Spread The Positive Podcast

STP Productions
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What if your feed actually made you feel better about the world? On the STP Podcast, you'll hear real stories that remind you there is still a lot of GOOD happening all around you. Each episode is designed to leave you more encouraged, more inspired, and more connected to what's going right—in your community and beyond. You'll walk away with: – Real examples of people making a positive impact (and how you can too) – Uplifting stories that shift your perspective and boost your mindset – Practical insights from businesses and leaders doing things the right way – Gratitude, mindset, and life strategies you can apply immediately If you're tired of negativity and want content that actually fuels you, this is your place. This isn't just a podcast—it's a reminder that good people, good work, and good things are happening every single day.

  1. 5d ago

    Success Starts with Skills, Not Circumstances

    Alex Piedra, pediatric dentist, entrepreneur, and Harvard education graduate, joins us at Spread The Positive to share the mindset that helped him overcome poverty, family hardship, and setbacks to build a life centered on service.    From immigrating to the United States as a young child to treating more than 60 patients a day, Alex explains why your circumstances don't define your future—your skills do.   Katie and Alex talk about growing up below the poverty line, the way the 2008 recession affected their childhoods, choosing dentistry over medicine, and leading with empathy.   His message is simple: success isn't about where you start—it's about what you're willing to learn and who you're willing to serve.   FAQs   1. Why does Alex believe success starts with skills instead of circumstances? Because circumstances can change overnight, but the skills you develop stay with you and give you the ability to rebuild.   2. How did Alex choose pediatric dentistry? After exploring many different passions, incuding medicine, he realized dentistry gave him the opportunity to serve others while maintaining a strong family life.   3. What helped Alex overcome childhood poverty and setbacks? He credits mentors, lifelong learning, meaningful relationships, and consistently developing new skills.   4. What leadership lesson stands out most in this conversation? Great leaders stay humble and listen to different perspectives to build strong teams instead of trying to succeed alone.   5. What's Alex's advice for someone starting over? Value the people who invest in you, keep learning, and focus on building skills that no one can take away.   Connect with Alex Piedra on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexpiedra/   Where to find Spread The Positive?   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spreadthepositive.net Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spreadthepositive/   Website https://www.spreadthepositive.net/

    Success Starts with Skills, Not Circumstances

  2. Jul 22

    You Don't Have to Do This Alone with Therapist Sarah Amos on Grief & Trauma

    Licensed therapist Sarah Amos on when you actually need therapy, EMDR, and grief.   Stephanie sits down with Sarah Amos, owner and lead therapist at Sparrow Creek Counseling in Nashville, for a full conversation about mental health. Sarah explains the name behind her practice: sparrows know how to protect themselves, so when a storm rolls in or food gets scarce, they find a cool dry place to rest and preserve their energy instead of powering through. That's how she sees therapy, a creek where you rest before you go back out to fly.   They get into the real stuff. Sarah gives the honest signal that it's time to seek help. When Stephanie brings up losing her grandmother in November and going through her things box by box, Sarah names why that grief keeps surfacing: you're not going backward, you're a different person now, living in a different reality than before.   You do not have to do this alone. That's the whole point.   FAQs    1. How do I know if I actually need therapy or if I'm overreacting?  When the people around you start responding to your pain with "I don't know what to tell you," that's the sign your support system has given all it can and you probably need more than a listening ear.   2. What is EMDR and how does it help with trauma and grief?  EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to calm your nervous system while you process, so you can observe that something happened instead of dropping into fight or flight every time you think about it.   3. Why do I still feel grief hit me when I thought I was doing better?  Because the loss stays in your body and your mind, so those waves aren't setbacks, they're you still living with something that's part of your life now.   4. What's the difference between talk therapy and EMDR?  Talk therapy uses your thinking to work through your story and beliefs, while EMDR works through your body and doesn't require much talking at all.   5. Where can I find Sparrow Creek Counseling and do they offer virtual sessions?  You can find the whole team at Sparrow Creek Counseling online, with in-office sessions in Midtown Nashville and virtual therapy available across the state of Tennessee.   Follow Sparrow Creek Counseling on Facebook and Instagram for free mental health tips,  https://www.facebook.com/saraamoscounseling/ https://www.instagram.com/sparrowcreekcounseling/   and visit their website to meet the team. https://www.sparrowcreekcounseling.com/   Where to find Spread The Positive?   Socials  https://www.facebook.com/spreadthepositive.net https://www.instagram.com/spreadthepositive/   Website https://www.spreadthepositive.net/

