that they do is fascinating to me. And also I wanted to point that out, because later she texted with me and she was saying that, and you’ll hear the interview where she talks about how she met this sold...