Warrior Arise! Podcast: Recent Episodes
Connie Jones
The mission of the Warrior Arise! Podcast is to inspire, empower, and equip you to think, feel, and act like the powerful Warrior you are so you can Live and Lead bravely, freely, and authentically in your unique purpose and destiny. In each episode, you’ll hear rich, meaningful conversations with fellow Warriors who will share their stories of living in and leading with courage, freedom, and authenticity in a passion fueled and purpose centered life.
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Wisdom from a white woman about racial healing like you’ve never heard it before. Diana Roman is a direct descendent of the largest slave-owning family in United States History, and after a life-changing discovery, she founded and is a co-trainer of Diversity Dialogues, an organization focused on race in America and practical solutions to enable racial healing. In this episode, Connie dives into the hard questions regarding racial division and how to heal. Diana shares enlightening details of our country’s history with racial trauma and transformational truths that will ignite our healing.
- Walks us through her life journey and how her passion for healing racial division began.
- Enlightens us about the true realities of our racial conflicts and struggles and the healing that we all need.
- Shares her passion for her organization’s unique style of training that heals and resolves our racial divide.
Diana is the founder and co-trainer of Diversity Dialogues, an organization focused on training change agents to rise to the challenge of contributing positively to a multicultural America. Their curriculum focuses on race in America and practical solutions to enable racial healing. She is a direct descendent of the Hairston family, which is the largest slave-owning family in US history. Her passion for diversity and inclusion was born out of her own reconciliation with her family’s past along with a better understanding the legacy slavery has created and how she can help the healing process.
Formerly, she was a marketing and international business development professional with a long career at Proctor & Gamble in commercial business development. She managed major customers including McDonald’s, Chick-fil-a, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Westin. While based in Singapore, she managed the Global Exports Marketing Division that launched products in 12 major Asian markets. While at Z Group, she developed brand strategies for Disney + Fox Network and provided key data insights on the team that developed the winning election strategy for Mexican president Vicente Fox.
“It’s such a better world when we are connecting and loving and forgiving than when we are hating and accusatory and judging.” — Diana Roman
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Resources:
Website:
https://diversitydialogues.net/
https://ourblackancestry.com/
https://www.hairstonfamilygenealogy.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-roman-b690b737/
Warrior Arise! Podcast Episode 26 – FULL Show Notes >>
The post Healing Our Racial Divide: The Truth Will Set You Free — Episode 26 first appeared on Connie Jones Coaching.
In this episode, Dr. Jamie Walraven shares her passion and expertise for holistic healing that transcends the limitations of traditional medicine. As a functional medicine doctor, she explains the why, what, and how of her work that exposes the core of her patients’ problems and helps them achieve wellness so they can thrive in life. Jamie is a wealth of knowledge and a bright light in the lives of so many she impacts. This interview is enlightening and encouraging for all.
- Shares her life experiences and struggles that made her the warrior woman that she is today.
- Walks us through her journey of becoming a physician.
- Enlighten us on how she started her transition to functional medicine and explains what it is.
- Discusses what she believes keeps people stuck in struggling, striving, and surviving.
- Shares her message of encouragement to people who are losing hope in getting the right answer for their health.
Dr. Jamie Walraven is the Lead Physician at Ageless Wellness Center. She created the practice to serve her patients holistically through functional medicine and aesthetics.
Since the age of three, Dr. Walraven knew that she wanted to be a doctor. Her love of science and helping people fueled her path into medicine. She completed her Pre-Med requirements and earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Judson College. Proceeding on, she finished her M.D. at The University of Alabama School of Medicine. After graduation, she went on to serve our country for six years as an active duty army doctor, including deployments to Egypt and Iraq. In addition to her military duties, she also worked in emergency medicine. After a decade in emergency medicine, Jamie ventured into aesthetics and anti-aging, which eventually led her to functional medicine.
