Episode 12: Creating a Meaningful Life through the lens of Content with Becky Bordo

Meet my friend Becky!

She's a really cool gal and we have an even cooler story for how we became friends lol. Today we talk about:

Hanukkah miracles. Favorite time of the year. She get’s wonderful insights, experiences, etc. to be who she needs to be

The magical story of us meeting each other

• Meeting in Jerusalem as people who met on IG - - what are the odds

Changing perspectives with understanding how the universe works - belief

Need real life experiences to cement wisdom

Deep in Jewy things... connecting with the reason of things

American birthright documentary - Link below

• About Interfaith marriage

Arrive at truth only when we do something about it for ourself

Becky’s past with performing, communications, broadcast journalism, structure to creating [10 min]

Never know who’s going to come in your world to support you! [ 9 min]

How I came across Becky’s work [12:30] and the crazy story of how I ran into her in Jerusalem’s market

We don’t miss out on opportunities…if it’s meant to be it’ll come back around [14:45]

Acknowledging steadiness of what you have accomplished.

Gratitude is circuitry. Higher energy rather than looking at what you didn’t do [15:30]

Clarity on what it is we want

• elements of things in a job or intention
• resistance
• gut feeling is very important to look at
• Mind is limited, emotional body taps into much more intelligence

People used to hold vegetables to feel if they were good or bad based on if their arm became strong or weak [18:50]

• Our body has an intelligence to know what is right

Don’t need to analyze or know exactly where it comes from (yet) but acknowledging that it’s there.

Doing value rundown

We mentioned the Tanya and how Ego tries to fool us that it is our G-dly soul [21:50]

Live the questions, don’t chase the answers (I heard this from Deepak Chopra)

We all want to connect with something deeper [24:00]

Smart Talks show with Becky and Rabbi Zalman

• His father started: Jews For Judaism
• “Founded in 1985, Jews for Judaism was created as a response to religious coercion targeting Jews for conversion, and to strengthen and preserve Jewish identity through education and counseling.”

Content elevates and how Becky wants us to create [26:40]

Questions as to why we have social media but are so disconnected

My terrible Californians accent [29:00]

Becky on the J-date commercial 4 years ago or so [29:10]

• If ever there was a role she has to get
• how she connected well with the director Mike Bernstein (on SNL)
• The irony of how she’s the face of J-date and then her sister gets engaged to a non-jew

The Gift Becky cares to share with the world [32:00]

• Looking back into childhood to see what has always been with us.
• Creating her story/content and helping others create their content
• Finding a way to help produce content and actionable next steps
• To bring exciting, moving forward energy

Make good stuff, good moments, good friendships, and a meaningful life through the lens of content in some way

Links for the show:

American Birthright : http://americanbirthrightfilm.com

Jews for Judaism: https://jewsforjudaism.org/about/

Social:

@beckytbordo or beckytbord