    You Don't Have to Do This Alone with Therapist Sarah Amos on Grief & Trauma

  3. Jul 15 ·  Video

    From Dreams To Reality With Annlee Head and Rachael Jarman

    Annlee Head and Rachael Jarman on their experiences in the 2026 MTSU Truck/ Bonnaroo course offered by the university.    Both Juniors, the two have a strong passion for live video production and were determined to make this year's road crew for Bonnaroo. While in the program the two learned valuable skills for running a broadcast on stage at festivals, working on the 2026 "This Tent" with Hulu.    Rachael and Annlee reminisce on their younger selves while naming all the artists they were able to work with. Naming notable artists like Mother Mother, Modest Mouse, and the Kesha Super Jam.    On this episode we explore just how intense the program truly is as well as the amazing professors and students behind it all.    FAQs   1. What sets did they direct? Annlee directed Mother Mother and Rachael directed Modest Mouse, as well as assisting on multiple other student directors sets.    2. How did they get into the program? You have to be an MTSU Student with the required prerequisites or approval by the Dean of the program.    3. When is the class? It is a summer course in person on the MTSU campus and hands on in the Truck.   4. What is the Truck? The Truck is a mobile live production studio run by the MTSU VFP department.    5. What was their biggest lesson? The crowd comes first, Annlee mentions how important it is to protect the people over getting the perfect shot.    All in all the two say this experience solidified their desire to stay in the live production industry and encourage others to follow their dreams too.   Where to find Annlee? https://www.instagram.com/lee.s_lenses/ https://www.instagram.com/annleehead/    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557554759652    Where to find Rachael? https://www.instagram.com/rachael.presley/    https://www.facebook.com/rachael.jarman.5    Where to find Spread The Positive?   Socials    https://www.facebook.com/spreadthepositive.net   https://www.instagram.com/spreadthepositive/   Website https://www.spreadthepositive.net/

    From Dreams To Reality With Annlee Head and Rachael Jarman

  4. Jul 8

    The Family Business That Kept Murfreesboro's Square Standing

    Contractor Justin Edwards on 50 years building Murfreesboro's square, from horsehair plaster to a hidden room full of Civil War boxes. Justin grew up going to job sites with his dad, who started the business back in 1979. He went to MTSU thinking he might do something else, but he always kept one foot in construction, and now he and his dad meet every single day to run the company together. As he puts it, they've learned how to argue and still get along. Working on the square means no bid ever really holds, because you never know what's inside a 100-year-old wall. Justin has found plumbing looping into units that don't own it, wiring running to nothing, a walled-off basement full of Civil War ammunition boxes, and Levi's pamphlets that fell out of a ceiling from back when the building was a JC Penney. He also gets into the old courthouse, where they patched horsehair plaster at night over the Christmas shutdown. FAQ's Who is Justin Edwards? A second-generation contractor with Barry Edwards Construction, working on Murfreesboro's square and across Middle Tennessee. How long has the business been around? His dad started it in 1979, so it's coming up on 50 years. What does the company specialize in? The complicated and difficult jobs, especially old buildings, permits, code, and investigatory work on bad construction, water, and fire damage. What's the weirdest thing they've found in a building? A walled-off basement storeroom full of Civil War ammunition boxes on the north side of the square. Where can I find Barry Edwards Construction? Search "Barry Edwards Construction" on Google, where the office and cell numbers are listed. If you've ever opened up an old wall and held your breath, you'll get this one Barry Edwards Construction: https://buildbec.com/ Spread The Positive website: spreadthepositive.net Socials: @spreadthepositive 0:00 The thing about old buildings: Earth moves 0:29 A word from Bryan Nale, Premise Bank 1:15 Meet Justin Edwards, Edwards Construction 1:59 Growing up on job sites with his dad 3:09 Specializing in the jobs nobody else wants 6:34 The strangest things found on the square 7:20 Civil War ammo boxes and JC Penney pamphlets 9:32 Horsehair plaster at the old courthouse 12:34 What's going right, and following God 14:30 Trust, poker, and why hiding your budget hurts #JustinEdwards #BarryEdwardsConstruction #EdwardsConstruction #MurfreesboroSquare #HistoricRestoration #OldBuildings#SpreadThePositive #STPPodcast #TrentDenson #PositivePodcast