Jamie passionately strives to get to the root of patients’ problems and help them find health solutions, which may have not been possible through traditional medicine. Helping patients achieve long-term wellness is deeply meaningful to her. She enjoys supporting patients in reaching their goals and restoring their confidence.
In her free moments, Dr. Walraven loves to spend time with her boys and her friends, particularly cheering on the Yellow Jackets at Georgia Tech games. She also enjoys reading, riding horses, cooking, and doing art projects.
“We are more than the medicine we prescribe.” — Jamie Walraven
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Resources:
Website: https://agelesswellnessptc.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agelesswellnessgeorgia/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agelesswellnesscenter/
Warrior Arise! Podcast Episode 25 – FULL Show Notes >>
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Tundi Jones’ passion for helping people navigate life’s challenges has deep roots. As an only child of a first generation immigrant family, Tundi grew up in two worlds. Her search to find her own place and purpose was transformed into a passion for building authentic, open, and honest relationships. Today, as a gifted Therapist, she helps individuals, couples, and families heal and break free from strongholds, maladaptive patterns, fear, and emotional wounds that keep them in struggle, striving, and surviving so they can thrive in freedom and fulfillment. Tundi’s beautiful combination of vulnerability and strength is evident in this interview as she candidly shares her story of how God transformed her own fear of uncertainty into courage which propelled her into freedom that she couldn’t have imagined! You’ll fall in love with her heart and cherish her wisdom!
- Shares the life struggles she faced and how she healed and broke free.
- Walks us through her life journey as a first-generation immigrant, the trials and uncertainty
her family faced escaping Hungary and beginning life in America. * Shares her recovery journey from the place of burnout, self-sufficiency and striving. * Recounts how she discovered her passion and purpose and how she helps families heal. * Encourages those having trouble releasing control and self-reliance.
Tundi is a Therapist and Coach at Arise Counseling and Coaching in Peachtree City, GA in the arena of restoring and building healthy families. She has spent the past twenty-plus years working alongside intact families, blended families, single mothers and fathers, grandparents raising grandchildren, and children of all ages to help them navigate through difficult times to find purpose, freedom, fulfillment and connectedness. Tundi’s passion for personal and interpersonal integrity – in combination with her own brokenness and daily need for grace – inspires her to create a counseling context that offers safety and the opportunity to push beyond unhealthy habits and develop long-term change.
“ Freedom comes from having courage in uncertainty versus giving in to fear.” — Tundi Jones
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Resources:
Website: https://arisecounselingandcoaching.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tundi-jones-2110301a3/
Warrior Arise! Podcast Episode 24 – FULL Show Notes >>
The post Transforming Fear To Courage In Uncertainty — Episode 24 first appeared on Connie Jones Coaching.
Successful and strong, Jennifer Conforti had her life planned, and she was excited about her future. Until she discovered that she was pregnant at 42 years old when she didn’t want children. Later, she found out that her young daughter had a brain disability that had severe implications. In this episode, Jennifer shares her devastation from the turn her life took, and the deep pain and pervasive anger she felt towards God for exchanging her good plan with one wrought with struggle and anguish. She channeled her anger to battle for her daughter’s well-being in spite of the extreme challenges they endured. Jennifer recounts her journey from questioning God’s goodness and shutting Him out to restoring her hope in Him and saying “yes” to the beautiful story of healing and even greater purpose that He is writing in her life. She drops pearls of wisdom throughout that are inspiring and life-shifting, and her story is one of restored hope that He is trustworthy, and His promises prevail.
- Shares the struggle that she faced along the way to living with courage, freedom, and authenticity.
- Walks us through her journey of parenting a daughter with a disability and how it changed her life.
- Explains how God turned her pain into purpose.
- Offers wisdom and encouragement to those who are struggling.
Jennifer Conforti is a former management consulting business owner who moved from Chicago to Atlanta in 2008 to take a chance on a budding relationship. That bud burst open in 2010 when she married Byron Pugh and their beautiful daughter, Abby, joined their lives later that year. The band of 3 moved to Fayette Co., GA, in 2013 and she fell in love again, this time with her new community. She made a promise to her husband that they would be intently involved in their new community with the hope of having a positive impact. Her professional purpose is to promote, inspire and network businesses toward success and she is honored and thrilled to put her purpose to work through Fayette County Lifestyle.
