The Hope Chronicles (2022)

Our team’s favorite songs and artists highlighted in today’s Featured Favorites section have us tapping our feet, wiggling in our seats, and inspired to dance! For this week’s edition of The Hope Chronicles, we share another video from the 0 – 100 series that asks people of all ages to share their answers to some of life’s big questions. The video’s question is more show than tell – what’s your best dance move?! Whether you feel like the 37-year-old or the 78-year-old, we hope this video brings some hope and levity to your day.

Graduation season. It’s a time to celebrate accomplishments, appreciate lessons learned, and dream about the future. This class valedictorian reflected on all three of these things in his graduation speech, and he also got unconventionally honest about the cost of his hard work. Not the cost in dollars, but in relationships. His words resonate not only with the principles we embrace in The Hope Chronicles, but they also mirror the Live Big philosophy. What can you do to ensure you have no regrets in the sixteenth second?

One of our fundamental beliefs is that human beings are fundamentally growth-seeking, ingenious, and resilient. While this idea has been put to the test over the past two years of unprecedented challenges, our belief never wavered, and new research from the 2022 World Happiness Report suggests that it continues to have strong roots. The report found that “three measures of prosocial behavior – donations, volunteering, and helping strangers – all showed increases in 2021 in every global region.” To see increases in these social behaviors during a global health pandemic brings us so much hope about humanity’s ability to show up for one another during the most difficult times.

The physical and emotional pain of the people of Ukraine weighs heavy on our hearts. Fortunately, as we often see during crisis, people all over the world have been exhibiting touching displays of humanity to help those who are suffering, and these efforts fill us with hope. For those who feel inspired, we share different ways to Give Big to Ukrainians in need.

Last month, we shared a video that is part of a series of videos featuring people ages 0 – 100 giving their answers to some of life’s big questions. Today, we’d like to share another video from the series, this time one that focuses on the most important life lessons that people have learned. We find the answers to be quite moving, ranging from the importance of acceptance and forgiveness to lessons that align with Yeske Buie’s core values to Learn Big and Live Big. We hope the video provides you with an opportunity for reflection and appreciation for your Live Big life.

One of the prevailing characteristics that weaves through the Yeske Buie philosophy and The Hope Chronicles is resilience. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this touching video featuring the beautiful relationship between the McKeever brothers is worth a million. Despite an untreatable genetic disorder that caused Brian to lose his eyesight, he and his brother didn’t give up on his dream of becoming an Olympian. Watch how they achieved their dreams together through dedication, communication, love, hope, and resilience.

We recently came across a series of videos featuring people ages 0 – 100 giving their answers to some of life’s big questions. The video we’d like to share today, Home Sweet Home, asks the question, “What does home mean to you?” Some answers will incite a laugh, and others will touch the heart. But collectively, we think they’ll all have you reminiscing over good memories and Live Big moments, and we hope that brings a smile to your face and fills you with hope.