    The Family Business That Kept Murfreesboro's Square Standing

  5. Jul 1

    Why "I Don't Know" Is a Good Answer With Jaylene Hall

    Jaylene Hall on pivoting from music business to tech, starting a design TikTok, and leaving it all to move to Charleston. Jaylene graduated college in 2020 with a music business degree and a touring internship that Covid wiped out, and for the first time she felt relief instead of disappointment. She picked up a design certification, messed around in Figma building app mockups, and realized tech was pulling at her. Four plus years later at Asurion, she had stability, mentors, and good income, and she's now stepping away from it to start over by the beach. At 25 she bought her first rental, lived in it for a year, and repainted every wall and swapped light fixtures herself. That revamp became her interior design TikTok, where she mixes feminine colors with darker masculine tones.  Now she's packing boxes from for the move to Charleston, and the conversation lands on something meaningful: be intentional about fun, and don't save it for one week a year.   FAQs  1.Why is Jaylene leaving tech?  She's moving to Charleston with her fiance and giving herself space to choose what's next instead of rushing to the next thing. 2.How did she get into tech?  A UX design certification she earned at home during Covid pointed her toward the industry. 3.How did her interior design TikTok start?  She started documenting the revamp of the rental property she bought at 25. 4.What does she want to do next?  She's leaning toward project or change management, possibly in design, but she's letting herself decide without a fixed plan. 5.What's the one piece of advice she keeps hearing from older people? Be intentional about fun and don't put it off for someday. It's okay to not have it all figured out, so find a creative outlet and pick the next thing on purpose.

    Why "I Don't Know" Is a Good Answer With Jaylene Hall

  6. Jun 24

    Jamie Steelman on August 1st at the Fountains: Give Blood 4 Ryan

    Mortgage lender opens up about losing his oldest son, the blood drive he runs in his memory, and why donated blood gave their family 21 years. He grew up a sports nut, became a church league legend, and tried to walk on at Western Kentucky before reality hit. Then he had his first son at 20, walked into the hospital one person and walked out a different one. He learned mortgages in 1995 by getting handed a phone book and told to start calling, ran batting cages in La Vergne before the timing was right, coached a dead-last team to beating the Tigers, and eventually started his own branch. The heart of this one is his son. When his boy was born, his mom's placenta separated, and he lost so much blood he looked like a Smurf. Two transfusions kept him alive. He had AB negative, one of the rarest types, and Vanderbilt happened to have two units ready in 1994. Donated blood is the reason the family got 21 years with him. After he passed in 2016, the Red Cross expected the memorial drive to shrink and need a school or church to fill it out. Ten years later it's still standalone, and one of their largest. He also gets into the 18 year old who told them "I'm not going anywhere" after the loss, and the families who show up wearing a different color shirt from every year. FAQ's 1.When and where is the blood drive?  August 1st at the Fountains in Murfreesboro.   2.Why does he do a blood drive?  His son needed two transfusions to survive at birth, and donated blood gave the family 21 years with him.   3.How long does giving blood actually take?  About 45 minutes once the needle is in.   4.How can I get involved? Contact him or his wife to sign up, or just show up that day.   5.What does he do for work?  He's a mortgage lender in Murfreesboro who started his own branch at CMG.   Give blood 4 Ryan on August 1st at the Fountains, or reach out to Jamie to find out how!   Where to find Jamie? Website: http://jamiestillman.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mortgagesbysteelman/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-steelman-1512209    Give Life 4 Ryan,  Register online at: https://www.givelife4ryan.com/ or via Jamie Steelman, (615) 238-7426   Spread The Positive website: spreadthepositive.net  Socials: @spreadthepositive