“If God is telling you to do something if you feel like you’re truly being led by the Spirit, and you’ve asked for wisdom about it, just say yes.”— Jennifer Conforti
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Resources:
Website: citylifestyle.com/fayettecounty and twosparrowsvillage.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fayettecountylifestyle
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fayettecountylifestyle/
Warrior Arise! Podcast Episode 23 – FULL Show Notes >>
The post Restoring Hope In God — Episode 23 first appeared on Connie Jones Coaching.
In this episode, Amanda Gunter shares how she discovered her passion and purpose, which landed her the owner of multiple Brain Balance centers. Her work of rehabilitating and healing children with disabilities is challenging yet incredibly rewarding work. Coupled with an extremely stressful season in business, it all came at a cost to Amanda. She recounted this season and the toll it took on her health until she sought guidance and support from God and a professional counselor. Through that journey, she realized that striving for her worthiness was futile, and she had to learn a new way to live and work free from struggle, striving, and surviving. She shares the details of her road back from the dry bones of her existence to God’s restoring her back to a tree of life. Her journey continues and God is faithful.
- Shares her story of struggle and journey to discovering her passion and purpose.
- Recounts her journey of healing, freedom, and transformation.
- Encourages those who are struggling with overachieving and overwhelm how to learn a new way of living and leading.
Amanda is a passionate lover of Jesus and believes her life calling is to help children overcome their disabilities and see complete healing and wholeness in them and their families. She desires all children and their parents to be able to fulfill their God-given destiny. Amanda graduated from the University of Georgia in 2004 with a degree in Special Education, with a concentration in Autism Spectrum and Behavior Disorders. She graduated in 2006 with a Master’s Degree in Moderate Disabilities from Cambridge College. She is the Executive Director and owner of Brain Balance of Peachtree City, Ga. It has been a dream to be able to own the center where she started her Brain Balance career! The Brain Balance of Peachtree City and Amanda are celebrating their 15th year serving families of south Atlanta!
“Rest can be a weapon.”—Amanda Gunter
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Resources:
Website: www.brainbalancecenters.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brainbalanceATL/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brainbalanceatlanta/
Warrior Arise! Podcast Episode 22 – FULL Show Notes >>
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As a survivor of childhood incest, Christine Turner lived the ultimate in family dysfunction. Her way of coping with her emotional pain was perfectionism and religiosity, until one day, her own teenage daughter disrupted her attempt to perform her brokenness away. Chris began her journey to healing in counseling, and then set out to heal her own family. As a result, she discovered her passion and purpose in helping other families achieve healthy relationships. Now as an Author, Family Coach, and Doctor of Spiritual Direction, Christine teaches families healthy dynamics from a Christian point of view, while healing families one heart at a time.
- Walks us through the struggles that have shaped her into who she is today.
- Shares her passion for how she helps families heal and live in freedom.
- Discusses her resources (books and available workshops) available to families for healing and having healthy relationships.
Family Coach, Dr. Christine Turner, equips others to improve their personal relationships. She is a professional educator, author, and doctor of Spiritual Direction. Her passion is for families to love, support, and be in unity as they are provided with tools to handle conflict as well as the messiness of family relationships. Her workshops help people to love themselves, God, and their families better. The free workshops are designed to provide mental health support for all families regardless of income.
“The only way to get better is to talk about it. It’s the only way, the secret things done in the
darkness have got to come to the light.”— Dr. Christine Turner
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Resources:
Website: familiesmatterworkshop.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesMatterYouMatter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familiesmatteryoumatter/
Warrior Arise! Podcast Episode 21 – FULL Show Notes >>
The post Families Matter: You Matter! — Episode 21 first appeared on Connie Jones Coaching.