    Jamie Steelman on August 1st at the Fountains: Give Blood 4 Ryan

  7. Jun 17

    How Chase Hartwell Productions Got Booked and Blessed

    Chase Hartwell left a 10-year Google career to build a Nashville photo and video company with nearly 500 clients. The business started with him photographing 13-inch Star Wars figures in front of his TV to wake his passion for photography back up. That turned into real estate gigs on Fiverr, then restaurants, then food, then video, then filming Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC for American Dream TV. Along the way he learned to run a cinema camera in a week for a documentary gig, talked his way into being the only photographer invited to a 2,000-person food event, and figured out that email and word of mouth book more work than any ad he's ever paid for.   FAQ's   1. How did Chase Hartwell get into photography? He started shooting Star Wars figurines during the pandemic, then took real estate gigs on Fiverr.   2. Did he really work at Google?  Yes, for 10 years, mostly on Google Fiber and the residency training program.   3. How does Chase Hartwell Productions find clients? Mostly word of mouth and email campaigns, rather than paid ads.   4. What does the company shoot?  Restaurants, commercials, drones, and video work for clients.    Where to find Chase?  website: https://www.chp.media  socials: @chasehartwellproductions  Where to find Spread The Positive? website: spreadthepositive.net  Socials: @spreadthepositive

    How Chase Hartwell Productions Got Booked and Blessed

  8. Jun 10

    Lindsay Fitz on Saving Animals and Saying Yes!

    Lindsay Fitz spent 20 years crushing it in TV, won an Emmy at the Beijing Olympics, and now gets to do her dream job running celebrity partnerships at Best Friends Animal Society. She grew up in Oklahoma, went to Oklahoma State, and chased the New York dream right after graduation. She landed the legendary NBC Page Program, hung with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, covered politics during one of NBC News' biggest eras, and spent 10 incredible years at NBC Sports helping launch Sunday Night Football. From there she jumped to Discovery for the Alaska shows, then built something amazing at A&E for 8.5 years. Two years ago a single phone call opened the door to Best Friends Animal Society, and she hasn't looked back. She now connects huge names like Sabrina Carpenter, Myles Turner, Trisha Yearwood, and Warner Brothers to the save them all mission. She shares the Sabrina Carpenter tour that brought puppies backstage at every stop, the Superman partnership that drove a wild 500% spike in adoption interest, Myles Turner holding cats at the sanctuary, and the NYC Gala in October honoring Trisha Yearwood for quietly giving to a shelter in every single state for five years running. FAQs 1. What is the NBC Page Program and why does it matter for a career in TV? I t's the legendary 80+ year old NBC program that gets you in the building and sets you up to work on shows like SNL, The Today Show, or The Daily Show, which is exactly how Lindsay's whole career started. 2. How does celebrity partnership actually work for a nonprofit? You start with no agenda, find out what the celebrity actually cares about, and build something custom around their passion that also moves the mission forward. 3. What is Best Friends Animal Society and what does no-kill mean? Best Friends is a 41 year old national nonprofit with 5 lifesaving centers, a huge sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, and 6,000 network partners working to get every shelter in America to a 90% save rate.  4. How do you pivot from corporate TV to nonprofit work? Lindsay leaned into the cause work at every job she ever had, and when the right phone call came, she said yes.  5. What's the easiest way to support rescue if I can't adopt right now? Foster, volunteer at a local shelter, donate to a Best Friends network partner, or just share rescue stories on your own platforms. Best Friends Animal Society: bestfriends.org Go follow Best Friends Animal Society and check out the Supergirl partnership campaign launching this June.

    Lindsay Fitz on Saving Animals and Saying Yes!
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What if your feed actually made you feel better about the world? On the STP Podcast, you'll hear real stories that remind you there is still a lot of GOOD happening all around you. Each episode is designed to leave you more encouraged, more inspired, and more connected to what's going right—in your community and beyond. You'll walk away with: – Real examples of people making a positive impact (and how you can too) – Uplifting stories that shift your perspective and boost your mindset – Practical insights from businesses and leaders doing things the right way – Gratitude, mindset, and life strategies you can apply immediately If you're tired of negativity and want content that actually fuels you, this is your place. This isn't just a podcast—it's a reminder that good people, good work, and good things are happening every single day.

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  • Creator
    STP Productions
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    298
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